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…
Gea Guerriero
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…
Impact of Silicon in Plant Biomass Production: Focus on Bast Fibres, Hypotheses, and Perspectives
Abstract Silicon (Si) is an abundant element which, when supplied to plants, confers increased vigor and resistance to exogenous stresses,…
Transcriptomic profiling of hemp bast fibres at different developmental stages
Abstract Bast fibres are long extraxylary cells which mechanically support the phloem and they are divided into xylan- and gelatinous-type,…
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…
Cannabis sativa: The Plant of the Thousand and One Molecules
Abstract Cannabis sativa L. is an important herbaceous species originating from Central Asia, which has been used in folk medicine…