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  1. Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease causes yield losses of up to 50 per cent in susceptible wheat cultivars and can reduce wheat production. In this study, genomic architecture for adult-plant STB resistance...

    Authors: Madhu Patial, Sudhir Navathe, Xinyao He, Umesh Kamble, Manjeet Kumar, Arun Kumar Joshi and Pawan Kumar Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:846
  2. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a staple food crop that plays a crucial role in global food security. A suitable planting pattern and optimum nitrogen (N) split management are efficient practices for improving wh...

    Authors: Muhammad Farooq Azam, Jalal Bayar, Babar Iqbal, Uzair Ahmad, Mohammad K. Okla, Nawab Ali, Ibrahim A. Alaraidh, Hamada AbdElgawad and Arshad Jalal
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:845
  3. This study investigated the influence of different temperatures (35℃ High temperature and average indoor ambient temperature of 25℃) and lactic acid bacterial additives (Lactiplantibacillus plantarym, Lentilactob...

    Authors: Jingyi Liu, Muqier Zhao, Junfeng Hao, Xingquan Yan, Zhihui Fu, Na Zhu, Yushan Jia, Zhijun Wang and Gentu Ge
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:844
  4. Zanthoxylum is a versatile economic tree species utilized for its spice, seasoning, oil, medicinal, and industrial raw material applications, and it has a lengthy history of cultivation and domestication in China...

    Authors: Xiaoxi Zhang, Wei Chen, Zhiwu Yang, Chengrong Luo, Weiwei Zhang, Feng Xu, Jiabao Ye and Yongling Liao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:843
  5. Calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK) plays a key role in cotton tolerance to abiotic stress. However, its role in cotton heat stress tolerance is not well understood. Here, we characterize the GhCDPK gene fami...

    Authors: Wen-Ben Lv, Cheng-Cheng Miao, Cheng-Hao Du, Ya-Ting Cui, Man Liu, Mei-Chen Shen, Anane Gideon Owusu, Ning Guo, Da-Hui Li and Jun-Shan Gao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:842
  6. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of melatonin applications on postharvest quality changes of organic and conventionally grown plum fruit. Melatonin was applied in 0, 50, and 100 µmol L− 1 for...

    Authors: Hakan Karadag
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:841
  7. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is an essential leguminous forage with high nutrition and strong adaptability. The TIFY family is a plant-specific transcription factor identified in many plants. However, few reports...

    Authors: Qi Chen, Rui Dai, Shuang Shuang, Yan Zhang, Xiaowei Huo, Fengling Shi and Zhiqiang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:840
  8. Dominant species occupy a pivotal role in plant community, influencing the structure and function of the ecosystem. The spatial distributions of dominant species can react to the effect of different grazing in...

    Authors: Mengzhen Li, Jinrui Wu, Xiangjun Yun, Shijie Lv, Bo Xu, Junyi Yang, Jiale Zhao and Le Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:839
  9. Potassium (K) is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development. Maize (Zea mays) is a widely planted crops in the world and requires a huge amount of K fertilizer. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are ...

    Authors: Yunjian Xu, Yixiu Yan, Tianyi Zhou, Jianhui Chun, Yuanchao Tu, Xinyu Yang, Jie Qin, Luyan Ou, Liang Ye and Fang Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:838
  10. The expansion of bamboo forests increases environmental heterogeneity in tea plantation ecosystems, affecting soil properties and microbial communities. Understanding these impacts is essential for developing ...

    Authors: Lili Fan, Shuanglin Chen, Ziwu Guo, Ruicai Hu and Liangjin Yao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:837
  11. Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes in sugar metabolism, cleaving sucrose into glucose and fructose and playing an important role in plant development and the stress response, however, the INV gene family in pas...

    Authors: Dongmei Huang, Bin Wu, Ge Chen, Wenting Xing, Yi Xu, Funing Ma, Hongli Li, Wenbin Hu, Haijie Huang, Liu Yang and Shun Song
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:836
  12. Salinity is the major abiotic stress among others that determines crop productivity. The primary goal is to examine the impact of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) on the growth, metabolism, and defense syste...

    Authors: Ghazala Mustafa, Sunbal Khalil Chaudhari, Madiha Manzoor, Sana Batool, Mehrnaz Hatami and Murtaza Hasan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:835
  13. Conservation and management of medicinally important plants are among the necessary tasks all over the world. The genus Dracocephalum (Lamiaceae) contains about 186 perennials, or annual herb species that have be...

    Authors: Masoud Sheidai, Fahimeh Koohdar and Javad Mazinani
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:834
  14. ‘Hongyang’ kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis cv ‘Hongyang’) is a high-quality variety of A. chinensis with the advantages of high yield, early ripening, and high stress tolerance. Studies have confirmed that the Sha...

