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Plants, Volume 10, Issue 6

June 2021 - 228 articles

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Cover Story: Plant diseases are globally causing substantial losses in staple crop production, in turn, reducing food amount and quality. Crop diseases also compromise food safety due to the presence of pesticides and/or toxins. Nowadays, biotechnology represents our best resource for both crop yield protection and science-based increased agricultural sustainability. Over the last few decades, the diffusion of new, fast and efficient technologies has enabled a broad spectrum of options for understanding plant molecular mechanisms and breeding. Resistance may be implemented in cereals by combining basic research-derived knowledge with fast and precise genetic engineering techniques. Priming and/or boosting the immune system in crops represent a sustainable, rapid and effective way to limit global harvest losses and to prevent food contamination. View this paper.

Articles (228)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,546 Views
21 Pages

Arabidopsis EGY1 Is Critical for Chloroplast Development in Leaf Epidermal Guard Cells

  • Alvin Sanjaya,
  • Ryohsuke Muramatsu,
  • Shiho Sato,
  • Mao Suzuki,
  • Shun Sasaki,
  • Hiroki Ishikawa,
  • Yuki Fujii,
  • Makoto Asano,
  • Ryuuichi D. Itoh and
  • Kengo Kanamaru
  • + 4 authors

21 June 2021

In Arabidopsis thaliana, the Ethylene-dependent Gravitropism-deficient and Yellow-green 1 (EGY1) gene encodes a thylakoid membrane-localized protease involved in chloroplast development in leaf mesophyll cells. Recently, EGY1 was also found to be cru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,323 Views
12 Pages

Development of an Aus-Derived Nested Association Mapping (Aus-NAM) Population in Rice

  • Justine K. Kitony,
  • Hidehiko Sunohara,
  • Mikako Tasaki,
  • Jun-Ichi Mori,
  • Akihisa Shimazu,
  • Vincent P. Reyes,
  • Hideshi Yasui,
  • Yoshiyuki Yamagata,
  • Atsushi Yoshimura and
  • Masanori Yamasaki
  • + 2 authors

21 June 2021

A genetic resource for studying genetic architecture of agronomic traits and environmental adaptation is essential for crop improvements. Here, we report the development of a rice nested association mapping population (aus-NAM) using 7 aus varieties...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,206 Views
11 Pages

21 June 2021

CRISPR/Cas12a-based detection is a novel approach for the efficient, sequence-specific identification of viruses. Here we adopt the use of CRISPR/Cas12a to identify the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), a new and emerging tobamovirus which is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,745 Views
13 Pages

Coffee Disease Visualization and Classification

  • Milkisa Yebasse,
  • Birhanu Shimelis,
  • Henok Warku,
  • Jaepil Ko and
  • Kyung Joo Cheoi

21 June 2021

Deep learning architectures are widely used in state-of-the-art image classification tasks. Deep learning has enhanced the ability to automatically detect and classify plant diseases. However, in practice, disease classification problems are treated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,196 Views
10 Pages

21 June 2021

Temperature is one of the most important environmental factors greatly affecting plant disease development. High temperature favors outbreaks of many plant diseases, which threaten food security and turn to be a big issue along with climate change an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,710 Views
14 Pages

Biomolecular Evaluation of Lavandula stoechas L. for Nootropic Activity

  • Aamir Mushtaq,
  • Rukhsana Anwar,
  • Umar Farooq Gohar,
  • Mobasher Ahmad,
  • Romina Alina Marc (Vlaic),
  • Crina Carmen Mureşan,
  • Marius Irimie and
  • Elena Bobescu

21 June 2021

Lavandula Stoechas L. is widely known for its pharmacological properties. This study was performed to identify its biomolecules, which are responsible for enhancement of memory. L. stoechas aqueous extract was first purified by liquid column chromato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,160 Views
13 Pages

Genomic Damage Induced in Nicotiana tabacum L. Plants by Colloidal Solution with Silver and Gold Nanoparticles

  • Petra Lovecká,
  • Anna Macůrková,
  • Kamil Záruba,
  • Tomáš Hubáček,
  • Jakub Siegel and
  • Olga Valentová

21 June 2021

Tobacco seedlings (Nicotiana tabacum L cv. Wisconsin 38) were treated for 24 h with colloidal solution of silver and gold nanoparticles (AgNPs and AuNPs) of different size or cultivated for 8 weeks on soil polluted with these NPs. DNA damage in leaf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,767 Views
13 Pages

20 June 2021

Mycorrhizal fungi are critical to understanding the distribution patterns of many plants, but they are especially important for orchids. Some orchids may change the mycorrhizal fungi they use through their lives, either in response to changes in abio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,350 Views
17 Pages

20 June 2021

In Japan, red perilla leaves are used in the food and coloring industries, as well as in crude medicine. Perilla leaves contain a high concentration of phytochemicals such as perillaldehyde (PA) and rosmarinic acid (RA). The effects of UV-B radiation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,260 Views
11 Pages

The Influence of Rootstock and High-Density Planting on Apple cv. Auksis Fruit Quality

  • Kristina Laužikė,
  • Nobertas Uselis and
  • Giedrė Samuolienė

20 June 2021

Global demand for food is increasing each year, but the area of land suitable for farming is limited. Thus, there is a need to grow not only larger quantities of food but also higher quality food products in the same area. This study aimed to evaluat...

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