A5084300606- Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Moringa oleifera research and applications
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Nitrogen and Sulfur Effects on Brassica
- Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
University of Reading
2020-2023
Rocket salad species (Diplotaxis tenuifolia and Eruca sativa; also known as E. vesicaria) are for their high concentrations of health-related isothiocyanates, which derived from secondary metabolites called glucosinolates. Increases in temperature due to climate change extreme weather event frequencies over the coming decades likely influence not only growth leafy vegetables, but nutritional density. It is therefore essential determine impacts these order mitigate crop losses decline future....
Air pollutants—such as nitrogen oxides, emitted in diesel exhaust, and ozone (O 3 )—disrupt interactions between plants, the insect herbivore pests that feed upon them natural enemies of those herbivores (e.g. parasitoids). Using eight field-based rings emit regulated quantities exhaust O , we investigated how both pollutants, individually combination, altered attraction parasitism rate a specialist parasitoid ( Diaeretiella rapae ) on aphid-infested un-infested Brassica napus plants....
Rocket (Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa) is a source of sulfur-containing glucosinolates (GSLs). GSLs and their breakdown hydrolysis products (GHPs) are responsible for health-related benefits, such as anti-cancer anti-neurodegenerative properties. Understanding how phytochemical composition changes between cultivation environments key to developing cultivars with improved nutritional quality. Two consecutive harvests (first second regrowth) crops, grown in both Italy the UK, were used...