2025 August - 130 articles
Red epicarp in pears is an important trait for breeding. Exploring the genes regulating pear anthocyanin synthesis and developing molecular markers associated with these traits are important for obtaining new varieties of red pears. We performed whol...
Potted cultivation serves as a vital strategy for industrialized production of standardized tree peonies, engineering seedlings capable of year-round and off-site transplantation. However, the limited root zone in potted conditions restricts root dev...
This study proposes a lightweight adaptive neural network framework based on an improved YOLOv11n model to address the core challenges in identifying cabbage seedlings in visible light images captured by UAVs. These challenges include the loss of sma...
Boron (B) is a crucial micronutrient for the initial formation, development, and final quality of fruits, as it affects their physical and chemical properties and helps prevent various functional disorders. Recently, numerous physiological disorders...
Mulberry trees are not only economically significant forest trees with substantial added value but also serve as exceptional candidates for environmental management and ecological enhancement. However, in the widely applied cutting propagation of mul...
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is a biennial herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Beta within the family Amaranthaceae. Its root tuber can be used as an effective source for sucrose production. In the pursuit of sustainable development and maximizi...
As a rare edible mushroom, Dictyophora rubrovolvata possesses remarkable anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. However, continuous-cropping obstacles during cultivation significantly reduce soil reuse efficiency and adversely aff...
This study utilized SRAP molecular markers to analyze the genetic basis of 106 multigerm sugar beet germplasm accessions. By revealing the genetic diversity, population structure, and differentiation patterns, it aimed to tap into the germplasm poten...
Hazelnuts are valuable for human health and nutrition. They are also an economically important type of nut. This study was conducted to determine the effect of different geographical origins (Giresun, Ordu, and Samsun/Türkiye) on the nut charact...
Calcium (Ca) is an essential nutrient element crucial for plant growth and development, especially in tomatoes. This study investigated the effects of foliar spraying with different concentrations (3 g·L−1, 6 g·L−1, 9 g&midd...
Diospyros kaki Thunb. ‘Taishuu’ is novel fruit cultivar known for its excellent mouthfeel properties and high economic value. This study aimed to identify the ecological adaptability and potential suitable cultivating regions of this pers...
The primary challenge facing modern agriculture, including viticulture, is the impact of climate change. The scientific community recommends exploring and utilizing both inter-varietal and intra-varietal variability of local grapevines within each re...
Arundo donax exhibits strong comprehensive stress resistance and high levels of crude protein and crude fiber, making it an ideal perennial forage crop. It adapts to various abiotic stresses and serves as a new model for studying plant stress respons...
Dictyophora indusiata cultivation is severely impeded by premature hyphal regression. This study elucidates the spatiotemporal dynamics of mycelial regression and associated microbial succession in both substrate and soil matrices across progressive...
Container production of landscape plants requires reliably consistent and affordable substrates with properties suitable for a wide range of species. Native plant production often requires additional considerations when determining ideal substrates f...
Semitransparent plastic films containing red-fluorescent pigments can increase the growth of some greenhouse crops despite a lower transmitted photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), but the underlying mechanism by which this occurs is not fully u...
Chinese water chestnuts (CWCs) have high nutritional value and are important in the field of food and medicine. However, there may be significant differences between CWCs from different regions. This study focused on the differences in nutritional qu...
Efficient irrigation management is essential for optimizing yield and quality in specialty crops like hot peppers (Capsicum chinense), particularly under controlled greenhouse environments. This study employed a novel sensor-based system integrating...
Despite its value as a culinary, medicinal, and essential oil crop, caraway struggles to grow and develop its biochemical quality in drought-prone sandy soils. To tackle this challenge, we conducted two field trials under drip irrigation, testing fou...
The systemic delivery of oxytetracycline (OTC) by trunk injection has emerged as a viable strategy to manage huanglongbing (HLB, also known as citrus greening), a bacterial disease devastating citrus production around the world. This study examines t...
This study aimed to explore how storage temperature (25 °C, 4 °C, −20 °C, and −196 °C), drying duration (0, 1, 3, 5 days), and aril removal affect the physiological, biochemical, and microbial community traits of Michelia ...
Domestication has been proven to significantly impact the biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites. Cultivated green jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.), as an important autotetraploid fruit crop widely planted in tropical regions, exhibits differen...
Soil salinity severely impairs plant growth, and polyamines such as spermidine (Spd) are known to bolster stress tolerance by acting as osmoprotectants and signaling molecules. Using TiO2 enrichment, iTRAQ quantification, and bioinformatics analysis,...
C. humilis is a small shrub belonging to the Rosaceae family, and grafting is one of the main ways for propagation. However, the influence of different rootstocks on volatile aroma is still unclear. In this study, an untargeted metabolomics approach...
Tomato is one of the most important vegetables due to its high production and nutritional value. With the development of digital agriculture, the tomato breeding and processing industries have seen a rapid increase in the need for simple, low-labor,...
