Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genet Selektsii
April 2024
Climate change is the key challenge to agriculture in the XXI century. Future agricultural techniques in the Russian Federation should involve the optimization of land utilization. This optimization should apply algorithms for smart farming and take into consideration possible climate variations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJuvenile hormone plays a "status quo" role in Drosophila melanogaster larvae, preventing the untimely metamorphosis, and performs a gonadotropic function in imagoes, ensuring the ovaries' preparedness for vitellogenesis. The decreased level of juvenile hormone results in reproductive disorders in D. melanogaster females including a delay in the oviposition onset and a fertility decrease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe best-known effect of the intracellular bacterium is its mostly negative influence on the reproduction of the host. However, there is evidence of a positive influence of on the host's resistance to stress, pathogens, and viruses. Here, we analyzed the effects of two strains belonging to wMel and wMelCS genotypes on traits, such as fertility, survival under acute heat stress, and developmental rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article deals with the issue of perforating point defects (pores) in a bilayer heterostructure composed of striped borophene and graphene. Three types of non-equivalent vacancies of the minimum size are considered. These include a single vacancy and two double vacancies.
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