Aims: Planting halophytes is a widely used method of phytoremediation for saline soils. The succulent halophytes Halogeton glomeratus and Suaeda glauca are widely used for remediation of saline soil in the arid region of Northwestern China. However, whether intercropping of H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommon wheat production is significantly influenced by abiotic stresses. Identifying the genetic loci for seedling root traits and developing the available molecular markers are crucial for breeding high yielding and stable varieties. In this study, five wheat seedling root traits, including root length (RL), root surface area (RA), root volume (RV), number of root tips (RT), and root dry weight (RW), were measured in the Wp-072/Wp-119 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBarley leaf stripe is an important disease caused by Pyenophora graminea that affects barley yields in the world. Ascorbic acid (AsA) interacts with key elements of a complex network orchestrating plant defense mechanisms, thereby influencing the outcome of plant-pathogen interaction. Myo-inositol oxygenase (MIOX) is a pivotal enzyme involved in plants development and environmental stimuli.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obesity and gastric cancer (GC) are prevalent diseases worldwide. In particular, the number of patients with obesity is increasing annually, while the incidence and mortality rates of GC are ranked high. Consequently, these conditions seriously affect the quality of life of individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrought stress is a major meteorological threat to crop growth and yield. Barley ( L.) is a vital cereal crop with strong drought tolerance worldwide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHalophyte Halogeton glomeratus mostly grows in saline desert areas in arid and semi-arid regions and is able to adapt to adverse conditions such as salinity and drought. Earlier transcriptomic studies revealed activation of the HgS2 gene in the leaf of H. glomeratus seedlings when exposed to saline conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCreating a large-scale contactless user-interactive sensing display (CUISD) with optimal features is challenging but crucial for efficient human-human or human-machine interactions. This study reports a CUISD based on dynamic alternating current electroluminescence (ACEL) that responds to humidity. Subsecond humidity-induced luminescence is achieved by integrating a highly responsive hydrogel into the ACEL layer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow phosphorus (LP) stress leads to a significant reduction in wheat yield, primarily in the reduction of biomass, the number of tillers and spike grains, the delay in heading and flowering, and the inhibition of starch synthesis and grouting. However, the differences in regulatory pathway responses to low phosphorus stress among different wheat genotypes are still largely unknown. In this study, metabolome and transcriptome analyses of G28 (LP-tolerant) and L143 (LP-sensitive) wheat varieties after 72 h of normal phosphorus (CK) and LP stress were performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) plays an important role in plant growth and development, and in the response to various abiotic stresses. However, its role in the responses of barley to low phosphorus (LP) stress remains largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the root phenotypes and metabolic patterns of LP-tolerant (GN121) and LP-sensitive (GN42) barley genotypes under normal P, LP, and LP with exogenous melatonin (30 μM) conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Few studies have documented the relationship between stressful life events and procrastination, which is a prevalent and troubling problem among college students. In this regard, the current study examined the association between stressful life events and procrastination through potential mediating effects of stress beliefs and core self-evaluations.
Methods: A cross-sectional design was carried out and data were collected from a total of 794 Chinese college students with measures of stressful life events, core self-evaluations, stress beliefs, and procrastination.
