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Assessing deeper levels of participation in nature-based solutions in urban landscapes – A literature review of real-world cases Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Nikolett Puskás; Yaser Abunnasr; Salpy Naalbandian
It is evident that climate change and unanticipated natural events pose new challenges for humanity and the environment. Already over half of the global population resides in cities, making the urban landscape a crucial focus area. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are an opportunity to address both environmental and societal challenges in both the immediate and long term, bearing particular importance
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Morphological and genetic variation of thirty Iranian Dendranthema ( Dendranthema grandiflorum ) cultivars using multivariate analysis Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Shirin Taghipour, Abdollah Ehtesham Nia, Hamed Khodayari, Hasan Mumivand, Mohammad Reza Shafiei
Analysis of genetic diversity in dendranthema is necessary to improve this important ornamental species. In this study, 30 Dendranthema grandiflora cultivars were assessed based on 21 phenotypic traits and 13 ISSR loci based on a completely randomized block design with three replications in Iran. Phenotypic traits such as plant height, lateral branch number, leaf number, leaf area, and flower number
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Landscape ecological enhancement and environmental inequalities in peri-urban areas, using flora as a socio-ecological indicator – The case of the greater Paris area Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-21 Fabien Roussel; Frédéric Alexandre
The peri-urban areas of European metropolises offer a diversity of vegetated spaces – forests, agricultural land, abandoned or preserved natural areas – that receive ecological attention from city dwellers. This attention varies locally depending on the socio-economic characteristics of the population and raises the question of ecological inequalities in accessing different types of landscapes. Once
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Preferential water uptake and differences in the anatomical structure of the distal end of grape berry may jointly lead to cracking in vitro soaking Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Chuan Zhang, Liwen Cui, Chonghuai Liu, Xiucai Fan, Jinggui Fang
The distal end of grape berries preferentially cracks during the soaking process in vitro, which may be related to preferential water uptake and cell anatomy. Thus, the relationship between water uptake and cell anatomical structure was assessed using 49 grape varieties. In vitro immersion experiments were performed on mature berries to measure the differences in berry-cracking properties. A whole-berry
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Control of stem bending in cut gerbera flowers through application of dithiothreitol and thioglycolic acid as wound reaction inhibitors J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Khadijeh Gerabeygi; Zeynab Roein; Shirin Rezvanipour
ABSTRACT Bend neck of scape and short vase life are the most important problems of cut gerbera flowers in postharvest stage. Inhibitors of laccase enzyme influence lignin formation at cut stem end of flowers. In this study, cut gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii cv. Intense) flowers were subjected to laccase enzyme inhibitors including Dithiothreitol (DTT: 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 mM), Thioglycolic acid (TGA: 0.25,
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Transcriptomics analysis of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. in response to drought stress by high-throughput sequencing J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Qi Wang; Yongming Fan; Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva; Xiaonan Yu
ABSTRACT Drought is an environmental stress that limits agricultural and horticultural production worldwide. Paeonia lactiflora Pall. is a perennial flowering plant with strong environmental adaptability and a good candidate for production in arid areas. Using the Illumina Hiseq platform to study the transcriptome of P. lactiflora leaves under drought stress, 62.27 Gb of clean data was obtained and
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Objective and perceived built environment, sense of community, and mental wellbeing in older adults in Hong Kong: A multilevel structural equation study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Yingqi Guo; Yuqi Liu; Shiyu Lu; On Fung Chan; Cheryl Hiu Kwan Chui; Terry Yat Sang Lum
Studies have indicated that a sense of community may be shaped by the built environment and has potential mental wellbeing implications. However, few studies have explored this pathway empirically. Moreover, research has rarely differentiated the role of objective and perceived built environment. Based on a survey of 1,553 older adults undertaken between 2015 and 2017 in Hong Kong, we explored the
