Year 2020 - Volume 27 - Issue 3
31 December 2020

7 articles found

Towards grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) mildews resistance: molecular defence mechanisms and New Breeding Technologies

Clizia Villano, Riccardo Aversano

One of the main challenges for viticulture is to sustainably maintain the production of high-quality grape varieties in the face of climate change. Current models predict an increasing disease pressur...

Yield and quality of greenhouse multi-leaf lettuce cultivars grown in soil and soilless culture under Mediterranean conditions

Maria Gonnella et al.

Multi-leaf lettuce has been proposed as a new type of product to be grown in open field or protected cultivation, especially for ready-to-eat salads. Like Batavia, oak leaf or lollo, multi-leaf lettuc...

Identification and expression profile of a thioredoxin h in olive (Olea europaea L.)

Anna Rana et al.

The cellular response to stress also includes the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). When in excess, these second messengers can cause significant detrimental biochemical changes, such as ...

Nutritional stress suppresses nitrate content and positively impacts ascorbic acid concentration and phenolic acids profile of lettuce microgreens

Antonio Pannico et al.

In the last twenty years, horticulture has focused on producing high-quality food while improving resource use efficiency. The application of nutritional stress is an effective tool to increase the ph...

The effect of pollen storage temperatures on fruit set and fruit quality of ‘Deglet Nour’ date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivar

Nabila El Kadri, Mehdi Ben Mimoun

The aim of this research was to study the effect of three temperatures during the long-term storage of date palm pollen (25±2, 4, and -20 °C) on fruit set and the fruit quality of ‘Deglet Nour’ cultiv...

Heavy metals differentially affect date palm pollen germination and tube elongation

Mohammed Mesnoua et al.

Heavy metal pollution is now a serious environmental problem in the world. Heavy metals can affect plant reproduction by inhibiting pollen grain germination and tube growth. In the present study, we e...

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