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Mediating role of root-exuded secondary metabolites in intraspecific interactions with Haloxylon ammodendron
Root exudates are pivotal in soil carbon and nutrient cycling, enhancing nutrient availability and plant resource utilization efficiency under stress. Despite challenges in obtaining accurate soil-borne signal...
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The Relative Importance of Environmental Filtering and Dispersal Limitation on the Multidimensional Beta Diversity of Desert Plant Communities Depends on Sampling Scales
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly determine patterns of beta diversity, for which little is known about how their relative contribution to beta diversity varies with sample size and the ...
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Correction to: Three new ent-abietane diterpenoids from the roots of Euphorbia fischeriana and their cytotoxicity in human tumor cell lines
The article “Three new ent-abietane diterpenoids from the roots of Euphorbia fischeriana and their cytotoxicity in human tumor cell lines”, written by Minghui Li, Fang He, Yuan Zhou, Meigui Wang, Pingde Tao, Qing...
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Foliar Application of Zn-EDTA at Early Filling Stage to Increase Grain Zn and Fe, and Reduce Grain Cd, Pb and Grain Yield in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
The accumulation of Cd and Pb in rice grains poses a potential threat to human health, which is a subject of increasing concern across the globe. We examined the effect that foliar spraying of Zn-ethylenediami...
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Open AccessImpact of groundwater depth and soil salinity on riparian plant diversity and distribution in an arid area of China
Riparian plant diversity in arid regions is sensitive to changes in groundwater. Although it is well known that groundwater has a significant influence on plant diversity, there have been few studies on how gr...
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Three new ent-abietane diterpenoids from the roots of Euphorbia fischeriana and their cytotoxicity in human tumor cell lines
Three new ent-abietane diterpenoids, termed fischerianoids A–C (1–3), were isolated and identified from the ethyl acetate extracts of roots of the medicinally valuable plant Euphorbia fischeriana. The planar and ...
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Effectiveness of simultaneous foliar application of Zn and Mn or P to reduce Cd concentration in rice grains: a field study
Excess cadmium (Cd) in agricultural soils can be taken up by rice plants and concentrated in the grain, presenting a human health risk. In this study, we field tested the effects of three foliar treatments (zi...
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Open AccessInfluence of aridity and salinity on plant nutrients scales up from species to community level in a desert ecosystem
Soil moisture and salt play key roles in regulating desert plant nutrient cycles on a local scale. However, information on the response of plant nutrient stoichiometric patterns to soil water and salt gradient...
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Phylogeny and biogeography of Alyssum (Brassicaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal ITS DNA sequences
The genus Alyssum consists of about 195 species native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa. All species were assigned to six sections. Previous molecular phylogeny studies indicate that Alyssum is polyphyletic. H...
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The dynamic of vegetation coverage and its response to climate factors in Inner Mongolia, China
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is widely recognized as a good indicator of vegetation productivity. Diagnosing the NDVI trend and understanding climatic factors influences on NDVI can predict th...
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Estimating Net Primary Production in Xinjiang Through Remote Sensing
Land cover components of photosynthetic vegetation (PV) and non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV) were analyzed with satellite remote sensing technology and knowledge of the typical climate–vegetation characteri...
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Carbon uptake and change in net primary productivity of oasis-desert ecosystem in arid western China with remote sensing technique
Arid and semi-arid ecosystems exhibit a spatially complex biogeophysical structure. According to arid western special climate-vegetation characters, the fractional cover of photosynthetic vegetation (PV), non-...