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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are effective against different plant pathogens and newly considered as part of plant defense systems. From prokaryotes to eukaryotes, AMPs can exist in all forms of life.
Abdelrahman M. Qutb +2 more
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Responses of parasitoids to volatiles induced by Chilo partellus oviposition on teosinte, a wild ancestor of maize [PDF]
, 2015 Maize, a genetically diverse crop, is the domesticated descendent of its wild ancestor, teosinte. Recently, we have shown that certain maize landraces possess a valuable indirect defense trait not present in commercial hybrids.
Charles A. O. Midega +8 more
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A Natural LTR Retrotransposon Insertion in the Promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt Boosts Cotton Lint Yield
Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are fundamental drivers of crop evolution and domestication. Whereas the underlying mechanisms of TE‐mediated gene activation remain poorly understood. Lint percentage is an important yield component in cotton. Here, we report a retrotransposon insertion in the promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt, a secondary wall NAC encoding ...
Yujia Yu +9 more
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A pistil-expressed pectin methylesterase confers cross-incompatibility between strains of Zea mays
Nature Communications, 2019 Domesticated maize and some varieties of wild teosinte grow in close proximity in parts of Mexico but rarely cross-fertilize. Here the authors show that a pistil-expressed pectin methylesterase, encoded by a gene within the Teosinte crossing barrier1-s ...
Yongxian Lu +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Plants can adapt to their surroundings by hosting beneficial bacteria that confer a selective advantage in stressful conditions. Endophytes are a class of beneficial bacteria that exist within the internal spaces of plants and many species can improve ...
Christopher R. Dumigan +5 more
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The ZmCOP1s–ZmCOL3 Module Enhances Late Flowering, Grain Yield and Grain Quality in Maize
Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flowering time is a key determinant of yield and regional adaptation in crops and is largely controlled by light signalling. In this study, we identified two maize orthologs of Arabidopsis CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 (COP1), designated ZmCOP1a and ZmCOP1b, which activate light signalling and reduce plant height. Loss‐of‐function mutants of
Shuling Yang +15 more
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'Horizontal' plant biology on the rise [PDF]
, 2004 A report on the Plant Genomics European Meeting (Plant-GEMS2004), Lyon, France, 22-25 September ...
Van de Peer, Yves
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grapevine powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Erysiphe necator, is one of the most prevalent obligate biotrophic pathogens in vineyards, posing a significant threat to grape production. Despite its impact, research on E. necator pathogenicity and grapevine responses remains limited.
Bo Mu +10 more
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Maize Germplasm Conservation in Southern California's Urban Gardens: Introduced Diversity Beyond ex situ and in situ Management. [PDF]
, 2016 Contemporary germplasm conservation studies largely focus on ex situ and in situ management of diversity within centers of genetic diversity. Transnational migrants who transport and introduce landraces to new locations may catalyze a third type of ...
Ellstrand, Norman C, Heraty, Joanne M
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