Piranha Plants are enemies introduced in Super Mario Bros. They are large, carnivorous plants based on Venus flytraps. The head of a Piranha Plant is most commonly either red or green with multiple other colors. Piranha Plants originally appeared...
Torrens-Spence et al. reveal how plants in the cabbage family uniquely accelerate production of salicylic acid, a key defense hormone, through evolution of a specialized enzyme called EPS1. This finding could help enhance disease resistance in other crops. ...
the NADPH-dependent-oxidases are the enzymes that respond to stress (Apel and Hirt2004; Kwak et al.2003) producing O·−2, which may spontaneously convert to H2O2. The cell wall, generates OH·, O·−2, H2O2, and1O2with the help of diamine oxidases that utilize...
Soil organic matter (SOM) is accumulated, decaying debris mainly of plant origin. The plant material that enters the soil can be in a dissolved or particulate form. Dissolved inputs can be leaf and needle litter leachates, root exudates and rhizodeposits (Sokol et al.2018); particulate plant ...
Understanding the biological roles of root hairs is key to projecting their contributions to plant growth and to assess their relevance for plant breeding. The objective of this study was to assess the importance of root hairs for maize nutrition, carbon allocation and root gene expression in a ...
Interference from weeds can have a significant impact on the growth and development of field crops, resulting in substantial crop production losses [1]. The use of synthetic herbicides to minimize crop loss due to weed infestation has become the predominant weed control strategy. However, the globa...
Pollen of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is a main cause of allergic diseases in Northern America. The weed has recently become spreading as a neophyte in Europe, while climate change may also affect the growth of the plant and additionally may
This study clearly shows that the two versions of the BSMV system can be used for fast and efficient functional characterization of genes in crops. The extent of transcriptome reprogramming in plants that overexpressTaZFP1Bindicates that the encoded transcription factor is a key regulator of drought ...
growth phase of the infected plant, infection technique, and genotype dependency. Each of these factors was tested for its effect on silencing efficiency, either alone or in combination with other factors. The optimization experiments resulted in a simple and rapid VIGS protocol that provided sufficie...
10. Carrots, Beets, and Other Root Crops For these veggies, you aren’t actually re-growing the root themselves, but rather the leafy tops. Beet and carrot greens house an enormous amount of the plant’s nutrients and carry a notably wide range of uses. Tossing them into a salad, sauté...