2025 October - 125 articles
This paper proposes a method for classifying the maturity levels of blueberry fruit from camera images as part of a cultivation support system. Following the five-stage maturity classification, the proposed approach first detects individual blueberry...
Grafting is an effective horticultural technique that significantly enhances disease resistance and stress tolerance in watermelon. This review systematically summarizes the types of rootstocks used in watermelon grafting and analyzes the effects of...
As a typical sucrose-accumulating fruit, longan commonly experiences sugar receding during on-tree preservation, leading to quality deterioration. To investigate the mechanism of sucrose degradation in longan fruit, we conducted genome-wide identific...
Epigenetic modifications are emerging as key regulators of plant stress responses. However, their role in eggplant (Solanum melongena)–western flower thrips (WFTs; Frankliniella occidentalis) interactions remains elusive. WFTs cause substantial...
Cucumis sativus L. is a globally important vegetable crop that occupies a significant position in protected agriculture due to its high nutritional value, short cultivation cycle, and considerable economic benefits. As a cold-sensitive plant, however...
The friability of callus is closely associated with its genetic transformation efficiency, and optimizing induction and transformation conditions is essential for establishing an efficient transformation system. In this study, we developed a high-eff...
Ocimum, commonly known as basil, is a group of aromatic plants extensively cultivated for their aromatic leaves, flavorful seeds, and essential oils, finding applications in food and herbal medicine. Drought stress is a crucial environmental factor t...
Meloidogyne enterolobii, is a devastating pathogen capable of overcoming conventional resistance genes. This study presents the first investigation into targeting the chitin synthase gene Me-chs-1 in M. enterolobii using host-induced gene silencing (...
Pineapple translucency is a major physiological disorder in ‘Tainong 17’ (Golden Diamond) that severely impairs fruit quality, storability, and market value, yet its physiological basis remains poorly understood. To clarify the underlying...
Selenium-enriched Dendrobium huoshanense C. Z. Tang et S. J. Cheng is a precious medicinal herb that combines traditional therapeutic value with modern nutritional benefits. However, its wild populations primarily inhabit special habitats like cliffs...
Populus koreana emits a wide array of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with potential ecological functions; however, the tissue-specific distribution and underlying regulatory mechanisms of these compounds remain poorly understood. This study employ...
This manuscript reviews the advances in the application of biostimulants in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), emphasizing their physiological, agronomic, and quality impacts within a broader agricultural and scientific context. It highlights the evoluti...
Agricultural robots operating in greenhouse environments face substantial challenges in detecting tomato stems, including fluctuating lighting, cluttered backgrounds, and the stems’ inherently slender morphology. This study introduces Efficient...
Polyploids play significant roles in tea production due to their strong tolerance to adverse environmental conditions and their high levels of certain chemical components. Tetraploid can be used to produce more polyploid tea plants, but there have be...
Facility agriculture cultivation is the main production form of the vegetable industry in the world. As an important vegetable crop, hot peppers are easily threatened by many diseases in a facility microclimate environment. Traditional disease detect...
Dollar spot is a severe and widespread turfgrass disease. Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light treatment offers a promising management strategy, and its integration into autonomous mowers could reduce fungicide use, promoting sustainable and efficient turfgras...
Boxwood (Buxus sp.) plays a key role in historical gardens due to its evergreen foliage and resilience. However, recent outbreaks of disease caused by fungal pathogens such as Calonectria spp. (C. pseudonaviculata, C. henricotiae) and Pseudonectria s...
To enhance the economic benefits of the Korla fragrant pear industry and reduce fruit loss rates, this study investigates changes in pear fruit quality during storage under different damage types. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), tes...
Salt stress is a significant environmental factor influencing plant growth and development. Anoectochilus roxburghii is a valuable medicinal plant, but it is still unclear how it responds to salinity. In this study, A. roxburghii was used as experime...
Climate change threatens the agricultural field by affecting production yields and crop quality. Yield protection is an increasingly pressing priority to preserve the ability of agriculture to meet food demand with more sustainable production of appr...
Sugars function as essential signaling molecules and metabolic substrates in plant growth, development, yield formation, and fruit quality. The aril of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) accumulates high levels of hexoses, primarily glucose and fructose...
The efficient and non-destructive inspection of the chlorophyll content of grey jujube leaf is of great significance for its growth surveillance and nutritional diagnosis. Near-infrared spectroscopy combined with chemometric methods provides an effec...
Salt-tolerance improvement of tomatoes is largely a task of modern selection and plant molecular genetics because of cultivation on dry and irrigated lands under salt stress. To reveal the salt resistance gene, we need quantitative real-time polymera...
This study investigated the dynamic changes in fruit color, texture and quality attributes of blueberry cultivars during a 15-day postharvest storage period to provide theoretical insights for cultivar selection, postharvest preservation and commerci...
The color of radish taproot skin is an important commercial quality trait that directly affects the visual judgment of consumers. The green/white coloration of radish taproots is caused by chlorophyll accumulation or fading; however, research on the...
