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Álvarez-Herrera, J. G., Jaime-Guerrero, M. and Fischer, G. (2025). The effect of boron on fruit quality: A review. Horticulturae 11: doi:10.3390/horticulturae11080992.
Anjali, Singh, K., Thomas, R. R., Shubhashish, S., Kumar, S. and Kaushal, S. (2025). Hydroponics: An innovative approach to sustainable high-value crop cultivation. J. Sci. Res. Rep. 31: 410-19. doi:10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i42961.
Ashraf, R., Sultana, B., Iqbal, M. and Mushtaq, M. (2016). Variation in biochemical and antioxidant attributes of Raphanus sativus in response to foliar application of plant leaf extracts as plant growth regulator. J. Genet. Eng. Biotechnol. 14: 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.jgeb.2016.08.003.
Awad, J., Stotz, H. U., Fekete, A., Krischke, M., Engert, C., Havaux, M., Berger, S. and Mueller, M. J. (2015). 2-Cysteine peroxiredoxins and thylakoid ascorbate peroxidase create a water-water cycle that is essential to protect the photosynthetic apparatus under high light stress conditions. Plant Physiol. 167: 1592-603. doi:10.1104/pp.114.255356.
Balemi, T. and Negisho, K. (2012). Management of soil phosphorus and plant adaptation mechanisms to phosphorus stress for sustainable crop production: A review. J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 12: 547-61.
Dinić, Z., Maksimović, J., Stanojković-Sebić, A. and Pivić, R. (2019). Prediction models for bioavailability of Mn, Cu, Zn, Ni and Pb in soils of Republic of Serbia. Agronomy 9: doi:10.3390/agronomy9120856.
Dudits, D., Ábrahám, E., Miskolczi, P., Ayaydin, F., Bilgin, M. and Horváth, G. V. (2011). Cell-cycle control as a target for calcium, hormonal and developmental signals: The role of phosphorylation in the retinoblastoma-centred pathway. Ann. Bot. 107: 1193-202.
Dziewit, K., Wabnik, K., Szal, B. and Podgórska, A. (2026). Nitrogen sources modulate auxin transport to fine-tune root system architecture. Plant Cell Rep. 45: doi:10.1007/s00299-026-03849-y.
Edmond, V. D. V., Hong, Z. and Nelson, A. S. (2025). Sugar alcohols in plants: Implications for enhancing tree seedlings drought tolerance and production strategies. BMC Plant Biol. 25: doi:10.1186/s12870-025-06860-9.
Fakir, F., Karim, M. M., Jone, M. J. H., Sarwar, A. G. and Ashrafuzzaman, M. (2025). Variation of secondary metabolites, chlorophyll contents, and antioxidant activity in six medicinally important plants in Bangladesh. Turk. J. Agric. Food Sci. Technol. 13: 244-52. doi:10.24925/turjaf.v13i2.244-252.6537.
FAO (2019). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The state of food and agriculture 2019: Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction.
Godlewska, K., Pacyga, P., Michalak, I., Biesiada, A., Szumny, A., Pachura, N. and Piszcz, U. (2021). Systematic investigation of the effects of seven plant extracts on the physiological parameters, yield, and nutritional quality of radish (Raphanus sativus var. sativus). Front. Plant Sci. 12: doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.651152.
Grillet, L., Ouerdane, L., Flis, P., Hoang, M. T., Isaure, M. P., Lobinski, R., Curie, C. and Mari, S. (2014). Ascorbate efflux as a new strategy for iron reduction and transport in plants. J. Biol. Chem. 289: 2515-25.
Manivannan, A., Kim, J., Kim, D., Lee, E. and Lee, H. (2019). Deciphering the nutraceutical potential of Raphanus sativus – A comprehensive overview. Nutrients 11: doi:10. 3390/nu11020402.
Marschner, H. (2011). Marschner’s mineral nutrition of higher plants (3rd ed.). Academic Press.
