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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
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Differential UVR8 Signal across the Stem Controls UV-B–Induced Inflorescence Phototropism

The Plant Cell, 2019
Unilateral UV-B exposure leads to differential UVR8 signal across Arabidopsis inflorescence stems, which is essential for UV-B–induced inflorescence phototropism.
L. Vanhaelewyn, A. Viczián, E. Prinsen, Péter Bernula, A. Serrano, M. V. Arana, C. Ballaré, F. Nagy, D. Van Der Straeten, F. Vandenbussche   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Functional Analysis of MAX2 in Phototropins-Mediated Cotyledon Flattening in Arabidopsis

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Phototropins (phot1 and phot2) are blue-light receptors that control cotyledon flattening and positioning under strong light; however, their functional redundancy restricts our understanding of the specific roles of phot2.
Qing-Ping Zhao, Xiao-Nan Wang, Nan-Nan Li, Zi-Yi Zhu, Shi-Chao Mu, Xiang Zhao, Xiao Zhang   +6 more
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Artificial Phototropic Systems for Enhanced Light Harvesting Based on a Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
Oblique‐incidence‐induced energy‐density loss (OEL) is a universal problem which affects nearly all processes involving electromagnetic waves, especially sunlight harvesting.
Yichen Yan, Yusen Zhao, Yousif Alsaid, Bowen Yao, Yucheng Zhang, Shuwang Wu, Ximin He   +6 more
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From LiDAR point clouds to 3D tree morphometrics: New approach to quantitatively evaluate tree shapes

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree crowns are complex, three‐dimensional structures whose morphology varies among species, individuals and environments. Although light detection and ranging (LiDAR) provides high‐resolution, single‐tree point clouds that advance species discrimination and the assessment of intraspecific variation in situ, crown shape is still commonly ...
Ladislav Hodač, Tristan Nauber, Jana Wäldchen, Kevin Karbstein, Anton Wetzel, Patrick Mäder   +5 more
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Cryptochrome‐mediated hypocotyl phototropism was regulated antagonistically by gibberellic acid and sucrose in Arabidopsis

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2019
Both phototropins (phot1 and phot2) and cryptochromes (cry1 and cry2) were proven as the Arabidopsis thaliana blue light receptors. Phototropins predominately function in photomovement, and cryptochromes play a role in photomorphogenesis.
Qingping Zhao, Jin-Dong Zhu, Nan-Nan Li, Xiao-Nan Wang, Xiang Zhao, Xiao Zhang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Proprioception drives tension wood formation for autotropic straightening and postural control in trees

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Proprioception controls trunk straightness in trees through opposite tension wood formation. A spherical growth chamber (a), combined with a two‐dimensional rotating clinostat (b2), suppresses gravi‐ and phototropic sensing. The tree is first tilted horizontally (b1), triggering upward gravitropic bending, actuated by tension wood formation on the ...
Alexandre Caulus, Félix P. Hartmann, Éric Badel, Stéphane Ploquin, Nicole Brunel‐Michac, Julien Ruelle, Mélanie Decourteix, Bruno Moulia   +7 more
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Carotenoid‐Rich Pigment Extract From Micrococcus terreus SK34 Induces Apoptosis in SH‐SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells: Integrated Metabolomic, Molecular Docking, and Experimental Validation

MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 15, Issue 5, October 2026.
Carotenoid extract from Micrococcus terreus SK34 was characterized by LC‐Q‐TOF‐MS and evaluated for its in vitro anticancer potential. The extract exhibited selective cytotoxicity against different cancer cell lines, particularly neuroblastoma cells (SH‐SY5Y), while sparing normal cells.
Sinem Ilayda Karaagac, Seyda Albayrak, Azizeh ShadiDizaji, Muhammet Enes Kiziler, Elvan Eroglu, Nazli Pinar Arslan, Mesut Taskin   +6 more
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