Improvement of plant responses by nanobiofertilizer: a step towards sustainable agriculture

N Akhtar, N Ilyas, TA Meraj, A Pour-Aboughadareh… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drastic changes in the climate and ecosystem due to natural or anthropogenic activities
have severely affected crop production globally. This concern has raised the need to …

Unlocking the potential of nano-enabled precision agriculture for efficient and sustainable farming

V Goyal, D Rani, Ritika, S Mehrotra, C Deng, Y Wang - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology has attracted remarkable attention due to its unique features and potential
uses in multiple domains. Nanotechnology is a novel strategy to boost production from …

Underutilized fruit crops of Indian arid and semi-arid regions: Importance, conservation and utilization strategies

VS Meena, JS Gora, A Singh, C Ram, NK Meena… - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, there is a large demand for nutrient-dense fruits to promote nutritional and
metabolic human health. The production of commercial fruit crops is becoming progressively …

Postharvest application of single, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and nanographene oxide improves rose kee** quality

M Ahmadi-Majd, A Rezaei Nejad… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Kee** quality is frequently terminated by adverse water relations or oxidative stress. This
study was designed to evaluate whether postharvest application of single, multi-walled …

The regulatory role of γ-Aminobutyric acid in chickpea plants depends on drought tolerance and water scarcity level

M Seifikalhor, V Niknam, S Aliniaeifard, F Didaran… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid with multifunctional roles in
dynamic plant responses. To determine the effects of exogenous GABA application (0, 25 …

Meta-learning for few-shot plant disease detection

L Chen, X Cui, W Li - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant diseases can harm crop growth, and the crop production has a deep impact on food.
Although the existing works adopt Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect plant …

The role of water relations and oxidative stress in the vase life response to prolonged storage: A case study in chrysanthemum

D Fanourakis, VM Papadakis, E Psyllakis… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Long storage periods have been associated with decreased vase life. In this study, the
processes underlying the vase life response to prolonged storage were investigated, along …

Partitioning of transpiration to cut flower organs and its mediating role on vase life response to dry handling: A case study in chrysanthemum

D Fanourakis, E Papadopoulou, A Valla… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mediating role of water relations on vase life response to prior desiccation (dry
handling) was addressed in cut chrysanthemum. In the first part of the study, the contribution …

Global Transcriptome Analysis of the Peach (Prunus persica) in the Interaction System of Fruit–Chitosan–Monilinia fructicola

PC Tsalgatidou, A Boutsika, AG Papageorgiou… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
The peach (Prunus persica L.) is one of the most important stone-fruit crops worldwide.
Nevertheless, successful peach fruit production is seriously reduced by losses due to …

Differential triggering of the phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathway key genes transcription upon cold stress and viral infection in tomato leaves

P Pappi, N Nikoloudakis, D Fanourakis, A Zambounis… - Horticulturae, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants develop a plethora of defense strategies during their acclimation and interactions with
various environmental stresses. Secondary metabolites play a pivotal role in the processes …