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Metabolomics and transcriptomics analyses for characterizing the alkaloid metabolism of Chinese jujube and sour jujube fruits

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
IntroductionJujube is an important economic forest tree whose fruit is rich in alkaloids. Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) and sour jujube (Ziziphus spinosa Hu.) are the two most important species of the jujube genus.
Xiaofang Xue, Ailing Zhao, Yongkang Wang, Haiyan Ren, Wanlong Su, Yi Li, Meijuan Shi, Li Liu, Dengke Li   +8 more
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Ethnobotanical investigation of 'wild' food plants used by rice farmers in Kalasin, Northeast Thailand [PDF]

, 2011
Background Wild food plants are a critical component in the subsistence system of rice farmers in Northeast Thailand. One of the important characteristics of wild plant foods among farming households is that the main collection locations are increasingly
Cruz Garcia, G.S., Price, L.L.
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Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This perspective provides a reflective account of our personal experiences as African professors and lecturers in diverse fields of environmental sciences encountering the urban Anthropocene. Here, we explain the nature of the unprecedented, potent and hidden changes in our lived environments.
Aliyu Salisu Barau, Halima Abdulkadir Idris, Muhammad Nuraddeen Danjuma, Murtala Uba Mohammed, Abdulaziz Hassan, Amina Sheikh Abdullahi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmentally Friendly and Effective Alternative Approaches to Pest Management: Recent Advances and Challenges

Agronomy
The most important requirement in sustainable agriculture is to significantly reduce the application of chemical pesticides, and environmentally friendly and effective approaches to pest management should be established to control the population size of ...
Huanzhang Shang, Dejia He, Boliao Li, Xiulin Chen, Kun Luo, Guangwei Li   +5 more
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Establishment and characterization of a new class of adenylate cyclases (class VII ACs) in plants

Heliyon, 2023
Adenylate cyclase is the key enzyme in the synthesis of cAMP. Now, more and more plant genes which possessing AC function are being identified, but the classification of plant ACs has not yet been systematically studied and the relationship of plant ACs ...
Zhiguo Liu, Ye Yuan, Lixin Wang, Haonan Cao, Chenyu Wang, Xuan Zhao, Lili Wang, Mengjun Liu   +7 more
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Amyloid‐Like Protein Assembly‐Driven Functional Materials for Enabling the Sustainable Development of Light Industry

SusMat, EarlyView.
This article covers the basic theory and regulation strategies of amyloid‐like protein assembly, reviews the research progress of amyloid‐like protein assembly‐driven functional materials in light industry fields such as food, packaging, textiles, and biocatalysis, analyzes their sustainable advantages and challenges in these applications, and offers ...
Ruirui Liu, Zuying Chen, Jian Zhao, Fengjian Wang, Changli Zeng, Peng Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Nutrients and Jujube-Based Processed Products in Ziziphus jujuba

Molecules
Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is the first tree species in China, with a long history and abundant yield. However, fresh jujubes have a short shelf-life and are not resistant to storage.
Weitong Cai, Haining Zhuang, Xiaoyu Wang, Xia Fu, Sheng Chen, L. Yao, Min Sun, Hua-tian Wang, Chuang Yu, Tao Feng   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nanomaterials‐Decorated Biomass‐Derived Carbon for Overall Water Splitting: Interfacial Engineering, Mechanistic Insights, and Device Translation

The Chemical Record, EarlyView.
Biomass‐derived carbon provides a sustainable, porous, and conductive scaffold that stabilizes nanomaterials for bifunctional hydrogen evolution reaction/oxygen evolution reaction catalysis. This review summarizes design strategies (defects, heteroatom doping, heterostructures, single atoms), mechanistic/density functional theory insights, degradation ...
Paricha Jebin, Md. Rakib Khan, Syed Shaheen Shah, S. M Mostafa Kamal, Mst. Kaniz Subarna, Nipa Debnath, Md. Abdul Aziz, Bong‐Joong Kim, A. J. Saleh Ahammad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical Origin Identification of Chinese Red Jujube Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Adaboost-CLDA

Foods
Red jujube is a nutritious food, known as the “king of all fruits”. The quality of Chinese red jujube is closely associated with its place of origin. To classify Chinese red jujube more correctly, based on the combination of adaptive boosting (Adaboost ...
Xiaohong Wu, Ziteng Yang, Yong Yang, Bin Wu, Jun Sun   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of Chloroplast Microsatellite Markers and Analysis of Chloroplast Diversity in Chinese Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) and Wild Jujube (Ziziphus acidojujuba Mill.).

PLoS ONE, 2015
Ziziphus is an important genus within the family Rhamnaceae. This genus includes several important fruit tree species that are widely planted in China and India, such as the Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), the wild jujube (Z.
Jian Huang, Xiaoting Yang, Chunmei Zhang, Xiao Yin, Shipeng Liu, Xingang Li   +5 more
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