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Mining transcriptome data to identify genes and pathways related to lemon taste using supervised and unsupervised data learning methods Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Zahra Zinati, Sima Sazegari, Hosein Amin, Ahmad Tahmasebi
There is a dearth of studies on the genes engaged in citrus taste. Unraveling the major genes involved in pathways related to the taste of citrus (sweet or acidic) is highly important for developing new genotypes with favorable taste. Pivotal genes linked to citrus taste can be extracted through mining a large number of expression data. To attain this objective, 10 different attribute weighting algorithms
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Beyond priority pixels: Delineating and evaluating landscapes for conservation in the contiguous United States Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 R. Travis Belote; Gregory H. Aplet; Anne A. Carlson; Matthew S. Dietz; Allen May; Peter S. McKinley; Marty Schnure; Jeremy Garncarz
Sustaining biodiversity depends on conservation actions coordinated at spatial extents large enough to maintain ecological processes. Numerous conservation prioritizations have been conducted resulting in gridded maps of pixels representing importance. However, it is not always clear how to move from priority pixels to landscape conservation designs, as pixels do not represent tangible, coherent landscapes
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Proximity to freshwater blue space and type 2 diabetes onset: The importance of historical and economic context Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Melissa N. Poulsen; Brian S. Schwartz; Joseph DeWalle; Cara Nordberg; Jonathan S. Pollak; Jennifer Silva; Carla I. Mercado; Deborah B. Rolka; Karen Rae Siegel; Annemarie G. Hirsch
Salutogenic effects of living near aquatic areas (blue space) remain underexplored, particularly in non-coastal and non-urban areas. We evaluated associations of residential proximity to inland freshwater blue space with new onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) in central and northeast Pennsylvania, USA, using medical records to conduct a nested case-control study. T2D cases (n = 15,888) were identified from
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Pomelo fruit wastes are potentially valuable antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, antihypertensives, and antihyperglycemics Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Li-Yun Lin, Chi-Yun Huang, Kuan-Chou Chen, Robert Y. Peng
Grapefruit (G) parts contain abundant phenolic acids and flavonoids (PPNs and FLVs). The wastes created from exocarps, mesocarps (G wastes, GW) and waste blanching water (WBW) lead to a considerable loss of PPNs and FLVs. Here, we assessed Buntan (CB), Buntan Hayata (CBH), and Peiyu (CP) cultivars and observed considerable amounts of PPNs and FLVs. The ethanolic extracts of GW (GWE) and WBW contained
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A fruit recognition method of green grape images in the orchard N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Jidong Lv; Xiaojun Lv; Zhenghua Ma
ABSTRACT The work proposed a method for recognising the green grapes in the orchard based on multi-source image fusion. First, the acquired multi-source images were denoised based on median filtering and wavelet transform. After extracting the feature points by the improved SURF (speeded up robust features) method, the registration was completed based on the consistency of feature offset and the affine
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Psycho-physiological responses of repeated exposure to natural and urban environments Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Marc V. Jones; Christopher J. Gidlow; Gemma Hurst; Daniel Masterson; Graham Smith; Naomi Ellis; David Clark-Carter; Mika P. Tarvainen; Elizabeth C. Braithwaite; Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
The ‘dose’ of nature required for health benefits, and whether repeat visits to the same environment consistently confer health benefits, is unclear. We sought to provide proof of concept for testing this. Data were collected on repeated visits to either a natural or pleasant urban environment from 41 adults on three days, and at one follow-up assessment. Participants completed baseline profiling,
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Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 M. Elbakidze; D. Surová; J. Muñoz-Rojas; J-O. Persson; L. Dawson; T. Plieninger; T. Pinto-Correia
Agroforestry landscapes are crucial to human wellbeing; however, they are in sharp decline across Europe. Improved understanding of the complexity of agroforestry landscapes within different biophysical, social-cultural, economic and governance contexts is essential for designing effective policy and management interventions that are more tightly aligned with societal expectations and aspirations.
