Rooting in the Desert: A Developmental Overview on Desert Plants. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2021 Kirschner GK, Xiao TT, Blilou I.
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Physiology, genomics, and evolutionary aspects of desert plants. [PDF]
J Adv ResMohanta TK +3 more
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Plant communities and their environmental drivers on an arid mountain, Gebel Elba, Egypt [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2020 Aims: Gebel Elba is an arid mountain range supporting biological diversity that is incomparable to any other region of Egypt. This mountain has a vegetation structure and floristic community similar to the highlands of East Africa and the southwestern ...
Maged M. Abutaha +3 more
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The Optimized Method of Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation in Nitraria schoberi (Ghar-e-Dagh in Persian) [PDF]
Journal of Genetic Resources, 2019 Ghar-e-Dagh (Nitraria schoberi) is a native perennial plant profoundly resistant to salinity and drought. This plant, having a well-developed deep rooting system can act as sand dunes stabilization agent and also, due to its special alkaloids may perform
Fatemeh Eskandari +3 more
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Niche analysis of dominant species in alpine desert grassland communities in Qaidam Basin [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Community dominant plants and their ecological niche research is the focus of community ecology research. To explore the niche characteristics of desert dominant plants and the relationship between them and soil factors in Qaidam Basin, and to provide a ...
Sun Jiancai +5 more
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Shrubs indirectly increase desert seedbanks through facilitation of the plant community [PDF]
, 2019 The mechanisms supporting positive ecological interactions are important. Foundation species can structure desert biodiversity by facilitating seedbanks of annual plants, but the direct and indirect mechanisms of shrub effects on seedbank have not been ...
Filazzola, Alessandro +3 more
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Clinical Phytoscience, 2018 Background In traditional North Africa, medicine decoctions of the leaves of Periploca angustifolia are used to treat diarrhea, inflammation, ulcers, edema and diabetes.
Khaled Abo-EL-Sooud +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 To the best of our knowledge, there have been no phytochemical studies concerning the wild plant Leontodon hispidulus Boiss. (Asteraceae). Optimization of the green extraction process of the plant aerial parts, identification of main phenolic compounds ...
Noha Mokhtar Abd-El-Aziz +4 more
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Typical Shrub Communities and Its Diversity in Ulan Buh-Western Ordos Steppe Desert Ecotone
Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2022 [Objective] The diversity of typical shrub communities in the ecotone of the Ulan Buh-Western Ordos Steppe Desert was researched in order to provide a theoretical basis for protecting biodiversity and for ecological environment construction in the area. [
Song Zhaobin +4 more
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Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Holoparasite Cistanche Deserticola (Orobanchaceae) reveals gene loss and horizontal gene transfer from Its host Haloxylon Ammodendron (Chenopodiaceae) [PDF]
, 2013 The central function of chloroplasts is to carry out photosynthesis, and its gene content and structure are highly conserved across land plants. Parasitic plants, which have reduced photosynthetic ability, suffer gene losses from the chloroplast (cp ...
AD Wolfe +70 more
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