Carnation

In Malaysia, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum var. grossum), also known as sweet pepper or paprika, is one of the highly imported vegetable crops. In 2021 alone, Malaysia imported nearly 74 thousand metric tons of its chilies, including bell peppers, from other countries (DOSM, 2022). Often, farmers grow the bell peppers in moderate to cool conditions within highland regions for local commercial purposes. In June 2022, the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) in Serdang, Selangor, conducted a research study to grow lowland bell peppers under a glasshouse rain protection system...

Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem., is grown for its medicinal and nutritional properties in northeastern China. The tender shoots are used as wild vegetables. The plant saponin components have antioxidant and neuroprotective activities, and are used for the treatment of chronic disease (Xia et al. 2021). In July 2021, root rot disease was observed in five-year-old A. elata plants in Qingyuan County (41°91' N, 124°59' E), Liaoning Province, China. The incidence of roots rot was approximately 50% in old fields, with the leaves of the infected plants appearing chlorotic and wilting...

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Lymphoma is the fourth most common tumor to display placental metastasis. This study aimed to report a case of high-grade lymphoma involving the placenta and review the literature on lymphomas metastatic to the placenta. A systematic review was performed following the PRISMA guidelines, using the keywords "lymphoma" AND "placenta." All case reports and case series on lymphoma infiltrating the placenta were collected. Eight cases from 7 studies, including the present case, were synthesized. The mean patient age is 29...

The present study developed a DNA biosensor to determine pemigatinib for the first time. Three-dimensional carnation flower-like Eu3+ :β-MnO2 nanostructures (3D CF-L Eu3+ :β-MnO2 NSs) and a screen-printed electrode (SPE) modified with polyaniline (PA) were employed. The double-stranded DNA was also immobilized completely on the PA/3D CF-L Eu3+ :β-MnO2 NSs/SPE. Then, electrochemical techniques were used for characterizing the modified electrode. After that, the interaction between pemigatinib and DNA was shown by a reduction in the oxidation current of guanine using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV)...

BACKGROUND: The current study evaluated the effects of resonant voice therapy (RVT) on the long-term average spectrum (LTAS) parameters of vocally healthy trained Carnatic classical singers. The objectives of the study were i) to understand the perceptual differences and ii) to understand the change in LTAS contour parameters and the alpha ratio of the sung voice samples of the trained Carnatic classical singers before and after RVT. METHOD: The study used a quasi-experimental, pre post design and purposive-convenient sampling method...

Root rot is an important disease of tea plants owing to its unobvious early symptoms and permanent damage (Huu et al. 2016). In 2019, 5% of tea plants displayed symptoms consistent with root rot in a tea plantation (28°09'N, 113°13'E) located in Changsha city, Hunan province of China. The symptoms of the diseased tea plants ranged from wilting leaves to entirely dead. The roots had black lesions and rot typical of this disease. Symptomatic roots were collected, washed with water and disinfected with 75% ethanol, then cut into pieces and sterilized with 0...

BACKGROUND: Pediatric nephrotic syndrome (NS) requires routine proteinuria monitoring, which is costly and affects patients' quality of life. The gold-standard 24-h urine protein (UP) measurement is challenging in children, and first-morning urine collection requires specific conditions, making it difficult in outpatient settings. Studies have reported comparability of second or random morning urine sample to the first-morning specimen. This study aimed to compare outcomes of random morning proteinuria measurements to 24-h UP and the roles of the urinary protein creatinine ratio (UPCR) and dipstick tests in pediatric NS, based on International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) 2022 Guidelines...

Hemerocallis citrina is a popular vegetable crop in China, due to abundant nutrients in its edible flower buds. In March 2021, serious symptoms of leaf spot were observed on nearly 90% cultivated H. citrina seedlings in the fields of Dazhou city (31°17'56″ N, 107°31'59″ E), Sichuan, China. Symptomatic leaves were collected from 15 seedlings in five different sampling sites (3 seedlings per site). Small pieces (5 × 3 mm) of lesion margin were excised, surface disinfected in 70% ethanol for 20 s and 1% sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) for 40 s, washed, dried, placed on potato dextrose agar (PDA) amended with streptomycin sulfate (50 mg/L) and incubated in dark at 25 ℃ for two days...

Petal senescence is the final stage of flower development. Transcriptional regulation plays key roles in this process. However, whether and how post-transcriptional regulation involved is still largely unknown. Here, we identified an ethylene-induced NAC family transcription factor DcNAP in carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.). One allele, DcNAP-dTdic1, has an insertion of a dTdic1 transposon in its second exon. The dTdic1 transposon disrupts the structure of DcNAP and causes alternative splicing, which transcribes multiple domain-deleted variants (DcNAP2 and others)...