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Water absorption analysis of a peat‐perlite horticultural substrate in response to various subirrigation conditions using a thermal imaging camera Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Changhyeong Lee, Jongyun Kim
Subirrigation systems are widely used in commercial greenhouses for efficient and high-quality production of potted plants. However, proper criteria of the water level and retention time need to be quantified for more efficient irrigation. This study analyzed the water absorption and vertical water distribution in a horticultural substrate in 10-cm pots under various subirrigation water levels and
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Correction to: Resistance to demethylation inhibitors in Cercospora beticola , a pathogen of sugar beet in Japan, and development of unique cross-resistance patterns Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Miyuki Kayamori, Alisa Zakharycheva, Hiroki Saito, Ken Komatsu
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-021-02223-w
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Environmental requirements for infection of Colletotrichum acutatum and C. gloeosporioides sensu lato in citrus flowers and prevalence of these pathogens in Brazil Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Fabrício Packer Gonçalves, Antonio F. Nogueira Júnior, Geraldo José Silva-Junior, Maísa Ciampi-Guillardi, Lilian Amorim
Citrus post-bloom fruit drop (PFD) is caused by Colletotrichum acutatum and C. gloeosporioides species complexes and frequently occurs in São Paulo (SP) state, Brazil. The environmental requirements for conidial germination and appressorium formation have been already determined in vitro; however, the environmental conditions for infection in citrus flowers remain unknown. C. acutatum is considered
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Orchid fleck virus and a novel strain of sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus associated with an ornamental cultivar of Alcea rosea L. in South Africa Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 David A. Read, Ronel Roberts, Genevieve D. Thompson
Common hollyhock (Alcea rosea) is a ubiquitous ornamental in temperate climates but is highly adaptable and can be found growing in the tropics and subtropics. In 2019, an A. rosea plant showing symptoms of irregular chlorotic flecking on the basal leaves, with symptoms becoming gradually less severe toward the apex, was sampled in Pretoria, Gauteng province, South Africa. Total RNA was used to prepare
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Interference of CsGPA1, the α-submit of G Protein, Reduces Drought Tolerance in Cucumber Seedlings Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Yumei Liu; Qinghua Du; Longqiang Bai; Mintao Sun; Yansu Li; Chaoxing He; Jun Wang; Xianchang Yu; Yan Yan
The G protein α-subunit, GPA1, is an integral component of several signaling pathways in plants, including response to abiotic stress. However, the molecular mechanism behind these processes remains largely unknown in the cucumber plant (Cucumis sativus L.). In order to further understand the role of CsGPA1 in cucumber under drought stress, changes in plant growth, physiological parameters, and gene
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Basic shoot characteristics predict the cropping potential of young sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) trees N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Tadeusz Jacyna; Tomasz Lipa; Łukasz Seliga
ABSTRACT The basic shoot characteristics of ‘Karina’ and ‘Sylvia’ sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) trees grafted on Gisela 3, Gisela 5, Piku 4, Weiroot 72 and F12/1 rootstocks were examined 3 years after planting. In both cultivars, F12/1 achieved a greater shoot length (SL) and diameter (SD) and a lower number of flower clusters per cm SL (NFC·cm−1 SL) than the other rootstocks. Furthermore, although
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Assessing potato canopy growth and development at the individual leaf level to improve the understanding of the plant source–sink relations N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Juliano S. Oliveira; Hamish E. Brown; Derrick J. Moot
ABSTRACT Seed potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) physiological age (PA; defined as the developmental stage of a potato seed) and genotype are known to influence potato yield and final tuber yield distribution. We investigated the impacts of PA of two contrasting cultivars (‘Bondi’ and ‘Fraser’) on growth and development of individual canopy organs and their linkage with the source–sink process that regulates
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Identification of enzyme inhibitors and antimicrobial activities from Capsicum annuum L. protein extracts against Colletotrichum scovillei Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Lídia Da Silva Pereira, Thaynã Amanda Melo Souza, Rafael Walter, Cláudia Pombo Sudré, Layrana De Azevedo Dos Santos, Álan Chrisley Maracahipes, Gabriel Bonan Taveira, Virginia Silva Carvalho, Celso Shiniti Nagano, Renata Pinheiro Chaves, Rosana Rodrigues, André De Oliveira Carvalho, Valdirene Moreira Gomes
