Published in Euphytica
Although not essential to most plant species, silica plays an important role in the protection of plants against different types of stress. In monocots, the main role of silica is protection against herbivores. Although the mechanisms are not fully understood yet, it is clear that silica discourages the grazing of herbivores. Hence, high silica con...
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Published in Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology
Accelerated soil-nitrifier activity and rapid nitrification are the cause of declining nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) and enhanced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from farming. Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) is the ability of certain plant roots to suppress soil-nitrifier activity, through production and release of nitrification inhibitors....
Se evaluó el efecto de tres edades de rebrote (tres, seis y nueve semanas) sobre la producción de forraje, calidad nutricional y perfil de ácidos grasos en gramíneas de pastoreo (diez cultivares y un híbrido)y en gramíneas de corte (cuatro cultivares). Se utilizó un diseño de parcelas divididas con bloques al azar, cuya parcela principal fue la esp...
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A study was conducted to investigate the changes in microbial biomass carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) following cultivation of Brachiaria grasses in semi-arid region of Kenya. The Brachiaria grass cultivars included Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisk, B. brizantha cvs Marandu, MG4, Piatã and Xaraes, B. humidicola cv. Llanero and B. hybri...
Published in Genome Biology
BackgroundBread wheat is not only an important crop, but its large (17 Gb), highly repetitive, and hexaploid genome makes it a good model to study the organization and evolution of complex genomes. Recently, we produced a high quality reference sequence of wheat chromosome 3B (774 Mb), which provides an excellent opportunity to study the evolutiona...
