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Bistable Networks Enable Complex Shape Changes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Transition‐controlled metamaterials are networks of bistable mechanical memory that store local binary states and express them as global shape change. By decoupling low‐force programming from high‐force holding, a single lattice is reconfigured into distinct 2D profiles and 3D surfaces without continuous actuation, enabling reusable morphing materials ...
Sawyer Thomas, Jeffrey Lipton
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Water and Nitrogen Use Strategies and Their Influencing Mechanisms in Typical Desert Shrubs of the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China

Plants
Desert plants develop unique functional traits and resource utilization strategies under environmental stress, among which, water and nitrogen utilization strategies are the key resource utilization strategies for desert plants.
Yunhao Zhao, Hui Chen
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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new Myxococcota genomes and revise taxonomy quadrupling the number of families and genera.
Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Ronald Garcia, Guangyi Chen, Chantal D. Bader, Peter Sullivan, Alexander Popoff, Daniel Krug, Maja Hunter, Sebastian Walesch, Emilia Oueis, Christine Frank, Haowen Zhao, Joachim J. Hug, Sebastian Keller, Pascal Hirsch, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Tatiana Malygina, Mary Victory E. Gutierrez, Alexey Gurevich, Judith Boldt, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann, Ulrich Nübel, Andreas Keller, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller   +25 more
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Plant functional groups modulate variation and covariation in leaf and seed traits across years

BMC Plant Biology
Leaf and seed traits are key determinants of plant growth and reproduction, mediating how plants respond to environmental change. Leaf and seed traits can also covary. For example, species with larger seeds tend to have larger leaves.
Changxing Fu, Gaohua Fan, Heqi Wang, Congwen Wang, Yingxin Huang, Paul L. Drake   +5 more
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The Landscape of Long Non‐Coding RNAs Provides Insights Into the Domestication and Improvement of Pear Fruit

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals that long non‐coding RNAs represent important regulatory components underlying pear domestication and improvement. Integrative multi‐omics analyses identify selected lncRNAs associated with fruit traits, while functional validation uncovers a lignin‐related lncRNA, lncRNA‐pys, that promotes lignin accumulation.
Bobo Song, Peilin Han, Jiaming Li, Xiaolong Li, Xiang Zhang, Jing Fan, Dongliang Liu, Jianfa Cai, Lingchao Zhang, Jun Wu   +9 more
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Conditionally Significant eQTL and TWAS Analyses Identify MsRD26 as a Major Candidate Positive Regulator of Salt Tolerance in Medicago sativa L

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Salt stress significantly impacts plant growth. Through population transcriptome, eQTL and TWAS analyses, we identified several candidate genes potentially associated with salt stress response. Functional assays suggested that some of these genes may contribute to salt tolerance.
Lin Chen, Yuqi Zhang, Xinyue Ma, Jinpeng Bi, Fei He, Li Zhao, Haiyue Lei, Zhengqin Xiao, Xue Wang, Tiejun Zhang, Ruicai Long, Junmei Kang, Qingchuan Yang   +12 more
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Latitudinal and climate effects on key plant traits in Chinese forest ecosystems

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
s: A long-standing goal of ecology and forest management is to understand the environmental controls of resource utilization strategy of plants along geographical gradients.
Xing Zhang, Xin He, Jie Gao, Lei Wang
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Investigations of the Evolved Molecular Basis for Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Marine Sponges

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Confirming and extending a previous observation in another Bubarida sponge, genomic and functional analyses of A. cavernosa reveal that sponges retain the mevalonate pathway and employ single α‐domain T1TSs and UbiA‐type TSs for terpenoid biosynthesis. The absence of T1TSs clustering with other biosynthetic genes tentatively suggests, based on limited ...
Fangyan Chen, Bao Chen, Wenhui Zhang, Guifang Sun, Yao Zhao, Jianpeng Zhang, Baofu Xu   +6 more
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Variations and trade-offs in leaf and culm functional traits among 77 woody bamboo species

BMC Plant Biology
Background Woody bamboos are the only diverse large perennial grasses in mesic-wet forests and are widely distributed in the understory and canopy. The functional trait variations and trade-offs in this taxon remain unclear due to woody bamboo syndromes (
Xiong Liu, Shixing Zhou, Junxi Hu, Xingcheng Zou, Liehua Tie, Ying Li, Xinglei Cui, Congde Huang, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas   +9 more
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Effects of Doping, Disorder, and Compensation on Electron Conduction in Si‐Doped k‐Ga2O3 Close to the Metal‐to‐Insulator Transition

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐compensation effects attributed to doping‐dependent shift‐defects at APBs Validation of Hall data for VRH transport near the MIT Persistence of VRH transport for any SiH4 flow in Si‐doped κ‐Ga2O3 due to high compensation coupling transport and EPR data as strategy to study electronic properties and doping T‐dependence of transport data agrees with
Antonella Parisini, Hans Jürgen von Bardeleben, Ildicò Cora, Zsolt Fogarassy, Paola Alippi, Vincenzo Fiorentini, Ian Vickridge, Piero Mazzolini, Alessio Bosio, Roberto Fornari   +9 more
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