2026 January - 126 articles
The maturity of Lentinus edodes directly affects its quality, taste, and market value. Currently, maturity assessment primarily relies on manual experience, making it difficult to ensure efficiency and consistency. To achieve efficient and accurate d...
Biostimulants have emerged as effective tools for enhancing both the productivity and quality of crops. In this study, we assessed the impact of the two commercial biostimulant products (Kiana Earth® and Kiana Climate®) on the growth, yield,...
Creating an optimal light environment for different crops is crucial for achieving high yields under controlled environment agriculture conditions. Currently, there are no optimal technologies, including lighting technologies, for growing root crops...
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed RNA molecules that regulate various biological processes in plants. However, the functions of most identified circRNAs remain unclear. Here, we report a nucleoplasmic-localized circRNA, Vv-circRCD1, deri...
Esters are pivotal volatile compounds that shape the floral and fruity attributes of grape berries and wine. In the case of sustainable viticultural system, understanding the formation and regulation of esters is essential for optimizing aroma qualit...
Coir is widely used as a soilless substrate yet partially replacing it with walnut shells in coir-based mixes may improve the sustainability of lettuce production and quality. This study evaluated the effect of incorporating walnut shells, with or wi...
Ficus carica L. is a fruit crop of notable nutritional and economic value. The ‘Xinjiang Zaohuang’ cultivar, rich in flavonoids, also holds considerable medicinal potential. To address the constraints of conventional propagation for mass...
Biostimulants are increasingly recognized in modern agriculture as eco-friendly inputs that enhance plant growth, improve stress tolerance, and promote product quality. This study investigated the effects of fulvic acid, amino acids, and chitosan on...
Across plants, the PEBP gene family is reported to regulate storage organ formation, developmental plasticity, and floral transitioning. However, its evolutionary dynamics and functional diversification within Allium species remain poorly understood....
Understanding yield improvement in horticultural systems depends on elucidating how multiple plant traits operate in concert to sustain productivity. Mulberry (Morus alba L.) provides a suitable model for examining such whole-plant integration. Under...
Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) contributes >4 million tons to global fruit production annually and ranks among the highest dietary sources of vitamin C and bioactive polyphenols. Its quality is mainly influenced by the coordinated regulation of e...
The bHLH transcription factors play a crucial regulatory role in plant growth and development. In this study, the CcbHLH68 gene was cloned from the pepper cultivar ‘Shuanla’. Subsequent bioinformatics analysis, subcellular localization, e...
Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a popular fruit tree with high edible and ornamental values. However, the traditional breeding strategies are lacking in efficiency for the improvement of agronomic traits of pomegranate. Gene editing technologies...
When kept at a low temperature, yellow melons are prone to chilling injury. It is widely known that applying putrescine (Put) after harvest can prevent chilling harm in fruit. The best dosage of Put for treating yellow melon remains unknown, and the...
BTB-TAZ (BT) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors that contain a BTB domain and a TAZ domain and play vital roles in various biological processes, growth regulation, and stress responses. In this study, we investigate the effect of overe...
This study aimed to determine the nutrient use efficiency of the yacon potato under NPK fertilization at different rates. The experiment followed a randomized block design with four replications and a split-plot arrangement. The main plots consisted...
As an important plant immune inducer, Dufulin has long been thought to enhance plant resistance to multiple plant viruses through activating the salicylic acid (SA) pathway. However, whether this immune inducer responds to tomato brown rugose fruit v...
Phytophthora capsici (Pc) affects the production of Capsicum annuum L., particularly in susceptible genotypes like ‘California Wonder’ (CW). Beneficial bacteria offer a sustainable strategy for enhancing plant defense. Five bacterial stra...
Essential oils (EOs) of Mentha spicata var. crispa (Benth.) Danert and M. × piperita var. citrata (Ehrh.) Briq. and EO components are widely used in medicine, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hygiene products, the food industry, and other fields, an...
This study elucidates the variations in phenolic acids, soluble sugars, and pinking development of midribs of two cultivars of Romaine lettuce (Keona—high pinking and Icarus—low pinking) under two light intensities (high L1—558 and...
This study investigated the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), Trichoderma harzianum, and their combinations on yield and quality of strawberry fruits in a soilless cultivation system. Six treatments were applied, control (no biostimulants...
Investigations were conducted in the crop rotation experimental field at the Institute of Horticulture of the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry from 2021 to 2023. Our research aims to evaluate the biological properties and produ...
Cornus officinalis is a valuable traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) plant species with both therapeutic and ornamental attributes. It is widely used in TCM prescriptions to nourish the liver and kidneys and constitutes a critical component of numero...
Drought stress is a major constraint on crop productivity in the Mediterranean region. Brassica crops are particularly valued in this region for their adaptability, nutritional benefits, and economic importance in sustainable farming systems. However...
Chilling injury (CI) is a major constraint to the postharvest shelf-life of tomato fruit (Solanum lycopersicum L.), leading to severe quality deterioration, which is closely linked to cell membrane damage. While individual postharvest treatments with...
