An essential oil dominated by germacrene D (19.3% by GC) was isolated from the fresh fruit of Amorpha fruticosa L. (Fabaceae). Agglomerative clustering and k-means clustering were employed to compare the composition of the oil with the existing liter...
To analyze the phytogenic components of honey of Amorpha fruticosa L. (AFH) and establish a targeted quantitative method, the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based metabolomic technology was used in this study. Firstly, high performan...
Puerol A (1) from Amorpha fruticosa showed highly potent inhibition against both monophenolase (IC50 = 2.2 μM) and diphenolase (IC50 = 3.8 μM) of tyrosinase. We tried to obtain a full story of enzyme inhibitory behavior for inhibitor 1 because...
The WRKY gene family in plants regulates the plant’s response to drought through regulatory networks and hormone signaling. AfWRKY20 (MT859405) was cloned from Amorpha fruticosa (A. fruticosa) seedlings using RT-PCR. The binding properties of t...
Drought and soil salinization significantly constrain agricultural productivity, driving the need for molecular breeding strategies to enhance stress resistance. Zinc finger proteins play a critical role in plant response to abiotic stress. In this s...
The larvicidal activity of the crude petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, acetone, chloroform and ethanol extracts of Amorpha fruticosa seeds was individually assayed for toxicity against the early fourth-instar larva of the mosquito, Culex pipiens pallen...
A greenhouse pot trial was conducted to investigate the effect of organic amendments combined with triple superphosphate on the bioavailability of heavy metals (HMs), Amorpha fruticosa growth and metal uptake from Pb-Zn mine tailings. Cattle manure c...
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by a variety of diagnostic criteria: obesity, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and arterial hypertension. They contribute to the elevated risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The potential for Amorpha frut...
Drought and soil salinization severely limit the productivity of global agriculture and forestry, highlighting the urgency of identifying stress-resistant genes for molecular breeding. B-box (BBX) proteins constitute a class of zinc finger transcript...
Platycladus orientalis and Amorpha fruticosa are important pioneer species in arid and semi-arid regions, playing a crucial role in ecological restoration in water-limited areas. The purpose of this research was to examine how different watering and...
Global climate change has intensified land desertification in the arid and semi-arid regions of northwestern China, highlighting the urgent need to cultivate plant species with ideal architecture and well-developed root systems to combat ecosystem de...
The construction of photovoltaic (PV) power stations for sand control in northwestern China has exacerbated the conflict between solar resource utilization and ecosystem fragility, creating urgent ecological challenges that demand immediate solutions...
The studied introduction population of the alien North American species Amorpha fruticosa L. was formed in the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) 80 years ago from seeds of different geographical origin. Currently, this...
Super absorbent polymer (SAP), known as a water retention agent, has a high capacity for water absorption, which can help enhance the soil structure. This paper studied the effects of SAP dosages on the root characteristics and anchorage of Amorpha f...
In this study, we investigated the depigmentation effect of Amorpha fruticosa L. root extract (RE), an herbal medicine. A. fruticosa RE significantly induced depigmentation in α-MSH-treated B16F10 cells at noncytotoxic concentrations. Further,...
Volatile organic compounds of Amorpha fruticosa honey samples were isolated by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) and ultrasonic solvent extraction (USE), followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analyses (GC, GC-MS), in orde...
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Cadmium (Cd) pollution has become aggravated during the past decades of industrialization, severely endangering human health through its entry into the food chain. While it is well understood that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have a strong abil...
Five putrescine and spermidine derivatives (1–5) together with five rotenoids (6–10) were isolated from a methanolic extract of the flowers of A. fruticosa that displayed promising inhibition of 76.0 ± 1.9% for AChE and 90.0 &plusm...
Amorpha fruticosa L. (Fabaceae) originates from North America and has become an aggressive invasive plant in many parts of the world. It affects the local biodiversity in many negative ways. Our previous in vivo tests of purified extract of A. frutic...
False indigo (Amorpha fruticosa L., A. fruticosa) is the preferred tree indigenous for windbreak and sand control in Northwest China, while information on nutritional and bioactive characteristics of its honey is rare. Herein, 12 honey of Amorpha fru...
The purpose of this paper was to characterize and investigate the antimicrobial potential of Amorpha fruticosa fruits essential oil (EO). The EO was extracted by hydrodistillation, analyzed by GC-MS, and then evaluated for its interaction with microb...
Climate change has led to an increasing frequency of droughts, potentially undermining soil stability. In such a changing environment, the shallow reinforcement effect of plant roots often fails to meet expectations. This study aims to explore whethe...
A first assessment of genetic diversity and expansion of the invasive species Amorpha fruticosa L. was estimated in the 91E0* (Annex I Dir. 92/43/EEC) priority habitat of Nestos. A. fruticosa is a perennial deciduous shrub belonging to the family Fab...