Diseases caused by phytopathogenic microorganisms are difficult to control and can affect plants at different stages of their development. Several resistance genes and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been identified and related to the resistance process of Capsicum. In recent years, studies have shown that peppers, especially the accession UENF1381, present resistance against phytopathogenic microorganisms
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) family genes in pear J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Huping Zhang; Xin Tao; Feng Zhang
ABSTRACT Vacuolar processing enzymes (VPEs) are important cysteine proteases and function in the processing and maturation of protein precursors, plant senescence and immunity, programmed cell death, as well as sugar accumulation. This paper investigated VPEs in pear and identified as a key finding eight members of the VPE family in the pear (Pyrus) genome, and their gene structure, protein conserved
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Virulence tests of Neofusicoccum parvum , Lasiodiplodia theobromae , and Phytophthora palmivora on Theobroma cacao Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 A. S. Puig, L. M. Keith, T. K. Matsumoto, O. A. Gutierrez, J. P. Marelli
Neofusicoccum parvum is a recently reported pathogen affecting Theobroma cacao L., and has been isolated from symptomatic pods on Oahu and Hawaii Islands. Determining infection routes and virulence are essential for assessing the impact of N. parvum on cacao production and developing effective disease management strategies. Infection routes were determined by inoculating unwounded stems and pods with
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Evaluating nematode resistance of grapevine rootstocks based on Xiphinema index reproduction rates in a fast screening assay Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 J. Schurig, U. Ipach, M. Hahn, P. Winterhagen
By feeding on grapevine roots, the ectoparasite Xiphinema index transmits grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV), causing fanleaf degeneration in the plant. Therefore, rootstock breeding programs are considered a key to resistance to both threats. Previous screening depends on long-lasting inoculation experiments and mainly focuses on evaluating gall formation on the parasitized roots to identify potential
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Voting with one’s chainsaw: What happens when people are given the opportunity to freely remove urban trees? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Jakub Kronenberg; Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Joanna Sziło
Despite what numerous studies on the perceived importance and value of urban trees may suggest, urban trees are subject to endless debates and controversies. The problems span individuals’ reluctance to clean up leaves to broader discussions on what a ‘modern city’ should look like. To study these issues, we benefitted from a national-scale policy liberalization that involved a drastic change in regulations
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Effects of seasonal light variation and artificial light treatments on growth and flavonoid production of Artemisia princeps cultivated in greenhouses Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Joon Woo Lee, Zeesoo Han, Woo Hyun Kang, Jung Eek Son
Artemisia princeps (Ganghwa wormwood) is a medicinal plant that produces two major flavonoids, eupatilin and jaceosidin, which are used in the treatment of gastritis and peptic ulcers. A. princeps is primarily field cultivated, which has some drawbacks, including only one cultivation period per year and variations in flavonoid production due to environmental changes. The objective of this study was
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Effect of Glucose on the Soil Bacterial Diversity and Function in the Rhizosphere of Cerasus sachalinensis Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Wenjie Zhou; Xu Qin; Deguo Lyu; Sijun Qin
Most cherry orchards in China have low organic carbon content, though carbon is very important for plant growth. The changes in soil carbon and bacterial diversity were determined after different amounts of 12C-glucose were added to the rhizosphere of Cerasus sachalinensis. Soil bacteria diversity was measured using high throughput sequencing, and bacteria containing 13C-glucose were identified using
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Identifying internal control genes by quantitative real-time PCR for accurate normalisation of gene expression in Gardenia jasminoides N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Zejing Mu; Xiaolang Du; Xiaoyun Wang
ABSTRACT Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis. is widely used in horticulture and its fruit is heavily used in the natural pigment and traditional Chinese medicinal industries. Functional discovery and characterisation of genes in fruits generally require accurate transcript quantification. Therefore, we first identified twenty candidate genes and then set out to determine their stability in qRT-PCR assays
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BrJUB1, a NAC family transcription factor, regulates postharvest leaf senescence of Chinese flowering cabbage through the transcriptional activation of BrCCGs N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Jia Si; Xian-mei Xiao; Yan-mei Xu; Zhong-qi Fan; Xiao-li Tan; Wei Shan; Jian-fei Kuang; Wang-jin Lu; Xin-guo Su; Jian-ye Chen
