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Roots to roofs: Farmers' perceived socio-ecological impacts of converting mango orchards to urban areas in Multan, Pakistan

Zamam Hassan, Fawad Z.A. Khan, Adel S. Aldosary, Baqer Al-Ramadan et al. • Environmental Challenges (2024)

The process of urban growth often results in the conversion of agricultural spaces, including orchards. In Pakistan, Multan - widely known as the city of Mangoes - has seen exponential urban growth in the past couple of decades, resulting i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2024.100935

Morpho-molecular approach reveals three novel endophytic fungi in Polyschema (Pleosporales, Latoruaceae) associated with roots of baobab trees in Yunnan, China

Fangqi Sun, Hongbo Jiang, Jaturong Kumla, Rungtiwa Phookamsak et al. • MycoKeys (2026)

Endophytic fungi associated with roots of the baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) remain poorly documented in terms of species diversity worldwide. During an ongoing fungal survey in the dry-hot valleys of Honghe (Yunnan Province, China), f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.129.182259

First report of Cladobotryum verticillatum (Ascomycota, Hypocreaceae) causing cobweb disease on Paxillus involutus

Xiaoya An, Guohui Cheng, Hanxing Gao, Yang Yang et al. • Biodiversity Data Journal (2022)

Paxillus, a type of ectomycorrhizal fungi distributed widely in the world, is also an essential category for researching bioactive substances and pharmacological functions. We discovered fruitbodies of Paxillus involutus covered in a layer ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e87697

DNA barcoding and phylogenetic insights into the selected endemic flora of the Western Himalayas

Shakila Umer, Khushi Muhammad, Sajjad Sajjad, Latifa AlHusnain et al. • Scientific Reports (2026)

Abstract The Himalayan region is recognized as one of the world’s major biodiversity hotspots due to its remarkable altitudinal variation, high species richness, and exceptional endemism. Despite its ecological significance, the endemic flo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-52399-6

Assessment of the Nutritional and Medicinal Potential of Tubers from Hairy Stork’s-Bill (<i>Erodium crassifolium</i> L ’Hér), a Wild Plant Species Inhabiting Arid Southeast Mediterranean Regions

Shabtai Cohen, Hinanit Koltai, Gopinath Selvaraj, Moran Mazuz et al. • Plants (2020)

Emerging needs for diversifying human diet and to explore novel therapeutic procedures have led to increasing attempts to retrieve traditional nourishments and recruit beneficial wild plant species. Species of the genus Erodium (Geraniaceae...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants9091069

Xylan Is Critical for Proper Bundling and Alignment of Cellulose Microfibrils in Plant Secondary Cell Walls

Jacob D. Crowe, Pengchao Hao, Sivakumar Pattathil, Henry Pan et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2021)

Plant biomass represents an abundant and increasingly important natural resource and it mainly consists of a number of cell types that have undergone extensive secondary cell wall (SCW) formation. These cell types are abundant in the stems ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.737690

Completing the picture of field-grown cereal crops: a new method for detailed leaf surface models in wheat

Marie Theiß, Angelina Steier, Uwe Rascher, Mark Müller-Linow • Plant Methods (2024)

Abstract Background The leaf angle distribution (LAD) is an important structural parameter of agricultural crops that influences light interception, radiation fluxes and consequently plant performance. Therefore, LAD and its parametrized fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01130-x

AGRICULTURE AND PLANT SCIENCE INNOVATIONS

Ved Prakash Yadav, Heena Saheewala, Kiran Yadav, Champa Lal Khatik (2026)

Agriculture and Plant Science Innovations is a comprehensive and forward-looking resource that bridges traditional agricultural knowledge with modern scientific advancements. This book is designed to provide readers with a deep understandin...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.61909/amkedtb042662

Question Bank in Plant Sciences

Akshay I. Patel (2020)

This book aimed at learning various aspects / disciplines covered under the very broad / plethora of plant sciences facts and figures. The primary objective of this compilation is to help students analyse their knowledge of plants in contex...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.59317/9789390175741

