Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

September 15, 2020

Effect of calcium on relieving berry cracking in grape (Vitis vinifera L.) ‘Xiangfei’

Jun Yu, Mingtao Zhu, Miao Bai, Yanshuai Xu, Shaogang Fan, Guoshun Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9896 PubMed 32983645

September 9, 2020

Omics approaches in Allium research: Progress and way ahead

Kiran Khandagale, Ram Krishna, Praveen Roylawar, Avinash B. Ade, Ashwini Benke, Bharat Shinde, Major Singh, Suresh J. Gawande, Ashutosh Rai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9824 PubMed 32974094

September 16, 2020

Entomopathogenic fungi decrease Rhizoctonia disease in potato in field conditions

Oksana G. Tomilova, Elena M. Shaldyaeva, Natalia A. Kryukova, Yulia V. Pilipova, Natalia S. Schmidt, Viktor P. Danilov, Vadim Y. Kryukov, Viktor V. Glupov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9895 PubMed 32995085

September 30, 2020

Social influence on the effectiveness of virtual fencing in sheep

Danila Marini, Tellisa Kearton, Jackie Ouzman, Rick Llewellyn, Sue Belson, Caroline Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10066 PubMed 33062448

September 16, 2020

Biological function of Klebsiella variicola and its effect on the rhizosphere soil of maize seedlings

Lijuan Yang, Kejun Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9894 PubMed 32995084

September 16, 2020

Nitrogen form plays an important role in the growth of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) seedlings

Na Zou, Ling Huang, Huijing Chen, Xiaofeng Huang, Qingni Song, Qingpei Yang, Tianchi Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9938 PubMed 32995091

September 21, 2020

A laboratory comparison of the interactions between three plastic mulch types and 38 active substances found in pesticides

Nicolas Beriot, Paul Zomer, Raul Zornoza, Violette Geissen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9876 PubMed 33005488

September 17, 2020

One becomes two: second species of the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) species complex is established on two Hawaiian Islands

Paul F. Rugman-Jones, Michelle Au, Valeh Ebrahimi, Akif Eskalen, Conrad P.D.T. Gillett, David Honsberger, Deena Husein, Mark G. Wright, Fazila Yousuf, Richard Stouthamer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9987 PubMed 32995100

September 3, 2020

Comparing the gastrointestinal barrier function between growth-retarded and normal yaks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Jian Ma, Ali Mujtaba Shah, Zhisheng Wang, Rui Hu, Huawei Zou, Xueying Wang, Guang Cao, Quanhui Peng, Bai Xue, Lizhi Wang, Suonan Zhao, Xiangying Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9851 PubMed 32953274

September 2, 2020

Structural and functional microbial diversity of sandy soil under cropland and grassland

Magdalena Frąc, Jerzy Lipiec, Bogusław Usowicz, Karolina Oszust, Małgorzata Brzezińska

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9501 PubMed 32953254

September 22, 2020

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the ERF transcription factor family in pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.)

Youmei Huang, Yanhui Liu, Man Zhang, Mengnan Chai, Qing He, Bello Hassan Jakada, Fangqian Chen, Huihuang Chen, Xingyue Jin, Hanyang Cai, Yuan Qin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10014 PubMed 33024641

September 17, 2020

Salinity impairs photosynthetic capacity and enhances carotenoid-related gene expression and biosynthesis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Micro-Tom)

Andrés Leiva-Ampuero, Mario Agurto, José Tomás Matus, Gustavo Hoppe, Camila Huidobro, Claudio Inostroza-Blancheteau, Marjorie Reyes-Díaz, Claudia Stange, Paulo Canessa, Andrea Vega

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9742 PubMed 32995076

September 28, 2020

Isolation and characterization of a motility-defective mutant of Euglena gracilis

Shuki Muramatsu, Kohei Atsuji, Koji Yamada, Kazunari Ozasa, Hideyuki Suzuki, Takuto Takeuchi, Yuka Hashimoto-Marukawa, Yusuke Kazama, Tomoko Abe, Kengo Suzuki, Osamu Iwata

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10002 PubMed 33062431

September 18, 2020

Soil fungal networks are more sensitive to grazing exclusion than bacterial networks

Lingling Chen, Jiajia Shi, Zhihua Bao, Taogetao Baoyin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9986 PubMed 32999771

September 17, 2020

Role of reactive oxygen species and isoflavonoids in soybean resistance to the attack of the southern green stink bug

Ivana Sabljic, Jesica A. Barneto, Karina B. Balestrasse, Jorge A. Zavala, Eduardo A. Pagano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9956 PubMed 32995095

September 21, 2020

Transcriptomic analysis reveals insights into the response to Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) fruits

Li Xu, Xiaojuan Zong, Jiawei Wang, Hairong Wei, Xin Chen, Qingzhong Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10005 PubMed 33005494

September 25, 2020

Genome-wide analysis of PRR gene family uncovers their roles in circadian rhythmic changes and response to drought stress in Gossypium hirsutum L.

Jingjing Wang, Zhaohai Du, Xuehan Huo, Juan Zhou, Yu Chen, Jingxia Zhang, Ao Pan, Xiaoyang Wang, Furong Wang, Jun Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9936 PubMed 33033660

September 18, 2020

Differences in small noncoding RNAs profile between bull X and Y sperm

Hao Zhou, Jiajia Liu, Wei Sun, Rui Ding, Xihe Li, Aishao Shangguan, Yang Zhou, Tesfaye Worku, Xingjie Hao, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Liguo Yang, Shujun Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9822 PubMed 32999759

September 3, 2020

Tuber melanosporum shapes nirS-type denitrifying and ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in Carya illinoinensis ectomycorrhizosphere soils

Zongjing Kang, Jie Zou, Yue Huang, Xiaoping Zhang, Lei Ye, Bo Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Xiaolin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9457 PubMed 32953252

September 17, 2020

Earthworms accelerate rice straw decomposition and maintenance of soil organic carbon dynamics in rice agroecosystems

Ke Song, Lijuan Sun, Weiguang Lv, Xianqing Zheng, Yafei Sun, William Terzaghi, Qin Qin, Yong Xue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9870 PubMed 32995083

September 15, 2020

Carbon emission and water use efficiency response to tillage methods and planting patterns of winter wheat in the North China Plain

Yuzhao Ma, Quanqi Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9912 PubMed 32983647

September 8, 2020

Cropland heterogeneity changes on the Northeast China Plain in the last three decades (1980s–2010s)

Xiaoxuan Liu, Le Yu, Qinghan Dong, Dailiang Peng, Wenbin Wu, Qiangyi Yu, Yuqi Cheng, Yidi Xu, Xiaomeng Huang, Zheng Zhou, Dong Wang, Lei Fang, Peng Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9835 PubMed 33194352

September 8, 2020

Monthly drought prediction based on ensemble models

Muhammad Haroon Shaukat, Ijaz Hussain, Muhammad Faisal, Ahmad Al-Dousari, Muhammad Ismail, Alaa Mohamd Shoukry, Elsayed Elsherbini Elashkar, Showkat Gani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9853 PubMed 33194356

September 30, 2020

Identification of fertility-related genes for maize CMS-S via Bulked Segregant RNA-Seq

Xiner Qin, Wenliang Zhang, Xue Dong, Shike Tian, Panpan Zhang, Yanxin Zhao, Yi Wang, Jianbing Yan, Bing Yue

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10015 PubMed 33062436

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