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Biochar application significantly increased the soil carbon content, the soil cation exchange capacity and the availability of NH<inf>4</inf><sup>+</sup>, P and K. Moreover, it stimulated plant growth and N, P and base cation contents at harvest, reducing the leaf water potential in the warmer period. These results demonstrate that also intensive cultivations in fertile soil can benefit from biochar amendment.", "keywords": ["Intensive agriculture", "Soil nutrients", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "Intensive agriculture; Processing tomato yield and quality; Soil nutrients; Ecology; Animal Science and Zoology; Agronomy and Crop Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Processing tomato yield and quality", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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Although the use of these inputs is legal in organic systems and also applied in non-organic agriculture, their use by organic growers raises questions for organic practice, which aspires to be free from toxic, non-renewable chemicals. Data on the current use of permitted plant protection inputs is currently scarce, especially in horticulture where chemical inputs deserve special attention since horticultural products are often readily edible. A mapping of the use of copper, sulphur and mineral oils was conducted by collecting expert knowledge across 10 European countries during May\u2013October 2018, i.e. before the limitation of copper use to 4\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121 from February 1, 2019. Results show that copper is widely used by Mediterranean organic growers in citrus, olive, tomato and potato production. The annual limit of 6\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121 was not always respected. We also found that tomato producers apply high amounts of copper in winter crops in greenhouses. Mineral oils are applied to control scales, mites and whiteflies. Sulphur is also commonly used by organic vegetable growers, especially in greenhouses. We conclude that the high usage found in various different crops (especially Mediterranean crops) confirms the need for researching alternatives.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "plant protection", "571", "Crop health", " quality", " protection", "Mediterranean crops", "Greenhouse crops", "tomato", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "[SDV.BV.PEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Phytopathology and phytopharmacy", "Organic-PLUSX", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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The aim of this experiment was to screen a large tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) collection cultivated under well-watered and water deficit conditions, in order to identify those genotypes with the best performance under water shortage. Thus, 165 tomato genotypes including different cultivars (landraces and modern genotypes) and fruit types (processing, big size, long shelf-life and cherry) were grown in open field under two different cultivation regimes: well-watered (WW, covering 100% crop evapotranspiration demands) and water deficit (WD, irrigation stopped one month after field transplantation). Several leaf-level traits, yield and fruit quality were measured. Large variability was found under WW, with 20-fold variations in yield among genotypes. No differences in yield or fruit quality traits were found between modern genotypes and landraces, while differences in these parameters were observed based on the fruit type. Water deficit affected the observed variability, with a general decrease of yield and increases of fruit quality. Cluster analysis based on fruit traits placed several landraces in the same cluster that the most productive modern genotypes, irrespective of the water treatment. Variable responses to WD were observed, depending on the fruit or cultivar type. Carbon isotope composition was positively correlated with leaf nitrogen content, and determined the yield limit under both treatments. The results of this study highlight the potential of landraces for minimizing yield reduction under WD and increasing fruit quality, having similar or even better performance as compared to modern improved genotypes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Drought stress", "Fruit quality", "15. Life on land", "Carbon isotope fractionation", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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To understand this cellular diversity, we profiled tomato root cell type translatomes. Using xylem differentiation in tomato, examples of functional innovation, repurposing, and conservation of transcription factors are described, relative to the model plant Arabidopsis. Repurposing and innovation of genes are further observed within an exodermis regulatory network and illustrate its function. Comparative translatome analyses of rice, tomato, and Arabidopsis cell populations suggest increased expression conservation of root meristems compared with other homologous populations. In addition, the functions of constitutively expressed genes are more conserved than those of cell type/tissue-enriched genes. These observations suggest that higher order properties of cell type and pan-cell type regulation are evolutionarily conserved between plants and animals.", "keywords": ["root development", "translatomes", "General Biochemistry", "Genetics and Molecular Biology", "Green Fluorescent Proteins", "Meristem", "Arabidopsis", "cell types; evolution; exodermis; gene regulation; rice; root development; tomato; translatomes; xylem", "tomato", "xylem", "Genes", " Plant", "Plant Roots", "Inventions", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Species Specificity", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Xylem", "evolution", "Gene Regulatory Networks", "Promoter Regions", " Genetic", "Plant Proteins", "2. Zero hunger", "exodermis", "rice", "15. 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Despite high-affinity Cu transporters (COPTs) being key participants in Cu homeostasis maintenance, very little is known about COPTs in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) even though it is the most consumed fruit worldwide and this crop is susceptible to suboptimal Cu conditions. In this study, a six-member family of COPT (SlCOPT1-6) was identified and characterized. SlCOPTs have a conserved architecture consisting of three transmembrane domains and \u03b2-strains. However, the presence of essential methionine residues, a methionine-enriched amino-terminal region, an Mx3Mx12Gx3G Cu-binding motif and a cysteine rich carboxy-terminal region, all required for their functionality, is more variable among members. Accordingly, functional complementation assays in yeast indicate that SlCOPT1 and SlCOPT2 are able to transport Cu inside the cell, while SlCOPT3 and SlCOPT5 are only partially functional. In addition, protein interaction network analyses reveal the connection between SlCOPTs and Cu PIB-type ATPases, other metal transporters, and proteins related to the peroxisome. Gene expression analyses uncover organ-dependency, fruit vasculature tissue specialization and ripening-dependent gene expression profiles, as well as different response to Cu deficiency or toxicity in an organ-dependent manner.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. 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In this article, we explore how individual attitude toward the environment could be a potential determinant of green behavior. This research offers an original methodological framework never adopted in the food consumption domain that is based on the contribution of Campbell Paradigm and the related advancements on attitude measures proposed by the environmental psychology literature. We also contribute to the literature by envisaging a two-dimensional environmental attitude, that distinguishes between attitude toward environmental protection and toward nature appreciation. The ultimate target is to explain consumer purchasing intentions, represented by Willingness to Pay, toward a hypothetical tomato with improved resource use efficiency taking into account consumer psycho-attitudinal propensity towards environmental issues. The analysis is conducted in Italy and in the UK, two countries characterized by different perceptions about tomato as a consumption good and about water related issues. Findings indicate that the two dimensions of consumer attitude affect differently the spending propensity for a sustainable tomato and these differences are also country-specific. The analysis suggests that policies aimed at promoting sustainable food products should also target the consumer type (naturalist or environmentalist) that is more sensible to environmental sustainability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "05 social sciences", "0501 psychology and cognitive sciences", "Environmental attitude measurement; Consumer behaviour; Discrete Choice Experiment; Campbell paradigm; Resilient tomato; Rasch model", "Campbell paradigm; Consumer behaviour; Discrete Choice Experiment; Environmental attitude measurement; Rasch model; Resilient tomato", "12. 