Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
January 2025
Soil pollution by microplastics (MPs) and cadmium (Cd) poses significant threats to agricultural production, yet their combined toxicity and underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we examined the effects of three types of MPs-polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polypropylene (PP)-with particle sizes of 150 μm and 10 μm, in combination with Cd stress (5 mg/kg) on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The risk of injury to the ovary and/or fallopian tube during herniotomy is notably high when these structures are involved in the hernial contents of female children. This study evaluates the impact of herniotomy involving the ovary and fallopian tube on secondary sexual characteristics and fertility.
Methods: The medical records for all female children with inguinal hernia who underwent surgery from January 2000 to December 2010 were reviewed retrospectively (n = 1623).
In this study, two high-performing α-amylase-producing strains, CK3-5 and A8-1 were successfully isolated and characterized, which were taxonomically confirmed as Bacillus velezensis through whole-genome sequencing and bioinformatics. Bioinformatic sequence analysis and molecular docking revealed the catalytic triad (Asp173-Glu208-Asp274) essential for α-amylase function. Through metabolic engineering, the recombinant strain BAX-5/PT17amy(A8-1)SP was developed, which exhibited the highest α-amylase activity of 1440 U/mL upon fermentation optimization, marking a 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, plastic pollution has become a global environmental problem, posing a potential threat to agricultural ecosystems and human health, and may further exacerbate global food security problems. Studies have revealed that exposure to micro/nano-plastics (MPs/NPs) might cause various aspects of physiological toxicities, including plant biomass reduction, intracellular oxidative stress burst, photosynthesis inhibition, water and nutrient absorption reduction, cellular and genotoxicity, seed germination retardation, and that the effects were closely related to MP/NP properties (type, particle size, functional groups), exposure concentration, exposure duration and plant characteristics (species, tissue, growth stage). Based on a brief review of the physiological toxicity of MPs/NPs to plant growth, this paper comprehensively reviews the potential molecular mechanism of MPs/NPs on plant growth from perspectives of multi-omics, including transcriptome, metabolome, proteome and microbiome, thus to reveal the role of MPs/NPs in plant transcriptional regulation, metabolic pathway reprogramming, protein translational and post-translational modification, as well as rhizosphere microbial remodeling at multiple levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the disorderly discharge in modern production and daily life of people, emerging contaminants(ECs) began to appear in landscape water, and have become a key public concern. Because of the unique characteristics of landscape water, it is difficult to efficiently remove ECs either by natural purification or by traditional large-scale sewage treatment facilities. The ideal purification method is to remove them while maintaining a beautiful environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is very significant for rural planning to accurately count the number and area of rural homesteads by means of automation. The development of deep learning makes it possible to achieve this goal. At present, many effective works have been conducted to extract building objects from VHR images using semantic segmentation technology, but they do not extract instance objects and do not work for densely distributed and overlapping rural homesteads.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel reusable ion imprinted nanocomposite magnetic bentonite(IIPNMB) was prepared for selective recovery of aqueous scandium. Based on the fact that oxyphosphorus functional groups in sodium tripolyphosphate have good affinity to Sc(III) and chitosan is rich in hydroxy and amino active sites, they were chosen to build ion imprinted layers. Mesoporous IIPNMB showed good adsorption performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWalnuts with their shells are a popular agricultural product in China. However, mildew from growth can sometimes be processed into foods. It is difficult to visually determine which walnuts have mildew without breaking the shells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLand use change alters the accumulation of heavy metals (HMs) in soils and might have significant influence on the assembly and functions of soil microbial community. Although numerous studies have discussed the impacts of either total amounts or availability of metals on soil microbes in land change, there is still limited understanding on which one is more critical. In the present study, soils from three land use types (forest, mining field, and operating factory) located in Shaoguan city (Guangdong Province, China) were collected to investigate the impacts of soil HMs on soil enzyme activities and bacterial community structures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeed germination is important for early plant morphogenesis as well as abiotic stress tolerance, and is mainly controlled by the phytohormones abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid (GA). Our previous studies identified a salt-tolerant tomato cultivar, LA2711, which is also a fast-germinating genotype, compared to its salt-sensitive counterpart, ZS-5. In an effort to further clarify the mechanism underlying this phenomenon, we compared the dynamic levels of ABA and GA4, the transcript abundance of genes involved in their biosynthesis and catabolism as well as signal transduction between the two cultivars.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough previous studies have found that melatonin can promote seed germination, the mechanisms involved in perceiving and signaling melatonin remain poorly understood. In this study, it was found that melatonin was synthesized during cucumber seed germination with a peak in melatonin levels occurring 14 hr into germination. This is indicative of a correlation between melatonin synthesis and seed germination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe response and adaptation of plants to different environmental stresses are of great interest as they provide the key to understanding the mechanisms underlying stress tolerance. In this study, the changing patterns of four endogenous hormones and various physiological and biochemical parameters of both a salt-tolerant (LA2711) and a salt-sensitive (ZS-5) tomato cultivar were examined under salt stress and non-stress conditions. Additionally, the transcription of key genes in the abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis and metabolism were analyzed at different time points.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe NAC family transcription factor has demonstrated its importance in plant development and environmental stress response. Based on the microarray results under salt stress and EST information, the full-length cDNAs of two salt-inducible NAC-family genes (SlNAC1, SlNAM1) were isolated from a salt tolerant tomato cultivar, Edkawi, using Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (RACE). SlNAC1 and SlNAM1 encoded 301 and 296 amino acids, respectively, and the deduced protein sequences contained the typical domain of NAC-family transcription factors.
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