Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Ginger Rhizomes Tolerance to Postharvest Deterioration and Resistance to .

Postharvest deterioration of ginger rhizome caused by microorganisms or wound infections causes significant economic losses. is one of the important causal agents of prevalent ginger disease soft rot across the world. The massive and continuous use of chemical fungicides in postharvest preservation pose risks to human health and produce environmental contamination.

Identification and evolutionary analysis of the metal-tolerance protein family in eight Cucurbitaceae species.

Metal-tolerance proteins (MTPs) are divalent cation transporters and play fundamental roles in plant metal tolerance and ion homeostasis. Despite that, a systematic investigation of MTPs in Cucurbitacea is still lacking. In this study, 142 MTPs were identified from 11 released genomes of 8 Cucurbitaceae species.

Silicon confers cucumber resistance to salinity stress through regulation of proline and cytokinins.

Salt stress is a continuous threat to global crop production. Here, we studied the alleviation role of exogenous silicon (Si) in NaCl-stressed cucumber, with special emphasis on plant growth, proline (Pro) and hormone metabolisms. The results showed that Si supplementation ameliorated the adverse effects of NaCl on plants growth, biomass, and oxidative stress.

Genome-wide characterization of the C2H2 zinc-finger genes in Cucumis sativus and functional analyses of four CsZFPs in response to stresses.

Backgrounds: C2H2-type zinc finger protein (ZFPs) form a relatively large family of transcriptional regulators in plants, and play many roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. However, the comprehensive analysis of C2H2 ZFPs in cucumber (CsZFPs) and their regulation function in cucumber are still lacking.

Results: In the current study, the whole genome identification and characterization of CsZFPs, including the gene structure, genome localization, phylogenetic relationship, and gene expression were performed.