Evolutionary Insights and Flowering Regulation of in Coconut Palm.

() is a critical transcription factor that plays a significant role in regulating plant growth and development. Mining the coconut SPL family offers valuable insights into the regulation of important agronomic traits, including the length of the juvenile phase. In this study, 25 were identified and were classified into eight subfamilies.

Association between stress hyperglycemia ratio and neovascular glaucoma in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) and the occurrence of neovascular glaucoma (NVG) in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). We aimed to explore the potential role of SHR as a biomarker for NVG risk and to identify demographic and clinical modifiers of this association.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records from our hospital over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020.

Genetic Characterization of Genes in Coconut Palm.

Sugar-Will-Eventually-be-Exported Transporters (SWEETs) play a crucial role in sugar transport in plants, mediating both plant development and stress responses. Despite their importance, there has been limited research characterizing the functional characteristics of genes in coconut (). In this study, we conducted a systematic analysis of genes in coconut using bioinformatics, subcellular localization studies, in silico promoter analysis, and functional assays with yeast mutants.

Ultrahigh antipsychotics selective accumulation and efficient photocatalytic degradation using a novel 2D BiOIO-based molecularly imprinted photocatalyst.

Adsorption-assisted photocatalytic degradation of pollutants is an effective method to improve degradation efficiency. However, most adsorptive photocatalysts are not selective and cannot efficiently remove low-concentration targets in complex systems, which limit their practical application. Therefore, a novel molecularly imprinted photocatalyst (MI-BiOIO) with high selectivity and adsorption capacity was prepared using two-dimensional BiOIO nanosheet as the matrix.

A novel hierarchical porous ZIF-8 for effective removal of three non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs simultaneously from environment.

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) adsorbents have significant advantages to remove contaminates. While their microporous structure is not conducive to entry of larger molecules, making it difficult to simultaneously utilize the inner and outer surfaces of the pores to achieve higher adsorption capacity. In this work, the hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide was employed as soft template to prepare a novel hierarchical porous ZIF-8 (HP-ZIF-8) in water.

Multimodal Splitting and Reciprocating Transport of Droplets on a Reprogrammable Functional Surface.

Droplet manipulations have important applications in many fields, especially droplet splitting and transport in aseptic operations or biochemical reagent analysis. However, droplet splitting or transport on existing functional surfaces is limited to predesigned microstructures or fixed patterns. It remains a challenge to realize reprogrammable surface microstructures for freely controllable droplet splitting and transport.

Genome-wide identification and characterization of BASIC PENTACYSTEINE transcription factors and their binding motifs in coconut palm.

Introduction: () is a small transcription factor family known for its role in various developmental processes in plants, particularly in binding GA motifs and regulating flower and seed development. However, research on the functional characteristics and target genes of in coconut () is limited.

Methods: In this study, we systematically characterized the gene structure, conserved protein domains, gene expansion, and target genes of in the coconut genome.

From genes to traits: Trends in RNA-binding proteins and their role in plant trait development: A review.

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are essential for cellular functions by attaching to RNAs, creating dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs) essential for managing RNA throughout its life cycle. These proteins are critical to all post-transcriptional processes, impacting vital cellular functions during development and adaptation to environmental changes. Notably, in plants, RBPs are critical for adjusting to inconsistent environmental conditions, with recent studies revealing that plants possess, more prominent, and both novel and conserved RBP families compared to other eukaryotes.

Characterization of active transposable elements and their new insertions in tuber propagated greater yam (Dioscorea alata).

Background: Greater yam is a key staple crop grown in tropical and subtropical regions, while its asexual propagation mode had led to non-flowering mutations. How transposable elements contribute to its genetic variations is rarely analyzed. We used transcriptome and whole genome sequencing data to identify active transposable elements (TEs) and genetic variation caused by these active TEs.

Associations of urinary zinc exposure with blood lipid profiles and dyslipidemia: Mediating effect of serum uric acid.

The relationship between zinc (Zn) exposure and abnormal blood lipids including dyslipidemia is contentious. Serum uric acid (SUA) has been reported to be correlated to both Zn exposure and dyslipidemia. The underlying mechanisms of Zn exposure associated with blood lipids and the mediating effects of SUA remain unclear.

