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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Sustainable and Multifunctional Natural Macromolecular Polymers for Aqueous Zn Metal Batteries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We comprehensively review the structure‐function relationships and regulatory mechanism of natural macromolecular polymers in stabilizing zinc anodes at the microscopic and mesoscopic scales. The interactions among polymer structures, optimization strategies, and regulatory mechanisms are discussed systematically summarizing recent related research ...
Yunuo Shi, Bo Jiang, Jingcheng Zhang, Xiaodong Shao, Peixun Xiong, Lutong Shan, Shengyang Huang, Mengfang Liang, Mengyao Chang, Fangyan Liu, Wenwu Li, Baoyu Xia, Wei Ji, Ho Seok Park   +13 more
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A Quadruple Mutant of OsPRP1 Controls Pollen Fertility by Regulating the Expression of Anther Development-Related Genes in Oryza sativa L.

Agronomy
Plant proline-rich proteins (PRPs) are cell wall proteins that are widely distributed in plants. Previous studies have shown that these proteins play a crucial role in adversity stress processes, but their function in the regulation of pollen fertility ...
Mudan Qiu, Zhongxiao Hu, Bin Li, Shufeng Song, Yixing Li, Lei Li, Mengmeng Gong, Jianlong Wang, Li Li   +8 more
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Polyphenol‐Inspired Materials for Agricultural Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines the use of polyphenol‐inspired materials for sustainable agriculture, highlighting their molecular design, interfacial assembly, structure–property relationships, and prospects toward precision agriculture, climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and circular bioeconomy strategies.
Haofu Liu, Omid Mazaheri, Zhixing Lin, Tianzheng Wang, Jingqu Chen, Yuang Gu, Xia Liang, Deli Chen, Frank Caruso   +8 more
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Defect‐Templated Phase Engineering in Atomically Thin Metals

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Graphene defects are transformed from passive imperfections into programmable templates for phase‐selective growth of atomically thin silver. Plasma‐generated boundary defects favor Ag(1), whereas sp3‐rich zero‐layer graphene promotes Ag(2). This defect‐directed intercalation links local graphene chemistry to crystalline phase, electronic structure ...
Arpit Jain, Boyang Zheng, Sawani Datta, Kanchan Ulman, Jakob Henz, Matthew Wei‐Jun Liu, Van Dong Pham, Wen He, Chengye Dong, Li‐Syuan Lu, Alexander Vera, Nader Sawtarie, Wesley Auker, Ke Wang, Bob Hengstebeck, Zachary W. Henshaw, Shreya Mathela, Maxwell Wetherington, William H. Blades, Kenneth Knappenberger, Ursula Wurstbauer, Su Ying Quek, Ulrich Starke, Shengxi Huang, Vincent H. Crespi, Joshua A. Robinson   +25 more
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Clone and characterization of a cytochrome P450 gene for drought tolerance in rice

BMC Plant Biology
Background Drought is a major abiotic stress limiting rice production worldwide. Identifying genes that enhance drought tolerance is essential for breeding resilient varieties.
Wenqiang Liu, Zuwu Chen, Zheng Dong, Liang Guo, Biaoren Yang, Licheng Liu, Sanxiong Liu, Xiaowu Pan   +7 more
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Salivary Protein 1 of Brown Planthopper Is Required for Survival and Induces Immunity Response in Plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens Stål, is one of the major pests of rice. It uses its stylet to penetrate rice phloem, feeding on rice sap and causing direct damage to rice or even plant death.
Jin Huang, Ning Zhang, Junhan Shan, Yaxin Peng, Jianping Guo, Cong Zhou, Shaojie Shi, Xiaohong Zheng, Di Wu, Wei Guan, Ke Yang, Bo Du, Lili Zhu, Longping Yuan, Guangcun He, Rongzhi Chen   +15 more
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
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Sprouting Enhances Submergence Tolerance in Rice by Promoting Glutathione Biosynthesis and Turnover

Antioxidants
Submergence stress is a major constraint in direct-seeded rice production. This study investigated the effect and biochemical mechanism of sprouting, a traditional agronomic practice, on improving submergence tolerance in rice.
Mei Wang, Na Kuang, Ziyi Mao, Shangfeng Zhou, Zhixuan Liu, Ke Chen, Licheng Liu, Jingbo Xu, Lifeng Wang, Haoyu Lu   +9 more
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DNA methylation and lipid metabolism are involved in GA-induced maize aleurone layers PCD as revealed by transcriptome analysis

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background The aleurone layer is a part of many plant seeds, and during seed germination, aleurone cells undergo PCD, which is promoted by GA from the embryo.
Yequn Wu, Jiaqi Hou, Ruifei Ren, Zhenfei Chen, Mengxia Yue, Le Li, Haoli Hou, Xueke Zheng, Lijia Li   +8 more
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