Dietary arginine regulates the growth performance, antioxidant capacity, and immune response in Culter alburnus.

Culter alburnus is sensitive to stressors. Arginine is a precursor of nitric oxide, which can effectively relieve the level of oxidative stress and improve the antioxidant and immune capacity of fish. The effect of different arginine levels on topmouth culter (Culter alburnus) fry development performance, liver antioxidant capacity, and immune parameters were investigated in this study.

Metal Halide Nanocrystals@Silica Aerogel Composite with Enhanced Dispersion Stability and Light Output for Efficient X-Ray Imaging in Harsh Environment.

Metal halide nanocrystals (MHNCs) embedded in a polymer matrix as flexible X-ray detector screens is an effective strategy with the advantages of low cost, facile preparation, and large area flexibility. However, MHNCs easily aggregate during preparation, recombination, under mechanical force, storage, or high operating temperature. Meanwhile, it shows an unmatched refractive index with polymer, resulting in low light yield.

Uncovering mechanisms governing stem growth in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) with varying plant heights through integrated transcriptome and metabolomics analyses.

The mechanisms responsible for stem growth in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cultivars with varying plant heights remain unclear, despite the significant impact of plant height on peanut yield. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the underlying mechanisms of peanut stem growth using phenotypic, physiological, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analyses.

[Effects of different peanut-cotton intercropping modes on physiological characteristics and yield of peanut in late growth stage].

Using peanut cultivar Huayu 25 and cotton cultivar Liaomian 19 as experimental material, we examined the effects of different intercropping patterns on physiological characteristics of peanut in later growth stage, yield and economic benefit, based on an experiment with five treatments, including intercropping modes of 4 rows peanut and 4 rows cotton (HM), 6 rows peanut and 4 rows cotton (HM), 4 rows peanut and 4 rows cotton (HM), sole peanut (DH) and sole cotton (DM). The results showed that intercropping mode increased the length of main stem and branches of peanut, but decreased green leaves number of main steam, leaf area index, and total dry matter accumulation. Among the intercropping modes, chlorophyll content, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, root vigor, nitrate reductase activity under HM and HM were significantly higher than that under HM, as well as higher superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase activity and decreased malondialdehyde content.

Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensor Based on Microstructured Composite Dielectric Layer for Broad Linear Range Pressure Sensing Applications.

Flexible pressure sensors have attracted a considerable amount of attention in various fields including robotics and healthcare applications, among others. However, it remains significantly challenging to design and fabricate a flexible capacitive pressure sensor with a quite broad linearity detection range due to the nonlinear stress-strain relation of the hyperelastic polymer-based dielectric material. Along these lines, in this work, a novel flexible capacitive pressure sensor with microstructured composite dielectric layer (MCDL) is demonstrated.

Transcriptome and Proteomics Analysis of Wheat Seedling Roots Reveals That Increasing NH /NO Ratio Induced Root Lignification and Reduced Nitrogen Utilization.

Wheat growth and nitrogen (N) uptake gradually decrease in response to high NH /NO ratio. However, the mechanisms underlying the response of wheat seedling roots to changes in NH /NO ratio remain unclear. In this study, we investigated wheat growth, transcriptome, and proteome profiles of roots in response to increasing NH /NO ratios (N : 100/0; N : 75/25, N : 50/50, N : 25/75, and N : 0/100).

Optimizing residue and tillage management practices to improve soil carbon sequestration in a wheat-peanut rotation system.

The sustainable development of agriculture has been challenged by the decline of soil quality and the change of climate. It is well known that soil carbon (C) sequestration plays crucial roles in improving soil structural stability, mitigating greenhouse emissions, and promoting plant nutrient supply. Therefore, a 3-year field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different residue and tillage management practices on soil C sequestration in a wheat-peanut rotation system.

Improved fertiliser management to reduce the greenhouse-gas emissions and ensure yields in a wheat-peanut relay intercropping system in China.

Over the last century, anthropogenic greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions have changed the global climate, and agriculture plays an important role in the global flux of GHG. Agricultural management practices, such as split N applications and the use of controlled-release fertilisers have significantly increased the crop yield and N-use efficiency by balancing the N demand of crops and the N availability of soils. However, the impacts of these practices on GHG emissions (in particular in wheat-peanut relay intercropping systems) have not been evaluated in detail.

MoSe/CdSe Heterojunction Destruction by Cation Exchange for Photoelectrochemical Immunoassays with a Controlled-Release Strategy.

Herein, a split-type immunoassay strategy instigated by cation exchange (CE) and changing the capacity of an electron donor in an electrolyte solution is optimized, namely, for differentiating the biological-specific binding assay and photoelectrochemical (PEC) analysis. MoSe/CdSe, a Z-scheme heterojunction with efficient visible light absorption and a low recombination of carriers, is used as a photoelectrode substrate. Silver ions (Ag) as the initiator of CE are generated by the acidolysis of evenly loaded silver nanoparticles on mesoporous silica nanospheres (MSNs).

Regulating effect of spraying stage of ethephon on the formation of source-sink in peanut.

To solve the problem of uncoordinated source-sink relationship that limits the increase of peanut yield, we investigated the regulating effects of ethephon on the formation of source-sink in cultivar Shanhua 9 by spraying at 10, 20, and 30 d after anthesis in a field experiment. The results showed that spraying ethephon at 10 d and 20 d after anthesis significantly reduced the number of flowers, pegs and young pods, but increased the number of immature pods and mature pods. Spraying at 30 d after anthesis did not affect the number of flowers, pegs and young pods.

Highly Efficient Ir-CoO Hybrid Nanostructures for the Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural to Furfuryl Alcohol.

Decoration of noble metals with transition-metal oxides has been intensively studied for heterogeneous catalysis. However, controllable syntheses of metal-metal oxide heterostructures are difficult, and elucidation of such interfaces is still challenging. In this work, supported IrCo alloy nanoparticles are transformed into supported Ir-CoO close-contact nanostructures by calcination and following selective reduction.

Effects of Soil Tillage, Management Practices, and Mulching Film Application on Soil Health and Peanut Yield in a Continuous Cropping System.

Our objective was to optimize soil management practices to improve soil health to increase peanut ( L.) yield. We studied the effects of using rotary tillage with mulching film or without [rotary tillage with no mulching (RTNM)], plow tillage with mulching film or without, and green manure with mulching film (GMMF) or without [green manure with no mulching (GMNM)] over 3 years in Tai'an, China.

Solvent Effects on the Symmetric and Asymmetric S2 Reactions in the Acetonitrile Solution: A Reaction Density Functional Theory Study.

Bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (S2) reactions are of great importance in chemistry and biochemistry due to their capability of constructing functional groups. In this work, we investigate the solvent effect on the free energy profiles of symmetric and asymmetric S2 reactions in the acetonitrile solution using the proposed reaction density functional theory (RxDFT) method. This multiscale method utilizes quantum density functional theory for calculating intrinsic reaction free energy coupled with classical density functional theory for addressing solvation contribution.

Photosynthetic Characteristics and Uptake and Translocation of Nitrogen in Peanut in a Wheat-Peanut Rotation System Under Different Fertilizer Management Regimes.

Better management of N fertilizer is essential for improving crop productivity. Wheat ( L.)-peanut ( L.