Scientific reports
Jan 25, 2023
Plant roots influence many ecological and biogeochemical processes, such as carbon, water and nutrient cycling. Because of difficult accessibility, knowledge on plant root growth dynamics in field conditions, however, is fragmentary at best. Minirhiz...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 23, 2022
Growth indices can quantify crop productivity and establish optimal environmental, nutritional, and irrigation control strategies. A convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model is presented for estimating various growth indices (i.e., fresh weight...
The New phytologist
Jul 20, 2022
Fluorescence microscopy is common in bacteria-plant interaction studies. However, strong autofluorescence from plant tissues impedes in vivo studies on endophytes tagged with fluorescent proteins. To solve this problem, we developed a deep-learning-b...
Journal of environmental management
May 20, 2022
Surplus research on the widespread arsenic (As) revealed its disturbing role in obstructing the metabolic function of plants. Also, the predilection of As towards rice has been an interesting topic. Contrary to As, iron (Fe) is an essential micronutr...
The New phytologist
Sep 16, 2021
Soil fungi establish mutualistic interactions with the roots of most vascular land plants. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are among the most extensively characterised mycobionts to date. Current approaches to quantifying the extent of root colonis...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
May 11, 2021
Plant roots are the main conduit to its interaction with the physical and biological environment. A 3D root system architecture can provide fundamental and applied knowledge of a plant's ability to thrive, but the construction of 3D structures for th...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Feb 26, 2021
Curcumae Radix (Yujin) is a multi-origin herbal medicine with excellent clinical efficacy. For fast discrimination and quantification analysis of Yujin from four botanical origins (Guiyujin, Huangyujin, Lvyujin and Wenyujin), near infrared (NIR) spec...
Natural product research
Sep 16, 2020
A new diarylhexane, kneglobularone B () and two new diarylpropanols, kneglobularols A - B () along with seven known compounds () were isolated and characterized from the roots of It is the first time to find arylpropyl quinone () and isoflavone () i...
The Science of the total environment
Aug 24, 2020
Uptake of seven organic contaminants including bisphenol A, estriol, 2,4-dinitrotoluene, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET), carbamazepine, acetaminophen, and lincomycin by tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), corn (Zea mays L.), and wheat (Triticum aest...
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
Aug 1, 2020
Arrhythmia, a common heart disease, is an abnormal frequency or rhythm of heartbeat caused by the origin or conduction obstacle of the heart. Aconite (Fuzi) has been regarded as an effective cardiotonic agent in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), bu...