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... Among insects, female oviposition preferences are critical to understanding the evolutionary dynamics between herbivores and hosts. Previous studies have shown than in Drosophila, resource use has a strong genetic basis, although there is evidence that preferences are adaptable given isolation from ancestral hosts. Given the high degree of adaptability and behavioral plasticity of invasive species ...
... There is increasing growth in research of the development, upgrading and valorization of forestry and agriculture-derived products for applications in fuels, chemicals, and materials. Many biochemical and thermochemical biomass conversion technologies yield unique products for which laboratory characterization of structure and properties is still an ongoing challenge. Historically, popular approac ...
Prunus; almonds; chlorides; economic feasibility; electrical conductivity; gene expression regulation; genotype; ion channels; proline; salinity; salt stress; salt tolerance; sequence analysis; transcriptome
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... The almond crop has high economic importance on a global scale, but its sensitivity to salinity stress can cause severe yield losses. Salt-tolerant rootstocks are vital for crop economic feasibility under saline conditions. Two commercial rootstocks submitted to salinity, and evaluated through different parameters, had contrasting results with the survival rates of 90.6% for 'Rootpac 40' (tolerant ...
Carlos Palma-Flores; Paola B. Zárate-Segura; J. Manuel Hernández-Hernández; Sergio de los Santos; Andrea S. Tejeda-Gómez; Luis Javier Cano-Martínez; Patricia Canto; Jorge Omar Garcia-Rebollar; Ramón M. Coral-Vázquez
Western blotting; bioinformatics; exercise; genes; hypertrophy; mice; microRNA; muscle development; muscles; myogenin; signal transduction; skeletal muscle
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... The flavanol (−)-epicatechin has exercise-mimetic properties. Besides, several miRNAs play a role in modulating the adaptation of the muscle to different training protocols. However, notwithstanding all information, few studies aimed to determine if (−)-epicatechin can modify the expression of miRNAs related to skeletal muscle development and regeneration. Mice were treated for fifteen days by ora ...
durability; hybridization; photocatalysis; photocatalysts; triazines; China
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... Herein, a novel direct Z-scheme photocatalyst was accomplished by hybridization of 0D MoS₂ quantum dots (MSQDs) and 3D honeycomb-like conjugated triazine polymers (CTP) (namely, CTP-MSQD). The unique 0D/3D hierarchical structure significantly enhanced the exposure of active sites and light harvesting property, while the formed p-n junction enabled the direct strong interface coupling without the n ...
... The main purpose of this research was to evaluate the impacts of 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment on vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) genes and programmed cell death (PCD) during ripening and senescence of apple fruit (Malus × domestica Borkh.). The ethylene antagonists 1-MCP (1 μL L⁻¹) was applied to apples after harvest. Both treated and control fruit were stored at 20 ± 2°C. The data show ...
... Various front-of-pack food labels (FoPLs) are being introduced across the world, and discussion continues about the most effective label formats to improve consumers’ (i) understanding of the relative healthiness of alternative products and (ii) product choices. Of increasing interest is the relative ability of different types of labels to steer consumers away from unhealthy options (aversion) ver ...
... In this work, 2-methylimidazole (MI) was doped into the Bpy-Cu nanozyme as a second ligand to form a novel laccase-mimicking enzyme (MI-Bpy-Cu). By comparison, MI-Bpy-Cu nanozyme was identified to have excellent laccase-mimicking activity, high stability and catalytic kinetic properties. It may be that the incorporation of 2-methylimidazole helped the nanozymes to build a structure closer to natur ...
... Cimicifuga foetida L. is a well-established traditional Chinese medicine with heat-clearing and detoxifying effects and has good therapeutic effect on oral mucosal ulcer and pharyngitis. The rhizome of this herb is rich in triterpenoid glycosides, including 23-O-acetylshengmanol-3-o-α-L-arabinoside (DA). Whether and how DA attenuates acute lung injury (ALI) are unclear. Accordingly, we focused on ...
