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  1. Cannabis is a historically, culturally, and economically significant crop in human societies, owing to its versatile applications in both industry and medicine. Over many years, native cannabis populations hav...

    Authors: Mehdi Babaei, Hossein Nemati, Hossein Arouiee and Davoud Torkamaneh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:151
  2. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most widely grown and vital cereal crops, containing a high percentage of basic nutrients such as carbohydrates and proteins. Drought stress is one of the most significa...

    Authors: Nelly Michel George, Gehad Hany-Ali, Ekram Abdelhaliem and Mohamed Abdel-Haleem
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:150
  3. Consecutive droughts and quantitative and qualitative reduction of surface and underground water resources have caused an increase in greenhouse and hydroponic cultivation for most garden crops, including stra...

    Authors: Mahsa Azizi Yeganeh, Ali Asghar Shahabi, Ali Ebadi and Vahid Abdoosi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:149
  4. During a field survey of urban flora in Alexandria city in 2019–2022, an interesting species belonging to the Solanaceae was collected from a newly archaeological excavation site and identified as Nicotiana gluti...

    Authors: Selim Z. Heneidy, Yassin M. Al-Sodany, Amal M. Fakhry, Sania A. Kamal, Marwa Waseem A. Halmy, Laila M. Bidak, Eman T. El kenany and Soliman M. Toto
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:148
  5. Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, minerals and vitamins are nutrient substances commonly seen in rice grains, but anthocyanidin, with benefit for plant growth and animal health, exists mainly in the common wild...

    Authors: Liqun Jiang, Shuwei Lyu, Hang Yu, Jing Zhang, Bingrui Sun, Qing Liu, Xingxue Mao, Pingli Chen, Dajian Pan, Wenfeng Chen, Zhilan Fan and Chen Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:147
  6. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) have been reported to have contrasting effects on plant physiology, while their effects on sugar, protein, and amino acid metabolism are poorly understood. In this work, ...

    Authors: Ricardo Tighe-Neira, Marjorie Reyes-Díaz, Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Jaciara Lana-Costa, Gonzalo Recio, Erico R. Carmona, Patricio Acevedo, Zed Rengel and Claudio Inostroza-Blancheteau
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:146
  7. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an important pattern of post-transcriptional regulation of genes widely existing in eukaryotes, involving plant physiological and pathological processes. However, there is ...

    Authors: Shaochun Liu, Shuqi Luo, Dewei Yang, Junying Huang, Xinlei Jiang, Shangwei Yu, Junru Fu, Dahu Zhou, Xiaorong Chen, Haohua He and Haihui Fu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:145
  8. Aphanomyces euteiches is a soil-borne oomycete that causes root rot in pea and other legume species. Symptoms of Aphanomyces root rot (ARR) include root discoloration and wilting, leading to significant yield los...

    Authors: Carol Kälin, Edoardo Piombo, Salim Bourras, Agnese Kolodinska Brantestam, Mukesh Dubey, Malin Elfstrand and Magnus Karlsson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:144
  9. Solar radiation is primarily composed of ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 200 − 400 nm) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400 − 700 nm). Ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation accounts for only a small proportio...

    Authors: Jinhui Xu, Xinyu Zhao, Yi Zhong, Tongfei Qu, Baixue Sun, Huanxin Zhang, Chengzong Hou, Zhipeng Zhang, Xuexi Tang and Ying Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:143
  10. Aquilegia is a model system for studying the evolution of adaptive radiation. However, very few studies have been conducted on the Aquilegia mitochondrial genome. Since mitochondria play a key role in plant adapt...

    Authors: Luyuan Xu, Jinghan Wang, Tengjiao Zhang, Hongxing Xiao and Huaying Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:142
  11. Drought and heat stress are significant concerns to food security in arid and semi-arid regions, where global warming is predicted to increase both frequency and severity. To cope with these challenges, the us...

    Authors: Ibrahim Bolat, Kubra Korkmaz, Meral Dogan, Metin Turan, Cengiz Kaya, Hanifeh Seyed Hajizadeh and Ozkan Kaya
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:140
  12. Drought stress poses a significant challenge to maize production, leading to substantial harm to crop growth and yield due to the induction of oxidative stress. Deashed biochar (DAB) in combination with carbox...

    Authors: Subhan Danish, Zuhair Hasnain, Khadim Dawar, Shah Fahad, Adnan Noor Shah, Saleh H. Salmen and Mohammad Javed Ansari
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:139
  13. Micronutrient application has a crucial role in mitigating salinity stress in crop plants. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of zinc (Zn) and boron (B) as foliar applications on fenugreek gr...

