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Wild food plants gathered by four cultural groups in North Waziristan, Pakistan
The foraging of wild food plants (WFPs) is an important sociocultural and human ecological phenomenon, especially in more peripheral rural and...
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The LEA gene family in tomato and its wild relatives: genome-wide identification, structural characterization, expression profiling, and role of SlLEA6 in drought stress
BackgroundLate embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are widely distributed in higher plants and play crucial roles in regulating plant growth and...
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Technology-driven approaches for meiosis research in tomato and wild relatives
Meiosis is a specialized cell division during reproduction where one round of chromosomal replication is followed by genetic recombination and two...
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Cryopreservation Protocol for Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its wild relatives Pollen for Utilization in Crop Improvement
Tomato is the most extensively used crop for breeding programs and has wide genetic resources which possess numerous important genes....
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Strategies for utilization of crop wild relatives in plant breeding programs
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are weedy and wild relatives of the domesticated and cultivated crops, which usually occur and are maintained in natural...
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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...
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CRISPR-Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of the SlSRM1-like gene leads to abnormal leaf development in tomatoes
BackgroundLeaves, which are the most important organs of plants, can not only fix carbon sources through photosynthesis, but also absorb nutrients...
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A Cross-continental Survey of Traditional Food Systems That Are Based on Wild Food Plants
Food systems comprising items derived from local or indigenous and naturally available sources were followed by the human race all over the world....
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An inventory of crop wild relatives of the Maltese Islands
Crop wild relatives are sources of genetic diversity valuable for crop improvement to address the challenges faced by agriculture in withstanding...
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Tomatoes
IPM has been developed and successfully applied in greenhouse tomatoes in several regions of the world since the 1970s. As an alternative to the...
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Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources in Papaya with a Focus on Wild Resources
Papaya is one among the most important tropical fruit crops cultivated in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world for its nutritional,...
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Wild, Weedy and Domesticated Plants for Food Security and Sovereignty
Archaeological studies have revealed that humans have inhabited the territory that today is Mexico for more than 20,000 years, while ethnobotanical...
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Efficacy of Green Synthesized Silver Based Nanomaterials Against Early Blight of Tomato Caused by Alternaria solani
Tomato production is significantly harmed by the interruption of fungal pathogens, i.e., Alternaria solani , the causal agent of early blight, which...
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Validation of in vitro grafting using indigenous wild grapevines as rootstock with commercial scion varieties
Wild progenitors of grapevine constitute a diverse source of genetic variability which have been used as a potential rootstock to cope with different...
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Practices and Perceptions of Foragers of Wild Resources in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria
During the past decades, a growing body of literature has recognized the benefits (including ecological, social, economic, cultural, and...
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Knowledge on the Genomes of Wild Tomato Species is the Key to Unlocking Their Breeding Potential
Wild tomato species are characterized by wide genetic variability and phenotypic diversity that might be recovered to reintroduce favorable ‘wild’...
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Breeding for Yield Quality Parameters and Abiotic Stress in Tomato Using Genome Editing
Growing tomatoes is an important aspect of agriculture around the world because of the positive effects it has on people’s health and the economy....
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Cytogenetics of Potato and Tomato Wild Relatives
Cytogenetics has historically contributed to the taxonomy, genetics, and breeding of cultivated and wild Solanum species. This chapter summarizes the...
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Natural variation in wild tomato trichomes; selecting metabolites that contribute to insect resistance using a random forest approach
BackgroundPlant-produced specialised metabolites are a powerful part of a plant’s first line of defence against herbivorous insects, bacteria and...
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Nutritional, anti-nutritional and morphological characterization of wild edible species of Solanum found in North East India
This study explores the extensive variation in nutritional, anti-nutritional, and morphological characteristics observed among various Solanum ...