Mendoza-Wilson, A. M., Armenta-Vázquez, M. E., Castro-Arredondo, S. I., Espinosa-Plascencia, A., Robles-Burgueño, M. d. R., González-Ríos, H., González-León, A. and Balandrán-Quintana, R. R. (2013). Potential of polyphenols from an aqueous extract of apple peel as inhibitors of free radicals: An experimental and computational study. J. Mol. Struct. 1035: 61-68. doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2012.09.035.
Ochar, K., Ki, D., Moon, S., Bissah, M. N. and Kim, S. (2026). Quantitative analysis of root system architecture and fresh weight biomass traits highlight phenotypic variation in radish (Raphanus sativus L.) germplasm. Sci. Rep. 16: doi:10.1038/s41598-026-39212-0.
Paciolla, C., Fortunato, S., Dipierro, N., Paradiso, A., De Leonardis, S., Mastropasqua, L. and de Pinto, M. C. (2019). Vitamin C in plants: From functions to biofortification. Antioxidants 8: doi:10.3390/antiox8110519.
Pietrini, F., Carnevale, M., Beni, C., Zacchini, M., Gallucci, F. and Santangelo, E. (2019). Effect of different copper levels on growth and morpho-physiological parameters in giant reed (Arundo donax L.) in semi-hydroponic mesocosm experiment. Water 11: doi:10. 3390/w11091837.
Pleyerová, I., Hamet, J., Konrádová, H. and Lipavská, H. (2022). Versatile roles of sorbitol in higher plants: Luxury resource, effective defender or something else? Planta 256: doi:10. 1007/s00425-022-03925-z.
Ritonga, F. N., Zhou, D., Zhang, Y., Song, R., Li, C., Li, J. and Gao, J. (2023). The roles of gibberellins in regulating leaf development. Plants 12: doi:10.3390/plants12061243.
Rout, G. R. and Sahoo, S. (2015). Role of iron in plant growth and metabolism. Rev. Agric. Sci. 3: 1-24.
Salman, A. D. and Abdul Rasool, I. J. (2023). Response of yield and quality of broccoli to type of nutrient solution under hydroponic system with modified NFT technology. Iraqi J. Agric. Sci. 54: 1679-88. doi:10.36103/ijas.v54i6.1867.
Tedesco, D. E. A., Scarioni, S., Tava, A., Panseri, S. and Zuorro, A. (2021). Fruit and vegetable wholesale market waste: Safety and nutritional characterization for their potential re-use in livestock nutrition. Sustainability 13: doi:10.3390/su13169478.
Virk, B. S. and Sogi, D. S. (2004). Extraction and characterization of pectin from apple (Malus pumila cv. Amri) peel waste. Int. J. Food Prop. 7: 693-703. doi:10.1081/JFP-200033095.
Waqas, M., Nizami, A. S., Aburiazaiza, A. S., Barakat, M. A., Rashid, M. I. and Ismail, I. M. I. (2018). Optimizing the process of food waste compost and valorizing its applications: A case study of Saudi Arabia. J. Clean. Prod. 176: 426-38. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro. 2017.12.165.
Xu, X., Du, X., Wang, F., Sha, J., Chen, Q., Tian, G., Zhu, Z., Ge, S. and Jiang, Y. (2020). Effects of potassium levels on plant growth, accumulation and distribution of carbon and nitrate metabolism in apple dwarf rootstock seedlings. Front. Plant Sci. 11: doi:10.3389/ fpls.2020.00904.
Zamri, G. B., Azizal, N. K. A., Nakamura, S., Okada, K., Nordin, N. H., Othman, N., Akhir, F. N. M., Sobian, A., Kaida, N. and Hara, H. (2020). Delivery, impact and approach of household food waste reduction campaigns. J. Clean. Prod. 246: doi:10.1016/j. jclepro.2019.118969.
Zhao, M., Li, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, H. and Zhao, X. (2020). Mutation mechanism of leaf color in plants: A review. Forests 11: doi:10.3390/f11080851.
