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Antagonistic Activity and Molecular Insights into the Biocontrol of Korla Pear Fire Blight by <i>Paenibacillus</i> sp. TRMB57781

Xirui Wang, Chaowen Liu, Jinduo Zhao, Yuxin Si et al. • Biology (2026)

Pear fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora necessitates environmentally friendly biocontrol alternatives. Strain TRMB57781, isolated from Alar chemical plant wastewater, was identified as Paenibacillus sp. via polyphasic taxonomy and 16S ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biology15100764

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

Analysis of Smallholders’ Progress in Implementing Sustainable Management in North Sumatra, Indonesia

Diana Chalil, Riantri Barus • Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Research (2019)

The significant increase in oil palm areas has resulted in more concerns to the environmental issues - as majority of farming activities were not conducted in sustainable ways. To address the environmental issues, the Roundtable Sustainable...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.32734/injar.v1i3.677

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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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

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

Low cloud response to aerosol‐radiation‐cloud interactions: Idealized WRF numerical experiments for EUREC4A project

Nazario Tartaglione, Fabien Desbiolles, Anna delMoral‐Méndez, Agostino N. Meroni et al. • Atmospheric Science Letters (2024)

Abstract Aerosols significantly affect cloud microphysics and energy budget in different ways. The contribution of the direct, semi‐direct, and indirect effects of aerosols on radiation are here investigated over the North Atlantic tropical...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/asl.1208

Culture, emotion, and cognition: Understanding the psychological dynamics of Chinese sports with emotional regulation skills and cognitive reappraisal

Jilin Li, Xiaohui Jiang, Yuning Zhou • Heliyon (2024)

This study illuminates the complex relationship between cultural orientation towards collectivism, emotional regulation skills, cognitive reappraisal ability, sports engagement, perceived coach support, and sports self-efficacy in Chinese a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34306

Floristic diversity and structural parameters on the forest tree population in the Luki biosphere reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sylvain Ambayi Bienu, Tolerant K. Lubalega, Damase P. Khasa, David Kombi kaviriri et al. • Global Ecology and Conservation (2023)

Tropical rainforests play an important role in the global Eco-climatic balance and its sustainable management is a major concern that has attracted the attention of researchers. The Luki biosphere reserve, while under a status of protected ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02489

تأثير برنامج تأهيلي بإستخدام الوسط المائي على بعض المتغيرات البدنية والفسيولوجية لدى اﻷطفال المصابين بالشلل الدماغي

محمد صلاح الدين محمد محمد, محمد نادر شلبي, آية طارق السيد خليل صيام • Mağallaẗ Buḥūṯ Al-Tarbiyyaẗ Al-Badaniyyaẗ wa ʿulūm Al-Rīyāḍaẗ (2025)

يهدف البحث الى محاولة التعرف علي "تأثير برنامج تأهيلى بإستخدام الوسط المائي على بعض المتغيرات البدنية والفسيولوجية لدى الأطفال المصابين بالشلل الدماغي" وقد استخدمت الباحثة المنهج التجريبي لمجموعة تجريبية واحدة بإستخدام التصميم التجريبي (الق...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/osdj.2025.427259.1197

Assessment of Quality of Life and Social Correlates among Drug Sensitive and Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Patients

G. Hamsaveni, A. M. Amrutha, Bhagyalaxmi Sidenur, Vijayalaxmi Mangasuli et al. • Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu (2024)

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) has significant health, social, psychological, and economic impacts on patients. This study aimed to assess and compare quality of life (QOL) among multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB patients and drug-sensitive TB pa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/japt.japt_14_24