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Assessing Contrasting Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Cultivars Responsiveness to Salinity at the Seedling Stage and Screening of Tolerance Marker Traits
Salinity poses a significant challenge to global wheat production. The screening of wheat cultivars for salt tolerance is essential for develo** new varieties resilient to salinity and advancing breeding str...
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Thinking Model for Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Innovation Explicated by OntoIS
Under environmental constraints, transformation to sustainable manufacturing is indispensable. The backcast way of thinking (BWT) promotes creation of new values based on the environmental constraints. To intr...
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A review on functionalized silica nanoparticle amendment on plant growth and development under stress
Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) accelerate silica uptake in plants compared to bulk silica. Additionally, SiNPs are potent enough to confer stress tolerance in crop plants against a wide array of abiotic and biot...
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The Beneficial Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Compost on Plant Tolerance to Drought and Salinity Stresses: A Study on Date Palm and Alfalfa
Phoenix dactylifera L. and Medicago sativa L. are two important crops, which play economic, social, and ecological roles in oasis ecosystems. However, the ecosystems where these plants grow are subjected to droug...
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Open AccessAssemblage of indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and green waste compost enhance drought stress tolerance in carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) trees
In the current study, an eco-friendly management technology to improve young carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) tree tolerance to water deficit was set up by using single or combined treatments of arbuscular mycorrhiza...
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iTRAQ-Based Proteomic Analysis of Rice Grains
Cereal proteins have formed the basis of human diet worldwide, and their level of consumption is expected to increase. The knowledge of the protein composition and variation of the cereal grains is helpful for...
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Use of Organic and Biological Fertilizers as Strategies to Improve Crop Biomass, Yields and Physicochemical Parameters of Soil
Interest in the sustainability of soil resources has been stimulated by increasing concerns that soil is one of the most critical components of the earth’s biosphere, participating in food production and manag...
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Proteomic for Quality: Mining the Proteome as a Strategy to Elucidate the Protein Complex Applied for Quality Improvement
Cereals are the most important staple foods worldwide. Rice is one of the “top three” cereal crops feeding more than half of the world’s population and providing a large proportion of nutrients for humans and ...
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Open AccessEssential roles of autophagy in metabolic regulation in endosperm development during rice seed maturation
Autophagy plays crucial roles in the recycling of metabolites, and is involved in many developmental processes. Rice mutants defective in autophagy are male sterile due to immature pollens, indicating its crit...
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Proteomic Analysis of Rice Golgi Membranes Isolated by Floating Through Discontinuous Sucrose Density Gradient
The Golgi apparatus is an endomembrane system organelle and has roles in glycosylation, sorting, and secretion of proteins in the secretory pathway. It has a central function in living organism and is also ess...
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Optimizing Growth and Tolerance of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) to Drought, Salinity, and Vascular Fusarium-Induced Wilt (Fusarium oxysporum) by Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is an important agricultural and commercial crop in the countries of North Africa and Near East. Date palm tree could be used for generations to come due to its remarkable nutri...
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Open AccessProteomic and Glycomic Characterization of Rice Chalky Grains Produced Under Moderate and High-temperature Conditions in Field System
Global climate models predict an increase in global mean temperature and a higher frequency of intense heat spikes during this century. Cereals such as rice (Oryza sativa L.) are more susceptible to heat stress, ...
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Erratum: Physical interaction between peroxisomes and chloroplasts elucidated by in situ laser analysis
Nature Plants 1, 15035 (2015); published online 30 March 2015; corrected 10 April 2015 In the version of the Supplementary Information file originally published figure captions were omitted and several charact...
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Physical interaction between peroxisomes and chloroplasts elucidated by in situ laser analysis
Life on earth relies upon photosynthesis, which consumes carbon dioxide and generates oxygen and carbohydrates. Photosynthesis is sustained by a dynamic environment within the plant cell involving numerous org...
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Determination of genomic location and structure of the transgenes in marker-free rice-based cholera vaccine by using whole genome resequencing approach
We previously developed a molecularly uniform rice-based oral cholera vaccine (MucoRice-CTB) by using an overexpression system for modified cholera toxin B-subunit, CTB (N4Q) with RNAi to suppress production o...
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Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Intact Plastids
Plastids are specialized cell organelles in plant cells that are differentiated into various forms including chloroplasts, chromoplasts, and amyloplasts, and fulfill important functions in maintaining the over...
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Rapid and High-Throughput N-Glycomic Analysis of Plant Glycoproteins
Glycoprotein is a major element in higher organisms including mammalians and plants. It is widely accepted that variation in cellular N-glycome is related to modulation in dynamic cellular mechanisms such as cell...
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Formation of Macromolecule Complex with Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1A Toxins and Chlorophyllide Binding 252-kDa Lipocalin-Like Protein Locating on Bombyx mori Midgut Membrane
P252, a 252-kDa Bombyx mori protein located on the larval midgut membrane, has been shown to bind strongly with Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1A toxins (Hossain et al. Appl Environ Microbiol 70:4604–4612, 2004). P252...
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Isoform-Specific Localization of Brassica rapa Nitrilases in Root Infected with Plasmodiophora brassicae Revealed Using In Situ Hybridization Probes Improved with Locked Nucleic Acids
We established an in situ hybridization (ISH) technique by modification of hybridization probes with locked nucleic acids (LNAs) and demonstrated isoform-specific localization of transcripts of Brassica rapa ...
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Two Rice GRAS Family Genes Responsive to N-Acetylchitooligosaccharide Elicitor are Induced by Phytoactive Gibberellins: Evidence for Cross-Talk Between Elicitor and Gibberellin Signaling in Rice Cells
In this study, we present data showing that two members of the GRAS family of genes from rice, CIGR1 and CIGR2(chitin-inducible gibberellin-responsive), inducible by the potent elicitor N-acetylchitooligosacchari...