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The field experiment was carried out with five main treatments, three cover crops of hairy vetch (HV), lacy phacelia (LF) and white mustard (WM) transplanted in autumn and cut in May to be used as mulches, plus barley straw mulch (BS) and conventional (C) (bare soil). After tomato transplanting, the main plots were split into two nitrogen fertilization treatments (0 and 100\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha \u22121 ) and the sub-plots were then split again into three irrigation levels (irrigation water 100%, 75%, 50% of evapotranspiration). In all treatments, a general effect was observed in the temporal fluctuations of soil CO 2  emissions throughout the observation period which were significantly influenced by soil temperature and water content. The temporal fluctuations of the soil CO 2  emissions were attributed to climatic conditions and the peaks achieved optimal conditions of soil temperature and water content for soil respiration. A larger amount of TOC was observed in the mulching treatments than in the control after tomato harvesting (on average 1.44% vs 1.33%, respectively and on average 1.43% in HV trastment), probably due to the residual biomass of the cover crops and a greater growth of the tomato. Although the soil carbon output as cumulated CO 2  emissions did not show statistically significant differences between the treatments, the soil carbon balance enabled us to estimate the highest net carbon contribution to the soil in HV determined by inputs and input/output ratio. However, except for the BS in 2013, the input/output ratios were >1 in all mulch treatments. In the Mediterranean environment, agronomical practices, such as the use of hairy vetch mulch on notilled soil, a slight reduction of irrigation water (\u221225%) and a rationalized use of N fertilizer potentially could shift the C balance in favor of soil C accumulation.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. 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In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), naturally occurring cis-regulatory mutations in the genes of the CLAVATA-WUSCHEL signaling pathway have led to a significant increase in fruit size generating enlarged meristems that lead to flowers with extra organs and bigger fruits. In this work, by combining mapping-by-sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing methods, we isolatedEXCESSIVE NUMBER OF FLORAL ORGANS(ENO), an AP2/ERF transcription factor which regulates floral meristem activity. Thus, theENOgene mutation gives rise to plants that yield larger multilocular fruits due to an increased size of the floral meristem. Genetic analyses indicate thatenoexhibits synergistic effects with mutations at theLOCULE NUMBER(encodingSlWUS) andFASCIATED(encodingSlCLV3) loci, two central players in the evolution of fruit size in the domestication of cultivated tomatoes. Our findings reveal that anenomutation causes a substantial expansion ofSlWUSexpression domains in a flower-specific manner. In vitro binding results show that ENO is able to interact with the GGC-box cis-regulatory element within theSlWUSpromoter region, suggesting that ENO directly regulatesSlWUSexpression domains to maintain floral stem-cell homeostasis. Furthermore, the study of natural allelic variation of theENOlocus proved that a cis-regulatory mutation in the promoter ofENOhad been targeted by positive selection during the domestication process, setting up the background for significant increases in fruit locule number and fruit size in modern tomatoes.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Floral meristem", "[SPI] Engineering Sciences [physics]", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Meristem", "Quantitative Trait Loci", "Genes", " Plant", "CLAVATA/WUSCHEL regulatory network", "Domestication", "[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "AP2/ERF transcription factor", "Promoter Regions", " Genetic", "Cell Proliferation", "Plant Proteins", "580", "Homeodomain Proteins", "2. Zero hunger", "Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)", "0303 health sciences", "Stem Cells", "Biological Sciences", "15. 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We evaluated the function of the salt-tolerant strain Azotobacter chroococcum 76A as stress protectant in an important horticultural crop, tomato. Specifically we hypothesized that treatment of tomato plants with A. chroococcum 76A could improve plant performance under salinity stress and sub-optimal nutrient regimen.Inoculation of Micro Tom tomato plants with A. chroococcum 76A increased numerous growth parameters and also conferred protective effects under both moderate (50\u00a0mM NaCl) and severe (100\u00a0mM NaCl) salt stresses. These benefits were mostly observed under reduced nutrient regimen and were less appreciable in optimal nitrogen conditions. Therefore, the efficiency of A. chroococcum 76A was found to be dependent on the nutrient status of the rhizosphere. The expression profiles of LEA genes indicated that A. chroococcum 76A treated plants were more responsive to stress stimuli when compared to untreated controls. However, transcript levels of key nitrogen assimilation genes revealed that the optimal nitrogen regimen, in combination with the strain A. chroococcum 76A, may have saturated plant's ability to assimilate nitrogen.Roots inoculation with A. chroococcum 76A tomato promoted tomato plant growth, stress tolerance and nutrient assimilation efficiency under moderate and severe salinity. Inoculation with beneficial bacteria such as A. chroococcum 76A may be an ideal solution for low-input systems, where environmental constraints and limited chemical fertilization may affect the potential yield.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "Nitrogen", "Physiological", "Plant Science", "Plant Roots", "Tomato", "Micro tom", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Azotobacter chroococcum; Micro tom; Plant nutrition; Rhizobacteria; Salinity; Tomato; Adaptation", " Physiological; Azotobacter; Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant; Lycopersicon esculentum; Nitrogen; Plant Leaves; Plant Roots; Rhizosphere; Salt Tolerance; Symbiosis; Plant Science", "Rhizobacteria", "Adaptation", "Lycopersicon esculentum", "Plant nutrition", "Symbiosis", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Botany", "Plant", "Salt Tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Adaptation", " Physiological", "6. Clean water", "3. Good health", "Plant Leaves", "Gene Expression Regulation", "QK1-989", "Azotobacter", "Rhizosphere", "Azotobacter chroococcum", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/728072/2/VanOosten2018_Article_RootInoculationWithAzotobacter.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12870-018-1411-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:18:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-27", "title": "Not only priming: Soil microbiota may protect tomato from root pathogens", "description": "An increasing number of studies have investigated soil microbial biodiversity. However, the mechanisms regulating plant responses to soil microbiota are largely unknown. A previous work tested the hypothesis that tomato plants grown on native soils with their complex microbiotas respond differently from tomato growing in a sterile substrate. Two soils, suppressive or conducive to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL), and two genotypes susceptible and resistant to the same pathogen were considered. The work highlighted that the two tested soil microbiotas, irrespectively of their taxonomic composition, elicit the PAMP-triggered Immunity Pathway, the first level of plant defence, as well as an increased lignin synthesis, leading to an active protection when FOL is present in the soil. Here, we tested the expression of a panel of genes involved in Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI), demonstrating that soil microbiota, beside genotype, affects plant resistance to FOL also modulating this pathway.", "keywords": ["suppressive and conducive soils", "susceptible and resistant genotypes", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "defence responses; Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; gene expression; lignin biosynthesis; microbiota; suppressive and conducive soils; susceptible and resistant genotypes; tomato; Plant Science", "arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "tomato", "15. Life on land", "defence responses", "03 medical and health sciences", "Fusarium", "Solanum lycopersicum", "microbiota", "gene expression", "Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici", "lignin biosynthesis", "Soil Microbiology", "Plant Diseases"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1677702/2/Chialva_et_al_2018_PostPrint.