Nitrogen is one of the most important mineral elements for plant growth and development. Excessive nitrogen application not only pollutes the environment, but also reduces the quality of crops. However, are few studies on the mechanism of barley tolerance to low nitrogen at both the transcriptome and metabolomics levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCuticular waxes comprise the hydrophobic layer that protects crops against nonstomatal water loss and biotic and abiotic stresses. Expanding on our current knowledge of the genes that are involved in cuticular wax biosynthesis and regulation plays an important role in dissecting the processes of cuticular wax metabolism. In this study, we identified the Cer-GN1 barley (Hordeum vulgare L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalt stress is a major abiotic stress factor affecting crop production, and understanding of the response mechanisms of seed germination to salt stress can help to improve crop tolerance and yield. The differences in regulatory pathways during germination in different salt-tolerant barley seeds are not clear. Therefore, this study investigated the responses of different salt-tolerant barley seeds during germination to salt stress at the proteomic and metabolic levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
September 2022
Halide perovskites featuring remarkable optoelectronic properties hold great potential for threshold switching devices (TSDs) that are of primary importance to next-generation memristors and neuromorphic computers. However, such devices are still in their infancy due to the unsolved challenges of high threshold voltage, poor stability, and lead-containing features. Herein, a unipolar TSD based on an all-inorganic halide perovskite of CsCuI is demonstrated, exhibiting the fascinating attributes of a low threshold voltage of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHalogeton glomeratus (H. glomeratus) is categorized as a halophyte, it can potentially endure not only salt but also heavy metals. The aim of this work was to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the Cd tolerance of halophyte H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhosphate (Pi) stress is an important environmental factor that limits plant growth and development. Of various posttranslational modifications (PTMs), protein phosphorylation and succinylation are the two most important PTMs that regulate multiple biological processes in response to Pi stress. However, these PTMs have been investigated individually but their interactions with proteins in response to Pi stress remain poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOwn race faces tend to be recognized more accurately than those of other less familiar races, however, findings to date have been inconclusive. The present study aimed to determine whether Chinese exhibit different recognition accuracy and eye gaze patterns for Asian (own-race) and White (other-race) facial expressions (neutral, happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear). A total of 89 healthy Chinese adults viewed Asian and White facial expressions while undergoing eye-tracking and were subsequently required to identify expressions and rate their intensity and effect on arousal.
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April 2022
The methods based on the convolutional neural network have demonstrated its powerful information integration ability in image fusion. However, most of the existing methods based on neural networks are only applied to a part of the fusion process. In this paper, an end-to-end multi-focus image fusion method based on a multi-scale generative adversarial network (MsGAN) is proposed that makes full use of image features by a combination of multi-scale decomposition with a convolutional neural network.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn humans, the neuropeptide oxytocin promotes both attraction toward and bonds with romantic partners, although no studies have investigated whether this extends to the perceived attractiveness of flirtatious language. In a within-subject, randomized double-blind placebo-controlled behavior and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm (https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03144115), 75 women rated the attractiveness of either a male face alone or paired with a verbal compliment which varied in terms of topic (women or landscapes) and figurativeness (novel or conventional metaphors or literal expressions).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTactile sensors with multimode sensing ability are cornerstones of artificial skin for applications in humanoid robotics and smart prosthetics. However, the intuitive and interference-free reading of multiple tactile signals without involving complex algorithms and calculations remains a challenge. Herein a pressure-temperature bimodal tactile sensor without any interference is demonstrated by combining the fundamentally different sensing mechanisms of optics and electronics, enabling the simultaneous and independent sensing of pressure and temperature with the elimination of signal separation algorithms and calculations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhosphorus (P) deficiency is a major threat to the crop production, and for understanding the response mechanism of plant roots, P stress may facilitate the development of crops with increased tolerance. Phosphorylation plays a critical role in the regulation of proteins for plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress; however, its functions in P starvation/resupply are largely unknown for barley () growth. Here, we performed a global review of phosphorylation in barley roots treated by P starvation/resupply.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a succulent annual herbaceous halophyte belonging to the Chenopodiaceae family, has attracted wide attention as a promising candidate for phytoremediation and as an oilseed crop and noodle-improver. More importantly, has important medicinal value in traditional Chinese medicine. However, there are few comprehensive studies on the nutrients, particularly secondary metabolites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBarley ( L.)-a major cereal crop-has low Pi demand, which is a distinct advantage for studying the tolerance mechanisms of phosphorus deficiency. We surveyed dynamic protein succinylation events in barley roots in response to and recovery from Pi starvation by firstly evaluating the impact of Pi starvation in a Pi-tolerant (GN121) and Pi-sensitive (GN42) barley genotype exposed to long-term low Pi (40 d) followed by a high-Pi recovery for 10 d.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe unavoidable noise often present in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, such as speckle noise, negatively impacts the subsequent processing of SAR images. Further, it is not easy to find an appropriate application for SAR images, given that the human visual system is sensitive to color and SAR images are gray. As a result, a noisy SAR image fusion method based on nonlocal matching and generative adversarial networks is presented in this paper.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeavy metals pollution and salinization of soils are widely distributed in agricultural soils. This study investigated the effects of five heavy metals and five heavy metals-contaminated salt on seed germination and seedling growth of halophyte Halogeton glomeratus (H. glomeratus).
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