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Conservation and Preservation for Endangered Mangrove Species: Comprehensive Case Study of Swamp Forest on North Coast Area of Malaysia

Mona Fairuz Ramli, Ahmad Shabudin Ariffin, Marziah Zahar, Aizat Md Sin et al. • Ilmu Kelautan (2022)

Mangrove forests are special type of coastal ecosystem characterized by their adaptations that enable plants to thrive in saline soil. Despite accounting for only about 1% of global forest coverage, mangroves are keystone ecosystems that pr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14710/ik.ijms.27.4.297-306

Formulation optimization and flavor quality assessment of ginger tea

Shouhui Wei, Qiao Tan, Weining Wei, Hongbo Jiang et al. • Journal of Agriculture and Food Research (2026)

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a characteristic economic crop with both medicinal and edible functions. The aroma and bioactive compounds in ginger tea are primarily derived from ginger. Developing a novel ginger tea with a rich aro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2026.102977

Highly Efficient Leaf Base Protoplast Isolation and Transient Expression Systems for Orchids and Other Important Monocot Crops

Rui Ren, Rui Ren, Jie Gao, Dongmei Yin et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2021)

Versatile protoplast platforms greatly facilitate the development of modern botany. However, efficient protoplast-based systems are still challenging for numerous horticultural plants and crops. Orchids are globally cultivated ornamental an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.626015

Fatty acid composition, bioactive phytochemicals, antioxidant properties and oxidative stability of edible fruit seed oil: effect of preharvest and processing factors

Tafadzwa Kaseke, Umezuruike Linus Opara, Olaniyi Amos Fawole • Heliyon (2020)

Fruit seed is a by-product of fruit processing into juice and other products. Despite being treated as waste, fruit seed contains oil with health benefits comparable or even higher than the conventional seed oil from field crops. In additio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04962

CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

Zhen-Jia Zhang, Qiang Gao, Xiao-Dong Fang, Zhi-Hang Ding et al. • eLife (2020)

Carbon catabolite repression 4 (CCR4) is a conserved mRNA deadenylase regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. However, regulation of CCR4 in virus infections is less understood. Here, we characterized a pro-viral role of CCR4 in rep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7554/eLife.53753

Variation in Anthyllis vulneraria L. populations in adjacent regions across acidic and basic soils in Val Piora

Ermelinda Gjeta, Diellëza Lajçi, Avni Hajdari, Xhesi Shabanllari et al. • Academia Biology (2025)

Populations of Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. vulneraria and A. vulneraria ssp. vallesiaca are found in close vicinity in Val Piora, where the geological situation changes abruptly between basic and acidic substrates. At three sites with populat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20935/AcadBiol7815

Plant Growth Regulators Improve Grain Production and Water Use Efficiency of <i>Foeniculum vulgare</i> Mill. under Water Stress

Ghasem Parmoon, Ali Ebadi, Masoud Hashemi, Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak et al. • Plants (2022)

The development of methods increasing plant water use efficiency (WUE) would enhance the ability to grow wild aromatic and medicinally important species. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of plant growth regulators (PGRs)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants11131718

Untargeted metabolomic profiling of Pseudocnella sykion from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using 1H-NMR and UPLC-QTOF-HR-MS

Cassandra Upton, Gerhard Prinsloo, Paul Anton Steenkamp, Moses Okpeku • Frontiers in Marine Science (2025)

IntroductionSea cucumbers are ecologically and economically significant marine invertebrates, yet the metabolic diversity and bioactive potential of noncommercialized, endemic species remains poorly understood.MethodsThis study presents the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1609951

Association Mapping of Seed Coat Color Characteristics for Near-Isogenic Lines of Colored Waxy Maize Using Simple Sequence Repeat Markers

Tae Hyeon Heo, Hyeon Park, Nam-Wook Kim, Jungeun Cho et al. • Plants (2024)

Waxy maize is mainly cultivated in South Korea for the production of food and snacks, and colored maize with increased anthocyanin content is used in the production of functional foods and medicinal products. Association mapping analysis (A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants13152126

Evaluation of Population and Hybrid Varieties of Winter Rye in the Conditions of Eastern Siberia

Anatolii V. Pomortsev, Nikolay V. Dorofeev, Svetlana Yu. Zorina, Natalia B. Katysheva et al. • Agronomy (2023)

