The practice of growing different but complementary plants within a given area, also known as intercropping, has numerous positive effects, such as reduced soil erosion, weed suppression, nitrogen fixation (the conversion ...
Agriculture
Jan 8, 2025
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A recent study has unlocked the genetic complexities of almonds, highlighting a significant degree of heterozygosity and the influence of structural variants on gene expression. The research rigorously delineates allele-specific ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 17, 2024
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Young almond orchards face numerous biotic stressors during their early growth stages, particularly when replanted in areas where old stone fruit orchards once stood. Among these challenges is the almond/stone fruit replant ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2024
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Modern breeding focuses on genetic analyses and germplasm management and dominates in altering crop genomes, but often neglects non-additive genetic effects that are essential for understanding traits. Almond [Prunus dulcis ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 7, 2024
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In the pursuit of enhancing almond genetic diversity for the ever-expanding global demand, researchers have delved into a private almond germplasm collection, shedding light on the potential for new cultivars adapted to diverse ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 5, 2024
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Interspecific hybridization is a key process in plant evolution and breeding that can lead to phenotypic changes and the formation of new species. The merging of different genomes in a hybrid often triggers a so-called "genomic ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 21, 2023
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Over the last decade, the lush olive groves one associates with the Italian countryside have become desiccated, as if stuck in a perpetual winter. The culprit is Xylella fastidiosa, a species of aggressive bacteria that have ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2022
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For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state's most valuable crop.
Other
Feb 22, 2022
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In Spain, the drought between 1991 and 1995 led to restrictions in the allocation of water for crops and cuts in supplies. What would have happened at that time to the intensive, irrigated almond plantations that have been ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2022
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Almonds are big business in California, which grows 80 percent of the world's crop with a value of $5.62 billion.
Ecology
Oct 5, 2021
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