Mechanisms of Salt Tolerance and Molecular Breeding of Salt-Tolerant Ornamental Plants [PDF]
As the area of salinized soils increases, and freshwater becomes more scarcer worldwide, an urgent measure for agricultural production is to use salinized land and conserve freshwater resources.
Jianrong Guo +2 more
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Recent Progress in Enhancing Fungal Disease Resistance in Ornamental Plants [PDF]
Fungal diseases pose a major threat to ornamental plants, with an increasing percentage of pathogen-driven host losses. In ornamental plants, management of the majority of fungal diseases primarily depends upon chemical control methods that are often non-
Manjulatha Mekapogu +2 more
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LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants. [PDF]
The flexibility of LED technology, in terms of energy efficiency, robustness, compactness, long lifetime, and low heat emission, as well as its applications as a sole source or supplemental lighting system, offers interesting potential, giving the ...
Trivellini A +3 more
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Ornamental plants associated with Buddhist figures in China. [PDF]
Background In China, many ornamental plants associated with Buddhist figures, including the Sakyamuni, Bodhisattva, and Arhat, were grown and worshiped because of their cultural and religious significance.
Xu X +7 more
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Plant-Parasitic Nematodes and their Effects on Ornamental Plants: A Review. [PDF]
Worldwide, the ornamental plant industry is estimated to be valued at $70 billion, with the United States’ ornamental plant industry valued at $4.8 billion in 2020.
D Howland A, Quintanilla M.
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Trichoderma spp. Improves Flowering, Quality, and Nutritional Status of Ornamental Plants. [PDF]
Scientists all over the world conduct research to determine the influence of Trichoderma spp. on various groups of plants, mostly crops. However, there is little information on the influence of these fungi on ornamental plants.
Andrzejak R, Janowska B.
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Complex floral traits shape pollinator attraction to ornamental plants. [PDF]
Background and Aims Ornamental flowering plant species are often used in managed greenspaces to attract and support pollinator populations. In natural systems, selection by pollinators is hypothesized to result in convergent multimodal floral phenotypes ...
Erickson E +5 more
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Understanding the environmental and social risks from the international trade in ornamental plants. [PDF]
The multibillion dollar ornamental plant trade benefits economies worldwide, but shifting and rapidly expanding globalized supply chains have exacerbated complex environmental, sustainability, and biosecurity risks. We review the environmental and social
Hinsley A +6 more
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Cryopreservation of Endangered Ornamental Plants and Fruit Crops from Tropical and Subtropical Regions. [PDF]
Simple Summary The protection of biodiversity, i.e., the biological variety and variability of life on Earth, is of great importance for the present and future generations.
Kaviani B, Kulus D.
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Exploiting Unreduced Gametes for Improving Ornamental Plants. [PDF]
The formation of gametes with somatic chromosome number or unreduced gametes (2n gametes) is an important process involved in the origin of polyploid plants in nature. Unreduced gametes are the result of meiotic mutations occurring during micro- and mega-
Xie L, Ke LZ, Lu XQ, Chen J, Zhang ZS.
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