Guanhui Li^1,2,#, Jiati Tang^1,#, Qifang Zhang³, Guilin Ou^1,3, Yingchao Lin¹, Liping Chen⁴, Xiang Li⁴, Shengjiang Wu¹, Zhu Ren¹, Zeyu Zhao^1,2, Xuekun Zhang², Benbo Xu^2,*, Xun Liu³, Kesu Wei^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.94, No.8, pp. 2385-2398, 2025, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2025.068213 - 29 August 2025

Abstract To clarify the relationships between the main chemical components in flue-cured tobacco in Guizhou and field meteorological factors during the tobacco growing period, the contributions of meteorological factors to the chemical composition of flue-cured tobacco and related components were explored in this study. The flue-cured tobacco variety Y87 was used as the experimental material, and tobacco samples and meteorological data were collected from seven typical tobacco-growing areas in Guizhou Province. Using a random forest model and canonical correlation analysis, the impact and contribution of the monthly mean temperature, precipitation, and sunshine duration during the field… More >

Kesu Wei¹, Guangju Liu², Bin Wei³, Qifang Zhang⁴, Shengjiang Wu¹, Zhaowei Li^2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.94, No.4, pp. 1287-1298, 2025, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2025.062385 - 30 April 2025

Abstract To systematically examine the tolerance of flue-cured tobacco K326 to soil drought stress, this study set up different water content trials for K326 at 60%, 40%, and 20% levels during the vigorous growing period by greenhouse pot planting. Pigment content, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, antioxidant enzyme activity, and SPS and GS activities associated with carbon and nitrogen metabolism were investigated in the K326 tobacco leaves. The results showed that chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b contents decreased, non-photochemical quenching coefficient Y(NPQ) decreased in the later stage of vigorous growth, and energy dissipation quantum yield Y(NO) levels increased… More >

Lihua Xie¹, Ni Tang¹, Qing Chen^1,*, Jun Li^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.2, pp. 3381-3397, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.058950 - 17 February 2025

Abstract In the age of information explosion and artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis tailored for the tobacco industry has emerged as a pivotal avenue for cigarette manufacturers to enhance their tobacco products. Existing solutions have primarily focused on intrinsic features within consumer reviews and achieved significant progress through deep feature extraction models. However, they still face these two key limitations: (1) neglecting the influence of fundamental tobacco information on analyzing the sentiment inclination of consumer reviews, resulting in a lack of consistent sentiment assessment criteria across thousands of tobacco brands; (2) overlooking the syntactic dependencies between Chinese… More >

Mengjie Xu, Anbin Wang, Tonghong Zuo, Hecui Zhang, Zhihao Hu, Liquan Zhu^*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.94, No.1, pp. 157-179, 2025, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2025.060566 - 24 January 2025

Abstract Calmodulin-like (CMLs) proteins are critical in calcium signaling and essential for plant growth, development, and stress responses. In many species, the CMLs families have been identified and described. However, the characterization and expression profiling of CMLs genes in tobacco is retrievable. In this study, a comprehensive whole-genome identification and analysis, and 75 NtCML genes were identified in tobacco, each containing two to four EF-hand domains. Most NtCML proteins exhibited conserved gene structures and motifs. Notably, most NtCML proteins were intron-less and distributed across 18 chromosomes. Two pairs of tandemly duplicated genes and seven pairs of segmentally More >

Mohsen Mohamed Elsharkawy^1,*, Mari Sumayli², Faisal Ay Alzahrani³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.12, pp. 3373-3385, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.058875 - 31 December 2024

Abstract Endophytes associated with plants are recognized as bio-reservoirs of natural products and denote a significant symbiotic interaction in nature. Endophytes penetrate the plant’s interior tissues without showing any indications of disease or obvious alterations. In this study, the potential of a novel and new isolated plant growth-stimulating fungus, Coniothyrium aleuritis, was evaluated against PVY (the pathogen potato virus Y) on potato plants. Many parameters, including disease severity, PVY titer, enzymatic profiling, defense-related biochemical marker (carotenoid), phenolic compounds, proline content, as well as growth and yield parameters, have been investigated to clarify the role of C. aleuritis isolate… More > Graphic Abstract

