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Nutritional Value, In Vitro Regeneration and Development of Transgenic Cucurbita pepo and C. maxima for Stress Tolerance: An Overview
The Cucurbita genus, often called as cucurbits, include several economically important fruits and vegetable crops like cucumber, gourds, squash, watermelon, pumpkin, and melon. Several of the species including Cu...
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Transgenic Tomatoes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Fruit Traits: A Review of Progress and a Preview of Potential
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is the second most important vegetable crop of the world. It is rich in nutrition with zero cholesterol, but highly sensitive to abiotic stresses, especially salt, drought, ...
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DnaJs, the critical drivers of Hsp70s: genome-wide screening, characterization and expression of DnaJ family genes in Sorghum bicolor
The DnaJ/Hsp40s, are important components in the chaperone machine, and play pivotal roles in plant growth, development and stress tolerance. Sorghum, the semi-arid crop, is the drought resilient, model C4 crop. ...
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In Vitro Cultured Cells as an Option for Enhancing the Production of Bioactive Compounds: Some Selected Case Studies
Many of the drugs that are sold in the market today are mostly the synthetic modifications of the naturally available plant products. Many have been resorting to natural sources of remedies since they have les...
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Role of Protein Phosphatases in Signaling, Potassium Transport, and Abiotic Stress Responses
Protein phosphatases especially type 2C (PP2C) are unique and highly conserved and play pivotal roles in stress signaling in plants by counter affecting kinases. During potassium (K+) deficiency in the soil as we...
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An Integrated Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Approach to Unravel the Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Stress Tolerance in Plants
Industrialization coupled with modern agricultural practices is resulting in heavy metal contamination of both our terrestrial and aquatic systems very rapidly. Metal stress induces a number of morphological, ...
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Feeding elicitors and precursors enhance colchicine accumulation in morphogenic cultures of Gloriosa superba L.
Morphogenic cultures of Gloriosa superba were initiated on Murashige and Skoog’s medium fortified with 2 mg L−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 0.5 mg L−1 naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), 4% sucrose and 0.1%...
