Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

January 30, 2020

Morpho-physiological traits, biochemical response and phytoextraction potential of short-term copper stress on kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) seedlings

Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Shah Fahad, Muzammal Rehman, Shah Saud, Yousaf Jamal, Sajjad Khan, Lijun Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8321 PubMed 32030320

January 9, 2020

Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on co-inoculation with Bradyrhizobium in soybean crop: a meta-analysis of studies from 1987 to 2018

Douglas M. Zeffa, Lucas H. Fantin, Alessandra Koltun, André L.M. de Oliveira, Maria P.B.A. Nunes, Marcelo G. Canteri, Leandro S.A. Gonçalves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7905 PubMed 31942248

January 6, 2020

Comparative analysis of codon usage patterns in chloroplast genomes of six Euphorbiaceae species

Zhanjun Wang, Beibei Xu, Bao Li, Qingqing Zhou, Guiyi Wang, Xingzhou Jiang, Chenchen Wang, Zhongdong Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8251 PubMed 31934501

January 14, 2020

Isolation and identification of L-asparaginase-producing endophytic fungi from the Asteraceae family plant species of Iran

Sareh Hatamzadeh, Kamran Rahnama, Saeed Nasrollahnejad, Khalil Berdi Fotouhifar, Khodayar Hemmati, James F. White, Fakhtak Taliei

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8309 PubMed 31976175

January 29, 2020

Alternative splicing in tea plants was extensively triggered by drought, heat and their combined stresses

Yiqian Ding, Yu Wang, Chen Qiu, Wenjun Qian, Hui Xie, Zhaotang Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8258 PubMed 32030318

January 13, 2020

Response of total phenols, flavonoids, minerals, and amino acids of four edible fern species to four shading treatments

Yanlin Wang, Shanshan Gao, Xingyuan He, Yan Li, Yue Zhang, Wei Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8354 PubMed 31976179

January 14, 2020

Genome-wide investigation and transcriptional analysis of cytosine-5 DNA methyltransferase and DNA demethylase gene families in tea plant (Camellia sinensis) under abiotic stress and withering processing

Chen Zhu, Shuting Zhang, Chengzhe Zhou, Lan Chen, Haifeng Fu, Xiaozhen Li, Yuling Lin, Zhongxiong Lai, Yuqiong Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8432 PubMed 31976183

January 10, 2020

Morphological variation of leaf traits in the Ternstroemia lineata species complex (Ericales: Penthaphylacaceae) in response to geographic and climatic variation

Othón Alcántara-Ayala, Ken Oyama, César A. Ríos-Muñoz, Gerardo Rivas, Santiago Ramirez-Barahona, Isolda Luna-Vega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8307 PubMed 31942256

January 20, 2020

Flavonoids from Epimedium pubescens: extraction and mechanism, antioxidant capacity and effects on CAT and GSH-Px of Drosophila melanogaster

Xiao-Hua Yang, Lu Li, Yao-Bi Xue, Xue-Xue Zhou, Jie-Hua Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8361 PubMed 31998556

January 6, 2020

Comparative analysis of primary metabolites and transcriptome changes between ungrafted and pumpkin-grafted watermelon during fruit development

Ali Aslam, Shengjie Zhao, Muhammad Azam, Xuqiang Lu, Nan He, Bingbing Li, Junling Dou, Hongju Zhu, Wenge Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8259 PubMed 31934503

January 16, 2020

Effects of the mycorrhizal fungus Ceratobasidium sp. AR2 on growth and flavonoid accumulation in Anoectochilus roxburghii

Ying Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, Shunxing Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8346 PubMed 31988802

January 10, 2020

16S rRNA metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community associated with turf grass seeds from low moisture and high moisture climates

Qiang Chen, William A. Meyer, Qiuwei Zhang, James F. White

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8417 PubMed 31942261

January 28, 2020

Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein-coding genes in jatropha and the comparison with castor, cassava and arabidopsis

Yongguo Zhao, Hua Kong, Yunling Guo, Zhi Zou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8465 PubMed 32025382

January 3, 2020

Temporal and spatial variability of terrestrial diatoms at the catchment scale: controls on communities

Jasper Foets, Carlos E. Wetzel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Laurent Pfister

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8296 PubMed 31915584

January 27, 2020

Effects of silver-graphene oxide on seed germination and early growth of crop species

Min-Ji Kim, Woong Kim, Haegeun Chung

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8387 PubMed 32025369

January 9, 2020

Spraying 6-BA could alleviate the harmful impacts of waterlogging on dry matter accumulation and grain yield of wheat

Xiaoyan Wang, Daoming Liu, Mingmei Wei, Jianguo Man

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8193 PubMed 31942252

January 29, 2020

A simple and efficient cloning system for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in rice

Xiaoli Liu, Xiujuan Zhou, Kang Li, Dehong Wang, Yuanhao Ding, Xianqing Liu, Jie Luo, Chuanying Fang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8491 PubMed 32030327

January 17, 2020

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of NADPH oxidase genes in response to ABA and abiotic stresses, and in fibre formation in Gossypium

Gaofeng Zhang, Caimeng Yue, Tingting Lu, Lirong Sun, Fushun Hao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8404 PubMed 31988810

January 22, 2020

Prehaustorial local resistance to coffee leaf rust in a Mexican cultivar involves expression of salicylic acid-responsive genes

Edgar Couttolenc-Brenis, Gloria L. Carrión, Luc Villain, Fernando Ortega-Escalona, Daniel Ramírez-Martínez, Martín Mata-Rosas, Alfonso Méndez-Bravo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8345 PubMed 32002327

January 3, 2020

Population genetic structure and variability in Lindera glauca (Lauraceae) indicates low levels of genetic diversity and skewed sex ratios in natural populations in mainland China

Biao Xiong, Limei Zhang, Shubin Dong, Zhixiang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8304 PubMed 31915585

January 9, 2020

Temporal dynamics of the hummingbird-plant interaction network of a dry forest in Chamela, Mexico: a 30-year follow-up after two hurricanes

Sergio Díaz Infante, Carlos Lara, Maria del Coro Arizmendi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8338 PubMed 31942258

January 20, 2020

TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 participates in flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Barbara A.M. Paffendorf, Rawan Qassrawi, Andrea M. Meys, Laura Trimborn, Andrea Schrader

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8303 PubMed 31998554

January 9, 2020

Elucidating physiological and biochemical alterations in giant duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza L. Schleiden) under diethyl phthalate stress: insights into antioxidant defence system

Ritika Sharma, Rajinder Kaur

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8267 PubMed 31942254

January 31, 2020

Analysis of the genetic diversity of the coastal and island endangered plant species Elaeagnus macrophylla via conserved DNA-derived polymorphism marker

Yi Wang, Yan Ma, Bingyu Jia, Qichao Wu, Dekui Zang, Xiaoyan Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8498 PubMed 32042513

January 21, 2020

Global transcriptome analysis of alfalfa reveals six key biological processes of senescent leaves

Jianbo Yuan, Xinbo Sun, Tao Guo, Yuehui Chao, Liebao Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8426 PubMed 32002335

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