This study aimed to screen out the shrub species which can promote the seed germination and seedling growth of Amygdalus pedunculata Pall. and offer insight for ecological environment governance of the coal mines subsidence area in Mu Us Sandy Land,...
Priority habitat 91E0* (alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior) constitutes a key riparian biodiversity hotspot, yet it is increasingly threatened by woody invasions that alter the community composition and reduce the habitat&rs...
Active conservation management is widely applied in ecosystems affected by biological invasions, where outcomes depend primarily on how management regimes shape the vegetation structure. Grazing is a common tool in floodplain marsh meadows, but diffe...
Invasive non-native plant species are of ecological concern globally, as they may negatively affect biodiversity, the economy, and human health. At the same time, invasive non-native plants comprise an underutilised biomass that contains valuable nat...
Petroleum-based plastics, such as PP, PE, PVC, etc., have become an important source of environmental pollution due to their hard degradation, posing a serious threat to the human health. Isolating nanocellulose from abundant biomass waste resources...
This study investigated soil development resulting from revegetation in a coal mining area in northern Henan, China. The effectiveness of six distinct revegetation methods for reclaiming mine-degraded lands was assessed. These methods employed variou...
As a fast-growing timber tree species with a wide cultivation area, poplar is facing the problem of declining economic benefits under long-term monoculture. Intercropping provides an effective solution. Using Illumina Miseq sequencing, we analyzed so...
Desertified soils severely limit vegetation restoration and sustainable land use in arid regions. This study aims to evaluate the individual and combined effects of coal-based charcoal produced by coal pyrolysis and organic fertilizer on soil propert...
The effects of plant configuration modes on soil organic carbon fractions are mainly reflected in plant species, root structure, apoplastic input, and microbial activity, and different plant configuration modes affect the accumulation and stability o...
The transition from cotyledons to true leaves involves substantial metabolic changes. However, the stage-specific bioactive properties of native ornamental plants have not been thoroughly investigated. This study compared total phenolic and flavonoid...
Previous studies in our laboratory found that the extract from seeds of Amorpha fruticosa in the Leguminosae family had lethal effects against mosquito larvae, and an insecticidal compound amorphigenin was isolated. In this study, the inhibitory ef...
To elucidate the effects of different plantation types on understory vegetation and soil properties in the Mu Us Sandy Land, this study investigated five plantation types: Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica Litv. pure forest, P. sylvestris var. mongolic...
Plant restoration strategies are ubiquitously employed for the purposes of soil and water conservation and ecological improvement in forest ecosystems. Despite N and temperature being acknowledged as pivotal factors affecting plant restoration outcom...
The priority habitat 91E0*, consisting of alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. and Fraxinus excelsior L., represents a vital ecosystem along Europe’s riverbanks and floodplains. In Greece, the alluvial forests of the Nestos Delta...
A key question in plant invasion biology is why invasive plants are more competitive in their introduced habitat than in their native habitat. Studies show that invasive species exhibit allelopathy, influencing other plants by releasing chemicals. Re...
In this study, the potential of planted (Tamarix tetrandra Pall. ex M.Bieb. and Robinia pseudoacacia L.) and spontaneously colonized (Amorpha fruticosa L. and Populus alba L.) woody species for the phytoremediation of potentially toxic trace elements...
In recent years, the problem of ecosystem degradation caused by human activities has become increasingly serious. Vegetation restoration is a key means to solve this problem, which has increased. To address the suitability and structural optimization...
Desertification erodes arable land and human habitats. Vegetation restoration represents a critical process for improving the quality of sandy land by enhancing soil structure and nutrient cycling. This study aims to investigation how vegetation rest...
Deltas are highly susceptible to biological invasions because of strong hydrological connectivity, frequent disturbance, and intense human use. Here, we synthesise coordinated monitoring observations and literature evidence on invasive alien plant sp...
Remotely sensed images with low resolution can be effectively used for the large-area monitoring of vegetation restoration, but are unsuitable for accurate small-area monitoring. This limits researchers’ ability to study the composition of vege...
In the black soil area, where soil erosion is severe and the soil is in urgent need of ecological restoration, providing reasonable and practical measures to prevent soil erosion and restore the soil is an urgent issue at present. In this study, nine...
The critical role of energy in contemporary life and the environmental challenges associated with its production imply the need for research and exploration of its novel resources. The present review paper emphasizes the continuous exploitation of no...
In ecological restoration of arid/semi-arid sandy lands, micro-topographic variations and artificial shrub arrangement synergistically drive vegetation recovery and soil quality improvement. As a typical fragile ecosystem in northern China, the Mu Us...
In a laboratory experiment, we studied the insecticidal effects of invasive alien plants on the rice weevil. The research was carried out in two parts. In the first part, we studied the insecticidal properties of seven different plant species, namely...