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Plant digestive juice: replenish or not?
Carnivorous tropical pitcher plants from the genus Nepenthes produce elaborate pitcher organs with digestive glands to trap and digest insect prey in nitrogen poor soil. The content of pitcher fluids has been the focus of many studies,
Beneficial dust like a wall protecting a castle: the role of orchid seed coat in restricting the invasion of fungal hyphae
Plants are often thought of as producing their nutrients through photosynthesis, but many plants associate with other organisms (microorganisms) to exchange nutrients for survival. In particular, orchids, which have threatened many species with extinction due to habitat
Force and morphogenesis
Plant tissue culture has been used to propagate plants on culture media present within petri dishes. This is the propagation of plants in vitro. Using particular plant hormones added to such media in certain concentrations, buds and
Educational hospitalization for ulcerative colitis: relapse prevention by plant-based diet
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a collective term for ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). IBD is no longer a disease mainly seen in Europe and North America and is now a global disease. The disease
Beneficial symbiotic microbes may contribute to plant invasions
Plant-microbe interactions determine plant growth and productivity and therefore may mediate both the invasiveness of non-native plant species and the impacts that they have in invaded ecosystems. Previous research has shown that invasive Acacia dealbata populations in
Radio contamination of tea plants
Contamination level of tea Tea is one of the most popular beverages. Besides drinking water, it is the most consumed drink worldwide. The tea plant, Camelia Sinensis, is cultivated in many countries, such as the People’s Republic
International Conference On Plant Tissue Culture & Plant Biotechnology. Valencia, Spain. March 2-3, 2020
Conference Name: International Conference On Plant Tissue Culture & Plant Biotechnology Conference date: March 2-3, 2020 Conference Venue: Valencia, Spain Short Name: Plant Biotech 2020 Description: Gavin Conferences invites participants from all over the world to attend
Chemical toxicity study of some Algerian medicinal plants
About 65 to 80% of the world’s population use traditional medicine for their primary health WHO according to the WHO report. However, the use of herbal medicines has come under scrutiny due to their perceived long-term toxicity
Nanotechnology, is it something useful for future agriculture?
Nanotechnology has been applied in various fields – biomedicine, electronic devices, renewable energy optical electronic medicine, physics, pharmaceutics. Does it have a place in agriculture? It is generally accepted that manipulation of a crop’s native microbiome represents
Signaling crosstalk in the Ve-resistance locus of tomato
Verticillium is a fungal pathogen that causes vascular wilt disease in over 200 species of plants, including many crops. The fungus invades through the root and enters the water conducting xylem where it proliferates and rapidly becomes
Use of plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in stressed agriculture management
Enhanced incidence of abiotic stresses influencing adversely plant growth and productivity in major crops, and thus global food security, is being witnessed all over the world. These abiotic stress factors include drought (water deficit) and flooding, salinity,
Fruit of the heirloom: ancient non-commercial plant varieties as superior sources of health-beneficial compounds
Lands subtracted to intense urbanization are home of a rich biodiversity, which is well exemplified by the occurrence of many different plant species. Plants thriving in such areas have established a perfect synergy with the local environment,
Aggregation properties as potential markers for classifying rubber particle proteins
Natural rubber is an important biopolymer that mainly consists of cis-1,4-polyisoprene. The rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis is the only commercially viable source of natural rubber because of its good yield and the product’s high quality. Rubber elongation
Back to the future: Italian folk remedies to heal headache (XIX-XX century)
According to the World Health Organization, headache is, nowadays, among most common disorder of nervous system, resulting in serious problems and disability, but it is reasonable to state headache has existed as long as humankind. The purpose
mRNA Interactome Capture: a frontier method to discover mRNA-bound proteomes in plants
Cells are the structural and functional basic units of a given organism to support its life. The phenotype of an organism is highly determined by proteins at the molecular level in each cell. Imbalance of gene expression
How plants transmit signals through alternate routes during stress conditions? CBL-CIPK mediated calcium signaling
One of the main characteristics of a plant life is sessile nature. Plants counter this frailty by evolving intricate and fast signaling system that can help in transferring stimuli at a very high rate. The phytohormone ABA
Live-cell imaging revealed the dynamics and the roles of cytoskeleton in polarizing plant zygote
Asymmetric cell division is one of the fundamental steps to form the plant body axis. In most flowering plants, the apical-basal axis is established by the asymmetric division of the zygote. In a model plant Arabidopsis thaliana,
Emerging roles of cyclic nucleotide gated channels in plants
Plants are vulnerable to various biotic and abiotic stresses imposed in their respective growth environment. These stresses negatively affect the normal growth, development and productivity. Unlike animals, which can move to conditions conducive for growth and development;
In vivo dissection of extracellular vesicles production in plants
In the last decade, the number of studies isolating and describing extracellular vesicles (EVs) has dramatically grown once their participation in intercellular communication has been confirmed. As transporters of bioactive molecules, EVs can take part in different
Arabidopsis ACYL-COA-BINDING PROTEIN6: a lipid-binding protein in the phloem
Plants utilize long-distance transport systems via their vascular tissues. The xylem is used for water and mineral transport, while the phloem translocates various macromolecules. Although lipids have been detected in the phloem sap, their movement is not
