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Amanuel Tamiru and Zeyaur R. Khan
Plants have evolved highly intriguing ways of defending themselves against insect attacks, including through emission of defense volatiles. These volatiles serve the plant?s defense by directly repelling phytophagous insects and/or indirectly through att...
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Thanasekaran Jayakumar, Ming-Ping Wu, Joen-Rong Sheu, Chih-Wei Hsia, Periyakali Saravana Bhavan, Manjunath Manubolu, Chi-Li Chung and Chih-Hsuan Hsia
Pterostilbene (PTE), a natural stilbenoid occurring in grapes and berries, is recognized as a dimethylated analogue of resveratrol. This compound shows numerous notable pharmacological activities, including antiaging, anticancer, antidiabetes, antioxidan...
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Zuguo Xi, Huiyan Jia, Yifan Li, Jinqing Ma, Mengqian Lu, Zhihui Wang, Dexu Kong and Wei-Wei Deng
Tea is a healthy beverage made from the leaves of the tea plant [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze]. The tea plant is a perennial evergreen plant that is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. PR proteins (pathogenesis-related proteins, P...
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Zita Szalai, Anikó Magyariné Berkó, Nikolett Bódi, Edit Hermesz, Ágnes Ferencz and Mária Bagyánszki
Diabetes mellitus is often associated with vascular complications in which hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress may be the cause of the impaired vessels and circulating blood cells. The aim of this study was to follow the hyperglycemia-related metaboli...
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Hongbo Du, Nan Lu and Chuanrong Li
Root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum is a serious root disease that affects the growth and yield of peanut crops worldwide. Identifying resistance genes is of great significance for both conventional and molecular breeding. At present, there are a few i...
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Akalanka Silva and Susumu Araki
This study investigates a wall and trench combination to identify its benefits as a defense measure against an overtopping tsunami-like wave. The study focuses on several arrangements and geometries of a wall and trench combined structural system, locate...
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Giovanni Cannata, Marco Tamburrino and Francesco Gallerano
The aim of coastal structures for the defense from erosion is to modify the hydrodynamic fields that would naturally occur with the wave motion, to produce zones of sedimentation of solid material, and to combat the recession of the coastline. T-head gro...
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Halil Ozkurt and Ozlem Altuntas
All living organisms perceive mechanical signals, regardless of their taxonomic classifications or life habits. Because of their immobility, plants are influenced by a variety of environmental stresses, such as mechanical stress, during their growth and ...
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Hengzhi Hu, Hanwei Yang, Jiahong Wen, Min Zhang and Yanjuan Wu
Under climate warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme rainstorms-induced urban pluvial floods are significantly increasing, leading to severe flooding risks in megacities. An integrated model that incorporates rainfall processing, waterlogging si...
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Saumik Basu, Natalia Moroz, Benjamin W. Lee, Kiwamu Tanaka, Liesl Oeller, Chase W. Baerlocher and David W. Crowder
In agroecosystems, plants frequently confront multiple biotic stressors, including herbivores and pathogens. The nature of these interactions plays a crucial role in mediating the activation of plant defense mechanisms. However, induction of plant chemic...
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Mohd Asgher, Abdul Rehaman, Syed Nazar ul Islam, Mohd Arshad and Nafees A. Khan
Heavy metals (HMs) contamination is one of the main abiotic factors affecting crop productivity and also threatens human health via consuming metal-contaminated crops as a food source. Over the past few years, HMs have drawn a lot of attention due to the...
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Mia Dujmovic, Nevena Opacic, Sanja Radman, Sanja Fabek Uher, Sandra Voca and Jana ?ic ?labur
As the impact of global warming intensifies drought effects, plants need to adapt to drought and other climate change-induced stresses through various defense mechanisms. One of them is the increased synthesis of bioactive compounds (BCs), which helps pl...
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Xiaoxia Zhang, Pengzhi Lin and Xinping Chen
Mangroves provide many ecosystem services, including coastal protection against storm surges and waves. As an adaptive method for coastal defense, mangroves were widely restored and planted in tropical and subtropical regions, such as the coastal regions...
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Yu Kuai, Jianfeng Tao, Zaiyang Zhou, Stefan Aarninkhof and Zheng Bing Wang
Tidal flats play an important role in promoting coastal biodiversity, defense against flooding, land reclamation and recreation. Many coastal tidal flats, especially the tide-dominant ones, are muddy. However, the number of studies on the profile shape a...
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André Guimarães, Carlos Coelho, Fernando Veloso-Gomes and Paulo A. Silva
Beach nourishment represents a type of coastal defense intervention, keeping the beach as a natural coastal defense system. Altering the cross-shore profile geometry, due to the introduction of new sediments, induces a non-equilibrium situation regarding...
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Naicheng Li, Jingyao Zhang, Xinyu Zhao, Pengbin Wang, Mengmeng Tong and Patricia M. Glibert
Bacteria-derived allelopathic effects on microalgae blooms have been studied with an aim to develop algicidal products that may have field applications. However, few such studies have been conducted on macroalgae. Therefore, a series of experiments was c...
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Mirza Hasanuzzaman, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Shahadat Hossain, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Md. Shahadat Hossen, Abdul Awal Chowdhury Masud, Moumita and Masayuki Fujita
Among the plant nutrients, potassium (K) is one of the vital elements required for plant growth and physiology. Potassium is not only a constituent of the plant structure but it also has a regulatory function in several biochemical processes related to p...
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M. Vivas,J. A. Martín,L. Gil,A. Solla
Pág. 289 - 299
Damping off is probably the most common disease affecting seedlings in forest nurseries. In south-western Europe, the pitch canker and the Dutch elm disease cause relevant economic looses in forests, mostly in adult trees. The ability of the chemical pla...
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Kiran Gupta
Pág. 101 - 110
A study was performed to evaluate capability of aquatic macrophyte Eichhornia crassipes plants to combat oxidative stress caused by tannery effluent treatment. For this purpose, tannery effluent was collected from ?Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket? (UASB...
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