Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

November 17, 2022

Conservation genomics of Agave tequilana Weber var. azul: low genetic differentiation and heterozygote excess in the tequila agave from Jalisco, Mexico

Karen Yazmin Ruiz Mondragon, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Jaime Gasca-Pineda, Anastasia Klimova, Roberto-Emiliano Trejo-Salazar, Marco Antonio Reyes Guerra, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Daniel Piñero, Rafael Lira, Luis E. Eguiarte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14398 PubMed 36415865

November 29, 2022

Trichoderma longibrachiatum TG1 increases endogenous salicylic acid content and antioxidants activity in wheat seedlings under salinity stress

Solomon Boamah, Shuwu Zhang, Bingliang Xu, Tong Li, Alejandro Calderón-Urrea, Richard John Tiika

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12923 PubMed 36530412

November 21, 2022

Chemical composition, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of Monarda didyma L. essential oil

Daniele Fraternale, Hanh Dufat, Maria Cristina Albertini, Chouaha Bouzidi, Rossella D’Adderio, Sofia Coppari, Barbara Di Giacomo, Davide Melandri, Seeram Ramakrishna, Mariastella Colomba

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14433 PubMed 36438580

November 4, 2022

Ecological roles of secondary metabolites of Saposhnikovia divaricata in adaptation to drought stress

Sisi Cao, Lei Shi, Ying Shen, Luwen He, Xiangcai Meng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14336 PubMed 36353606

November 18, 2022

Dynamic analysis of the microbial communities and metabolome of healthy banana rhizosphere soil during one growth cycle

Liujian Ye, Xiaohu Wang, Shengbo Wei, Qixia Zhu, Shuang He, Liqin Zhou

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14404 PubMed 36420134

November 7, 2022

Identification and expression analysis of maize NF-YA subunit genes

Mingyue Lv, Hongzhe Cao, Xue Wang, Kang Zhang, Helong Si, Jinping Zang, Jihong Xing, Jingao Dong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14306 PubMed 36389434

November 11, 2022

Season of prescribed burns and management of an early successional species affect flower density and pollinator activity in a pine savanna ecosystem

Opeyemi A. Adedoja, Raelene M. Crandall, Rachel E. Mallinger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14377 PubMed 36389407

November 1, 2022

Years of sand fixation with Caragana korshinskii drive the enrichment of its rhizosphere functional microbes by accumulating soil N

Wangsuo Liu, Kaiyang Qiu, Yingzhong Xie, Ruixia Wang, Haichao Li, Wenfen Meng, Yi Yang, Yeyun Huang, Yayuan Li, Yi He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14271 PubMed 36340191

November 9, 2022

Identification of quantitative trait loci of agronomic traits in bread wheat using a Pamyati Azieva × Paragon mapping population harvested in three regions of Kazakhstan

Akerke Amalova, Kanat Yermekbayev, Simon Griffiths, Saule Abugalieva, Adylkhan Babkenov, Elena Fedorenko, Aigul Abugalieva, Yerlan Turuspekov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14324 PubMed 36389412

November 30, 2022

Hybrid purity identification using EST-SSR markers and heterosis analysis of quantitative traits of Russian wildrye

Zhiqi Gao, Lan Yun, Zhen Li, Qiyu Liu, Chen Zhang, Yingmei Ma, Fengling Shi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14442 PubMed 36518293

November 25, 2022

Canopy spectral reflectance indices correlate with yield traits variability in bread wheat genotypes under drought stress

Mohammed Mohi-Ud-Din, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Md. Motiar Rohman, Md. Nesar Uddin, Md. Sabibul Haque, Jalal Uddin Ahmed, Hasan Muhammad Abdullah, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Pessarakli

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14421 PubMed 36452074

November 1, 2022

Rapid discrimination of the native medicinal plant Adenostemma lavenia from its adulterants using PCR-RFLP

Kunchang Wu, Yunchen Liu, Bocheng Yang, Yenying Kung, Kaiwei Chang, Mengshiou Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13924 PubMed 36340190

November 2, 2022

Nitrogen fertilizer amount has minimal effect on rhizosphere bacterial diversity during different growth stages of peanut

Zheng Yang, Lin Li, Wenjuan Zhu, Siyuan Xiao, Siyu Chen, Jing Liu, Qian Xu, Feng Guo, Shile Lan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13962 PubMed 36345480

November 4, 2022

Evaluation and characterization of indigenous rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces resistant to brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål.) biotype 4

Debashis Roy, Abhisek Biswas, Sukamal Sarkar, Gautam Chakraborty, Ahmed Gaber, Mohamed I. Kobeasy, Akbar Hossain