Progress and Perspective on Heterogeneous Catalysis of Liquid Formic Acid Dehydrogenation: Coordination Structure Design, Activity Improvement, and Mechanism Insights.

Formic acid (FA) has attracted significant interest as a renewable liquid-phase hydrogen carrier. Hydrogen generation from FA decomposition is essential for the development of hydrogen economy. Designing highly efficient catalysts with different coordination environments for FA dehydrogenation is crucial for fuel-cell applications.

Metabolomics and Transcriptomic Analysis Revealed the Response Mechanism of Maize to Saline-Alkali Stress.

Saline-alkali stress inhibited the normal growth and development of plants, which seriously restricted the yield of crops. Maize is one of the most important crops in the world. However, the mechanism of maize in response to saline-alkali stress is still largely unknown.

Unraveling saline-alkali stress tolerance: Contrasting morpho-physiological, biochemical, and ionic responses in maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes.

Saline-alkali stress inhibits the normal growth and development of plants, severely restricting crop yields. Maize is one of the most important staple crops worldwide. However, germplasm resources with strong saline-alkali tolerance that are suitable for large-scale field production remain scarce.

Molecular characterization of Zea mays ZmDnaJ3: A key protein positively regulating heat and drought stress adaptation.

Maize (Zea mays L.), a globally significant monocotyledonous plant and cereal crop, faces substantial challenges in terms of yield and quality sustainability owing to increasing heat and drought stress resulting from global warming. As molecular chaperones, DnaJ proteins play crucial roles in maintaining proteostasis under stress conditions.

MXene-Supported Ru-Ni: A Common Active Site for Hydrolysis, Hydrogen Oxidation, and Hydrogenation.

Insights into the activation and conversion of hydrogen using a single-mode catalyst are crucial for advancing fuels and fine chemical production. In this paper, the activation and conversion of H molecules in hydrogen production and application were investigated on RuM (M = Ni, Co, Cu, Fe)-MXene catalysts. RuM (M = Ni, Co, Cu, Fe) bimetallic nanoclusters were uniformly distributed on TiC MXene.

Overexpression of maize transcription factor ZmNF-YC14 positively regulates drought and salt stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Maize (Zea mays L.) is a food crop with the largest planted area globally and one of the highest total yields worldwide. However, in recent years, deteriorating climate, increasing scarcity of freshwater resources, and rising land salinity have caused drought and salinity stress to be the two major factors that restrict crop growth, development, and yield, significantly affecting crop production and ecological sustainability.

Study on Differential Metabolite Active Ingredients in Maize Roots Based on Network Pharmacology and Metabolomics Analysis.

Maize is a globally important crop. Roots are the main part of maize and are mainly used for soil improvement and for maintaining crop growth as agricultural waste. Their application scope is relatively small.

Efficient Generation of Negative Hydrogen with Bimetallic-Ternary-Structured Catalysts for Nitrobenzene Hydrogenation.

Transition metal-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation (TH) with in situ negative hydrogen (H) has received extensive attention as an alternative to conventional high-pressure hydrogenation processes. However, the insufficient activity of hydrogen production and unclear the conversion process of hydrogenation remain a great challenge. In this work, brand new bimetallic ternary-structured catalysts (RuM-TiO, M=Co, Cu, Fe, Ni) were synthesized to efficiently generate H donors from ammonia borane (AB, NHBH) for nitrobenzene hydrogenation under moderate conditions.

Maize 4-coumarate coenzyme A ligase gene positively regulates drought stress response in .

Maize is a major food crop in China, and drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that threaten the growth and development of the crop, seriously affecting the crop yield. 4-coumaric acid coenzyme A ligase () is a key enzyme in the phenylpropane metabolic pathway, which can regulate the lignin content of the plant and play an important role in the plant's resistance to drought stress, plays an important role in plant resistance to drought stress. In the present study, we screened the differentially expressed up-regulated gene under drought stress by pre-transcriptome sequencing data (PRJNA793522) in the laboratory, and analyzed the significant up-regulation of gene in roots under drought stress by qRT-PCR(Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR).

The overexpression of 2 () gene improves drought tolerance in maize.

Unlabelled: Maize, a primary global food crop, is crucial for food security. In recent years, climatic and other abiotic stresses have led to frequent global droughts. Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) plays a vital role in the ascorbate-glutathione cycle.

miR166e/ZmATHB14 module contributes to drought tolerance in maize root.

MicroRNAs significantly influence abiotic stress responses. A species-conserved miRNA implicated in the response to abiotic stress is maize miR166. Therefore, it is unknown whether miR166e plays a role in maize roots' reaction to drought stress.

, a maize NF-Y transcription factor, positively regulates drought and salt stress response in .

Maize ( L.) is a major food and feed crop and an important raw material for energy, chemicals, and livestock. The NF-Y family of transcription factors in maize plays a crucial role in the regulation of plant development and response to environmental stress.

Regulates to Promote the Accumulation of Florigen and Accelerate Flowering.

