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Verbascum, Scrophulariaceae
Verbascum species (common mullein) have been widely used in Spanish folk medicine to treat pathologies related to the musculature, skeleton, and circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems, as well as to treat infectious diseases and organ-sense illnesses.
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  • 24 Aug 2021
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Plant Species for Green Roofs in Mediterranean Area
Owing to intense urbanization and global change with the consequent extreme climate effects, interest in green roofs, even extensive ones, in the Mediterranean environment has increased. To this end, the choice of plant species is crucial because, owing to the identification of the most suitable plants, it will be possible to expand this type of green infrastructure and increase its ecosystem services in the urban environment.
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  • 06 Dec 2023
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Molecular Biology of Toona sinensis
Toona sinensis belongs to the Meliaceae family and is commonly called Chinese toon or Chinese mahogany. Young leaves and buds of T. sinensis plants are excellent source of flavonoids, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, and more. In addition, the bioactive components of T. sinensis possess numerous health benefits, such as antiviral, antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and hypoglycemic effects. 
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  • 19 Jul 2022
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Sugar Beet Cultivation in the Tropics and Subtropics
Sugar beet, an important sugar crop, is particularly cultivated in humid regions to produce beet sugar, fulfilling about 25% of the world’s sugar requirement, supplementing cane sugar. 
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  • 16 May 2023
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Brassinosteroid Signaling Pathways
The signaling pathways of brassinosteroids (BRs), a unique plant steroid hormone, are critically involved in a diverse range of plant growth and developmental processes as well as many important agronomic traits.
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  • 11 May 2021
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Biosynthesis of H2S in Organisms
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which is a gasotransmitter, can be biosynthesized and participates in various physiological and biochemical processes in plants. H2S also positively affects plants’ adaptation to abiotic stresses.
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  • 12 Dec 2022
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NBR1-Mediated Selective Autophagy
Selective autophagy is a highly regulated degradation pathway for the removal of specific damaged or unwanted cellular components and organelles such as protein aggregates. Cargo selectivity in selective autophagy relies on the action of cargo receptors and adaptors. In mammalian cells, two structurally related proteins p62 and NBR1 act as cargo receptors for selective autophagy of ubiquitinated proteins including aggregation-prone proteins in aggrephagy. Plant NBR1 is the structural and functional homolog of mammalian p62 and NBR1.
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  • 22 Dec 2020
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Potassium Control of Plant Functions
Potassium, mostly as a cation (K+), together with calcium (Ca2+) are the most abundant inorganic chemicals in plant cellular media, but they are rarely discussed. K+ is not a component of molecular or macromolecular plant structures, thus it is more difficult to link it to concrete metabolic pathways than nitrogen or phosphorus. Over the last two decades, many studies have reported on the role of K+ in several physiological functions, including controlling cellular growth and wood formation, xylem–phloem water content and movement, nutrient and metabolite transport, and stress responses. In this paper, we present an overview of contemporary findings associating K+ with various plant functions, emphasizing plant-mediated responses to environmental abiotic and biotic shifts and stresses by controlling transmembrane potentials and water, nutrient, and metabolite transport. These essential roles of K+ account for its high concentrations in the most active plant organs, such as leaves, and are consistent with the increasing number of ecological and agricultural studies that report K+ as a key element in the function and structure of terrestrial ecosystems, crop production, and global food security. 
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  • 12 Mar 2021
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Plant Programmed cell death
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically controlled suicide process present in all living beings with the scope of eliminating cells unnecessary or detrimental for the proper develop-ment of the organism. In plants, PCD plays a pivotal role in many developmental processes such as sex determination, senescence, and aerenchyma formation and is involved in the defense re-sponses against abiotic and biotic stresses. 
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  • 10 Mar 2021
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Prenylated Flavonoids in Topical Infections and Wound Healing
Flavonoids have been shown to be excellent natural agents useful in the treatment of various skin lesions with minimal side effects. Topical application is the best option for targeted use due to their lipophilic nature. On the other hand, the polyhydroxyl structure determines their antibacterial, antifibrotic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. Prenylated Flavonoids are a subclass of flavonoids modified with at least one lipophilic side chain of varying length. They attract the attention of scientists because of their promising biological activities, such as antibacterial, antifungal, estrogenic, immunosuppressive, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, larvicidal, osteogenic, antiallergic, and cytotoxic.
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  • 22 Jul 2022
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Flowering Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Flowering is one of the most critical developmental transitions in plants’ life. The irreversible change from the vegetative to the reproductive stage is strictly controlled to ensure the progeny’s success. In Arabidopsis thaliana, seven flowering genetic pathways have been described under specific growth conditions. However, the evidence suggests that these pathways are tightly interconnected in a complex multilevel regulatory network. Here we summarized the information of our recent publication.