    Authors: Yinqiang Zi, Zhiming Zhang, Ke Zhao, Xiuyao Yang, Ling Zhu, Tuo Yin, Chaoying Chen, Ke Wen, Xulin Li, Hanyao Zhang and Xiaozhen Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:833
  15. Oxidative stress mediated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a common denominator in arsenic toxicity. Arsenic stress in soil affects the water absorption, decrease stomatal conductance, reduction in osmotic,...

    Authors: Zainab Waheed, Sumera Iqbal, Muhammad Irfan, Khajista Jabeen, Aisha Umar, Reem M. Aljowaie, Saeedah Musaed Almutairi and Marek Gancarz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:832
  16. Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) serves as a key gateway enzyme, bridging primary metabolism and the phenylpropanoid pathway, and thus playing an indispensable role in flavonoid, anthocyanin and lignin biosyn...

    Authors: Chaoqun Xu, Xuelan Fan, Guoan Shen and Baolin Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:831
  17. As an important forage in arid and semi-arid regions, Agropyron cristatum provides livestock with exceptionally high nutritional value. Additionally, A. cristatum exhibits outstanding genetic characteristics to e...

    Authors: Taiyou Ou, Zinian Wu, Chunyu Tian, Yanting Yang and Zhiyong Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:830
  18. In research to improve the quality of transgenic crops, it is often necessary to introduce multiple functionally related genes into recipient plants simultaneously to improve crop genetic traits effectively. C...

    Authors: Jiangtao Yang, Lihua Gao, Xiaochun Zhang, Ran Zheng, Xuan Liu, Yuxin Cui, Zhixing Wang and Xujing Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:829
  19. Walnut is an oilseed tree species and an ecologically important woody tree species that is rich in oil and nutrients. In light of differences in the lipid content, fatty acid composition and key genes expressi...

    Authors: Yuanru Hao, Xiangrui Ge, Rui Xu, Xiaona Zhao and Meizhi Zhai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:828
  20. Global warming is a leading environmental stress that reduces plant productivity worldwide. Several beneficial microorganisms reduce stress; however, the mechanism by which plant–microbe interactions occur and...

    Authors: Shifa Shaffique, Anis Ali Shah, Odongkara Peter, Md. Injamum-Ul-Hoque, Hosam O. Elansary, Sang-Mo kang, Tiba Nazar Ibrahim Al Azzawi, Byung-Wook Yun and In-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:827
  21. In alfalfa (Medicago sativa), the coexistence of interfertile subspecies (i.e. sativa, falcata and coerulea) characterized by different ploidy levels (diploidy and tetraploidy) and the occurrence of meiotic mutan...

    Authors: Fabio Palumbo, Giovanni Gabelli, Elisa Pasquali, Alessandro Vannozzi, Silvia Farinati, Samela Draga, Samathmika Ravi, Maria Cristina Della Lucia, Giovanni Bertoldo and Gianni Barcaccia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:826
  22. In breeding programs, stress memory in plants can develop drought stress tolerance. Memory stress, as an approach, can keep stress data by activating tolerance mechanisms. This research was conducted to evalua...

    Authors: Elham Faghani, Amenehsadat Hashemi, Mina Kazemian and Mohammad Hossein Razzaghi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:825
  23. The accumulation of secondary metabolites in Panax ginseng Meyer (P. ginseng) exhibits significant geographical variation, normally due to environmental factors. The current study aimed at elucidating the key env...

    Authors: Dehua Wu, Feng Xiong, Hongyang Wang, Siqi Liu, Jitong Zhu, Dan Zhao, Jian Yang, Wenqi Ma, Lanping Guo and Chuanzhi Kang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:824
  24. DNA methylation is a critical factor influencing plant growth, adaptability, and phenotypic plasticity. While extensively studied in model and crop species, it remains relatively unexplored in holm oak and oth...

    Authors: Mónica Labella-Ortega, Carmen Martín, Luis Valledor, Stefano Castiglione, María-Ángeles Castillejo, Jesús V. Jorrín-Novo and María-Dolores Rey
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:823
  25. In recent years, with the increasing demand for seedless grape varieties that have lower production costs, are disease resistant/tolerant and require less chemical pesticides, the embryo recovery technique has...

    Authors: Yeşim Doyğacı, Özlem Boztepe, Gülhan Gülbasar Kandilli and Arif Atak
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:822
  26. To address salinity stress in plants in an eco-friendly manner, this study investigated the potential effects of salinity-resistant bacteria isolated from saline agricultural soils on the growth of cucumber (Cucu...

