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Study protocol: can a school gardening intervention improve children's diets? [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The current academic literature suggests there is a potential for using gardening as a tool to improve children's fruit and vegetable intake.
A Demas, A Magarey, A Timperio, AW Fogarty, Birch, C Knai, Charlotte EL Evans, CL Perry, CL Perry, D Ciliska, D Gross, E Bere, E Bere, Foundation BN, G Auld, J Baranowski, J Connolly, J Gregory, J Rasbash, J Wardle, Janet E Cade, JD Skinner, JJ Reilly, JK Ransley, JO Fisher, Joan K Ransley, K Patrick, KD Reynolds, KW Cullen, KW Cullen, L Blanchette, L Wells, M Campbell, M Maynard, M Nelson, M Prelip, Mark Conner, Meaghan S Christian, MR Singer, MW Howerton, National Foundation for Educational Research, P Sahota, R Perera, S Somerset, S Somerset, SA French, SJ Te Velde, ST Yeo, StataCorp, World Cancer Research Fund, World Health Organization   +50 more
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Isolation and Characterization of APETALA3 Orthologs and Promoters from the Distylous Fagopyrum esculentum

Plants, 2021
Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) produces distylous flowers with undifferentiated petaloid tepals, which makes it obviously different from flowers of model species.
Lingtian Zeng, Jiao Zhang, Xuan Wang, Zhixiong Liu   +3 more
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Selenium Biofortification of Crop Food by Beneficial Microorganisms

Journal of Fungi, 2020
Selenium (Se) is essential for human health, however, Se is deficient in soil in many places all around the world, resulting in human diseases, such as notorious Keshan disease and Keshin–Beck disease. Therefore, Se biofortification is a popular approach
Yuanming Ye, Jingwang Qu, Yao Pu, Shen Rao, Feng Xu, Chu Wu   +5 more
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The Comprehensive Effects of Rhizophagus intraradices and P on Root System Architecture and P Transportation in Citrus limon L.

Agriculture, 2022
Both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and phosphorus (P) collectively influence the root system architecture (RSA), but whether the combination of the two affects RSA, particularly lateral root formation, is unknown.
Chun-Yan Liu, Xiao-Niu Guo, Xiao-Long Wu, Feng-Jun Dai, Qiang-Sheng Wu   +4 more
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Evaluation of the impact of a school gardening intervention on children's fruit and vegetable intake: a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Current academic literature suggests that school gardening programmes can provide an interactive environment with the potential to change children’s fruit and vegetable intake.
A Hackett, A Harding, A Magarey, A Timperio, AJ Vickers, AM Craigie, AR Ness, C Devine, C Knai, Camilla Nykjaer, CE Evans, CE Evans, Charlotte EL Evans, E Van Cauwenberghe, EJ Ozer, J Connolly, J Morris, J Rasbash, JA O’Dea, Janet E Cade, JD McAleese, JE Cade, JN Davis, K Block, L Lautenschlager, L Lautenschlager, LA Bazzano, M Christian, M Maynard, M Nelson, MC Wang, Meaghan S Christian, MM Ratcliffe, MS Christian, MS Kitchen, MSEC Christian, Neil Hancock, P Boffetta, PJ Morgan, R Passy, R Robinson-O’Brien, S Koch, S Lineberger, S O’Brien, S Poston, S Somerset, S Somerset, SM Parmer, T Baranowski   +48 more
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Reconstructing the Invasive History and Potential Distribution Prediction of Amaranthus palmeri in China

Agronomy, 2023
Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri, Amaranthaceae) is one of the most competitive, troublesome, and noxious weeds causing significant yield reductions in various crops. A.
Xinyu Jiao, Mei Long, Jiayi Li, Qingyu Yang, Zhixiong Liu   +4 more
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Entrepreneurship Summit Executive Summary [PDF]

, 2008
Summarizes discussions from an April 2008 conference on the core components of an effective entrepreneurship support program, policy options for building an infrastructure that fosters innovation, and concepts to be explored, such as "economic gardening.

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The Impact of Urbanization on the Distribution of Spontaneous Herbaceous Plants in an Ancient City: A Pilot Case Study in Jingzhou, China

Plants, 2023
Spontaneous herbaceous plants (SHPs) play an essential role in urban biodiversity. Research on the diversity of SHPs has profound implications for the conservation of urban biodiversity and green space management in the process of urbanization.
Shuwang Hou, Changwei Tian, Jianghui Meng, Chunyan Liu, Zhen Yao   +4 more
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Characterization of PISTILLATA-like Genes and Their Promoters from the Distyly Fagopyrum esculentum

Plants, 2022
Arabidopsis PISTILLATA (PI) encodes B-class MADS-box transcription factor (TF), and works together with APETALA3 (AP3) to specify petal and stamen identity. However, a small-scale gene duplication event of PI ortholog was observed in common buckwheat and
Wei You, Xiangjian Chen, Lingtian Zeng, Zhiyuan Ma, Zhixiong Liu   +4 more
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Polyamines Participate in Mycorrhizal and Root Development of Citrus (Citrus tangerine) Seedlings

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2010
A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO, an irreversible inhibitor of putrescine (Put) formation) alone or combination with Put on mycorrhizal and root development of Citrus tangerine seedlings inoculated with
Qiang-Sheng WU, Ying-Ning ZOU, Tian-Tian ZHAN, Chun-Yan LIU   +3 more
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