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Signaling%20%26amp%3B%20Behavior", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/15592324.2018.1464855"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-04-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1109/access.2025.3569213", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:18:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-05-12", "title": "An Efficient Encoding Spectral Information in Hyperspectral Images for Transfer Learning of Mask R-CNN for Instance Segmentation of Tomato Sepals", "description": "The most vulnerable parts of tomatoes are the tips of the sepals, which are the primary entry points for fungal spores. Their precise segmentation within hyperspectral images (HSIs) plays a pivotal role in the development of automated and non-destructive systems for assessing tomatoes&#x2019; sensitivity to fungal infections. This research addresses the critical need for encoding spectral information in hyperspectral imaging to enhance the efficiency of such automated systems. We investigate four different techniques: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA), and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), to perform transfer learning for tomato sepal instance segmentation using models previously trained on RGB images. A comparative analysis of three Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Mask R-CNN) backbone models is conducted: the Faster R-CNN, Deformable ConvNet, and Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) on spectral-encoded HSIs of the Brioso tomato variety. The Mask R-CNN with FPN, integrated with the NMF technique achieved the highest level of accuracy, yielding a Mean Average Precision (mAP) of 94.05%. Furthermore, on the second dataset, which included an additional three tomato varieties: Capricia, Provine, and Sao Paolo, the same model achieved mAP score of 86.42% across all tomato varieties with only a single false positive detection. Additionally, we incorporated a custom convolutional layer initialized it with estimated NMF coefficients, and achieved a mAP score of 87.40%. This demonstrates the potential of integrating spectral information encoding with trained deep learning-based instance segmentation models to enable robust and accurate transfer learning for automated agricultural food quality assessments.", "keywords": ["instance segmentation", "deep learning", "Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering", "transfer learning", "tomato", "encoding spectral information in HSI", "Hyperspectral imaging (HSI)", "TK1-9971"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3569213"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/IEEE%20Access", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1109/access.2025.3569213", "name": "item", "description": "10.1109/access.2025.3569213", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1109/access.2025.3569213"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nph.15014", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:19:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-02-09", "title": "Native soils with their microbiotas elicit a state of alert in tomato plants", "description": "Summary<p>   <p>Several studies have investigated soil microbial biodiversity, but understanding of the mechanisms underlying plant responses to soil microbiota remains in its infancy. Here, we focused on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), testing the hypothesis that plants grown on native soils display different responses to soil microbiotas.</p>  <p>Using transcriptomics, proteomics, and biochemistry, we describe the responses of two tomato genotypes (susceptible or resistant to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) grown on an artificial growth substrate and two native soils (conducive and suppressive to Fusarium).</p>  <p>Native soils affected tomato responses by modulating pathways involved in responses to oxidative stress, phenol biosynthesis, lignin deposition, and innate immunity, particularly in the suppressive soil. In tomato plants grown on steam\uffe2\uff80\uff90disinfected soils, total phenols and lignin decreased significantly. The inoculation of a mycorrhizal fungus partly rescued this response locally and systemically. Plants inoculated with the fungal pathogen showed reduced disease symptoms in the resistant genotype in both soils, but the susceptible genotype was partially protected from the pathogen only when grown on the suppressive soil.</p>  <p>The \uffe2\uff80\uff98state of alert\uffe2\uff80\uff99 detected in tomatoes reveals novel mechanisms operating in plants in native soils and the soil microbiota appears to be one of the drivers of these plant responses.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Proteome", "Propanols", "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "tomato", "Lignin", "Models", " Biological", "Plant Roots", "defence responses", "Tomato", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Stress", " Physiological", "microbiota", "Plant Immunity", "Soil Microbiology", "suppressive and conducive soils", "susceptible and resistant genotypes", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Defence responses", "Microbiota", "15. Life on land", "Lignin biosynthesis", "Gene Ontology", "Susceptible and resistant genotypes", "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Defence responses; Lignin biosynthesis; Microbiota; Suppressive and conducive soils; Susceptible and resistant genotypes; Tomato; Physiology; Plant Science", "Suppressive and conducive soils", "Transcriptome", "lignin biosynthesis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1660820/1/Chialva%20et%20al%20Iris.pdf"}, {"href": "https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.15014"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15014"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nph.15014", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nph.15014", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nph.15014"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-02-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:19:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-01-18", "title": "Bioinoculant-induced plant resistance is modulated by interactions with resident soil microbes", "description": "BACKGROUND: Entomopathogenic fungi are increasingly used as bio-inoculants to enhance crop growth and resistance. When applied to rhizosphere soil, they interact with resident soil microbes, which can affect their ability to colonize and induce resistance in plants as well as modify the structure of the resident soil microbiome, either directly through interactions in the rhizosphere or indirectly, mediated by the plant. The extent to which such direct versus indirect interactions between bio-inoculants and soil microbes impact microbe-induced resistance in crops remains unclear. This study uses a split-root system to examine the effects of direct versus indirect (plant-mediated) interactions between an entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum, and resident soil microbes on induced resistance in tomato against two-spotted spider mites. Additionally, the study explores how these interactions influence the composition and diversity of soil fungal and bacterial communities. RESULTS: Resident soil microbes reduced the efficacy of M. brunneum to induce resistance against spider mites. This reduction occurred not only when resident microbes directly interacted with the bio-inoculant but also when they were spatially separated within the root system, indicating plant-mediated effects. M. brunneum inoculation did not affect rhizosphere microbial diversity but led to changes in fungal and bacterial community composition, even when these communities were not in direct contact with the inoculant. CONCLUSIONS: This research highlights the impact of both direct and plant-mediated interactions between bio-inoculants and resident soil microbes on bio-inoculant-induced pest resistance in crop plants and underscores the importance of assessing potential adverse effects of fungal bio-inoculants on native soil communities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9.", "keywords": ["Environmental sciences", "Entomopathogenic fungi", "Research", "Spider mites", "GE1-350", "Arthropod pests", "Soil microbial communities", "Microbiology", "Tomato", "QR1-502"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Rasool, Shumaila, Groos, Manon, Hannula, S. Emilia, Biere, Arjen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-025-00667-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-01-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.18461/pfsd.2019.1907", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:19:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "title": "CONSUMER INTEREST, ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE TOMATO", "description": "Open AccessThe steady increase in the consumption of fresh and processed tomatoes is threatening environmental sustainability, as water and fertilizers, two crucial production inputs, are becoming less accessible. To this purpose, the research project TomRes funded by the European Commission H2020 research and innovation programme, is currently undergoing to develop an environmentally sustainable fresh tomato. It is thus of paramount importance to understand if final consumers are willing to accept such a potential sustainable tomato and, may be more importantly, if consumers\u2019 interests and positive attitude towards this product will lead to the decision to purchase. Hence, in this study, we exploit a sample of Italian consumers who responded to a web-survey to analyze the existence of the interest-attitude-behavior gap as well as its main determinants. Our results confirm the existence of this gap in line with other sustainable consumption products.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Tomato; sustainability; gap attitude consumer behavior", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "M. T. Trentinaglia De Daverio, T. Mancuso, M. Peri, L. Baldi,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1718491/1/Trentinaglia-Baldi%20%282019%29%20Tomato%20sustainability_consumer.