Severe water limitation constrains crop productivity through coordinated effects on growth, photosynthetic performance, and mineral nutrition. This study evaluated whether foliar nanoparticle (NP)-based formulations and commercial biostimulants could...
In this study, qualitative morphological characters, traditional and derived morphometric descriptors, palynological traits, and multivariate analyses were integrated to evaluate morphological variation among five wild and cultivated Opuntia taxa fro...
Vegetative propagation via cuttings is the primary technique used in commercial black pepper plantations; however, a moderate capacity for adventitious rooting limits the production of high-quality seedlings. Consequently, the application of exogenou...
Amygdalus ledebouriana (Schltdl.) Y.Y. Yao is a rare, endangered wild almond species native to Eastern Kazakhstan, listed in both Kazakhstan’s Red Book and the IUCN Red List, and valued as a source of drought- and frost-tolerance genes for ston...
NPK fertilization can modify crop yield and contribute to the production of foods with greater nutritional value. However, further studies are needed to understand how different NPK rates modulate the responses of Solanum lycopersicum, particularly r...
Potato cyst nematodes are persistent soilborne pathogens that constrain potato production in the Andean region. This study compared ten commercial potato genotypes under natural infestation by Globodera pallida in Pupiales and Ospina, Nariño,...
Pottiaceae mosses remain insufficiently represented in molecular datasets from Central Asia, limiting comparisons with specimens from other regions. This study evaluated molecular support for the identification of 16 voucher-linked specimens collecte...
A comparative morphometric analysis was conducted on seven Poaceae species (Brachypodium pinnatum, Dactylis glomerata, Elymus repens, Festuca pratensis, Festuca rubra aggr., Lolium perenne, and Poa pratensis) to evaluate the potential for species-lev...
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] is a high value leguminous crop characterized by its excellent protein and oil qualities. The legume is also excellent as human food, animal feed, industrial raw material and for its ability to improve soil quality...
The oasis agricultural system is facing challenges due to water scarcity, aridity, and salinity. Conventional date palm pollination remains costly under these conditions. This study evaluated the pollination of Mech Degla, a dry cultivar, using liqui...
Ionizing radiation can impair maize germination, growth, membrane integrity, and chlorophyll-related traits. Zn-containing seed treatments may modify stress responses, but organic-ligand-containing Zn preparations remain poorly characterized under ir...
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely used for their antimicrobial properties, and their release into the environment has raised concerns about their effects on plant growth. We previously showed that AgNP inhibits primary root elongation in Arabid...
The Bidah pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is an elite landrace native to Wadi Bidah in the Al-Baha region of Saudi Arabia. This cultivar is distinguished by its unique taste, high yield, genetic component, and phytochemical profile. In addition, its...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is a major food-security crop in developing countries, but its productivity is constrained by the accumulation of viral pathogens through repeated vegetative propagation. In vitro culture, combined with virus indexin...
Intraspecific variation in Tanacetum vulgare L. has been documented, but it remains unclear which morphological and anatomical traits differ among localities in Kokshetau State National Nature Park and whether the principal stem and leaf organization...
Wild plant populations in mountain ecosystems often depend on specific combinations of soil, vegetation and microsite conditions. Alcea nudiflora (Lindl.) Boiss. is a poorly studied Malvaceae species in Central Asia, and its population structure acro...
The genus Populus L. includes ecologically important woody species that occupy diverse floodplain habitats and exhibit considerable morphological and anatomical variation. The aim of this study was to comparatively assess the morphological, anatomica...
Bidens pilosa L. is a widespread weed that invades grasslands, agricultural fields, and roadsides, and outcompetes indigenous plant species for resources, posing significant challenges to sustainable agricultural management. The study investigated th...
Drought tolerance testing of various soybean varieties under specific regional conditions is important, but it has never been conducted on the rainfed soils of Gunungkidul, Indonesia. This study aims to assess the drought-tolerance responses of Demas...
Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are the most economically important group of plant-parasitic nematodes worldwide. We tested whether foliar elicitors induce defense enzymes in leaves and reduce nematode reproduction in the roots of the same pla...
Effective banana sucker management is essential for plantation renewal because physical removal may allow regrowth from viable rhizome buds. This study compared localized pseudostem application of glyphosate (480 g a.e. L−1; 1.8 mL shoot−...
Ensuring sustainable wheat production is crucial for food security, particularly in regions facing plant diseases and environmental challenges. In the Middle East, wheat powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici, significantly threat...
The present study based in Jupiter, Florida, was a near-first look at urban native plant ecology in southern Florida. There were three objectives: 1. produce a ranked tally of native species in the urbanized environment; 2. assess the prevalence of h...
Plant homeobox domain (PHD) proteins are a class of zinc-finger proteins that play pivotal regulatory roles in plant responses to environmental stresses. Research on the identification and analysis of PHDs in Gossypium tomentosum (G. tomentosum) rema...
Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are small cysteine-rich proteins belonging to the cysteine-rich peptide (CRP) antimicrobial peptide superfamily, widely distributed across land plants and involved in key physiological processes including...