    Authors: Zeinab Fotoohiyan, Fatemeh Samiei, Ali Salehi Sardoei, Fatemeh Kashi, Mansour Ghorbanpour and Khalil Kariman
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:821
  27. Green synthesis is an easy, safe, and environmentally beneficial nanoparticle creation method. It is a great challenge to simultaneously improve the capping and stabilizing agent carrier separation efficiency ...

    Authors: Amina Batool, Azizullah Azizullah, Kamran Ullah, Salma Shad, Farman Ullah Khan, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Tariq Aziz and Umar Zeb
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:820
  28. Salt stress is a major abiotic factor that affects the distribution and growth of plants. Asparagus officinalis is primarily resistant to salt stress and is suitable for cultivation in saline-alkali soil.

    Authors: Shuangshuang Wen, Jiali Ying, Youju Ye, Yunfei Cai and Renjuan Qian
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:819
  29. This study investigates the differential responses of two maize genotypes, SC180 and SC168, to salt stress, aiming to elucidate the mechanisms underlying salinity tolerance and identify traits associated with ...

    Authors: Mosa S. Rizk, Dekoum V. M. Assaha, Ahmad Mohammad M. Mekawy, Nagwa E. Shalaby, Ebrahim A. Ramadan, Amira M. El-Tahan, Omar M. Ibrahim, Hassan I. F. Metwelly, Mohammad K. Okla, Maria Gabriela Maridueña-Zavala, Hamada AbdElgawad and Akihiro Ueda
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:818
  30. Astragalus cicer L. is a perennial rhizomatous legume forage known for its quality, high biomass yield, and strong tolerance to saline-alkaline soils. Soil salinization is a widespread environmental pressure. To ...

    Authors: Yujuan Zhang, Wenke Dong, Huiling Ma, Chunxu Zhao, Fuqin Ma, Yan Wang, Xiaolin Zheng and Minhui Jin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:817
  31. Suaeda australis is one of typical halophyte owing to high levels of salt tolerance. In addition, the bZIP gene family assumes pivotal functions in response to salt stress. However, there are little reports avail...

    Authors: Yinquan Qu, Ji Wang, Tianxiang Gao, Caihui Qu, Xiaoyun Mo and Xiumei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:816
  32. Enhanced phytoremediation offers a rapid and eco-friendly approach for cleaning agricultural soil contaminated with copper and cadmium which pose a direct threat to food scarcity and security. The current stud...

    Authors: Naila Shah, Muhammad Irshad, Waheed Murad, Muhammad Hamayun, Muhammad Qadir, Anwar Hussain, Hussan Ara Begum, Abdulwaahed Fahad Alrefaei, Mikhlid H. Almutairi, Ayaz Ahmad and Sajid Ali
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:815
  33. Pollination is crucial to obtaining optimal blueberry yield and fruit quality. Despite substantial investments in seasonal beekeeping services, blueberry producers consistently report suboptimal pollinator vis...

    Authors: Juliana Cromie, John J. Ternest, Andrew P. Komatz, Paul M. Adunola, Camila Azevedo, Rachel E. Mallinger and Patricio R. Muñoz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:814
  34. The SET domain genes (SDGs) are significant contributors to various aspects of plant growth and development, mainly includes flowering, pollen development, root growth, regulation of the biological clock and bran...

    Authors: Ting Han, Muhammad Ayoub Khan, Yiming Wang, Wenchao Tan, Chenran Li, Penghui Ai, Wenqian Zhao, Zhongai Li and Zicheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:813
  35. The yield of major crops is generally limited by sink capacity and source strength. Cucumber is a typical raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs)–transporting crop. Non-coding RNAs and alternative polyadenyla...

    Authors: Yudan Wang, Huimin Zhang, Zhiping Zhang, Bing Hua, Jiexia Liu and Minmin Miao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:812
  36. The H2B.8 variant has been diverged from other variants by its extended N-terminal region that possesses a conserved domain. We generated transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing H2B.9 (class I), H2B.5 (class II)...

    Authors: Janardan Khadka, Vikas S. Trishla, Sasank Sannidhi, Jeevan R. Singiri, Rohith Grandhi, Anat Pesok, Nurit Novoplansky, Zachor Adler-Agmon and Gideon Grafi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:811
  37. The transposons of the hAT superfamily are the most widespread transposons ever known. SLEEPER genes encode domesticated transposases from the hAT superfamily, which may have lost their transposable functions dur...

    Authors: Ruijia Zhu, Shengzhi An, Jingyan Fu, Sha Liu, Yu Fu, Ying Zhang, Rui Wang, Yun Zhao and Maolin Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:810
  38. Climate change has become a concern, emphasizing the need for the development of crops tolerant to drought. Therefore, this study is designed to explore the physiological characteristics of quinoa that enable ...

