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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gardening in the United States: Postpandemic Expectations [PDF]

Horttechnology, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic altered the way many consumers and businesses transacted business. Concerning the green industry, many households began gardening and/or purchased more green industry products.
David San Fratello, Benjamin L. Campbell, Will Secor, Julie H. Campbell   +3 more
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Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for ...
J. Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large, Kydra Mayhew   +4 more
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Urban Gardening in a Changing Climate: A Review of Effects, Responses and Adaptation Capacities for Cities

Agriculture, 2023
Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban gardens. Gardens experience threats (e.g., water scarcity) but are also responding through adaptation strategies (e.g., selecting drought-resilient plants). A synthetic
Francisco Tomatis, Monika H. Egerer, Adriana Correa-Guimarães, L. Navas-Gracia   +3 more
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Heterogeneous impacts of home-gardening on household food and nutrition security in Rwanda

Food Security, 2023
This study examines farmers’ decisions to engage in subsistence home-gardening and its impact on food and nutrition security among farm households in Rwanda under diverse conditions.
Gazali Issahaku, Lukas Kornher, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, A. Abdul‐Rahaman   +3 more
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Genome-wide identification of WD40 superfamily genes and prediction of WD40 gene of flavonoid-related genes in Ginkgo biloba

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2021
The WD40 transcription factor family is a superfamily found in eukaryotes and implicated in regulating growth and development. In this study, 167 WD40 family genes are identified in the Ginkgo biloba genome.
Jiarui ZHENG, Yongling LIAO, Feng XU, Xian ZHOU, Jiabao YE, Mingyue FU, Xiaomeng LIU, Zhengyan CAO, Weiwei ZHANG   +8 more
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School Gardening and Health and Well-Being of School-Aged Children: A Realist Synthesis

Nutrients, 2023
School environments can create healthy settings to foster children’s health and well-being. School gardening is gaining popularity as an intervention for healthier eating and increased physical activity.
Timothy P Holloway, Lisa Dalton, R. Hughes, S. Jayasinghe, K. Patterson, S. Murray, Robert Soward, N. Byrne, A. Hills, K. D. Ahuja   +9 more
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Genome-wide characterization of bZIP gene family identifies potential members involved in flavonoids biosynthesis in Ginkgo biloba L.

Scientific Reports, 2021
Ginkgo biloba L. is an ancient relict plant with rich pharmacological activity and nutritional value, and its main physiologically active components are flavonoids and terpene lactones.
Huan Han, Feng Xu, Yuting Li, Li Yu, Mingyue Fu, Yongling Liao, Xiaoyan Yang, Weiwei Zhang, Jiabao Ye   +8 more
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Putting conservation gardening into practice

Scientific Reports, 2023
Conservation gardening (CG) represents a socio-ecological approach to address the decline of native plant species and transform the gardening industry into an innovative conservation tool.
Marius Munschek, Reinhard Witt, Katrin Kaltofen, J. Segar, C. Wirth, A. Weigelt, R. Engelmann, Ingmar R. Staude   +7 more
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Genome-wide identification and expression pattern analysis of the TCP transcription factor family in Ginkgo biloba

Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2022
Plant-specific TCP transcription factors play an essential role in plant growth and development. They can regulate leaf curvature, flower symmetry and the synthesis of secondary metabolites.
Li Yu, Qiangwen Chen, Jiarui Zheng, Feng Xu, Jiabao Ye, Weiwei Zhang, Yongling Liao, Xiaoyan Yang   +7 more
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School-based gardening, cooking and nutrition intervention increased vegetable intake but did not reduce BMI: Texas sprouts - a cluster randomized controlled trial

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021
Background Although school garden programs have been shown to improve dietary behaviors, there has not been a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted to examine the effects of school garden programs on obesity or other health outcomes.
Jaimie N. Davis, Adriana Pérez, F. Asigbee, Matthew J. Landry, S. Vandyousefi, R. Ghaddar, Amy Hoover, M. Jeans, Katie Nikah, Brian Fischer, S. Pont, D. Richards, D. Hoelscher, Alexandra E. van den Berg   +13 more
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