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Paternal Exposure to the Neonicotinoid Pesticide Clothianidin Alters Sperm MicroRNA Profiles in Mice and Intergenerationally Reduces Locomotor Activity in Male Offspring

Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Accumulating evidence suggests that paternal environmental factors have epigenetic effects on sperm and influence offspring. Neonicotinoid pesticides (NNs), which are widely used around the world, are known to affect offspring phenotypes through maternal exposure in mice, but the effect of the paternal exposure remains unknown.
Makiko Ito, Tetsushi Hirano, Sarika Nunobiki, Ayano Yoshimoto, Yukako Hara, Yuya Ishida, Sakura Yonoichi, Youhei Mantani, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Yoshiaki Tabuchi, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Nobuhiko Hoshi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calcium signaling in plant defense

New Plant Protection, EarlyView.
Calcium signaling acts as a central hub in plant immunity, translating pathogen perception into defense responses. This review highlights the channels, sensors, and signaling networks involved, and discusses how pathogens subvert calcium dynamics, as well as how this knowledge may inspire innovative strategies for engineering durable crop resistance ...
Lifan Sun, Yu Wang, Jie Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Regulatory mechanisms of reproduction in locusts and grasshoppers

New Plant Protection, EarlyView.
Regulatory networks composed of numerous coding and noncoding genes play crucial roles in the reproduction of locusts and grasshoppers. This review integrates mechanistic advances in reproductive regulation, highlighting environmentally adaptive pathways and providing prospective targets for eco‐friendly pesticides.
Jing He, Jiliang Wang, Xinran Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Plasmodesmata‐located proteins: The molecular hubs in noncell‐autonomous immunity

New Plant Protection, EarlyView.
Plasmodesmata serve as critical battlefields for plant immunity, regulated by diverse proteins. This article provides a comprehensive review of the regulatory mechanisms, challenges, and future directions concerning proteins located within plasmodesmata and their roles in plant defense responses.
Zheng Wu, Xiaoyi Shan
wiley   +1 more source

Low Caffeine Concentrations Induce Callus and Direct Organogenesis in Tissue Cultures of Ornithogalum dubium

Plants
Caffeine is a nitrogenous base that naturally occurs in coffee (Cafea arabica), tea (Thea sinensis), and cocoa (Theobroma cacao). Chemically, caffeine is 1,3,5-trimethylxanthine, a purine analogue.
Carloalberto Petti
doaj   +1 more source

Defense heterosis as a novel plant protection strategy: From theory to breeding practice

New Plant Protection, EarlyView.
Defense heterosis, the enhanced disease resistance of hybrids compared to their parents, has evolved from early observations of hybrid vigor to a novel research concept. Advances are now clarifying its diverse genetic and molecular mechanisms across various plant–pathogen interactions.
Kaiqi Xu, Xue Li, Fangfang Li
wiley   +1 more source

Juvenile hormone‐mediated accelerated post‐flight recovery of ovarian development in Loxostege sticticalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

New Plant Protection, EarlyView.
Flight in female beet webworms (Loxostege sticticalis) promotes an increase in feeding, thereby enhancing abdominal energy reserves. Following flight, the flight muscles undergo accelerated histolysis, and the energy substances undergoing histolysis are redirected to the ovaries. These two processes collectively promote ovarian development.
Yu Gao, Yunxia Cheng, Wenyi Song, Lei Zhang, Dianjie Xie, Xingfu Jiang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using a social‐ecological macrosystems framework to understand how human activities alter ecological synchrony

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or ...
Yiluan Song, Mallory Barnes, K. Ann Bybee‐Finley, Kyla M. Dahlin, Travis McDevitt‐Galles, Stephan B. Munch, Guillermo E. Ponce‐Campos, Casey Youngflesh, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Kai Zhu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hurdles to overcome to achieve biostimulant‐driven, low chemical input crop production

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop production requires considerable chemical inputs that result in significant greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental costs. Biostimulants are natural agents, such as microorganisms or seaweed, applied to plants and soil to stimulate plant growth and reduce chemical inputs. Biostimulant use is rapidly increasing globally, but hurdles remain,
Wolfram Buss, Katharina Belt, Zaw Hein, Arumdriya Putri, Shuoyang Zhu, Hana Suwandari, Alison R. Bentley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incorporating soil biological and functional attributes to advance ecological restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction crisis, predominantly driven by anthropogenic activities, with land use change causing widespread loss and degradation of native ecosystems and indigenous species. There is an urgent need to halt this trend and restore degraded habitat to preserve biodiversity and protect threatened plants and animals ...
Uffe N. Nielsen, Dylan Bristol, Chongzhe Zhang, Paola Raupp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source