Plant biostimulants may alter photosynthetic energy use and leaf structure, but their effects on complementary PSII energy partitioning in both cucumber leaves and fruits remain insufficiently characterized. Using plant material from a commercial gre...
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is an economically important industrial crop, and its productivity and sugar accumulation depend heavily on effective nutrient management. This study investigated how mineral fertilization combined with foliar applicatio...
Improving stem cutting propagation of grapevine species (Vitis sp.) is important for supporting growing interest in southern grapevine production, particularly for lesser-known cultivars. More efficient and reliable propagation techniques can help nu...
Seed development in Brassica napus is tightly regulated at many stages. Microproteins (miPs), small regulatory peptides derived from larger ancestral proteins, have emerged as key post-translational modulators in plants; however, their role in seed d...
The marketable yield of carrot is reduced by carrot cavity spot disease (Pythium violae and P. sulcatum). In the UK, metalaxyl-M is the only approved fungicide. Good calcium nutrition can manage cavity spot, but calcium is not generally mobilised to...
Bush encroachment by woody species threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and rangeland productivity in savanna ecosystems. Understanding how juvenile woody plants respond to cutting at different times of the year is essential for developing...
Background/Objectives: Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) is an economically important fruit crop that contributes substantially to food security and smallholder income in Mozambique. Despite this, the genetic diversity of the locally grown g...
This study investigated the differences between ripening patterns of two homozygous lineages of melons, yellow A5, a non-climacteric inodorus, and Charentais C1, a climacteric cantalupensis, regarding the physiological processes related to postharves...
Nitrogen (N) availability strongly influences tea growth and the accumulation of quality-related metabolites, but long-term responses to withdrawal of external N can vary among cultivars. In this study, we characterized phenotypic, spectral, biochemi...
Drought is a major limiting factor for potato productivity. This study examined two Kazakh potato cultivars, Tokhtar and Aksor, under osmotic stress induced by polyethylene glycol (PEG)-6000 using an integrated physiological, biochemical, and molecul...
This study explored how nitrogen fertilization modulates the grain yield response of maize to atmospheric stress across distinct phenological windows. Field trials were conducted from 2023 to 2025 under three nitrogen regimes (N0, N69, and NFull) wit...
Lilium sp. is one of the most commercially important ornamental species; however, improving its ornamental quality remains a challenge for production systems. In this context, nanoparticles have been proposed as an innovative alternative to optimize...
Biological invasions threaten tropical biodiversity, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying successful invaders remain poorly understood. Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan) is an aggressive “genomic orphan” invader in Andean forests, ca...
Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays provide reproducible, accurate, and scalable genotyping for rice research and cultivar development. This review critically evaluates the design and development of major rice SNP platforms and defines their...
Distinguishing crop from weed species at the seedling stage is a fine-grained morphological discrimination problem. We study it on the public Plant Seedlings benchmark, which contains twelve species (three crops and nine weeds) imaged at the seedling...
Background/Objectives: Medicinal and aromatic plants are important sources of phenolic compounds with antioxidant properties. This study evaluated the total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant activity of 19 commercially available medicinal herb a...
Water deficit is one of the main limiting factors for crop establishment and productivity, particularly during seed germination and early seedling development. This study aimed to evaluate the biostimulant potential of Ascophyllum nodosum extract app...
Dwarf cereal cultivars were crucial for the Green Revolution. Dwarfed, lodging-resistant varieties remain essential today, as climate change brings more storms and downpours. In barley, the dwarfing gene HvDEP1 has been widely used in breeding. Altho...
In Amazonian Spodosols, soil acidity and nutrient constraints limit the cultivation of cutleaf groundcherry. One sustainable alternative for cultivating this species is the use of Trichoderma inoculants, but studies on their use in this crop are scar...
Calibrating the mutagenic dose is the first practical step of any radiation mutation-breeding programme, and it is usually summarised by the median lethal dose (LD50) or the median growth-reduction dose (GR50). We asked whether an accessible, image-b...
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of abiotic stresses, including salinity, drought, heat, and heavy metal toxicity, which strongly threaten productivity, quality, and market value in horticultural crops. Although plant biostimul...
Photosynthesis is the fundamental biological process underlying plant growth, crop productivity, and global food security. However, its efficiency is highly vulnerable to abiotic stresses, which disrupt chlorophyll biosynthesis, electron transport, c...
The Annonaceae family in Mexico comprises a wide diversity of species with economic, cultural, agricultural, and pharmacological importance; however, research on this group remains fragmented. Therefore, this study analyzed the scientific output on A...
Waterlilies (Nymphaea spp.) are ecologically and ornamentally important aquatic plants, yet their micropropagation remains challenging due to endophytic contamination and the recalcitrant nature of tuber explants. This study established an efficient...
Commercial seaweed extracts (SWEs) are widely used as plant biostimulants; however, information on formulation-specific optimum dosages for greenhouse-grown Capsicum annuum seedlings is limited. This study evaluated the effects of five commercial SWE...
