Microorganism Strains, Environmentally Friendly and Biological Preparations Against Chitwood, 1949 and Their Impact on Fruit Quality and Tomato Crop Structure.

The primary aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of various strains of antagonist microorganisms and biological preparations against , in addition to their impact on the quality of tomato fruits and crop structure. Four microorganism strains and three registered environmentally safe nematicides were used in the experiment presented herein. The results showed that the strains F-22BK/6 and F-22BK/4 had the greatest biological efficacy, reducing the number of galls on tomato plants by 91.

A Novel Pot-Economy Approach to the Synthesis of Triantennary GalNAc-Oligonucleotide.

N-Acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) is an efficient and multifunctional delivery tool in the development and synthesis of chemically modified oligonucleotide therapeutics (conjugates). Such therapeutics demonstrate improved potency in vivo due to the selective and efficient delivery to hepatocytes in the liver via receptor-mediated endocytosis, which is what drives the high interest in this molecule. The ways to synthesize such structures are relatively new and have not been optimized in terms of the yields and stages both in lab and large-scale synthesis.

Novel Flavin Mononucleotide-Functionalized Cerium Fluoride Nanoparticles for Selective Enhanced X-Ray-Induced Photodynamic Therapy.

X-ray-induced photodynamic therapy (X-PDT) represents a promising new method of cancer treatment. A novel type of nanoscintillator based on cerium fluoride (CeF) nanoparticles (NPs) modified with flavin mononucleotide (FMN) has been proposed. A method for synthesizing CeF-FMN NPs has been developed, enabling the production of colloidal, spherical NPs with an approximate diameter of 100 nm, low polydispersity, and a high fluorescence quantum yield of 0.

Ligand-to-Metal Ratio Governs Radical-Scavenging Ability of Malate-Stabilised Ceria Nanoparticles.

Cerium dioxide sols stabilised with L-malic acid were shown to exhibit significant antioxidant activity towards alkyl peroxyl radicals in the range of ligand:CeO molar ratios of 0.2-1 (0.2:1, 0.