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Unraveling the Seed Bio-priming Contours for Managing Plant Health
From germination to maturity, crops face myriad stresses thereby threatening food security. The foundation of modern agriculture rests on the status...
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Seed Endophytes and Their Roles in Host Plant Stress Resistance
Seed endophytes are microorganisms that exist in the internal tissues of seeds and do not cause any obvious tissue damage or adverse effects on the...
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Plant Secondary Metabolites for Insect Resistance: Seed–Pest Interaction: An Overview
Food safety and security are major concerns in the present world. Over the last decades, most of the food grain production has increased in many...
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Optimizing Seed Physiological Maturity and Quality in Camelina Through Plant Density Variation: A Nonlinear Regression Approach
Investigations into the seed physiological maturity (PM) and achieving optimal seed quality (SQ) across varying plant densities are crucial. This is...
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Sympatric primate seed dispersers and predators jointly contribute to plant diversity in a subtropical forest
Mutualistic and antagonistic plant–animal interactions differentially contribute to the maintenance of species diversity in ecological communities....
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Recent progress in the role of seed endophytic bacteria as plant growth-promoting microorganisms and biocontrol agents
The importance of microorganisms residing within the host plant for their growth and health is increasingly acknowledged, yet the significance of...
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Float, fly, then sink: wetland plant seed buoyancy is lost after internal dispersal by waterbirds
Seed dispersal distance is an important indicator of how well a plant species can cope with environmental changes. Seeds of wetland plants are...
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The View of the European Seed Sector on Genome Editing Tools in Plant Breeding
Reconciling sustainability with agricultural productivity relies strongly on crop improvement. The continuous development of new plant breeding...
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Rice seed endophytes transmit into the plant seedling, promote plant growth and inhibit fungal phytopathogens
AbstractResearch on seed microbiota gained much attention as it constitutes a primary inoculum for plants and supports their growth, fitness and...
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Enhancing rare plant population predictions through demographic modeling of seed predation, dispersal, and habitat suitability
Understanding the effects of seed predation, dispersal, and recruitment on the population dynamics of rare plant species is essential for generating...
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Seed Science and Technology Biology, Production, Quality
This open-access edited book is a collection of 17 chapters, synthesized primarily from the lectures delivered by eminent Indian and international...
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QTL for plant structure type and their influence on seed-related traits in wheat
Plant structure type (PT) is an important complex and quantitative trait to regulating yield potential and stress tolerance in wheat ( Triticum...
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Differences in Seed Germination, Plant Growth, and Proline Content of Some Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Genotypes Under Salinity Stress
Salinity is a major abiotic stress that can affect plant growth and development adversely. However, there is bare knowledge about its role in the...
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Effects of neonicotinoid seed treatment on maize anti-herbivore defenses vary across plant genotypes
Neonicotinoid seed treatment (NST) is a routine practice used worldwide to control insect pests in a variety of crops, including maize ( Zea mays mays ...
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Phylum Level Diversity of Plant Interior Bacteria in Seeds, Supernatant and Pellet Phases of Seed Suspension of Mustard Plant
Our previous study explored the bacterial endophytic diversity in a certain quantity of mustard seeds using culture dependent method by development...
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Spatial pattern of seed arrival has a greater effect on plant diversity than does soil heterogeneity in a grassland ecosystem
Background and AimsSpecies diversity is expected to increase with environmental heterogeneity. For plant communities, this pattern has been confirmed...
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A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks
Seed viability monitoring is standard practice in genebanks and is performed to assess whether seeds of an accession are of good quality or need to...
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Seed Coating: A Sustainable Way to Compensate for the Loss of Plant Number Per Unit Area in Sugar Beet Fields
Different methods of sugar beet seed threshing have been used to improve the seed cultivation value. Two types of processing are common, including...
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Nigella (Black Cumin, Black Seed)
Black cumin or black seed as Nigella sativa is more often called and is an important spice and medicinal plant that probably originated in the...
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Seed germination ecology of endangered plant Horsfieldia hainanensis Merr. In China
BackgroundHorsfieldia hainanensis Merr., an indicator species of China’s humid tropical rainforests, is endangered due to difficulties with...
