DArTseq-based silicoDArT and SNP markers reveal the genetic diversity and population structure of Kenyan cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) landraces. by Dennis Wamalabe Mukhebi, Pauline Wambui Gachanja, Diana Jepkoech Karan, Brenda Muthoni Kamau, Pauline Wangeci King'ori, Bicko Steve Juma, Wilton Mwema Mbinda

“…These changes adversely impact cashew growth by altering flowering patterns, increasing pests and diseases, and causing postharvest losses, which ultimately result in reduced yields and tree mortality. …”
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Identification of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Senecio Plants by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by An-Jing Lu, Yan-Liu Lu, Dao-Peng Tan, Lin Qin, Hua Ling, Chang-Hong Wang, Yu-Qi He

“…PAs can be found in about 3%–5% of the world’s flowering plants. Nowadays, the identification method of PAs by separation and preparation was too slow and lacked effective power. …”
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A Preliminary Evaluation of Variability, Genetic Estimates, and Association among Phenotypic Traits of African Yam Bean Landraces from Ghana by Remember Roger Adjei, Esther Fobi Donkor, Kwadwo Gyasi Santo, Charles Adarkwah, Amanda Sarfo Boateng, Daniel Ntiamoah Afreh, Edward Sallah

“…There were significant differences (p<0.05) for the traits studied, except for days to 50% emergence, petiole length, days to maturity, stem diameter, days to 50% flowering, pod weight, pod beak length, pod weight per plant, seed length, and seed width. …”
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Characterization of <i>PHT</i> Genes in ‘duli’ (<i>Pyrus betulifolia Bunge</i>) and Expression Analysis of <i>PbPHTs</i> in Response to Plant Growth Regulators, P, and Salt Stress... by Shuai Yuan, Weilong Zhang, Yuxing Zhang

“…The promoter analysis showed that there were a large number of cis-acting elements related to phytohormones, growth, development, stress, and light response in <i>PbPHTs</i>. qRT-PCR analysis revealed that most <i>PHT</i> genes in ‘duli’ were highly expressed in the fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, and roots, and 15 <i>PbPHT</i> genes were responsive to 5 μM, 0.5 mM, 5 mM H₂PO₄, NaCl, GR24 (synthetic SL analog), GA3 (gibberellin 3), ABA (abscisic acid), and IAA (indole-3-acetic acid). …”
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Evaluation of spring bread wheat accessions from the VIR collection for resistance to loose smut by M. M. Kovaleva, E. V. Zuev, A. N. Brykova

“…In the 2016-2018 growing seasons, new 139 accessions of spring bread wheat were screened for resistance to loose smut against a severe infection background according to the well-known method (Krivchenko, 1984). During wheat's flowering phase, from 7 to 10 ears of each accession were inoculated with a fungal infection collected on VIR's experimental field. …”
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Potato spindle tuber viroid by A. V. Kochetov, A. Y. Pronozin, N. V. Shatskaya, D. A. Afonnikov, O. S. Afanasenko

“…In the case of PSTVd, disease symptoms may occur due to RNA-interference, which decreases the expression levels of some important cellular regulatory factors, such as, for example, potato StTCP23 from the gibberellic acid pathway with a role in tuber morphogenesis or tomato FRIGIDA-like protein 3 with an early flowering phenotype. This association between the small segments of viroid genomic RNAs complementary to the untranslated regions of cellular mRNAs and disease symptoms provides a way for new resistant cultivars to be developed by genetic editing. …”
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Genetic Variability Analysis and Association of Traits in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Landraces Collected from Ethiopia at Jimma by Eyuel Mesera, Garome Shifaraw, Sentayehu Alamerew, Birhanu Amsalu

“…High heritability in the broad sense was found for days to 50% flowering (66.98), days to 90% maturity (87.43), pod length (90.03), pod width (78.23), harvest index (98.67), and 100-seed weight (68.31). …”
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Unveiling the Phytochemical Diversity and Bioactivity of <i>Astragalus melanophrurius</i>: A First Report Integrating Experimental and In Silico Approaches by Gulcan Gencer, Cengiz Sarikurkcu, Bektas Tepe

“…<b>Methods</b>: Methanol extracts were obtained from leaves, stems, flowers, roots, and aerial portions of <i>A. melanophrurius</i>. …”
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Estimation of Anthocyanins in Apple Leaves Based on Ground Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning Models by Yu Zhang, Mi Zou, Yanjun Li, Qingrui Chang, Xing Chen, Zhiyong Dai, Weihao Yuan

“…The results indicate: (1) The average anthocyanins in apple leaves decrease from the Final Flowering stage to the Fruit Enlargement stage. The original hyperspectral imaging at wavelengths before 720 nm shows a decrease in reflectance as the growth stages progress, while the spectral curves after 720 nm remain largely consistent across stages; (2) Compared to single original spectral variables, multivariate estimation models using original spectra and second-order derivative transformed spectra show improved accuracy for anthocyanins estimation across different growth stages, with the most significant improvement during the Fruit Enlargement stage; (3) Although the computation of the three-band spectral indices is resource-intensive and time-consuming, it can enhance anthocyanins estimation accuracy; (4) Among all models, the CatBoost model based on original spectra and second-order derivative transformed spectra indices for the entire growth period achieved the highest accuracy, with a validation set R² of 0.934 and a RPD of 3.888, and produced effective leaf anthocyanins inversion maps. …”
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Essential oils from Amorpha fruticosa against hepatocellular carcinoma based on network pharmacology by Yixian Liu, Xiaojun Zhang, Jiacong Hao, Ying Zhao, Min Zou, Huiping Chen, Jintao Zhang

