Introduction: Despite advancements in postoperative pain management, approximately 20% of patients still experience severe pain within the first 24 hours post-surgery. Previous studies utilizing machine learning have shown promise in predicting postoperative pain with various models. This study investigates postoperative pain predictors using a machine learning approach based on physiological indicators and demographic factors in a Mexican cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPortland cements (PCs) and cement blends are multiphase materials of different fineness, and quantitatively analysing their hydration pathways is very challenging. The dissolution (hydration) of the initial crystalline and amorphous phases must be determined, as well as the formation of labile (such as ettringite), reactive (such as portlandite) and amorphous (such as calcium silicate hydrate gel) components. The microstructural changes with hydration time must also be mapped out.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-canonical translation mechanisms have been described for many viral RNAs. In the case of several plant viruses, their protein synthesis is controlled by RNA elements in their genomic 3'-ends that are able to enhance cap-independent translation (3'-CITE). The proposed general mechanism of 3'-CITEs includes their binding to eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) that reach the 5'-end and AUG start codon through 5'-3'-UTR-interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Given the lack of specific studies on floral development in melon (Cucumis melo L.), we carried out an extensive study involving morphological and transcriptomic analyses to characterize floral development in this species.
Methods: Using an andromonoecious line, we analysed the development of floral buds in male and hermaphrodite flowers with both light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.
Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) causes significant economic losses in tomato crops worldwide. Since its first detection infecting tomato in 1999, aggressive PepMV variants have emerged. This study aimed to characterize two aggressive PepMV isolates, PepMV-H30 and PepMV-KLP2.
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November 2023
In this chapter, we describe a computational pipeline for the in silico detection of plant viruses by high-throughput sequencing (HTS) from total RNA samples. The pipeline is designed for the analysis of short reads generated using an Illumina platform and free-available software tools. First, we provide advice for high-quality total RNA purification, library preparation, and sequencing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCysteine oxidations play important regulatory roles during animal virus infections. Despite the importance of redox modifications during plant infections, no plant virus protein has yet been shown to be regulated by cysteine oxidation. The potexvirus pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is pandemic in tomato crops.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe hyperosmolality-gated calcium permeable channel 4.1 (OSCA4.1) belongs to an evolutionarily conserved small family of mechano-sensitive channels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and bioinformatic tools have provided new opportunities for virus and viroid discovery and diagnostics. Hence, new sequences of viral origin are being discovered and published at a previously unseen rate. Therefore, a collective effort was undertaken to write and propose a framework for prioritizing the biological characterization steps needed after discovering a new plant virus to evaluate its impact at different levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is an emerging tobamovirus. It was first reported in 2015 in Jordan in greenhouse tomatoes and now threatens tomato and pepper crops around the world. ToBRFV is a stable and highly infectious virus that is easily transmitted by mechanical means and via seeds, which enables it to spread locally and over long distances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the mechanisms underlying plant resistance to virus infections is crucial for viral disease management in agriculture. However, the defense mechanism of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) against cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) infection remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed transcriptomic, metabolomic, and phytohormone analyses of a CGMMV susceptible watermelon cultivar 'Zhengkang No.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn fungi, viral infections frequently remain cryptic causing little or no phenotypic changes. It can indicate either a long history of coevolution or a strong immune system of the host. Some fungi are outstandingly ubiquitous and can be recovered from a great diversity of habitats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMixed infections of pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) isolates from the EU and CH2 strains are frequent in tomato crops. An asymmetric antagonistic relationship has been described between these strains, making their in planta interaction worthy of study. The aim of this work was to verify if PepMV isolates labelled with fluorescent proteins recapitulate the interactions described for wild type isolates and, if so, to determine the proportion of cells infected with each isolate in single and mixed infected plants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing cement CO footprint is a societal need. This is being achieved mainly by replacing an increasing amount of Portland clinker by supplementary cementitious materials. However, this comes at a price: lower mechanical strengths at early ages due to slow pozzolanic reaction(s).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is pandemic in tomato crops, causing important economic losses world-wide. No PepMV-resistant varieties have been developed yet. Identification of host factors interacting with PepMV proteins is a promising source of genetic targets to develop PepMV-resistant varieties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost plant viruses lack the 5'-cap and 3'-poly(A) structures, which are common in their host mRNAs, and are crucial for translation initiation. Thus, alternative translation initiation mechanisms were identified for viral mRNAs, one of these being controlled by an RNA element in their 3'-ends that is able to enhance mRNA cap-independent translation (3'-CITE). The 3'-CITEs are modular and transferable RNA elements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMembers of the genus are responsible for economically destructive plant diseases worldwide. Over the past few years, three luteoviruses infecting trees have been characterized. However, the biological properties, prevalence, and genetic diversity of those viruses have not yet been studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWeeds surrounding crops may act as alternative hosts, playing important epidemiological roles as virus reservoirs and impacting virus evolution. We used high-throughput sequencing to identify viruses in Spanish melon crops and plants belonging to three pluriannual weed species, , , and , sampled at the edges of the crops. Melon and , both belonging to the family , shared three virus species, whereas there was no virus species overlap between melon and the other two weeds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is a single-stranded (ss), positive-sense (+) RNA potexvirus that affects tomato crops worldwide. We have described an in planta antagonistic interaction between PepMV isolates of two strains in which the EU isolate represses the accumulation of the CH2 isolate during mixed infections. Reports describing transcriptomic responses to mixed infections are scant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cap-binding protein eIF4E, through its interaction with eIF4G, constitutes the core of the eIF4F complex, which plays a key role in the circularization of mRNAs and their subsequent cap-dependent translation. In addition to its fundamental role in mRNA translation initiation, other functions have been described or suggested for eIF4E, including acting as a proviral factor and participating in sexual development. We used CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to generate melon eif4e knockout mutant lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe acceleration of very early age cement hydration by C-S-H seeding is getting attention from scholars and field applications because the enhanced early age features do not compromise later age performances. This acceleration could be beneficial for several low-CO cements as a general drawback is usually the low very early age mechanical strengths. However, the mechanistic understanding of this acceleration in commercial cements is not complete.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper addresses the general problem of deformable linear object manipulation. The main application we consider is in the field of agriculture, for plant grasping, but may have interests in other tasks such as human daily activities and industrial production. We specifically consider an elastic linear object where one of its endpoints is fixed, and another point can be grasped by a robotic arm.
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