High-Accuracy Tomato Leaf Disease Image-Text Retrieval Method Utilizing LAFANet.

Tomato leaf disease control in the field of smart agriculture urgently requires attention and reinforcement. This paper proposes a method called LAFANet for image-text retrieval, which integrates image and text information for joint analysis of multimodal data, helping agricultural practitioners to provide more comprehensive and in-depth diagnostic evidence to ensure the quality and yield of tomatoes. First, we focus on six common tomato leaf disease images and text descriptions, creating a Tomato Leaf Disease Image-Text Retrieval Dataset (TLDITRD), introducing image-text retrieval into the field of tomato leaf disease retrieval.

Characterization of a novel carbendazim-degrading strain Rhodococcus sp. CX-1 revealed by genome and transcriptome analyses.

The persistence and ecotoxicity of carbendazim residues pose a potential risk to environmental ecology and human health. Here, a novel and highly efficient carbendazim-degrading bacterium Rhodococcus sp. CX-1, capable of utilizing carbendazim as its sole source of carbon and energy, was isolated from contaminated soil.

Deposition, dissipation, and minimum effective dosage of the fungicide carbendazim in the pepper-field ecosystem.

Background: In order to reduce application dosage of carbendazim (CBD), the effects of different droplet sizes and application rate on initial deposition, retention rate, and field control efficacy of CBD in the pepper plant (Capsicum annuum L.) were studied under laboratory and field conditions.

Results: Based on eight types of nozzles at six concentrations of 646.

Adsorption and Desorption of Carbendazim and Thiamethoxam in Five Different Agricultural Soils.

The adsorption and desorption behaviors of carbendazim (CBD) and thiamethoxam (TMX) were systematically studied in five different agricultural soils. The adsorption and desorption isotherms of CBD and TMX in the five different soils were fitted well by the Freundlich model. The Freundlich adsorption coefficient (K) and Freundlich desorption coefficient (K) of CBD in the five different soils were 1.

Changes in soil microbial community structure and function associated with degradation and resistance of carbendazim and chlortetracycline during repeated treatments.

The degradation characteristics of carbendazim (CBD) and chlortetracycline (CTC) in individual and combined treatments, and dynamics of soil microbial structural and functional diversity as well as their potential relations were studied during three repeated treatments using different concentrations. The results showed that the degradation half-life of CBD at concentrations of 3mg/kg and 6mg/kg obviously increased, but that of CTC at levels of 1mg/kg and 10mg/kg decreased with increasing treatment frequency. Soil microbial activity and functional diversity displayed the suppression trend in CBD treatment and the suppression-recovery-stimulation trend in CTC and CBD+CTC treatments, which were consistent with the findings of decreased degradation rate of CBD and increased degradation rate of CTC.

The effect of Li(+) ions on the luminescent properties of a single-phase white light-emitting phosphor α-Sr2P2O7:Dy(3.).

Two series of phosphors, α-Sr2(1-x)Dy2xP2O7 and α-Sr2(1-2x)Dy2xLi2xP2O7, with different x values were synthesized successfully using a conventional solid-state method at high temperature for the first time, and their luminescence properties were investigated comparatively. The effect of Li(+) ions on the luminescence properties of Dy(3+) in α-Sr2P2O7 host, including luminescence intensity, optimal doping concentration, concentration quenching mechanism, and decay behavior, was discussed in detail by considering the defect generation in α-Sr2P2O7:Dy(3+), the charge compensation of Li(+) ions and the role of Li2CO3 as solid flux expected in phosphors. The obtained excitation and emission spectra indicate that these as-prepared phosphors can be excited by ultraviolet light and show white light emission due to the combination of the (4)F9/2→(6)H15/2 and (4)F9/2→(6)H13/2 transitions of Dy(3+) ions.

Sodium valproate induces cell senescence in human hepatocarcinoma cells.

Hepatocarcinogenesis is associated with epigenetic changes, including histone deacetylases (HDACs). Epigenetic modulation by HDAC inhibition is a potentially valuable approach for hepatocellular carcinoma treatment. In present study, we evaluated the anticancer effects of sodium valproate (SVP), a known HDAC inhibitor, in human hepatocarcinoma cells.