    Authors: Atika Khan, Safura Bibi, Talha Javed, Athar Mahmood, Shahid Mehmood, Muhammad Mansoor Javaid, Baber Ali, Muhammad Yasin, Zain Ul Abidin, Mohammad Khalid Al-Sadoon, Babar Hussain Babar, Rashid Iqbal and Tabarak Malik
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:138
  14. The deleterious impact of osmotic stress, induced by water deficit in arid and semi-arid regions, poses a formidable challenge to cotton production. To protect cotton farming in dry areas, it’s crucial to crea...

    Authors: Lisheng Qian, Shoucheng Huang, Zhihua Song, Shah Fahad, Khadim Dawar, Subhan Danish, Hina Saif, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Javed Ansari and Saleh H. Salmen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:137
  15. Subsistence farmers and global food security depend on sufficient food production, which aligns with the UN's “Zero Hunger,” “Climate Action,” and “Responsible Consumption and Production” sustainable developme...

    Authors: Wasswa Shafik, Ali Tufail, Chandratilak De Silva Liyanage and Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:136
  16. The production of crops depending on many factors including water, nutrient, soil types, climate and crops types, water stress and drought is in one of the important factors affecting crop productivity. The ex...

    Authors: Haq Nawaz, İlknur Akgün and Ulaş Şenyiğit
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:135
  17. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is one of the common internal RNA modifications found in eukaryotes. The m6A modification can regulate various biological processes in organisms through the modulation of alternative spli...

    Authors: Huan Su, Lijun Meng, Zechao Qu, Wei Zhang, Nan Liu, Peijian Cao and Jingjing Jin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:134
  18. 1-Deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), the main active ingredient in mulberry leaves, with wide applications in the medicine and food industries due to its significant functions in lowering blood sugar, and lipids, and com...

    Authors: Yangzhen Liao, Wenmin Du, Jingqiong Wan, Jiahe Fan, Jilan Pi, Min Wu, Yuan Wei and Zhen Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:133
  19. Seed propagation is the main method of mulberry expansion in China, an important economic forest species. However, seed germination is the most sensitive stage to various abiotic stresses, especially salinity ...

    Authors: Yi Wang, Wei Jiang, Chenlei Li, Zhenjiang Wang, Can Lu, Junsen Cheng, Shanglin Wei, Jiasong Yang and Qiang Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:132
  20. Early blight (EB), caused by Alternaria solani, is a serious problem in tomato production. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria promote plant growth and inhibit plant disease. The present study explored the bio-e...

    Authors: Sajjad Hyder, Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Anam Sehar, Aimen Razzaq Khan, Nadia Riaz, Zarrin Fatima Rizvi, Rashid Iqbal, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Khaloud M. Alarjani, Muhammed Habib ur Rahman and Muhammad Rizwan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:131
  21. Grafting is widely used as an important agronomic approach to deal with environmental stresses. However, the molecular mechanism of grafted tomato scions in response to biotic stress and growth regulation has ...

    Authors: Ce Liu, Yanhong Jia, Lixia He, Hui Li, Jian Song, Lizhu Ji and Chunguo Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:130
  22. Focusing on key indicators of drought resistance is highly important for quickly mining candidate genes related to drought resistance in cotton.

    Authors: Shiwei Geng, Wenju Gao, Shengmei Li, Qin Chen, Yang Jiao, Jieyin Zhao, Yuxiang Wang, TingWei Wang, Yanying Qu and Quanjia Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:129
  23. Salinity poses significant challenges to agricultural productivity, impacting crops’ growth, morphology and biochemical parameters. A pot experiment of three months was conducted between February to April 2023...

    Authors: Jawaria Jameel, Tauseef Anwar, Saadat Majeed, Huma Qureshi, Ejaz Hussain Siddiqi, Sundas Sana, Wajid Zaman and Hayssam M. Ali
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:128
  24. Root system architecture (RSA) exhibits significant genetic variability and is closely associated with drought tolerance. However, the evaluation of drought-tolerant cotton cultivars based on RSA in the field ...

    Authors: Congcong Guo, Lingxiao Zhu, Hongchun Sun, Qiucheng Han, Shijie Wang, Jijie Zhu, Yongjiang Zhang, Ke Zhang, Zhiying Bai, Anchang Li, Liantao Liu and Cundong Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:127
  25. Heavy metal stress affects crop growth and yields as wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) growth and development are negatively affected under heavy metal stress. The study examined the effect of cobalt chloride (CoCl2) ...

