Comparison of seed traits between an invasive plant and its native competitor along a latitudinal gradient.

Seeds are crucial for plant population maintenance and dispersal. Invasive species often exhibit seed traits that enhance their colonization success, such as increased dispersal potential, earlier germination, or greater resource reserves. However, few studies have compared seed traits between invasive and native plant species along environmental gradients.

The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH emissions.

Existing projections of wetland methane emissions usually neglect feedbacks from global biogeochemical cycles. Using data-driven approaches, we estimate wetland methane emissions from 2000 to 2100, considering effects of meteorological changes and biogeochemical feedbacks from atmospheric sulfate deposition and CO fertilization. In low-CO scenarios (1.

Use of biochar derived from Spartina alterniflora to reduce sediment methane (CH) production potential during non-farming period in earthen aquaculture ponds.

Biochar has been proposed as an effective material for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from farmlands, but comparable information for earthen aquaculture ponds is limited. A field study was conducted to investigate the effects of adding biochar (200-1600 kg ha) derived from the invasive plant Spartina alterniflora on sediment physico-chemical properties, CH production potential (P), and the relevant functional gene abundances in earthen aquaculture ponds during the non-farming period. The results indicated that biochar treatments increased sediment porosity and salinity, while decreasing dissolved organic carbon and microbial biomass carbon.

Starch lysophospholipids contents affect storage quality of paddy rice.

Starch Lysophospholipids (LPLs) have a significant effect on rice grain quality, but how starch LPLs affect paddy rice storage quality is barely understood. The dynamic changes in storage quality indicators of a japonica rice (XS110) and its low LPLs (XS110-J1) and high LPLs (XS110-J2) mutants were investigated. The fatty acid values (FAV) of J1 were significantly higher than those of XS110 and J2 after one year of storage under 24 and 37 °C.

Salinity increases under sea level rise strengthens the chemical protection of SOC in subtropical tidal marshes.

The rise in sea levels due to global warming could significantly impact the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool in coastal tidal marshes by altering soil salinity and flooding conditions. However, the effects of these factors on SOC protection in coastal tidal marshes are not fully understood. In this study, we employed a space-for-time approach to investigate the variations in soil active carbon components and mineral-associated organic carbon under different salinity gradients (freshwater and brackish) and flooding frequencies (high and low tidal flats).

Effects of Artificial Aging on Rice Lysophospholipids.

Lysophospholipids (LPLs) represent a major class of polar lipids crucial for rice's nutritional and functional properties. This study investigates the impact of varying storage temperatures (20, 30, and 40 °C) and humidity (50 and 95%) on the nonstarch and starch LPLs of paddy and milled rice. The findings revealed that the average nonstarch LPL content in paddy rice aged at 20 °C (82.

Coastal conversion alters topsoil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stocks and stoichiometric balances in subtropical coastal wetlands.

The extensive conversion of coastal wetlands into agricultural and aquaculture areas has significant repercussions on soil nutrient balance. However, how coastal conversion specifically influences the dynamics and stoichiometry of topsoil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) remains limited due to the considerable spatial variability and a lack of comprehensive field data. Here, we investigated the concentration and distribution of total C (TC), N (TN) and P (TP), along with their stoichiometric balance in four distinct coastal landscapes, including natural marshes and tidal flats, as well as converted agricultural croplands and ponds.

A pan-cancer analysis of the prognostic implication and oncogenic role of tubulin epsilon and delta complex 2 (TEDC2) in human tumors.

Introduction: Tubulin epsilon and delta complex 2 (TEDC2) is widely expressed in various human tissues and primarily governs centriole stability. However, the biological significance of TEDC2 in pan-cancer is unclear.

Methods: In this study, we employed R software and various online bioinformatics analysis tools to investigate the functional attributes of TEDC2 in human tumours and its potential involvement in immune response.

Significant inter-annual fluctuation in CO and CH diffusive fluxes from subtropical aquaculture ponds: Implications for climate change and carbon emission evaluations.

Aquaculture ponds are potential hotspots for carbon cycling and emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) like CO and CH, but they are often poorly assessed in the global GHG budget. This study determined the temporal variations of CO and CH concentrations and diffusive fluxes and their environmental drivers in coastal aquaculture ponds in southeastern China over a five-year period (2017-2021). The findings indicated that CH flux from aquaculture ponds fluctuated markedly year-to-year, and CO flux varied between positive and negative between years.

Methane emissions partially offset carbon sink function in global wetlands: An analysis based on global data.

Wetlands serve as atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) sinks, as well as atmospheric methane (CH) source due to the anaerobic soil environment. Although some studies report that the CH emission from wetlands partially offset their net CO uptake, there is no global data analysis on the offset of net ecosystem exchange of CO (NEE) by CH emission in wetland ecosystems. In this study, we collected the data sets of NEE and CH flux which were simultaneously measured in the inland wetlands (peatland and non-peatland wetland) and coastal wetlands (seagrass beds, salt marshes and mangroves) around the world.

Characteristics of premanufacture CD8T cells determine CAR-T efficacy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have become an important treatment option for patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies, more than 60% of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with CAR-T cell therapies fail to achieve a durable response. To reveal changes in CAR-T cell therapy and identify response biomarkers, we conducted a retrospective analysis of pre-manufacture source T cells and CAR-T cell products and their association with outcome in 58 patients with r/rDLBCL who received tandem CD19/CD20 CAR-T cell therapy. We performed bulk RNA-Seq, single-cell RNA-Seq, and paired T cell receptor sequencing on CAR-T cell products and pre-manufacture T cells from DLBCL patients.

Community assembly of comammox in coastal wetlands across southeastern China.

Complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox ) are ubiquitous in coastal wetland sediments and play an important role in nitrification. Our study examined the impact of habitat modifications on comammox communities in coastal wetland sediments across tropical and subtropical regions of southeastern China. Samples were collected from 21 coastal wetlands in five provinces where native mudflats were invaded by and subsequently converted to aquaculture ponds.

Effects of conversion of coastal marshes to aquaculture ponds on sediment anaerobic CO production and emission in a subtropical estuary of China.

The extensive conversion of carbon-rich coastal wetland to aquaculture ponds in the Asian Pacific region has caused significant changes to the sediment properties and carbon cycling. Using field sampling and incubation experiments, the sediment anaerobic CO production and CO emission flux were compared between a brackish marsh and the nearby constructed aquaculture ponds in the Min River Estuary in southeastern China over a three-year period. Marsh sediment had a higher total carbon and lower C:N ratio than aquaculture pond sediment, suggesting the importance of marsh vegetation in supplying labile organic carbon to the sediment.

DSMENet: Detail and Structure Mutually Enhancing Network for under-sampled MRI reconstruction.

Reconstructing zero-filled MR images (ZF) from partial k-space by convolutional neural networks (CNN) is an important way to accelerate MRI. However, due to the lack of attention to different components in ZF, it is challenging to learn the mapping from ZF to targets effectively. To ameliorate this issue, we propose a Detail and Structure Mutually Enhancing Network (DSMENet), which benefits from the complementary of the Structure Reconstruction UNet (SRUN) and the Detail Feature Refinement Module (DFRM).

Substantial increase in P release following conversion of coastal wetlands to aquaculture ponds from altered kinetic exchange and resupply capacity.

The reclamation of wetlands and its subsequent conversion to aquaculture may alter regional nutrient (im)mobilization and cycling, although direct assessments of phosphorus (P) cycling and its budget balance following wetland conversion are currently scarce. Here, parallel field experiments were conducted to investigate and compare the availability and mobilization mechanisms of P from natural coastal wetlands and the adjacent converted aquaculture ponds based on high-resolution diffusive gradient in thin films (DGT) and dialysis (HR-Peeper) techniques and the DGT-induced fluxes in sediments (DIFS) model. The study found that the conversion of wetland to pond strongly reduced the sediment P pool by changing its forms and distribution.

[Latitudinal variations of seed functional traits of in Chinese coastal marsh].

Functional traits of seeds reflect plant reproductive strategies adapting to environmental changes, which is an evolutionary behavior in natural selection and genetics. Study on seed functional traits is of great significance to deeply understand the long-term adaptive evolution of plants and seeds. We measured seed functional traits of a main indigenous species , including seed size, seed weight, seed set, and seed production, in nine coastal marshes of the six provinces/cities along the coastal zone of China (21°29'-40°57' N), and analyzed latitudinal variations of functional traits.

Conversion of coastal wetland to aquaculture ponds decreased NO emission: Evidence from a multi-year field study.

Land reclamation is a major threat to the world's coastal wetlands, and it may influence the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in coastal regions. Conversion of coastal marshes into aquaculture ponds is common in the Asian Pacific region, but its impacts on the production and emission of nitrogen greenhouse gases remain poorly understood. In this study, we compared NO emission from a brackish marsh and converted shrimp aquaculture ponds in the Shanyutan wetland, the Min River Estuary in Southeast China over a three-year period.

HIWDNet: A hybrid image-wavelet domain network for fast magnetic resonance image reconstruction.

The application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is limited due to the long acquisition time of k-space signals. Recently, many deep learning-based MR image reconstruction methods have been proposed to reduce acquisition time and improve MRI image quality by reconstructing images from under-sampled k-space data. However, these methods suffer from two shortcomings.

Moderate salinity improves the availability of soil P by regulating P-cycling microbial communities in coastal wetlands.

Accelerated sea-level rise is expected to cause the salinization of freshwater wetlands, but the responses to salinity of the availability of soil phosphorus (P) and of microbial genes involved in the cycling of P remain unexplored. We conducted a field experiment to investigate the effects of salinity on P cycling by soil microbial communities and their regulatory roles on P availability in coastal freshwater and brackish wetlands. Salinity was positively correlated with P availability, with higher concentrations of labile P but lower concentrations of moderately labile P in the brackish wetland.

Large increase in CH emission following conversion of coastal marsh to aquaculture ponds caused by changing gas transport pathways.

Methane emissions from aquatic ecosystems play an important role in global carbon cycle and climate change. Reclamation of coastal wetlands for aquaculture use has been shown to have opposite effects on sediment CH production potential and CH emission flux, but the underlying mechanism remained unclear. In this study, we compared sediment properties, CH production potential, emission flux, and CH transport pathways between a brackish marsh and the nearby reclaimed aquaculture ponds in the Min River Estuary in southeastern China.

Physicochemical, Nutritional, and Antioxidant Properties in Seven Sweet Potato Flours.

Sweet potato flour is a key ingredient for the production of new food products worldwide, which imparts desired properties, nutritional value, antioxidants, and natural color to processed foods. However, little information regarding the functional properties of the sweet potato flour is available. In this study, the genetic diversity in the physiochemical, nutritional, and antioxidant properties of wholemeal flour from seven sweet potato varieties was investigated.

CD58 loss in tumor cells confers functional impairment of CAR T cells.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has achieved significant success in treating a variety of hematologic malignancies, but resistance to this treatment in some patients limited its wider application. Using an unbiased genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) screening, we identified and validated loss of CD58 conferred immune evasion from CAR T cells in vitro and in vivo. CD58 is a ligand of the T-cell costimulatory molecule CD2, and CD58 mutation or downregulated expression is common in hematological tumors.