Bassinosteroids (BRs) can induce plant defence responses and promote plant growth. In this work, we evaluated the effect of a natural (EP24) and a synthetic (BB16) brassinosteroid on strawberry (Fragaria vesca ) plants exposed to saline stress. Treated plants showed higher shoot dry weight and root growth compared to untreated control plants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper proposes a new sensor using optical flow to stabilize a quadrotor when a GPS signal is not available. Normally, optical flow varies with the attitude of the aerial vehicle. This produces positive feedback on the attitude control that destabilizes the orientation of the vehicle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDetecting people in images and videos captured from an aerial platform in wooded areas for search and rescue operations is a current problem. Detection is difficult due to the relatively small dimensions of the person captured by the sensor in relation to the environment. The environment can generate occlusion, complicating the timely detection of people.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAtxurra cave has a decorated assemblage composed of more than a hundred engraved animal depictions. All of them are located in deep parts of the cave and most of them are hidden in raised areas, away from the main path. The main sector is the "Ledge of the Horses", located at 330 m from the entrance of the cave.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents the development of an instrumented exoskeleton with baropodometry, electromyography, and torque sensors. The six degrees of freedom (Dof) exoskeleton has a human intention detection system based on a classifier of electromyographic signals coming from four sensors placed in the muscles of the lower extremity together with baropodometric signals from four resistive load sensors placed at the front and rear parts of both feet. In addition, the exoskeleton is instrumented with four flexible actuators coupled with torque sensors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe usage of socially assistive robots for autism therapies has increased in recent years. This novel therapeutic tool allows the specialist to keep track of the improvement in socially assistive tasks for autistic children, who hypothetically prefer object-based over human interactions. These kinds of tools also allow the collection of new information to early diagnose neurodevelopment disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMacrophomina phaseolina, is a pathogenic soil-borne fungus that affects more than 500 plant species, causing various types of disease to several crops, among which is the crown and root rot disease in strawberry. Its wide variability has been characterized reiteratively in the literature, but little is known about its virulence mechanisms. Morphological, physiological, genetic and phytopathogenic parameters were evaluated among 32 isolates of Macrophomina from different hosts occurring in Argentina and Spain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Plants have evolved complex mechanisms to fight against pathogens. Among these mechanisms, pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) relies on the recognition of conserved microbe- or pathogen-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs or PAMPs, respectively) by membrane-bound receptors. Indeed, PTI restricts virus infection in plants and, in addition, BRI1-associated kinase 1 (BAK1), a central regulator of PTI, plays a role in antiviral resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo evaluate the natural occurrence of the plant growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense and petunia plants, local strains were isolated and characterized by biochemical and molecular methods. Three strains were assessed in greenhouse conditions using Petunia × hybrida Ultra™. Treatments: Plants without bacterial inoculation or chemical fertilization; fertilized with NPK and KNO ; and independently inoculated with the strains 2A1, 2A2, and 2E1 by submerging their roots in a bacterial suspension (~10 CFU·ml ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe renewal of the archaeological record, mainly through the discovery of unpublished sites, provides information that sometimes qualifies or even reformulates previous approaches. One of the latter cases is represented by the three new decorated caves found in 2015 in Aitzbitarte Hill. Their exhaustive study shows the presence of engraved animals, mainly bison, with formal characteristics unknown so far in the Palaeolithic art of the northern Iberian Peninsula.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main goal of this study is developing an adaptive controller which can solve the trajectory tracking for a class of quadcopter unmanned aerial system (UAS), namely a quadrotor. The control design introduces a new paradigm for adaptive controllers based on the implementation of a set of differential neural networks (DNNs) in the consequence section of a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy inference system. This dynamic fuzzy inference structure was used to approximate the UAS description.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDenitrification in the soybean endosymbiont is controlled by a complex regulatory network composed of two hierarchical cascades, FixLJ-FixK-NnrR and RegSR-NifA. In the former cascade, the CRP/FNR-type transcription factors FixK and NnrR exert disparate control on expression of core denitrifying systems encoded by , , , and genes in response to microoxia and nitrogen oxides, respectively. To identify additional genes controlled by NnrR and involved in the denitrification process in , we compared the transcriptional profile of an mutant with that of the wild type, both grown under anoxic denitrifying conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring a study on biodiversity of bacteria inhabiting rhizospheric soil of rockrose ( L.), we isolated a strain coded RD25 in a soil from Northern Spain. The 16S rRNA gene sequence showed 99.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA bacterial strain, designated BC09, was isolated from a contaminated sample of condensed milk. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences placed strain BC09 into the genus Bacillus with its closest relatives being Bacillus safensis and Bacillus australimaris with 100 and 99.9 % similarity, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcidovorax spp. cause a wide range of economically important diseases in monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, including sugarcane, corn, rice, oat, millet, foxtail watermelon, and orchid. In Argentina, the red stripe disease of sugarcane caused by Acidovorax avenae affects 30% of the milling stems with important economic losses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genome sequence of a plant growth-promoting bacterium and biocontrol agent, REC3, isolated from strawberry roots, is reported here. The REC3 total genome contains 7,229,924 bp and has a G+C content of 68.7 mol%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Anthropometry and functional fitness (FF) are fundamental aspects for functional independence conservation of older adults (OA). However, little has been investigated in chilean OA.
Objective: To analyze anthropometric and FF characteristics of non-disabled OA.
The species Arthrobacter viscosus was isolated from soil from Guatemala and it was classified into the genus Arthrobacter on the basis of phenotypic traits. Nevertheless, the results of16S rRNA gene analysis indicated that this species is a member of the genus Rhizobium, with Rhizobium alamii GBV016T and Rhizobium mesosinicum CCBAU 25010T as the most closely related species with 99.64 and 99.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study we analysed three bacterial strains coded L10.10, A4R1.5 and A4R1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultiple-choice questions are a gold-standard tool in medical school for assessment of knowledge and are the mainstay of licensing examinations. However, multiple-choice questions items can be criticized for lacking the ability to test higher-order learning or integrative thinking across multiple disciplines. Our objective was to develop a novel assessment that would address understanding of pathophysiology and pharmacology, evaluate learning at the levels of application, evaluation and synthesis, and allow students to demonstrate clinical reasoning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRed stripe of sugarcane in Argentina is a bacterial disease caused by Acidovorax avenae. The genome sequence from the first isolate of this bacterium in Argentina is presented here. The draft genome of the A.
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