Edgar Omar Rueda Puente, University Of Sonora, Mexico
Arid and semi-arid zones occupy a little more than half of the territory in Mexico. It is estimated that they house some six thousand plant species, of which about 50% are exclusive to our country. The Seris (COMCAAC), an Amerindian people living in the west-central Mexican state [....] » Read More
Title : The science of nutritional foods for heath and other wellness information about cardiovascular diseases and cancers
Benigno Villalon, Texas A & M University, United States
Forty years of Plant Science Research and exercise has transformed me from a Plant Pathologist/Virologist/Pepper Breeder to a student of the science of foods for health, and a human disease prevention information gatherer. The USA wastes over $3.5 trillion trying to keep its sick [....] » Read More
Title : Antioxidant capacity and profile of phenolic compounds in camu-camu [Myrciaria dubia H. B. K. (McVough)]: Important fruit specie native to the Brazilian amazon region
Leandro Camargo Neves, Roraima Federal University, Brazil
It is not recent that phenolic compounds have attracted much attention in the researchers of chemical compounds capable to providing great benefits to human health. Camu-camu, one of the main representative specie of Mirtaceae family, has been studied in recent years and, as a re [....] » Read More
Title : Enhance seedling transplant while save water
Valasia Iakovoglou, UNESCO, Greece
The predicted climatic alterations due to increased temperature levels indicate that the arid and semi-arid ecosystems, will experience increased levels water scarcity. Hence, restoration efforts for those regions like the Mediterranean, will further experience many transplanting [....] » Read More
Title : Climate smart natural farming technologies towards sustainable agriculture and food security
Rajamani Raman, Annamalai University, India
Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The impact of climate change is directly or indirectly related to crop, water and soil as it influences the water availability, changes the intensity and frequencies of drought, effects on beneficial microbial population, soi [....] » Read More
Title : Phenotype and quantitative traits - initiation and coordination of growth reactions, cultures of hormone-inhibitors and stimulants
Vashchenko Victor Fedorovich, Yelets State University, Russian Federation
The balance status of a plant is a fundamental value. It is precisely its constant adjustment by the balance of hormones that allows not only adapting to stressful weather conditions, they control all the quantitative indicators of the plant, which are called yield elements in ag [....] » Read More
Title : Attitude on seed modification in today’s green technology world we struggle to build and maintain: Grand-father vs grand-son seed practicalities
Olivier Ufitese Muhoza, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
For centuries, our parents had their technics for seed production, selection, multiplication, and conservation. The systems were self-sustainable, robust, well adapted to the environmental changes, and precisely transferred from generation to generation. The practice was chemical [....] » Read More
Title : Clonal Propagation of douglas-fir via Somatic embryogenesis
Pramod Kumar Gupta, Trees For The Fututure LLC, United States
The Douglas fir is a very important tree of North America, occurring from British Columbia to Washington, Oregon, and California. Douglas-fir propagates naturally from seed. Asexual methods of propagation of proven superior genotypes have not been very successful due to poor root [....] » Read More
Title : Occurrence of dodonaea and viscosa jacq. (sapindaceae) in mangrove area on the margins of rio formoso/pe
Jorge Luiz Farias de Souza, Federal University of Pernambuco Bioscience Center, Brazil
The municipality of Rio Formoso located 92 km from Recife is included in a State Environmental Protection Area – APA de Guadalupe (State Decree No. 19,635, of March 13, 1997), located in the southern portion of the southern coast of the state of Pernambuco, covering part of [....] » Read More
Title : Forest, mushrooms, water and medecine
Martine Monique Solange Lapouble, SCEA Convivencia PA, France Metropolitan
The forest and the trees, its subtrats and its mycorhizes, under an hoter climate is the humanity safety. The forest creates water springs, brings rain and coolness.The forest could nourrish us. It can also, cure us.Trees and mushroons create a biome. Both cannot live by themselv [....] » Read More
Title : Transcriptomic approach reveals salicylic acid-dependent expression of host genes in potato-viroid interaction
Snjezana Mihaljevi, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia (Hrvatska)
Viroids are the smallest known plant pathogens that consist of a single-stranded, circular, non-protein-coding RNA molecule and use the host transcriptional machinery to replicate and spread in plants. Because of their global distribution, viroids are capable of causing severe di [....] » Read More
Title : Genotype X environment interactions and stability analysis for yield and sucrose of some promising sugarcane clones
Ayman Mohamed Abd El Razek Ahmed, Agriculture Research Center, Egypt
Two field experiments were carried out at two locations, i.e. Shandweel Research Station (Sohag Governorate) and Kom Ombo Research Station (Aswan Governorate) for the two successive seasons 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 (two plant cane) to evaluate 7 sugarcane genotypes for the stabili [....] » Read More
Title : Allelopathic effects of celery residues on morpho-anatomical responses of broad bean and pea
Mahmoud Magdy Abbas, National Research Centre, Egypt
Experiments were carried out in green house to investigate the allelopathic potentiality of celery residues at (3,5,7%W:W) on two types of legume plants(broad bean, Pea). The results showed increases in a shoot and root length, dry weight and leaves area in all treatm [....] » Read More
