Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 31, 2019

Hans-Peter Schmidt, Nikolas Hagemann, Kathleen Draper, Claudia Kammann

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7373 PubMed 31396445

July 17, 2019

Nutritional assessment, phytochemical composition and antioxidant analysis of the pulp and seed of medjool date grown in Mexico

Ricardo Salomón-Torres, Noé Ortiz-Uribe, Benjamín Valdez-Salas, Navor Rosas-González, Conrado García-González, Daniel Chávez, Iván Córdova-Guerrero, Laura Díaz-Rubio, María del Pilar Haro-Vázquez, José Luis Mijangos-Montiel, Antonio Morales-Maza, Padmanabhan Mahadevan, Robert Krueger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6821 PubMed 31360620

July 10, 2019

An attention bias test to assess anxiety states in laying hens

Dana L.M. Campbell, Peta S. Taylor, Carlos E. Hernandez, Mairi Stewart, Sue Belson, Caroline Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7303 PubMed 31333910

July 9, 2019

Exploring regulatory networks in plants: transcription factors of starch metabolism

Cristal López-González, Sheila Juárez-Colunga, Norma Cecilia Morales-Elías, Axel Tiessen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6841 PubMed 31328026

July 15, 2019

Predicting the potential distribution of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama), in China using the MaxEnt model

Rulin Wang, Hua Yang, Wei Luo, Mingtian Wang, Xingli Lu, Tingting Huang, Jinpeng Zhao, Qing Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7323 PubMed 31341749

July 23, 2019

Growth and development of soybean under changing light environments in relay intercropping system

Muhammad Ali Raza, Ling Yang Feng, Nasir Iqbal, Mukhtar Ahmed, Yuan Kai Chen, Muhammad Hayder Bin Khalid, Atta Mohi Ud Din, Ahsin Khan, Waqas Ijaz, Anwaar Hussain, Muhammad Atif Jamil, Muhammd Naeem, Sadam Hussain Bhutto, Muhammad Ansar, Feng Yang, Wenyu Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7262 PubMed 31372317

July 10, 2019

The impact of irrigation on yield of alfalfa and soil chemical properties of saline-sodic soils

Hongtao Yang, Fenghua An, Fan Yang, Zhichun Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7148 PubMed 31333902

July 4, 2019

Modeling the impacts of agricultural best management practices on runoff, sediment, and crop yield in an agriculture-pasture intensive watershed

Solmaz Rasoulzadeh Gharibdousti, Gehendra Kharel, Arthur Stoecker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7093 PubMed 31308995

July 8, 2019

Soil carbon mineralization in response to nitrogen enrichment in surface and subsurface layers in two land use types

Nazia Perveen, Mariam Ayub, Tanvir Shahzad, Muhammad Rashid Siddiq, Muhammad Sohail Memon, Sébastien Barot, Hamid Saeed, Ming Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7130 PubMed 31328029

July 15, 2019

Molecular characterization of bacterial leaf streak resistance in hard winter wheat

Sai Mukund Ramakrishnan, Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Shaukat Ali, Navjot Kaur, Jixiang Wu, Sunish K. Sehgal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7276 PubMed 31341737

July 25, 2019

TiO₂ nanoparticles affect the bacterial community structure and Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) in an arable soil

Katia Berenice Sánchez-López, Francisco J. De los Santos-Ramos, Elizabeth Selene Gómez-Acata, Marco Luna-Guido, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya, Fabián Fernández-Luqueño, Luc Dendooven

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6939 PubMed 31380145

July 15, 2019

A green garlic (Allium sativum L.) based intercropping system reduces the strain of continuous monocropping in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) by adjusting the micro-ecological environment of soil

Xuemei Xiao, Zhihui Cheng, Jian Lv, Jianming Xie, Ning Ma, Jihua Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7267 PubMed 31341735

July 5, 2019

Genome-wide identification and expression profiling of the C2H2-type zinc finger protein genes in the silkworm Bombyx mori

SongYuan Wu, Xiaoling Tong, ChunLin Li, KunPeng Lu, Duan Tan, Hai Hu, Huai Liu, FangYin Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7222 PubMed 31316872

July 10, 2019

Testing relationship between plant productivity and diversity in a desertified steppe in Northwest China

Yang Yang, Bingru Liu