Mulberry ( Morus alba L.) has been cultivated for thousands of years in many temperate regions in East Asia and is commonly used to feed silkworms. In May 2021, 5 to 8% incidence of stem blight on 4-year-old mulberry 'Nongsang 14' was observed in several orchards in Nanzhang County, Hubei Province, China. The roots and stems showed symptoms of vascular discoloration, and the tender new shoots, surrounded by white hyphae, were detached easily. Symptomatic stem tissues (5 mm × 5 mm) were excised from the border between diseased and healthy tissues, surface sterilized in a 75% ethanol solution for 30 s and 2...

Genetic engineering of flower color provides biotechnological products such as blue carnations or roses by accumulating delphinidin-based anthocyanins not naturally existing in these plant species. Betalains are another class of pigments that in plants are only synthesized in the order Caryophyllales. Although they have been engineered in several plant species, especially red-violet betacyanins, the yellow betaxanthins have yet to be engineered in ornamental plants. We attempted to produce yellow-flowered gentians by genetic engineering of betaxanthin pigments...

Dianthus caryophyllus is an economic species often considered excellent cut flowers and is suitable for bouquets and gardens. Here, we assembled the haplotype-resolved genome of D. caryophyllus 'Aili' at the chromosome level for the first time. The total lengths of the two assembled haplotypes of carnation were 584.88 Mb for haplotype genome 1 (hap1) and 578.78 Mb for haplotype genome 2 (hap2), respectively. We predicted a total of 44,098 and 42,425 protein-coding genes, respectively. The remarkable structure variation was identified between two haplotypes...

Petal is one of the most esthetic and essential parts of a flower that fascinates the pollinators to enhance pollination. Petal senescence is a highly controlled and organized natural phenomenon assisted by phytohormones and gene regulation. It is an inelastically programmed event preceding to which petals give rise to color and scent that captivate pollinators, representing a flower's maturity for sexual reproduction. Till today, many genes involved in the petal senescence through genetic as well as epigenetic changes in response to hormones have been identified...

Here, we report the genome sequences of 10 Carnation mottle virus variants. Six variants originated from a single proprietary carnation cultivar, and four were derived from four different proprietary cultivars. All variants showed nucleotide differences, but the last four did not show any variation at the amino acid level.

Alder decline caused by Phytophthora species is considered one of Europe´s most important diseases of natural ecosystems. In Spain, P. x alni, P. uniformis, P. x multiformis and P. plurivora have been detected in association with root and collar rot in riparian alder populations (Pintos et al. 2010, 2012, 2017; Haque et al. 2014). During the active growth periods 2020-2021, a field survey of the newly designed species Alnus lusitanica (Vít et al. 2017) was carried out at the most symptomatic areas along the Miño-Sil river basin in Galicia and León (NW-Spain)...

Gaseous factors affect post-harvest physiological processes in horticultural crops, including ornamental flowers. However, the molecular responses of cut flowers to the low-oxygen conditions associated with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) have not yet been elucidated. Here, we show that storage of cut carnation flowers in a sealed polypropylene bag decreased the oxygen concentration in the bag to 3-5% and slowed flower opening. The vase life of carnation flowers after storage for seven days under MAP conditions was comparable to that without storage and was improved by the application of a commercial-quality preservative...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a fruit of great economic value that is grown worldwide. In November 2022, fruit rot symptoms were observed in cherry tomatoes (cv. Qianxi) in Jinan City of Shandong Province, China. Six cherry tomato samples (four symptomatic and two asymptomatic) were collected from commercial fields (approximately 1.2 ha) where the incidence of the disease ranged from 5 to 10%. The core and surface of the infected fruit were colonized and covered with white mycelia. Tissue pieces (5 mm × 5 mm) from the junction of healthy and diseased samples were surface-disinfected with 75% ethanol for 3 min, followed by 10% sodium hypochlorite for 5 min, and washed three times with sterile water...

Dinteranthus vanzylii is a low-growing species in the family Aizoaceae, native to southern Africa, with a pair of thick grey leaves covered with dark red spots and stripes. This stone-like succulent grows near the ground, which may protect it from water evaporation and herbivores. Dinteranthus vanzylii has become popular in China due to its attractive appearance and easy indoor cultivation. In September 2021, 7% of D. vanzylii (approximately 140 pots) showed leaf wilt symptoms in a commercial greenhouse located in Ningde (119°35'39...

OBJECTIVE: Glucose management indicator (GMI) is a core metric derived from continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and is widely used to evaluate glucose control in patients with diabetes. No study has explored the pregnancy-specific GMI. This study aimed to derive a best-fitting model to calculate GMI from mean blood glucose (MBG) obtained from CGM among pregnant women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). METHODS: A total of 272 CGM data and corresponding laboratory HbA1c from 98 pregnant women with T1DM in the CARNATION study were analysed in this study...