Amit Prakash Singh¹, Kajal Kaul^1,*, Anuradha Chug¹, Ravinder Kumar², Veerubommu Shanmugam²

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.7, pp. 451-468, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jai.2025.070773 - 06 November 2025

Abstract In agricultural farms in India where the staple diet for most of the households is potato, plant leaf diseases, namely Potato Early Blight (PEB) and Potato Late Blight (PLB), are quite common. The class label Plant Healthy (PH) is also used. If these diseases are not identified early, they can cause massive crop loss and thereby incur huge economic losses to the farmers in the agricultural domain and can impact the gross domestic product of the nation. This paper presents a hybrid approach for potato plant disease severity estimation and classification of diseased and healthy… More >

Hong Zhang^1,2,#, Ying Zhu^3,#, Xingyu Li^3,#, Zhonghua Liu^1,2, Guoliang Li^1,2, Zhaomiao Lin^1,2, Yongxiang Qiu^1,2, Yongqing Xu^1,2, Shimin Lyu³, Jiyang Wang³, Sixin Qiu^1,2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.94, No.8, pp. 2479-2498, 2025, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2025.064850 - 29 August 2025

Abstract Vascular wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. batatas (Fob) is a devastating disease threatening global sweet potato production. To elucidate Fob’s pathogenicity mechanisms and inform effective control strategies, we generated a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged Fob strain to track infection dynamics in sweet potato susceptible cultivar Xinzhonghua and resistant cultivar Xiangshu75-55, respectively. Through cytological observation, we found in the susceptible Xinzhonghua, Fob predominantly colonized stem villi, injured root growth points, and directly invaded vascular bundles through stem wounds. Spore germination peaked at 2–3 h post-inoculation (hpi), followed by cyclical mycelial expansion and sporulation within vascular tissues… More >

Zichen Li^1,#, Jukui Ma^2,#, Minjun Liu³, Guowei Geng^1,*, Hongxia Zhang^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.94, No.6, pp. 1841-1856, 2025, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2025.066148 - 27 June 2025

Abstract Sweet potatoes are significant cash crops, however, their yield and quality are greatly compromised by viral diseases. In this study, the complete genomic sequences of two Sweet Potato Virus 2 (SPV2) isolates from infected sweet potato leaves in the Shandong (designated as SPV2-SDYT, GenBank No. PQ855660.1) and Jiangsu (designated as SPV2-JSXZ, GenBank No. PQ855661.1) provinces in China were obtained using 5^′ RACE and RT-PCR amplification. Consistency, phylogeny, codon usage bias, recombination, and selection pressure analyses were conducted using the SPV2-SDYT and SPV2-JSXZ genome sequences. The complete genome sequences of SPV2-SDYT and SPV2-JSXZ were 10561 nucleotides (nt)… 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

Zhaomiao Lin, Guoliang Li, Hong Zhang, Rongchang Ji, Yongqing Xu, Guochun Xu, Huawei Li, Zhonghua Liu, Wenbin Luo, Yongxiang Qiu, Sixin Qiu^*, Hao Tang

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.12, pp. 3401-3410, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.058692 - 31 December 2024

Abstract Sweet potato leaves are consumed globally for their nutritional and functional properties, with their taste characteristics significantly influencing their market value and consumer acceptance. However, the metabolic factors determining the taste of sweet potato leaves remain unclear. This study evaluated the taste and metabolic profile of sweet potato leaves cultivated in soil and hydroponic systems, revealing that hydroponic culture improved the taste of the leafy sweet potatoes. Using gas chromatography system (GC)-ToF-MS, 200 metabolites were identified, encompassing most plant metabolic pathways. A comparison of good-tasting vs. poor-tasting sweet potato leaves identified 71 metabolites associated with taste More >

Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.22, No.2, pp. 511-536, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2024.051004 - 20 May 2024

Abstract Heat and mass transport through evaporation or drying processes occur in many applications such as food processing, pharmaceutical products, solar-driven vapor generation, textile design, and electronic cigarettes. In this paper, the transport of water from a fresh potato considered as a wet porous media with laminar convective dry air fluid flow governed by Darcy’s law in two-dimensional is highlighted. Governing equations of mass conservation, momentum conservation, multiphase fluid flow in porous media, heat transfer, and transport of participating fluids and gases through evaporation from liquid to gaseous phase are solved simultaneously. In this model, the… More >

Javed Rashid^1,2, Imran Khan¹, Irshad Ahmed Abbasi³, Muhammad Rizwan Saeed⁴, Mubbashar Saddique^5,*, Mohamed Abbas^6,7

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3897-3920, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040356 - 08 October 2023

Abstract Many plant species have a startling degree of morphological similarity, making it difficult to split and categorize them reliably. Unknown plant species can be challenging to classify and segment using deep learning. While using deep learning architectures has helped improve classification accuracy, the resulting models often need to be more flexible and require a large dataset to train. For the sake of taxonomy, this research proposes a hybrid method for categorizing guava, potato, and java plum leaves. Two new approaches are used to form the hybrid model suggested here. The guava, potato, and java plum More >

Liping Hong, Enming He, Wenhui Zhang, Mingqiong Zheng, Jingwen Wu, Wenhua Wang^*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.10, pp. 2785-2805, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.030928 - 15 September 2023

Abstract Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is susceptible to enzymatic browning after fresh processing, resulting in color change and potential alteration in the nutritional quality. In this study, a popular potato cultivar, Feiwuruita, was used to profile the metabolites involved in color and nutritional quality changes in fresh shreds stored at 0 and 4 h at 25°C (designated CK and CK4H, respectively). The shreds turned brown within 4 h of storage. In all, 723 metabolites consisting 12 classes of compounds were detected in the samples, largely lipids, phenolic acids, alkaloids, amino acids and derivatives, flavonoids, organic acids, nucleotides More >

Tahira Kalsoom¹, Touqeer Ahmed¹, Muhammad Azam Khan¹, Mirza Hasanuzzaman^2,*, Mukhtar Ahmed^3,*, Stefaan P. O. Werbrouck⁴

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.8, pp. 2429-2450, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.030846 - 25 June 2023

Abstract Potato propagation through tubers and seed is an inefficient way of propagation thus we propose an alternative method in this study which is in vitro propagation. Plantlets were raised from True Potato Seeds (TPS) in test tubes containing 10 mL of Murashige Skoog (MS) medium. Subculturing was done after every 21 days and after four subsequent subculturing, when there was an adequate quantity of stock material, uninodal cuttings of about 3–4 mm in length were prepared from in vitro proliferated potato plants by excising leaves of 1–2 mm on each side of the node. Prepared uninodal cuttings… More >

Yangyang Du¹, Yuanyuan Bao², Lu Zheng¹, Qinglong Tian¹, Xinyong Zhang^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.8, pp. 2325-2348, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.027642 - 25 June 2023

Abstract Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is one of the main nutrients necessary for plant growth. Phosphate transporters mediate the acquisition, transport and recycling of phosphate, which is essential for plant growth and development. Although PHT1 has been reported in many plants at home and abroad, it is rarely studied in potato. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the PHT1 family members in order to understand the molecular response mechanism of potato in low phosphate state. In this study, a total of 6 potato PHT1 genes were identified and isolated. It was found that after the expression of… More >