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Heavy Metal Contamination: Impacts From Plants to the Food Chain and Eco‐Friendly Amelioration Strategies

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Latifeh Pourakbar, Sevda Alizadeh, Zahra Alizadeh, Jelena Popović‐Djordjević   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancement of parthenocarpy and fruit set through genome editing in tomato variety for processing use. [PDF]

Plant Biotechnol (Tokyo)
Koshi N, Kobayashi M, Ezura H, Miura K.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Antidiabetic Potential of Alpha‐Mangostin: A Review of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Alpha‐mangostin is a compound from the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana. The antidiabetic effects of alpha‐mangostin include enhancing insulin secretion, improving glucose uptake through GLUT receptor upregulation, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation, promoting wound healing, reducing HbA1C, reducing HOMA‐IR index, and decreased mRNA expressions ...
Oliver Dean John, Nur Damia Iwani Zulkiflee, Siti Raihanah Shafie, Ramlah George, Melonney Patrick   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corrigendum: Loss-of-Function of a Tomato Receptor-Like Kinase Impairs Male Fertility and Induces Parthenocarpic Fruit Set. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci, 2021
Takei H, Shinozaki Y, Yano R, Kashojiya S, Hernould M, Chevalier C, Ezura H, Ariizumi T.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Bract size affects resource availability and fruit set in a hummingbird-pollinated plant with distyly polymorphism. [PDF]

Plant Biol (Stuttg)
Trevizan R, Oliveira PE, Brito VLG, Oliveira L, Telles F.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current-use and legacy pesticides in canal waters of Chiang Mai, Thailand, during longan flowering and fruit set: occurrence and ecological and human health risk assessment. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Udomkun P, Rupngam T, Graham M, Boonupara T, Kaewlom P.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bee-mediated pollination enhances fruit set and seed yield in <i>Paeonia ostii</i> 'Fengdan': insights into physiological and molecular mechanisms. [PDF]

Hortic Res
Zhang KY, Li YY, Bao JY, He XN, Chen LF, Guo LL, Guo DL, Song CW, He CL, Hou XG.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source