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Plant Sciences
Abdelrazek S. Abdelrhim, Yasmin M. R. Abdellatif, Mohammad A. Hossain, Saud Alamri, Mohammad Pessarakli, Amna M. N. Lessy, Mona F. A. Dawood
Summary: The in vitro and in vivo efficacy of three biocontrol agents, Trichoderma viride, Pseudomonas fluorescence, and Bacillus subtilis, were tested against Rhizoctonia solani infection. All biocontrol agents significantly reduced the growth of R. solani, with T. viride showing the highest inhibition percentage. The biocontrol agents also enhanced coriander resistance to R. solani by stimulating salicylic acid, phenolics, and antioxidant enzymes.
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Microbiology
Rachel Serrano, Victor Gonzalez-Menendez, Jose R. Tormo, Olga Genilloud
Summary: This paper aims to develop and validate a high-throughput screening platform for evaluating the antifungal potential of chemicals and natural products against four important plant pathogens. The optimal assay conditions were determined through several experiments, and the platform was validated using known antifungal agents and microbial natural product extracts.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Barinder Kaur, Karmvir Singh Garcha, Jagdeep Singh Sandhu, Madhu Sharma, Ajmer Singh Dhatt
Summary: This study successfully transferred the hull-less seed trait into C. moschata through conventional pollination and ovule culture, and confirmed the hybridity through SSR markers and morphological traits. The results of this study pave the way for increasing the productivity and multi-season cultivation of snack-seeded pumpkin in subtropical and tropical regions.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aysegul Akpinar, Asuman Cansev, Mehmet Isleyen
Summary: Terricolous lichens growing in contaminated soil have a positive impact on the growth and development of zucchini, despite the presence of oxidative stress. It was found that powdered application of Peltigera canina had more effective results compared to intact thallus application.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Peter Kusstatscher, Eveline Adam, Wisnu Adi Wicaksono, Maria Bernhart, Expedito Olimi, Henry Mueller, Gabriele Berg
Summary: This study explores the impact of long-term plant breeding on plant-associated microbiota and highlights the importance of microbiome in breeding processes. By analyzing the microbiome of Styrian oil pumpkins, it was found that there are significant differences in microbial composition and diversity between seeds and rhizosphere, with more substantial changes observed in seed microbiomes between genotypes. Additionally, potential plant-beneficial bacterial taxa were enriched in progeny seeds, indicating microbiome-driven breeding for plant-beneficial microbes.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Eric Y. Yapi, Fulgence Y. Koffi, Zoumana Ouattara, Mireille W. A. Alloue-Boraud
Summary: The study demonstrates the ability of Pseudomonas fluorescens F19 to inhibit microbial alterations that cause zucchini spoilage, thereby significantly extending the shelf life of zucchini and possessing antifungal properties.
COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Alejandro Ayala-Donas, Pedro Gomez, Miguel de Cara-Garcia
Summary: Differential gene expression was found between genotypes, tissues, days post-inoculation, and inoculated/non-inoculated samples. After inoculation, CpPAL and CpChiIV were downregulated in MUCU-16, while CpLPOX and CpDEF were upregulated in M63. CpDEF showed higher overexpression after inoculation, indicating its potential as a marker for biotic stress.
Article
Plant Sciences
Jessica Iglesias-Moya, Gustavo Cebrian, Dolores Garrido, Cecilia Martinez, Manuel Jamilena
Summary: The enhanced salt tolerance of squash ethylene-insensitive mutants suggests that ABA could mediate this tolerance during germination and early seedling development. The comparison of wild type and ethylene-insensitive etr2b mutant seeds germinated under water and exogenous ABA treatment showed that etr2b seeds germinated earlier than wild type and were also insensitive to ABA. The expression profiles of ethylene and ABA genes in dry and imbibed seeds demonstrated a clear crosstalk between ethylene and ABA in germination.
PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Ilaria Colzi, Luciana Renna, Elisabetta Bianchi, Maria Beatrice Castellani, Andrea Coppi, Sara Pignattelli, Stefano Loppi, Cristina Gonnelli
Summary: Different microplastics have specific and concentration-dependent toxic effects on the growth of Cucurbita pepo, with PVC identified as the most toxic and PE as the least toxic material. Microplastic pollution may result in yield and economic loss for C. pepo, as well as potential risks for entering the food chain.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yunli Wang, Guichao Wang, Dongjuan Lin, Qinfen Luo, Wenlong Xu, Shuping Qu
Summary: Trichomes provide an excellent model for studying cell differentiation and proliferation. This study identified two major QTLs for trichome density in zucchini and further investigated the regulatory mechanism using functional annotations and transcription factor selection, laying a foundation for better understanding the density of multicellular nonglandular trichomes.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Christopher O. Hernandez, Joanne Labate, Kathleen Reitsma, Jack Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangjun Fei, Rebecca Grumet, Michael Mazourek
Summary: The study analyzed the genotype data of Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima collected from USDA germplasm collections through genotyping-by-sequencing. The analysis revealed extensive genetic structure corresponding to geographical origin and morphotype/market class. Genome-wide associate studies identified signals for various traits, with the strongest signal found for the bush gene in C. pepo. This research provides valuable information for maintaining genetic diversity, developing breeding resources, and prioritizing whole-genome re-sequencing.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Manswama Boro, Shuvankar Sannyasi, Dixita Chettri, Anil Kumar Verma
Summary: Microbial biological agents can replace chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture and have multiple benefits, including promoting plant health and providing protection against plant pathogenic microorganisms. Certain bacteria, fungi, viruses, and bacteriophages have been found to have antimicrobial activity and can be effective biocontrol agents against plant pathogens.
ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Zukisani Gontomo, Morris Fanadzo, Maxwell Mewa-Ngongant, JustinW Hoff, Marieta van der Rijst, Vincent Okudoh, Johan Kriel, Heinrich W. du Plessis
Summary: The study evaluated the antagonistic effect of selected yeasts against spoilage moulds. Several yeast isolates showed growth inhibition activity against different moulds, with Pichia kluyveri Y64 and Meyerozyma guilliermondii Y88 demonstrating high inhibition activity on apples. These yeasts have the potential to be further investigated as biofungicides.
POLISH JOURNAL OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Horticulture
Solmaz Najafi, Hossein Nazari Nasi, Ruveyde Tuncturk, Murat Tuncturk, Riyaz Z. Sayyed, Reza Amirnia
Summary: The study evaluated the effects of mycorrhiza, Thiobacillus, and Nitroxin biofertilizers on the antioxidant enzyme activities of medicinal pumpkin under drought stress conditions. Results showed that biofertilizers played a positive role in coping with drought stress.
Article
Plant Sciences
Kentaro Fujita, Soichiro Asuke, Erika Isono, Ryouhei Yoshihara, Yuichi Uno, Hideyuki Inui
Summary: MLP-PG1, identified in Cucurbita pepo, plays a crucial role in resistance against fungal pathogens through the induction of pathogenesis-related genes.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
J-P Berrut, S. De Marchi, G. Elefante, F. Marchetti
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LETTERS
(2020)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
S. De Marchi, F. Marchetti, E. Perracchione, D. Poggiali
Summary: The main goal of the paper is to extend interpolation using mapped bases to any basis and dimension without the need for resampling. The proposed method, called Fake Nodes Approach (FNA), provides an effective way of interpolating in the multivariate setting. The theoretical results are supported by numerical experiments demonstrating the robustness of the scheme.
APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Vahid Mohammadi, Mehdi Dehghan, Stefano De Marchi
Summary: The aim of this study is to find a suitable numerical method for solving the mathematical model describing the prostate tumor growth, compare different numerical techniques, and verify the ability of the proposed numerical scheme.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Davide Poggiali, Diego Cecchin, Cristina Campi, Stefano De Marchi
Summary: Interpolation is necessary for analyzing medical images, but introduces errors. Experimental results suggest that undersampling to the lowest image size reduces errors, while oversampling error is larger where the gradient is steeper.