Auxin response factors(ARFs) are a class of transcription factors that regulate the expression of auxin response genes and play a crucial role in plant growth and development. Florigen plays a crucial role in the process of flowering. However, the process by which auxin regulates the accumulation of florigen remains largely unclear.

Protocol for optimized nasal mucosa sample processing to obtain high-quality scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data.

Examining nasal mucosa samples is crucial for nasal cavity disease research and diagnosis. Simultaneously obtaining high-quality data for single-cell transcriptomics (single-cell RNA sequencing [scRNA-seq]) and epigenomics (single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing [scATAC-seq]) of nasal mucosa tissues is challenging. Here, we present a protocol for processing human nasal mucosa samples to obtain data for both scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq.

Efficient Hydrogen Generation from Ammonia Borane Hydrolysis on a Tandem Ruthenium-Platinum-Titanium Catalyst.

Hydrolysis of ammonia borane (NHBH, AB) involves multiple undefined steps and complex adsorption and activation, so single or dual sites are not enough to rapidly achieve the multi-step catalytic processes. Designing multi-site catalysts is necessary to enhance the catalytic performance of AB hydrolysis reactions but revealing the matching reaction mechanisms of AB hydrolysis is a great challenge. In this work, we propose to construct RuPt-Ti multi-site catalysts to clarify the multi-site tandem activation mechanism of AB hydrolysis.

Overexpression of soybean gene enhances drought resistance of transgenic .

Soybean is one of the important oil crops and a major source of protein and lipids. Drought can cause severe soybean yields. Dehydrin protein (DHN) is a subfamily of LEA proteins that play an important role in plant responses to abiotic stresses.

Cloning and functional analysis of ZmMADS42 gene in maize.

Maize ( L.) is the most important cereal crop in the world. Flowering period and photoperiod play important roles in the reproductive development of maize.

The Overexpression of Strigolactone Receptor Gene Enhances Drought Resistance in L.

Strigolactones (SLs) represent a recently identified class of plant hormones that are crucial for plant tillering and mycorrhizal symbiosis. The gene, an essential receptor within the SLs signaling pathway, has been well-examined in crops, like rice ( L.) and ( L.

Zmhdz9, an HD-Zip transcription factor, promotes drought stress resistance in maize by modulating ABA and lignin accumulation.

Maize is the largest crop in the world in terms of both planting area and total yield, and it plays a crucial role in ensuring global food and feed security. However, in recent years, with climate deterioration, environmental changes, and the scarcity of freshwater resources, drought has become a serious limiting factor for maize yield and quality. Drought stress-induced signals undergo a series of transmission processes to regulate the expression of specific genes, thereby affecting the drought tolerance of plants at the tissue, cellular, physiological and biochemical levels.

Why do Single-Atom Alloys Catalysts Outperform both Single-Atom Catalysts and Nanocatalysts on MXene?

Single-atom alloys (SAAs), combining the advantages of single-atom and nanoparticles (NPs), play an extremely significant role in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. Nevertheless, understanding the catalytic mechanism of SAAs in catalysis reactions remains a challenge compared with single atoms and NPs. Herein, ruthenium-nickel SAAs (RuNi ) synthesized by embedding atomically dispersed Ru in Ni NPs are anchored on two-dimensional Ti C T MXene.

Recent Advances and Perspectives on Supported Catalysts for Heterogeneous Hydrogen Production from Ammonia Borane.

Ammonia borane (AB), a liquid hydrogen storage material, has attracted increasing attention for hydrogen utilization because of its high hydrogen content. However, the slow kinetics of AB hydrolysis and the indefinite catalytic mechanism remain significant problems for its large-scale practical application. Thus, the development of efficient AB hydrolysis catalysts and the determination of their catalytic mechanisms are significant and urgent.

Overexpression of Enhances Cold Tolerance in Yeast and Arabidopsis.

Maize ( L.) originates from the subtropical region and is a warm-loving crop affected by low-temperature stress. Dehydrin (DHN) protein, a member of the Group 2 LEA (late embryogenesis abundant proteins) family, plays an important role in plant abiotic stress.

A Novel Senescence-Specific Gene () Negatively Regulates Darkness and Drought Responses in Maize.

The papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs) is a subfamily of cysteine proteases that plays an important role in leaf senescence, and some of its members are involved in the regulation of plant growth and development under stress. In this study, we cloned a new gene, , from maize. Expression profile analysis showed that was induced by darkness and drought treatments.

['s clinical experience in treatment of medulla oblongata paralysis with nape acupuncture].

This paper introduces -'s academic thought in treatment of medulla oblongata paralysis with acupuncture. Through analyzing the etiologies and locations of medulla oblongata paralysis, in accordance with "selecting the nearby acupoints of the affected area", the acupoints are selected from the nape region, the nape acupuncture therapy and the corresponding new points are developed. Based on the human anatomy of the nape region, the anatomic structures of new points (e.