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Open AccessClimate change and land-use change impacts on future availability of forage grass species for Ethiopian dairy systems
Forage grasses are central feed resources for livestock globally. In Ethiopian dairy systems, they serve as feed sources during both wet and dry seasons, yet escalating climate change could threaten forage sup...
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Open AccessPlastid ribosome protein L5 is essential for post-globular embryo development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Plastid ribosomal proteins (PRPs) can play essential roles in plastid ribosome functioning that affect plant function and development. However, the roles of many PRPs remain unknown, including elucidation of w...
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Corona citizens’ science project-repeated surveys of the Irish response to COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown and restrictive measures
Worldwide, many people have been affected by COVID-19, a novel respiratory illness, caused by a new type of coronavirus SARS-CoV2. The COVID-19 outbreak is considered a pandemic and has created a number of cha...
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Open AccessTransgenerational effects of inter-ploidy cross direction on reproduction and F2 seed development of Arabidopsis thaliana F1 hybrid triploids
Reproduction in triploid plants is important for understanding polyploid population dynamics. We show that genetically identical reciprocal F1 hybrid triploids can display transgenerational epigenetic effects ...
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Open AccessReduction in nutritional quality and growing area suitability of common bean under climate change induced drought stress in Africa
Climate change impacts on food security will involve negative impacts on crop yields, and potentially on the nutritional quality of staple crops. Common bean is the most important grain legume staple crop for ...
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Open AccessHybridity has a greater effect than paternal genome dosage on heterosis in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)
The phenomenon of heterosis is critical to plant breeding and agricultural productivity. Heterosis occurs when F1 hybrid offspring display quantitative improvements in traits to levels that do not occur in the...
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TILLING by Sequencing (TbyS) for targeted genome mutagenesis in crops
TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) by Sequencing (TbyS) refers to the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies to mutagenised TILLING populations as a tool for functional genomi...
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Determination of Enzymes Associated with Sulfite Toxicity in Plants: Kinetic Assays for SO, APR, SiR, and In-Gel SiR Activity
The amino acid cysteine plays a major role in plant response to abiotic stress by being the donor of elemental sulfur for the sulfuration of the molybdenum cofactor, otherwise the last step of ABA biosynthesis...
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Determination of Total Sulfur, Sulfate, Sulfite, Thiosulfate, and Sulfolipids in Plants
In response to oxidative stress the biosynthesis of the ROS scavenger, glutathione is induced. This requires the induction of the sulfate reduction pathway for an adequate supply of cysteine, the precursor for...
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Molybdenum application enhances adaptation of crested wheatgrass to salinity stress
Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) is a novel halophyte crop for sustainable agriculture in Northern Kazakhstan. This study investigated the effect of molybdenum (Mo) as molybdate (Na2MoO4·2H2O) and its che...
