Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Boosting Crop Resilience to Environmental Stresses.

Amid escalating challenges from global climate change and increasing environmental degradation, agricultural systems worldwide face a multitude of abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, elevated temperatures, heavy metal pollution, and flooding. These factors critically impair crop productivity and yield. Simultaneously, biotic pressures such as pathogen invasions intensify the vulnerability of agricultural outputs.

Complete genome identified of clinical isolate .

is an opportunistic pathogen that can infect both humans and animals, of which () being the most significant pathogenic green algae. The incidence of human diseases caused by has been on the rise, yet there is a significant gap in genetic research pertaining to the pathophysiological aspects of these infections. The aim of this study is to present the whole genome data from the clinical isolate InPu-22_FZ strain and to understand its genomic characteristics through comparative genomic analysis and phylogenetic tree analysis.

The value of multimodal treatment in anaplastic thyroid cancer patients with distant metastasis.

Background: Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is a rare and aggressive malignancy with a poor prognosis, particularly in patients presenting with distant metastasis (DM). This study aimed to assess the effect of combination treatment strategies on survival in ATC patients with DM.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database to identify primary ATC cases with DM at diagnosis.

The Effects of Exogenous 2,4-Epibrassinolide on the Germination of Cucumber Seeds under NaHCO Stress.

This investigation focused on the suppressive impact of varying NaHCO concentrations on cucumber seed germination and the ameliorative effects of 2,4-Epibrassinolide (EBR). The findings revealed a negative correlation between NaHCO concentration and cucumber seed germination, with increased NaHCO concentrations leading to a notable decline in germination. Crucially, the application of exogenous EBR significantly counteracted this inhibition, effectively enhancing germination rates and seed vigor.

Application of oncolytic virus in tumor therapy.

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) can selectively kill tumor cells without affecting normal cells, as well as activate the innate and adaptive immune systems in patients. Thus, they have been considered as a promising measure for safe and effective cancer treatment. Recently, a few genetically engineered OVs have been developed to further improve the effect of tumor elimination by expressing specific immune regulatory factors and thus enhance the body's antitumor immunity.

Transcriptome comparison of isotretinoin-effective and isotretinoin-ineffective severe acne vulgaris patients.

Background: Oral isotretinoin is the first-line treatment of severe nodular acne. However, patients presenting ineffective or poor effective to oral isotretinoin are still a clinical problem, and its molecular genetic mechanisms remain unclear.

Aims: To compare the transcriptome profiles of isotretinoin-effective and isotretinoin-ineffective severe acne vulgaris patients and analyze the potential physiological roles to better understand the mechanisms of isotretinoin efficacy differences.

Functional identification of Ammopiptanthus mongolicus anion channel AmSLAC1 involved in drought induced stomata closure.

Drought, one of the most acute abiotic stressors plants encountered, can adversely affect plants growth and development. The fast adjustment of stomatal aperture is necessary for effective drought tolerance in plants. Anion channels were identified as important controllers of stomatal closing via mediating anion efflux.

Recent Advances in the Optimization of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Metal-Containing Nanomaterials.

Metal-containing nanomaterials have attracted widespread attention in recent years due to their physicochemical, light-scattering and plasmonic properties. By introducing different kinds and different structures of metal-containing nanomaterials into organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), the optical properties of the devices can be tailored, which can effectively improve the luminous efficiency of OLEDs. In this review, the fundamental knowledge of OLEDs and metallic nanomaterials were firstly introduced.

An inorganic magnetic fluorescent nanoprobe with favorable biocompatibility for dual-modality bioimaging and drug delivery.

In this work, we present the development of a high water soluble biological nanoprobe through the covalent bonding of β-CD onto the surface of iron oxide‑gold nanoclusters (FeO@Au@β-CD). FeO@Au@SiO NPs were also prepared for comparison. The maximum emission peak of magnetic fluorescent NPs red-shifted by 30 nm and the lifetime was also elongated to 5.

A molecular approach to magnetic metallic nanostructures from metallopolymer precursors.

In recent years, metallopolymers have attracted much attention as precursors to generate magnetic metal/metal alloy nanoparticles (NPs) through pyrolysis or photolysis because they offer the advantages of ease of solution processability, atomic level mixing and stoichiometric control over composition. The as-generated NPs usually possess narrow size distributions with precise control of composition and density per unit area. Moreover, patterned NPs can be achieved on various substrates in this way owing to the good film-forming property of metallopolymers and such work is important for many applications based on metal nanostructures.

Phylogeography and population genetic analyses reveal the speciation of the Tuber indicum complex.

Tuber indicum is an ectomycorrhizal ascomycete that produces edible ascocarps. Based on a number of specimens with known exact origin, we investigate the speciation of the Tuber indicum complex in southwest China. Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used in the study.