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  • 07 Jun 2021
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Essential Oils in the Treatment of Acne
Acne is a chronic, common disease that poses a significant therapeutic, psychological and social problem. Acne treatment is often associated with the long-term use of antibiotics, contributing to the global antibiotic resistance crisis. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) are one of the world’s most widespread sources of medicines. Among CAMs, essential oils are the most popular choice for treating many skin conditions due to their strong antimicrobial properties. 
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  • 05 Jan 2023
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Legumes: source of bioactive compounds
Legumes have been consumed since ancient times all over the world due to their easy cultivation and availability as a low-cost food. Nowadays, it is well known that pulses are also a good source of bioactive phytochemicals that play an important role in the health and well-being of humans when ingested on a regular basis, reducing the incidence of several chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or some types of cancer; thus, pulses are recognized as functional foods. These health effects may be associated with more than one bioactive compound, and synergistic combinations may exist, moreover, these bioactive substances are not equally present in all legumes (seeds and varieties). It is noteworthy that processing of pulses or pulse-based mixtures can also increase, reduce/inactivate, or produce minor changes in the content of other non-nutritive components such as protease inhibitors, galactosides, lectins, phenols or phytates.
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  • 14 Mar 2021
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Chenopodium quinoa Willd. (Quinoa)
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is a pseudocereal belonging to the Amaranthaceae family that is native to the Andean region in South America. Peru is the leading quinoa-exporting country, exporting quinoa with a value of $98.5 million dollars, followed by Bolivia, the Netherlands, the United States, Spain, Germany, Canada, France, Ecuador, and Belgium.
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  • 19 Apr 2022
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Antineoplastic Activities and Molecular Mechanisms of Inula viscosa
Cancer is a complex disease including approximately 200 different entities that can potentially affect all body tissues. Among the conventional treatments, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are most often applied to different types of cancers. Despite substantial advances in the development of innovative antineoplastic drugs, cancer remains one of the most significant causes of death, worldwide. The principal pitfall of successful cancer treatment is the intrinsic or acquired resistance to therapeutic agents. The development of more effective or synergistic therapeutic approaches to improve patient outcomes and minimize toxicity has become an urgent issue. Inula viscosa is widely distributed throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Used as a medicinal plant in different countries, I. viscosa has been characterized for its complex chemical composition in order to identify the bioactive compounds responsible for its biological activities, including anticancer effects.
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  • 03 Nov 2022
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Transport of Nanoparticles into Plants
The transport of matter into plants, also known as plant uptake, is a crucial process for the growth and development of plants. Plants require various essential nutrients, water, and gases for their survival and growth. The transport in plants extends beyond water, nutrients, and gases, encompassing the movement of various particles or nanoparticles, as well as other exogenous materials. This includes genetic material such as double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Nanoparticles can be transported into plants for several reasons, often as a result of environmental exposure or as a part of research and development efforts. The transport of nanoparticles into plants can have various implications, both beneficial and potentially concerning, depending on the type of nanoparticles and the intended purpose. 
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  • 19 Jan 2024
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Multiple Real-World Applications for Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing
The metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) method is preferred for genotyping identification of organisms, identification at the species level, illumination of metabolic pathways, and determination of microbiota.
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  • 01 Dec 2022
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Latent Infection by Tobamoviruses
Tobamoviruses are among the most well-studied plant viruses and yet there is still a lot to uncover about them. On one side of the spectrum, there are damage-causing members of this genus: such as the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) and cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV), on the other side, there are members which cause latent infection in host plants. New technologies, such as high-throughput sequencing (HTS), have enabled people to discover viruses from asymptomatic plants, viruses in mixed infections where the disease etiology cannot be attributed to a single entity and more and more researchers a looking at non-crop plants to identify alternative virus reservoirs, leading to new virus discoveries. However, the diversity of these interactions in the virosphere and the involvement of multiple viruses in a single host is still relatively unclear. For such host–virus interactions in wild plants, symptoms are not always linked with the virus titer.
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  • 07 Sep 2022
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Invasive Mechanisms of Mimosa pigra
Mimosa pigra is native to Tropical America, and it has naturalized in many other countries especially in Australia, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia. The species is listed in the top 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species and is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. M. pigra forms very large monospecific stands in a wet–dry tropical climate with conditions such as floodplains, riverbanks, grasslands, forests and agricultural fields.
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  • 17 May 2023
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CRISPR/Cas9 in Crop Quality Improvement
The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and improve quality through traditional breeding strategies. Today, many breeders have achieved remarkable results using modern molecular technologies. Recently, a new gene-editing system, named the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology, has also succeeded in improving crop quality. It has become the most popular tool for crop improvement due to its versatility. It has accelerated crop breeding progress by virtue of its precision in specific gene editing.
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  • 29 Jun 2021
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