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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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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...