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Siderophore-Mediated Interactions Determine the Disease Suppressiveness of Microbial Consortia

Shaohua Gu, Tianjie Yang, Zhengying Shao, Tao Wang et al. • mSystems (2020)

ABSTRACT Interactions between plant pathogens and root-associated microbes play an important role in determining disease outcomes. While several studies have suggested that steering these interactions may improve plant health, such approach...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00811-19

Interactions between Weeds, Pathogen Symptoms and Winter Rapeseed Stand Structure

Lucie Vykydalová, Petra Martínez Barroso, Igor Děkanovský, Mária Neoralová et al. • Agronomy (2024)

Rapeseed, weeds, and pathogens interact with each other. However, these interactions are not well understood. The aim of our work was to describe the relationships between weed vegetation and pathogen manifestations in rapeseed stands. Resu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy14102273

Evaluation of root traits and water use efficiency of different cotton genotypes in the presence or absence of a soil-hardpan

Ricardo St Aime, Grace Rhodes, Michael Jones, B. Todd Campbell et al. • Crop Journal (2021)

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is an important fiber and oil crop grown worldwide. Water and nutrient stresses are major issues affecting cotton production globally. Root traits are critical in improving water and nutrient uptake and maintaining p...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2020.12.001

<i>Escherichia coli</i> Optoelectronic Sensors for In Situ Monitoring of Selected Materials Across Water Supply Systems

Yonatan Uziel, Natan Orlov, Loay Atamneh, Offer Schwartsglass et al. • Chemosensors (2026)

Chemical monitoring of pollutants and hazardous materials in water supply systems traditionally depends on centralized laboratories, advanced instrumentation, and trained personnel, limiting accessibility and preventing real-time, on-site a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors14030062

Assessment of the Nutritional and Medicinal Potential of Tubers from Hairy Stork’s-Bill (<i>Erodium crassifolium</i> L ’Hér), a Wild Plant Species Inhabiting Arid Southeast Mediterranean Regions

Shabtai Cohen, Hinanit Koltai, Gopinath Selvaraj, Moran Mazuz et al. • Plants (2020)

Emerging needs for diversifying human diet and to explore novel therapeutic procedures have led to increasing attempts to retrieve traditional nourishments and recruit beneficial wild plant species. Species of the genus Erodium (Geraniaceae...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants9091069

Plant nutritional value of aquaculture water produced by feeding Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) alternative protein diets: A lettuce and basil case study

Jeffrey J. Jones, Christopher Shaw, Tsu‐Wei Chen, Christopher Martin Staß et al. • Plants, People, Planet (2024)

Societal Impact Statement Refining circular multitrophic food production methods, which integrate plant, fish, and insect outputs, is imperative for environmental sustainability. Our findings suggest that the right protein choices in fish f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10457

Elucidating the functions of fabF1 and fabF2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: implications for fatty acid metabolism and pathogenicity

Zhe Hu, Junfei Yu, Mengchen Li, Xiangru Liu et al. • BMC Microbiology (2026)

Abstract Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for severe infections in immunocompromised individuals, including burn patients and those with cystic fibrosis. β-Ketoacyl-ACP synthases play essential role...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12866-026-04824-z

Determination of fitness traits of Orius strigicollis Poppius (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) on Pectinophora gossypiella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) using two-sex life table analysis

Shahzaib Ali, Qian Zhu, Waqar Jaleel, Shakeel Ur Rehman et al. • PeerJ (2020)

Background Pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) is a destructive insect pest of cotton crops in China and globally, which is actively predated on by Orius strigicollis. Studies on the fitness or survival of O. strigicollis fed on P. gos...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9594

Melatonin: Current Status and Future Perspectives in Plant Science

Muhammad Azher Nawaz, Yuan Huang, Zhilong Bie, Waqar Ahmed et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2016)

Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a ubiquitous molecule with pleiotropic actions in different organisms. It performs many important functions in human, animals, and plants; these range from regulating circadian rhythms in animals ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.01230 PMC: 4707265

Distinct Infection Mechanisms of <i>Rhizoctonia solani</i> AG-1 IA and AG-4 HG-I+II in <i>Brachypodium distachyon</i> and Barley

Niranjan Mahadevan, Rozi Fernanda, Yusuke Kouzai, Natsuka Kohno et al. • Life (2025)

Rhizoctonia solani is a basidiomycete phytopathogenic fungus that causes rapid necrosis in a wide range of crop species, leading to substantial agricultural losses worldwide. The species complex is divided into 13 anastomosis groups (AGs) b...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/life15020235

Multivariate analysis for agronomic, physiological, macro, and micronutrient traits of exotic vegetable amaranth genotypes

Mirza Abrar, Tanveer Ahmad, Shahid Iqbal, Rana Naveed Ur Rehman et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2024)

Abstract The genus amaranth is comprised of 60–70 species. This climate hardy plant is grown as a vegetable as well as cereal crop in many areas of the world. Current study multivariate analysis was used to characterize the exotic vegetable...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05862-3

Enset Bacterial Wilt (Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum): Farmer Perspectives, Physicochemical Characterization, and Phenotypic Variation Among Strains

Tafesse Kibatu, Sebsebe Demissew, Diriba Muleta, Getahun Haile et al. • Advances in Agriculture (2025)

Enset is a staple food for approximately 25% of Ethiopia’s population. It is threatened by a range of biotic and abiotic stress, of which bacterial wilt is the most significant. This study investigated the enset bacterial wilt (EBW) status ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/aia/4483050

LC–MS/MS-guided discovery of japonamides C and D, two new cyclohexadepsipeptides, from the Nicotiana tabacum-derived endophytic fungus Aspergillus japonicus TE-739D

Haisu Wang, Xianwei Hao, Chen Dong, Xiaolong Yuan et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2025)

Endophytic fungi belonging to the Aspergillus genus have received substantial attention due to their notable secondary metabolic potential. In this study, chemical investigations using LC–MS/MS-based molecular networking on the endophytic f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1595569

Blue Light Upregulates Auxin Signaling and Stimulates Root Formation in Irregular Rooting of Rosemary Cuttings

Chan-Saem Gil, Soon-Jae Kwon, Ho-Young Jeong, Chanhui Lee et al. • Agronomy (2021)

Irregular rooting of rosemary stem cuttings, causing differences in either stem maturation or responses to growth conditions, restricts uniform production. Here, rooting efficiency of apical, middle, and basal cuttings from rosemary stems w...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11091725

Metabolites extracted from browntop millet (Urochloa ramosa (L.) T.Q. Nguyen) mitigated the proliferation of breast- and colorectal carcinoma cells in vitro and retarded the EAC tumors in vivo by binding to oncogenic proteins

Mahadevaswamy G. Kuruburu, Venugopal R. Bovilla, Rimshia Naaz, Zonunsiami Leihang et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2026)

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated an inverse correlation between millet-based diets and incidence of cancers of colon and rectum. These findings highlight the potential of millets as functional foods for effective management of canc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2026.1805287

Unravelling the interplay of ecological processes structuring the bacterial rare biosphere

Xiu Jia, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Joana Falcão Salles • ISME Communications (2022)

Abstract Most ecological communities harbor many rare species (i.e., the rare biosphere), however, relatively little is known about how distinct ecological processes structure their existence. Here, we used spatiotemporal data on soil bacte...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s43705-022-00177-6