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.18461/pfsd.2019.1907"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20on%20Food%20System%20Dynamics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18461/pfsd.2019.1907", "name": "item", "description": "10.18461/pfsd.2019.1907", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18461/pfsd.2019.1907"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-10", "title": "Adaptation to Water and Salt Stresses of Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme", "description": "<p>Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme represent a valuable tool for tomato breeding, particularly for tolerance to abiotic stresses. Water stress and salinity are major constraints to tomato\uffe2\uff80\uff99s cultivation, and for which limited genetic variability has been reported within the cultivated species. We evaluated four accessions of S. pimpinellifolium and four of S. l. var. cerasiforme for their adaptation to water deficit and salinity. The CO2 assimilation rate, stomatal conductance, substomatal CO2 concentration, transpiration rate, and leaf chlorophyll concentration were evaluated, as well as morphological and agronomic traits. The accessions showed a remarkable inter- and intra-species response variability to both stresses. Two S. pimpinellifolium accessions and one S. l. var. cerasiforme showed unaltered physiological parameters, thus indicating a good adaptation to water deficit. Two S. l. var. cerasiforme accessions showed an interesting performance under salt stress, one of which showing also good adaptation to water stress. In general, both stresses showed a negative impact on leaf size and fruit fresh weight, especially in the big-sized fruits. However, flowering, fruit setting and earliness remained unaltered or even improved when compared to control conditions. Stressed plants yielded fruits with higher \uffc2\uffb0 Brix. Response to stresses seemed to be linked to origin environmental conditions, notwithstanding, variability was observed among accessions of the same region.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "abiotic stress", "phenotyping", "S", "Soil Plant Analysis Development (SPAD) chlorophyll measurement", "Agriculture", "gas exchange", "15. Life on land", "F06 Irrigation", "Abiotic stress", "6. Clean water", "salinity", "Tomato wild relatives", "tomato wild relatives", "GENETICA", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phenotyping", "Gas exchange", "F40 Plant ecology", "Water deficit", "water deficit"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mart\u00ednez-Cuenca, Mary-Rus, Pereira-D\u00edas, Leandro, Soler Aleixandre, Salvador, L\u00f3pez-Serrano, Lidia, Alonso-Mart\u00edn, David, Calatayud, \u00c1ngeles, D\u00edez, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/8/1169/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/8/1169/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081169"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy10081169", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy10081169"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fpls.2019.01651", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-01-10", "title": "Mediterranean Long Shelf-Life Landraces: An Untapped Genetic Resource for Tomato Improvement", "description": "The Mediterranean long shelf-life (LSL) tomatoes are a group of landraces with a fruit<br> remaining sound up to 6\u201312 months after harvest. Most have been selected under semiarid<br> Mediterranean summer conditions with poor irrigation or rain-fed and thus, are<br> drought tolerant. Besides the convergence in the latter traits, local selection criteria have<br> been very variable, leading to a wide variation in fruit morphology and quality traits. The<br> different soil characteristics and agricultural management techniques across the<br> Mediterranean denote also a wide range of plant adaptive traits to different conditions.<br> Despite the notorious traits for fruit quality and environment adaptation, the LSL landraces<br> have been poorly exploited in tomato breeding programs, which rely basically on wild<br> tomato species. In this review, we describe most of the information currently available for<br> Mediterranean LSL landraces in order to highlight the importance of this genetic resource.<br> We focus on the origin and diversity, the main selective traits, and the determinants of the<br> extended fruit shelf-life and the drought tolerance. Altogether, the Mediterranean LSL<br> landraces are a very valuable heritage to be revalued, since constitutes an alternative<br> source to improve fruit quality and shelf-life in tomato, and to breed for more resilient<br> cultivars under the predicted climate change conditions.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Yield", "extended fruit shelf-life", "drought tolerance", "Plant culture", "Extended fruit shelf-life", "gas exchange", "Plant Science", "tomato", "Drought tolerance", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Mediterranean landraces", "Tomato", "SB1-1110", "Fruit quality traits", "Gas exchange", "fruit quality traits"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Conesa, Miguel A., Fullana-Pericas, Mateu, GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO, Galmes, Jeroni,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01651"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fpls.2019.01651", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fpls.2019.01651", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fpls.2019.01651"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-01-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fpls.2020.01305", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-26", "title": "The Tomato SlVIPP1 Gene Is Required for Plant Survival Through the Proper Development of Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane", "description": "Since membranes play essential roles in all living beings, all cells have developed mechanisms for efficient and fast repair of membrane damage. In Escherichia coli, the Phage shock stress A (PspA) protein is involved in the maintenance of the integrity of its inner membrane in response to the damage produced by exposure to stress conditions. A role in thylakoid membrane maintenance and reorganization has been proposed for Vesicle Inducing Protein in Plastid 1 (VIPP1), the putative PspA ortholog in Arabidopsis thaliana. While some membranes of plant cells have been extensively studied, the biosynthesis and maintenance of chloroplast thylakoid membrane remains poorly known. Here, we report the cloning and functional characterization of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) ortholog of Escherichia coli PspA and Arabidopsis thaliana VIPP1, which we dubbed SlVIPP1. Our genetic and molecular characterization of slvipp1, an insertional mutant, allowed us to conclude that the tomato SlVIPP1 gene is needed for development, as Arabidopsis VIPP1, but not Escherichia coli PspA. Homozygous slvipp1 tomato plants are albino and exhibit early lethality and highly aberrant chloroplast development with almost complete absence of thylakoids. The phenotype of tomato RNAi lines and that of additional slvipp1 alleles generated by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology confirmed that the morphological and histological aberrations shown by slvipp1 homozygotes are caused by VIPP1 lack of function. We also found that tomato SlVIPP1 overexpression does not cause any visible effect on plant morphology and viability. Our work with slvipp1 plants evidences that SlVIPP1 is an essential gene required for tomato survival, since its function is crucial for the proper formation and/or maintenance of thylakoid membranes.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Lethality", "Albinism", "PspA", "Plant culture", "thylakoid membrane", "albinism", "Plant Science", "tomato", "Chloroplast", "Tomato", "Thylakoid membrane", "SB1-1110", "GENETICA", "03 medical and health sciences", "chloroplast", "SlVIPP1"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.01305"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fpls.2020.01305", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fpls.2020.01305", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fpls.2020.01305"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fpls.2021.670236", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-04", "title": "Impact of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Inoculation and Grafting on Tolerance of Tomato to Combined Water and Nutrient Stress Assessed via Metabolomics Analysis", "description": "<p>In the current study, inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and grafting were tested as possible cultural practices that may enhance resilience of tomato to stress induced by combined water and nutrient shortage. The roots of tomato grown on perlite were either inoculated or not with PGPR, applying four different treatments. These were PGPR-T1, a mix of two Enterobacter sp. strains (C1.2 and C1.5); PGPR-T2, Paenibacillus sp. strain DN1.2; PGPR-T3, Enterobacter mori strain C3.1; and PGPR-T4, Lelliottia sp. strain D2.4. PGPR-treated plants were either self-grafted or grafted onto Solanum lycopersicum cv. M82 and received either full or 50% of their standard water, nitrogen, and phosphorus needs. The vegetative biomass of plants subjected to PGPR-T1 was not reduced when plants were cultivated under combined stress, while it was reduced by stress to the rest of the PGPR treatments. However, PGPR-T3 increased considerably plant biomass of non-stressed tomato plants than did all other treatments. PGPR application had no impact on fruit biomass, while grafting onto \uffe2\uff80\uff99M82\uffe2\uff80\uff99 increased fruit production than did self-grafting. Metabolomics analysis in tomato leaves revealed that combined stress affects several metabolites, most of them already described as stress-related, including trehalose, myo-inositol, and monopalmitin. PGPR inoculation with E. mori strain C3.1 affected metabolites, which are important for plant/microbe symbiosis (myo-inositol and monopalmitin). The rootstock M82 did not affect many metabolites in plant leaves, but it clearly decreased the levels of malate and D-fructose and imposed an accumulation of oleic acid. In conclusion, PGPR are capable of increasing tomato tolerance to combined stress. However, further research is required to evaluate more strains and refine protocols for their application. Metabolites that were discovered as biomarkers could be used to accelerate the screening process for traits such as stress tolerance to abiotic and/or abiotic stresses. Finally, \uffe2\uff80\uff98M82\uffe2\uff80\uff99 is a suitable rootstock for tomato, as it is capable of increasing fruit biomass production.