    Authors: Sayyed Mohammad Mirsafi, Ali Reza Sepaskhah and Seyed Hamid Ahmadi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:809
  39. The utilization of high-quality water in agriculture is increasingly constrained by climate change, affecting availability, quality, and distribution due to altered precipitation patterns, increased evaporatio...

    Authors: Boran İkiz, Hayriye Yildiz Dasgan, Sibel Balik, Sebnem Kusvuran and Nazim S. Gruda
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:808
  40. Cadmium (Cd) is a biologically non-essential heavy metal, a major soil pollutant, and extremely harmful to plants. The phytohormone methyl jasmonate (MeJA) plays an important role in plant heavy-metal resistan...

    Authors: Xiaofang Yu, Yujia Liu, Liu Yang, Yujing Liu, Chunyu Fan, Zihan Yang, Yuhan Xu, Xiaoxuan Zeng, Xue Xiao, Lijuan Yang, Ting Lei, Mingyan Jiang, Xi Li, Suping Gao and Qi Tao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:807
  41. Scopoletin and umbelliferone belong to coumarins, which are plant specialized metabolites with potent and wide biological activities, the accumulation of which is induced by various environmental stresses. Cou...

    Authors: Anna Ihnatowicz, Joanna Siwinska, Izabela Perkowska, Jeremy Grosjean, Alain Hehn, Frederic Bourgaud, Ewa Lojkowska and Alexandre Olry
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:806
  42. Salt Overly Sensitive 1 (SOS1), a plasma membrane Na+/H+ exchanger, is essential for plant salt tolerance. Salt damage is a significant abiotic stress that impacts plant species globally. All living organisms req...

    Authors: Chenjing Shang, Li Sihui, Chunyuan Li, Quaid Hussain, Pengyu Chen, Muhammad Azhar Hussain and Jackson Nkoh Nkoh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:805
  43. 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase (2ODD) superfamily is the second largest enzyme family in the plant genome and plays diverse roles in secondary metabolic pathways. The medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis

    Authors: Sanming Zhu, Mengying Cui and Qing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:804
  44. Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo (D. officinale) is parasitic on rocks or plants with very few mineral elements that can be absorbed directly, so its growth and development are affected by nutritional defici...

    Authors: ZhiYuan Feng, YaWen Li, SiXue Zhang, Jingjing Song, HaoXin Xiang, JunRu Huang, HongHong Fan and Lin Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:803
  45. Rapid urbanization and population growth exert a substantial impact on the accessibility of drinking water resources, underscoring the imperative for wastewater treatment and the reuse of non-potable water in ...

    Authors: Mansoure Jozay, Hossein Zarei, Sarah Khorasaninejad and Taghi Miri
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:802
  46. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is crucial cell signal transduction mechanism that plays an important role in plant growth and development, metabolism, and stress responses. The MAPK cascad...

    Authors: Hao Liu, Xianyang Li, Fei He, Mingna Li, Yunfei Zi, Ruicai Long, Guoqing Zhao, Lihua Zhu, Ling Hong, Shiqing Wang, Junmei Kang, Qingchuan Yang and Lin Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:800
  47. Bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.); an important spice crop of the region is a rich source of vitamins and antioxidants having many health benefits. Many biotic and abiotic factors contribute towards growth and yie...

    Authors: Muhammad Nawaz, Eram Shahzadi, Aqsa Yaseen, Muhammad Rehan Khalid, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Adel I. Alalawy, Awatif M. E. Omran, Fatma Mohamed Ameen Khalil, Meshari A. Alsuwat, Sezai Ercisli, Tabarak Malik and Baber Ali
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:799
  48. In the past two decades, the impacts of Helium-Neon (He–Ne) laser on stress resistance and secondary metabolism in plants have been studied, but the signaling pathway which by laser regulates this process rema...

    Authors: Fatemeh Mardani-Korrani, Rayhaneh Amooaghaie, Alimohammad Ahadi and Mustafa Ghanadian
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:798
  49. The chloroplast (cp.) genome, also known as plastome, plays crucial roles in plant survival, adaptation, and evolution. The stable genetic structure of cp. genomes provides an ideal system for investigating sp...

    Authors: Raveendar Sebastin, Jaewook Kim, Ick-Hyun Jo, Ju-Kyung Yu, Woojong Jang, Seahee Han, Hyun-Seung Park, Amal Mohamed AlGarawi, Ashraf Atef Hatamleh, Yoon-Sup So, Donghwan Shim and Jong-Wook Chung
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:797

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