July 2022 - 109 articles
People have an ancient and strong bond to flowers, which are known to have a positive effect on the mood. During the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of ornamental plants increased, and many turned to gardening, possibly as a way to cope with ubiquitous incr...
Chinese olive (Canarium album), a characteristic fruit tree in tropical and subtropical areas, suffers greatly from low-temperature stress (LTS). The regulatory roles of microRNA (miRNA) in plant LTS responses have been confirmed in many plant s...
Accurate surface defect extraction of apples is critical for their quality inspection and marketing purposes. Using multi-band images, this study proposes a detection method for apple surface defects with a combination of machine vision and deep lear...
Biostimulants are agronomic products that have become highly important in agriculture, as they are formulated with substances capable of stimulating physiological and biochemical processes in plants that help them adapt to different detrimental envir...
Foliar fertilization makes it possible to quickly provide plants with essential nutrients, mainly micronutrients, which can significantly improve the quality of yields. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of foliar fertilization with fer...
Water stress negatively impacts the physiology of plants, affecting their growth and development. It is considered among the most important environmental factors responsible for reduced crop production. In this regard, biofertilizers may be considere...
Positive stress or essential and nonessential elements can improve nutritive values (biofortification) of edible plants. In the present study, we evaluate (i) the effect of moderate salinity on lettuce biofortification, evaluated as nutritional bioac...
Recently there have been new trends in global consumption toward fresh foods that are sources of healthy bioactive compounds, as is the case with pitaya. However, pitaya cultivation is a relatively recent phenomenon and little is known about its mana...
Cross-pollination can improve the fruit set and quality of blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) for growers and consumers. However, the xenia effect in southern highbush blueberry remains unclear. Therefore, we selected eight cultivars of southern highbush blu...
Potassium is among the three essential macronutrients for tea plants, along with nitrogen and phosphorous, and plays important roles in growth and stress response. Potassium is absorbed by plants in larger amounts than any other mineral element excep...
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