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Plant culture", "hydroponics", "Plant Science", "tomato", "15. Life on land", "grafting", "metabolomics", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "SB1-1110", "water stress", "03 medical and health sciences", "PGPR", "M82", "biostimulant"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.670236"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fpls.2021.670236", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fpls.2021.670236", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fpls.2021.670236"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy12040767", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-03-23", "title": "Conception and Development of Recycled Raw Materials (Coconut Fiber and Bagasse)-Based Substrates Enriched with Soil Microorganisms (Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Trichoderma spp. and Pseudomonas spp.) for the Soilless Cultivation of Tomato (S. lycopersicum)", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The global production quantity and the utilisation area harvested for the cultivation of tomatoes have significantly increased in the last three decades. Europe still plays an important role in the production of tomatoes, accounting for 12% of global production in 2020. Tomato production can be divided into greenhouse/soilless production and open field production. Greenhouse/soilless tomato production is mostly developed in northern Europe, and open field production in southern Europe. Soilless cultivation serves to improve control of the growing medium and to avoid any likely problems for watering and maintaining proper nutrient concentrations. Beneficial soil microorganisms, particularly arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), are increasingly being recognized as key elements of an agro-ecological approach to agricultural production. The use of these beneficial microorganisms on soilless tomato production may improve plant performance and reduce biotic and abiotic stress occurring during production with a consequent decrease of chemicals and increase of sustainability of the production system. In this paper, we tested different substrates composed of coconut fiber and bagasse (S1 to S4) and beneficial microorganisms (AMF, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Trichoderma harzianum), selecting the most suitable system for the soilless production of tomatoes. Our results showed that substrates S1 (100% coconut fiber) and S2 (66% coconut fiber + 33% bagasse) complementarily used with the consortium of \u201cAMF IP21 + Trichoderma harzianum + Pseudomonas fluorescens IPB04\u201d seem to be the \u201cbest formulation\u201d for this purpose. That confirmed the feasibility of the development of recycled material (coconut fiber and bagasse)-based substrates together with soil microorganisms (AMF and beneficial bacteria) for soilless tomato production.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "growing substrates", "S", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "tomato", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "beneficial soil microorganisms", "tomato; beneficial soil microorganisms; growing substrates", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Masquelier, Sylvie, Sozzi, Tommaso, Bouvet, Janie Camille, B\u00e9siers, J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Deogratias, Jean-Marc,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/4/767/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/4/767/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040767"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy12040767", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy12040767", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy12040767"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agriculture15060624", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-03-17", "title": "Exploring the Root-Associated Bacterial Community of Tomato Plants in Response to Salt Stress", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Salinity is one of the main abiotic stresses that limits plant growth. This study addressed how the composition and diversity of root-associated bacterial communities reacts over time to salt-induced stress conditions. To understand its adaptation to soil salinization, the microbiome was studied by total DNA extraction and sequencing, using the Illumina MiSeq platform. Additionally, we evaluated the plant metabolites associated with salt stress (oxylipins, fatty acids (FAs) and hormones) by mass spectrometry. Salinity reduced rhizosphere bacterial diversity in salt-treated plants at 7 and 14 days and triggered a progressive shift of the bacterial structure, starting 7 days after salt stress imposed. The bacterial rhizosphere community became enriched with specific bacteria associated with potential genes involved in the PGP trait and ion homeostasis. For these plants, metabolites that showed higher levels included 9-lipoxygenase (LOX) oxylipins, which were found at days 7 and 14. The results indicated that salinity seems to have induced changes in the rhizosphere bacterial community, with characteristics that may help the plant respond to the imposed stress. Furthermore, our study highlighted the role of 9-LOX oxylipins in responding to salinity stress, providing new insights into the complex plant\u2013microbe interactions under salt stress.</p></article>", "keywords": ["lipids", "oxylipins", "Agriculture (General)", "plant metabolome", "tomato plant", "bacterial community", "salt stress", "S1-972"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15060624"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agriculture15060624", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agriculture15060624", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agriculture15060624"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agriculture9040079", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-22", "title": "Deficit Drip Irrigation in Processing of Tomato Production in the Mediterranean Basin: A Data Analysis for Italy", "description": "<p>In this study, the effects of deficit irrigation (DI) on crop yields and irrigation water utilization efficiency (IWUE) of processing tomato are contrasting. This study aimed at analyzing a set of field experiments with drip irrigation available for Mediterranean Italy in terms of marketable yields and IWUE under DI. Both yields and IWUE were compared with the control treatment under full irrigation, receiving the maximum water restoration (MWR) in each experiment. The study also aimed at testing the effect of climate (aridity index) and soil parameters (texture). Main results indicated that yields would marginally decrease at 70\uffe2\uff80\uff9380% of MWR and variable irrigation regimes during the crop cycle resulted in higher crop yields. However, results were quite variable and site-dependent. In fact, DI proved more effective in fine textured soils and semiarid climates. We recommend that further research should address variable irrigation regimes and soil and climate conditions that proved more unfavorable in terms of crop response to DI.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "deficit irrigation", "Agriculture (General)", "tomato fruit yield", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "irrigation water use eciency", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "S1-972", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "irrigation water use efficiency", "Mediterranean region"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/4/79/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/4/79/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture9040079"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agriculture9040079", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agriculture9040079", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agriculture9040079"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-04-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/genes11091011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-27", "title": "Phenotyping in Arabidopsis and Crops\u2014Are We Addressing the Same Traits? A Case Study in Tomato", "description": "<p>The convenient model Arabidopsis thaliana has allowed tremendous advances in plant genetics and physiology, in spite of only being a weed. It has also unveiled the main molecular networks governing, among others, abiotic stress responses. Through the use of the latest genomic tools, Arabidopsis research is nowadays being translated to agronomically interesting crop models such as tomato, but at a lagging pace. Knowledge transfer has been hindered by invariable differences in plant architecture and behaviour, as well as the divergent direct objectives of research in Arabidopsis vs. crops compromise transferability. In this sense, phenotype translation is still a very complex matter. Here, we point out the challenges of \uffe2\uff80\uff9ctranslational phenotyping\uffe2\uff80\uff9d in the case study of drought stress phenotyping in Arabidopsis and tomato. After briefly defining and describing drought stress and survival strategies, we compare drought stress protocols and phenotyping techniques most commonly used in the two species, and discuss their potential to gain insights, which are truly transferable between species. This review is intended to be a starting point for discussion about translational phenotyping approaches among plant scientists, and provides a useful compendium of methods and techniques used in modern phenotyping for this specific plant pair as a case study.