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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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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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Plant-Associated Bacteria
Plant-associated bacteria may serve three different roles with respect to a host plant: mutualistic, commensal, or parasitic. Using beneficial bacteria to improve plant productivity is an area of research that has received much attention.
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  • 10 May 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Action of Eugenol in Cancer
The last decade has seen a breakthrough in the investigations related to the anticancer potential of dietary phytoconstituents. Interestingly, a handsome number of bioactive principles, ranging from phenolic acids, phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, stilbenes, and terpenoids to organosulphur compounds have been screened for their anticancer properties. Among the phenylpropanoids currently under clinical studies for anticancer activity, eugenol is a promising candidate. Eugenol is effective against cancers like breast, cervical, lung, prostate, melanomas, leukemias, osteosarcomas, gliomas, etc., as evident from preclinical investigations.
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  • 18 Nov 2022
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Allelopathy in Grasslands and Forests
Plants can produce and release allelochemicals to interfere with the establishment and growth of conspecific and interspecific plants. Such allelopathy is an important mediator among plant species in natural and managed ecosystems.
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  • 07 Apr 2023
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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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Essential Oil from Korean Native Thyme Bak-Ri-Hyang
Thymus quinquecostatus Celak. (Korean name: bak-ri-hyang) is an important medicinal and aromatic herb in Korea, which is named for the spread of its fragrance over a distance of approximately 40 km. In traditional Korean systems of medicine, T. quinquecostatus has been used to treat cancer, constipation, hepatic disease, arteriosclerosis, poor circulation in women, constipation, and menstrual irregularities. 
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  • 20 Jul 2022
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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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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
Topic Review
The Conservation Physiology of Bryophytes
Conservation physiology is a rather new scientific discipline emerging over the last several decades with the aim of solving the conservation problems of different biological entities. This is an integrative approach applying physiological concepts and tools to gain new knowledge about the features of those targeted biological entities which are the subject of conservation.
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  • 16 May 2022
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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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Emerging Threat of Microplastic Pollution to Terrestrial Plants
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous and constitute a global hazard to the environment because of their robustness, resilience, and long-term presence in the ecosystem.
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  • 14 Mar 2022
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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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Transcription Factors in Plant Shoot Branching
Transcription factors, also known as trans-acting factors, balance development and stress responses in plants. Branching plays an important role in plant morphogenesis and is closely related to plant biomass and crop yield. The apical meristem produced during plant embryonic development repeatedly produces the body of the plant, and the final aerial structure is regulated by the branching mode generated by axillary meristem (AM) activities. These branching patterns are regulated by two processes: AM formation and axillary bud growth. In recent years, transcription factors involved in regulating these processes have been identified. In addition, these transcription factors play an important role in various plant hormone pathways and photoresponses regulating plant branching.
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  • 16 Aug 2022
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