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Agronomy
Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Mohamed A. M. Atia, Faten Dhawi, Ahmed S. Fouad, Eslam S. A. Bendary, Ebtihal Khojah, Bassem N. Samra, Karima F. Abdelgawad, Mohamed F. M. Ibrahim, Emad A. Abdeldaym
Summary: This study found genetic relatedness among different tomato rootstocks under drought stress conditions, with heterografts showing better growth and yield. Cluster analysis based on various traits validated the reliability of SCoT and CDDP as screening tools for predicting grafting behavior on different rootstocks.
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Chemistry, Applied
Ismael Ramirez Flores, Maria Soledad Vasquez-Murrieta, Marina Olivia Franco-Hernandez, Ciro Eliseo Marquez-Herrera, Alejandro Ponce-Mendoza, Ma del Socorro Lopez-Cortez
Summary: This study reveals that there is a relationship between the mineral composition of soils and the bioactive compound content in tomatoes grown in different regions of Mexico. The elements present in the soil in each region have an impact on the nutritional composition and antioxidant activity of the tomatoes.
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Food Science & Technology
Lorena Martinez-Zamora, Noelia Castillejo, Francisco Artes-Hernandez
Summary: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of visible spectrum LED lighting on the quality and bioactive compounds of Kumato(R) cherry tomatoes during shelf-life. The tomatoes were stored under different LED lights and darkness. The results showed that illumination with blue + red LED or blue LED enhanced the content of bioactive compounds, while green + red and green + far-red LED also stimulated the biosynthesis of certain compounds.
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Annalisa Meucci, Anton Shiriaev, Irene Rosellini, Fernando Malorgio, Beatrice Pezzarossa
Summary: The study found that foliar spray with selenium salts can enrich tomatoes with selenium and improve quality traits, especially when performed at the flowering stage, resulting in positive changes in fruit aroma profile.
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Horticulture
Leo Sabatino, Salvatore La Bella, Georgia Ntatsi, Giovanni Iapichino, Fabio D'Anna, Claudio De Pasquale, Beppe Benedetto Consentino, Youssef Rouphael
Summary: The fertilization of Selenium and plant grafting improved the growth performance of cherry tomatoes and enriched them with nutritional and health-promoting compounds.
SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Metin Turan, Melek Ekinci, Sanem Argin, Mihail Brinza, Ertan Yildirim
Summary: Drought has negative effects on the physiological and biochemical characteristics of crops. This study aimed to investigate the effects of biostimulants containing PGPR on tomato seedlings under different irrigation levels. The results showed that biostimulant applications mitigated the adverse effects of drought stress and improved plant growth parameters. The most effective dose was 4 L ha(-1) under drought conditions.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Peipei Wang, Fanrui Meng, Bethany M. Moore, Shin-Han Shiu
Summary: This study identified factors contributing to variable coverage regions in plant genome assemblies, particularly in tomato. High coverage regions were found to have higher simple sequence repeat and tandem gene densities, with a significant proportion potentially misassembled due to duplicate sequences. Additionally, a predictive model showed that misassembled, high coverage regions were often surrounded by simple sequence repeats, pseudogenes, and transposon elements. Further testing is needed to determine the generality of these factors in other species.
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Plant Sciences
Qingzhu Wang, Shikang Lei, Jie Qian, Min Zheng, Yi-Feng Hsu
Summary: The SlSIZ2 protein in tomato plays an important role in plant tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, regulating the tolerance to salinity stress by modifying target proteins.
JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Adriana E. Cisneros, Purificacion Lison, Laura Campos, Joan Manel Lopez-Tubau, Teresa Altabella, Albert Ferrer, Jose-Antonio Daros, Alberto Carbonell
Summary: This study aimed to engineer highly resistant tomato plants to Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) and developed tomato lines expressing an artificial microRNA (amiRNA) against PSTVd (amiR-PSTVd). However, the results showed that amiR-PSTVd-expressing lines were hypersusceptible to the viroid instead of being resistant. Further analysis revealed that amiR-PSTVd accidentally silenced the tomato STEROL GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 1 (SlSGT1) gene, which led to late developmental and reproductive defects as well as hypersusceptibility to viroid infection.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yolanda Gonzalez-Garcia, Elsy Rubisela Lopez-Vargas, Marissa Perez-Alvarez, Gregorio Cadenas-Pliego, Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza, Jesus Valdes-Reyna, Fabian Perez-Labrada, Antonio Juarez-Maldonado
Summary: The use of carbon nanomaterials in seed priming of tomato plants subjected to saline stress improves the content of bioactive compounds in tomato fruits and enhances the antioxidant defense system, suggesting possible protection of the plant from the negative impacts of stress by salinity.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Centhyea Chen, Umi Hartina Mohamad Razali, Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim, Azniza Mahyudin, Nor Qhairul Izzreen Mohd Noor
Summary: Morus alba, a highly adaptable plant, contains a variety of beneficial compounds with excellent biological properties and nutritional value. Despite this, its potential as a functional food ingredient has not been fully explored.
Article
Horticulture
Lingran Xiao, Tomoki Shibuya, Kazuhisa Kato, Manabu Nishiyama, Yoshinori Kanayama
Summary: This article summarizes the effects of light quality on tomato growth, fruit ripening, and metabolite accumulation, and discusses the roles of photoreceptors and light signal integrators for each light quality. It also explores the impact of light quality on plant morphogenesis and biotic and abiotic stresses. The study concludes that the use of appropriate wavelength and intensity for light quality is safe, and the use of light-emitting diodes as an energy-saving light source is environmentally friendly. Research suggests that light quality control technology can improve the yield and quality of tomatoes through the use of plant growth regulators.
SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Elisa Zampieri, Elisabetta Franchi, Luca Giovannini, Francesca Brescia, Fabiano Sillo, Danilo Fusini, Ilaria Pietrini, Mauro Centritto, Raffaella Balestrini
Summary: This study characterized bacteria isolated from soil and roots of tomato plants and found that these bacteria have the potential to promote plant growth and enhance plant tolerance to water deficit conditions. Inoculating tomato plants with these bacteria increased shoot height and dry weight. The study also showed that the bacterial inoculation affected gene expression related to water deficit pathways in tomato plants. Overall, these findings suggest that the use of these bacteria holds promise for future field applications in improving crop productivity under challenging environmental conditions.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Paola Rivera, Cristian Moya, Jose A. O'Brien
Summary: This study found that low salt concentrations have a positive impact on lateral root development, with no significant changes observed in physiological parameters and sodium ion concentration under 25 mM NaCl stress.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lore Gryffroy, Evi Ceulemans, Nicolas Manosalva Perez, Jhon Venegas-Molina, Ana Cristina Jaramillo-Madrid, Savio D. Rodrigues, Liesbeth De Milde, Veronique Jonckheere, Marc Van Montagu, Barbara De Coninck, Klaas Vandepoele, Petra Van Damme, Alain Goossens
Summary: Rhizogenic Agrobacterium strains are biotrophic pathogens that infect hydroponically grown Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae crops, causing hairy root disease (HRD). They are also widely used for hairy root cultures to produce specialized plant metabolites. The development of hairy roots is regulated by genes encoded on the T-DNA of the root-inducing (Ri) plasmid, including the important rolB gene. In this study, through proximity labeling in tomato hairy roots, the repressor proteins TOPLESS (TPL) and Novel Interactor of JAZ (NINJA) were identified as direct interactors of RolB. The interactions between RolB, TPL, and NINJA were found to play a role in the transcriptional regulation and reprogramming of phytohormone signaling, immunity, growth, and developmental processes in the host plants.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Abdel Wahab M. Mahmoud, Mahmoud M. Samy, Hoda Sany, Rasha R. Eid, Hassan M. Rashad, Emad A. Abdeldaym
Summary: This study investigates the effects of applying nanoelements (silicon and potassium) and biochar on the physiological and biochemical characteristics of potato plants in saline soil. The results demonstrate that the application of nanoelements and biochar significantly improves the growth performance, nutritional status, and yield of potato plants. The combined treatment shows the best growth and yield parameters, reducing transpiration rate, antioxidant enzyme activity, and abscisic acid content, while enhancing tuber quality. Therefore, the application of nanoelements and biochar is an effective method for improving the growth and crop productivity of potato plants under salinity conditions.
