Over-compensation of the native herb Qiai (Artemisia argyi var. argyi cv. Qiai) to infection with alien field dodder (Cuscuta campestris).

Compensatory growth of crops is argued to alleviate detrimental parasitic effects. Cuscuta campestris causes severe crop losses worldwide, and is the most important parasitic weed. In a two-year consecutive field investigation, C.

Construction of Local-Ion Trap in Phase-Reversed Mixed Matrix COF Membranes for Ultrahigh Ion Selectivity.

Artificial molecular/ion traps afford grand potential in membrane-based separation processes. However, the existing trap-based architectures often confer over-strong binding forces, which severely impede the release of bound solutes during their transmembrane diffusion processes. Herein, we propose an unprecedented local-ion trap bearing moderate binding force and additional repulsion force in a type of phase-reversed mixed matrix covalent organic framework (PRCOF) membrane.

Fully Tensorized Lightweight ConvLSTM Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification.

Convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) possesses a remarkable capability of encoding spatial information and capturing long-range dependencies in sequential data. As a result, ConvLSTM has garnered success in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Nonetheless, the design of the special gate structures and convolution operations contributes to a high model complexity, making it challenging to deploy in resource-constrained environments.

Identification of ClpB, a molecular chaperone involved in the stress tolerance and virulence of Streptococcus agalactiae.

Bacterial ClpB is an ATP-dependent disaggregate that belongs to the Hsp100/Clp family and facilitates bacterial survival under hostile environmental conditions. Streptococcus agalactiae, which is regarded as the major bacterial pathogen of farmed Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), is known to cause high mortality and large economic losses. Here, we report a ClpB homologue of S.

Targeting presynaptic H3 heteroreceptor in nucleus accumbens to improve anxiety and obsessive-compulsive-like behaviors.

Anxiety commonly co-occurs with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Both of them are closely related to stress. However, the shared neurobiological substrates and therapeutic targets remain unclear.

[New Research of Nerve Growth Factor on Fracture Healing].

Fracture healing has long been a major concern for orthopedists.Currently,about 10% of fracture patients still have poor fracture healing or bone nonunion.In recent years,research has found that nerve growth factor(NGF)can promote fracture healing.

Gonadal transcriptome analysis of hybrid triploid loaches (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) and their diploid and tetraploid parents.

Hybrid triploid loaches (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) were generated from natural tetraploid and diploid loaches. We studied the gonads of parents and offspring from direct and reciprocal crosses through histological and transcriptome analyses. The triploid offspring had inferior ability to form sperm and egg cells compared with diploid forms.

Aneuploid progenies of triploid hybrids between diploid and tetraploid loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus in China.

Triploid Chinese loach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, hybrids between tetraploids from Hubei Province and diploids from Liaoning Province were mated with either diploid wild-type or triploid hybrids to analyze viability and ploidy of the resultant progenies. Both triploid males and females generated fertile gametes, but progenies from the crosses using gametes of triploid hybrids did not survive beyond the larval stages. In crosses between wild-type diploid females and triploid hybrid males, embryos ranging from 2.

Analysis of Different Ploidy and Parent-Offspring Genomic DNA Methylation in the Loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus.

In this study, we selected natural polyploidy loach (diploid, triploid and tetraploid) and hybrid F₁ generation obverse cross (4 × 2) and inverse cross (2 × 4) by diploids and tetraploids as the research model. The MSAP (methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism) reaction system was established by our laboratory to explore methylation levels and pattern diversification features at the whole genome level of the polyploidy loach. The results showed that the total methylation and full methylation rates decreased on increased ploidy individuals; moreover, the hemimethylation rate showed no consistent pattern.

[Feeding habitats and trophic levels of Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye in Liaodong Bay based on analyzing carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes.].

By using stable isotope techniques, we analyzed the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye and its potential feed materials in Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea, aiming to identify potential food sources and trophic levels of R. esculentum . The results showed that the δC and δN values for R.

[Advance in studies on Aconitum traditional Chinese medicines in toxicokinetics and metabonomics].

Aconitum, as a kind of common traditional Chinese medicine, contains multiple biological active substances, with a very high medicinal value but high toxicity. Its major toxic ingredients are aconitine, mesaconitine and hypaconitine, which are also efficient ingredients. Therefore, the safety of its clinical application has aroused wide attention.