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Vision, challenges and opportunities for a plant cell atlas [PDF]

, 2021
With growing populations and pressing environmental problems, future economies will be increasingly plant-based. Now is the time to reimagine plant science as a critical component of fundamental science, agriculture, environmental stewardship, energy ...
Plant Cell Atlas Consortium
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Plant-based insect repellents: a review of their efficacy, development and testing. [PDF]

, 2011
: Plant-based repellents have been used for generations in traditional practice as a personal protection measure against host-seeking mosquitoes. Knowledge on traditional repellent plants obtained through ethnobotanical studies is a valuable resource for
Marta Ferreira Maia, Moore, Sarah J, Maia Marta, Moore Sarah J, Sarah J Moore, Maia, Marta Ferreira, Marta Maia   +6 more
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Higher-Quality Pumpkin Cultivars Need to Recruit More Abundant Soil Microbes in Rhizospheres

Microorganisms, 2022
Two different qualities of pumpkin, cultivars G1519 and G1511, were grown in the same environment under identical management. However, their qualities, such as the contents of total soluble solids, starch, protein, and vitamin C, were significantly ...
Yan Sun, Ziyue Huang, Siyu Chen, Da Yang, Xinru Lin, Wenjun Liu, Shangdong Yang   +6 more
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Proposed Product Label for Electric Lamps Used in the Plant Sciences [PDF]

HortTechnology, 2017
Electric lamps are widely used to supplement sunlight (supplemental lighting) and daylength extension (photoperiodic lighting) for the production of horticultural crops in greenhouses and controlled environments. Recent advances in light-emitting diode (LED) technology now provide the horticultural industry with multiple lighting ...
Arend-Jan Both, Bruce Bugbee, Chieri Kubota, Roberto G. Lopez, Cary Mitchell, Erik S. Runkle, Claude Wallace   +6 more
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Three new Phytophthora detection methods, including training dogs to sniff out the pathogen, prove reliable

California Agriculture, 2018
Multiple species of Phytophthora have been identified in production facilities of plants used in reforestation and restoration projects. There's a risk that infected plant stock will lead to Phytophthora species establishing and spreading in habitats ...
Tedmund J. Swiecki, Matt Quinn, Laura Sims, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Lauralea Oliver, Tina Popenuck, Matteo Garbelotto   +6 more
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Interactions of Ascorbic Acid, 5-Caffeoylquinic Acid, and Quercetin-3-Rutinoside in the Presence and Absence of Iron during Thermal Processing and the Influence on Antioxidant Activity

Molecules, 2021
Bioactive compounds in fruit and vegetables influence each other’s antioxidant activity. Pure standards, and mixtures of the common plant compounds, namely ascorbic acid, 5-caffeoylquinic acid, and quercetin-3-rutinoside (sum 0.3 mM), in the presence and
Layla Engelhardt, Tobias Pöhnl, Susanne Neugart   +2 more
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Impacts of climate change on plant diseases – opinions and trends [PDF]

, 2012
There has been a remarkable scientific output on the topic of how climate change is likely to affect plant diseases in the coming decades. This review addresses the need for review of this burgeoning literature by summarizing opinions of previous reviews
Pautasso, Marco, Pellis, Lorenzo; id_orcid, Döring, Thomas F., Lorenzo Pellis, Marco Pautasso, Mike J. Jeger, Doering, Thomas F., Garbelotto, Matteo, Thomas F. Döring, Matteo Garbelotto, Pellis, L, Jeger, Mike J., Garbelotto, M, Jeger, MJ   +13 more
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The circadian clock that controls gene expression in Arabidopsis is tissue specific [PDF]

, 2002
The expression of CHALCONE SYNTHASE (CHS) expression is an important control step in the biosynthesis of flavonoids, which are major photoprotectants in plants.
McGrath, Robert B, Andrew J. Millar, James R. Lynn, Thain, Simon C, Millar, Andrew J; id_orcid, Robert. B. McGrath, Lynn, James R, Murtas, Giovanni, Giovanni Murtas, Simon C. Thain   +9 more
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Yield in almond is related more to the abundance of flowers than the relative number of flowers that set fruit

California Agriculture, 2016
Almond tree yield is a function of the number of flowers on a tree and the percentage of flowers that set fruit. Almonds are borne on spurs (short proleptic shoots that can have both leaves and flowers).
Sergio Tombesi, Bruce D. Lampinen, Samuel Metcalf, Theodore M. DeJong   +3 more
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Edible Wild Vegetables Urtica dioica L. and Aegopodium podagraria L.–Antioxidants Affected by Processing

Plants, 2022
Urtica dioica L. and Aegopodium podagraria L., also known as stinging nettle and ground elder, are edible wild green vegetables rich in bioactive and antioxidant polyphenols, vitamins, and minerals.
Layla Engelhardt, Tobias Pöhnl, Susanne Neugart   +2 more
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