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Tarik A. Mohamed, Seba M. Abdelmawgoud, Abdelhamid A. Hamdy, Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim, Abdelsamed Elshamy, Mohamed A. M. Atia, Hanaa A. Kassem, Mohamed-Elamir F. Hegazy, Nabil M. Selim
Summary: A new cembranoid, sarcacutumolid A, was isolated for the first time from the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton acutum, along with six known metabolites. These compounds showed cytotoxic potential against four human cancer cell lines, with sarcacutumolid A and gorgosterol inhibiting colorectal cancer cell proliferation in a concentration-dependent manner.
NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Biology
Hossam S. El-Beltagi, Hala Hazam Al-Otaibi, Aditya Parmar, Khaled M. A. Ramadan, Allan Klynger da Silva Lobato, Mohamed M. El-Mogy
Summary: This study investigated the effect of potassium humate (Kh) and salicylic acid (SA) in mitigating salt stress in common bean plants. The application of Kh and SA individually or in combination alleviated the detrimental effects of salt stress on plant growth, leaf pigments, antioxidants, and other parameters compared to the control.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim, Khlood A. A. Abdeljawaad, Laila A. Jaragh-Alhadad, Hesham Farouk Oraby, Mohamed A. M. Atia, Othman R. Alzahrani, Gamal A. H. Mekhemer, Mahmoud F. Moustafa, Ahmed M. Shawky, Peter A. Sidhom, Alaa H. M. Abdelrahman
Summary: The development of multidrug resistance (MDR) caused by overexpression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp/ABCB1/MDR1) is the main reason for the failure of chemotherapy in carcinoma treatment. An in silico study was conducted to discover potential P-gp inhibitors by assessing the binding energies of 512 drug candidates. Five promising drug candidates, valspodar, dactinomycin, elbasvir, temsirolimus, and sirolimus, showed strong binding energies against P-gp transporter and displayed good pharmacokinetic properties. These results indicate their potential as prospective P-gp inhibitors and require further in vitro/in vivo investigations.
JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Hossam S. El-Beltagi, Aditya Parmar, Tong Chen, Mohamed M. El-Mogy
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Sara G. Abdel-Hakim, Ahmed S. A. Shehata, Saad A. Moghannem, Mai Qadri, Mona F. Abd El-Ghany, Emad A. Abdeldaym, Omaima S. Darwish
Summary: The extensive use of chemical fertilizers has led to various environmental problems. The application of nano-fertilizers may be a promising solution to address these challenges. This study evaluated the efficiency of incorporating small amounts of nano-fertilizers with conventional fertilizers in lettuce cultivation in sandy soil.
Article
Plant Sciences
Mohamed I. D. Helal, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Hassan A. Khater, Muhammad A. Fathy, Fatma E. Ibrahim, Yuncong C. Li, Zhaohui Tong, Karima F. Abdelgawad
Summary: Minimizing the consumption of agrochemicals, particularly nitrogen, is essential for sustainable agricultural production. This study developed controlled-release fertilizers using a biobased nanocomposite of lignin and bentonite clay mineral, which greatly improved nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced the growth, yield, and fruit quality of tomato plants under field conditions.
Article
Plant Sciences
Hossam S. El-beltagi, Emad A. Abdeldaym, Hoda A. s. Farag, Samar M. a. Doklega, Mahmoud A. M. Abd El-hady, Suzy M. Abdelaziz, Mohamed M. El-mogy, Ayesha Maryam, Hemat A. El-bauome
Summary: The pre-harvest foliar implementation of proline, methionine, and melatonin had a significant impact on the shelf-life and active composites of cauliflower florets during cold storage. Treated florets exhibited lower water loss, electrolyte leakage, browning index, and titratable acidity compared to untreated plants. Additionally, the pre-harvest treatments slowed down the loss of various nutrients and improved enzyme activity, resulting in improved nutritional quality and reduced browning.
