Storage is a fundamental part of the common bean postharvest chain that ensures a steady
supply of safe and nutritious beans of acceptable cooking quality to the consumers …

Since the early 1930s, when the first corn hybrids were grown commercially, innovations in
the agriculture industry have had an unprecedent impact worldwide, helping to meet the …

Milk thistle besides being a highly competitive weed is cultivated as a medicinal plant, and
the seeds of which have been clinically utilized in several disorders caused in liver. The …

Background The cultivation of medicinal plants is a promising alternative to overcoming
problems in the overharvesting of wild plants and ecosystem degradation. Cultivation …

Ex situ preservation of genetic resources is an essential strategy for the conservation of plant
biodiversity. In this regard, seed storage is the most convenient and efficient way of …

SUMMARY DNA glycosylases initiate the base excision repair (BER) pathway by catalyzing
the removal of damaged or mismatched bases from DNA. The Arabidopsis DNA glycosylase …

Due to its fast deterioration, soybean (Glycine max L.) has an inherently poor seed vigor.
Vigor loss occurring during storage is one of the main obstacles to soybean production in …

During storage, common beans are susceptible to ageing leading to quality changes, in
particular their cooking quality. In this study, kinetics of evolution of volatile compounds was …

SUMMARY DNA glycosylases initiate the base excision repair (BER) pathway by catalyzing
the removal of damaged or mismatched bases from DNA. The Arabidopsis DNA glycosylase …

Seed priming is routinely applied to improve germination rates and seedling establishment,
but the decrease in longevity observed in primed seeds constitutes a major drawback that …