Jianbo Fei^1,2,4, Zhibo Liu¹, Piwu Wang^1,3, Jing Qu², Siyan Liu¹, Shuyan Guan^1,3,*, Yiyong Ma^1,3

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.12, pp. 3617-3635, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.052704 - 31 December 2024

Abstract The WRKY transcription factors play important roles in various biological processes such as plant development, defense regulation, and stress response. Despite this, there is limited information available on drought-related WRKY genes in maize. Through RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis, a WRKY transcription factor called ZmWRKY25 was identified in this study. ZmWRKY25 belongs to Group II and is localized in the nucleus. Protein interaction analysis revealed that ZmWRKY25 interacts with several proteins involved in the abscisic acid (ABA) signal pathway. Expression of ZmWRKY25 was found to be up-regulated in response to drought, salt, and ABA treatments in tobacco plants. More >

Jianan Wang^1,*, Yikuan Fan², Weidong Duan³, Zhaopeng Song¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.11, pp. 3401-3415, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.055158 - 21 October 2024

Abstract Since pure tobacco stalk (TS) biomass pellet fuels tend to slag, five anti-slagging agents were added to the crushed TS to obtain a pellet fuel that could be used in biomass burners to provide heat for tobacco curing. The obtained results revealed that the main component of TS pellet fuel was K₂Si₂O₅. During fuel combustion process, additives generated higher melting point silicate compounds by Al–K, Ca–K, and Ca–K elemental structures to replace single K elemental structure of TS, enhancing the anti-slagging efficiency of the pellet fuel from 21.63% to 78.29% and promoting the precipitation of K, More >

Guangwei Sun^1,2,#, Xuanhao Zhang^3,#, Yi Liu³, Liguang Chai², Daisong Liu², Zhenguo Chen^1,*, Shiyou Lü^3,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.4, pp. 641-659, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.049285 - 29 April 2024

Abstract The Nicotiana genus, commonly known as tobacco, holds significant importance as a crucial economic crop. Confronted with an abundance of herbivorous insects that pose a substantial threat to yield, tobacco has developed a diverse and sophisticated array of mechanisms, establishing itself as a model of plant ecological defense. This review provides a concise overview of the current understanding of tobacco’s defense strategies against herbivores. Direct defenses, exemplified by its well-known tactic of secreting the alkaloid nicotine, serve as a potent toxin against a broad spectrum of herbivorous pests. Moreover, in response to herbivore attacks, tobacco enhances… More >

Bo Chen¹, Mingjun Wang², Bo Liu^3,*, Chunping Lu⁴, Guohai Jia¹, Yong Chao⁵, Chao Zhong¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 119-129, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.031521 - 23 January 2024

Abstract In order to study the combustion characteristics of tar in biomass gasifier inner wall and gasification gas, “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace”, “tobacco stem tar inside furnace” and “tobacco stem tar out-of-furnace” were subjected to thermogravimetric experiments, and the combustion characteristics and kinetic characteristics were analyzed. The result shows that “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace” has the highest value and “tobacco stem tar out-of-furnace” is has the lowest value on ignition characteristics, combustion characteristics and combustible stability; “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace” has the lowest value and “tobacco stem tar outside furnace” has the highest More > Graphic Abstract

Lanjun Li¹, Degang Zhao^1,2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.11, pp. 3043-3061, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.031175 - 24 October 2023

Abstract Various strains of powdery mildew (PM), a notorious plant fungal disease, are prevalent and pose a significant threat to plant health. To control PM, transgenic technology can be used to cultivate more resistant plant varieties. In the present study, we utilized the rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) technique to clone the full-length cDNA sequence of the EuCHIT30.7 gene to explore plant genes with disease resistance functions. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that this gene belongs to the GH18 family and is classified as a class III chitinase. The EuCHIT30.7 gene is expressed throughout the Eucommia ulmoides plant, with… More >