Ain, Q.-ul, Ahmad, S., Jamshaid, M. U., Ali, M. and Safdar, H. (2025). Management of fruit and vegetable waste through composting along with naturally occurring minerals. Int. J. Recycl. Org. Waste Agric. 14: doi:10.57647/ijrowa-2zzr-s758.
Álvarez-Herrera, J. G., Jaime-Guerrero, M. and Fischer, G. (2025). The effect of boron on fruit quality: A review. Horticulturae 11: doi:10.3390/horticulturae11080992.
Anjali, Singh, K., Thomas, R. R., Shubhashish, S., Kumar, S. and Kaushal, S. (2025). Hydroponics: An innovative approach to sustainable high-value crop cultivation. J. Sci. Res. Rep. 31: 410-19. doi:10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i42961.
Ashraf, R., Sultana, B., Iqbal, M. and Mushtaq, M. (2016). Variation in biochemical and antioxidant attributes of Raphanus sativus in response to foliar application of plant leaf extracts as plant growth regulator. J. Genet. Eng. Biotechnol. 14: 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.jgeb.2016.08.003.
Awad, J., Stotz, H. U., Fekete, A., Krischke, M., Engert, C., Havaux, M., Berger, S. and Mueller, M. J. (2015). 2-Cysteine peroxiredoxins and thylakoid ascorbate peroxidase create a water-water cycle that is essential to protect the photosynthetic apparatus under high light stress conditions. Plant Physiol. 167: 1592-603. doi:10.1104/pp.114.255356.
Balemi, T. and Negisho, K. (2012). Management of soil phosphorus and plant adaptation mechanisms to phosphorus stress for sustainable crop production: A review. J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 12: 547-61.
Dinić, Z., Maksimović, J., Stanojković-Sebić, A. and Pivić, R. (2019). Prediction models for bioavailability of Mn, Cu, Zn, Ni and Pb in soils of Republic of Serbia. Agronomy 9: doi:10.3390/agronomy9120856.
Dudits, D., Ábrahám, E., Miskolczi, P., Ayaydin, F., Bilgin, M. and Horváth, G. V. (2011). Cell-cycle control as a target for calcium, hormonal and developmental signals: The role of phosphorylation in the retinoblastoma-centred pathway. Ann. Bot. 107: 1193-202.
Dziewit, K., Wabnik, K., Szal, B. and Podgórska, A. (2026). Nitrogen sources modulate auxin transport to fine-tune root system architecture. Plant Cell Rep. 45: doi:10.1007/s00299-026-03849-y.
Edmond, V. D. V., Hong, Z. and Nelson, A. S. (2025). Sugar alcohols in plants: Implications for enhancing tree seedlings drought tolerance and production strategies. BMC Plant Biol. 25: doi:10.1186/s12870-025-06860-9.
Fakir, F., Karim, M. M., Jone, M. J. H., Sarwar, A. G. and Ashrafuzzaman, M. (2025). Variation of secondary metabolites, chlorophyll contents, and antioxidant activity in six medicinally important plants in Bangladesh. Turk. J. Agric. Food Sci. Technol. 13: 244-52. doi:10.24925/turjaf.v13i2.244-252.6537.
FAO (2019). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The state of food and agriculture 2019: Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction.
Godlewska, K., Pacyga, P., Michalak, I., Biesiada, A., Szumny, A., Pachura, N. and Piszcz, U. (2021). Systematic investigation of the effects of seven plant extracts on the physiological parameters, yield, and nutritional quality of radish (Raphanus sativus var. sativus). Front. Plant Sci. 12: doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.651152.
Grillet, L., Ouerdane, L., Flis, P., Hoang, M. T., Isaure, M. P., Lobinski, R., Curie, C. and Mari, S. (2014). Ascorbate efflux as a new strategy for iron reduction and transport in plants. J. Biol. Chem. 289: 2515-25.
Manivannan, A., Kim, J., Kim, D., Lee, E. and Lee, H. (2019). Deciphering the nutraceutical potential of Raphanus sativus – A comprehensive overview. Nutrients 11: doi:10. 3390/nu11020402.
Marschner, H. (2011). Marschner’s mineral nutrition of higher plants (3rd ed.). Academic Press.
