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Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Functional turnover from lowland to montane forests: evidence from the Hyrcanian forest in northern Iran

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2015
Plant functional traits and functional diversity play key roles in ecosystem functioning. Exploring patterns of functional diversity is of great importance in the management process of forest ecosystems.
Jafari Seyed M, Zarre S, Alavipanah Seyed K, Ghahremaninejad F   +3 more
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Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Significance Biologists have long understood that differences between species in traits such as bill shape or rooting depth can maintain diversity in communities by promoting specialization and reducing competition. Here we test the assumption that phenotypic differences drive the stabilizing niche differences that promote coexistence.
Kraft NJ, Godoy O, Levine JM
openaire   +4 more sources

Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands [PDF]

, 2020
Plants have developed a suite of traits to survive the anaerobic and anoxic soil conditions in wetlands. Previous studies on wetland plant adaptive traits have focused mainly on physiological aspects under experimental conditions, or compared the trait ...
Clarkson, Bev, Colmer, Tim, Ellen Cieraad, Beverley R. Clarkson, Clarkson, Beverley R., Clarkson, B.R., Colmer, Timothy D., Colmer, T.D., Voesenek, L.A.C.J., Pan, Yingji, Colmer, T., Visser, E.J.W., Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek, Visser, Eric J. W., Plant Ecophysiology, Ole Pedersen, Pedersen, Ole, Bodegom, P.M. van, Voesenek, Laurentius A.C.J., Peter M. van Bodegom, Sub Plant Ecophysiology, Pedersen, O., van Bodegom, Peter, Cieraad, Ellen, Yingji Pan, Pan, Yingjie, Bodegom, Peter M., Cieraad, E., Visser, Eric, van Bodegom, Peter M., Timothy D. Colmer, Eric J. W. Visser, Clarkson, B., Voesenek, Laurentius A. C. J., Pan, Y., Alahuhta, Janne   +35 more
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Predicting intercrop competition, facilitation, and productivity from simple functional traits [PDF]

, 2023
Context Recent meta-analyses demonstrate that intercropping can increase the land use efficiency of crop production by 20–30 % on average, indicating a strong potential contribution to sustainable intensification.
Andrew Mead, Waswa, W., Storkey, J., Wycliffe Waswa, Jonathan Storkey, Claessens, L., Vanlauwe, B., Aliyu, K.T., Schöb, C., Bernard Vanlauwe, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Christian Schöb, Kamaluddin Tijjani Aliyu, Aliyu, K. T., MacLaren, C., Chloe MacLaren, Mead, A., Lieven Claessens, Claessens, Lieven   +18 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in leaf morphological, stomatal, and anatomical traits and their relationships in temperate and subtropical forests

Scientific Reports, 2019
Leaf functional traits have attracted the attention of ecologists for several decades, but few studies have systematically assessed leaf morphological traits (termed “economic traits”), stomatal (termed “hydraulic”), and anatomical traits of entire ...
Congcong Liu, Ying Li, Li Xu, Zhi Chen, Nianpeng He   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Species prefer to shifting niche positions rather than expanding niche breadth to adapt to the heterogeneous karst forests

Forest Ecosystems
The interspecific variations of plant functional traits can characterize the niche positions of species within communities, while the intraspecific variations can accurately display the species’ niche breadth.
Shiren Chen, Zeyu Yang, Yuhang Wu, Yong Li, Longchenxi Meng, Luyao Chen, Yingqun Chen, Xuerong Shao, Mingzhen Sui, Guangqi Zhang, Danmei Chen, Yuejun He, Lipeng Zang, Qingfu Liu   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source