The Beijing Joint Research Program for Germplasm Innovation and NewVariety Breeding(G20220628003);The Beijing Natural Science Foundation Program(22JF0014);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(3177110780)all contributed financially to the present project.
A variety of endogenous hormone signals,developmental cues,and environmental stressors can trigger and promote leaf lettuce bolting.One such factor is gibberellin(GA),which has been linked to bolting.However,the signa...
This work was supported by the Beijing Leafy Vegetables Innovation Team of Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(BAIC07-2020);The Construction of Beijing Science and Technology Innovation and Service Capacity in Top Subjects(CEFF-PXM2019_014207_000032).
Leaf size and flatness directly affect photosynthesis and are closely related to agricultural yield.The final leaf size and shape are coordinately determined by cell proliferation,differentiation,and expansion during ...
supported by the Beijing Leafy Vegetables Innovation Team of Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(BAIC07-2020);the National Key Research and Development Project of Shandong(2017CXGC0201).
Growth-related traits,such as aboveground biomass and leaf area,are critical indicators to characterize the growth of greenhouse lettuce.Currently,nondestructive methods for estimating growth-related traits are subjec...
the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the award of the Quadro GPU used for this research.J.Z.was partially funded by UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s(BBSRC)Designing Future Wheat Cross-institute Strategic Programme(BB/P016855/1)to Graham Moore,BBS/E/T/000PR9785 to J.Z.;J.B.were partially supported by the Core Strategic Programme Grant(BB/CSP17270/1)at the Earlham Institute;A.G.B.and C.A.were also partially supported by G’s Growers’s industrial fund awarded to J.Z.;A.B.was partially supported by the Newton UK-China Agri-Tech Network+Grant(GP131JZ1G)awarded to J.Z.
Aerial imagery is regularly used by crop researchers,growers and farmers to monitor crops during the growing season.To extract meaningful information from large-scale aerial images collected from the field,high-throug...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61233006);the Seed Industry Development Project of Shanghai,China(Grant No.2016,1-8);Shanghai Agriculture Applied Technology Development Program,China(Grant No.20170304);X.Y.was supported by the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council(No.201706230173).
Lettuce is an important leafy vegetable that represents a significant dietary source of antioxidants and bioactive compounds.However,the levels of metabolites in different lettuce cultivars are poorly characterized.In...
Research was funded by a BBSRC studentship to GFB and funding from Vitacress Ltd;Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd and Shamrock Seeds Ltd in the laboratory of Gail Taylor;The contributions of MJT and RWM were supported by a grant from USDA NIFA SCRI No.2010-51181-21631 as well as funding from the California Leafy Greens Research Board.
A diet rich in phytonutrients from fruit and vegetables has been acknowledged to afford protection against a range of human diseases,but many of the most popular vegetables are low in phytonutrients.Wild relatives of ...
This research was supported by the California Leafy Greens Research Program,the California Department of Food and Agriculture,USDA NRI(grant no.2008-35300-004447);USDA NIFA SCRI(grant no.2010-51181-21631).
Lettuce yields can be reduced by the disease bacterial leaf spot(BLS)caused by the pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv.vitians(Xcv)and host resistance is the most feasible method to reduce disease losses.The cultivars ...