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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2025

Sustainable agriculture through seaweed biostimulants: a two-year study demonstrates yield enhancement in pepper and eggplant.

Nikola Staykov, Aakansha Kanojia, Rafe Lyall, Valentina Ivanova, Saleh Alseekh, Veselin Petrov, Tsanko Gechev

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Nikola Staykov *Department Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Aakansha Kanojia *Department Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Rafe LyallDepartment Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Valentina IvanovaDepartment Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Saleh AlseekhDepartment Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Veselin PetrovDepartment Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Tsanko GechevDepartment Molecular Stress Physiology, Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices have intensified the need for eco-friendly strategies to improve crop resilience and productivity. This study evaluates the efficacy of a seaweed-based biostimulant derived from Ascophyllum nodosum extract (ANE) in enhancing yield-related traits in pepper (

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biostimulantcrop resilienceomicssustainable agricultureyield enhancement

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PMID40989726
PMCPMC12450877

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