Publications by authors named "A O Vassilev"

Plants belonging to the genus Cotoneaster can be valuable sources of phytochemicals with potential therapeutic properties. The natural habitats of most of these species are situated in Asia, Africa and southern Europe. Introducing them into other climatic conditions could expose them to abiotic and biotic stresses, affecting their bioactive properties.

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In recent years, light emitting diodes (LEDs), due to their low energy consumption, low heat emission and specific wavelength irradiation, have become an alternative to fluorescent lamps (FLs) in plant tissue culture. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various LED light sources on the in vitro growth and rooting of plum rootstock Saint Julien ( subsp. ).

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  • PIKfyve inhibitors selectively target and kill pluripotent embryonal carcinoma cells (ECCs) and stem cells while leaving differentiated cells unharmed.
  • These inhibitors disrupt lysosome function, leading to autophagosome build-up and reduced cell growth in both pluripotent and differentiated cells.
  • In animal studies, the specific inhibitor WX8 prevented teratocarcinoma formation from ECCs and effectively eliminated pluripotent cells while allowing differentiated cells to continue growing, highlighting its potential therapeutic applications.
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This work focuses on developing light environments for the effective regulation of morphogenesis and ex vitro conditions adaptation in micropropagated raspberry plants on the basis of photomorphogenetic control of physiological processes using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In experiments with cloned plants growing ex vitro in stressful conditions during acclimation, the effects of optical radiation of various spectral combinations from different photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) spectral regions were studied. The data on the plant development and state of the photosynthetic apparatus, features of photosynthetic gas exchange and transpiration, accumulation of photosynthetic pigments, light curves of photosynthesis, and data on growth processes in light modes using combined quasimonochromatic radiation (either mixture of red, green, and blue light or red, far-red, and blue light) with various ratio of the distinct spectral regions were obtained.

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