“…Although more and more attention has been paid to its biological activity recently, the antitumor activities of the essential oils (EOs) extracted from its leaves (AFLEO) and flowers (AFFEO), and their molecular mechanisms have never been reported up to now. …”
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SVFRH: A Growth Stage-Based Compartmental Model for Predicting the Disease Incident in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) by Athira P. Shaji, S. Hemalatha

“…Our methodology employs the SVFRH (Susceptible, Vegetative, Flowering, Ripening and Harvesting) model to analyze disease dynamics across distinct plant growth stages. …”
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The development of triploid apple cultivars is a priority in breeding by E. N. Sedov, G. A. Sedysheva, M. A. Makarkina, Z. M. Serova

“…During 1970–2015, the following work was done in apple breeding using polyploidy: 455 crossing combinations were performed; 660000 flowers were artificially pollinated; 124700 hybrid seeds were obtained and 47900 one-year-old seedlings were grown, from which after multiple rejections 13200 seedlings were planted in breeding orchards. …”
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Characterization of an Endemic Plant Origanum grosii from Morocco: Trace Element Concentration and Antihyperglycemic Activities by H. El hassouni, M. Bouhrim, R. El hajji, M. Bnouham, A. Ziyyat, A. Romane

“…This characterization was realized by determining the concentration of metals in different parts of the plant (flowers, leaves, and stems) by ICP-MS, and the results were studied statistically by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). …”
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Effect of Sucrose Spray on some Phytochemical Characteristics of Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) under Field Conditions by Vahid Akbarpour, Hossein Aruei, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Majid Azizi Arani, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar

“…Treatments were sprayed on plants at 10-day intervals until plants started the flowering stage. Some parameters, such as total chlorophyll, carotenoids, total phenol, total flavonoid, antioxidant activity, steviozide, and ribodiozide contents were measured at the beginning of flowering. …”
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Genome‐Wide Diversity in Lowland and Highland Maize Landraces From Southern South America: Population Genetics Insights to Assist Conservation by Pia Guadalupe Dominguez, Angela Veronica Gutierrez, Monica Irina Fass, Carla Valeria Filippi, Pablo Vera, Andrea Puebla, Raquel Alicia Defacio, Norma Beatriz Paniego, Veronica Viviana Lia

“…Outlier detection methods allowed identification of putative adaptive genomic regions, consistent with previously reported flowering‐time loci and chromosomal regions displaying introgression from the teosinte Zea mays ssp. mexicana. …”
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Genome wide identification of Dof transcription factors in Carmine radish reveals RsDof33 role in cadmium stress and anthocyanin biosynthesis by Caiming Gou, Jia Li, Bo Chen, Guoting Cheng, Zhangfei Zheng, Hua Peng, Ahmed H. El-Sappah

“…A. thaliana overexpressed the recombinant fusion protein RsDof33-GFP, which was localized to the nucleus, resulting in fewer rosette leaves, delayed flowering, and higher anthocyanin concentration. RsDof33-expressing plants had significantly higher transcript levels of the auxin biosynthetic genes YUCCA (AtYUC2), auxin efflux carrier (AtPIN4), and AtKNAT2, which are involved in leaf shape development, as well as AtPAL, AtCHS, AtCHI, AtDFR, AtLDOX, and AtUF3GT. …”
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Distribution of Tunisian beet wild relatives (Beta sp.) according to morphological characteristics and eco-geographical origin by Kaouther Ben Mahmoud, Najla Mezghani, Youssef Ouakrim, Neila Mezghani, Noura Jemai, Ahmed Jemmali

“…The PCA divided these 15 populations into three groups as well: G′1 concerned the island B. vulgaris subsp. maritima populations, characterized by prostrate growth habit and red inflorescences; G′2 included all B. macrocarpa populations characterized by erect-procumbent growth habit and very synchronous flowering pattern; and G′3 was formed by the mainland B. vulgaris subsp. maritima populations, characterized by erect growth habit and hairy, curly leaves. …”
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Analysis of Phenolic Acids of Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) Responding to Salt-Stress by Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Fujia Chen, Xiaohua Long, Zhaopu Liu, Hongbo Shao, Ling Liu

“…Considering various growth stages, the concentration of total phenolics in cultivar NanYu was higher at flowering stage (5.270 mg/g DW) than at budding and tuber swelling stages. …”
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Alternative silencing states of transposable elements in Arabidopsis associated with H3K27me3 by Valentin Hure, Florence Piron-Prunier, Tamara Yehouessi, Clémentine Vitte, Aleksandra E. Kornienko, Gabrielle Adam, Magnus Nordborg, Angélique Déléris

“…Conclusions Our study sheds light on an alternative mode of TE silencing associated with H3K27me3 instead of DNA methylation in flowering plants. It also suggests dynamic switching between the two epigenetic marks at the species level, a new paradigm that might extend to other multicellular eukaryotes.…”
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Diallel Analysis and Heritability of Grain Yield, Yield Components, and Maturity Traits in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) by Emmanuel Yaw Owusu, Haruna Mohammed, Kulai Amadu Manigben, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Francis Kusi, Benjamin Karikari, Emmanuel Kofi Sie

“…Crosses Songotra × Sanzi-Nya, SARC-1-57-2 × IT86D-610, Songotra × SARC-1-57-2, and Padi-Tuya × Songotra were identified as good specific combiners for days to 50% flowering, pod length, pods per plant, pod yield, grain yield, and seeds per pod. …”
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