Article
Mathematics
Stefano De Marchi, Giacomo Elefante, Francesco Marchetti
Summary: This paper introduces the class of (beta, gamma)-Chebyshev functions and corresponding points, proving their orthogonality in certain subintervals. It investigates the cases where they become polynomials and shows their relationship with classical Chebyshev polynomials. Additionally, subsets of Chebyshev and Chebyshev-Lobatto points are instances of (beta, gamma)-Chebyshev points, and the behavior of Lebesgue constants at these points is studied by varying the parameters beta and gamma.
JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATION THEORY
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
S. De Marchi, G. Elefante, F. Marchetti
Summary: The Fake Nodes Approach allows for changing the set of nodes without the need for resampling the function, and has been successfully applied to mitigate the Runge's phenomenon and the Gibbs phenomenon. The GRASPA approach offers a new way to simultaneously mitigate both the Runge's and Gibbs phenomena.
COMPUTATIONAL & APPLIED MATHEMATICS
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Len Bos, Stefano De Marchi
Summary: The paper discusses the generalization of Berrut's first and second rational interpolants to equally spaced points on a triangle in R-2.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
R. Campagna, S. De Marchi, E. Perracchione, G. Santin
Summary: In this study, we extended the application of greedy algorithms and proposed solutions for the oscillation problem in approximating functions. We developed results on theoretically optimal interpolation points and introduced two algorithms for adaptively selecting spline interpolation points. One algorithm is tailored to a specific target function, while the other enables the definition of target-data-independent interpolation nodes.
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Ana-Maria Acu, Stefano De Marchi, Ioan Rasa
Summary: In this paper, we improve the approximation properties of the AKR operators and compare them with the classical Bernstein operators. The results are extended to the bivariate case and supported by numerical examples.
RESULTS IN MATHEMATICS
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Mohammad Heidari, Maryam Mohammadi, Stefano De Marchi
Summary: This paper discusses the problem of choosing the scale or shape parameter of radial basis functions (RBFs) in kernel-based methods. It introduces a direct relation between the shape parameter and the curvature of RBFs at each point. Based on this relation, RBFs are characterized as scalable or unscalable, and their curvature is used to classify commonly used RBFs. The paper then proposes a curvature-based scaled RBFs method, where the shape parameters depend on the function values and approximate curvature values of the function to be approximated. Numerical experiments show that this method performs better than the standard fixed-scale basis and other shape parameter selection methods.
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Stefano De Marchi, Nadaniela Egidi, Josephin Giacomini, Pierluigi Maponi, Alessia Perticarini
Summary: This paper investigates the interpolation problem with the inverse multiquadric radial basis function and demonstrates an efficient technique for calculating the product of the coefficient matrix and a generic vector through numerical simulations.
DOLOMITES RESEARCH NOTES ON APPROXIMATION
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Stefano De Marchi, Giacomo Elefante, Elisa Francomano, Francesco Marchetti
Summary: This paper presents a novel technique that uses polynomial mapped bases for scattered data interpolation, quadrature, and bio-imaging reconstruction. The method incorporates data or function discontinuities in a suitable mapping function, and effectively mitigates the Runge's and Gibbs effects.
COMMUNICATIONS IN APPLIED AND INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Mohammad Heidari, Maryam Mohammadi, Stefano De Marchi
Summary: This paper introduces a new transcendental RBF based on the hyperbolic tangent function to approximate phi(r) = r with higher accuracy, and rewrites Wu-Schaback's quasi-interpolation formula using this RBF. The proposed scheme converges with a rate of O(h(2), demonstrating higher smoothness and efficiency through numerical experiments.
DOLOMITES RESEARCH NOTES ON APPROXIMATION
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Stefano De Marchi, Giacomo Elefante, Emma Perracchione, Davide Poggiali
Summary: In this study, the use of mapped bases or fake nodes approach in numerical integration helped mitigate the Gibbs phenomenon and compute the quadrature weights of fake Chebyshev-Lobatto nodes analytically. Surprisingly, these weights coincided with the composite trapezoidal rule. Numerical experiments confirmed the effectiveness of the method in mitigating the Gibbs phenomenon without the need for resampling the given function.
DOLOMITES RESEARCH NOTES ON APPROXIMATION
(2021)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Francesco Marchetti, Fabio De Martino, Marie Shamseddin, Stefano De Marchi, Cathrin Brisken
2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLVING AND ADAPTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EAIS)
(2020)
