Improved engineered fungal-bacterial commensal consortia simultaneously degrade multiantibiotics and biotransform food waste into lipopeptides.

Resource utilization of food waste is necessary to reduce environmental pollution. However, antibiotics can enter the environment through food waste, resulting in antibiotic residues, which pose potential risks to human health. In this study, commensal artificial consortia were constructed through intercellular adaptation to simultaneously degrade antibiotics and bioconvert food waste into lipopeptides.

Improving salt-tolerant artificial consortium of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens for bioconverting food waste to lipopeptides.

High-salt content in food waste (FW) affects its resource utilization during biotransformation. In this study, adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE), gene editing, and artificial consortia were performed out to improve the salt-tolerance of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens for producing lipopeptide under FW and seawater. High-salt stress significantly decreased lipopeptide production in the B.

Sweet Sorghum Originated through Selection of , a Plant-Specific NAC Transcription Factor Gene.

Sorghum () is the fifth most popular crop worldwide and a C model plant. Domesticated sorghum comes in many forms, including sweet cultivars with juicy stems and grain sorghum with dry, pithy stems at maturity. The locus, which controls the pithy/juicy stem trait, was discovered over a century ago.

Stability and genetic control of morphological, biomass and biofuel traits under temperate maritime and continental conditions in sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolour).

Eight morphological, biomass and biofuel traits were found with high broad-sense heritability and 18 significant QTLs discovered including one locus controlling the stem juice trait for sorghum grown in Denmark and China. Sweet sorghum with tall plant, fast maturation and high stem Brix content can be bred as a biofuel crop for Northern Europe. Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolour), a native tropical C4 crop, has attracted interest as a bioenergy crop in northern countries due to its juice-rich stem and high biomass production.

Semi-quantitative assessment of brain maturation by conventional magnetic resonance imaging in neonates with clinically mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Background: Mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) injury is becoming the major type in neonatal brain diseases. The aim of this study was to assess brain maturation in mild HIE neonatal brains using total maturation score (TMS) based on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: Totally, 45 neonates with clinically mild HIE and 45 matched control neonates were enrolled.