Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Detection Method for Residual Stress in Rotary Forging Aluminum Alloy Plates.

Aluminum alloy plates are widely used to manufacture large-scale integral structure parts in the field of aerospace. During the forming and processing of aluminum alloy plates, different degrees of residual stress are inevitably produced. Fast and accurate detection of residual stress is very essential to ensuring the quality of these plates.

Defective mutations in STAY-GREEN 1, PHYTOENE SYNTHASE 1, and MYB12 genes lead to formation of green ripe fruit in tomato.

Modern tomatoes produce colorful mature fruits, but many wild tomato ancestors form green or gray green ripe fruits. Here, tomato cultivar 'Lvbaoshi' (LBS) that produces green ripe fruits was found to contain three recessive loci responsible for fruit development. The colorless peel of LBS fruits was caused by a 603 bp deletion in the promoter of SlMYB12.

A novel regulatory complex mediated by Lanata (Ln) controls multicellular trichome formation in tomato.

Trichomes that originate from plant aerial epidermis act as mechanical and chemical barriers against herbivores. Although several regulators have recently been identified, the regulatory pathway underlying multicellular trichome formation remains largely unknown in tomato. Here, we report a novel HD-ZIP IV transcription factor, Lanata (Ln), a missense mutation which caused the hairy phenotype.

The tomato CONSTANS-LIKE protein SlCOL1 regulates fruit yield by repressing SFT gene expression.

Background: CONSTANS (CO) and CONSTANS-LIKE (COL) transcription factors have been known to regulate a series of cellular processes including the transition from the vegetative growth to flower development in plants. However, their role in regulating fruit yield in tomato is poorly understood.

Result: In this study, the tomato ortholog of Arabidopsis CONSTANS, SlCOL1, was shown to play key roles in the control of flower development and fruit yield.

Tomato methionine sulfoxide reductase B2 functions in drought tolerance by promoting ROS scavenging and chlorophyll accumulation through interaction with Catalase 2 and RBCS3B.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are inevitably generated in aerobic organisms as by-products of common metabolism and as the result of defense and development. ROS readily oxidizes methionine (Met) residues of proteins to form Met-R-sulfoxide or Met-S-sulfoxide (MetSO), resulting in protein inactivation or malfunction. Although it is known that MetSO can be reverted to Met by methionine sulfoxide reductase (Msr), the mechanism how Msr interacts with its target proteins is poorly understood.

Pendular-Translational Hybrid Nanogenerator Harvesting Water Wave Energy.

Shore-based water wave energy produced by the impact of ocean waves on the coastline is a kind of clean and renewable energy. In this paper, a pendular-translational hybrid nanogenerator (PT-HNG) with two multilayer triboelectric nanogenerators and a spring base is proposed to harvest the wave energy. Pendular-translational movement mechanism is a sliding rail structure embedded with a permanent magnet, and the output is greatly improved compared to the previous pendular-pendular movement mechanism.

NF-Y plays essential roles in flavonoid biosynthesis by modulating histone modifications in tomato.

NF-Y transcription factors are reported to play diverse roles in a wide range of biological processes in plants. However, only a few active NF-Y complexes are known in plants and the precise functions of NF-Y complexes in flavonoid biosynthesis have not been determined. Using various molecular, genetic and biochemical approaches, we found that NF-YB8a, NF-YB8b and NF-YB8c - a NF-YB subgroup - can interact with a specific subgroup of NF-YC and then recruit either of two distinct NF-YAs to form NF-Y complexes that bind the CCAAT element in the CHS1 promoter.

Identification, genomic organization, and expression profiles of single C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).

C2H2 zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) play essential roles in leaf morphogenesis and floral development, as well as heat stress response and trichome formation, which activate or inhibit gene transcription mainly through interactions with nucleic acids, such as single-strand DNA, RNA binding or RNA/DNA bidirectional binding, and protein interaction. Single C2H2 ZFPs is the subfamily of ZFPs, but little of single C2H2 ZFP family is known in tomato. In this study, we identified 30 single ZFP genes in tomato using bioinformatics-based methods.

miR156a-targeted SBP-Box transcription factor SlSPL13 regulates inflorescence morphogenesis by directly activating SFT in tomato.

The inflorescences and lateral branches of higher plants are generated by lateral meristems. The structure of the inflorescence has a direct effect on fruit yield in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). We previously demonstrated that miR156a plays important roles in determining the structures of the inflorescences and lateral branches in tomato by suppressing the expression of the SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE (SPL) transcription factor gene family.

Hair, encoding a single C2H2 zinc-finger protein, regulates multicellular trichome formation in tomato.

Trichomes originate from the epidermal cells of nearly all terrestrial plants, which are specialized unicellular or multicellular structures. Although the molecular mechanism regulating unicellular trichome formation has been extensively characterized, most of the genes essential for multicellular trichome formation remain unknown. In this study, we identified an associated locus on the long arm of chromosome 10 using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on type-I trichomes of 180 diverse Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) accessions.