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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the maize ZmWOX gene family reveal its critical role in callus formation

BMC Genomics
Background WUS (WUSCHEL) is a homeobox transcription factor that serves as a key regulator in maintaining stem cells in an undifferentiated state. Plant stem cells possess the capacity for continuous division and differentiation, making them ideal ...
Wei Hu, Xia Hua, Qi Cheng, Mingle Wang, Xinyan Sun, Dan Wang, Meichen Zhu, Cuiping Xin, Wenbo Yang, Yanyong Cao   +9 more
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Effects of Different Altitudes on Coffea arabica Rhizospheric Soil Chemical Properties and Soil Microbiota

Agronomy, 2023
Coffee is one of the most valuable agricultural commodities worldwide, second only to oil in terms of international trade. Coffea arabica L. is a widely cultivated and economically important crop that is responsible for about 90% of the global production
Yu Ge, Fengying Zhang, Chun Xie, Peng Qu, Kuaile Jiang, Huabo Du, Meng Zhao, Yunfeng Lu, Butian Wang, Xuedong Shi, Xuejun Li, Chuanli Zhang   +11 more
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
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Identification and characterization of the DREB family in Chinese yam and functional study of DoDREB28 under drought stress

BMC Plant Biology
Background Dehydration responsive element-binding protein (DREB) serves as a core transcriptional regulator of abiotic stress responses, yet a systematic DREB gene locus map has not been established for Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita). Given Chinese yam’
Qiang Zhang, Wenxin Wei, Shuhong Guo, Yaoqin Wang, Shuaishuai Pei, Changjuan Wu, Qiubao Wang, Xianqiang Zuo, Hongling Tian   +8 more
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THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN SELECTEDEUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES [PDF]

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2017
The objective of the study was to compare the productivity of horticultural farms in Poland and selected EU countrieswith the highest horticultural production, ie France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Italy.
Liliana Jabłońska, Lidia Gunerka, Tadeusz Filipiak   +2 more
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Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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The complete chloroplast genome sequence of medicinal plant Alpinia chinensis (Retz.) Rosc

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
Alpinia chinensis (Retz.) Rosc is one of Chinese tradition herbal medicine and edible plant in China. In this report, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of A. chinensis.
Yu Mei, Shike Cai, Shiqiang Xu, Yan Gu, Fang Zhou, Jihua Wang   +5 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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Identification and functional analysis of GmPsaL regulating pod color in vegetable soybean

BMC Plant Biology
Background Vegetable soybean is rich in nutrients and has a unique flavor. It is highly preferred by people because of its pharmacological activities, including those that regulate the intestines and lower blood pressure.
Dongqing Dai, Lu Huang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Jinyang Liu, Xingxing Yuan, Xin Chen, Chenchen Xue   +7 more
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