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Teaching plant biology through “Plant senses”—a more engaging, holistic approach and introduction
Higher education offers unique ways to provide students with knowledge of plant biology, as well as an engaging lens through which plants may be seen...
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Re-introduction of Plant and Animal Species
The re-introduction of animal and plant species is intended, on the one hand, to support a population threatened with extinction in a certain area or...
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Targeted introduction of heritable point mutations into the plant mitochondrial genome
The development of technologies for the genetic manipulation of mitochondrial genomes remains a major challenge. Here we report a method for the...
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Introduction to Plant Hormones and Climate Change
Global food security is negatively impacted by climate change since climatic variabilities, such as high temperatures, fluctuating rainfall patterns,...
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Soil properties and plant species can predict population size and potential introduction sites of the endangered orchid Cypripedium calceolus
Background and AimsTo counteract the ongoing worldwide biodiversity loss, conservation actions are required to re-establish populations of threatened...
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Introduction: Impact of Nanotechnology on Plant Cell Biology
This book focuses on the recent progress of nanotechnologyNanotechnology, emphasizing the interaction between nanoparticlesNanoparticles (NPs) and...
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Plant Metabolomics
The demand for functional genomics has significantly increased in recent years, accelerating the development in other omics fields, such as...
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Introduction: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands
Islands provide singular yet powerful natural settings for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses and have been particularly informative for...
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Plant genome information facilitates plant functional genomics
Main conclusionIn this review, we give an overview of plant sequencing efforts and how this impacts plant functional genomics research.
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11 Plant sphingolipids
Plants contain a multiplicity of sphingolipid metabolites, such as long-chain bases, long-chain base phosphates, ceramides, glycosylceramides,...
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Plant System Biology
Modern systems biology emerged owing to the necessity to translate the massive amounts of data produced by genome-scale investigations into...
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Soil microbial community contributes more to plant-soil feedback and plant-plant interactions than root traits under warming and drought
AimsThe interactions between aboveground and belowground biota are crucial for determining plant community composition and the response of ecosystem...
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Plant salt tolerance
Soil salinity adversely affects crop productivity and quality. The success of breeding programs aimed at salinity tolerant crop varieties is limited...
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Introduction to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Higher Plant Symbiosis: Characteristic Features, Functions, and Applications
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are ubiquitous, soil-borne, endophytic, obligate biotrophs that colonize the roots of most terrestrial plants to...
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Plant Phenolics: Role in Biotic Stress Alleviation and Plant Microbe Interactions
Phenolic compounds are structurally and functionally diverse organic compounds synthesized by plants, which apart from being involved in various...
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Plant-Based Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy for Plant Health Monitoring
Food security and increasing agricultural yields have become one of this century’s most essential and challenging topics. The global population is...
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Introduction
The introduction of this book sets the stage by exploring the motivation behind leveraging smart big data in the context of digital agriculture. It...
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Plant–plant and plant–soil interactions under drought and the presence of invasive buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris)
Soil microbiomes could mediate plant responses to interacting environmental changes such as drought and plant invasion. We used a greenhouse...
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Plant Molecular Farming: Concept and Strategies
Plant molecular farming refers to a plant-based approach to produce recombinant proteins and secondary metabolites. The utilization of plants as a...