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... Persimmon fruits accumulate proanthocyanidins during development. Proanthocyanidins form insoluble complexes with saliva proteins, which promote a sensation of dryness in the mouth called astringency. Persimmon cultivars are classified according to pollination and the presence of astringency at harvest. The different characteristics between persimmon cultivars lead to different metabolic pathways ...
... Biochar, an environmentally friendly soil amendment, is created via a series of thermochemical processes from carbon-rich organic matter. The biochar addition enhances soil characteristics dramatically and increases crop growth and yields. However, the mechanism by which biochar improves plant lodging resistance, which is heavily influenced by cell walls, remains unknown. Three rice cultivars were ...
... Invertase inhibitor (InvInh) represses acid invertase (AI) activity though interacting with AI at post-translation level, which plays important roles in vegetative and reproductive processes and stress responses of plant. Our previous studies revealed that CsAI genes were involved in regulating cold response of tea plant, while the post-translation regulation mechanism of AI and the roles of InvIn ...
... Most physiology-based crop simulation models do not simulate grain quality dynamics other than protein content. In this study, a simple algorithm was adapted for predicting starch, oil, and protein content of two maize cultivars using four years of experimental data performed in northern Iran. Quality modelling was performed in two steps: (a) the APSIM-Maize model was used to dynamically simulate ...
... Post-harvest diseases of apple can cause considerable economic losses. Thus, we developed DSSApple, an interactive web-based decision support system, that helps users to diagnose post-harvest diseases of domesticated apple based on observed macroscopic symptoms on fruit. Specifically, DSSApple is designed as a two-stream hybrid diagnostic tool, that can be effectively used by both expert and non-e ...
Camellia sinensis; antioxidants; carotenoids; catalase; chlorophyll; cultivars; drought tolerance; foliar application; growth and development; irrigation rates; malondialdehyde; melatonin; peroxidase; polyphenols; proline; protein content; sugars; tea; water stress; Iran
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... Drought stress really restring the growth and development of tea plant and affecting quality and yield. In tea growing areas of Iran, drought stress is a serious problem that affects the yield and quality of green leaves, therefore introducing cultivars that tolerate drought stress is one of the breeding purpose. To distinguish the variations in four tea cultivars response to drought stress and th ...
... The cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedling stage frequently experiences waterlogging due to heavy autumn rainfall in tropical areas, which impairs cherry tomato growth and development. In this study, we investigated the effects of exogenous spermidine and calcium on the morphological, physiological and biochemical traits of two popular cherry tomato cultivars (Hongfei6: flooding-insensit ...
... Forecasting systems are widely used to predict the application of fungicides for managing late blight. However, airborne inoculum has rarely been included in these forecasting systems. Monitoring the sporangia in crop environments may offer an opportunity to improve late blight forecast systems by integrating pathogen pressure. Hence, this experiment aiming to analyze relationships between weather ...
... Goji berry (Lycium barbarum L.) is one of the most pivotal economic crops with an exceptional nutritional value. Based on its high global consumption, understanding the fruit growth patterns and nutrient accumulation at each developmental stage is crucial for the field and production management of high-quality goji berry cultivars. In this study, a fruit growth and development model of goji berry ...
CRISPR-Cas systems; brown rice; cadmium; cultivars; genes; germplasm; hydroponics; mutants; paddies; plant growth; rice straw; seedlings; China
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... The OsLCD gene, which has been implicated in cadmium (Cd) accumulation in rice, might be a useful target for CRISPR/Cas9 editing. However, the effects of OsLCD gene editing on Cd accumulation, plant growth, and yield traits remain unknown. Here, we used CRISPR/Cas9 to generate oslcd single mutants from indica and japonica rice cultivars. We also generated osnramp5 single mutants and oslcd osnramp5 ...
... Pepper/Chilli leaf curl virus disease (PepLCVD/ChiLCVD) is the most destructive disease of pepper that seriously reduced pepper production. The LCVD is transmitted by vector whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) so efficiently that even single whitefly is able to transmit the virus. The effective way to manage the LCVD in pepper is to introduce LCVD resistance into agronomically desired cultivars, but the lac ...