ABSTRACT Leaf yellowing caused by chlorophyll degradation directly reduces the commercial quality of post-harvest Chinese flowering cabbage. However, the mechanism of chlorophyll degradation in post-harvest Chinese flowering cabbage remains unclear. In this work, we identified a leaf senescence-responsive NAC family transcription factor, a homologue of JUB1 in Arabidopsis, termed BrJUB1 in post-harvest
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Nutritional characterisation and grouping of unconventional vegetables in Brazil J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Luis Felipe Lima E Silva; Douglas Correa De Souza; Rita De Cássia Mirela Resende Nassur; Wanderley José Mantovani Bittencourt; Luciane Vilela Resende; Wilson Magela Gonçalves
ABSTRACT Studies proving the food properties of some vegetable species are still incipient. Aiming to obtain deeper knowledge about the nutritional potentials, the scope of this work was to characterise the food compounds of interest, present in vegetables known as unconventional, in Brazil, and to group these species according to their chemical and nutritional similarities. Eight nutritional characteristics
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Association of a monopartite chilli leaf curl virus and defective betasatellite molecule isolated from leaf curl disease affected papaya in India J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Abhinav Kumar; Nishtha Kashyap; Rohit Gupta
ABSTRACT Papaya leaf curl disease (PaLCuD) is a serious problem to the production of papaya (Carica papaya L.) in India and infection due to this virus is not limited to papaya, but to chilli and tomato. In this study, leaf samples from diseased papaya plant showing extreme leaf curling and venation were collected from New Delhi region, India during the period of 2016–2017. Rolling Circle Amplification(RCA)
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation of Modern Rose (Rosa hybrida) Using Leaf-derived Embryogenic Callus Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Guoqin Liu; Yuan Yuan; Hui Jiang; Ying Bao; Guogui Ning; Liangjun Zhao; Xiaofeng Zhou; Hougao Zhou; Junping Gao; Nan Ma
Rose (Rosa hybrida) is widely used for cut flowers and as garden plants. Stable and efficient transformation system is required for functional genomics of rose. Here, we established an efficient transformation method for rose using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of embryogenic callus. Expanding rose leaves were used as explants to induce somatic embryos, which were subjected to transformation
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Integrating ecological networks modelling in a participatory approach for assessing impacts of planning scenarios on landscape connectivity Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Yohan Sahraoui; Charles De Godoy Leski; Marie-Lise Benot; Frédéric Revers; Denis Salles; Inge van Halder; Marie Barneix; Laure Carassou
This research aims at integrating ecological networks modelling in a participatory approach in order to assess impacts of land-use planning scenarios on landscape connectivity. This approach was applied to the metropolitan area of Bordeaux, a highly dynamic territory that has been modified by several decades of rapid urbanization. Whilst ecological network modelling is widely used in the academic spheres
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Identifying internal control genes by quantitative real-time PCR for accurate normalisation of gene expression in Gardenia jasminoides N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Zejing Mu; Xiaolang Du; Xiaoyun Wang
ABSTRACT Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis. is widely used in horticulture and its fruit is heavily used in the natural pigment and traditional Chinese medicinal industries. Functional discovery and characterisation of genes in fruits generally require accurate transcript quantification. Therefore, we first identified twenty candidate genes and then set out to determine their stability in qRT-PCR assays
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BrJUB1, a NAC family transcription factor, regulates postharvest leaf senescence of Chinese flowering cabbage through the transcriptional activation of BrCCGs N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Jia Si; Xian-mei Xiao; Yan-mei Xu; Zhong-qi Fan; Xiao-li Tan; Wei Shan; Jian-fei Kuang; Wang-jin Lu; Xin-guo Su; Jian-ye Chen
ABSTRACT Leaf yellowing caused by chlorophyll degradation directly reduces the commercial quality of post-harvest Chinese flowering cabbage. However, the mechanism of chlorophyll degradation in post-harvest Chinese flowering cabbage remains unclear. In this work, we identified a leaf senescence-responsive NAC family transcription factor, a homologue of JUB1 in Arabidopsis, termed BrJUB1 in post-harvest
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Apple Sunburn Risk Detection—A Simple Model for Agricultural Decision Making and Some Fruit Temperature Measurements Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Klaus-Peter Wittich
As a response to strong radiative heating, the fruit temperature of apples may rise significantly above the air temperature. This may result in damage to the skin tissue and the epidermal and hypodermal cell layers. To avoid economic losses induced by sunburn symptoms on the skin, apple growers need forecasts of the fruit temperature, which will allow them to organize sun-protection measures in time
