Speed breeding advancements in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.): a simplified and efficient approach for accelerating breeding programs

Molecular Breeding, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 45(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Light Quality Plays a Crucial Role in Regulating Germination, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Plant Development, Reactive Oxygen Species Production, Antioxidant Enzyme Activity, and Nutrient Acquisition in Alfalfa

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 26(1), P. 360 - 360

Published: Jan. 3, 2025

Light is a vital regulator of photosynthesis, energy production, plant growth, and morphogenesis. Although these key physiological processes are well understood, the effects light quality on pigment content, oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species (ROS) antioxidant defense systems, biomass yield plants remain largely unexplored. In this study, we applied different light-emitting diode (LED) treatments, including white light, red blue red+blue (1:1) combination, to evaluate traits mentioned above in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Fluorescence staining showed that significantly triggered stress indicators compared while combined treatment reduced ROS (O2•−, H2O2) intensity seedlings. Interestingly, boosted seed germination rate (%), maximum photochemical quantum PSII (Fv/Fm), leaf greenness (SPAD score), photosynthetic levels (chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, carotenoids), The and/or (red+blue) treatments regulated enzymes (SOD, CAT, APX, GR) expression genes related ascorbate–glutathione (AsA-GSH) pathway, monodehydroascorbate reductase (MsMDHAR), dehydroascorbate (MsDHAR), ascorbate peroxidase (MsAPX), glutathione (MsGR). These results indicate crucial for regulating morphological, physiological, molecular linked improvement. findings suggest new approach enhancing adaptation, as morphological agronomic yield, forage legumes through light-quality-mediated

Language: Английский

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High relative humidity mitigates the adverse effects of excessive light by protecting photosynthetic machinery in flowering Chinese cabbage

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 222, P. 109701 - 109701

Published: Feb. 25, 2025

Language: Английский

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Optimizing the quality of horticultural crop: insights into pre-harvest practices in controlled environment agriculture

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: July 23, 2024

In modern agriculture, Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) stands out as a contemporary production mode that leverages precise control over environmental conditions such nutrient, temperature, light, and other factors to achieve efficient high-quality agricultural production. Numerous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of manipulating these in short period before harvest enhance crop yield quality CEA. This comprehensive review aims provide insight into various pre-harvest practices employed CEA, including nutrient deprivation, supply, manipulation light environment, application exogenous hormones, with objective improving horticultural crops. Additionally, we propose an intelligent management system cultivate integrates sensor technology, data analysis, control, enabling customization specific strategies based on producers’ requirements. The envisioned holds potential quality, increase yield, reduce resource wastage, offer innovative ideas technical support for sustainable development

Language: Английский

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Cutting-Edge Strategies to Enhance Bioactive Compound Production in Plants: Potential Value of Integration of Elicitation, Metabolic Engineering, and Green Nanotechnology

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(12), P. 2822 - 2822

Published: Nov. 27, 2024

The increasing demand for bioactive compounds from plants has spurred the exploration of innovative strategies to enhance their production. This review focuses on three advanced methodologies: elicitation, metabolic engineering, and using biosynthesized nanoparticles. Elicitation, through application abiotic biotic stressors, stimulates plant defense mechanisms, significantly boosts secondary metabolite Metabolic engineering further refines this process by genetically modifying key pathways redirect resources towards synthesis valuable compounds. Additionally, metallic oxide nanoparticles offer a sustainable method growth These act not only as elicitors, but also catalyze processes improve efficiency compound synthesis. Despite significant advancements, challenges remain in optimizing these approaches large-scale agricultural application, particularly understanding precise interactions between systems. integration holds great potential agriculture development high-value phytochemicals. Future research should focus unraveling complex mechanisms behind refining methods commercial use, ensuring environmental economic sustainability.

Language: Английский

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Balancing Yield and Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Supplemental Lighting in Commercial-Scale Cucumber Cultivation

Horticulturae, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(1), P. 79 - 79

Published: Jan. 13, 2025

Lighting is a fundamental driver of plant productivity in controlled-environment agriculture (CEA), directly affecting physiological processes, resource efficiency, and sustainability. This study evaluates the effects distinct lighting systems, industrial Light-Emitting Diodes (iLEDs), horticultural LEDs (hLEDs), high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps, controls (no supplemental light), each providing unique light spectra, on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) growth, physiology, environmental impact under controlled intensity 250 µmol m−2 s−1 commercial CEA setup. The results indicated that iLEDs enhance intrinsic water use efficiency (35.65 CO2/mol H2O) reduce transpiration, reflecting superior use. Electrophysiological measurements significantly more stable stress responses plants subjected to hLEDs as compared HPS control treatments, indicating effectiveness LED spectra mitigating stress-related impacts. Furthermore, compact growth shorter stem internodes were observed well hLEDs, highlighting spectral photomorphogenesis, likely caused by balanced spectrum. achieved highest yield (42.86 kg m−2) but at significant cost, with 342.65 CO2e emissions 204.29 for iLEDs, competitive 38.84 m−2. Economic analysis revealed also offered most cost-effective solution due lower energy consumption extended lifespan. focused interaction between photosynthetic performance, resilience, advancing sustainable strategies energy-efficient food production systems.