... RNA editing is a post-transcriptional modification process, the chloroplast genes of which are involved in the process of chloroplast development in plant. However, the RNA editing sites of chloroplast genes remains unknown. In this study, we identified 39 RNA editing sites in 18 chloroplast genes from chloroplast genome of C. sinensis. Furthermore, the feature, structures and specificity of RNA e ...
... Yellow cultivars of Flammulina filiformis are prone to browning, which causes significant yearly loss. This study investigated the critical factors involved and revealed that oxygen plays an essential role in the browning process. Integrated multi-omic analyses, including genome sequencing, transcriptome profiling, and 4D label-free proteome quantification, were incorporated to dissect essential g ...
... The flavor of ‘Yali’ pear fruits has substantially declined recently as a result of poor pollination tree selection. Xenia effect is a powerful mechanism for regulating aroma production. To study the effect of different pollens on aroma quality and the molecular basis of xenia effect in ‘Yali’ pear fruits, ‘Hongnanguo’ and ‘Xuehuali’ were used as pollinizers, and the hybrid fruits were named YH an ...
... The aim of the study was to determine the effect of osmoconcentration in a sucrose and sodium chloride solution on the efficiency of lactic fermentation and the content of polyphenols and oligosaccharides in yellow and red onion varieties: Alonso, Hysky, Hystore, and Red Lady. In most cases, no negative effect of onion dehydration was noted on the growth or number of the bacteria tested. Osmotic d ...
... In this study, the mechanisms underlying green flower phenotype of a lily cultivar, ‘Doubleen’, was investigated focusing on jasmonic acid (JA) accumulation. ‘Doubleen’ is a mutant lily cultivar derived from ‘Yelloween’ and has unexpanded, non-pigmented green tepals but lacks the stamen and carpel. ‘Doubleen’ was treated with methyl jasmonate (MeJA) to investigate the subsequent change in floral o ...
... Banana fruits have attracted considerable attention for health-promoting effects attributed to ubiquitous functional metabolites. However, genotype-dependent accumulation patterns of carotenoids in banana remain largely unclear. Here, we performed a systematic metabolomic investigation of 18 banana cultivars of the AAA, AAB, or ABB genome groups. Our results indicate that the levels of soluble sug ...
... Multi-microscopy techniques and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy were used in this study to investigate the intrinsic causes leading to fruit texture difference between two cultivars of oriental melon ‘HDB’ (crisp) and ‘HPM’ (mealy). On the histological aspect, orderly arranged regular-shaped cells with tissue natural fracture pattern showed cell rupture in ‘HDB’ versus loosely arra ...
... Mother of FT and TFL1 (MFT) is a member of the phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) family, which plays important roles in seed development, the stress response, and flowering time regulation. In the present study, the MFT homologous gene MiMFT was identified in mango cultivar ‘SiJiMi’. The promoter of MiMFT contained phytohormone-, plant growth-, plant development-, and abiotic stress- ...
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the physiological and biochemical heat responses of grafted tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedlings and their changes during the post-stress recovery period. Heat-tolerant ‘Celebrity’ and heat-sensitive ‘Arkansas Traveler’ tomatoes were grafted onto a commercial ‘Maxifort’ rootstock, and transplants were grown in growth chambers for 14 days of heat treatmen ...
Malus; absorption; air temperature; carbon dioxide; cultivars; electron transfer; energy; growth and development; heat stress; photosynthesis; proteomics; summer
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... Malus crabapples are precious woody plants with unique ornamental and applied values. Their weak photosynthetic performance in subtropical summer disturbs the normal growth and development, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. To facilitate their local cultivation, the differences in photosynthetic capacity between six Malus cultivars in subtropical regions from June to September as well ...
... Banana, as a typical climacteric fruit, undergoes a ripening process which impacts fruit quality. The Nantianhuang (NTH) banana fruit is a new cultivar resistant to Fusarium wilt, whose physiological characteristics and regulation mechanisms of fruit ripening are not clear. Ripening physiology and the related genes of the NTH fruit were compared with the Brazilian banana (BX) and investigated in t ...
... Air-currents assisted particle separation (ACAPS) of faba beans prior to wet separation was evaluated for its impact on chemical composition, yield and recovery of protein, starch and dietary fibre, and protein secondary structural changes. The protein and dietary fibre contents of faba bean cultivars Snowbird and Athena were positively correlated (r = 0.9, P < 0.0001) with the increasing particle ...
