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Effects of different grassland utilization methods on the germinable soil seed bank of the Hulunbuir meadow steppe [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Seed banks are crucial regenerative resources for aboveground vegetation. The pattern of their changes holds immense significance in understanding alterations in the belowground seed bank.
Ruirui Yan, Tianqi Yu, Hongmei Liu, Shijie Lv, Baorui Chen, Yanling Wu, Guoping Que, Guoping Que, Zhijun Wei, Lijun Xu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Guixia Yang, Xiaoping Xin   +12 more
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Facilitation by Haloxylon persicum Shrubs Enhances Density and Richness of Soil Seed Bank of Annual Plants in a Hyper-Arid Ecosystem [PDF]

Plants, 2023
The soil seed bank is an essential functional component of plant communities. In arid ecosystems, the island-like distribution of shrubs influences the spatial distribution of the soil seed bank.
Nasr H. Gomaa, Ahmad K. Hegazy, Haifa Abdulaziz S. Alhaithloul   +2 more
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The context dependency of nitrogen deposition impacts on the compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank [PDF]

Plant Diversity
The compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank is critical for community stability and successional trajectories, but such relationships are highly sensitive to environmental changes.
Niwu Te, Wen-Tao Luo, Péter Török, Xiao-Ru Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Yuan-Xiu Wu, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Anke Jentsch, Xiao-Tao Lü   +8 more
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Seed rain and soil seed bank in Chinese fir plantations and an adjacent natural forest in southern China: Implications for the regeneration of native species [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The natural regeneration of native broadleaved species underneath forest monoculture plantations is important to recover ecosystem functions and to mitigate adverse environmental effects.
Bo Liu, Qingqing Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Zhigang Liu, Zhijun Huang, Mulualem Tigabu, Zongming He, Yuhui Liu, Zhengning Wang   +8 more
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ChinaSoilSeedBank: A dataset on species diversity and composition of soil seed bank in China [PDF]

Scientific Data
Datasets on aboveground vegetation have been well established and used for comprehensive ecological and conservational studies. However, a comprehensive dataset for soil seed bank, particularly one integrating the species composition of soil seed bank ...
Yantong Zhao, Yangqing Luo, Jiajia Liu
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The Similarity between Species Composition of Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank of Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China: Implications for the Asymmetric Response to Precipitation [PDF]

Plants, 2021
The asymmetric response of productivity to precipitation was recently proposed as an early warning signal for the shifts in temperate grassland function in China.
Yanyan Lv, Menghong Shen, Baoping Meng, Huifang Zhang, Yi Sun, Jianguo Zhang, Li Chang, Jingrong Li, Shuhua Yi   +8 more
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Evaluation of Arabian Vascular Plant Barcodes (rbcL and matK): Precision of Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Methods towards Accurate Identification

Plants, 2021
Arabia is the largest peninsula in the world, with >3000 species of vascular plants. Not much effort has been made to generate a multi-locus marker barcode library to identify and discriminate the recorded plant species. This study aimed to determine the
Rahul Jamdade, Maulik Upadhyay, Khawla Al Shaer, Eman Al Harthi, Mariam Al Sallani, Mariam Al Jasmi, Asma Al Ketbi   +6 more
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DNA Barcodes for Accurate Identification of Selected Medicinal Plants (Caryophyllales): Toward Barcoding Flowering Plants of the United Arab Emirates

Diversity, 2022
The need for herbal medicinal plants is steadily increasing. Hence, the accurate identification of plant material has become vital for safe usage, avoiding adulteration, and medicinal plant trading.
Rahul Jamdade, Kareem A. Mosa, Ali El-Keblawy, Khawla Al Shaer, Eman Al Harthi, Mariam Al Sallani, Mariam Al Jasmi, Sanjay Gairola, Hatem Shabana, Tamer Mahmoud   +9 more
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UHPLC assessment of embelin in specialized mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum (L) Blanco

Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2022
Background Embelin is one of the biologically charming natural benzoquinones with wide medicament use in therapeutics that is pertained to its unique biochemical structure. Mostly, the plants belonging to Myrsinaceae family especially the fruits of genus
Manisha Mohapatra, Uday Chand Basak
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Characterization of the Volatile Profile of Cultivated and Wild-Type Italian Celery (Apium graveolens L.) Varieties by HS-SPME/GC-MS

Applied Sciences, 2021
Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is a vegetable belonging to the Apiaceae family that is widely used for its distinct flavor and contains a variety of bioactive metabolites with healthy properties.
Samantha Reale, Valter Di Cecco, Francesca Di Donato, Luciano Di Martino, Aurelio Manzi, Marco Di Santo, Angelo Antonio D’Archivio   +6 more
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