Title : A phylogenetic framework to search for desirable traits in the wild relatives of Theobroma cacao L
James Richardson, University College Cork, Ireland
Crops face numerous challenges in a changing world. The importance of wild relatives in providing novel genetic material that could be useful in dealing with these challenges will be highlighted using the tribe Theobromeae, which includes Theobroma cacao, the source of chocolate, [....] » Read More
Title : Challenges to new cacao pests and diseases emergence face of change in a growing environment
Ade Rosmana, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
Cacao is a major cash crop in Indonesia, confronted actually by the emergence of new pests and diseases. Changes in the growing environment, including soil nutrient deficiency, long dry season, high sunshine intensity, high temperature, and flooding, are likely responsible for th [....] » Read More
Title : Effect of growing media on pathogenicity beauveria bassiana (balsamo) vuillemin in against tribolium castaneum (tenebrionidae: Coleoptera)
Itji Diana Daud, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
Tribolium castaneum is a significant pest in wheat flour but can attack other processed food ingredients. The presence of T. castaneum causes physical and chemical changes in processed products. Physical damage in the form of color changes in processed products, while chemical da [....] » Read More
Title : ICT application for prediction of physical properties of soil for digitization
Ashok Kumar, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, India
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in modern agriculture has transformed farming on a different scale which has resulted in increased competence and reduced costs. It has also created decision making tools that increase agricultural productivity and mana [....] » Read More
Title : A comparative study of SA-JA-ABA cross-talk in response to alternaria brassicae in susceptible and resistant brassica species
Shikha Dixit, Young Professional, India
An extensive yield-oriented breeding approach, climate change and a faster rate of adaptation of pathogens have rendered cultivated mustard (Brassica juncea) susceptible to many diseases including Alternaria blight caused by Alternaria brassicae. Past research has established tha [....] » Read More
Title : Understanding the evolution of miRNA biogenesis machinery in plants with special focus on rice
Tonu Angaila Chithung, University of Delhi, India
miRNA biogenesis process is an intricate and complex event consisting of many proteins working in a highly coordinated fashion. Most of these proteins have been studied in Arabidopsis; however, their orthologs and functions have not been explored in other plant species. In the pr [....] » Read More
Title : Cation/Calcium Exchanger (CCXs): The priceless treasures of calcium signalling in plants
Soma Ghosh, University of Delhi, India
Unlike animals, plants are rooted and they have to face external environment. Also, they do not possess nervous system in order to fight against unfavorable condition. During the course of evolution, plants have developed calcium (Ca2+) signalling in order to response again [....] » Read More
Title : Overexpression of ARM repeat/U-box containing E3 ligase, PUB2 positively regulates growth and oxidative stress response in arabidopsis
Lokesh Kumar Saini, University of Delhi South Campus, India
Plant growth and development are governed by selective protein synthesis and degradation. Ubiquitination mediated protein degradation is governed by activating enzyme E1 followed by conjugating enzyme E2 and E3 ligase. Plant Armadillo (ARM) repeat/U-box (PUB) protein family is on [....] » Read More
Title : Ensuring sustainability and global transformation through crucial plant science advances
Sanjay G Bhave, Dr B S Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, India
The concept of sustainability rests on the principle of not wasting any resources that may become useful to the future generation. Presently food security, human health improvement and environmental sustainability are the challenging issues. Sustainable development is considered [....] » Read More
Title : Impact Assessment of Heavy Metals (HMS) on plant diversity around the roadside areas and industrial areas
Jitin Rahul, Sharda University, India
The main cause of soil contamination comes from wastes produced by mining, chemical, metal processing, and other related sectors. Many other substances, such as heavy metals, phenol, organic materials, non-metals, etc., are included in these wastes. Both essential and non-essenti [....] » Read More
Title : Effect of climate change on soil and vegetable(pumpkin) on urban dwellers in warri metropolis
Onuoha ThankGod, Novena University, Nigeria
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emergence is a major environmental problem of concern all over the world. The impact as a result of climate change on the activities of urban dwellers in warri has been studied. The study was aimed at determining the concentration of polycyclic ar [....] » Read More
Title : Functional and species composition of understory plants varies with mistletoe-infection on host trees in a semi-arid African savanna
Tsitsi Sithandiwe Maponga, South African Environmental Observation Network, South Africa
Mistletoes are a keystone species that influence plant and resource heterogeneity in semi-arid savannas. They enhance nutrients underneath tree canopies via high leaf turnover, nutrient-rich litter, and highly decomposable leaf litter, which also facilitate host litter decomposit [....] » Read More
Title : Studying the collection and use of tree bark as a non-timber forest product in the federal capital territory of Nigeria.
