Recently, plant extracts were largely investigated as a practical approach to improve specific crop production sustainability and in particular to produce biostimulants. Despite its economic relevance, evidence
Prairies once spanned central North America from the boreal forest in northern Canada down into Mexico. They are now all but gone, replaced by crop fields, pasture lands, and suburban sprawl. Many of the species survive, but the hugely productive ecosystem that was responsible for creating our...
These compounds increase the estrogen production, which in turn stimulates the proliferation of the mammary gland ducts to produce milk. It is used to treat malnutrition in children younger than 3 years [3]. About 6 spoonfuls of leaf powder can meet a woman's daily iron and calcium ...
Another significant impact of AS lies in its contribution to the phenotype. Although the process does not play as crucial a role as other transcription-related processes, it provides a rapid mechanism for the emergence of novel traits throughout evolutionary history (Wright et al.2022). Thus, th...
of soil health—known as soil degradation—is, together with the loss of biodiversity and climate change, one of the many challenges we face today. Various terms are used to describe soil as a vital system producing plants and food (Lehmann et al.2020). In addition to soil fertility (...
and resistance to pests. The potato demonstrates a well-known example of the risks of low crop diversity: the tragic Irish potato famine when the single variety grown in Ireland became susceptible to a potato blight, wiping out the crop. The loss of the crop led to famine, death, and mass...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Roy Ellen Background The 1990s witnessed a growing acknowledgement world wide of the importance of local ecological knowledge in the context of food security and sustainable development (Warren, Slikkerveer and Brokensha 1995; Sillitoe, Bicker and Pottier 2002; Pottier, Bicker...
In addition, co-administration of herbal medicine by cancer patients and risk of herb-drug pharmacokinetic interactions was also highlighted. The future tolerance level to environmental stressors; investigation of the effect of processing and cooking methods on the nutrient content, bioactive compounds ...
In addition to trees, availability of buttercups benefitted O. bicornis reproduction (Fig. 3C). Buttercups were widely used for pollen provisioning in the late part of the reproductive season (Fig. 2, see also Persson et al., 2018), and they could potentially have been used for nectar as ...
Using the data (n = 954 with neural tube defects; n = 6268 controls) from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997–2005), it was found that other micronutrients, related to methylation or oxidative pathways, in addition to folate and betaine, when present at higher levels...