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The Coffea spp. plant is a significant crop in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and recent advances in genomics and transcriptomics have opened possibilities for studying candidate genes and introducing new desirable traits through genetic engineering. While stable transformation of coffee plants has been reported using various techniques, it is a time-consuming and laborious process.

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Coffea arabica L. is a crucial crop globally, but its genetic homogeneity leads to its susceptibility to diseases and pests like the coffee berry borer (CBB). Chemical and cultural control methods are difficult due to the majority of the CBB life cycle taking place inside coffee beans.

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Coffee, an important agricultural product for tropical producing countries, is facing challenges due to climate change, including periods of drought, irregular rain distribution, and high temperatures. These changes result in plant water stress, leading to significant losses in coffee productivity and quality. Understanding the processes that affect coffee flowering is crucial for improving productivity and quality.

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Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding.

Commun Biol

March 2024

Ecology and Biodiversity group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Article Synopsis
  • The study examines how plant diversity affects grassland productivity (or overyielding) in relation to nitrogen (N) addition, revealing that nutrient enrichment does not change overyielding rates overall, despite altering its driving factors.
  • It finds that as nitrogen is added over time, the positive interactions between different plant species (complementarity effects) decrease while the success of certain dominant species (selection effects) increases.
  • The results highlight the need to understand cumulative N addition's role in grassland ecosystems, which is crucial for biodiversity conservation and maintaining ecosystem resilience against rising nitrogen levels.
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Due to the environmental risks of conventional Cu-based fungicides, Cu-loaded chitosan nanoparticles have been developed as nano-pesticides, aiming to protect plants against different diseases. In this sense, the objective was to verify the effects of chitosan nanoparticles containing Cu ions on leaf discs of cv. IPR 100 infected with .

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Type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in bacteria and are involved in important cell features, such as cell growth inhibition and antimicrobial tolerance, through the induction of persister cells. Overall, these characteristics are associated with bacterial survival under stress conditions and represent a significant genetic mechanism to be explored for antibacterial molecules. We verified that even though Xylella fastidiosa and Xanthomonas citri subsp.

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Fertigation management of banana plantations at a plot scale is expanding rapidly in Brazil. To guide nutrient management at such a small scale, genetic, environmental and managerial features should be well understood. Machine learning and compositional data analysis (CoDa) methods can measure the effects of feature combinations on banana yield and rank nutrients in the order of their limitation.

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