... Selenium (Se) contamination in soil is restricting the growth of fruit trees. Brassinolide is an emerging plant hormone that can enhance plant resistance to abiotic stress. We thus evaluated alleviating effects of various 24-epibrassinolide (24-EBL, one of brassinolides) concentrations on Se stress and Se accumulation in grapevine. 24-EBL increased the grapevine biomass, and the concentration of 2 ...
... Cadmium contamination in agricultural soils threatens food security and human health, and that has caused widespread concern worldwide. Willow and alfalfa are widely used for the phytoremediation of cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soil, and willow NJU513 is the promising plant for remediating Cd-contaminated soil. In order to discuss the effect of intercropping willow NJU513 with alfalfa on the phytorem ...
accidents; environmental impact; hydrides; ionization; mass spectrometry; particulates; uranium
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... Every accident affecting industrial or nuclear facilities emits micrometric fragments of material into the environment whose elemental and isotopic compositions are characteristic of the process or event. Particle analysis, mainly implemented in the framework of the Non Proliferation Treaty to detect clandestine nuclear activities, provides a powerful tool to identify the origin of the nuclear par ...
... Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts with excellent activity and high selectivity toward the efficient four-electron (4e) pathway are very important for the wide application of fuel cells and are worth searching vigorously. In this study, r-RhTe monolayer is identified as a good ORR electrocatalyst from three 2D RhTe configurations with low Rh-loading (i.e., r-RhTe, o-RhTe and h-RhTe) ...
Andreas Eisenreich; Bernhard H. Monien; Mario E. Götz; Thorsten Buhrke; Axel Oberemm; Katharina Schultrich; Klaus Abraham; Albert Braeuning; Bernd Schäfer
... 3-Chloro-1,2-propanediol (3-MCPD) and its fatty acid esters (FE) are present as contaminants in different processed foods. Based on the available toxicological data the potential risk of 3-MCPD and its FE to human health was assessed by risk assessment authorities, including the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Considering the available data, EFSA concluded that 3-MCPD is a non-genotoxic com ...
carbon; cathodes; electrochemical capacitors; electrochemistry; energy; energy density; macropores; nanosheets; oxygen; porosity; surface area
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... Zinc-ion hybrid capacitors (ZIHC) demonstrate impressive charge-storage performance and intrinsic safety due to the inherited superiorities of aqueous rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors. However, the promotion of electrochemical performance is usually hindered by the cathode materials that fail to hold high energy density and rate capability of ZIHC. The optimization of porous carbon catho ...
... Micro/nanomotors that combine the miniaturization and autonomous motion have attracted much research interest for environmental monitoring and water remediation. However, it is still challenging to develop a facile route to produce bifunctional micromotors that can simultaneously detect and remove organic pollutants from water. Herein, we developed a novel Janus micromotor with robust peroxide-lik ...
... Carbon materials possessing many merits including chemical stability, large specific surface, high electrical conductivity, low cost and easy to synthesize have considered as promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices. Especially, three-dimensional (3D) ordered hierarchically porous carbon (3D OHPC) materials templated from colloidal crystals have attracted much atten ...
... In this study, a new type of 3D printed living biological hydrogel was developed by integrating lactic acid bacteria (LAB) into biocompatible and non-toxic polymer materials. Interestingly, the living materials loaded with LAB can be freeze-dried and reused for more than 100 times. The bio-hydrogel can be used to co-culture different LAB and keep its fermentation performance stable in long-term us ...
... Oily sewage discharged from indiscriminate industrial and frequent oil spills have become a serious global problem. There is an urgent need to separate stable oil/water emulsions by efficient and environmentally friendly methods. Membrane separation technology has the advantages of low energy consumption and low cost, thus is an effective solution to the problems of oily wastewater. However, the m ...
... Properties of 50/50 oil/water emulsion stabilized by pea protein isolate microgel particles (PPIMP)/xanthan gum (XG) and co-emulsifiers were evaluated. Three surfactants with different charging characteristics (lauric arginate, LAE, cationic surfactant; diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides, DATEM, nonionic surfactant; sodium stearyl lactate, SSL, anionic surfactant) were selecte ...