Xylooligosaccharides from potential agricultural waste: Characterization and screening on the enzymatic hydrolysis factors by Nurul Aishah, Mazlan, Kamaliah, Abdul Samad, Wan Mohd Hafizuddin, Wan Yussof, Syed Mohd Saufi, Tuan Chik, Jamaliah Jahim, Jahim

“…Characterization of oil palm frond bagasse (OPFB), oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB), and rice straw (RS) before and after pretreatment was performed in terms of chemical and physical properties. …”
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Particulate matter dispersion at biomass energy plant using AERMOD atmospheric dispersion modelling: a case study by N. S., Mokhadzir, Azizan, Ramli

“…There are different types of biomass such as empty fruit bunch (EFB), fronds, mesocarp fibre (MF), trunk and shell. Each type provides a different level of particulate matter. …”
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Ammonium Uptake, Mediated by Ammonium Transporters, Mitigates Manganese Toxicity in Duckweed, <i>Spirodela polyrhiza</i> by Olena Kishchenko, Anton Stepanenko, Tatsiana Straub, Yuzhen Zhou, Benjamin Neuhäuser, Nikolai Borisjuk

“…Transcripts of all <i>SpAMT</i> genes were detected in duckweed fronds grown in cultivation medium, containing a physiological or 50-fold elevated concentration of Mn at the background of nitrogen or a mixture of nitrate and ammonium. …”
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Lipoma arborescence of knee joint in an adolescent male patient: a case report by Shuja Uddin, Adeel Hamid, Ahmed Umair Asad Khan, Hafiz M. Umar, Iqra Fatima, M. Rizwan Shah, Mian Muhammad Haneef

“…A large amount of subarticular erosion in the nearby tibial and femoral condyle was caused by the frond-like proliferation of fatty synovium, according to magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Novel Plant-Associated <i>Acidobacteria</i> Promotes Growth of Common Floating Aquatic Plants, Duckweeds by Yasuko Yoneda, Kyosuke Yamamoto, Ayaka Makino, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Xian-Ying Meng, Junko Hashimoto, Kazuo Shin-ya, Noriyuki Satoh, Manabu Fujie, Tadashi Toyama, Kazuhiro Mori, Michihiko Ike, Masaaki Morikawa, Yoichi Kamagata, Hideyuki Tamaki

“…In the co-culture experiments with aseptic host plants, the F-183 and TBR-22 strains visibly enhanced growth (frond number) of six duckweed species (subfamily <i>Lemnoideae</i>) up to 1.8–5.1 times and 1.6–3.9 times, respectively, compared with uninoculated controls. …”
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Vegetative Propagation of the Commercial Red Seaweed <i>Chondracanthus chamissoi</i> in Peru by Secondary Attachment Disc during Indoor Cultivation by Samuel Arbaiza, Jose Avila-Peltroche, Max Castañeda-Franco, Arturo Mires-Reyes, Orlando Advíncula, Paul Baltazar

“…However, vegetative algae, especially Mendieta, tended to present a higher number of SADs. Vegetative fronds also showed lower levels of necrosis and deterioration compared to cystocarpic and tetrasporophytic samples. …”
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Decoding Gene Networks Modules That Explain the Recovery of Hymenoglossum cruentum Cav. After Extreme Desiccation by Enrique Ostria-Gallardo, Enrique Ostria-Gallardo, Giovanni Larama, Graciela Berríos, Ana Fallard, Ana Gutiérrez-Moraga, Ingo Ensminger, Patricio Manque, Luisa Bascuñán-Godoy, León A. Bravo, León A. Bravo

“…The relative water content (RWC) and maximum quantum efficiency (Fv/Fm) of H. cruentum fronds decayed to 6% and 0.04, respectively, at the end of the desiccation stage. …”
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Optimization of Molecular Methods for Detecting Duckweed-Associated Bacteria by Kenneth Acosta, Shawn Sorrels, William Chrisler, Weijuan Huang, Sarah Gilbert, Thomas Brinkman, Todd P. Michael, Sarah L. Lebeis, Eric Lam

“…Lastly, confocal microscopy of inoculated duckweed further supported our PCR results and showed bacterial colonization of the duckweed root–frond interface and root interior. The molecular methods introduced in this work should enable the tracking and quantification of specific plant-microbe associations within plant-microbial communities.…”
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<i>Aglaomorpha quercifolia</i> (L.) Hovenkamp & S. Linds a Wild Fern Used in Timorese Cuisine by Hermenegildo R. Costa, Inês Simão, Helena Silva, Paulo Silveira, Artur M. S. Silva, Diana C. G. A. Pinto

“…The ingestion of a broth made from its rhizome improves lactation, and young fronds of this fern are boiled and eaten with rice by the locals. …”
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Nutritional and Antioxidant Potential of Fiddleheads from European Ferns by Marcela Dvorakova, Karolína Pumprova, Žaneta Antonínová, Jan Rezek, Daniel Haisel, Libor Ekrt, Tomas Vanek, Lenka Langhansova

“…Here, the nutritional and antioxidant potential of young fern fronds (fiddleheads) of eight families were studied. …”
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Factors regulating lignocellulolytic microbes, their degrading enzymes, and heterotrophic respiration in oil palm cultivated peatlands by Muhammad Nurul Hadi, Heru Bagus Pulunggono, Lilik Tri Indriyati, Happy Widiastuti, Moh Zulfajrin