The calmodulin-binding protein 60 (CBP60) family comprises essential Ca2+-responsive transcription factors that orchestrate salicylic acid (SA)-mediated immunity and broader stress responses. Despite being extensively characterized in model species,...
From the 1950s to the 1970s, approximately 80,000 kg of tea seeds were introduced from mainland China to the Xizang Autonomous Region for experimental cultivation. To assess the genetic diversity patterns of these tea accessions following more than h...
Frequent occurrences of pests and diseases in tomatoes severely restrict yield and quality improvements. Traditional detection methods are labor-intensive and prone to errors, while advancements in deep learning provide a promising solution for rapid...
Intermittent Hypobaric Storage (IHS) effectively inhibits postharvest deterioration of cassava roots, yet its physiological regulatory mechanisms and associated quality alterations remain poorly understood. This study investigated the regulatory mech...
Early spring frost is a major meteorological hazard during the Apple Flowering period. To improve frost event prediction, this study proposes a hybrid 1D-CNN-BiLSTM-Attention model, with its core novelty lying in the integrated dual attention mechani...
Maintaining grape cultivation requires the continuous production of healthy propagating material and the control of economically important viruses. For more effective virus eradication, it is beneficial to try chemotherapeutic agents that have not ye...
Nitrogen (N) is the most critical element influencing plant growth and development. Different plant species exhibit varying preferences for different N forms. In order to identify an appropriate nutrient solution N formula for optimizing blueberry su...
Heat stress caused a stagnation in the growth and development of Passiflora edulis Sims. To investigate the effects of high-temperature stress, this study subjected P. edulis to 40 °C treatment for different durations; the changes in chlorophyll...
Optimizing the growing conditions of Anemone coronaria and Ranunculus asiaticus for cut-flower production under northern greenhouse conditions requires a better understanding of the environmental and cultivation practices influencing emergence, flowe...
To develop a high-performance detection system for automated harvesting on resource-limited edge devices, we introduce FSA-DETR-P, a lightweight detection framework that addresses challenges such as illumination inconsistency, occlusion, and scale va...
The South American tomato leaf miner, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Syn.: Phthorimaea absoluta), is a pest of great economic importance worldwide. Although T. absoluta shows a strong preference for tomato, it can also attack potato, eggplant, and va...
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UA) plays an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable urban development, providing socioeconomic, environmental, and educational benefits. However, UA is often linked to nutrient accumulation in soils sin...
Root rot disease severely threatens tropical fruit production, leading to plant mortality and reduced yields; however, the mechanisms of host defense responses and pathogen infection remain poorly understood. In this study, Fusarium acutatum was isol...
Grape berries are highly susceptible to diseases during growth and harvest, which severely impacts yield and postharvest quality. While rapid and accurate disease detection is essential for real-time control and optimized management, it remains chall...
Tannins are key compounds determining the astringency of walnuts. Elucidating the structural characteristics of tannin cells in walnut inner seed coats and the accumulation patterns of esterified catechins (e.g., EGCG and ECG) is of significant impor...
Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) is an effective approach for controlling horticultural plant diseases by improving soil properties. However, its effects on microbial communities and their functional characteristics across soil depths remain poorl...
Cinnamomum burmannii, renowned for its high essential oil content in leaves, is a pivotal species utilized for aromatic medicinal and industrial materials. This study focused on the functional identification of key regulatory enzyme 1-deoxy-D-xylulos...
Amid growing “nature deficit” associated with urbanization and indoor living, flowering plants are increasingly used to support psychological restoration. Yet evidence on how floral color and structural morphology jointly shape restorativ...
Soil salinization severely restricts vegetation restoration in Northwest China. Native Limonium plants, capable of naturally colonizing saline-alkalisaline–alkali wasteland, are potential germplasm for low-cost ecological restoration. This stud...
Clubroot disease caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae has greatly affected the quality and yield of Chinese cabbage. Excavating the key resistance genes and verifying their function is important for clarifying disease resistance mechanisms. Virus-induc...
This study examined the impact of various treatments on the storage quality of sugar-cored ‘Fuji’ apples, with the objective of establishing a theoretical foundation for extending the retention period of these apples and augmenting their...
Abiotic stresses, including salt stress, drought, extreme temperature, heavy metal pollution, and waterlogging, interfere with the normal physiological activities of plants through multiple pathways. These stresses destroy the structure and function...
The lack of protocols for breaking seed dormancy, inconsistent seed quality, and abiotic stress factors such as drought impede large-scale restoration efforts of pollinator-friendly native plant species. This research explores the germination respons...
The increasing frequency and intensity of droughts, a direct consequence of climate change, represent one of the main threats to agriculture, especially for crops with a high water demand such as the processing tomato. The objective of this study is...
Callus induction is the foundation for large-scale and rapid plant propagation, and explant age is a key factor affecting callus induction efficiency and in vitro culture outcomes. Pedicels are the main explants for Agapanthus praecox tissue culture....
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