Glutathione-dependent redox homeostasis is critical for chlorothalonil detoxification in tomato leaves.

Glutathione plays a critical role in plant growth, development and response to stress. It is a major cellular antioxidant and is involved in the detoxification of xenobiotics in many organisms, including plants. However, the role of glutathione-dependent redox homeostasis and associated molecular mechanisms regulating the antioxidant system and pesticide metabolism remains unclear.

Competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses: A multicentre cross-sectional study.

Aims: To identify latent profiles of competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses and explore the possible influencing factors.

Background: Understanding nurses' level of spiritual care competence and their perceptions and acceptance of such care is important, which could help devise nurse training programmes to address such competence in clinical nurses. However, research addressing interindividual variability in competence and perceptions among Chinese nurses is lacking.

One-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Lead Bromide Hybrids with Excitation-Dependent White-Light Emission Templated by Pyridinium Derivatives.

Organic-inorganic hybrid metal halides have attracted widespread attention due to their excellent tunability and versatility. Here, we have selected pyridinium derivatives with different substituent groups or substitution positions as the organic templating cations and obtained six 1D chain-like structures. They are divided into three types: type I (single chain), type II (double chain), and type III (triple chain), with tunable optical band gaps and emission properties.

White Light-Emitting Diodes Based on One-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Metal Chloride with Dual Emission.

White-light emissive organic-inorganic hybrid metal halides (MHs) have shown promising potential applications in solid-state lighting. As one-dimensional (1D) MHs for white-light emission remain rare and the key role of halogen regulation in 1D hybrid MHs for broadband emission (BE) has not been well established yet, herein, we report a family of 1D hybrid MHs TMGPbX (TMG = 1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidine, X = Cl, Br, or I) to systematically explore the influence of halogen on crystal structures and photoluminescence (PL) properties in 1D organic-inorganic hybrid MHs. Under ultraviolet excitation, TMGPbBr and TMGPbI exhibit BE originating from self-trapped excitons (STEs), while TMGPbCl manifests the special blue-white dual emission, which is contributed by STEs in inorganic frameworks and free excitons (FEs) in the organic component.

Glutathione Promotes Degradation and Metabolism of Residual Fungicides by Inducing UDP-Glycosyltransferase Genes in Tomato.

Reduced glutathione (GSH) is a key antioxidant, which plays a crucial role in the detoxification of xenobiotics in plants. In the present study, glutathione could reduce chlorothalonil (CHT) residues in tomatoes by inducing the expression of the UDP-glycosyltransferase (UGT) gene. In plants, UGT is an important glycosylation catalyst, which can respond to stresses in time by activating plant hormones and defense compounds.

Jasmonic acid promotes glutathione assisted degradation of chlorothalonil during tomato growth.

Glutathione (GSH) biosynthesis and regeneration play a significant role in the metabolism of chlorothalonil (CHT) in tomatoes. However, the specific regulatory mechanism of GSH in the degradation of CHT remains uncertain. To address this, we investigate the critical regulatory pathways in the degradation of residual CHT in tomatoes.

Comparison and recent progress of molecular imprinting technology and dummy template molecular imprinting technology.

Molecular imprinting technology for the preparation of polymers with specific molecular recognition function had become one of the current research hotspots. It has been widely applied in chromatographic separation, antibody and receptor mimetics, solid-phase extraction, bio-sensors, and other fields in the last decades. In this study, molecular imprinting technology was summarized from the points of templates and dummy templates, and four typical target analytes were selected to compare the differences between templates and dummy templates.

Weight Perception Measured by Verbal Descriptions and Visual Descriptions: Which Measurement Correlates with Weight Loss Intentions among Female Nursing Students?

Background: Young females tend to overestimate their weight status, which might induce unhealthy weight loss intentions and behaviours. This study aimed to examine weight perception measured by visual and verbal descriptions and its correlation with weight loss intentions among female nursing students.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 600 female nursing students from four medical colleges in Shanghai, China.

A snapshot of public knowledge of novel coronavirus disease 2019: a web-based national survey.

Background: Although the number of existing cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China has been decreasing since late February 2020, the number of confirmed cases abroad is surging. Improving public knowledge of COVID-19 is critical to controlling the pandemic. This study aimed to determine China's public knowledge of COVID-19 and the attitudes towards control measures.