1 An Overview of Plant Breeding: From Ancient Times to Genetic Manipulation Associated With Molecular Breeding The use of improved genotypes in agriculture started 10,000 years ago with the process of…

Introduction Air pollution and climate change are the most crucial ecological threats for humanity in the 21st century. A recent study shows that global excess mortality from all ambient air…

Quality of digestate Parameters indicating the quality of digestate which was prepared by the same fermentation process (identical type of fermenter and inoculum) for each variant but with a different…

Total phenolic and flavonoid content To assess the TPC and TFC of S. ibericum, the leaves and roots were separately extracted with solvents with different polarities (chloroform, acetone, ethanol 25–100%…

Bacterial culture conditions Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 14917, Escherichia coli O157:H7 ATCC 35150, Yersinia enterocolitica ATCC 23715, and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas,…

Introduction Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of global food production with implications for agricultural productivity and food system sustainability (Lobell et al., 2011; Dang and Dabalen,…

Introduction Work in agriculture is changing and the future trajectory of agricultural work will certainly be influenced by multiple factors which we would like to draw out as an introduction…

SEM studies The microstructures of NG-based hydrogel are presented in Fig. 1. All hydrogels exhibited the typical porous cross-linked structure. Curcumin-loaded ISP/SA NGs are clearly observed in composites SEM images. Also,…

Growth analysis Plant weight and leaf area increased with increasing temperature and photoperiod, the increases being exponential versus time, giving a linear time regression with the natural logs (ln) of…

Introduction In 2015, at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the adoption of the Paris Agreement (PA) brought together…