“…This study evaluated the effect of sampling depth (0-30, 30-60, and 60-90 cm), OPP management zone (fertilization circle/FTC, frond stack/FRS, and harvesting path/HVP), and peat physicochemical properties on the lignocellulolytic bacteria and fungi, their degrading enzymes activities and peat heterotrophic respiration/Rh using principal component analysis/PCA, multiple linear regression/MLR, and generalized linear mixed effect models/GLMM. …”
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Advanced Drinking Groundwater As Phytofiltration by the Hyperaccumulating Fern <i>Pteris vittata</i> by Davide Marzi, Maria Luisa Antenozio, Sara Vernazzaro, Clara Sette, Enrico Veschetti, Luca Lucentini, Giancarlo Daniele, Patrizia Brunetti, Maura Cardarelli

“…<i>P. vittata</i> young plants, with extensive frond and root development, were suspended individually in 15 L of water with initial As of 59 µg/L, without any additional treatment or water refilling. …”
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<i>De Novo</i> Transcriptome Assembly of Two <i>Microsorum</i> Fern Species Identifies Enzymes Required for Two Upstream Pathways of Phytoecdysteroids by Siriporn Sripinyowanich, Eui-Joon Kil, Sahanat Petchsri, Yeonhwa Jo, Hoseong Choi, Won Kyong Cho, Sukchan Lee

“…To identify genes for PE biosynthesis, we generated reference transcriptomes from sterile frond tissues using the NovaSeq 6000 system. De novo transcriptome assembly after deleting contaminants resulted in 57,252 and 54,618 clean transcripts for MP and MS, respectively. …”
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Quantification of the Flavor and Taste of Gonads from the Sea Urchin <i>Mesocentrotus nudus</i> Using GC–MS and a Taste-Sensing System by Satomi Takagi, Yoichi Sato, Yuko Murata, Atsuko Kokubun, Ken Touhata, Noriko Ishida, Yukio Agatsuma

“…Our past studies have revealed that the gonads of the sea urchin <i>Mesocentrotus nudus</i> fed the basal frond portion of fresh <i>Saccharina</i> kelp (BS) or the sporophylls of fresh <i>Undaria</i> (SU) during May–July are of high-quality. …”
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Persistence of seaweed forests in the anthropocene will depend on warming and marine heatwave profiles by Straub, Sandra C., Wernberg, Thomas, Marzinelli, Ezequiel Miguel, Vergés, Adriana, Kelaher, Brendan P., Coleman, Melinda A.

“…The fucoid Sargassum linearifolium showed resilience, albeit with signs of decline with bleached and degraded fronds, under all conditions, with stronger decline under stable control and warming conditions. …”
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Calf Birth Weight and Post Partum Estrus Bali Cow Fed Complete Feed From Palm Oil Plantation in Central Borneo Indonesia by Mudhita, Ida Ketut, Baliarti, Endang, Subur, Priyono Sasmito Budhi, Umami, Nafiatul, Noviandi, Cuk Tri2, Kustono, Kustono, Suparta Budisatria, I Gede, Wattimena, Jeffrie

“…Palm oil plantations have a very large source of feed for Bali cow, including the legume crop cover, by-product of palm oil plantations such as oil palm frond and by-product of palm oil mills such as palm kernel cake. …”
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Weather-based forecasting model for the presence of Metisa plana in oil palm plantation using feature selection in artificial neural network by Mohammad Zafrullah Salim, Mohammad Hilmi Mohd Zahir, Farrah Melissa Muharam, Nur Azura Adam, Dzolkhifli Omar, Nor Azura Husin, Syed Mohd Faizal Syed Ali

“…Bagworm censuses were done by identifying Metisa plana’s larval stage 1 (L1) to 7 (L7) from 13 random palms by cutting off frond number 17 biweekly and weather data was recorded by installing weather station in an oil palm plantation belongs to TH Plantation Berhad in Muadzam Shah, Pahang, Malaysia from July 2016 to June 2017. …”
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Morphological and tissue culture studies of platycerium coronarium, a rare ornamental fern species from Malaysia by Taha, Rosna Mat, Haron, Noorma Wati, Wafa, Sharifah Nurashikin

“…Due to having a uniquely-shaped fronds, they are famous for ornamental purposes, where they can be found in gardens, especially in tropical regions. …”
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Nitrification potential of a tropical peat soil under oil palm (Elaeis guineensis jacq.) cultivation at different operational zones and soil depths by Ariffin, Mohd Rizal, Ahmed, Osumanu Haruna, Mohd Saud, Halimi, Md Isa, Isharudin, Khairuddin, Mohd Nizar

“…Peat soil from three operational zonesnamely weeded circle (WC); frond heap (FH) and harvesting path (HP) was sampled up to six depths (0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-45,45-60 and >60 cm) in an oil palm plantation in Perak, Malaysia. …”
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Detecting BSR-infected oil palm seedlings using thermal imaging technique by Mohd Johari, Siti Nurul Afiah, Abdol Lajis, Ghaibulna, Keat, Neoh B., Ithnin, Nalisha, Bejo, Siti Khairunniza, Daim, Leona Daniela Jeffery, Yap, Yun Ci

“…It also affects the xylem tissues that eventually interrupt water transportation to the upper part of the oil palm, turning the leaves at the frond become yellow. This problem should be prevented during nursery stage by separating between healthy and BSR-infected seedling. …”
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