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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

The StABI5-<i>StCAT1</i> Module Regulates Potato Resistance to Early Blight Through the ROS Signaling Pathway

Bingbing Li, Mengxiang Shi, Yunjing Zhang, Xin Liu et al. • Biology (2026)

Potato early blight is a fungal disease caused by Alternaria solani that seriously affects potato production. Catalase (CAT), an important antioxidant enzyme in plants, regulates the basal immune response to necrotrophic pathogens by decomp...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biology15151250

Development of a Real-Time Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for the Rapid Detection of Olea Europaea Geminivirus

Sofia Bertacca, Andrea Giovanni Caruso, Daniela Trippa, Annalisa Marchese et al. • Plants (2022)

A real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay was developed for simple, rapid and efficient detection of the Olea europaea geminivirus (OEGV), a virus recently reported in different olive cultivation areas worldwide. A pre...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants11050660

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

First report of Pleuroceras pseudoplatani on Acer rubrum, A. griseum, A. saccharinum, A. negundo, A. circinatum and A. macrophyllum in Scotland

M. Cleary, F. Oskay, J. Rönnberg, S. Woodward • The Forestry Chronicle (2018)

In September 2016, large necrotic lesions were observed on the foliage of several maples in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Symptoms resembled giant leaf blotch disease caused by Pleuroceras pseudoplatani (formerly Gnomonia pseudoplatani; Ophiogno...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5558/tfc2018-022

Xylan Is Critical for Proper Bundling and Alignment of Cellulose Microfibrils in Plant Secondary Cell Walls

Jacob D. Crowe, Pengchao Hao, Sivakumar Pattathil, Henry Pan et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2021)

Plant biomass represents an abundant and increasingly important natural resource and it mainly consists of a number of cell types that have undergone extensive secondary cell wall (SCW) formation. These cell types are abundant in the stems ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.737690

Completing the picture of field-grown cereal crops: a new method for detailed leaf surface models in wheat

Marie Theiß, Angelina Steier, Uwe Rascher, Mark Müller-Linow • Plant Methods (2024)

Abstract Background The leaf angle distribution (LAD) is an important structural parameter of agricultural crops that influences light interception, radiation fluxes and consequently plant performance. Therefore, LAD and its parametrized fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01130-x

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

The Infection Route of Tomato Zonate Spot Virus in the Digestive System of Its Insect Vector Frankliniella occidentalis

Yong Chen, Yong Chen, Yuyan Liu, Liang Wang et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2022)

Tomato zonate spot virus (TZSV) is a phytopathogen of the genus Orthotospovirus (Bunyaviridae) that is widespread in many areas of Southwest China. TZSV is mainly transmitted by Frankliniella occidentalis, but its exact infection route rema...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.911751

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

Trends in plant sciences

James Laing Moir • New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research (2022)

In this special issue of NZJA, we have collected papers that focus on new science in the discipline of plant sciences. The 12 papers presented here reflect a wide spectrum of plant sciences related to pasture and pasture management. There a...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00288233.2022.2066962

The Gatsby Plant Science Summer School: Inspiring the Next Generation of Plant Science Researchers

Aurora Levesley, J Jopson, Celia D. Knight • The Plant Cell (2012)

We provide evidence from a 5-year study to show that a single concerted effort at the start of undergraduate study can have a clear and lasting effect on the attitudes of students toward plant science. Attendance at a week-long residential ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.111.094326 PMC: 3398476