Michael Adedotun Oke, Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation, Nigeria
The plausible assumption is that animals that remove and consume bark are doing so to supplement their diet with some important nutrient, trace element, or mineral (Camperio Ciani et al. 2001; Nichols et al. 2016; Welch et al. 1987). This is typically believed to be sodium, and A [....] » Read More
Title : Purine alkaloids in tea plants: Component, biosynthetic mechanism and genetic variation
Liang Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
The purine alkaloids, including caffeine, theobromine, and theacrine, are one of the most important quality and functional components of tea plants and commercial teas. In this paper, we review the component, biosynthetic mechanism and genetic variation of purine alkaloids in tea [....] » Read More
Title : Crop modeling for future climate change adaptation
Andres Cortes, Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Colombia
Crop susceptible to drought and heat stress is increasing due to climate change. Consequently, new analytical strategies are urgently required to determine sources of adaptation, and pyramid them into new sustainable cultivars for food security. Here we offer an overview on how m [....] » Read More
Title : Morphological and molecular characterization of selected cowpea lines [Vigna uguiculata (L.) Walp.] for crop improvement
Odeseye Adebola Olayemi, Nigerian institute of science laboratory technology, Nigeria
Cowpea [Vigna unguiculate (L.) Walp.] is a grain legume grown in throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the world and largely in sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the less expensive, available sources of plant protein for human consumption. The genetic study of cow [....] » Read More
Title : Crop improvement and tolerant to yam virus yam (YVY) through agrobacteruim mediated gene transfer to bring positivity result in specific gene mutation of yam (dioscorea rotundata) for crop adaptability
Moses Muriithi Mathenge, Karatina University, Kenya
Genetic transformation of yams asexually propagated has been widely used as a tool for yams improvement and as a vital part of the development of functional genomics resources, there has been no report of any existing Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of yam (Dioscorea spp.) [....] » Read More
Title : Which are the most efficient to drought and salinity constraints: Heritage or recent cereal varieties?
Amor Slama, University of Carthage, Sciences Faculty of Bizerte, Tunisia
Cereal species are primordial sources of human and animal nutrition worldwide. Our challenge in the coming years is to develop more productive cultivars in order to satisfy food requirements. Due to the climatic change and the global warming, the temperature and the water scarcit [....] » Read More
Title : Development of DNA markers to distinguish the damascene rose from R. centifolia and R. gallica var. officinalis
Nadia Haider, Atomic Energy Commission, Syrian Arab Republic
The damask rose Rosa damascena Mill. is one of the most important ancient roses. It took its importance and fame and spread throughout the world due to its great aromatic, medicinal, cosmetic and nutritional benefits. Because of the great economic importance of R. damascena in Sy [....] » Read More
Title : Screening of wheat varieties for resistance to tan spot (pyrenophora tritici-repentis)
Salma Tissaoui, National Agronomic Institute of Tunsia, Tunisia
Tan spot, caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is a major wheat foliar disease worldwide, and it has become common in Tunisia. The necrotrophic fungus produces distinct host-specific toxins responsible for inducing necrosis or chlorosis symptoms in susceptible genotypes. The a [....] » Read More
Title : Floristic biodiversity in Kabylia
Lillia Lembrouk, Mouloud Mammeri University, Algeria
In order to characterize the diversity of the flora of Kabylia, a qualitative inventory of plant species was conducted in the stations : Sidi Ali Bounab, Redjaouna and Mizrana (Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria).The inventory of flora collected during the spring season (2022) has made it possi [....] » Read More
Title : The effect of silencing sugarcane mosaic virus genes on the expression of maize lethal necrosis in maize inbred lines (zea mays l.) In Kenya
Obara Justus, Egerton University, Kenya
Maize is the most important cereal crop in the world. Over 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa depend on the crop for food. The emergency of maize lethal necrosis disease (MLND) in the Eastern Central Africa in the last decade has been of economic importance. MLND is caused [....] » Read More
Title : Fertiliser nitrogen rate effects on agronomic traits of Onion (Allium cepa L.) under tropical conditions. A case study in Zimbabwe
Jean Kumbirayi Nzuma, cientific & Industrial Research & Development Centre, Zimbabwe
Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops grown by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. Yield and productivity of the crop is still low (9.74t/ha) compared to the world (over 19.3t/ha). This is attributed to several factors including poor nutrient management [....] » Read More