Cenchrus ciliaris; Megathyrsus maximus; atmospheric precipitation; biomass; cultivars; forage; forage yield; indigenous species; net primary productivity; pastures; temporal variation; water use efficiency; Argentina
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... Exotic pasture species are increasingly replacing native vegetation in subtropical areas because of their potential to increase forage yields. However, there is a scarce analysis of the relationship between forage yield and mean annual precipitation across regional gradients. We analyzed at a regional scale the temporal relationship between the aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) and the p ...
... Exploration of the mechanisms of cadmium (Cd) activation mediated by the rhizosphere process is important to advance our understanding of Cd accumulation in plants. In this study, two oilseed rape cultivars (L338, L351) with varied Cd accumulation traits were applied and the responses of their rhizosphere ecology to Cd stress were investigated by metabolome and microbiome. The results showed that ...
Patriciani Estela Cipriano; Rodrigo Fonseca da Silva; Fabio Aurélio Dias Martins; Alexandre Boari de Lima; Cynthia de Oliveira; Valdemar Faquin; Luiz Roberto Guimarães Guilherme
... Since sorghum is the staple food for millions of people, coinciding with areas where selenium (Se) deficiency occurs, biofortification with Se in sorghum can considerably improve Se intake in humans living in these areas. In this study, the objective was to evaluate the response of sorghum plants to Se biofortification and the effect of Se foliar application through sodium selenate on grain yield, ...
... The tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa Andr.) is a deciduous woody perennial endemic to Central Plains, Northwest, and Southern Yangtse, China, and is loved by the general public, horticulturists and gardeners all over the world. Tree peonies cultivars are usually propagated vegetatively by grafting and division; however, these methods are inefficient for mass-propagation. Two stem wounding methods ...
Alternaria alternata; Citrus; cultivars; food safety; fruits; fungi; industry; principal component analysis; reflectance; spectrometers; spectroscopy; support vector machines
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... Non-destructive identification of the fungal disease has great importance as one of the challenges of the citrus post-harvest industry. In order to identify the fungal disease of Alternaria alternata, which occurred internally, the reflectance spectra were collected in 3 areas of the stem-end, equatorial and stylar-end of healthy and fungus-infected oranges using VIS-NIR spectrometer (400–1100 nm) ...
... Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is attracting worldwide attention due to its nutritional and biological properties. Nowadays, this pseudocereal is cultivated worldwide in different environmental conditions. This work evaluates the nutritional profile, polyphenol content and antioxidant capacity of five quinoa cultivars (Negra Collana, Chullpi Real, Salcedo Inia, Pasankalla and Kancolla) from Sp ...
... Bananas (Musa spp.) are an important source of pro-vitamin A, derived from carotenoids. Some cultivated bananas originated from intra-specific hybridization resulting in genotypes which are diploid (AA) and triploid (AAA) genomes that are the most important bananas for desserts. The accumulation of carotenoids and transcripts of genes related to carotenoid biosynthesis during fruit development and ...
... Drought stress limits fruit ripening and quality of grape cultivar, particularly with the use of root restriction. However, the mechanism involved in the molecular response to water deficit concomitant to agriculture adjustment remains poorly understood. In the present study, the regulation of two grape β-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) genes obtained with transcriptome analysis whose expression is si ...
Fusarium head blight; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; grain yield; pastries; soft red winter wheat; winter wheat; Ontario
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... 12W932-349 is a soft red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar registered for Ontario, Canada. It has high grain yield with good pastry quality and is moderately resistant to Fusarium head blight. 12W932-349 is well adapted for the winter wheat growing areas of Ontario. ...
Muhammad A Asif; Melissa Garcia; Joanne Tilbrook; Chris Brien; Kate Dowling; Bettina Berger; Rhiannon K. Schilling; Laura Short; Christine Trittermann; Matthew Gilliham; Delphine Fleury; Stuart J. Roy; Allison S. Pearson
... Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important food crops, however it is only moderately tolerant to salinity stress. To improve wheat yield under saline conditions, breeding for improved salinity tolerance of wheat is needed. We have identified nine quantitative trail loci (QTL) for different salt tolerance sub-traits in a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population, derived from th ...
