Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

July 31, 2019

Taxonomic, biological and geographical traits of species in a coastal dune flora in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region: regional and global comparisons

Richard M. Cowling, Caryl Logie, Joan Brady, Margie Middleton, B. Adriaan Grobler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7336 PubMed 31396438

July 29, 2019

Genome-wide identification and classification of the Hsf and sHsp gene families in Prunus mume, and transcriptional analysis under heat stress

Xueli Wan, Jie Yang, Cong Guo, Manzhu Bao, Junwei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7312 PubMed 31392093

July 26, 2019

Short-term effects of thinning on the understory natural environment of mixed broadleaf-conifer forest in Changbai Mountain area, Northeast China

Qiang Liu, Yue Sun, Gerong Wang, Fushan Cheng, Fucai Xia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7400 PubMed 31388477

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 22, 2019

Extinction risk of narrowly distributed species of seed plants in Brazil due to habitat loss and climate change

José Maria Cardoso da Silva, Alessandro Rapini, Luis Cláudio F. Barbosa, Roger R. Torres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7333 PubMed 31367486

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 16, 2019

Selection of reliable reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR in garlic under salt stress

Guanglong Wang, Chang Tian, Yunpeng Wang, Faxiang Wan, Laibao Hu, Aisheng Xiong, Jie Tian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7319 PubMed 31341748

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 15, 2019

Shoot and root traits of summer maize hybrid varieties with higher grain yields and higher nitrogen use efficiency at low nitrogen application rates

Wennan Su, Muhammad Kamran, Jun Xie, Xiangping Meng, Qingfang Han, Tiening Liu, Juan Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7294 PubMed 31341742

July 11, 2019

Genomics analysis of genes encoding respiratory burst oxidase homologs (RBOHs) in jatropha and the comparison with castor bean

Yongguo Zhao, Zhi Zou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7263 PubMed 31338257

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 10, 2019

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

Yang Yang, Bingru Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7239 PubMed 31333905

July 10, 2019

Comparative transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of the green and white parts of chimeric leaves in Ananas comosus var. bracteatus

Yanbin Xue, Jun Ma, Yehua He, Sanmiao Yu, Zhen Lin, Yingyuan Xiong, Fatima Rafique, Fuxing Jiang, Lingxia Sun, Mingdong Ma, Yujue Zhou, Xi Li, Zhuo Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7261 PubMed 31333908

July 10, 2019

Towards sex identification of Asian Palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer L.) by DNA fingerprinting, suppression subtractive hybridization and de novo transcriptome sequencing

Kwanjai Pipatchartlearnwong, Piyada Juntawong, Passorn Wonnapinij, Somsak Apisitwanich, Supachai Vuttipongchaikij

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7268 PubMed 31333909

July 10, 2019

Structure and ion physiology of Brasenia schreberi glandular trichomes in vivo

Chaodong Yang, Xia Zhang, Fan Zhang, Xiaoe Wang, Qingfeng Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7288 PubMed 31637113

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