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Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
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Wei Hu, Zhouming Gao, Xiaoya Dong, Jian Chen and Baijing Qiu
Contact electrification has attracted interest as a mechanism for generating electrical charges on surfaces. To explore the factors contributing to electrification by droplets impacting the leaf surface, high-speed image capture and current measurements ...
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Huiying Shang, Lulu Xun, Tao Miao, Chen Chen, Yuan Lu and Bin Li
The size of leaves is a vital factor in the development and overall biomass of a plant, serving as a key indicator of how a plant adapts to its environment. Rhamnus heterophylla, a species known for its heteromorphic leaves of varying sizes, presents an ...
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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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Juan Botero-Valencia, Erick Reyes-Vera, Elizabeth Ospina-Rojas and Flavio Prieto-Ortiz
In this study, a novel system was designed to enhance the efficiency of data acquisition in a portable and compact instrument dedicated to the spectral analysis of various surfaces, including plant leaves, and materials requiring characterization within ...
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Long Bao, Xuemei Zhao, Gaowa Kang, Kaito Suzuki, Tamer Ismail, Yoshiharu Fujii and Satoru Motoki
Platycodon is a medicinal plant of considerable pharmacological and dietary value. With the growing demand, agricultural production is increasing. However, the continuous cropping significantly causes negative impacts on its yield and quality. In this st...
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Xinhang Lv, Haimin Kong, Yubo Luo, Dubin Dong, Wenbin Liu, Dongtao Wu, Zhengqian Ye, Jiawei Ma and Dan Liu
Magnesium plays a crucial role in plant physiological processes. However, the specific mechanisms underlying the response of tea plants to altered magnesium nutrition under acid stress remain unclear. This study investigates how root environment acidific...
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Liquan Jing, Xunkang Wang, Yihan Zhao, Fan Li, Yu Su, Yang Cai, Fucheng Zhao, Guichun Dong, Lianxin Yang and Yunxia Wang
Duckweed growing in paddy fields (DGP) has substantially increased because of the effects of climate warming and/or eutrophication in irrigated water. Previous studies have primarily focused on investigating the effects of DGP as a nonchemical agent for ...
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Jingming Wu, Tiecheng Bai and Xu Li
Chlorophyll content is highly susceptible to environmental changes, and monitoring these changes can be a crucial tool for optimizing crop management and providing a foundation for research in plant physiology and ecology. This is expected to deepen our ...
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Anyin Qi, Zhengshan Wang, Liangzhen Jiang, Qiang Wang, Yuanhang Ren, Chenggang Liang, Yan Wang, Changying Liu, Xueling Ye, Yu Fan, Qi Wu, Xiaoyong Wu, Lianxin Peng, Dabing Xiang, Laichun Guo, Gang Zhao, Liang Zou, Jingwei Huang and Yan Wan
Titanium has been reported to have positive effects on crop growth and production in various species. However, the impact of titanium on the Tartary buckwheat crops has not yet been studied. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to investigate the effec...
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