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Zhuxin Mao, Ming Yue, Yuchao Wang, Lijuan Li and Yang Li
Covering about 30% of the global total land area, desert ecosystems have been influenced by warming and nitrogen deposition. However, it remains unclear how desert ecosystems respond to warming and nitrogen deposition. Therefore, we conducted a greenhous...
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Aikaterini Molla, Alexandra D. Solomou, Miltiadis Tziouvalekas, Alexios Lolas and Elpiniki Skoufogianni
Nowadays, there is an increasing negative environmental effect of using chemical fertilizer. For this reason, the use of biofertilizers is promoted in the agriculture sector. The purpose of this investigation was to carry out an evaluation of the effects...
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Rosalba O. Fors, Emilia Sorci-Uhmann, Erika S. Santos, Patricia Silva-Flores, Maria Manuela Abreu, Wanda Viegas and Amaia Nogales
Soil characteristics, land management practices, and plant genotypes influence arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities, leading to the proliferation of AMF taxa with different growth and nutritional outcomes in their hosts. However, the specific p...
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Zahra Kiani, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Nadezhda Golubkina, Seyyed Javad Mousavizadeh, Khalil Zaynali Nezhad and Gianluca Caruso
The evaluation of A. cepa biodiversity provides onion breeders with great prospects to obtain plants with high resistance to environmental factors, remarkable yield, and product quality. Genetic diversity assessment of a collection of nine short- and lon...
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Qi Zhang, Yuhua Wang, Yiling Chen, Ying Zhang, Meihui Chen, Jishuang Zou, Pengyao Miao, Jianghua Ye, Xiaomin Pang, Xiaoli Jia and Haibin Wang
Pruning is an agronomic practice that contributes to tea tree yield during cultivation, but little is known about how pruning improves yield through shifting bacterial communities in rhizosphere soil. Therefore, Meizhan tea (Camellia sinensis) was used a...
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Yuanjun Ye, Haiping Fu, Yiwei Zhou, Shanxin Zhang, Zehuang Wang, Lihua Tian, Jianjun Tan, Genfa Zhu, Jinmei Liu and Yechun Xu
Caladiums are promising colorful foliage plants due to their unique leaf shapes and dazzling colors. Until now, over 2000 varieties of Caladium have been cultivated worldwide. The long-term natural variation and artificial selection have enriched the ger...
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Temitope Esther Olatunde Shonde, Moses Adeolu Adebayo, Ayomide Ajoke Bhadmus, Idris Ishola Adejumobi, Olaniyi A. Oyatomi, Benjamin Faloye and Michael T. Abberton
The capability of winged bean to support food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa is recurrently being affected by several constraints, which include a lack of genetic improvement. The dearth of adequate information on the level of available gen...
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Heena Saheewala, Suman Sanadhya, Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay, Santosh Ranjan Mohanty and Devendra Jain
Potassium (K) helps crop plants to resist biotic and abiotic challenges and plays a vital role in biochemical, metabolic, and physiological processes. Due to intense agricultural practices over the past few decades, the soil K reserve has been observed t...
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Xuan Xu, Penghe Cao, Yuchao Wang, Wei Wu, Jiahuan Guo, Jiejie Sun, Xiaoming Zou, Weifeng Wang and Honghua Ruan
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which is ...
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Fhatuwani Thovhogi, Nombasa Ntushelo and Eastonce T. Gwata
Indigenous leafy vegetables are used mainly for human consumption since they provide health promoting phytonutrients and bioactive compounds such as antioxidants, flavonoids, minerals and vitamins. However, the phytonutrients and bioactive compounds in t...
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