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Multiomics analysis provides new insights into the regulatory mechanism of carotenoid biosynthesis in yellow peach peel

Molecular Horticulture, 2023
Carotenoids, as natural tetraterpenes, play a pivotal role in the yellow coloration of peaches and contribute to human dietary health. Despite a relatively clear understanding of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway, the regulatory mechanism of miRNAs ...
Jiarui Zheng, Xiaoyan Yang, Jiabao Ye, Dongxue Su, Lina Wang, Yongling Liao, Weiwei Zhang, Qijian Wang, Qiangwen Chen, Feng Xu   +9 more
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Characterization of Two AGAMOUS-like Genes and Their Promoters from the Cymbidium faberi (Orchidaceae)

Plants, 2023
Arabidopsis AGAMOUS (AG) play roles in determining stamens’ and carpels’ identities, floral meristem determinacy, and repression of the A-function. Gynostemium fused by stamens and carpels is a characteristic reproductive structure in orchid flowers ...
Jiayi Li, Ling Wang, Xiangjian Chen, Lingtian Zeng, Yalan Su, Zhixiong Liu   +5 more
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Therapeutic Community Gardening as a Green Social Prescription for Mental Ill-Health: Impact, Barriers, and Facilitators from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
The UK government has invested £5.77 million in green social prescribing to prevent and tackle mental ill-health. Therapeutic community gardening, one type of green social prescription, provides a range of health outcomes.
C. Wood, M. Polley, J. Barton, Claire L Wicks   +3 more
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Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Food Security, 2020
Despite a 2.3% increase in world cereal production in 2019 over 2018, the number of people facing severe food insecurity may double from 135 million in January 2020 to 265 million by the end of 2020.
R. Lal
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Home Food Gardening in Canada in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sustainability, 2021
The lack of academic attention that home food gardening has received in Canada and the United States is surprising, given the many demonstrated benefits of community gardening programs, including increased community cohesion and resilience.
Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, E. Finch, J. Music   +3 more
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Unraveling the Regulatory Mechanism of Color Diversity in Camellia japonica Petals by Integrative Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Camellia japonica petals are colorful, rich in anthocyanins, and possess important ornamental, edible, and medicinal value. However, the regulatory mechanism of anthocyanin accumulation in C. japonica is still unclear.
Mingyue Fu, Xu Yang, Jiarui Zheng, Ling Wang, Xiaoyan Yang, Yi Tu, Jiabao Ye, Weiwei Zhang, Yongling Liao, Shuiyuan Cheng, Feng Xu   +10 more
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Classification, Distribution, Biosynthesis, and Regulation of Secondary Metabolites in Matricaria chamomilla

Horticulturae, 2022
Matricaria chamomilla is a multi-use aromatic medicinal plant, and is known to be one of the oldest medicinal plants in the world. M. chamomilla contains abundant volatile oils, of which terpenes and flavonoids are the main medicinal active ingredients ...
Hanbin Wu, Ke Yang, Liwei Dong, Jiabao Ye, Feng Xu   +4 more
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Home Food Gardening: Benefits and Barriers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Santiago, Chile

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live in an unprecedented way. This includes severe impacts on people's health and wellbeing such as stress, reduced physical activity and loneliness due to confinement.
Constanza Cerda, Solène Guenat, Monika H. Egerer, L. Fischer   +3 more
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Comparative transcriptome and microbial community sequencing provide insight into yellow-leaf phenotype of Camellia japonica

BMC Plant Biology, 2021
Background Leaf color variation is a common trait in plants and widely distributed in many plants. In this study, a leaf color mutation in Camellia japonica (cultivar named as Maguxianzi, M) was used as material, and the mechanism of leaf color variation
Mingyue Fu, Zhongcheng Zhou, Xu Yang, Zhongbing Liu, Jiarui Zheng, Xinru Huang, Ling Wang, Jiabao Ye, Weiwei Zhang, Yongling Liao, Feng Xu   +10 more
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Urban Gardening and Wellbeing in Pandemic Era: Preliminary Results from a Socio-Environmental Factors Approach

Land, 2022
The nature and impacts of living in urban settings are gaining their saliences in developed and developing countries alike, particularly during the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the crisis, the wellbeing of urban society became intertwined with
D. Harding, K. M. Lukman, Matheus Jingga, Y. Uchiyama, J. M. Quevedo, R. Kohsaka   +5 more
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