Studies conducted in controlled environments showed that seed priming and foliar treatments with various bioactive substances can stimulate germination, uniform seedling emergence, photosynthesis, nutrient uptake efficiency lead to increased productivity, crop stand, quality. Only a few studies provide comparative experimental outlook about the use of open-field cultivated canola. The aim this ...

Progeny from a transgenic Arabidopsis plant generated by the Agrobacterium root transformation procedure were found to segregate for a gibberellin (GA)-responsive semidwarf phenotype. Complementation analysis with genetically characterized GA-responsive mutants revealed that the transgenic plant has an insertional mutation (ga4-2) that is an allele of the ga4 locus. The semidwarf phenotype of g...

Squamosa promoter-binding protein-like (SPL) is a major family of plant-specific transcription factor, which involved in multiple biological processes, such as plant growth and development, hormone response, light response stress response. Therefore, it has been profoundly significant to systematically analyze the SPL Transcription Factors Brassica oleracea. In this study, total 33 BoSPLs were ...

Seed morph, abiotic conditions and time of germination can affect plant fitness, but few studies have tested their combined effects on plasticity of plant life history traits. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that seed morph, germination season and watering regime influence phenotypic expression of post-germination life history traits in the diaspore-heteromorphic cold desert winter annual/spring...

A field experiment was conducted during the winter seasons of 2021-22 at Research farm college forestry Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture Technology and Science Prayagraj (U. P) to investigate effect different sowing dates varieties on Mustard growth yield in conditions Keeping this view Factorial RBD with three replications having two factors. First factor comprised 15Oct. 30Oct. 15Nov. ...

Serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins are important splicing factors which play significant roles in spliceosome assembly and splicing regulation. However, little is known regarding their biological functions in plants. Here, we analyzed the phenotypes of mutants upon depleting different subfamilies of Arabidopsis SR proteins. We found that loss of the functions of SC35 and SC35-like (SCL) protein...

Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems have various cellular functions, including as part of the general stress response. The genome of the Gram-positive human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae harbors several putative TA systems, including yefM-yoeBSpn, which is one of four systems that had been demonstrated to be biologically functional. Overexpression of the yoeBSpn toxin gene resulted in ce...

Field studies have demonstrated mixed success in trap cropping to manage Crocidolomia pavonana ( binotalis) [F.], a major pest of cruciferous crops in Asia. A possible explanation for this is an inßuence of host plant phenology on oviposition preference. We tested this in simultaneous two-choice oviposition bioassays under laboratory conditions. In cylindrical cardboard experimental arenas, wit...