Language: Английский

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Treasures Induced by Narrow-Spectrum: Volatile Phenylpropanoid and Terpene Compounds in Leaves of Lemon Basil (Ocimum × citriodorum Vis.), Sweet Basil (O. basilicum L.) and Bush Basil (O. minimum L.) Under Artificial Light City Farm Conditions

Plants, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 403 - 403

Published: Jan. 29, 2025

The cultivation of aromatic plants that are valuable for nutritional and medical aims under artificial conditions with narrow-band LED lighting is becoming widespread. A comparison the effects conventional basil field greenhouse a city farm (CF) on essential oil its components was studied in Ocimum × citriodorum Vis. “Kapriz” (OcK), O. basilicum L. “Queen Sheba” (ObQS) minimum “Vasilisk” (OmV). Essential (EO) extracted by hydrodistillation from dry leaves varieties. EO composition gas chromatography, while number glandular trichomes scanning electron microscopy. We found CF plants, ObQS OmV increased yield (22.9 22.7 g/kg DW, respectively) compared to (10.9 13.7 respectively). glands four-celled heads also increased. In OcK amount almost unchanged, but capitate strongly Biochemical analysis showed ones, eugenol accumulated 40% more three times OmV. addition, 10.9% estragol detected which absent plants. Thus, biosynthesis phenylpropanoid volatile Ocimum.

Language: Английский

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Highly transparent and semi-transparent perovskites and their applications

Applied Physics Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Feb. 4, 2025

Perovskite has recently garnered significant attention as a promising semiconductor for optoelectronic applications and particularly solar cells. In various applications, cells must be semi-transparent or even nearly fully transparent. emerge strong contenders to meet this requirement, owing their remarkable versatility that allows high transparency. Consequently, numerous studies on perovskite have been presented in recent years, demonstrating advancements properties. This review aims explore color-neutral highly transparent cells, encompassing synthetic routes, challenges associated with fabrication process, potential solutions. The incorporation of additives two-dimensional perovskites enhance the properties is also discussed. Finally, we will delve into some other successfully studied.

Language: Английский

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Light-emitting diodes affect plantlet growth of Spathiphyllum cannifolium by regulating photosynthesis and sucrose metabolism during ex vitro rooting

Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 160(2)

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Supplemental lighting in controlled environment agriculture: Enhancing photosynthesis, growth, and sink activity

CABI Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 14, 2025

Abstract Rising demand for reliable crop production has accelerated the adoption of controlled environment agriculture (CEA), such as greenhouses and vertical farms, where growth conditions are carefully tailored to improve efficiency productivity. Light is a critical factor in these systems, driving photosynthesis through complex mechanisms involving pigments biochemical processes while also regulating plant morphology resource allocation via photoreceptors, influencing source–sink balance. Advances LED technology enable precise control over light parameters, creating opportunities enhance physiological addressing energy challenges, given that lighting constitutes highest operational cost. Optimizing lighting, including intensity photoperiod, enhances photosynthetic efficiency, sink capacity, use, thereby maximizing yield quality. Extending photoperiods with supplemental increases Daily Integral (DLI) by allowing plants utilize within linear phase response curve, increase impact on growth. This approach biomass accumulation increasing efficiency. However, extending continuous can disrupt essential metabolic some species, leading photoinhibition, leaf chlorosis, or reduced Dynamic strategies, adjusting solar irradiance utilizing nighttime offer innovative approaches These methods mitigate risks associated excessively long photoperiods, paving way more sustainable efficient systems. Specific spectra not only optimize capacity but regulate quality traits, flavor, nutritional value, antioxidant activity. Far-red strength sugar transport; blue improves stomatal conductance carbohydrate export; green penetrates deeper into canopy, enhancing lower leaves; orange contributes distribution overall canopy photosynthesis; UV influences secondary metabolite stress resistance. Consequently, expanded from traditional red wavelengths include far-red, orange, green, light, improving penetration, allocation, Additionally, genetic variability responses artificial offering breed crops specifically adapted CEA environments, focusing traits like enhanced light-use By integrating advanced technologies leveraging insights, systems achieve higher productivity minimizing consumption, production.

Language: Английский

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