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Providing ecological, cultural and commercial services in an urban park: A travel cost–contingent behavior application in Finland Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Erkki Mäntymaa; Mikko Jokinen; Artti Juutinen; Tuija Lankia; Pauliina Louhi
The need for monetary valuation of recreational ecosystem services in urban areas is greatly acknowledged in several contexts. Most often, studies provide a total value of recreational visits, but a separate contribution of ecosystem, cultural, and commercial services to the value of recreation in urban ecosystems is rarely provided. In this study, the recreational importance of an urban park including
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Diallel analysis of the morphoagronomic, phytochemical, and antioxidant traits in Capsicum baccatum var. pendulum Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. (IF 1.585) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Gisely Paula Gomes, Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Leonel Vinicius Constantino, Viviane Yumi Baba, Cristina Silvar, Federico Pomar, Rosana Rodrigues, Leandro S. A. Gonçalves
Capsicum baccatum is one of the main chili peppers cultivated in South America. However, most studies on genetics and breeding have focused on C. annuum, and not C. baccatum. To gain more insights into C. baccatum genetics and breeding, this work estimated the combinatorial abilities of dedo-de-moça-type chili peppers (C. baccatum var. pendulum) in relation to morphoagronomic and biochemical traits
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Effect of Setophoma terrestri s, Sclerotium cepivorum, and Trichoderma spp . on in vitro onion ( Allium cepa ) root tissues and the final yield at the field Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 William Rivera-Méndez, Jaime Brenes-Madriz, Luis Alvarado-Marchena
Trichoderma is a rhizosphere fungus widely used in agriculture due to the variety of mechanisms of biological control. It can establish a direct relationship with the plant root cells, modifying the morphology and physiological processes, conferring a better defensive capacity against the attack of pathogens in the soil. This research aimed to study the interaction of T. asperellum, T. harzianum, T
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Foliar Spray of Silicon Enhances Resistance against Pyricularia oryzae by Triggering Phytoalexin Responds in Aerobic Rice Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Lee Chuen Ng, Z. Nura Adila, Elham M. Shahrul Hafiz, A. Aziz
Rice blast (caused by Pyricularia oryzae) is the most devastative disease threatening sustainability rice production. The role of silicon as a foliar application in biochemical defence involvement towards P. oryzae infection in aerobic rice remains unclear. The goal of this study was to explore the effectiveness of silicon (Si) as a foliar spray in triggering phytoalexin synthesis to increase resistance
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Nutritional characterisation and grouping of unconventional vegetables in Brazil J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Luis Felipe Lima E Silva; Douglas Correa De Souza; Rita De Cássia Mirela Resende Nassur; Wanderley José Mantovani Bittencourt; Luciane Vilela Resende; Wilson Magela Gonçalves
ABSTRACT Studies proving the food properties of some vegetable species are still incipient. Aiming to obtain deeper knowledge about the nutritional potentials, the scope of this work was to characterise the food compounds of interest, present in vegetables known as unconventional, in Brazil, and to group these species according to their chemical and nutritional similarities. Eight nutritional characteristics
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Seasonal variation of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus population in Citrus trees in southeast of Iran Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (IF 1.582) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Atiyeh Bahari, Seyed Mehdi Alavi, Esmail Saberi, Mehdi Azadvar, Masoud Shams-Bakhsh
Huanglongbing (HLB), caused by Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), is an important and threatening disease for the citru s industry in southeast Iran. In the present study, seasonal dynamic monitoring of CLas was conducted by absolute real-time PCR. Plant materials were obtained across 7 and 6 months from December 2014 to October 2015 from three parts of the canopy of two naturally infected citrus
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Determination of Some Physical and Chemical Properties of Common Hawthorn ( Crataegus Monogyna Jacq. Var . Monogyna ) Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Keziban Yalçın Dokumacı, Nurhan Uslu, Haydar Hacıseferoğulları, M. Nevzat Örnek
Hawthorn as a wild plant is an important fruit for human health. In this study, it was aimed to determine some physical and chemical properties of common hawthorn which is native plant of middle Anatolia in Turkey. According to chemical analysis results, crude protein, crude oil, ash, pH, acidity, total phenol contents and antioxidant activity values were found to be 3.03%, 1.22%, 2.77%, 4.08, 1.56%
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Comparative Proteomic Profiles of Resistant/Susceptible Cucumber Leaves in Response to Downy Mildew Infection Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Chengzhen Sun; Xiaofei Song; Jinshuang Zheng; Xiaoli Li; Zhihong Feng; Liying Yan
