An article by faculty members of the Faculty of Agriculture was published in the 2025 issue of the prestigious journal Scientific Reports, part of the Nature Subgroup Publications Series.

An article by the faculty members of the Faculty of Agriculture was published in the 15th issue of 2025 of the prestigious journal Scientific Reports, a sub-group of Nature publications.

This article, titled: The lncRNA LOC100257036 and vvimiR156 modulate gibberellin signaling through AGAMOUS during cluster formation in Sistan Yaghooti grape, was published by Dr. Abbasali Imamjoomeh and Dr. Nafiseh Mehdinejad (scientists in the Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology) and Dr. Mahmoud Suluqi (full professor in the Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Zabol University) and researchers from the University of Tehran and the University of Verona, Italy, and as the third article extracted from the doctoral thesis of Dr. Shahla Sahraei (graduate student in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at the University). This research is part of a problem-oriented project on breeding to reduce cluster density of Sistan Ruby grape, which aims to increase marketability and reduce the amount of fungal diseases in this only valuable garden product of Sistan (as the earliest grape and the most delicious Iranian Ruby grape). This project is being carried out in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biotechnology Research Laboratory of the university with transcriptomic and bioinformatics studies on Sistan Ruby grape; which has so far led to the publication of 8 articles in prestigious journals with JCR index and, God willing, will continue until this grape breed is genetically reduced in terms of cluster density. This article is freely accessible through the following link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-14984-z