In order to investigate the effect of Zataria multiflora Bioss. extract and nanoextract on morphophysiological and phytochemical indices, yield, and essential oil compositions of basil (Ocimum basilicum L. var. Genovese) under salinity stress (0, 25,...
The peach landrace ‘Liuyefeitao’ exhibits the unique reproductive trait of self-compatibility combined with cross-incompatibility, contrasting with typical Prunus species in this way. In preliminary studies involving controlled pollinatio...
The GLABROUS1 Enhancer Binding Protein (GeBP) gene family plays a crucial role in plant growth, development, and stress responses. In this study, 28 GeBP genes were identified in Brassica oleracea using HMMER and validated through multiple conserved...
The blood orange arose from the insertion of a retrotransposon adjacent to the Ruby gene, an MYB-type transcriptional activator of anthocyanin production, as reported previously. However, the intricate process of anthocyanin regulation among differen...
The utilization of organic fertilizers for the cultivation of wild edible and medicinal plants offers agronomic and ecological benefits, given their suitability to low-input and sustainable production systems. Under such conditions, these species may...
Plant pruning is the selective removal of specific plant parts to enhance growth, shape, and health. In this work, the effects of pruning were evaluated regarding the physiological parameters, maturity, quality, and harvest indices and the nutritiona...
Peach (Prunus persica (L.)) fruits are abundant in nutrients, with fruit shape and sugar content serving as critical indicators of fruit quality. Melatonin plays a pivotal role in peach fruit development; however, the mechanisms by which it regulates...
Basil (Ocimum basilicum), a widely cultivated herb, thrives in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) systems where light spectra can be precisely manipulated to optimize growth, morphology, and chemical composition. This study examined the effects...
Lycium barbarum is a traditional medicinal and edible plant species in China, exhibiting notable salt tolerance that enables cultivation in salt-affected soils. However, intensifying soil salinization has rendered severe salt stress a critical limiti...
Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) are one of the most popular fruits globally, with studies demonstrating the numerous beneficial metabolic substances found in their skins, including anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins, stilbene (resveratrol) and so on. However...
The development of new techniques to improve crop management, especially through precision agriculture methods and innovations, is crucial for increasing crop yield and ensuring high-quality production. The horticultural sector is particularly vulner...
Forced-air cooling (FAC) is a method for rapidly reducing the temperature of horticultural products. However, its effects on the physiological properties and quality of cut flowers remain elusively unclear. This study investigated the impact of FAC w...
Histone methylation plays important roles in plant development and adaptation to multiple stresses. SET domain group (SDG) proteins are identified as plant histone lysine methyltransferases in Arabidopsis and other crops. However, the SDG gene family...
The olive industry is transitioning from traditional to super-high-density (SHD) systems to optimize production costs and address labor shortages. This shift coincides with increasing challenges from soil salinization and deteriorating irrigation wat...
Sugar content is pivotal in determining the flavor quality of tomato, and numerous genes related to tomato fruit quality have been identified. The distribution of sugar sources in plants primarily relies on the functionality of sugar transporters. De...
The ornamental plant sector is characterized by the production of a large variety of genera, species and cultivars that are much more numerous than those of other agricultural production sectors. Many countries throughout the world are involved in an...
Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) production has increased around the world, but crop quality and yield are threatened by fungal pathogens. Botrytis cinerea is a filamentous fungus that infects over 1400 species of crops, causing gray mold disease wit...
Enzymatic browning is the negative color effect of polyphenol oxidase activity in cut fresh fruit products, which reduces their quality, shelf life, and marketability. To preserve the color after cutting, apple cubes were treated with aqueous cabbage...
Rhaponticum carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin. (Leuzea carthamoides, Maral root), a medicinally valuable species listed in the Red Book of Kazakhstan, is known for its rich phytochemical profile. However, limited data exist on its microclonal propagation....
The Tuta absoluta species represents a significant threat to solanaceous crops globally and has developed resistance to conventional synthetic insecticides. This study investigated the insecticidal properties of essential oils (EOs) from Melaleuca al...
Potato tuber (Solanum tuberosum L.) was prone to greening and quality deterioration during postharvest storage due to various factors, affecting the regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis. In the present study, potato tubers were placed at 600 lux an...
For fruit harvesting robots, rapid and accurate detection of fruits and picking points is one of the main challenges for their practical deployment. Several fruits typically grow in clusters or bunches, such as grapes, cherry tomatoes, and blueberrie...
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. is an important ornamental plant, holding dual economic value as a medicinal and edible plant. Jinsi Huangju is a popular healthy tea drink prepared from the large and elegant shaped flowers of C. morifolium. However,...
Recently, there has been a growing interest in using agricultural and forestry residues to cultivate Flammulina filiformis. However, there is limited research on cultivating F. filiformis with soybean straw as a substrate. This study systematically o...
The Yangtze River Basin serves as the primary rapeseed-producing region in China, accounting for over 80% of the national output, yet it is severely impacted by waterlogging, resulting in yield reductions of 17–42.4%. This study investigated th...
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