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "Arabidopsis", "Review", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phenotype", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Stress", " Physiological", "Arabidopsis; tomato; phenotyping; drought stress; translational phenotyping; osmotic stress; Dehydration; Arabidopsis thaliana; Solanum lycopersicum; Lycopersicon esculentum", "Plant Proteins"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/898415/2/genes-11-01011-v3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1757296/1/genes-11-01011-v3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/9/1011/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11091011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/genes11091011", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/genes11091011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/genes11091011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-24", "title": "Tomato RNA-seq Data Mining Reveals the Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Root-Associated Microbiota", "description": "<p>Next-generation approaches have enabled researchers to deeply study the plant microbiota and to reveal how microbiota associated with plant roots has key effects on plant nutrition, disease resistance, and plant development. Although early \uffe2\uff80\uff9comics\uffe2\uff80\uff9d experiments focused mainly on the species composition of microbial communities, new \uffe2\uff80\uff9cmeta-omics\uffe2\uff80\uff9d approaches such as meta-transcriptomics provide hints about the functions of the microbes when interacting with their plant host. Here, we used an RNA-seq dataset previously generated for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants growing on different native soils to test the hypothesis that host-targeted transcriptomics can detect the taxonomic and functional diversity of root microbiota. Even though the sequencing throughput for the microbial populations was limited, we were able to reconstruct the microbial communities and obtain an overview of their functional diversity. Comparisons of the host transcriptome and the meta-transcriptome suggested that the composition and the metabolic activities of the microbiota shape plant responses at the molecular level. Despite the limitations, mining available next-generation sequencing datasets can provide unexpected results and potential benefits for microbiota research.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "tomato", "RNA-seq; fungi; holobiont; meta-transcriptome; microbiota; tomato", "Article", "03 medical and health sciences", "rna-seq", "microbiota", "fungi", "Biology (General)", "RNA-seq", "meta-transcriptome", "holobiont"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/1/38/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1720787/1/Chialva%20et%20al.%2c%202020_tomato_meta-transcriptome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/1/38/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010038"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8010038"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/plants10112419", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-09", "title": "Legume-Based Mobile Green Manure Can Increase Soil Nitrogen Availability and Yield of Organic Greenhouse Tomatoes", "description": "<p>Information about the availability of soil mineral nitrogen (N) in organic greenhouse tomatoes after the application of mobile green manure (MGM), and its impact on plant nutrient status and yield is scarce. Considering this knowledge gap, the effects of legume biomass from faba beans that are cultivated outdoors (FAB), or from feed-grade alfalfa pellets at two different doses (AAL = 330 g m\uffe2\uff88\uff922; AAH = 660 g m\uffe2\uff88\uff922) that were applied as MGM on the nutrition and yield of an organic greenhouse crop of tomatoes were evaluated. All of the MGM treatments increased the mineral N concentrations in the soil throughout the cropping period, and the total N concentration in tomato leaves when compared to the untreated control. FAB and AAH treatments had a stronger impact than AAL in all of the measured parameters. In addition, AAL, AAH, and FAB treatments increased the yield compared to the control by 19%, 33%, and 36%, respectively. The application of MGM, either as faba bean fresh biomass or as alfalfa dry pellets, in organic greenhouse tomatoes significantly increased the plant available soil N, improved N nutrition, and enhanced the fruit yield. However, the N mineralization rates after the MGM application were excessive during the initial cropping stages, followed by a marked decrease thereafter. This may impose an N deficiency during the late cropping period.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i>", "soil nitrogen", "alfalfa pellet", "Botany", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Alfalfa pellet; Biological nitrogen fixation; Faba bean; Organic tomato; Rhizobia; Soil nitrogen; Solanum lycopersicum", "biological nitrogen fixation", "rhizobia", "faba bean", "Article", "QK1-989", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "organic tomato"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/11/2419/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1818902/1/Plants_10_2419.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/11/2419/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10112419"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plants", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/plants10112419", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/plants10112419", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/plants10112419"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/plants9050612", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:20:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-11", "title": "Strigolactones Control Root System Architecture and Tip Anatomy in Solanum lycopersicum L. Plants under P Starvation", "description": "<p>The hormones strigolactones accumulate in plant roots under phosphorus (P) shortage, inducing variations in plant phenotype. In this study, we aimed at understanding whether strigolactones control morphological and anatomical changes in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) roots under varying P supply. Root traits were evaluated in wild-type seedlings grown in high vs. low P, with or without exogenous strigolactones, and in wild-type and strigolactone-depleted plants grown first under high vs. no P, and then under high vs. no P after acclimation on low P. Exogenous strigolactones stimulated primary root and lateral root number under low P. Root growth was reduced in strigolactone-depleted plants maintained under continuous P deprivation. Total root and root hair length, lateral root number and root tip anatomy were impaired by low strigolactone biosynthesis in plants grown under low P or transferred from low to no P. Under adequate P conditions, root traits of strigolactone-depleted and wild-type plants were similar. Concluding, our results indicate that strigolactones (i) control macro- and microscopic changes of root in tomato depending on P supply; and (ii) do not affect root traits significantly when plants are supplemented with adequate P, but are needed for acclimation to no P and typical responses to low P.</p>", "keywords": ["root anatomy", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phosphorus; Root anatomy; Root architecture; Strigolactones; Tomato", "QK1-989", "Botany", "strigolactones", "phosphorus", "root architecture", "tomato", "Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/5/612/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.research.unipd.it/bitstream/11577/3355994/1/STRIGOplants.