NOTULAE BOTANICAE HORTI AGROBOTANICI CLUJ-NAPOCA
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Kui Liu, Wei Liu, Xinhua Huang, Yuhan Liu, Xiaomin Cui, Zhanquan Zhang, Boqiang Li, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Shiping Tian, Tong Chen
Summary: This study conducted proteomic profiling of Botrytis cinerea conidial suspension in a plant experimental system and found that 219 proteins were involved in the infection of host plants by B. cinerea. These proteins were mainly secretory proteins, categorized as carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes, cell wall degrading proteins, redox-related proteins, proteases, and proteins with unknown functions. Phenotypic analysis on deletion mutants showed that these proteins differentially regulated the growth, conidiation, and virulence of B. cinerea on fruit. These differentially expressed proteins during fruit infection may provide insights into the mechanisms underlying B. cinerea pathogenesis and potential molecular targets for controlling grey mold.
POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Abdel Wahab M. Mahmoud, Hassan M. Rashad, Sanaa E. A. Esmail, Hameed Alsamadany, Emad A. Abdeldaym
Summary: Drought stress in arid regions significantly affects yield quantity and quality of economic crops. The application of nano-elements and nano-agents of water retention improves water use efficiency, growth performance, and yield quantity of drought-stressed plants. Specifically, the use of silicon, zinc, and zeolite nanoparticles positively influences the morphological, physiological, and biochemical properties of coriander plants under drought stress.
Correction
Plant Sciences
Nesma M. Helal, Hemmat I. Khattab, Manal M. Emam, Gniewko Niedbala, Tomasz Wojciechowski, Ines Hammami, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, Doaa Bahaa Eldin Darwish, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Heba M. Hassan
Article
Horticulture
Nesren Elsayed, Ashwak Abdel-moneim Hassan, Suzy M. Abdelaziz, Emad A. Abdeldaym, Omaima S. Darwish
Summary: The study demonstrated that edible coatings based on WPC and MPE significantly extended the shelf life of minimally processed broccoli, preserved its physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity, and reduced microbial growth.
Article
Horticulture
M. S. Aboryia, El-Refaey F. A. El-Dengawy, Mostafa F. El-Banna, Mervat H. El-Gobba, Mahmoud M. Kasem, Ahmed A. Hegazy, Heba Metwally Hassan, Ahmed Abou El-Yazied, Hany G. Abd El-Gawad, Salem Mesfir Al-Qahtani, Nadi Awad Al-Harbi, Eldessoky S. Dessoky, Ismail A. Ismail, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, El-Sayed A. EL-Boraie
Summary: This study conducted a field trial to evaluate the physiological responses and tolerance of jojoba plants to salinity stress, focusing on the role of proline as a foliar application. The results showed that proline at 450 ppm enhanced the growth and physiological characteristics of jojoba plants, as well as promoted the antioxidant system. The anatomical structure of leaves also exhibited favorable variations. These findings suggest that proline foliar application can improve the physicochemical and morphological characteristics of jojoba plants under salinity stress.
Article
Horticulture
Samar M. A. Doklega, Sally F. Abo El-Ezz, Nada A. Mostafa, Eldessoky S. Dessoky, Awatif M. Abdulmajeed, Doaa Bahaa Eldin Darwish, Fahad Mohammed Alzuaibr, Ahmed Abou El-Yazied, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Samy F. Mahmoud, Noura M. Taha, Mahmoud A. M. Abd El-Hady
Summary: This study investigated the effect of foliar spray of titanium and vanadium on red cabbage plants. The results showed that treatment with 2.0 and 4.0 mg/L of titanium and vanadium enhanced plant growth and yield, as well as increased antioxidant contents, enzymes and capacity of red cabbage.
Article
Horticulture
Eman G. Sayed, Abdel Wahab M. Mahmoud, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Mahmoud A. A. Ali, Mahmoud A. M. Fahmy, Ghada A. Tawfic
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of grafting and nano-silicon fertilizer on the growth and production of tomatoes under salinity conditions. The results showed that grafting and nano-silicon application enhanced shoot and root growth, fruit yield, and fruit quality. The Edkawy rootstock was more effective in mitigating the negative effects of salinity.
