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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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Morphological characterization of insect galls and new records of associated invertebrates in a Cerrado area in Bahia State, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018
In this study, we report the first records and morphological characterization of galls in a Cerrado area in western Bahia, Brazil. The data were collected monthly over two hours between March and September 2015.
V. P. Lima, D. Calado
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Apoptotic neurodegeneration in whitefly promotes the spread of TYLCV

eLife, 2020
The mechanism by which plant viruses manipulate the behavior of insect vectors has largely been described as indirect manipulation through modifications of the host plant.
Shifan Wang, Huijuan Guo, Feng Ge, Yucheng Sun   +3 more
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Endogenous resistance to insect pests in alfalfa: engineering for enhanced resistance [PDF]

, 1997
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a valuable forage crop grown throughout the World. While the crop is resistant to attack by many insect pests, it is subject to potentially severe losses through the action of several specific pests, which are adapted to ...
Mazahery-Laghab, Hojjatollah, Mazahery-Laghab, H.   +1 more
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Ionic Gating of Liquid‐Crystal‐Like Pteridine Assemblies Enables Tunable Light Scattering

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Tunable optical properties emerge through developmentally regulated ionic gating, which transforms disordered, ultraviolet (UV)‐absorbing organelles into concentrically ordered, liquid‐crystal‐like light scatterers. By integrating analyses of pteridine composition, potassium‐dependent assembly, hierarchical ultrastructure, and optical behavior, the ...
Sourabh Bera, Zohar Eyal, Yael Noy, Yuval Barzilay, Siddharth Sahoo, Srikant Moharana, Avi Baram, Tali Lerer‐Goldshtein, Neta Varsano, Bar Bader, Lothar Houben, Uwe Heinig, Iddo Pinkas, Moshe Goldsmith, Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Andrea Sorrentino, Maxim Itkin, Sergey Malitsky, Ziv Porat, Ido Hadar, Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Dvir Gur   +22 more
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Infochemical use in Brassica-insect interactions : a phenotypic manipulation approach to induced plant defences [PDF]

, 2008
Plants have developed a range of strategies to defend themselves against herbivore attack. Defences can be constitutive, i.e. always present independent of attack, or induced, i.e. only elicited when the plant is under attack.
Bruinsma, M.
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Performance of generalist and specialist herbivores and their endoparasitoids differs on cultivated and wild Brassica populations [PDF]

, 2008
Through artificial selection, domesticated plants often contain modified levels of primary and secondary metabolites compared to their wild progenitors.
Harvey, Jeffrey A., Marcel Dicke, Dicke, M., James M. Bullock, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Van Dam, N.M., Dicke, Marcel, Bullock, James M., Gols, R., van Dam, Nicole, Bukovinszky, Tibor, Dam, N.M. van, Nicole M. van Dam, Tibor Bukovinszky, Gols, Rieta, Harvey, J.A., Gols, G.J.Z., Bullock, J.M., Rieta Gols, Bukovinszky, T., Dam, N.M., van   +20 more
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Dental Microwear Texture Analysis on Radular Teeth

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
3D microwear textures reveal how gastropod radular teeth respond to controlled abrasive contact. Distinct surface signatures distinguish regular abrasion from fracture‐dominated material removal, showing how mineralized coatings, fibrous cores, and substrate properties jointly shape wear and failure in a biological scraping interface.
Wencke Krings, Stanislav N. Gorb, Ellen Schulz‐Kornas   +2 more
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Diversity of galls induced by wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) associated with oaks (Fagaceae: Quercus) in Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2017
Background. Gall-inducing insects make up a guild of highly specialized endophagous herbivores. The cynipids (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) are highly diversified gall-inducing wasps that are largely associated with oaks (Fagaceae: Quercus).
Enrique Pascual-Alvarado, José Luis Nieves-Aldrey, Douhglas Eliseo Castillejos-Lemus, Pablo Cuevas-Reyes, Ken Oyama   +4 more
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Adsorbent Materials for Hydrocarbons Removal by Geopolymerization of Halloysite Clay Nanotubes Filled Within Chitosan Matrix

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Alkaline activation of halloysite clay nanotubes embedded in a chitosan matrix converts bionanocomposite films into porous geopolymeric materials with enhanced adsorption capacity toward hydrocarbons in both vapor and aqueous phases. The improved adsorption performance was demonstrated by the efficient capture of dodecane vapors and phenol from water ...
Alessandro Lo Bianco, Marta Giuseppina Ebbreo, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Martina Maria Calvino, Yafei Zhao, Simonpietro Agnello, Giuseppe Lazzara   +6 more
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