Effects of Different Mulching Practices on Soil Environment and Fruit Quality in Peach Orchards.

Mulching practices have been used to improve peach growth and production across the globe. However, the impact of mulching on the physiochemical properties and soil characteristics of orchards remains largely unknown. This study aimed to decipher the impacts of various mulching patterns on the soil environment and the quality of fruit in "Zijinhuangcui".

How does workplace support promote postdoctoral career growth? A conservation of resources perspective.

Background: Postdoctoral researchers are critical to scholarly advancements, and promoting postdoctoral career growth is an endogenous path to help postdocs break through the "encircled city of scientific research". However, further research is needed to fully explore the mechanisms that connect workplace support to postdoctoral career growth.

Methods: Drawing from the Conservation of Resources theory, this study proposes a chain mediation model that demonstrates how workplace support enhances career growth by connecting psychological capital with work-life balance.

Integrated analysis of HSP20 genes in the developing flesh of peach: identification, expression profiling, and subcellular localization.

Background: Plant HSP20s are not only synthesized in response to heat stress but are also involved in plant biotic and abiotic stress resistance, normal metabolism, development, differentiation, survival, ripening, and death. Thus, HSP20 family genes play very important and diverse roles in plants. To our knowledge, HSP20 family genes in peach have not yet been characterized in detail, and little is known about their possible function in the development of red flesh in peach.

Safety profile evaluation of different herbicides used on peach rootstock seedlings.

To screen out suitable herbicides for peach nurseries, we treated the potted seedlings of the peach rootstock 'Nemaguard' with eleven herbicides under recommended doses to investigate the changes of physiological indices and comprehensively evaluate the safety of different herbicides using principal component analysis (PCA). The results showed that soil application of quizalofop-p exhibited no detectable phytotoxicity on rootstock seedlings, while the remaining herbicides generated multiple symptoms, including green loss, wilting, spot, and withering. Starane caused rapid wilting and death, with a 100.

The influence of Big Five personality traits on college students' key competencies: the mediating effect of psychological capital.

Background: In recent years, both society and employers have put forward higher requirements for the comprehensive quality of college students in the new era. Based on the conservation of resources theory and life-cycle approach, this study aimed to examine the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, the psychological capital, and the key competencies among college students and analyzed the mediating role of the psychological capital in this link.

Methods: A total of 1,132 Chinese undergraduates (67.

[Effects of glyphosate and paraquat on root morphology and aboveground growth of Prunus persica seedlings].

To ascertain the safety of herbicides in peach production, we examined the effects of two herbicides (glyphosate and paraquat) on vegetative growth, root structure, root-tip cell mitosis and photosynthesis in rootstock Prunus persica seedlings. The results showed that the growth of both shoot and root of the P. persica seedlings was significantly inhibited under the glyphosate treatment.

The Impact of Haze Pollution on Regional Eco-Economic Treatment Efficiency in China: An Environmental Regulation Perspective.

"The Gray Great Wall" formed by haze pollution is an increasingly serious issue in China, and the resulting air pollution has brought severe challenges to human health, the socio-economy and the world ecosystem. Based on the facts above, this paper uses China's province-level panel data from 2009 to 2016, systematically measures the heterogeneous structure of regional ecological economic (eco-economic) treatment efficiency through a Super Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) model and dynamic threshold models, and analyzes the forcing mechanism of haze pollution pressure on regional eco-economic treatment efficiency from an environmental regulation perspective. Results indicated that China's eco-economic treatment has been vigorously promoted, which is significantly conducive to green growth upgrading.