Mendoza-Wilson, A. M., Armenta-Vázquez, M. E., Castro-Arredondo, S. I., Espinosa-Plascencia, A., Robles-Burgueño, M. d. R., González-Ríos, H., González-León, A. and Balandrán-Quintana, R. R. (2013). Potential of polyphenols from an aqueous extract of apple peel as inhibitors of free radicals: An experimental and computational study. J. Mol. Struct. 1035: 61-68. doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2012.09.035.
Ochar, K., Ki, D., Moon, S., Bissah, M. N. and Kim, S. (2026). Quantitative analysis of root system architecture and fresh weight biomass traits highlight phenotypic variation in radish (Raphanus sativus L.) germplasm. Sci. Rep. 16: doi:10.1038/s41598-026-39212-0.
Paciolla, C., Fortunato, S., Dipierro, N., Paradiso, A., De Leonardis, S., Mastropasqua, L. and de Pinto, M. C. (2019). Vitamin C in plants: From functions to biofortification. Antioxidants 8: doi:10.3390/antiox8110519.
Pietrini, F., Carnevale, M., Beni, C., Zacchini, M., Gallucci, F. and Santangelo, E. (2019). Effect of different copper levels on growth and morpho-physiological parameters in giant reed (Arundo donax L.) in semi-hydroponic mesocosm experiment. Water 11: doi:10. 3390/w11091837.
Pleyerová, I., Hamet, J., Konrádová, H. and Lipavská, H. (2022). Versatile roles of sorbitol in higher plants: Luxury resource, effective defender or something else? Planta 256: doi:10. 1007/s00425-022-03925-z.
Ritonga, F. N., Zhou, D., Zhang, Y., Song, R., Li, C., Li, J. and Gao, J. (2023). The roles of gibberellins in regulating leaf development. Plants 12: doi:10.3390/plants12061243.
Rout, G. R. and Sahoo, S. (2015). Role of iron in plant growth and metabolism. Rev. Agric. Sci. 3: 1-24.
Salman, A. D. and Abdul Rasool, I. J. (2023). Response of yield and quality of broccoli to type of nutrient solution under hydroponic system with modified NFT technology. Iraqi J. Agric. Sci. 54: 1679-88. doi:10.36103/ijas.v54i6.1867.
Tedesco, D. E. A., Scarioni, S., Tava, A., Panseri, S. and Zuorro, A. (2021). Fruit and vegetable wholesale market waste: Safety and nutritional characterization for their potential re-use in livestock nutrition. Sustainability 13: doi:10.3390/su13169478.
Virk, B. S. and Sogi, D. S. (2004). Extraction and characterization of pectin from apple (Malus pumila cv. Amri) peel waste. Int. J. Food Prop. 7: 693-703. doi:10.1081/JFP-200033095.
Waqas, M., Nizami, A. S., Aburiazaiza, A. S., Barakat, M. A., Rashid, M. I. and Ismail, I. M. I. (2018). Optimizing the process of food waste compost and valorizing its applications: A case study of Saudi Arabia. J. Clean. Prod. 176: 426-38. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro. 2017.12.165.
Xu, X., Du, X., Wang, F., Sha, J., Chen, Q., Tian, G., Zhu, Z., Ge, S. and Jiang, Y. (2020). Effects of potassium levels on plant growth, accumulation and distribution of carbon and nitrate metabolism in apple dwarf rootstock seedlings. Front. Plant Sci. 11: doi:10.3389/ fpls.2020.00904.
Zamri, G. B., Azizal, N. K. A., Nakamura, S., Okada, K., Nordin, N. H., Othman, N., Akhir, F. N. M., Sobian, A., Kaida, N. and Hara, H. (2020). Delivery, impact and approach of household food waste reduction campaigns. J. Clean. Prod. 246: doi:10.1016/j. jclepro.2019.118969.
Zhao, M., Li, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, H. and Zhao, X. (2020). Mutation mechanism of leaf color in plants: A review. Forests 11: doi:10.3390/f11080851.
