Physiological and RNA-Seq Analyses on Exogenous Strigolactones Alleviating Drought by Improving Antioxidation and Photosynthesis in Wheat ( L.).

Drought poses a significant challenge to global wheat production, and the application of exogenous phytohormones offers a convenient approach to enhancing drought tolerance of wheat. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism by which strigolactones (SLs), newly discovered phytohormones, alleviate drought stress in wheat. Therefore, this study is aimed at elucidating the physiological and molecular mechanisms operating in wheat and gaining insights into the specific role of SLs in ameliorating responses to the stress.

Exogenous strigolactones alleviate drought stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by promoting cell wall biogenesis to optimize root architecture.

Exogenous strigolactones (SLs, GR24) are widely used to alleviate drought stress in wheat. The physiological and biochemical mechanisms via which SLs help overcome drought stress in wheat shoots have been reported; however, the mechanisms in wheat roots are unclear. The present study explored the effects of the exogenous application of SLs on wheat roots' growth and molecular responses under drought stress using physiological analysis and RNA-seq.

The Effect of Moral Behavior on Facial Attractiveness.

Purpose: Evaluating face attractiveness is a core aspect of face perception, which plays an important role in impression formation. A more reliable source of information in impression formation is moral behavior, which forms the primary basis for the comprehensive evaluation of others. Previous studies have found that one can easily form an association when faces and moral behaviors are presented together, which in turn affects facial attractiveness evaluation.

The wheat leaf delayed virescence of mutant dv4 is associated with the abnormal photosynthetic and antioxidant systems.

Chlorophyll (Chl) is a key pigment for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) photosynthesis, consequently impacts grain yield. A wheat mutant named as delayed virescence 4 (dv4) was obtained from cultivar Guomai 301 (wild type, WT) treated with ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS).

Tasting More Than Just Food: Effect of Aesthetic Appeal of Plate Patterns on Food Perception.

Interest has been growing in the role of subjective aesthetics in the field of food. This study explored the mechanisms by which the aesthetic appeal of plate patterns influences consumers' perceptions of food. Three experiments were conducted to compare whether different levels of beauty and types of plate pattern aesthetics (classical versus expressive) affected the perceptions of tastiness and healthiness of the food offered.

The effect of aging on facial attractiveness: An empirical and computational investigation.

How does aging affect facial attractiveness? We tested the hypothesis that people find older faces less attractive than younger faces, and furthermore, that these aging effects are modulated by the age and sex of the perceiver and by the specific kind of attractiveness judgment being made. Using empirical and computational network science methods, we confirmed that with increasing age, faces are perceived as less attractive. This effect was less pronounced in judgments made by older than younger and middle-aged perceivers, and more pronounced by men (especially for female faces) than women.

Enhanced SA and Ca signaling results in PCD-mediated spontaneous leaf necrosis in wheat mutant wsl.

Leaf is the major photosynthesis organ and the key source of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain. Spotted leaf (spl) mutant is a kind of leaf lesion mimic mutants (LMMs) in plants, which is an ideal material for studying the mechanisms of leaf development.

TMT-based quantitative proteomic analysis reveals defense mechanism of wheat against the crown rot pathogen Fusarium pseudograminearum.

Background: Fusarium crown rot is major disease in wheat. However, the wheat defense mechanisms against this disease remain poorly understood.

Results: Using tandem mass tag (TMT) quantitative proteomics, we evaluated a disease-susceptible (UC1110) and a disease-tolerant (PI610750) wheat cultivar inoculated with Fusarium pseudograminearum WZ-8A.

Genome-wide identification and analysis of cystatin family genes in Sorghum ( bicolor (L.) Moench).

To set a systematic study of the Sorghum () gene family, a genome-wide analysis of the family genes was performed by bioinformatics-based methods. In total, 18 genes were identified in Sorghum, which were distributed unevenly on chromosomes, and two genes were involved in a tandem duplication event. All genes had similar exon/intron structure and motifs, indicating their high evolutionary conservation.

Does Number Perception Cause Automatic Shifts of Spatial Attention? A Study of the Att-SNARC Effect in Numbers and Chinese Months.

The Attentional Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes (Att-SNARC) effect has shown that number perception induces shifts in spatial attention (Fischer et al., 2003; Dodd et al., 2008).

[Impacts of combined N and Zn application on Zn translocation, partitioning, and accumulation in Triticum aestivum].

Field experiment was conducted to examine the effects of combined application of N and Zn fertilizers on translocation, distribution, and accumulation of Zn in different organs in wheat plants. The results showed that Zn concentration and Zn accumulation in each organ were significantly different under different treatments. Compared with N (120 kg·hm), the grain Zn concentration of N (240 kg·hm) and N (180 kg·hm) increased 22.

The Effects of Facial Attractiveness and Familiarity on Facial Expression Recognition.

The classic theory of face perception holds that the invariant (e.g., identity and race) and variant (e.

The effect of temporal concept on the automatic activation of spatial representation: From axis to plane.

Temporal concepts could be represented horizontally(X-axis) or vertically (Y-axis). However, whether the spatial representation of time exists in the whole plane remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether processing temporal concepts would automatically activate spatial representations in a whole plane without any guidance or cue.

Proteomic analysis of the impacts of powdery mildew on wheat grain.

Powdery mildew of wheat is one of the major foliar diseases, causing significant yield loss and flour quality change. In this study, grain protein and starch response to powdery mildew infection were investigated. Total protein, glutenin and gliadin exhibited a greater increase in grains from infected wheat, while the content of total starch and amylopectin was decreased.

Proteomic analysis of developing wheat grains infected by powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici).

Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici (Bgt) infection greatly interferes with the normal source-sink relationships and always causes tremendous loss of yield and quality in wheat.

Proteomic analysis of the compatible interaction of wheat and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici).

Proteome characteristics of wheat leaves with the powdery mildew pathogen Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) infection were investigated by two-dimensional electrophoresis and tandem MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS.

"Happy goat says": The effect of a food selection inhibitory control training game of children's response inhibition on eating behavior.

Recent studies suggest that when inhibitory control is lacking, people are more inclined to indulge in high-calorie food, but inhibitory control can be trained. In this study, a daily-life training game was used to train children and investigate whether strengthening or weakening inhibitory control influences food intake in opposite directions. The baseline of response inhibition was measured by the go/no-go task, and the baseline of food intake was measured by a bogus food taste task.