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Iron biofortification in the 21st century: setting realistic targets, overcoming obstacles, and new strategies for healthy nutrition by Vasconcelos, Marta W, Gruissem, Wilhelm, Bhullar, Navreet K

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Preserving the nutritional quality of crop plants under a changing climate: importance and strategies by Soares, José C., Santos, Carla S., Carvalho, Susana M. P., Pintado, Manuela M., Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…Background Global climate is changing more rapidly than ever, threatening plant growth and productivity while exerting considerable direct and indirect effects…”
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Improving the ripening process after 1-MCP application: Implications and strategies by Dias, Cindy, Ribeiro, Tânia, Rodrigues, Ana Cristina, Ferrante, António, Vasconcelos, Marta W., Pintado, Manuela

“…Consumers’ lifestyles demand high-quality products, requesting adequate fruit storage. Management of ethylene production is of paramount importance when…”
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Producing more with less: Strategies and novel technologies for plant-based food biofortification by Carvalho, Susana M.P., Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…About half of the world population suffers from the malnutrition of iron, zinc, calcium, iodine and selenium. Most of the major staple crops of the world, such…”
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Systematic review on lignin valorization in the agro-food system: From sources to applications by Cassoni, Ana C., Costa, Patrícia, Vasconcelos, Marta W., Pintado, Manuela

“…Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable resource on earth and currently most of this biomass is considered a low-value waste. Specifically,…”
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Predicting iron deficiency and oxidative stress in Glycine max through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in a time-course experiment by Santos, Carla S., Sousa, Clara, Bagheri, Maryam, Pinho, Simão, Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…Aims The excessive use of fertilizers is a problem in current agricultural systems, and sustainable farming practices, including precision agriculture, demand…”
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Evaluation of plant elicitation with methyl-jasmonate, salicylic acid and benzo (1,2,3)-thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid-S-methyl ester for the sustainable management of the pine wilt disease by López-Villamor, Adrián, Nunes da Silva, Marta, Vasconcelos, Marta W

“…Abstract Treatment with plant elicitors can be a promising method to induce Pinus pinaster tolerance against the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus…”
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Challenges in pea breeding for tolerance to drought: Status and prospects by Bagheri, Maryam, Santos, Carla S., Rubiales, Diego, Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…Drought is increasingly frequent in the context of climate change and is considered a major constraint for crop yield. Water scarcity can impair growth,…”
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Widening the Perspectives for Legume Consumption: The Case of Bioactive Non-nutrients by Geraldo, Rafaela, Santos, Carla S, Pinto, Elisabete, Vasconcelos, Marta W

“…Legume grains have provided essential nutrients in human diets for centuries, being excellent sources of proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, and fibers. They…”
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Chemical composition of red, brown and green macroalgae from Buarcos bay in Central West Coast of Portugal by Rodrigues, Dina, Freitas, Ana C., Pereira, Leonel, Rocha-Santos, Teresa A.P., Vasconcelos, Marta W., Roriz, Mariana, Rodríguez-Alcalá, Luís M., Gomes, Ana M.P., Duarte, Armando C.

“…•Chemical composition of six red, brown and green seaweeds from Portuguese Coast is given.•Inter and intra class seaweed variations were observed in…”
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Editorial: The impact of climate change on nutrient composition of staple foods and the role of diversification in increasing food system resilience by Santos, Carla S, Habyarimana, Ephrem, Vasconcelos, Marta W

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Effect of alkaline and deep eutectic solvents pretreatments on the recovery of lignin with antioxidant activity from grape stalks by Cassoni, Ana C., Mota, Inês, Costa, Patrícia, Vasconcelos, Marta W., Pintado, Manuela

“…Grape stalks are lignocellulosic residues that can be valorized through the extraction of lignin - an underutilized biopolymer with high potential. Two lignin…”
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Evaluation of chitooligosaccharide application on mineral accumulation and plant growth in Phaseolus vulgaris by Chatelain, Philippe G., E. Pintado, Manuela, Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…•Chitosan application impacts common bean growth and development.•Mineral accumulation was altered due to chitosan treatment.•Plant mineral nutrient dynamics…”
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Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards by Dias, Cindy, Ribeiro, Tânia, Rodrigues, Ana Cristina, Vasconcelos, Marta W., Ferrante, António, Pintado, Manuela

“…Aims At the same location, variability among orchards may be high, which is reflected in fruit quality, and it may be associated mainly with growers’…”
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The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food‐legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems by Bellucci, Elisa, Mario Aguilar, Orlando, Alseekh, Saleh, Bett, Kirstin, Brezeanu, Creola, Cook, Douglas, De la Rosa, Lucía, Delledonne, Massimo, Dostatny, Denise F., Ferreira, Juan J., Geffroy, Valérie, Ghitarrini, Sofia, Kroc, Magdalena, Kumar Agrawal, Shiv, Logozzo, Giuseppina, Marino, Mario, Mary‐Huard, Tristan, McClean, Phil, Meglič, Vladimir, Messer, Tamara, Muel, Frédéric, Nanni, Laura, Neumann, Kerstin, Servalli, Filippo, Străjeru, Silvia, Varshney, Rajeev K., Vasconcelos, Marta W., Zaccardelli, Massimo, Zavarzin, Aleksei, Bitocchi, Elena, Frontoni, Emanuele, Fernie, Alisdair R., Gioia, Tania, Graner, Andreas, Guasch, Luis, Prochnow, Lena, Oppermann, Markus, Susek, Karolina, Tenaillon, Maud, Papa, Roberto

“…SUMMARY Food legumes are crucial for all agriculture‐related societal challenges, including climate change mitigation, agrobiodiversity conservation,…”
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Searching for resistance genes to Bursaphelenchus xylophilus using high throughput screening by Santos, Carla S, Pinheiro, Miguel, Silva, Ana I, Egas, Conceição, Vasconcelos, Marta W

“…Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the pinewood nematode (PWN; Bursaphelenchus xylophilus), damages and kills pine trees and is causing serious economic damage…”
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Mitigation of climate change and environmental hazards in plants: Potential role of the beneficial metalloid silicon by Bokor, Boris, Santos, Carla S., Kostoláni, Dominik, Machado, Joana, da Silva, Marta Nunes, Carvalho, Susana M.P., Vaculík, Marek, Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…In the last decades, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and the average temperature have been increasing, and this trend is expected to become more severe in…”
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Morpho-physiological parameters affecting iron deficiency chlorosis in soybean (Glycine max L.) by Vasconcelos, Marta W., Grusak, Michael A.

“…Background and aims Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) leads to severe leaf chlorosis, low photosynthetic rates, and yield reductions of several million metric…”
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Scientific and technological advances in the development of sustainable disease management tools: a case study on kiwifruit bacterial canker by Santos, Miguel G, Nunes da Silva, Marta, Vasconcelos, Marta W, Carvalho, Susana M P

“…Plant disease outbreaks are increasing in a world facing climate change and globalized markets, representing a serious threat to food security. Kiwifruit…”
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Chitosan increases Pinus pinaster tolerance to the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) by promoting plant antioxidative metabolism by Nunes da Silva, Marta, Santos, Carla S., Cruz, Ana, López-Villamor, Adrián, Vasconcelos, Marta W.

“…The pine wilt disease (PWD), for which no effective treatment is available at the moment, is a constant threat to Pinus spp. plantations worldwide, being…”
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