Plants, Volume 15, Issue 6

Eleutherococcus senticosus, a medicinally important woody plant, is widely used in pharmaceuticals and functional foods due to its bioactive compounds. Its wild populations are facing severe threats due to over-harvesting. To inform scientific conser...

Silicon-based biostimulants are gaining increasing interest for their ability to enhance plant performance and stress tolerance. In protected cultivation, where environmental conditions are already carefully managed, it remains unclear whether adding...

High-altitude mine wastelands in Southwest China present formidable challenges for ecological rehabilitation due to extreme climatic stressors and multi-element contamination. Ecological restoration is closely related to soil environment. However, th...

Reintroduction is increasingly used to support declining plant species, particularly epi-phytic orchids that display complex ecological requirements. We evaluated the seven-year performance of 123 asymbiotically propagated ghost orchid (Dendrophylax ...

Due to their exceptional nutritional benefits, microalgae and cyanobacteria are recognized as sustainable food sources and key contributors to the circular bioeconomy. Arthrospira sp. has garnered significant attention as one of the most promising cy...

Fruit size and weight are valuable characteristics for cherry breeders, mainly because of their higher market price. Several molecular markers have been developed in recent years and have been correlated with fruit weight. In cherries, FW_G2a was ide...

Double-haploid (DH) technology is a well-established method for speeding up the development of inbred lines in breeding programs. The major loci qhir1 and qhir8 are widely used in marker-assisted selection (MAS) to increase the haploid induction rate...

As a tropical fruit of considerable economic importance, passionfruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) is extensively cultivated in the tropical and subtropical regions of China; however, the widespread incidence of viral diseases has significantly hampered...

Abiotic environmental stressors are significantly exacerbated by climate change and negatively impact plant growth, development, and productivity [...]

Driven by the fusion of advanced robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the industry is evolving into a new era of “Agriculture 4 [...]

Heavy metal-associated isoprenylated plant protein (HIPP) family genes are known to be involved in plant development and stress responses. Even though the HIPPs have been identified and characterized in some plants, the roles of these genes in plant...