Winter rye has a high adaptive capacity to abiotic and biotic stressors compared to other winter crops (wheat, triticale, barley, and oats). High resistance of winter rye to adverse environmental factors and a wide range of its uses increas...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13051431

Brassinosteroid-lipid membrane interaction under low and high temperature stress in model systems

Elżbieta Rudolphi-Szydło, Barbara Dyba, Anna Janeczko, Dariusz Latowski et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2022)

Abstract Background In earlier studies [1], we indicated that applying brassinosteroids (BRs) to lipids that had been isolated from plants altered the physicochemical properties of the monolayers. A continuation of these dependencies using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03619-4

Shared but Threatened: The Heritage of Wild Food Plant Gathering among Different Linguistic and Religious Groups in the Ishkoman and Yasin Valleys, North Pakistan

Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Zahid Ullah, Andrea Pieroni • Foods (2020)

A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. These valleys are inhabited by diverse, often marginalized, linguistic a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods9050601

A native parasitic plant and soil microorganisms facilitate a native plant co‐occurrence with an invasive plant

Junmin Li, Ayub M. O. Oduor, Feihai Yu, Ming Dong • Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Abstract Invasive plants often interact with antagonists that include native parasitic plants and pathogenic soil microbes, which may reduce fitness of the invaders. However, to date, most of the studies on the ecological consequences of an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5407

DESENVOLVIMENTO INICIAL DO MILHO PIPOCA CULTIVADO SOB DIFERENTES RELAÇÕES NH4 +:NO3-

Francisco de Assis de Oliveira, José Francismar de Medeiros, Patrício Borges Maracajá, Mychelle Karla Teixeira de Oliveira et al. • Revista Caatinga (2008)

The culture of the popcorn comes as a promising culture for region of the Brazilian northeast, however they are still scarce studies to make possible the expansion of this culture, especially as the fertilization. This experiment was accomp...

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Enhancing dental trauma management: insights into physical education graduates’ knowledge and performance

Fahimeh Pakravan, Ali Yousefian Najafabadi, Zohreh Meshkati, Mehdi Nasr Isfahani • BMC Oral Health (2025)

Abstract Introduction Injuries sustained during physical activities are a common concern among athletes, with dental trauma representing a significant yet often under-addressed component. Timely and appropriate intervention is critical to s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-06806-5

Neurodevelopmental Disorders Comorbid with Deafness in Children: A Systematic Review of Previous Studies

Fatemeh Nikkhoo, asgar chubdari • Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī (2020)

The comorbidity of neurodevelopmental disorders regarding deafness has been confirmed in several studies, which further emphasizes the necessity of paying more attention to diagnostic and rehabilitation approaches in this field. The primary...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22054/jpe.2021.55757.2226

In vitro effects of European and Latin-American medicinal plants in CYP3A4 gene expression, glutathione levels, and P-glycoprotein activity

Andre Luis Dias Araujo Mazzari, Mariella Guimarães Lacerda, Flora Aparecida Milton, Flora Aparecida Milton et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2022)

Many medicinal plants species from European -such as Artemisia absinthium, Equisetum arvense, Lamium album, Malva sylvestris, Morus nigra, Passiflora incarnata, Frangula purshiana, and Salix alba- as well as Latin American traditions -such ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.826395

The Utilization of Plant-Material-Loaded Vesicular Drug Delivery Systems in the Management of Pulmonary Diseases

Bongani Sannyboy Lukhele, Kokoette Bassey, Bwalya Angel Witika • Current Issues in Molecular Biology (2023)

Medicinal plants have been utilized to treat a variety of conditions on account of the bioactive properties that they contain. Most bioactive constituents from plants are of limited effectiveness, due to poor solubility, limited permeabilit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/cimb45120624

Perspective on the Therapeutics of Anti-Snake Venom

Isabel Gómez-Betancur, Vedanjali Gogineni, Andrea Salazar-Ospina, Francisco León • Molecules (2019)

Snakebite envenomation is a life-threatening disease that was recently re-included as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), affecting millions of people in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Improvement in the therapeutic approaches...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules24183276

Assessment of hazard recognition performance of thermal power plant workers: A case study of a combined cycle power plant

Romeo Danquah, Gidphil Mensah, Winfred Senyo Agbagah, Francis Davis • Cogent Engineering (2023)

Hazard recognition is a vital skill every thermal power plant worker needs to possess to enhance workplace accident prevention. Facilities and materials used in thermal power plants expose the workers to significant hazards. While some prio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2023.2252621