Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 12, 2025

Synergistic effects of foliar applied glycine betaine and proline in enhancing rice yield and stress resilience under salinity conditions

Sobhi F. Lamlom, Aly A. A. El-Banna, Honglei Ren, Bassant A. M. El-Yamany, Ehab A. A. Salama, Gawhara A. El-Sorady, Mohamed M. Kamara, Amal Mohamed AlGarawi, Ashraf Atef Hatamleh, Abdelsalam A. Shehab, Ahmed M. Abdelghany

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18993 PubMed 40098812

March 21, 2025

Classification of red beet and sugar beet for drought tolerance using morpho-physiological and stomatal traits

Gamze Kaya, Nurgül Ergin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19133 PubMed 40130173

March 31, 2025

Evaluating the role of post-harvest glyphosate application in enhancing weed control in winter wheat

Ahmet Tansel Serim, Ünal Asav, Yalçın Kaya, Bülent Başaran, Eric L. Patterson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19177 PubMed 40183056

March 24, 2025

Identification and biological characterization of pathogen causing sooty blotch of Ardisia crispa (Thunb.) A.DC.

Demei Yang, Jiangli Luo, Ying Zhou, Sixuan Zhou, Xiongwei Liu, Chang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19130 PubMed 40151448

March 25, 2025

Physiological traits underlying sodicity tolerance in Jamun (Syzygium cumini L. Skeels) cultivars

Anshuman Singh, Ashwani Kumar, Jai Prakash, Daya Shankar Mishra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19132 PubMed 40161340

March 11, 2025

Mining of co-expression genes in response to cold stress at maize (Zea mays L.) germination and sprouting stages by weighted gene co-expression networks analysis

Chuangye Shi, Jing Dong, Chunxiao Zhang, Liquan Sun, Fengxue Jin, Xiaohui Zhou, Xueyan Liu, Weilin Wu, Xiaohui Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19124 PubMed 40093413

March 4, 2025

Genome-wide association studies reveal potential candidate genes associated with amino acid in tea plants

Qidi Wu, Li Song, Dingchen Bai, Yihan Wang, Yuting OuYang, Kaixin Rao, Qinfei Song, Juanying Wang, Suzhen Niu, Yujie Ai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18969 PubMed 40061224

March 27, 2025

Enhancing drought resilience in durum wheat: effect of root architecture and genotypic performance in semi-arid rainfed regions

Ridha Boudiar, Abdelhamid Mekhlouf, Yacine Bekkar, Meriem Yessaadi, Adel Bachir, Larbi Karkour, Ana Maria Casas, Ernesto Igartua

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19096 PubMed 40161347

March 27, 2025

Bacterial community composition is an important predictor of surface soil fertility across different land use types: a case study in the Three Gorges Reservoir area

Lin Xu, Dandan Cheng, Liang Feng, Xuetian Lu, Sarah Ruffell, Hongmei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18959 PubMed 40161346

March 26, 2025

Molecular profiling and phenotypic evaluation of thermo-sensitive genic male sterility genes for high-yielding rice hybrids (Oryza sativa L.)

B. Nagendra Naidu, Manonmani Swaminathan, Nivedha Rakkimuthu, Pushpam Ramamoorthy, Kumaresan Dharmalingam, Raveendran Muthurajan, Selvi Duraisamy, Tushar Arun Mohanty, Bonipas Antony John

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18803 PubMed 40161334

March 31, 2025

Comparative transcriptome analysis identified candidate genes associated with kernel row number in maize

Shukai Wang, Yancui Wang, Xitong Xu, Dusheng Lu, Baokun Li, Yuxin Zhao, Senan Cheng, Zhenhong Li, Cuixia Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19143 PubMed 40183051

March 31, 2025

Microecological recombination of Angelica sinensis driven by the transplanting of “alpine seedling–cellar planting–dam cultivation”

Dongmei He, Weiping Gao, Zhanling Zhang, Jinniu Xing, Guiqi Han, Hai Wang, Zhuyun Yan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19208 PubMed 40183066