Cell Wall Composition of Hemp Shiv Determined by Physical and Chemical Approaches
Abstract The use of agricultural by-products in the building engineering realm has led to an increase in insulation characteristics of…
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The Effects of Salinity on the Anatomy and Gene Expression Patterns in Leaflets of Tomato cv. Micro-Tom
Abstract Salinity is a form of abiotic stress that impacts growth and development in several economically relevant crops and is…
Targeted Metagenomics of Retting in Flax: The Beginning of the Quest to Harness the Secret Powers of the Microbiota
Abstract The mechanical and chemical properties of natural plant fibers are determined by many different factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic…
De novo transcriptome assembly of textile hemp from datasets on hypocotyls and adult plants
Abstract We here provide an updated de novo transcriptome of the hemp textile variety Santhica 27. The assembly was performed…
Phenotypic Variation of Cell Wall Composition and Stem Morphology in Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.): Optimization of Methods
Abstract The growing demands for sustainable fibers have stimulated the study of genetic diversity in the quality of hemp fiber…
Molecular Investigation of the Stem Snap Point in Textile Hemp
Abstract Fibre crops are important natural resources, as they sustainably provide bast fibres, an economically-valuable raw material used in the…
Textile Hemp vs. Salinity: Insights from a Targeted Gene Expression Analysis
Abstract Soil salinity is a serious threat to agriculture, because it compromises biomass production and plant productivity, by negatively affecting…
Identification of fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins in textile hemp (Cannabis sativa L.): in silico analyses and gene expression patterns in different tissues
Abstract Background: The fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins (FLAs) belong to the arabinogalactan protein (AGP) superfamily and are known to play different…
Studying Secondary Growth and Bast Fiber Development: The Hemp Hypocotyl Peeks behind the Wall
Abstract Cannabis sativa L. is an annual herbaceous crop grown for the production of long extraxylary fibers, the bast fibers,…
Identification of Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Data Normalization in Cannabis sativa Stem Tissues
Abstract Gene expression profiling via quantitative real-time PCR is a robust technique widely used in the life sciences to compare…