Fusarium head blight; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; hard red winter wheat; leaves; overwintering; smut diseases; soil water; stripe rust; winter wheat; Canada
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... AAC Coldfront is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar with broad adaptation and excellent performance in all production areas of western Canada. Eligible for grades of Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat, AAC Coldfront was evaluated in the Western Canadian Winter Wheat Cooperative registration trials relative to CDC Buteo, Emerson, Moats, and AAC Elevate. Based on 32 replicat ...
Fusarium head blight; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; hard red winter wheat; leaves; overwintering; smut diseases; soil water; stripe rust; winter wheat; Canada
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... AAC Coldfront is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar with broad adaptation and excellent performance in all production areas of western Canada. Eligible for grades of Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat, AAC Coldfront was evaluated in the Western Canadian Winter Wheat Cooperative registration trials relative to CDC Buteo, Emerson, Moats, and AAC Elevate. Based on 32 replicat ...
Weikai Yan; Judith Fregeau-Reid; Brad deHaan; Steve Thomas; Matt Hayes; Richard Martin; Allan Cummiskey; Denis Pageau; Isabelle Morasse; Savka Orozovic; Jennifer Mitchell-Fetch; Jim Menzies; Allen Xue; Nathan Mountain
Avena sativa; cultivars; oats; research and development; seeds; spring; Ontario; Quebec
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... AAC Excellence is a covered, spring oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivar developed by the Ottawa Research and Development Center (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). It was derived from a four-way cross, OA1250-1/MN07205//Rigodon/HiFi, made in 2009. It has been tested in the Quebec provincial Oat Registration and Recommendation (QCORR) trials since 2017. Based on orthogonal data from the 201 ...
Fusarium virguliforme; Glycine max; Heterodera glycines; cultivars; heat; miso; research and development; soybean sudden death syndrome; soybeans; soymilk; tofu; Ontario
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... AAC McRae is a high yielding food grade soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivar with yellow hilum, high protein concentration, and acceptable processing quality for foreign and domestic tofu, soymilk, and miso markets. It has excellent soybean cyst nematode (SCN) (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) and soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS) (Fusarium virguliforme O'Donnell & T. Aoki) resistance. AAC McR ...
Fusarium virguliforme; Glycine max; Heterodera glycines; cultivars; heat; miso; research and development; soybean sudden death syndrome; soybeans; soymilk; tofu; Ontario
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... AAC McRae is a high yielding food grade soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivar with yellow hilum, high protein concentration, and acceptable processing quality for foreign and domestic tofu, soymilk, and miso markets. It has excellent soybean cyst nematode (SCN) (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) and soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS) (Fusarium virguliforme O'Donnell & T. Aoki) resistance. AAC McR ...
Weikai Yan; Judith Fregeau-Reid; Brad deHaan; Steve Thomas; Matt Hayes; Richard Martin; Allan Cummiskey; Denis Pageau; Isabelle Morasse; Savka Orozovic; Jennifer Mitchell-Fetch; Jim Menzies; Allen Xue; Nathan Mountain
Avena sativa; Puccinia coronata; crown rust; cultivars; grain yield; oats; research and development; seeds; spring; Ontario
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... AAC Reid is a white-hulled, covered spring oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivar developed by the Ottawa Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It is highly resistant to crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae) and demonstrated superior levels of grain yield, test weight, kernel weight, lodging resistance, β-glucan, and groat content in the crown rust-prone regions (Areas ...
Glycine max; Heterodera glycines; cultivars; heat; miso; research and development; soybeans; soymilk; tofu; Ontario
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... AAC Richard is a food grade soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivar with yellow hilum, high protein concentration, and good processing quality for foreign and domestic soymilk, tofu, and miso markets. It has resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe). AAC Richard was developed at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Harrow Research and Development Centre (Har ...
Fusarium head blight; Puccinia graminis; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; grain yield; hard red spring wheat; leaves; markets; seeds; smut diseases; stem rust; straw; Canada
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... AAC Westlock, an awned hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar, combines high grain yield and good agronomic characteristics with excellent resistance to leaf, stripe, and stem rust (including variants of Ug99), Fusarium head blight (FHB), and common bunt. Based on 40 station-years of registration trial data from 2018 to 2020, the grain yield of AAC Westlock was 1% higher than AAC Fo ...
