Complete chloroplast genome and phylogenetic analysis of (Araceae).

(Dennst.) Nicolson, 1885, often known as elephant foot yam, is a tropical tuber crop that originates from south-east Asia and belongs to the Araceae family. It is known for its high production potential and popularity as a medicinal plant.

Corrigendum: Phenylpropane biosynthesis and alkaloid metabolism pathways involved in resistance of Amorphophallus spp. against soft rot disease.

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The endophytic fungal community plays a crucial role in the resistance of host plants to necrotic bacterial pathogens.

Konjac species (Amorphophallus spp.) are the only plant species in the world that are rich in a large amount of konjac glucomannan (KGM). These plants are widely cultivated as cash crops in tropical and subtropical countries in Asia, including China.

Phenylpropane biosynthesis and alkaloid metabolism pathways involved in resistance of spp. against soft rot disease.

Soft rot of konjac ( spp.) is a devastating disease caused by the bacterium subsp. (Pcc) with serious adverse effects on plantation development, corm quality and crop yield due to the current lack of effective control measures.

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of (Araceae) from Yunnan, China and its phylogenetic analysis in the family Araceae.

This work determined and analyzed the complete chloroplast genome sequence of K. Koch ex N.E.

Comparative metabolomics analysis reveals dynamic changes in carbohydrate profiles of corms during the "relay growth" of konjac ().

The type and content of carbohydrates in konjac corms are an essential factors in determining the quality of konjac; however, the pattern of carbohydrate changes and the mechanism regulating the development of mother and daughter corms in the "relay growth" process of remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate changes in corm carbohydrates during the growth cycle of and to compare the carbohydrate composition and the expression of related genes between mother and daughter corms. Integrated metabolome and RNA-seq analyses identified 37 differential metabolites as well as 8074 genes that were differentially expressed between mother and daughter corms, the majority of which were involved in starch and sucrose metabolism.

activates ferulic acid and phenylpropane biosynthesis pathways to defend against infection.

sp. is an economically important crop for rural revitalization in southwest China. However, often infects sp.

Effects of short-term extreme temperature treatment on the development and reproductive capacity of .

is a natural enemy of the invasive pest and is known to be a dominant parasitic. The frequency and magnitude of climate extremes, particularly temperature extremes, have increased, which has put insect populations at risk. However, the effects of temperature extremes on are not well understood.

Multi-granularity knowledge distillation and prototype consistency regularization for class-incremental learning.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are prone to the notorious catastrophic forgetting problem when learning new tasks incrementally. Class-incremental learning (CIL) is a promising solution to tackle the challenge and learn new classes while not forgetting old ones. Existing CIL approaches adopted stored representative exemplars or complex generative models to achieve good performance.

Exact and Heuristic Multi-Robot Dubins Coverage Path Planning for Known Environments.

Coverage path planning (CPP) of multiple Dubins robots has been extensively applied in aerial monitoring, marine exploration, and search and rescue. Existing multi-robot coverage path planning (MCPP) research use exact or heuristic algorithms to address coverage applications. However, several exact algorithms always provide precise area division rather than coverage paths, and heuristic methods face the challenge of balancing accuracy and complexity.

ESVIO: Event-Based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry.

The emerging event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that can output pixel-level brightness changes at extremely high rates, and event-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely studied and used in autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose an event-based stereo VIO system, namely ESVIO. Firstly, we present a novel direct event-based VIO method, which fuses events' depth, Time-Surface images, and pre-integrated inertial measurement to estimate the camera motion and inertial measurement unit (IMU) biases in a sliding window non-linear optimization framework, effectively improving the state estimation accuracy and robustness.

Density and seasonal dynamics of and its predators in different agricultural landscapes in South China.

is the main pest of agriculture in many regions of the world. The resistance of whitefly to pesticides has increased as a consequence of the continuous irrational use of wide-spectrum pesticides. Thus, pesticides are no longer always effective as a long-term control method.

Flowering agricultural landscapes enhance parasitoid biological control to Bemisia tabaci on tomato in south China.

Agricultural landscape pattern may enhance biocontrol services by supporting parasitoid populations, including parasitoids of Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). In this study, we selected four landscape types in Yunnan province, in south China, which were characterized by flower fields, mountain, river, and urban areas as their main elements. We then carried out systematic surveys in tomato fields found within each landscape type, to determine the diversity, occurrence, and parasitism rate of parasitoids.

Regulation of dynamics and densities of whitefly by agricultural landscapes in south China.

Agricultural landscape patterns can affect the population dynamics of pest insects. We selected four landscapes (flower field, mountain, river and urban) based on principal components analysis in Yunnan Province, south China. Through systematic investigation carried out in tomato fields, we intended to clarify the population dynamics and densities of under different landscape types.

Effect of sublethal Spirotetramat on host locating and parasitic behavior of Encarsia formosa Gahan.

Background: The use of chemical insecticides to control Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is widespread, although it might exert a sublethal effect on its dominant parasitoid, Encarsia formosa Gahan (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). To investigate the sublethal effect of spirotetramat on E. formosa, we observed the ability of E.

Relation-Based Deep Attention Network with Hybrid Memory for One-Shot Person Re-Identification.

One-shot person Re-identification, which owns one labeled sample among numerous unlabeled data for each identity, is proposed to tackle the problem of the shortage of labeled data. Considering the scenarios without sufficient labeled data, it is very challenging to keep abreast of the performance of the supervised task in which sufficient labeled samples are available. In this paper, we propose a relation-based attention network with hybrid memory, which can make full use of the global information to pay attention to the identity features for model training with the relation-based attention network.

micROS: a morphable, intelligent and collective robot operating system.

Robots are developing in much the same way that personal computers did 40 years ago, and robot operating system is the critical basis. Current robot software is mainly designed for individual robots. We present in this paper the design of micROS, a morphable, intelligent and collective robot operating system for future collective and collaborative robots.

[Non-penetrating trabecular surgery with application of mitomycin C].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical effect of non-penetrating trabecular surgery (NPTS) with mitomycin C (MMC) in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).

Methods: Twenty-five eyes of 18 patients with POAG underwent NPTS with MMC during the operation. The mean follow-up was 16.