Title : Determination of prevalence, pathogenicity, races and vegetation compatibility groups of fusarium oxysporum f.sp lycopersici and F. oxysporum f.sp radicis lycopersici obtained from tomatoes in Central Black Sea Region of Turkey
Berna Tunali, Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey
Fusarium oxysporum is a ubiquitous species complex of soil-borne plant pathogens, each of which includes many different highly host-specific forms. Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici (FOL), which is a wilting agent and F. oxysporum f.sp. radicis lycopersici (FORL) causing [....] » Read More
Title : Isolation and identification of plant probiotics for leafy greens
Ryan Tay, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Plant probiotic bacteria are plant-associated microorganisms that, when applied in a specific amount, improve the growth and yield of the host plants while also suppressing diseases. These plant probiotics have been shown to improve the production of phytohormones, antibiotics, a [....] » Read More
Title : Phytoconstituents of the aromatic plants hop and stevia present antiproliferative activity on cancer cells: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Panagiota I Kontou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Stevia rebaudiana and hop (Humulus lupulus) are aromatic plants of great importance in agrifood-sector industry, i.e., stevia for its almost zero calorie sweetening power, and hop for the plethora of aromas, tastes, and colours that confers to beer. These two aromatic plants are [....] » Read More
Title : Genome-wide identification of the fibrillin gene family in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and its response to drought stress
Anuradha Pandey, Central University of Rajasthan, India
Fibrillin family members play multiple roles in growth, development, and protection against dehydration stress. However, genome-wide identification of fibrillin (FBN) genes and their roles in dehydration stress has not yet been characterized in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). In this [....] » Read More
Title : Investigating the complex interactions between the two-component system (TCS) proteins in rice under salinity stress
Anjali Shailani, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
In plants, the two-component system (TCS) is a histidine-to-aspartate phosphorelay-based signaling system. The rice genome contains a diverse TCS signaling machinery that includes 11 histidine kinases (OsHKs), 5 histidine phosphotransferases (OsHPTs), and 36 response regulators ( [....] » Read More
Title : Proteomics analysis of the Endoplasmic reticulum in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) during the dehydration stress conditions
Punam Sharma, Central University Of Rajasthan, India
The endoplasmic reticulum has been likened to the production and packaging department of a manufacturing plant, an action-packed synthesis area that distributes manufactured things to the rest of the cell. The ER serves as a multifaceted gatekeeper of the secretory biosynthetic p [....] » Read More
Title : Origin, function and composition of natural bioactive molecules of the aleurone layer in cereals
Meziani, Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria
Domesticated cereals (wheat, rice, corn, barley) contribute considerably to human nutrition providing energy, protein, micronutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants. In wheat, starch and protein accumulate in the whereas most of the phytonutrients are found in the aleurone [....] » Read More
Title : The antioxidant and analgesic effect of red and white ginseng on Wistar rats
Demmouche, Faculty of Natural Sciences and life-Djillali Liabes University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria
Ginseng is a perennial herbaceous plant from the araliaceae family which belongs to the genus panax, especially cultivated in korea, ginseng is recognized for its general tonic effect, useful for invigorating the body of tired or weakened people, in particular due to its anti-inf [....] » Read More
Title : Insecticidal effect of the Pistacia lentiscus essential oil on the bean weevil adults (Bruchus rufimanus) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) during the diapause period
Medjdoub Bensaad Ferroudja, Mouloud Mammeri University, Algeria
The bean weevil, Bruchus rufimanus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is an insect whose adults feed on nectar and pollen from the host plant Vicia faba. The larvae develop at the expense of the reserves contained in the cotyledons of the bean seeds, which lose their taste quality and t [....] » Read More
Title : Knowledge of medical field toward herbal medicine regarding corona virus in south of khartoum
Mona Yassin, Elrazi university, Sudan
The lack of treatment option for COVID-19 raised many concerns among population worldwide so many people have turned to finding alternative solution to prevent or reduce the symptoms of the virus including use of medicinal herb to evaluate and strengthen immunity or reduce the po [....] » Read More