    Authors: Aiman Zahid, Kaleem ul din, Muhamad Ahmad, Umer Hayat, Usman Zulfiqar, Syed Muhammad Hassan Askri, Muhammad Zohaib Anjum, Muhammad Faisal Maqsood, Nazish Aijaz, Talha Chaudhary and Hayssam M. Ali
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:126
  26. Zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni) are nutrients that are crucial for plant growth; however, when they are present at higher concentrations, they can cause toxicity in plants. The present study aimed to isolate plant g...

    Authors: Asim Shahzad, Uzma Aslam, Shazia Ferdous, Mingzhou Qin, Anam Siddique, Motsim Billah, Muhammad Naeem, Zahid Mahmood and Sadaf Kayani
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:125
  27. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the globally important staple food crops, and yield-related traits are prerequisites for improved breeding efficiency in rice. Here, we used six different genome-wide association ...

    Authors: Supriya Sachdeva, Rakesh Singh, Avantika Maurya, Vikas K Singh, Uma Maheshwar Singh, Arvind Kumar and Gyanendra Pratap Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:124
  28. Understanding the molecular processes and hormonal signals that govern root growth is of paramount importance for effective forest management. While Arabidopsis studies have shed light on the role of the prima...

    Authors: Paulina Kościelniak, Paulina Glazińska, Jacek Kęsy, Joanna Mucha and Marcin Zadworny
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:123
  29. Prohexadione-Calcium (Pro-Ca) plays key roles in improving fruit quality and yield by regulating various aspects of plant growth. However, the effects of how Pro-Ca regulates the regulation of sugar and acid b...

    Authors: Dou Li, Jiangshan Yang, Zibo Dai, Yajuan Chen, Zhang Shao, Chunheng Wang, Xin Jin, Yuhang Wang and Lidan Feng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:122
  30. The primary challenge in the cut flower industry, specifically in the postharvest phase, is the short vase life of flowers. This issue, along with early leaf yellowing and perianth abscission, significantly di...

    Authors: Hanifeh Seyed Hajizadeh, Somayeh Bayrami Aghdam, Hadi Fakhrghazi, Sinem Karakus and Ozkan Kaya
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:121
  31. Plants have acquired a repertoire of mechanisms to combat biotic stressors, which may vary depending on the feeding strategies of herbivores and the plant species. Hormonal regulation crucially modulates this ...

    Authors: Álvaro Montesinos, Soledad Sacristán, Palmira del Prado-Polonio, Ana Arnaiz, Sandra Díaz-González, Isabel Diaz and M. Estrella Santamaria
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:120
  32. Symbiotic Methylobacterium comprise a significant portion of the phyllospheric microbiome, and are known to benefit host plant growth, development, and confer tolerance to stress factors. The near ubiquitous use ...

    Authors: Daniel Palberg, Emma Kaszecki, Chetan Dhanjal, Anna Kisiała, Erin N. Morrison, Naomi Stock and R. J. Neil Emery
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:119
  33. Spot blotch is a serious foliar disease of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plants caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana, which is a hemibiotrophic ascomycete that has a global impact on productivity. Some Trichoderma spp. ...

    Authors: Rabab A. Metwally, Shereen A. Soliman, Hanan Abdalla and Reda E. Abdelhameed
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:118
  34. In paddy fields, the noxious weed barnyard grass secretes 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-3(4H)-one (DIMBOA) to interfere with rice growth. Rice is unable to synthesize DIMBOA. Rice cultivars with high ...

    Authors: Huabin Zhang, Dan Mu, Yushan Li, Xilin Li, Xue Yan, Ke Li, Yanyang Jiao, Jiayu Li, Hongmei Lin, Wenxiong Lin and Changxun Fang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:117
  35. Water deficit stress is one of the most significant environmental abiotic factors influencing plant growth and metabolism globally. Recently, encouraging outcomes for the use of nanomaterials in agriculture ha...

    Authors: Seyede Zahra Ahmadi, Bahman Zahedi, Mansour Ghorbanpour and Hasan Mumivand
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:116
  36. Chromium (Cr) stress significantly hinders crop production by disrupting nutrient uptake, impairing plant growth, and contaminating soil, posing a substantial threat to agricultural sustainability. The use of ...

    Authors: Uzma Younis, Subhan Danish, Rahul Datta, Tahani Awad Alahmadi and Mohammad Javed Ansari
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:115
  37. The small YABBY plant-specific transcription factor has a prominent role in regulating plant growth progress and responding to abiotic stress.

    Authors: Weiwei Wang, Jiayang Ma, Hanxi Liu, Zhulin Wang, Rui Nan, Tao Zhong, Mengyu Sun, Shaoyu Wang, Yaxin Yao, Fengli Sun, Chao Zhang and Yajun Xi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:114
  38. The WRKY gene family is one of the largest families of transcription factors in higher plants, and WRKY transcription factors play important roles in plant growth and development as well as in response to abiotic...