Photosynthetic Research in Plant Science

Ayumi Tanaka, Amane Makino • Plant and Cell Physiology (2009)

Photosynthesis is a highly regulated, multistep process. It encompasses the harvest of solar energy, transfer of excitation energy, energy conversion, electron transfer from water to NADP+, ATP generation and a series of enzymatic reactions...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcp040 PMC: 2669890

Plant Metabolomics: An Indispensable System Biology Tool for Plant Science

Jun Hong, Litao Yang, Dabing Zhang, Jianxin Shi • International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2016)

As genomes of many plant species have been sequenced, demand for functional genomics has dramatically accelerated the improvement of other omics including metabolomics. Despite a large amount of metabolites still remaining to be identified,...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms17060767 PMC: 4926328

Vitamin Deficiencies in Humans: Can Plant Science Help?

Teresa B. Fitzpatrick, Gilles J. C. Basset, Patrick Borel, Fernando O. Carrari et al. • The Plant Cell (2012)

The term vitamin describes a small group of organic compounds that are absolutely required in the human diet. Although for the most part, dependency criteria are met in developed countries through balanced diets, this is not the case for th...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.111.093120 PMC: 3315223

Soil mycobiome structure across central and peripherial zones in a pecan nut agroecosystem [Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch]

Sánchez-Ledesma Judith A., Águila Bernardo, Garibay-Orijel Roberto, Peña Cristina García-De la et al. • Folia Oecologica (2025)

Using ITS1-based metabarcoding, we investigated the structure of the soil fungal communities in the central and peripheral zones of a 25-hectare pecan nut (Carya illinoinensis) orchard located in the arid region of Coahuila, Mexico. While e...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/foecol-2025-0015

Identification and functional characterization of the MYB transcription factor GmMYBLJ in soybean leaf senescence

Guohua Bao, Xiao Xu, Jing Yang, Juanjuan Liu et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2025)

Leaf senescence is an important agronomic trait that significantly influences the quality and yield of soybeans. v-Myb avian myeloblastosis viral oncogene homolog (MYB) transcription factors are considered crucial regulators governing leaf ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1533592

Enset Bacterial Wilt (Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum): Farmer Perspectives, Physicochemical Characterization, and Phenotypic Variation Among Strains

Tafesse Kibatu, Sebsebe Demissew, Diriba Muleta, Getahun Haile et al. • Advances in Agriculture (2025)

Enset is a staple food for approximately 25% of Ethiopia’s population. It is threatened by a range of biotic and abiotic stress, of which bacterial wilt is the most significant. This study investigated the enset bacterial wilt (EBW) status ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/aia/4483050

Ovule and seed development of crop plants in response to climate change

Mohammad Erfatpour, Dustin MacLean, Rachid Lahlali, Yunfei Jiang • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2024)

The ovule is a plant structure that upon fertilization, transforms into a seed. Successful fertilization is required for optimum crop productivity and is strongly affected by environmental conditions including temperature and precipitation....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1495610

Seasonal monopolization of small carrion by a scarab beetle in terra firme Amazonian rainforests

Elena Chaboteaux, Pablo Aycart-Lazo, Gustavo Arias-Álvarez, Sandra Bejar-Hermoza et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Small vertebrate carcasses represent an abundant resource in tropical rainforests, where scavengers play a key role in nutrient recycling, enhancing productivity in nutrient-poor habitats such as Amazonian terra firme forests. Howe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-31811-7

Nanotechnology in Plant Science: To Make a Long Story Short

Ilaria Sanzari, Antonietta Leone, Alfredo Ambrosone • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2019)

This mini-review aims at gaining knowledge on basic aspects of plant nanotechnology. While in recent years the enormous progress of nanotechnology in biomedical sciences has revolutionized therapeutic and diagnostic approaches, the comprehe...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00120 PMC: 6550098

New Visions in Plant Science

Özge Çelik • InTech eBooks (2018)

Over the past decade, progress in plant science and molecular technologies has grown considerably. This book focuses on plant biotechnology applications specializing in certain aspects of breeding and molecular marker-assisted selection pro...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72517