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Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators [PDF]

, 2015
Biodiversity is declining, with direct and indirect effects on ecosystem func-tions and services that are poorly quantified. Here, we develop the first globalassessment of trends in pollinators, focusing on pollinating birds and mam-mals.
Barnosky, Benning, Biesmeijer, BirdLife International, Borgella, Butchart, Butchart, Butchart, Böhm, Courter, Cronk, De Grammont, Eilers, Fleming, Gallai, Garibaldi, Gerlach, Hadley, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Howell, Hoyo, IUCN, Kasso, Klein, Kremen, Kunz, Lebuhn, Lewis, McKinney, Mickleburgh, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Muchhala, Nicolson, Olesen, Ollerton, Potts, Stuart, Sumner, Tittensor, Velthuis   +40 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of an algae-derived polymer as a pollinator-friendly pesticide adjuvant

Scientific Reports
Chemical applications in croplands can be a major source of pesticide exposure to pollinators, including off-target drift. Adjuvants are added to pesticides to improve spray characteristics. The major goal of this study was to identify the possibility of
Narayanan Kannan, Yu-Cheng Zhu
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Domestication of Tartary Buckwheat Shaped a Regulatory Module for Seedling Salt Tolerance by Targeting the Magnesium Transporter Gene FtMGT2

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Domestication of Tartary buckwheat is selected for a salt tolerance mechanism involving the magnesium transporter FtMGT2. Its expression is controlled by the FtAGL16‐FtMYB15L module, which is stabilized under salt stress through a competitive interaction that blocks its degradation by the E3 ligase FtBRG1, ultimately boosting Na⁺ efflux and plant ...
Xiang Lu, Yuqi He, Wenfeng Weng, Zebin Liu, Yuanfen Gao, Yaliang Shi, Wei Li, Dili Lai, Mengyu Zhao, Rintu Jha, Hui Zhao, Guangsheng Li, Chaonan Guan, Shuai Shao, Jingjun Ruan, Sun Hee Woo, Yinan Ouyang, Muriel Quinet, Milen I. Georgiev, Alisdair R. Fernie, Congcong Hou, Kaixuan Zhang, Xu Liu, Meiliang Zhou   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forager bees (Apis mellifera) highly express immune and detoxification genes in tissues associated with nectar processing. [PDF]

, 2015
Pollinators, including honey bees, routinely encounter potentially harmful microorganisms and phytochemicals during foraging. However, the mechanisms by which honey bees manage these potential threats are poorly understood.
Johnson, Brian R, Mohamed, Abbas, Vannette, Rachel L   +2 more
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Modulating Purothionin Accumulation and Signal Peptide Cleavage Fine‐Tunes Wheat Flour Gluten Properties to Improve Cookie‐Making Quality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dual genetic strategies for improving wheat processing quality by regulating purothionin accumulation to modulate gluten quantity and quality. The first strategy involves targeting signal peptide (SP) cleavage sites (e.g., through mutation) to indirectly reduce gluten content, thereby disrupting gluten network formation.
Yijie Liu, Siyuan Chang, Zhaoheng Zhang, Tianqi Kang, Mingde Liu, Yuan Zong, Fei Ni, Yinguang Bao, Ruijie Zhang, Xiaobang Zhang, Jinkun Du, Mingming Xin, Zhaorong Hu, Jie Liu, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Yingyin Yao   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

A meta‐analysis of the effects of habitat aridity, evolutionary history of grazing and grazing intensity on bee and butterfly communities worldwide

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022
A variety of habitat‐associated factors moderate effects of grazing on insect biodiversity. Here, we examine how aridity, evolutionary history of grazing and grazing intensity individually and interactively mediate the effect of livestock grazing on ...
Khum Bahadur Thapa‐Magar, Thomas Seth Davis, María E. Fernández‐Giménez   +2 more
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Multifunctional Bracts in the Dove Tree Davidia involucrata (Nyssaceae:Cornales) [PDF]

, 2008
Although there has been much experimental work on floral traits that are under selection from mutualists and antagonists, selection by abiotic environmental factors on flowers has been largely ignored.
Gong, Yan-Bing, Huang, Shuang-Quan, Renner, Susanne S., Sun, Ji-Fan   +3 more
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Additive and Partially Dominant Effects from Genomic Variation Contribute to Rice Heterosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Additive and partially dominant effects, namely at mid‐parent levels or values between mid‐parent and parental levels, respectively, are the predominant inheritance patterns of heterosis‐associated molecules. These two genetic effects contribute to heterosis of agronomic traits in both rice and maize, as well as biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis ...
Zhiwu Dan, Yunping Chen, Wei Zhou, Yanghong Xu, Junran Huang, Yi Chen, Jizhou Meng, Guoxin Yao, Wenchao Huang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis and Assembling of Network Structure in Mutualistic Systems [PDF]

, 2007
It has been observed that mutualistic bipartite networks have a nested structure of interactions. In addition, the degree distributions associated with the two guilds involved in such networks (e.g.
Burgos, Enrique, Ceva, Horacio, Delbue, Ana M., Devoto, Mariano, Medan, Diego, Perazzo, Roberto P. J., Zimmermann, Martin G.   +6 more
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