Publications by authors named "Adil Mihoub"
Tuta absoluta is one of the most destructive pests of tomatoes. Chemical insecticides used to control this leafminer harm all organisms, increasing the risk to public health and the environment. Developing natural alternatives, such as bioinsecticides formulated from essential plant oils, is a key strategy to address this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPesticides and antibiotics usually sink into soil, posing serious phytotoxic effects on plants. However, studies are elusive regarding the phytotoxic effects of fungicide Consento (CON) and antibiotic ampicillin (AMP) co-exposure. Nitric oxide (NO) is an important plant signaling molecule known for abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
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- Insecticides and fungicides can hurt crops that aren't meant to be affected, and how they do this together isn't fully understood.
- Silicon (Si) is known to help plants cope with harmful substances, and this study looks at how it helps tomato plants when exposed to two specific pesticides, CYP and HML.
- The research found that using Si on stressed seedlings helped them grow better and reduced damage caused by the pesticides, which suggests that Si could be an important tool for protecting plants in farming.
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- - The study looked at how a harmful fungicide called Consento (CON) affects wheat seedlings and whether a helpful molecule called nitric oxide (NO) can reduce the damage caused by the fungicide.
- - The results showed that high doses of CON made the wheat seedlings grow poorly, reducing their weight, height, and chlorophyll levels significantly.
- - When NO was added, it helped the seedlings recover by improving their growth and health, showing that NO can protect plants from the negative effects of CON.
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- The study focuses on creating new nanocurcumin-based products to combat oxidative stress and diabetes.
- Nanocurcumin is encapsulated in biopolymers from corn starch and fenugreek, achieving high encapsulation rates and demonstrating improved stability and dissolution rates.
- Both formulations showed strong antioxidant activity and significantly lowered blood sugar levels in diabetic rats, supporting their potential as therapeutic options.
Introduction: Low soil fertility and high fertilizer costs are constraints to wheat production, which may be resolved with integrating fertilizer phosphorus (P) and farm-yard manure (FYM). Study objectives were to evaluate P source impacts on soil, P efficiency, and wheat growth in a calcareous soil.
Methods: Treatments included P fertilizer (0, 17, 26, or 39 kg P ha-1) and/or FYM (0 or 10 T ha-1) in a: 1) incubation experiment and 2) wheat (Triticum aestivum spp.
Pyramiding of major resistance (R) genes through marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a useful way to attain durable and broad-spectrum resistance against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae pathogen, the causal agent of bacterial blight (BB) disease in rice (Oryza sativa L.).
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