Biology and Life Sciences Forum, Volume 16, Issue 1

The world faces the challenge of producing a sufficient amount of food for the constantly growing human population in a sustainable manner. It means the usage of pesticides and fertilizers with minimized adverse effects on the environment and the wid...

Organic agriculture, recognized as a more sustainable agricultural system, strongly depends on the use of highly resilient genotypes. Seed resilience, with increased tolerance to germination that provide vigorous seedlings under environmental stresse...

Biological amendments, namely Pseudomonas florescence, Azotobacter chroococcum, K mobilizers, and AM fungi, were expedited during an air-layering operation on litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.). Twenty-five-year healthy progeny of mother plants were mai...

Traditional crop varieties are useful sources of desirable characteristics for developing new cultivars with improved nutritive and sensory attributes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fruit-quality parameters in three traditional tomato gen...

Foliar application of humic acid along with bio-inoculants in 4-year-old inarched guava cv. Lalit in meadow orcharding system was carried out. Foliar application of humic acid @ 30 and 60 mL/L at bud burst to flowering stage and bio-inoculants (Phosp...

Loss in fresh fruit mainly occurs due to their susceptibility to mechanical damage during the postharvest supply chain. Mechanical damage can reduce the quality of fresh produce during handling, especially if not consumed directly, which is a critica...

Different parts of Cynara cardunculus, var. scolymus L., have been used in traditional medicine to treat various disorders and as a coagulant in cheese making. In this work, phenolics from different parts of globe artichoke of the local cultivar &ldq...

In various parts of India, tomatoes are grown using eco-friendly indigenous organic manures prepared from cow products for sustainable food production by small and marginal farmers. The main objective of the study was to compare the postharvest quali...

Greenhouse cultivation is one of the most crucial circular economy systems in agriculture that allows maximum production with less cultivation area, minimum inputs, and low environmental impact. The data generated in high-tech and sophisticated green...

The aim of this review is to summarize our recently reported findings on the use of preharvest treatments (shade nets), applied either directly or in combination with other techniques (grafting) in order to minimize physiological disorders and maximi...

The integration of aquatic animals and horticultural production through aquaponics has been recently studied and endorsed by scientists as a real, sustainable solution to optimize the reuse of nutrient and water resources in food production. The pres...

Natural fortification can be used to increase the mineral content of the edible part of plants. In horticultural crops, foliar fertilization is used extensively, being a way to provide nutrients through leaves (a faster way compared to soil applicati...

Arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancroft) is a nutritional crop with high energy value and good digestibility. However, this plant has a short shelf life due to excessive weight loss, browning, and disease incidence. Therefore, the aim of this stud...

One of the greatest challenges of modern agriculture is to produce more with less, to produce healthier, safer food under sustainable systems. This includes a focus on increasing the efficiency of finite resources such as water and nutrients and incr...

Our study aimed to carry out the nutritional characterization and discrimination of Allium fistulosum, A. nutans, A. odorum, A. schoenoprasum, A. ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum, and A. sativum var. sagittatum samples grown in Serbia. Samples were rec...

The horticulture development of several plants, such as Acacia dealbata Link. (pollen), Quercus ilex L. (acorn skin), Quercus ilex L. (peeled acorn), Platanus × acerifólia (Aiton) Willd. (seeds) and Tanacetum vulgare L. (seeds), in organ...

Many strawberry growers in some areas of the United States rely on customers to pick the fruits during the peak harvest months. Unfavorable weather conditions such as high humidity and excessive rainfall can quickly promote fruit rot and diseases. Th...

Magnesium is considered an essential nutrient for humans, where about 60% of Mg plays an important role in skeletal development. However, its deficiency can trigger several health pathologies (namely, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension,...

Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.) plants are valuable for the high taste, nutritional, medicinal and dietary properties of their fruits. Strawberries are the first to open the season of fresh berries. They are especially rich in sugars, organic ac...

Black plum sawfly (Hoplocampa minuta Christ. (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)) is one of the dominant pests of plum in Ukraine, causing significant damage and yield losses. Monitoring based on pheromone and color traps is widespread in integrated protec...

GPS and GIS techniques, i.e.,the global positioningsystem and geographical information system, are widely utilized to delineate fertility maps of macro- and micronutrients. Soil samples collected with GPS data can help in making critical decisions on...

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important staple food crops and one of the most consumed food crops worldwide. As such, it is a suitable food matrix for biofortification studies, namely, with Ca, as it is an essential mineral for pla...

The application of pesticides remains one of the most efficient control methods for phytophagous parasites in crops. Essential oils (EOs) are complex mixtures of highly active compounds that can be used as biopesticides against plant parasitic nemato...

Determining the physicochemical properties of anthill and termite mound soils and their combinations with ordinary top soil and the assessment of their effects on the germination, growth and yield performance of eggplant and okra under screenhouse co...

A spent cultivation substrate (SCS) is a growing medium which remains after the cultivation of mushrooms (SMS) or vegetables (SGS); for many years, it was considered to be a problematic waste product from farming. However, in the recent transition to...

Nutrition of the world population has become a concern, making research for strategies to enhance crop production necessary. Thus, the study of nutrients and the interactions between them is highly necessary since they are important for plant physiol...

Maintaining pea-growing areas is becoming increasingly difficult because they are highly sensitive to environmental stresses, especially drought. Green peas (Pisum sativum L.) are a very important source of amino acids in the diet of humans, poultry,...

Post-harvest systems are crucial for fruit conservation, since they minimize the waste of such perishable food and allow its marketability to consumers during the year. This study thus aimed to assess the calcium values in stored fruits, previously s...

Campanula portenschlagiana is an ornamental plant vegetatively propagated from mother plants’ shoot explants. In this study, we worked with two different genotypes of C. portenschlagiana, Deep Blue Ocean and White Ocean. We found different root...

Wild edible plants of the Mediterranean represent an extraordinary food source and are basic ingredients in the “Mediterranean diet”. However, there is a scarcity of information about their commercial interest or cultivation practices. Th...

Cichorium spinosum L. is a wild edible species found mostly in coastal areas of the Mediterranean basin. In this experiment, seven fertilization treatments varying in the amounts of N/P/K were applied via nutrient solution feeding in pot-grown C. spi...

Soil fertilization is one of the top rice crop production issues. Nutrient leaching in rice crop production, leading to lower plant uptake and low yield, poses a challenge for Cambodian farmers and is becoming a key concern for the environment. Carbo...

Grape cultivation in Sonora, Mexico is one of the most notable in the world, but it is restricted to certain areas and uses a conventional production approach. The objective of this work is to evidence the development of the establishment of an organ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes in the textures of slice images of radish subjected to lacto-fermentation. The models developed for individual color channels of images and color spaces RGB, Lab, YUV, and XYZ were used to disti...

The aim of the present study was to examine the potential ameliorative effects of biostimulant application on lettuce plants grown under deficit irrigation conditions. For this purpose, we evaluated the effect of five biostimulant products with a var...

In the case of cucumber, postharvest challenges may focus on preserving the high quality and extending the shelf-life of the fruit. Digital image analysis provides objective information about the quality of food products and the changes in their prop...