Swarna Ronanki; Jan Pavlík; Jan Masner; Jan Jarolímek; Michal Stočes; Degala Subhash; Harvinder S. Talwar; Vilas A. Tonapi; Mallayee Srikanth; Rekha Baddam; Jana Kholová
Internet; Vertisols; cultivars; dry season; fertilizers; genotype; precision agriculture; rain; research; simulation models; transpiration; urea; vigor; water conservation; India
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... Sorghum contributes to the livelihoods of millions of food-insecure households in semi-arid agri-systems. Annual production widely fluctuates throughout India due to erratic rainfall and suboptimal agronomic practices. Our novel approach utilizes the digital reflection of post-rainy (rabi) sorghum production systems in India to help better understand its spatio-temporal variations and enable the d ...
... This study examined the effects of different sources and doses of fertilizers, as well as nutritional efficiency during the initial growth phase of rootstocks. The experiment was conducted at the Federal University of Pelotas, in a greenhouse. The experimental design consisted of completely randomized, in a three-factor scheme (2 x 2 x 4), represented by the combination of two peach rootstock cult ...
... Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is typically propagated using stem cuttings taken from mother plants to produce genetically uniform propagules. However, producers anecdotally report that clonal lines deteriorate over time and eventually produce clones with less vigor and lower cannabinoid levels than the original mother plant. While the cause of this deterioration has not been investigated, one pote ...
... Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is a popular fruit with health benefits ascribed to its various metabolites. These metabolites determine the flavors and bioactivities of the fruit, as well as their desirability. However, the dynamics of the metabolite composition and the underlying gene expression that modulate the overall flavor and accumulation of active ingredients during fruit development remai ...
... KEY MESSAGE: Introduction of higher SSIIa activity to mild-type isa1 mutant by crossing results in restoration of crystallinity, starch granule structure, and production of plump seeds. Isoamylase 1 (ISA1) removes improper α-1, 6 glycosidic branches of amylopectin generated by starch branching enzymes and is essential for the formation of proper amylopectin structure. Rice isa1 (sug-1) mutants in ...
... Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith); FAW)-resistant cultivars and breeding lines have been identified in sub-Saharan Africa. However, these genotypes have not been evaluated for their stability across environments with natural FAW infestation. The objectives of this study were to: (i) identify hybrids/open pollinated varieties combining high grain yield (GYD) and stability across env ...
... The adaptability and stability of 37 faba bean (Vicia faba L.) accessions with different levels of tolerance to metribuzin or imazethapyr was assessed across 12 season–location–herbicide experiments. Significant Genotype x environment (GE) interaction was found for the days to flowering (DFLR), plant height (PLHT) and grain yield (GY). Performance and stability of the accessions regarding PLHT and ...
Sebastião Soares de Oliveira Neto; Douglas Mariani Zeffa; Gustavo Henrique Freiria; Tiago Zoz; Carlos Jorge da Silva; Maurício Dutra Zanotto; Renato Lustosa Sobrinho; Saud A. Alamri; Mohammad K. Okla; Hamada AbdElgawad
... The study aimed to analyze the agronomic performance of 11 safflower genotypes using adaptability and stability methods, while identifying safflower genotypes with stable behavior and a high grain yield in different environments of the Brazilian Cerrado. Ten lines and a cultivar of safflower were evaluated in four environments in the Brazilian conditions. Our results revealed the genotypes P30, P3 ...
José Ricardo Tavares de Albuquerque; Hamurábi Anizio Lins; Manoel Galdino dos Santos; Márcio Alexandre Moreira de Freitas; Fernando Sarmento de Oliveira; Almir Rogério Evangelista de Souza; Lindomar Maria da Silveira; Glauber Henrique de Sousa Nunes; Aurélio Paes Barros Júnior; Paulo Fernando de Melo Jorge Vieira
Glycine max; cultivars; genotype-environment interaction; grain yield; phenotype; soybeans; Brazil
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... Soybean production in Brazil is concentrated in the central and southern regions of the country, although expansion is occurring toward the northeast, where semi-arid conditions are predominant. There is little information on the behavior of soybean cultivars in semiarid climates; therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the interaction of soybean genotypes by environment, adaptabili ...