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Study on the mechanism of plant root influence on soil properties in expansive soil areas

Open Geosciences
Expansive soil is a type of unsaturated soil that develops fissures within its body due to dry and wet cycles. These fissures are the primary factor contributing to slope instability in expansive soil regions.
Tingting Cao, Haiou Zhang, Xubo Sun, Zhen Guo, Jiaqi Wang, Yantao Hu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE SECRETION OF INVERTASE BY PLANT ROOTS

American Journal of Botany, 1920
" It has not yet been definitely proved that the inversion of saccharose is due to invertase secreted into the culture solution. It is possible that the saccharose is inverted in the roots and the reducing sugars are secreted, but this is less probable.
openaire   +3 more sources

Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante, Robert Sharp, Pradip K. Saha, Elizabeth S. Anaya, Elizabeth L. Lieu, Evelyn L. de Groot, Pooja Patel, Mi Jeong Heo, Aaron R. Cox, Kang Ho Kim, Sean M. Hartig   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic perspectives—How single‐molecule biophysics complement biochemical understanding

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how ensemble biochemistry and single‐molecule approaches are complementary, outline commonly used single‐molecule techniques, and illustrate their relevance through two representative case studies: chromatin organization by SMC complexes and pathway choice during DNA double‐strand break repair.
Sara De Bragança, Eline L. Jansen, Jorine M. Eeftens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adventitious roots and lateral roots : similarities and differences

, 2014
In addition to its role in water and nutrient uptake, the root system is fundamentally important because it anchors a plant to its substrate. Although a wide variety of root systems exist across different species, all plants have a primary root (derived ...
Pacurar, Daniel I,, Pacurar, Daniel I., Bellini, Catherine, Bellini, Catherine,, Perrone, Irene,, Perrone, Irene   +5 more
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Biomimetic Plant-Root-Inspired Robotic Sensor System

Biosensors
There are many examples in nature in which the ability to detect is combined with decision-making, such as the basic survival instinct of plants and animals to search for food.
Margarita Alvira, Alessio Mondini, Gian Luigi Puleo, Islam Bogachan Tahirbegi, Lucia Beccai, Ali Sadeghi, Barbara Mazzolai, Mònica Mir, Josep Samitier   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Translophagy—A potential link between autophagy impairment and translational errors

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the accumulation of abnormal proteins and protein aggregates, but their origin often remains unknown. We propose that selective autophagy removes damaged protein‐making machinery, preventing errors during protein synthesis.
Mykola V. Korolchuk, Gailing Ma, Robin Antrobus, Diego Manni, Marco Trevisan‐Herraz, Mustafa Khwaja, Max Brown, Gavin D. Richardson, Masaaki Komatsu, Daniel Erskine, Viktor I. Korolchuk, Tetsushi Kataura   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional comparison of EncB and EncC cargo proteins in iron storage within the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Encapsulins are protein nanocompartments that play an important role in iron storage. In the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin system, two cargo proteins called EncB and EncC contribute to iron mineralization. Here, we show that EncB and EncC generate iron‐containing minerals with distinct chemical compositions, suggesting that the composition of stored ...
Harry B. McDowell, Thomas Walther, Egbert Hoiczyk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanism and Quantification of Parallel Flow Erosion of Herbaceous Plant Revetment Considering Root Action

Renmin Zhujiang
The existing studies on erosion of herbaceous plant revetment often have unclear analysis of mechanism and process and inconsistent assumptions of calculation equations with the actual erosion phenomena.
WANG Qi, MAO Shuo, ZHAO Jinyong, DING Yang, WANG Weijie, XUE Yang, CUI Ziteng, CHEN Wangyang   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

‘Guide and Prejudice’— How Argonautes recognize targets across domains of life

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Argonaute proteins use short nucleic‐acid guides to locate and regulate specific targets across all domains of life. Despite striking diversity—from human gene silencing to bacterial immune defence—all Argonautes share a conserved three‐stage recognition logic: guide‐directed sampling, progressive target pairing with a conformational checkpoint and ...
Jack P. K. Bravo
wiley   +1 more source