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Plants, Volume 14, Issue 18

September-2 2025 - 129 articles

Cover Story: Bioponics draws on circular economy principles by recovering nutrients from organic waste. We implemented a tri-trophic circular system, comprising three types of organisms (plants, fish, and insects) that feed each other. The residues or by-products of one organism’s metabolism were transformed into food for the next. Tomato was cultivated in this system to assess its applicability by evaluating the crop's growth, yield, and functional responses across three treatments (coupled aquaponics, decoupled aquaponics, and hydroponics [control]). Decoupled aquaponics showed the potential to achieve similar crop outcomes to conventional hydroponics, with enhanced resource efficiency. This circular nutrition system supports the transition towards more environmentally resilient farming practices. View this paper
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Articles (129)

  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
17 Pages

StSUT2 Regulates Cell Wall Architecture and Biotic Stress Responses in Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)

  • Huiling Gong,
  • Hongmei Li,
  • Chenxia Wang,
  • Qian Kui,
  • Leonce Dusengemungu,
  • Xia Cai and
  • Zaiping Feng

22 September 2025

Plant sucrose transporters (SUTs) are essential membrane proteins that mediate sucrose phloem loading in source tissues and unloading in sink tissues. In addition to their role in carbohydrate partitioning, SUTs have been implicated in plant response...

  • Article
  • Open Access
589 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2025

Clinopodium is a morphologically highly diverse and taxonomically intricate genus. Molecular studies have demonstrated high divergence within the genus, and there is no consensus on the taxonomic treatment of some groups classified as Clinopodium. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
14 Pages

Nectar in Plant Species Fragaria vesca L.

  • Katja Malovrh,
  • Jože Bavcon,
  • Mitja Križman and
  • Blanka Ravnjak

22 September 2025

Fragaria vesca L. is a common plant species in Slovenia. It flowers from May to July. Our study was conducted throughout the 2024 season in two locations at which we sampled nectar in F. vesca flowers. To take the nectar samples, we used microcapilla...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,202 Views
23 Pages

Advancements in Agricultural Nanotechnology: An Updated Review

  • Mario Pagano,
  • Erika Lunetta,
  • Francesco Belli,
  • Giacomo Mocarli,
  • Claudia Cocozza and
  • Ilaria Cacciotti

22 September 2025

Sustainable agriculture aims to meet the growing food demands of a rising global population while minimizing negative impacts on the environment, preserving natural resources, and ensuring long-term agricultural productivity. However, conventional ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
585 Views
30 Pages

Advancing Sustainable Agriculture: Molecular and Physiological Insights into Rapeseed Responsiveness to Organic Amendment Fertilization

  • Pedro J. Picazo,
  • María Ancín,
  • Bertrand Gakière,
  • Françoise Gilard,
  • David Soba,
  • Angie L. Gámez,
  • Diane Houdusse and
  • Iker Aranjuelo

22 September 2025

The widespread use of chemical fertilizers has raised concerns because of their environmental impacts, including soil degradation, water contamination, and biodiversity loss. The integration of organic amendments into agricultural systems provides a...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
576 Views
11 Pages

Optimization of In Vitro Ovule Culture System in Upland Cotton

  • Li Zhang,
  • Congcong Zheng,
  • Aijuan Wang,
  • Xuehui Huo,
  • Xiaoying Wu,
  • Jialin Liu,
  • Yupeng Fan,
  • Jianlong Dai and
  • Fanchang Zeng

22 September 2025

In vitro ovule culture serves as an experimental platform for exploring the growth and development processes of cotton fibers. However, over the decades, research on the in vitro ovule culture of upland cotton has remained underdeveloped. In this stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
579 Views
18 Pages

A Comprehensive Functional Analysis of OsPEAMT1 and OsPEAMT2 Genes in Rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica)

  • Jinde Yu,
  • Yuying Zhang,
  • Shaojie Ma,
  • Xia Wen,
  • Ning Zhao,
  • Xiaofei Feng,
  • Dan Zong and
  • Jing Li

22 September 2025

Phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PEAMT) is a key enzyme that catalyzes three successive methylation steps of phosphoethanolamine (P-EA) to phosphocholine (P-Cho). Meanwhile, P-Cho is a major precursor of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and glycine b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
21 Pages

21 September 2025

Water scarcity, soil salinization, and desertification threaten sustainable agricultural ecosystems of Hetao irrigation district, Yellow River Basin (YRB). Precise quantification of soil water dynamics and plant water consumption processes is essenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
788 Views
26 Pages

Physiological, Biochemical, and Transcriptomic Responses to Iron Deficiency in Two Potato Varieties

  • Xiangying Ma,
  • Yanping Zhang,
  • Shenglong Yang,
  • Miaomiao He,
  • Yun Zhou,
  • Guangji Ye and
  • Jian Wang

21 September 2025

This study aimed to elucidate the physiological, biochemical, and transcriptional regulatory responses of potato plants to iron deficiency stress. Two potato varieties were selected for analysis: 05P (high tuber iron content) and CI5 (low tuber iron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
857 Views
15 Pages

Screening of Highly Virulent Beauveria bassiana Strains Against Tuta absoluta Larvae and Evaluation of Their Endophytic Colonization-Mediated Suppression in Tomato Plants

  • Bo Xu,
  • Cong Huang,
  • Sheng Cheng,
  • Jörg Romeis,
  • Jana Collatz,
  • Guifen Zhang,
  • Yibo Zhang,
  • Guohui Zhang and
  • Fanghao Wan

21 September 2025

To identify highly virulent Beauveria bassiana strains against Tuta absoluta and evaluate their biocontrol potential, four strains were phylogenetically characterized via ITS sequence analysis of rDNA and assessed for virulence against second-instar...

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