Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

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

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 11, 2025

Tree height-diameter allometry and implications for biomass estimates in Northeastern Amazonian forests

Aldine Luiza Pereira Baia, Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Marcelino Guedes, Renato Hilário, José Julio Toledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18974 PubMed 40093411

March 19, 2025

Effects of different grazing intensities on plant species diversity at different spatial scales in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia

Changlin Xue, Shijie Lv, Yanling Wu, Jie Yun, Rui Dong, Wentao Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19087 PubMed 40124617

March 19, 2025

Assessing morphological variations in the seagrass genus Halodule (Cymodoceaceae) along the Brazilian coast through genetic analyses

Virgínia Eduarda de Sousa, Maria Cristina F. da Silva Cortinhas, Joel C. Creed, Maria Gardênia S. Batista, Maira C. Proietti, Margareth Copertino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19038 PubMed 40124603

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 24, 2025

The spatial and temporal evolution of habitat quality and driving factors in nature reserves: a case study of 33 forest ecosystem reserves in Guizhou Province

Xuemeng Mei, Yi Liu, Li Yue, Mingming Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19098 PubMed 40151455

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 31, 2025

Comparative analysis of rhizosphere soil between three plantation types in Karst Rocky Desertification area by widely targeted metabolomics

Tongtong Guo, Ninghua Zhu, Ziqian Pan, Peng Dang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19131 PubMed 40183063

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

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 13, 2025

Evaluating moss diversity and biomass for sustainable harvesting methods in semi-arid forests of Turkey

Serhat Ursavaş, Recep Söyler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19010 PubMed 40093405

March 20, 2025

Phylogeny of Cassieae based on seed morphological and ITS evidence

Jing Cai, Chuang Yang, Leyang Wang, Jiaqing He, Qiang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18947 PubMed 40124610

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