Publications by authors named "B Junker"

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  • - Jasmonate is a crucial hormone in plants that helps regulate development and responses to stress, primarily through the COI receptor which targets specific repressors for degradation, leading to the activation of defense genes.
  • - In rice, three COI genes (OsCOI1a, OsCOI1b, and OsCOI2) play important roles, with OsCOI2 recently identified as key in transcriptional changes during jasmonate signaling, particularly linked to root development and stress response.
  • - Mutations in OsCOI2 result in less effective responses to jasmonate compared to other COI genes, suggesting that OsCOI2 significantly influences the balance between growth and defense while also affecting the plant's
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Chemoresistive gas sensors made from SnO, ZnO, WO, and InO have been prepared by flame spray pyrolysis. The sensors' response to CO and NO in darkness and under illumination at different wavelengths, using commercially available LEDs, was investigated. Operation at room temperature turned out to be impractical due to the condensation of water inside the porous sensing layers and the irreversible changes it caused.

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Investigating the sensing mechanisms in semiconducting metal oxide (SMOx) gas sensors is essential for optimizing their performance across a wide range of potential applications. Despite significant progress in the field, there are still many gaps in comprehending the phenomenological processes occurring in one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. This article presents the first insights into the conduction mechanism of chemoresistive gas sensors based on single-crystalline SnO nanobelts using the operando Kelvin Probe technique.

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Unlabelled: Gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with electron ionization (GC-EI-MS/MS) provides rich information on stable-isotope labeling for 13C-metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA). To pave the way for the routine application of tandem MS data for metabolic flux quantification, we aimed to compile a comprehensive library of GC-EI-MS/MS fragments of tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) derivatized proteinogenic amino acids. First, we established an analytical workflow that combines high-resolution gas chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry and fully 13C-labeled biomass to identify and structurally elucidate tandem MS amino acid fragments.

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(1) Background: Aging is linked to an altered immune response and metabolism. Inflammatory conditions, such as sepsis, COVID-19, and steatohepatitis are more prevalent in the elderly and steatosis is linked both to severe COVID-19 and sepsis. We hypothesized that aging is linked to a loss of endotoxin tolerance, which normally protects the host from excessive inflammation, and that this is accompanied by elevated levels of hepatic lipids.

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