In general, harvesting residues from dead plants that are originally returned to croplands can directly accelerate the SOC loss due to reduced carbon input (Hoekman et al. 2018). Nonetheless, the SOC loss might be controlled, to a certain degree, through an appropriate residue management such as...
Variation in terrestrial net primary production (NPP) with climate is thought to originate from a direct influence of temperature and precipitation on plant metabolism. However, variation in NPP may also result from an indirect influence of climate by me
I learned from Yeshe, the hospital director, that Tibetan medicines were traditionally made in large balls, requiring grinding into powder and brewing, which is a cumbersome and unpalatable process. However, modern plants now produce Tibetan medicines in convenient forms such as small balls...
The nutritional functional diversity metric is based on plant species composition on farm and the nutritional composition of these plants for 17 nutrients that are key in human diets and for which reliable plant composition data are available. This metric can be used to summarize and compare the ...
(14:acyl) substrate available to insect pheromone component biosynthesis inN. benthamianais very low. Upon expression of the thioesterase CpFATB2, the plants generally produced more than 200 μg of myristic acid per gram fresh leaf tissue, whereas the amount in control plants was less than 2...
The review concludes that investing in the development of PBFs now, has the potential to facilitate a rapid shift to large scale consumption of sustainable and healthy diets in the near future. Graphical AbstractHighlights • Various novel food products have been developed from plants • Animal...
In spite of these efforts there is substantial residual variability among plants attributable to Genotype × Environment interactions. Recent advances in the field of epigenetics have revealed a plethora of gene control mechanisms that could account for much of this unassigned variation. These systems ...
An apparatus for generating an air/oxygen stream, especially for use in biological purification plants or for aerating polluted natural waters, is designed to provide a solution by means of which the introduction of air/oxygen into waters is made possible by economical means and, in particular, ...
4c). The photon-to-hydrogen quantum yield observed here compares favorably to the reported carbon fixation efficiencies of algae and plants (typically ranging in 0.2 to 1.6%)29, revealing that the photoelectron relay chain in the developed algal cell power stations was highly efficient. Continuous ...
Plants are the most abundant source of natural pigments, including chlorophyll, anthocyanin, carotenoids, betalains, etc. Traditionally, most of the commercial pigments are derived from natural sources, either foraging or large-scale plant field cultivation. Due to the low accumulated contents of desire...