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1755410/1/Santoro%20et%20al._2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/5/612/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9050612"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plants", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/plants9050612", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/plants9050612", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/plants9050612"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su13010190", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-12-29", "title": "How Does Consumers\u2019 Care for Origin Shape Their Behavioural Gap for Environmentally Friendly Products?", "description": "<p>Climate change is threatening worldwide crop yields and varieties, and the desertification of Southern Europe and Mediterranean areas is endangering the cultivation of tomato, not only one of the most important cultivated crops, but also one of the main pillars of the global food industry. To minimize its environmental impact, current research efforts in Europe are selecting resilient tomato genotypes with reduced use of water and fertilizers. Still, its commercial acceptance depends on consumers\uffe2\uff80\uff99 reaction in terms of interests, attitudes, and willingness to buy and pay for this hypothetical resilient tomato. In our setting, a behavioural gap exists whenever despite an interest for the product, and regardless of a positive attitude towards it, consumers are not willing to pay a premium price for this tomato. This paper focuses on Italians, among the largest tomato consumers across the world, and for whom origin emerges as a relevant consumption driver. We carried out a web-survey, totalling 932 responses. We ran three different ordinal regressions, one for each level of involvement in the purchasing process, identifying the factors affecting consumers\uffe2\uff80\uff99 interest, attitude, and behaviour towards this hypothetical tomato. We prove the existence of a behavioural gap for Italian tomato consumers and observe that this gap widens as consumers\uffe2\uff80\uff99 preferences for origin increase. Hence, policies developing environmentally sustainable products should not forget how consumer preferences for non-strictly environmental attributes might ultimately affect their propensity to buy and pay.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Italy", "environmental sustainability; consumer behavioural gap; tomato; food origin; Italy", "8. Economic growth", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "food origin", "consumer behavioural gap", "environmental sustainability", "tomato", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/1/190/pdf"}, {"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/807303/2/sustainability-13-00190.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1775786/1/sustainability-13-00190%20%286%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/1/190/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010190"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sustainability", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/su13010190", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su13010190", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su13010190"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/su9081492", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-22", "title": "Processing, Valorization and Application of Bio-Waste Derived Compounds from Potato, Tomato, Olive and Cereals: A Review", "description": "<p>The vast and ever-growing amount of agricultural and food wastes has become a major concern throughout the whole world. Therefore, strategies for their processing and value-added reuse are needed to enable a sustainable utilization of feedstocks and reduce the environmental burden. By-products of potato, tomato, cereals and olive arise in significant amounts in European countries and are consequently of high relevance. Due to their composition with various beneficial ingredients, the waste products can be valorized by different techniques leading to economic and environmental advantages. This paper focuses on the waste generation during industrial processing of potato, tomato, cereals and olives within the European Union and reviews state-of-the-art technologies for their valorization. Furthermore, current applications, future perspectives and challenges are discussed.</p>", "keywords": ["cereals", "2. Zero hunger", "bio-fertilizers", "633", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "tomato", "7. Clean energy", "olive", "12. Responsible consumption", "food additives", "packaging materials", "Agricultural waste; Bio-fertilizers; Cereals; Food additives; Food waste; Olive; Packaging materials; Potato; Tomato; Valorization technologies; Geography", " Planning and Development; Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment; Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "0404 agricultural biotechnology", "food waste", "13. Climate action", "valorization technologies", "11. Sustainability", "potato", "agricultural waste", "0405 other agricultural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/615659/1/Review%20Sustainability%202017.pdf"}, {"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1492/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/su9081492"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Sustainability", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/su9081492", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/su9081492", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/su9081492"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-08-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "20.500.11755/a2f3860a-c450-4fe2-b6c2-64c9c1bf2af6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:25:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-01-18", "title": "Bioinoculant-induced plant resistance is modulated by interactions with resident soil microbes", "description": "BACKGROUND: Entomopathogenic fungi are increasingly used as bio-inoculants to enhance crop growth and resistance. When applied to rhizosphere soil, they interact with resident soil microbes, which can affect their ability to colonize and induce resistance in plants as well as modify the structure of the resident soil microbiome, either directly through interactions in the rhizosphere or indirectly, mediated by the plant. The extent to which such direct versus indirect interactions between bio-inoculants and soil microbes impact microbe-induced resistance in crops remains unclear. This study uses a split-root system to examine the effects of direct versus indirect (plant-mediated) interactions between an entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum, and resident soil microbes on induced resistance in tomato against two-spotted spider mites. Additionally, the study explores how these interactions influence the composition and diversity of soil fungal and bacterial communities. RESULTS: Resident soil microbes reduced the efficacy of M. brunneum to induce resistance against spider mites. This reduction occurred not only when resident microbes directly interacted with the bio-inoculant but also when they were spatially separated within the root system, indicating plant-mediated effects. M. brunneum inoculation did not affect rhizosphere microbial diversity but led to changes in fungal and bacterial community composition, even when these communities were not in direct contact with the inoculant. CONCLUSIONS: This research highlights the impact of both direct and plant-mediated interactions between bio-inoculants and resident soil microbes on bio-inoculant-induced pest resistance in crop plants and underscores the importance of assessing potential adverse effects of fungal bio-inoculants on native soil communities. 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Like many other perishable fruits and vegetables, it is highly prone to postharvest losses, reaching up to 30% in some developing countries. Tomato is known to be highly susceptible to pathogenic fungi, such as Penicillium, Aspergillus and Mucor, which tend to attack crops with high moisture and nutrient content. Tomato tissue cell damage can occur due to changes in environmental conditions as well as damage during product handling. Such damage creates potential entrance for fungal spores which, given appropriate germination conditions, may infect stem, calyx,<br> sepals etc.<br> This work focuses on the sensitivity of sepals to fungal infection. In addition to the physical damage to the calyx, the calyx can also be physiological strong or weak, which is likely influenced by various growing conditions like radiation during fruit set and fruit growth, relative humidity during cultivation, more vegetative or generative growing crops, plant density and nutritional level of the crop. In case of presence of fungal spores and favorable fungal growing conditions, it is hypothesized that there is a correlation between weakness of the calyx (prior to fungal infection) and eventual fungal infection and/or the severity of infection. Early sepal cell damage or weakness of calyx, is not visible to the naked eye, and, to our knowledge, no method exists for detecting this automatically prior to the infection. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI), especially in the Near-Infrared (NIR) range, has been shown to be sensitive to certain types of cell damage, such as bruises, but has not been demonstrated for the cell damage on the sepal tips and for early detection of weak sepals. As one of the novelty of this work, we investigate HSI to capture the sepal cell damage and weakness. To investigate the hypothesis, an experimental procedure was designed wherein hyperspectral images were acquired from several batches of tomatoes (from multiple origins, 1 cultivar) prior to visible evidence of fungal infection, potentially capturing the cell damage. The tomatoes were then introduced to conditions stimulating for fungal germination for multiple days. On the final day of the experiment, tomatoes are imaged (normal colour images) for gathering visual evidence of fungal severity for each sepal. Finally the first results are reported where a machine learning based approach Random forest regression was used to find a correlation between the spectral information from the first day of the experiment, and the fungal severity on the last day. Each sepal is described by the mean and standard deviation of its hyperspectral pixels values. 