    Authors: Ruiqi Xiong, Zhonghua Peng, Hui Zhou, Guoxing Xue, Ailing He, Xin Yao, Wenfeng Weng, Weijiao Wu, Chao Ma, Qing Bai and Jingjun Ruan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:113

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:141

  39. Owing to the uniqueness of quantum dots (QDs) as a potential nanomaterial for agricultural application, hence in the present study, titanium dioxide quantum dots (TiO2 QDs) were successfully synthesized via sol-g...

    Authors: Reda E. Abdelhameed, Hanan Abdalla and Manar A. Ibrahim
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:112
  40. The ephemeral flora of northern Xinjiang, China, plays an important role in the desert ecosystems. However, the evolutionary history of this flora remains unclear. To gain new insights into its origin and evol...

    Authors: Tian-Wen Xiao, Feng Song, Duc Quy Vu, Ying Feng and Xue-Jun Ge
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:111
  41. The utilization of Trichoderma longibrachiatum filtrate as a safe biocontrol method for producing zinc nanoparticles is a promising approach for managing pests and diseases in agricultural crops. The identificati...

    Authors: Rehab Y. Ghareeb, Elsayed B. Belal, Nagwa M. M. El-Khateeb and Basma A. Shreef
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:110
  42. The color of endopleura is a vital factor in determining the economic value and aesthetics appeal of nut. Walnuts (Juglans) are a key source of edible nuts, high in proteins, amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates. W...

    Authors: Hengzhao Liu, Huijuan Zhou, Hang Ye, Fangdong Gen, Mengfan Lei, Jinhan Li, Wenjun Wei, Zhanlin Liu, Na Hou and Peng Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:109
  43. Soil pollution with heavy metals has grown to be a big hassle, leading to the loss in farming production particularly in developing countries like Pakistan, where no proper channel is present for irrigation an...

    Authors: Fazal Amin, Arwa Abdulkreem AL-Huqail, Sami Ullah, Muhammad Nauman Khan, Alevcan Kaplan, Baber Ali, Majid Iqbal, Fahmy Gad Elsaid, Sezai Ercisli, Tabarak Malik, Sami Asir Al-Robai and Amany H. A. Abeed
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:108

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:153

  44. Rye (Secale cereale L.) is a cereal crop highly tolerant to environmental stresses, including abiotic and biotic stresses (e.g., fungal diseases). Among these fungal diseases, leaf rust (LR) is a major threat to ...

    Authors: T. Krępski, A. Piasecka, M. Święcicka, M. Kańczurzewska, A. Sawikowska, M. Dmochowska-Boguta, M. Rakoczy-Trojanowska and M. Matuszkiewicz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:107
  45. The genus Libanotis Haller ex Zinn, nom. cons., a contentious member of Apiaceae, encompasses numerous economically and medicinally significant plants, comprising approximately 30 species distributed across Euras...

    Authors: Li-Jia Liu, Chang-Kun Liu, Jing Cai, Jiao-Jiao Deng, Xing‑Jin He and Song‑Dong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:106
  46. Nitrogen (N) metabolism-related key genes and conserved amino acid sites in key enzymes play a crucial role in improving N use efficiency (NUE) under N stress. However, it is not clearly known about the molecu...

    Authors: Zhu Cun, Xia Li, Jin-Yan Zhang, Jie Hong, Li-Lin Gao, Jing Yang, Su-Yun Ma and Jun-Wen Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:105
  47. Crown gall disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a very destructive affliction that affects grapevines. Endophytic bacteria have been discovered to control plant diseases via the use of several mechanism...

    Authors: Faegheh Etminani, Behrouz Harighi, Bahman Bahramnejad and Ali Akbar Mozafari
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:104
  48. Flavonoids are plant specialised metabolites, which derive from phenylalanine and acetate metabolism. They possess a variety of beneficial characteristics for plants and humans. Several modification steps in t...

    Authors: Hanna Marie Schilbert, Mareike Busche, Vania Sáez, Andrea Angeli, Bernd Weisshaar, Stefan Martens and Ralf Stracke
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:99
  49. Drought is thought to be a major abiotic stress that dramatically limits tomato growth and production. As signal molecule, melatonin (MT) and carbon monoxide (CO) can enhance plant stress resistance. However, ...

    Authors: Yunzhi Liu, Junrong Xu, Xuefang Lu, Mengxiao Huang, Yuanzhi Mao, Chuanghao Li, Wenjin Yu and Changxia Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:97

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