Climatic change and extreme weather events have become a major threat to global agricultural productivity. Plants coexist with microorganisms, which play a significant role in influencing their growth and functional traits. The rhizosphere serves as an ecological niche encompassing plant roots and is a chemically complex environment that supports the growth and development of diverse plant-interactive microbes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelatonin helps to regulate various physiological processes in plants, including growth, seed germination, and stress responses. However, the mechanism of how melatonin treatments affect soil microbe diversity and ecology, and plant growth needs to be better understood. Here, we report that melatonin coordinates interactions between soil microorganisms and root exudates to create a friendly soil environment for peanut growth under a controlled environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree dinuclear Pd(II) complexes (1, 2, and 3) with intense red phosphorescence at room temperature are here synthesized using strong ligand field strength compounds. All three complexes are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and elemental analyses. Complexes 2 and 3 are characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvery late autumn, fluttering poplar leaves scatter throughout the campus and city streets. In this work, poplar leaves were used as the raw material, while HPO and KOH were used as activators and urea was used as the nitrogen source to prepare biomass based-activated carbons (ACs) to capture CO. The pore structures, functional groups and morphology, and desorption performance of the prepared ACs were characterized; the CO adsorption, regeneration, and kinetics were also evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly repolarization syndrome (ERS) is defined as occurring in patients with early repolarization pattern who have survived idiopathic ventricular fibrillation with clinical evaluation unrevealing for other explanations. The pathophysiologic basis of the ERS is currently uncertain. The objective of the present study was to examine the electrophysiological mechanism of ERS utilizing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Depressive disorders (DD) including dysthymia and major depressive disorder (MDD) are common among adolescents and young adults. However, global trends in DD burden remain unclear.
Methods: We analysed data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study on incidence, prevalence, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and mortality due to DD from 1990 to 2019 at global, regional and national levels.
Anoectochilus roxburghii (Wall.) Lindl. (AR) has been traditionally used to treat inflammatory diseases, but the specific mechanism underlying its hepatoprotective effect remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOrdinal regression (OR) aims to solve multiclass classification problems with ordinal classes. Support vector OR (SVOR) is a typical OR algorithm and has been extensively used in OR problems. In this article, based on the characteristics of OR problems, we propose a novel pinball loss function and present an SVOR method with pinball loss (pin-SVOR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDifenoconazole (DFZ) is a broad-spectrum fungicide widely applied in wheat production. However, excessive accumulation is linked to phytotoxicity. The effects of DFZ on plants and the response mechanisms to DFZ toxicity are poorly understood.
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February 2023
Background: The increased risk of cardiovascular events in patients prescribed macrolides has been subject to debate for decades.
Methods: Medline, EMBASE databases and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from inception until August 31, 2022 for studies investigating the link between macrolides and cardiovascular risk.
We report three Pt(II) diimine complexes containing ancillary ligands of phenylpyridine furnished with anionic -monocarborane clusters [CBH]. Three neutral complexes exhibit intensive phosphorescence in the solid state and complex 1 was used to detect acetonitrile vapor in a quartz plate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRoot architecture plays a fundamental role in crop yield, which is sensitive to nitrogen fertilizer. Although it is well studied that nitrogen fertilizer significantly promotes peanut ( L.) growth and yield, less information was available on how its root development responds to nitrogen deficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFaiton (SFA) and its main bioactive metabolite matrine are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) preparations and have achieved good curative effects for the treatment of various tumors. However, the mechanisms underlying SFA and matrine individually and in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs for treatment of gastric cancer (GC) remain unclear. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the ability of SFA and matrine individually and in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs to inhibit proliferation and promote apoptosis of human GC cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe accumulation and incineration of crop waste pollutes the environment and releases a large amount of CO. In this study, corncob crop waste was directly activated using solid KOH in an inert atmosphere to prepare porous activated carbon (AC) to capture CO, and to introduce N-containing functional groups that favour CO adsorption, urea was mixed with corncob and KOH to prepare N-doped AC. The physical and chemical properties of the AC were characterized, and the effects of the mass ratio of KOH and urea to corncob, the activation temperature and time as well as regeneration were investigated to explore the optimal preparation process.
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October 2022
Heme proteins have recently emerged as promising artificial metalloenzymes for catalyzing diverse reactions. In this report, L29E Mb, a single mutant of myoglobin (Mb), was reconstituted by replacing the heme with a sodium copper cholorophyllin (CuCP) to form a new green artificial enzyme (named CuCP-L29E Mb). The reconstituted protein CuCP-L29E Mb was found to exhibit hydrolytic DNA cleavage activity, which was not depending on O.
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