Development of a bionic hexapod robot with adaptive gait and clearance for enhanced agricultural field scouting.

High agility, maneuverability, and payload capacity, combined with small footprints, make legged robots well-suited for precision agriculture applications. In this study, we introduce a novel bionic hexapod robot designed for agricultural applications to address the limitations of traditional wheeled and aerial robots. The robot features a terrain-adaptive gait and adjustable clearance to ensure stability and robustness over various terrains and obstacles.

Palmatine Ameliorates Motor Deficits and Dopaminergic Neuron Loss by Regulating NLRP3 Inflammasome through Mitophagy in Parkinson's Disease Model Mice.

NLRP3 inflammasomes-mediated proinflammatory response and mitochondrial dysfunction play a critical role in the etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Negative regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation through mitophagy may be an important strategy to control NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated proinflammatory responses. Palmatine (PAL), an isoquinoline alkaloid found in various of plants, has potent pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidation.

Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View.

The last decades have witnessed a rapid development of noninvasive plant phenotyping, capable of detecting plant stress scale levels from the subcellular to the whole population scale. However, even with such a broad range, most phenotyping objects are often just concerned with leaves. This review offers a unique perspective of noninvasive plant stress phenotyping from a multi-organ view.

Technical note: ShinyAnimalCV: open-source cloud-based web application for object detection, segmentation, and three-dimensional visualization of animals using computer vision.

Computer vision (CV), a non-intrusive and cost-effective technology, has furthered the development of precision livestock farming by enabling optimized decision-making through timely and individualized animal care. The availability of affordable two- and three-dimensional camera sensors, combined with various machine learning and deep learning algorithms, has provided a valuable opportunity to improve livestock production systems. However, despite the availability of various CV tools in the public domain, applying these tools to animal data can be challenging, often requiring users to have programming and data analysis skills, as well as access to computing resources.

Synchronously Predicting Tea Polyphenol and Epigallocatechin Gallate in Tea Leaves Using Fourier Transform-Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning.

Tea polyphenol and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) were considered as key components of tea. The rapid prediction of these two components can be beneficial for tea quality control and product development for tea producers, breeders and consumers. This study aimed to develop reliable models for tea polyphenols and EGCG content prediction during the breeding process using Fourier Transform-near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy combined with machine learning algorithms.

Ammonium Ions Induce Cellulase Synthesis in Trichoderma koningii.

Cellulase plays an important role in addressing the issue of the energy crisis. However, the yield and degradation efficiency of cellulase remain a major challenge. In the present study, we aimed to verify whether ammonium ion (NH) could induce cellulase synthesis from T.

Extracellular vesicle-associated organotropic metastasis.

Metastasis refers to the progressive dissemination of primary tumour cells and their colonization of other tissues and is associated with most cancer-related mortalities. The disproportional and systematic distribution pattern of distant metastasis in different cancers has been well documented, as is termed metastatic organotropism, a process orchestrated by a combination of anatomical, pathophysiological, genetic and biochemical factors. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), nanosized cell-derived membrane-bound particles known to mediate intercellular communication, are now considered crucial in organ-specific metastasis.