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Biodiversity of Food Species of the Solanaceae Family: A Preliminary Taxonomic Inventory of Subfamily Solanoideae

Resources, 2015
Over the last fifty years there has been a continual reduction in horticultural and agricultural biodiversity of nutritionally important plants, including those of the Solanaceae family.
John Samuels
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Effect of Growing Season Drought and Flood on Yield of Spring Maize in Three Northeast Provinces of China

智慧农业, 2021
With the change of global climate, extreme weather events such as drought and flood disasters occur frequently. These have a great impact on crop yields.
WANG Weidan, SUN Li, PEI Zhiyuan, MA Shangjie, CHEN Yuanyuan, SUN Juanying, DONG Mo   +6 more
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Global Opportunities to Increase Agricultural Independence Through Phosphorus Recycling [PDF]

, 2019
Food production hinges largely upon access to phosphorus (P) fertilizer. Most fertilizer P used in the global agricultural system comes from mining of nonrenewable phosphate rock deposits located within few countries.
Beusen, A. H.W., Bouwman, A. F., Chowdhury, R. B., Hampton, S. E., MacDonald, G. K., Mayer, B. K., McCrackin, M. L., Metson, G. S., Powers, S. M., Vaccari, D. A.   +9 more
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) associated with roots of plants

Acta Mycologica, 2013
The results of studies of the occurrence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and arbuscular mycorrhizae of the phylum Glomeromycota associated with roots of 31 cultivated, uncultivated and protected plant species growing at 103 sites of the Lubuskie ...
Sławomir Kowalczyk, Janusz Błaszkowski
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Genetic variation and possible origins of weedy rice found in California. [PDF]

, 2019
Control of weeds in cultivated crops is a pivotal component in successful crop production allowing higher yield and higher quality. In rice-growing regions worldwide, weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea Rosh.) is a weed related to cultivated rice which
Al-Khatib, Kassim, Andaya, Cynthia B, Andaya, Virgilio C, Blank, Timothy, Brim-DeForest, Whitney, De Leon, Teresa B, Espino, Luis, Karn, Elizabeth   +7 more
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Temporal transcriptome and WGCNA analysis unveils divergent drought response strategies in wild and cultivated Solanum varieties

Frontiers in Plant Science
Drought, exacerbated by climate change, threatens global food security, particularly impacting crop products, including tomatoes, which are economically essential but drought sensitive.
Athira C. Rajeev, Athira C. Rajeev, Rajesh Raju, Archana Pan   +3 more
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Combination of Metabolomic Analysis and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Differential Mechanism of Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis and Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Wild and Cultivated Forms of Angelica sinensis

Metabolites
Objectives: Angelica sinensis is a type of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) used primarily as a blood tonic. The chemical components that exert their efficacy are mainly bioactive metabolites, such as ferulic acid, flavonoids, and volatile oils.
Yuanyuan Wang, Jialing Zhang, Yiyang Chen, Juanjuan Liu, Ke Li, Ling Jin   +5 more
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Gardens of Yesteryear

Oklahoma Native Plant Record, 2014
Begun as a response to a request to develop a historically accurate museum garden representing home gardens before and after Oklahoma's statehood in 1907, research reported in this article describes both native and non-native plants cultivated in gardens
Sadie Cole Gordon
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Distribution and germination of wild and cultivated Ensete ventricosum in Ethiopia

International Journal of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is a traditional staple crop that is economically significant for over 20 million people in the central, southern and southwestern regions of Ethiopia.
Melese Bekele Hemade
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Risk assessment requires several bee species to address species-specific sensitivity to insecticides at field-realistic concentrations

Scientific Reports, 2023
In the European registration process, pesticides are currently mainly tested on the honey bee. Since sensitivity data for other bee species are lacking for the majority of xenobiotics, it is unclear if and to which extent this model species can ...
Tobias Jütte, Anna Wernecke, Felix Klaus, Jens Pistorius, Anke C. Dietzsch   +4 more
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