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Prospects for developing allergen‐depleted food crops

Vadthya Lokya, Sejal Parmar, Arun K. Pandey, Hari K. Sudini et al. • The Plant Genome (2023)

Abstract In addition to the challenge of meeting global demand for food production, there are increasing concerns about food safety and the need to protect consumer health from the negative effects of foodborne allergies. Certain bio‐molecu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20375

Remote learning slightly decreased student performance in an introductory undergraduate course on climate change

Sattik Ghosh, Stephanie Pulford, Arnold J. Bloom • Communications Earth & Environment (2022)

Students who completed the online version of an introductory course on climate change performed 2% worse than those who completed the in-person version, according to a study of 1790 undergraduate students in California, USA....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00506-6

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

Reference vegetation for restoration? Three vegetation maps compared across 76 nature reserves in Uganda and Kenya

Jens‐Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Davide Barsotti, James Kalema, Paulo vanBreugel et al. • Ecosphere (2024)

Abstract Forest and landscape restoration are increasingly popular nature‐based solutions to mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity. Restoration planning and monitoring implies that a reference ecosystem has been defined to whic...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70030

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

Uncovering Cercospora species affecting sugar beet in Iran with rapid and accurate detection of C. beticola using LAMP assay

Mounes Bakhshi, Mona Ghasemi, Mohammad-Ali Tajick Ghanbary, Kaivan Karimi et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Cercospora leaf spot (CLS) is a major disease impacting global sugar beet cultivation and yield. This study investigated the potential diversity of Cercospora species causing CLS in Iranian sugar beet. Fungal isolates were characte...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-21274-1

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

OsAAI1 is dependent on the nitrate pathway toregulate rice root development in response to high salt stress

Jinli Liu, Haimin Liao, Shasha Chen, Mengxia Wu et al. • Plant Stress (2025)

Salt stress limits plant growth and yield. Though nitrogen fertilizer can alleviate salt damage, the effects of salt and nitrate on the stress resistance gene OsAAI1 are unclear. This study examined the Salt stress sensitivity of OsAAI1 tra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.stress.2025.101091

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

Study on Three Sarcocapnos Species as Potential Sources of Bioactive Compounds: Relation between Phenolic Content and Bioactivity by Multivariate Analysis

María del Pilar Fernández-Poyatos, Gökhan Zengin, Carlos Salazar-Mendías, Antonio Ruiz-Medina et al. • Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry (2020)

In this work, we report the phenolic composition and bioactivity of the aerial parts of three species of Sarcocapnos (S. enneaphylla, S. pulcherrima, and S. saetabensis) to study their potential as sources of bioactive compounds to revalori...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2020/8885169

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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Mikania micrantha genome provides insights into the molecular mechanism of rapid growth

Bo Liu, Jian Yan, Weihua Li, Lijuan Yin et al. • Nature Communications (2020)

Mikania micrantha is an extremely fast-growing invasive plant species that can cause serious damage to natural ecosystems. Here, the authors assemble its chromosome-scale reference genome and explore possible mechanisms that contribute to i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13926-4

Morphological and molecular identification of arrhenotokous strain of Diglyphus wani (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) found in China as a control agent against agromyzid leafminers

Su-Jie Du, Zoya Yefremova, Fu-Yu Ye, Chao-Dong Zhu et al. • ZooKeys (2021)

Diglyphus species are ecologically and economically important on agromyzid leafminers. In 2018, a thelytokous species, Diglyphus wani Liu, Zhu &amp;amp; Yefremova, was firstly reported and described. Subsequently, the arrhenotokous D. wani ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72433

Updated Taxonomy of Chinese <i>Craterellus</i> (Hydnaceae, Cantharellales) with Three New Species Described

Tian Jiang, Lei Zhao, Xu Zhang, Hua-Zhi Qin et al. • Life (2025)

Species of Craterellus are interesting and important due to their mycorrhizal properties, medicinal value, and edibility. Despite extensive research on Craterellus in China, its taxonomy remains inadequately understood. This study presents ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/life15020157