Downy mildew is a serious disease in cucumber production worldwide, which is caused by Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & Curt.) Rostov. Underlying the mechanism of cucumber response to downy mildew infection is important for breeding improvement and production; however, the research remains largely elusive. A comparative proteomic approach was used to reveal the differential accumulation of the proteomes
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Settlement changes after peak population: Land system projections for China until 2050 Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Yuan Wang; Jasper van Vliet; Niels Debonne; Lijie Pu; Peter H Verburg
China has experienced unprecedented urbanization in the past few decades, fueled by population growth, economic development, and rural to urban migration. In the future, economic growth as well as rural to urban migration is expected to continue, but demographic scenarios indicate that the population of China will peak and subsequently decline. As a result, it is unsure how urban areas will develop
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Comparative Analysis of Wanjincheng Orange Leaf And Root Responses to ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ Infection Using Leaf-Disc Grafting Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Zhu Xie; Ke Zhao; Junhong Long; Lin Zhen; Xiuping Zou; Shanchun Chen
Citrus Huanglongbing, associated with Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las), is the serious disease of citrus worldwide. Here, we compared differences between leaf and root responses in Wanjincheng Orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck) to Las infection using leaf-disc grafting. Trees had no obvious symptoms in the first two months after grafting (MAG), but yellowing leaves, thickened midribs and decayed
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Small vegetated patches greatly reduce urban surface temperature during a summer heatwave in Adelaide, Australia Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 Alessandro Ossola; G. Darrel Jenerette; Andrew McGrath; Winston Chow; Lesley Hughes; Michelle R. Leishman
As the global climate warms, cities worldwide face more frequent and extreme heatwaves. These events can affect human health and decrease liveability. While the mitigating effects of vegetation on land surface temperature (LST) are well characterised at large spatial scales and during typical weather conditions, the cooling benefits that urban greening can provide at local scales, particularly during
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The role of cost, scale, and property attributes in landowner choice of stormwater management option Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 W. Bowman Cutter; Alexander Pusch
Cities throughout the world are experimenting with Low Impact Development (LID) strategies to replace ecosystem services degraded by urbanization. Stormwater management may need both centralized/publicly-managed infrastructure and decentralized provision by landowners. For landowners to participate in these programs they will need some latitude in the choice of techniques and siting. However, these
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Establishment of A Simple and Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation System to Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis) Horticult. Plant J. (IF 1.524) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Xiaonan Li; Haiyan Li; Yuzhu Zhao; Peixuan Zong; Zongxiang Zhan; Zhongyun Piao
Chinese cabbage, belonging to Brassica rapa species, is an important vegetable in Eastern Asia. It is well known that Chinese cabbage is quite recalcitrant to genetic transformation and the transgenic frequency is generally low. The lack of an efficient and stable genetic transformation system for Chinese cabbage has largely limited related gene functional studies. In this study, we firstly developed
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Phenology and ovarian development of the introduced weevil Mecinus pascuorum, a passenger pest of kiwifruit in New Zealand N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Joanne Poulton; David Logan; Emma Barraclough
ABSTRACT The plantain weevil, Mecinus pascuorum (Gyllenhal), an introduced species associated with narrow leaf plantain, has become a regular and common post-harvest contaminant of kiwifruit in South Auckland. Here we describe its life history in New Zealand for the first time, based on surveys of narrow leaf plantain, shelter trees and kiwifruit vines, light trapping and ovarian dissections. Adult
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Drought effects on photosynthetic performance of two wheat cultivars contrasting in drought N. Z. J. Crop Hortic. Sci. (IF 0.848) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Cheng Yang; Deqi Zhang; Xiangdong Li; Yanhua Shi; Yunhui Shao; Baoting Fang; Junqin Yue; Hanfang Wang; Feng Qin; Hongjian Cheng
ABSTRACT Drought is the main factor restricting the yield of winter wheat in large arid and semiarid areas. The balance between water conservation and photosynthesis is important for breeding drought-resistant wheat cultivars. Besides, the mechanisms for drought resistance in many drought-resistant wheat cultivars have not been completely explored. To elucidate the above questions, the photosynthetic
