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Plants employ both direct and indirect defense mechanisms to combat herbivorous insects, with volatile emissions playing a critical role in attracting natural enemies of pests. This study investigates the effects of Atailing, a plant immunity inducer, on rice () defenses against the striped stem borer (, SSB). Behavioral assays revealed that Atailing-treated rice plants significantly enhanced (the major egg parasitoid of ) attraction, increasing oviposition parasitism rates (direct, 94.7%; indirect, 131.1%), confirming indirect defense as an active strategy induced by Atailing. GC-MS analysis identified six key functional compounds that significantly attract . Chemical and biological assays demonstrated that the concentrations of salicylic acid (SA) and trypsin inhibitors (TrypPIs) were significantly increased by 30.1% and 13.2%, respectively. These findings highlight the potential of Atailing in modulating volatile emissions to attract natural enemies and provide evidence of its potential as a sustainable pest management tool.
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Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
September 2025
Education and Research Department, Isokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Bologna, Italy.
Purpose: To describe the mechanisms, situational patterns, biomechanics and neurocognitive errors related ankle sprain injuries of professional male football players during match play.
Methods: There were 166 consecutive ankle sprain injuries identified occurring during official matches in players of top European football leagues. One hundred and forty (84%) injury videos were analysed for mechanism and situational pattern, with biomechanics on 20 players.
Front Vet Sci
August 2025
Vasco da Gama Research Center/Vasco da Gama University School, Coimbra, Portugal.
Bovine besnoitiosis is a parasitic disease caused by the parasite . It was classified as an emerging disease by EFSA in 2010, due to the appearance of new cases in several European countries. The clinical presentation can be acute or chronic, but most animals remain asymptomatic, acting as reservoirs.
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September 2025
Department of International Business Administration, Chinese Culture University, 55 Hwa-Kang Road, Yang-Ming-Shan, Taipei City 111, Taiwan. Electronic address:
In an era where negative word-of-mouth escalates and spreads rapidly on social media, understanding the psychological mechanisms of brand defense is of critical importance. Expanding on literature that establishes brand love as a strong predictor of pro-brand behaviors in offline settings, this study investigates the psychological process that transforms this emotion into defensive behaviors in the high-visibility and high-risk environment of social media. This study advances and tests a moderated mediation model, specifying that customer brand engagement (CBE) mediates the brand love-brand defense relationship.
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September 2025
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
pose a significant health risk to military working dogs (MWDs), and these zoonotic organisms may also cause disease in humans. According to the U.S.
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September 2025
Red de Interacciones Multitróficas, Instituto de Ecología A. C., Xalapa, Veracruz, México.
Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) are specialized plant glands that secrete nectar but are not related to pollination. Several ants feed on EFNs and, in exchange, they often attack herbivores, reducing the consumption of leaf tissue and floral parts, and enhancing plant performance. Although most empirical studies and reviews have demonstrated that ant visitation benefits EFN-bearing plants, many others have failed to show ants as protective partners.
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