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Dual Disruption of the Immune Cytokine Spätzle Facilitates Fungal Infection of Diverse Insect Hosts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Toll pathway is essential for insect defense against fungal pathogens. This works reports that fungal parasites employ two divergent virulent effectors to target the Toll receptor ligand Spätzle: a metalloprotease degrading it and a hairpin‐like effector hijacking it to block signal transduction. This dual strategy enables the fungus to kill a wide
Shuangxiu Song, Shiqin Li, Yujuan Luo, Dongxiang Wei, Junmei Shang, Hongyun Wu, Gangqi Fang, Chengshu Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Cyanobacterial Exopolysaccharides in Phototrophic Biofilms and in Complex Microbial Mats

Life, 2015
Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are an important class of biopolymers with great ecological importance. In natural environments, they are a common feature of microbial biofilms, where they play key protective and structural roles.
Federico Rossi, Roberto De Philippis
doaj   +1 more source

Hump‐Shaped Relationship Between Microbial Carbon Use‐Efficiency and Soil Organic Carbon in Alpine Grasslands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
On the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) peaks at intermediate soil organic carbon levels and declines thereafter. In carbon‐rich soils, the formation of stable mineral‐associated organic carbon is decoupled from microbial CUE.
Yuting Wang, Yongneng Wei, Gangsheng Wang, Yang Ruan, Ling Li, Xiang Liu, Yunfeng Yang, Qirong Shen, Ning Ling   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary Divergence of an Ethylene‐Responsive Transcriptional Cascade Governs a Dose‐Dependent Balance between Cotton Fiber Length and Strength

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A tunable, ethylene‐responsive cascade governing the dose‐dependent balance between fiber length and strength is unveiled. Elevated ethylene strengthens modern tetraploid cotton (G. hirsutum) fibers but elongates those of its diploid ancestor (G. arboreum). This phenotypic switch is traced to an evolutionary functional inversion of a conserved EIN3‐ERF‐
Jie Zhang, Mengli Yu, Yuling Guo, Jie Li, Gailing Gu, Ghulam Hussain, Shuya Ma, Fuguang Li, Hongwei Xue, Zhaoen Yang, Zuoren Yang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Certain Weather, Biotic Factors and Chemical Components on The population of Aphids in Egyptian Wheat Fields. [PDF]

, 2022
A. El-Dessouki, Mohsena Mansour, Nevein Eryan   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
SynComs are artificially designed to enable inter‐species metabolic interactions, metabolic division of labor, and ecological interactions that can elicit phenotypes like colonization stability and environmental adaptation. This systematic review explores the processes used to construct SynComs, the assessment of the mechanisms of metabolic interaction
Yuxiao Zhang, Minyu Jing, Lihui Lyu, Li Nie, Xihui Xu, Ru Sun, Xiyuan Xu, Siyu Chen, Shuobing He, Yumeng Zhang, Ping Huang, Weijie Luo, Jiaojiao Liang, Guifeng Gao, Kunkun Fan, Teng Yang, Liyan Zhang, Xiao Fu, Sarah M. Allard, Jack A. Gilbert, Jiabao Zhang, Haiyan Chu   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal distribution of the benthic macrofauna in an urbanized subtropical estuary: environmental variations and anthropogenic impacts

Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
This study was conducted in the Itajaí-Açu river lower estuary in Southern Brazil, in which we aimed to: (1) analyze spatiotemporal variations on the macrofauna; (2) search for relationships between environmental variables and the assembly and (3 ...
Pedro Rocha Mattos, Tito César Marques de Almeida   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Disturbance on Soil Respiration in Biologically Crusted Soil during the Dry Season

The Scientific World Journal, 2013
Soil respiration (Rs) is a major pathway for carbon cycling and is a complex process involving abiotic and biotic factors. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are a key biotic component of desert ecosystems worldwide.
Wei Feng, Yu-qing Zhang, Bin Wu, Tian-shan Zha, Xin Jia, Shu-gao Qin, Chen-xi Shao, Jia-bin Liu, Zong-rui Lai, Ke-yu Fa   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring agronomic diversity and disease tolerance in soybeans to combat Cowpea mild mottle virus [PDF]

Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The yield of soybeans is affected by the performance of agronomic traits and the presence of abiotic and biotic environmental stresses.
H. Kuswantoro, S. Zubaidah, E. Uge, K. Rozana, P. Purwantoro, J. Purnomo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms of Direct Electron Transfer Governed by Redox‐Active Conductive Carrier with Superior Wettability in Anaerobic Biofilms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A redox‐active conductive carrier of tannic acid‐modified iron‐biochar with superior wettability is demonstrated to regulate direct electron transfer at the anaerobic biofilm‐carrier interface by enhancing the cytochrome c‐mediated pathway. For the first time, integrated evidence from spectroscopy, electrochemical analyses, and metatranscriptomics ...
Junli Tian, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Lulu Xing, Bin Ji, Jinfeng Lu, Yu Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source