10-fold and group fold cross validation methods were used to evaluate the model performance. In reported experiments, groups correspond to different tomato origins. Predicted fungal severity correlated well with ground truth estimates with Pearson correlation of 0.73 and 0.66, and a high proportion of the variance explained with R2 score of 0.52 and 0.43 for 10-fold cross validation and group cross validation, respectively.", "keywords": ["2. 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In case of presence of fungal spores and favorable fungal growing conditions, it is hypothesized that there is a correlation between weakness of the calyx (prior to fungal infection) and eventual fungal infection and/or the severity of infection. Early sepal cell damage or weakness of calyx, is not visible to the naked eye, and, to our knowledge, no method exists for detecting this automatically prior to the infection. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI), especially in the Near-Infrared (NIR) range, has been shown to be sensitive to certain types of cell damage, such as bruises, but has not been demonstrated for the cell damage on the sepal tips and for early detection of weak sepals. As one of the novelty of this work, we investigate HSI to capture the sepal cell damage and weakness. To investigate the hypothesis, an experimental procedure was designed wherein hyperspectral images were acquired from several batches of tomatoes (from multiple origins, 1 cultivar) prior to visible evidence of fungal infection, potentially capturing the cell damage. The tomatoes were then introduced to conditions stimulating for fungal germination for multiple days. On the final day of the experiment, tomatoes are imaged (normal colour images) for gathering visual evidence of fungal severity for each sepal. Finally the first results are reported where a machine learning based approach Random forest regression was used to find a correlation between the spectral information from the first day of the experiment, and the fungal severity on the last day. Each sepal is described by the mean and standard deviation of its hyperspectral pixels values. 10-fold and group fold cross validation methods were used to evaluate the model performance. In reported experiments, groups correspond to different tomato origins. Predicted fungal severity correlated well with ground truth estimates with Pearson correlation of 0.73 and 0.66, and a high proportion of the variance explained with R2 score of 0.52 and 0.43 for 10-fold cross validation and group cross validation, respectively.", "keywords": ["2. 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Grbovic, M. Panic, O. Marko, S. Brdar and V. Crnojevic: ``Wheat Ear Detection in RGB and Thermal Images Using Deep Neural Networks'', Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2019, New York, NY, USA, July 20-25, 2019, Proceedings, Volume II, pp. 875--889, ibai publishing, 2019.', 'Ronneberger, Olaf, Philipp Fischer, and Thomas Brox.  'U-net: Convolutional networks for biomedical image segmentation. ' In International Conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention, pp. 234-241. Springer, Cham, 2015.', 'Badrinarayanan, V., Kendall, A. and Cipolla, R., 2017. Segnet: A deep convolutional encoder-decoder architecture for image segmentation. 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This is apparent in the deposition of suberin, an apoplastic diffusion barrier, which regulates the entry and exit of water, solutes and gases, and is environmentally plastic. Suberin is considered a hallmark of endodermal differentiation, but we find that it is absent in the tomato endodermis during normal development. Instead, suberin is present in the exodermis, a cell type that is absent in the model organismArabidopsis thaliana. Here, we uncover genes driving exodermal suberization and describe its effects on drought responses in tomato, unravelling the similarities and differences with the paradigmatic Arabidopsis endodermis. Cellular resolution imaging, gene expression, and mutant analyses reveal loss of this program from the endodermis, and its co-option in the exodermis. Functional genetic analyses of the tomato MYB92 transcription factor and ASFT enzyme demonstrate the importance of exodermal suberin for a plant water-deficit response. Controlling the degree of exodermal suberization could be a new strategy for breeding climate-resilient plants.</p", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "Arabidopsis", "Water", "Plant Science", "Drought tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Article", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Tomatoes", "Cell Wall", "13. 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To understand this cellular diversity, we profiled tomato root cell type translatomes. Using xylem differentiation in tomato, examples of functional innovation, repurposing, and conservation of transcription factors are described, relative to the model plant Arabidopsis. Repurposing and innovation of genes are further observed within an exodermis regulatory network and illustrate its function. Comparative translatome analyses of rice, tomato, and Arabidopsis cell populations suggest increased expression conservation of root meristems compared with other homologous populations. In addition, the functions of constitutively expressed genes are more conserved than those of cell type/tissue-enriched genes. These observations suggest that higher order properties of cell type and pan-cell type regulation are evolutionarily conserved between plants and animals.", "keywords": ["root development", "translatomes", "General Biochemistry", "Genetics and Molecular Biology", "Green Fluorescent Proteins", "Meristem", "Arabidopsis", "cell types; evolution; exodermis; gene regulation; rice; root development; tomato; translatomes; xylem", "tomato", "xylem", "Genes", " Plant", "Plant Roots", "Inventions", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Species Specificity", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Xylem", "evolution", "Gene Regulatory Networks", "Promoter Regions", " Genetic", "Plant Proteins", "2. Zero hunger", "exodermis", "rice", "15. 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Docet (Sw5 resistance gene) in Apulia, southern Italy, with different symptom severity and accumulation levels of a resistance-breaking strain of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). Four groups of samples were assumed to be different stages of plant tissue colonization by the virus: plants without symptoms and a null virus titre (group A) or 1 \u00d7?102 TSWV reads per million (rpm; B), and plants with symptoms and 1 \u00d7?104 rpm (C) or 2 \u00d7?105 rpm (D). Transcriptome sequencing revealed that plant response to TSWV infection is profoundly related to its accumulation level in the tissues. At an early stage of infection (B vs. A comparison), genes related to photosystem I were down-regulated, and oxidoreductase activity increased. Considerable virus colonization (C vs. B) activated defense-related mechanisms such as cell surface receptor signalling, phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and transcription factor activity. In contrast, photosynthesis, transmembrane transporter activity, and biosynthesis of monosaccharides and peptides were down-regulated. This scenario increased at an advanced stage of colonization (D vs. C), with attenuation of response to stimuli (e.g., surface receptor signaling and protein kinase activity) and an increase of catalytic activities such as ubiquitin- protein transferase and ribonuclease. TSWV infection constantly injured tomato cell metabolism (e.g., photosynthesis, monosaccharide and peptide biosynthesis, ion transporter activity) while plant defense (e.g., cell surface receptor signaling, phenylpropanoid pathway), clearly ineffective in such compatible plant-virus interaction, occurred late and disappeared soon after.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "RNA-Seq", "tomato", "Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV)", "transcriptome", "3. 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In contrast, photosynthesis, transmembrane transporter activity, and biosynthesis of monosaccharides and peptides were down-regulated. This scenario increased at an advanced stage of colonization (D vs. C), with attenuation of response to stimuli (e.g., surface receptor signaling and protein kinase activity) and an increase of catalytic activities such as ubiquitin- protein transferase and ribonuclease. TSWV infection constantly injured tomato cell metabolism (e.g., photosynthesis, monosaccharide and peptide biosynthesis, ion transporter activity) while plant defense (e.g., cell surface receptor signaling, phenylpropanoid pathway), clearly ineffective in such compatible plant-virus interaction, occurred late and disappeared soon after.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "RNA-Seq", "tomato", "Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV)", "transcriptome", "3. 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