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Recent trends in agro-technology, post-harvest management and molecular characterisation of pomegranate J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. (IF 1.16) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Sayan Sau; Sukamal Sarkar; Monisha Mitra; Saikat Gantait
ABSTRACT Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.), a fruit-bearing shrub with extensive genetic and geographical diversity, effectively takes its place among several other significant global fruit crops. The global demand for pomegranate is increasing consistently since this fruit has recently been merited with the status of a ‘super fruit’; apart from its other culinary and medicinal (both ethnomedical and
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Vacant land, flood exposure, and urbanization: Examining land cover change in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Ryun Jung Lee
The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing areas in the U.S. As the urbanization process continues in DFW, existing greenfields are being developed and more developments appear near floodplains. This research examines the relationships between existing vacant land and the urbanization process by analyzing the land cover change between 2011 and 2016 in and around current
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Quantifying the local cooling effects of urban green spaces: Evidence from Bengaluru, India Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Arpit Shah; Amit Garg; Vimal Mishra
Rapid unplanned urbanization has led to a deterioration in green cover in Indian cities and an increase in urban temperatures due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. With India’s urban population set to double from 400 million in 2011 to 800 million by 2050, it becomes critical to understand the role of urban green spaces (UGS) in mitigating the UHI. In this study, we have used high-resolution Landsat
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Comparison of Some Morphological and Physiological Characters of Apple Scab Pathogen ( Venturia inaequalis ) in Two Different Agricultural Ecology of Turkey Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Hamit Kavak, Ali Celik
Bingöl and Isparta are two remote regions with significant differences in terms of apple production in Turkey. In this study, some morphological and physiological characteristics of the apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) were measured and compared between these two regions. Colony colors and boundary lines, mycelial structures, colony growth rates, conidial numbers and sizes of the isolates were measured
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The Effects of Different Micronutrient Fertilizers on cv. Tombul Hazelnut Yield and Certain Nut Properties Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Ayhan Horuz, Adem Güneş, Metin Turan, Taki Demir, Ümit Serdar, Ekrem Ozlu, Mehmet Rüştü Karaman, Gülay Fırıldak
Turkey is the leading producer of hazelnuts of global production. Hazelnuts are generally used in the food industry (e.g. by confectioneries, bakeries, ice-cream manufacturers; in dairy, candy, and chocolate products). They are also a part of a wide range of food including cereals, bread, yogurt, soups, and salads. This study was conducted in the Central Black Sea Region of Northern Turkey, which is
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A Profitability Analysis of Investment of Apricot Growing in Turkey Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Kubilay Ucar, Sait Engindeniz
This study was conducted to analyze profitability of apricot investment in Malatya province of Turkey. In this study, the data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 159 farmers from the districts of Central, Akcadag and Darende at the Malatya province in the production year of 2012–2013. Data obtained have been shown in the tables issued by the use of percentage and index calculations
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Energy Use Efficiency of Mandarin Production: A Case Study from Adana Province Erwerbs-Obstbau (IF 1.044) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Mehmet Emin Bilgili
In this research was aimed to define the energy use efficiency of mandarin production for the 2017 production seasons in Adana province in Turkey. A survey data were compiled in 2017 and the farms were chosen according to the simple random sampling method and the survey were done to these farms. In order to define the energy use efficiency in the production of mandarin, a survey was done with 142 farmers
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Controlling landscape-scale bark beetle dynamics: Can we hit the right spot? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 5.441) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Andrey L.D. Augustynczik; Laura Dobor; Tomáš Hlásny
Outbreaks of spruce bark beetle Ips typographus have devastating effects on European forest landscapes. Salvage removal of windfelled trees is deemed effective to prevent the outbreaks, although adverse effects on ecosystem recovery, ecologically valuable legacies, and unclear economic performance raise concerns about the widespread use of this practice. Here, we formulated a novel management framework
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