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Weeds in a changing climate: Competitors or service plants?
Reducing herbicide use and preparing agroecosystems for climate change are two top priorities on the global policy agenda. Here, we explore whether these two challenges can be tackled simultaneously. While weeds are generally considered a threat to crop production, we show that weeds can help overcome climate change challenges in agroecosystems ...
Marie J. Zwetsloot +12 more
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Sorghum is a staple food for hundreds of millions of people in dry regions worldwide, and improving its nutritional quality is vital for global food and health security under climate change. In this study, we evaluated traditional Sudanese sorghum varieties grown in eastern deltas to better understand their natural health‐promoting properties. We found
Khitma A. Sir Elkhatim +5 more
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Breeding for multi‐stress resilience in crops: Myth or possibility?
Climate change threatens millions of farmers worldwide by exposing crops to multiple concurrent or sequential environmental stresses such as drought, heat, waterlogging, and diseases. Although crops have long been selected under naturally occurring multi‐stress conditions, breeding pipelines largely focus on optimal or single‐stress environments ...
Hamid Khazaei +2 more
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Harnessing the nutritional potential of Cape wild edible plants: Insights, gaps and priorities
Wild edible plants hold significant potential to strengthen food systems by enhancing nutrition, dietary diversity, climate resilience, sustainability and deeper connection of people to their food. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify knowledge gaps and assess the nutritional contributions of selected wild edible ...
Nicola Kühn +5 more
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Efecto del almidón y dos fitorreguladores sobre la germinación de Prosthechea sp.
Este artículo aborda la investigación que se realizó para determinar el efecto del almidón y dos reguladores de crecimiento (6-bencilaminopurina, BAP, y ácido naftalenacético, ANA) sobre la germinación de Prosthechea sp., una orquídea cuya población está
César Ariza +3 more
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Resulta difícil tratar de determinar el origen de la idea de la producción de semillas sintéticas o artificiales. Es uno de los resultados de la aplicación en la Agricultura de los embriones somáticos descriptos por primera vez en 1958, por Jakob Reinert y por F.C. Steward y colaboradores.
Rey de Badaró, Hebe Yolanda +1 more
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Medicinal plants used in ethnobotanical traditions to treat or prevent diseases have gained renewed interest for their largely untapped potential in drug discovery. In this study, we developed and tested novel methods to prioritise plant species based on their unexplored medicinal potential. By enabling researchers to target the most promising species,
Giovanni Zecca +3 more
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Diagnóstico de los sistemas de abastecimiento de semillas en Guatemala
<p>The diagnostic had as objetive to determine the development degree of the Guatemala's Seeds National System. The Traditional, no Conventional and Conventional seeds systems, have limitations that can overcome, These systems cover different ...
Vides A. Luis A. +2 more
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Técnicas para la germinación de semillas forestales
Ilustraciones. Incluye glosario y 18 referencias en las páginas 45-56El uso de las técnicas apropiadas para el manejo de semillas forestales es de gran importancia para garantizar su aprovechamiento adecuado y asegurar el abastecimiento a los proyectos ...
CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza +1 more
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Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios +7 more
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