Methylation modifications play an important role in multiple biological processes. Several studies have reported altered methylation patterns in male sterile plants such as rice and wheat, but little is known about the global methylation profiles and their possible roles in the cabbage (Brassicaoleracea) male sterile line. In this study, single-base-resolution bisulfite sequencing (BS-Seq) was ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented disruption of food systems worldwide, with most governments taking severe containment measures to curb the spread. This resulted in unpredicted negative impacts agri-food supply chains coupled price inflations. Ultimately, this affected security and urban livelihoods for households, who are dependent on markets supply. study examined implications pr...

Generation of a thematic map is important for scientists and agriculture engineers in analyzing different crops given field. Remote sensing data are well-accepted image classification on vast area crop investigation. However, most the research has currently focused pixel-based analysis. The study was carried out to develop multi-category hyperspectral system identify major Chiayi Golden Corrido...

Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa) is one of the vegetable crops with largest acreage and yield in East Asia. With aggravation heavy metal pollution soil, excessive accumulation has become increasingly severe cabbage, among which, cadmium most representative elements. It critical to understand regulatory mechanism Cadmium (Cd) response tolerance at metabolism level. Comparative functional metabolo...

Production of allohexaploid Brassica (2n = AABBCC) is a promising goal for plant breeders due to the potential for hybrid heterosis and useful allelic contributions from all three of the Brassica genomes present in the cultivated diploid (2n = AA, 2n = BB, 2n = CC) and allotetraploid (2n = AABB, 2n = AACC, and 2n = BBCC) crop species (canola, cabbages, mustards). We used high-throughput SNP mol...

Fusarium oxysporum is a soil-born fungus that induces wilt and root rot on a variety of plants. F. oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans (Foc) can cause wilt disease on cabbage. This study showed that a homolog of SIX1 protein in the Arabidopsis infecting isolate Fo5176 (Fo5176-SIX1) had four isoforms in the conidia of Foc by proteomic analysis. Thus, we analyzed the roles of protein Foc-SIX1. Gene exp...

Glucosinolates are natural products characteristic of the Brassicales order, which include vegetables such as cabbages and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Glucoraphanin is the major glucosinolate in broccoli and associated with the health-promoting effects of broccoli consumption. Toward our goal of creating a rich source of glucoraphanin for dietary supplements, we have previously report...

A total of 24 commercial fields of cabbages and Brussels sprouts were sampled in a grid fashion with 20-25 equally spaced cells with four plants per cell. Using this data base of 80-100 plants, we conducted computer stimulations to compare the treatment decisions that would be made for the major insect pests using published sequential sampling programs and a newly developed variable-intensity s...

In the summer of 2000, we released genetically altered insect-pathogenic fungi onto a plot of cabbages at a field site on the Upper Marlboro Research Station, Md. The transformed derivatives of Metarhizium anisopliae ARSEF 1080, designated GPMa and GMa, carried the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (gfp) gene alone (GMa) or with additional protease genes (Pr1) (GPMa). The study (i) co...