Abida Aziz¹, Shafiqa Bano¹, Mubshar Hussain², Muhammad Farooq Azhar³, Ghulam Yasin³, Naila Hadayat⁴, Iqra Arooj⁵, Abeer Hashem⁶, Ajay Kumar⁷, Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah⁸, Qamar uz Zaman^9,10,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.7, pp. 1647-1665, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.050974 - 30 July 2024

Abstract Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) exhibits a greater capacity for cadmium (Cd) absorption compared to other cereal crops, leading to elevated daily Cd intake, and posing a significant threat to public health. For the mitigation of Cd stress in sustainable and environmentally friendly way, a pot study was designed by using exogenous application of various biostimulants, i.e., Nigella sativa and Ocimum sanctum extracts: 0%, 10%, and 20% in combination with the chelating agent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) using 0 and 5 mg kg under various levels of Cd stress (i.e., 0, 5, 10, and 15 mg kg soil). Results revealed… More > Graphic Abstract

Ziwei Li^1,2, Lifen Huang^1,2, Zhongyang Huo^1,2, Min Jiang^1,2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.11, pp. 2999-3019, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.030627 - 24 October 2023

Abstract The canopy temperature of rice is an important index that directly reflects the growth and physiological state of rice, and affects the yield of rice plants to a great extent. The correlation between the temperatures of different rice organs and canopy in different growth stages and the grain yield is complex. The stability and universality of these correlations must be verified. We conducted a pot experiment using two rice varieties and two temperature treatments (high temperature treatment was carried out at the beginning of heading stage for 10 days). We measured rice organ temperature during… More >

Uttam Kumer Sarker¹, A. N. Md. Anamul Karim¹, F. M. Jamil Uddin¹, Ahmed Khairul Hasan¹, Najrul Islam¹, Md. Romij Uddin^1,*, Md. Alamgir Hossain², Sabry Hassan³, Mohamed M. Hassan³, Mahmoud F. K. Soliman⁴

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.12, pp. 2775-2789, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.023112 - 29 August 2022

Abstract Chickpea yield is decreasing day by day due to drought stress, which could be an immense risk for future food security in developing countries. Management practices could be the most excellent approach to diminish loss due to this abiotic factor. The current research work was designed to explore the tolerance reaction of chickpea genotypes against management practices, through morphological and biochemical parameters and evaluate yield performance across drought prone location of Bangladesh. Four genotypes BD-6048, BD-6045, BD-6090, BD-6092 and eight management practices, e.g., severe water stress (SWS), i.e., without irrigation, 10 cm thick mulching with… More >

Dina Swelam¹, Abdel Hamid Salem², Manal Hassan¹, Mohammed Ali^2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.12, pp. 2699-2717, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.022651 - 29 August 2022

Abstract Drought stress (DS) is one of the most critical environmental abiotic stresses for wheat production in the arid environments. Selection of high-yielding genotypes tolerant to DS can play a significant role in mitigation the negative impacts associated with DS. In the present study, generation means analysis (GMA) was used to study the performance of two crosses under well irrigation (WI) and deficit irrigation [cross I (Line 44 × Shandweel-1) and cross II (Line 20 × Sakha 93)]. Significant differences were observed for days to heading (DH), days to maturity (DM), plant height (PH), spike length (SL), number of spikes… More >

Jinhai Liu^1,2,3,#, Rifang Lai^1,2,3,#, Longxin He^1,2,3, Pipeng Xing^1,2,3, Haowen Luo^1,2,3, Shuying Yang⁴, Yingbin Zou⁴, Xiangru Tang^1,2,3,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.5, pp. 1061-1071, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.017634 - 24 January 2022

Abstract Brassinolide (BR) is a new green plant growth regulator. The present field study was conducted on two fragrant rice cultivars (i.e., Meixiangzhan-2 and Xiangyaxiangzhan) to study the effects of foliar application of BR on fragrant rice performance. At the heading stage, BR solutions at 0.05, 0.15, 0.25 and 0.50 mg L-1 were sprayed on fragrant rice at 600 liters per hectare; these treatments were named as BR1, BR2, BR3 and BR4, respectively. The treatment sprayed with distilled water was taken as a control (CK). Compared with CK, the BR2 treatment significantly enhanced the chlorophyll concentration and… More >

