Life cycle assessment of heat, CO2 from composting for greenhouse applications by Jiamin Wang, BiChen Tian, Rui Li, Jianming Li

“…Economically, the SGCD system increases tomato yield by 15.06 %, generating an additional $225.35 in annual revenue, with a payback period of two years and profitability from the third year. …”
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Increasing Productivity and Recovering Nutritional, Organoleptic, and Nutraceutical Qualities of Major Vegetable Crops for Better Dietetics by Raju Lal Bhardwaj, Latika Vyas, Mahendra Prakash Verma, Suresh Chand Meena, Anirudha Chattopadhyay, Neeraj Kumar Meena, Dan Singh Jakhar, Sita Ram Kumawat

“…This combination of factors significantly recovers overall soil quality, increasing crop productivity by 13.58 to 18.32 percent in tomato, brinjal, and okra. Experimental findings likewise indicate that an assortment of organic sources with a microbial consortium significantly recovers the abundance of beneficial microbes and earthworms in the rhizosphere, which leads to an improvement in nutritional, organoleptic, and nutraceutical quality, with higher antioxidant contents in all three vegetables grown in arid climate conditions.…”
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MOVILIDAD ESPACIAL Y HORTICULTURA EN EL VALLE MEDIO DE RÍO NEGRO: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN TERRITORIO MIGRATORIO by Flavio D. Abarzúa, María S. Brouchoud

“…The study area has developed in the last decades a considerable expansion of horticultural production, currently concentrating 48% of the province's surface devoted for this type of production. The cultivation of tomato for industry, onion for the domestic market and for export, and the vegetables for fresh consumption aimed at regional markets and local fairs are the main options in this type of production. …”
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Enhancing Africa’s agriculture and food systems through responsible and gender inclusive AI innovation: insights from AI4AFS network by Nicholas Ozor, Joel Nwakaire, Alfred Nyambane, Wentland Muhatiah, Cynthia Nwobodo

“…Through a set of case studies, we explore AI-driven solutions for pest and disease detection across crops such as cashew, maize, tomato, and cassava, including a real-time health monitoring tool for Nsukka Yellow pepper. …”
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Proposal of a generic model to predict the time to reject low acid fruit pulps contaminated by Byssochlamys fulva by Paulo Ricardo Santos da Silva, Michele Bertoni Mann, Isabel Cristina Tessaro, Ligia Damasceno Ferreira Marczak

“…The growth curves of B. fulva in pulps of mango, melon, papaya and tomato were obtained experimentally from which the time to spoil was determined and compared with the results predict by the mathematical model in the range of 20ºC to 36ºC. …”
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Mulberry Juice-Derived Carbon Quantum Dots as a Cu2+ Ion Sensor: Investigating the Influence of Fruit Ripeness on the Optical Properties by Chiayee Salih Ajaj, Diyar Sadiq

“…The impact of fruit ripeness on optical properties was explored by examining fluorescent spectra from different fruits (including tomato and blackberry), demonstrating comparable behaviors observed in mulberry fruit. …”
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Pesticide use in vegetable production in rural Uganda - A case study of Kabale District, South western Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Grace, Birungi

“…The study revealed extensive pesticide application in Brassica oleracea; var. capitata (cabbage), Brassica oleracea; var. botrytis (cauliflower), Solanum lycopersicum, (tomato) and Beta vulgaris (beet root). Information obtained using interviews revealed that 16.5% of the traders in Kabale Municipality sold pesticides and 70% of the farmers in the major vegetable growing subcounties of Kaharo, Kyanamira and Kamuganguzi sprayed their vegetables with pesticides. …”
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Metabolome profiling dissects the oat (Avena sativa L.) innate immune response to Pseudomonas syringae pathovars. by Chanel J Pretorius, Paul A Steenkamp, Ian A Dubery

“…The strains were P. syringae pv. coronafaciens (Ps-c), P. syringae pv. tabaci, P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and the hrcC mutant of DC3000. At the seedling growth stage, metabolic alterations in the Dunnart oat cultivar (tolerant to Ps-c) in response to inoculation with the respective P. syringae pathovars were examined following perception and response assays. …”
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Nitrous oxide emissions from wetland soil amended with two types of cattle manure by Johnson Masaka, Justice Nyamangara, Menas Wuta

“…Methods A field experiment was carried out in a wetland in central Zimbabwe to determine the effects of cattle manure quality on emissions of N2O during the growing seasons of rape and tomato crops. The static chamber and gas chromatography techniques were used to capture and measure fluxes of N2O. …”
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Control of meiotic crossing over in plant breeding by S. R. Strelnikova, R. A. Komakhin

“…The results of studies concerning the effect of inactivation or overexpression of genes encoding RecA-like recombinases on meiotic crossing over, including those in cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and its interspecific hybrids, are summarized. …”
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Comparison of Pheromone Lures and Sticky Pad Color for Capturing <i>Tuta absoluta</i> (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) by Muhammad Sadique, Muhammad Ishtiaq, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Wafa A. H. Alkherb, Asim Abbasi, Muhammad Arshad, Unsar Naeem Ullah, Nazar Faried, Muhammad Irfan Akram, Nazih Y. Rebouh