The ‘Annurca’ apple (Malus domestica), a PGI-protected Italian cultivar, undergoes a mandatory postharvest reddening process (melaio). While crucial for skin color development, this process is associated with flesh softening, creating a c...
Generation of state-of-the-art highly productive cabbage genotypes (Brassica oleracea convar. capitata (L.) Alef.) with improved agronomic traits is attainable using modern biotechnological approaches. However, capitata cabbage is relatively recalcit...
This research aimed to explore the influence of climate factors, especially in the three weeks prior to harvest, on the reaction of key phytonutrients in industrial tomatoes used for juice thermal processing and their stability. The cultivation was p...
Flavonoids are essential secondary metabolites in plants, predominantly found in flowers, leaves, and fruits. They mainly include anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins, and flavonols. Transcription factors are a crucial family of proteins in plants, playin...
Peppermint (Mentha spp.) produces bioactive metabolites under stress. Light spectrum and methyl jasmonate (MeJA) are important factors influencing growth, physiology, and antioxidant defense. In this study, peppermint was cultivated under different l...
Drought stress induced by climate change is a major limiting factor for crop growth. Selenium (Se) is recognized as an important exogenous regulator that can mitigate drought and other abiotic stresses, but the effects of Se application at different...
Gray mold, caused by Botrytis cinerea, poses a significant fungal threat to postharvest blueberries, leading to substantial economic losses and challenging the sustainable development of the blueberry industry. This highlights the urgent necessity fo...
Hygrophila polysperma is a type of amphibious plant that originates from Acanthaceae. Here, we report its first complete chloroplast (cp) genome. The complete cp genome is 146,675 bp in length with 38.3% of GC content. There are 130 genes including 8...
This study examined how different water restriction levels (T100%, T85%, T75%, and T55%) influence the nutritional and bioactive compounds of Bahar and Dadaş cress (Lepidium sativum L.) cultivars. The highest levels of phenolic compounds found i...
Phoebe bournei is an important economic tree species in China, its large-scale propagation is limited by the difficulty of adventitious root (AR) formation in cuttings. In this study, morphological, physiological, and transcriptomic analyses were con...
Fish mint (Houttuynia cordata Thunb.) is an aromatic herb used as food and medicine across Asia. We evaluated how far-red (FR) light influences growth and secondary metabolites in the non-flowering cultivar ‘BCV02’ propagated by cuttings....
In resource-constrained edge agricultural environments, the accurate recognition of toxic weeds poses dual challenges related to model lightweight design and the few-shot generalization capability. To address these challenges, a multi-strategy recogn...
The Mediterranean fig (Ficus carica L.) is a dioecious fruit tree of high nutritional and economic value in the Mediterranean basin. In northern Morocco, phenological desynchronization between male and female fig trees limits pollination and producti...
Light plays an essential role in regulating the growth, development, and metabolic activities of the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus. In this research, the influence of white, blue, green, yellow, and red light, and darkness, on the global protei...
Refrigeration has become a common practice for preserving Dendrobium officinale products. The molecular mechanisms underlying chilling stress responses, particularly those linking physiological adaptation to flavor-related metabolite changes, remain...
Neopestalotiopsis zimbabwana is an emerging phytopathogen with multiple hosts. Considering the environmental, toxicological, and resistance issues linked to synthetic fungicides, Origanum vulgare L. essential oil (OEO) was evaluated through in vitro,...
The genus Quercus is an ecological keystone and economically vital component of Northern Hemisphere forests. While genomic studies have advanced our understanding of its nuclear and chloroplast genomes, the mitochondrial genomes of oaks remain less e...
‘Hainan Qingyou’ (Citrus maxima) Pomelo is one of the predominant local cultivars cultivated in Hainan Province, renowned for its high economic value and strong market competitiveness. However, during cultivation, it was observed that the...
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica) is a biennial or annual herbaceous plant belonging to the species Brassica oleracea in the genus Brassica of the Cruciferae family. The green flower curd serves as the primary edible organ, with its develo...
NAC transcription factors are key regulators involved in diverse cellular processes, stress responses, and developmental pathways in plants. However, their roles in female cone development of Torreya grandis, a representative gymnosperm species, rema...
Water deficit in the semi-arid region of Brazil is a critical limiting factor for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.), plant development and productivity. We evaluated whether foliar zinc (ZnO NPs) and iron (Fe2O3NPs) nano-oxides and their convention...
Drought limits plant growth, development and productivity, leading to more than 50% crop loss globally. Drought-induced oxidative stress disturbs the plant’s metabolism; however, plants activate signaling pathways to respond and adapt to drough...
Detecting citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) in orchard environments is particularly challenging due to multi-scale targets and occlusions due to clustering, which manifest as complex and variable backgrounds, targets ranging from distant single leaves to ne...
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is the fifth most cultivated root crop in the world. During the asexual reproduction of taro, the frequent mutation of somatic cells leads to high genetic diversity. With the continuous increase in the amount of taro germpl...
Canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) is an important index for monitoring the growth and estimating the productivity of citrus fruit trees. This study optimized the PROSAIL model by adjusting the average leaf angle (ALA) parameter. A hybrid inversion mod...
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