Zhenghua Yi¹, Paramsothy Jeyakumar², Jiang Jiang¹, Xiaomian Zhang³, Chunlei Yue³, Haijun Sun^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.4, pp. 859-868, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.018396 - 09 December 2021

Abstract We conducted a pot experiment to examine the feasibility of applying a reaction-finished solution of hydrochar (HRFS) to enhance rice production in a saline soil. With this purpose, HRFS was applied (0, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 mL/pot) and rice yield and nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) were determined. HRFS application significantly (P < 0.05) increased rice grain yield by 19.6%–30.0% compared to the control treatment (CKU, with N but without HRFS addition). Moreover, HRFS application promoted plant height and straw biomass of rice. Increases of rice yield were mainly achieved by increases in the number… More >

Md. Ashraful Alam¹, Milan Skalicky², Muhammad Rezaul Kabir¹, Md. Monwar Hossain¹, Md. Abdul Hakim¹, Md. Siddikun Nabi Mandal¹, Rabiul Islam³, Md. Babul Anwar³, Akbar Hossain^1,*, Fahmy Hassan⁴, Amaal Mohammadein⁴, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal⁵, Marian Brestic^2,6, Mohammad Anwar Hossain⁷, Khalid Rehman Hakeem⁸, Ayman EL Sabagh^9,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1301-1320, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.016015 - 27 April 2021

Abstract Globally among biotic stresses, diseases like blight, rust and blast constitute prime constraints for reducing wheat productivity especially in Bangladesh. For sustainable productivity, the development of disease-resistant lines and high yielding varieties is vital and necessary. This study was conducted using 122 advanced breeding lines of wheat including 21 varieties developed by Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BAMRI) with aims to identify genotypes having high yield potential and resistance to leaf blight, leaf rust and blast diseases. These genotypes were evaluated for resistance against leaf blight and leaf rust at Dinajpur and wheat blast… More >

Diantao Hu, Cong Zhang^*, Wenqi Cao, Xintao Lv, Songwu Xie

Journal on Big Data, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 65-76, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jbd.2021.016317 - 13 April 2021

Abstract Grain yield security is a basic national policy of China, and changes in grain yield are influenced by a variety of factors, which often have a complex, non-linear relationship with each other. Therefore, this paper proposes a Grey Relational Analysis–Adaptive Boosting–Support Vector Regression (GRAAdaBoost-SVR) model, which can ensure the prediction accuracy of the model under small sample, improve the generalization ability, and enhance the prediction accuracy. SVR allows mapping to high-dimensional spaces using kernel functions, good for solving nonlinear problems. Grain yield datasets generally have small sample sizes and many features, making SVR a promising… More >

Jiana Chen¹, Ruichun Zhang², Fangbo Cao¹, Xiaohong Yin^1,3, Tianfeng Liang³, Min Huang^1,*, Yingbin Zou¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.89, No.4, pp. 1043-1057, 2020, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.011361 - 09 November 2020

Abstract Double-season rice cropping systems occupy a large portion of the rice production area in southern China. Because the problem of insufficient labor, mechanical transplanting (in contrast to the manual transplanting) was become more attractive in double-season rice system. However, the decisive yield factors which resulting in high grain yield of early-season rice are unclear under mechanical-transplanted conditions. In present study, the field experiments were conducted in the early season in 2017 and repeated in 2018 in Santang Town, Hunan Province, China. Ten early season rice cultivars (Zhuliangyou 819, Lingliangyou 268, Lingliangyou 104, Luliangyou 996, Xiangzaoxian… More >

Leilei Kong^1,2, Haowen Luo¹, Zhaowen Mo¹, Shenggang Pan¹, Zhixia Liu², Qiang Zhang², Song Bai^2,*, Xiangru Tang^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.89, No.3, pp. 705-714, 2020, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.010953 - 22 June 2020

Abstract Climate conditions is an important factor affected the fragrant rice growth and development. In order to study the effects of different planting seasons on fragrant rice performance in South China, present study was conducted with three planting seasons (early season (April to July), middle season (June to September) and late season (August to November)) and three fragrant rice cultivars, ‘Basmati-385’, ‘Meixiangzhan-2’ and ‘Xiangyaxiangzhan’. The results showed that the highest grain yield and grain 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP, key component of fragrant rice aroma) content were both recorded in late season treatment while the fragrant rice in middle season treatment… More >