“…Tomato leaf miner <i>Tuta absoluta</i> (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) has gained the status of major pest globally. …”
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Metformin blocks BIK1-mediated CPK28 phosphorylation and enhances plant immunity by Yazhou Bao, Qian Zhang, Hai Zhu, Yong Pei, Yaning Zhao, Yixin Li, Peiyun Ji, Dandan Du, Hao Peng, Guangyuan Xu, Xiaodan Wang, Zhiyuan Yin, Gan Ai, Xiangxiu Liang, Daolong Dou

“…Moreover, MET enhanced disease resistance in tomato, pepper, and soybean plants. Conclusion: Collectively, our data suggest that MET enhances plant immunity by blocking BIK1-mediated CPK28 phosphorylation.…”
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Time-lapse imaging of identified granule cells in the mouse dentate gyrus after entorhinal lesion in vitro reveals heterogeneous cellular responses to denervation by Davide Greco, Alexander Drakew, Nina Rößler, Nina Rößler, Tassilo Jungenitz, Peter Jedlicka, Peter Jedlicka, Thomas Deller

“…Local adeno-associated virus (AAV)-injections were employed to transduce dentate GCs with tdTomato and entorhinal projection neurons with EGFP. …”
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Beneficial arthropods threatened by synthetic agricultural pesticides around the southeast slopes of Mount Cameroon by Daniel Brice Nkontcheu Kenko, Agathe Lambou Fotio, Kenfack Donhachi Aimerance, Derick Atemlefac Acha, Miranda Egbe Awo, Eric Bertrand Fokam

“…Data on pesticide usage (active ingredients, interval, dosage, number of applications), and ecotoxicology (LD50 and environmental behaviour) were collected from field surveys and the IUPAC databases, respectively, then imported into PRIMET to assess the level of risk expressed in Exposure Toxicity Ratio (ETR). Tomato was the main crop of the area while insecticides were the main pesticide category utilised in the study area. …”
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Splicing and expression dynamics of SR genes in hot pepper (Capsicum annuum): regulatory diversity and conservation under stress by Lin Li, Yueqin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Rui Zhang, Xiangtao Cen, Yongxiang Huang, Yongxiang Huang, Hanqiao Hu, Hanqiao Hu, Xingyu Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Yu Ling, Yu Ling

“…Interestingly, a cross-species comparative study with Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) showed that many AS events impact the region which codes the RNA recognition motif (RRM) domain of the protein, indicating a conserved regulatory mechanism of SR proteins in plants. …”
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Pseudomonas cold shock proteins suppress bacterial effector translocation in Nicotiana benthamiana by Shen Cong, Jun-Zhou Li, Mei-Ran Zhang, Mei-Ran Zhang, Hai-Lei Wei, Wei Zhang

“…While peptide inoculation studies have revealed the effects of CSPs, their in vivo roles remain poorly understood.MethodsA model system involving the interactions between Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 with Nicotiana benthamiana has been widely used to investigate the molecular mechanism of plant-microbe interactions. …”
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Origin and post-harvest losses of vegetables in the microregion of Chapadinha, Maranhão, Brazil by Tiago Fernando Riew Tomm, Edmilson Igor Bernardo Almeida, Kessia Tenório Figueirinha, Lusiane de Sousa Ferreira, Márcia Maria de Souza Gondim, Deucleiton Jardim Amorim

“…Rank losses, in order of decreasing losses were: tomato (18.38 ± 0.39%) > potato (13.82 ± 0.11%) > bell pepper (10.13 ± 0.07%) > carrot (9.35 ± 0), 09%) > onion (7.31 ± 0.15%) > lettuce (6.16 ± 0.15%). …”
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In Vitro Control of Phytophthora infestans and Alternaria solani Using Crude Extracts and Essential Oils from Selected Plants by Lydia G. Mugao, Phyllis W. Muturi, Bernard M. Gichimu, Ezekiel K. Njoroge

“…Tomato production is constrained by fungal diseases especially the early and late blight caused by Alternaria solani and Phytophthora infestans, respectively. …”
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Attentive Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (ASCL) for plant disease classification by Getinet Yilma, Mesfin Dagne, Mohammed Kemal Ahmed, Ravindra Babu Bellam

“…The pre-trained weights were then fine-tuned on small-scale unseen datasets extracted from the 17-class PlantVillage Taiwan Tomato and Apple datasets. Despite involving fewer than 17 classes, the high variability within each class, such as the disease progression stages, underscores the fine-grained nature of the classification task. …”
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Expression of the transcription factor encoding gene <i>StTCP23</i> in potato plants infected with the tuber spindle viroid by N. V. Mironenko, A. S. Orina, N. M. Lashina, О. S. Afanasenko

“…‘Colomba’ were inoculated with leaf sap of the tomato cv. ‘Rutgers’ in which the PSTVd viroid NicTr-3 strain was propagated. …”
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