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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

Detection and quantification of the air inoculum of Caliciopsis pinea in a plantation of Pinus radiata in Italy

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2019
Caliciopsis pinea has been historically described as a secondary pathogen of pines. However, it has recently been associated with severe damages on Pinus radiata in Italy. Our study focused on the description of the seasonal spore dispersal of C.
Botella L, Bačová A, Dvorák M, Kudláček T, Pepori AL, Santini A, Ghelardini L, Luchi N   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robotic Materials With Bioinspired Microstructures for High Sensitivity and Fast Actuation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In the review paper, design rationale and approaches for bioinspired sensors and actuators in robotics applications are presented. These bioinspired microstructure strategies implemented in both can improve the performance in several ways. Also, recent ideas and innovations that embed robotic materials with logic and computation with it are part of the
Sakshi Sakshi, Rohit Pratyush Behera, Hongyu Zhou, Yifan Wang, Hortense Le Ferrand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Origin of the New Caledonian bryophytes [PDF]

, 1990
The origin of a flora is one of the most interesting and challenging topics in bryology. However, it is a very difficult problem, and considerable effort is needed to accumulate more detailed information on the distribution and taxonomy of bryophytes ...
Iwatsuki, Zennoske
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Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Kazuya Murakami, Misao Sato, Yu Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Horii, Yukari Nagatoshi, Miki Fujita, Toshinori Fujie, Yasunari Fujita, Jun Shintake   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbiome assembly on Drosophila body surfaces benefits the flies to combat fungal infections

iScience, 2022
Summary: In contrast to the well-characterized gut microbiomes, the composition and function of the insect body-surface microbiotas are still elusive and highly underexplored.
Song Hong, Yanlei Sun, Dapeng Sun, Chengshu Wang   +3 more
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Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
SynComs are artificially designed to enable inter‐species metabolic interactions, metabolic division of labor, and ecological interactions that can elicit phenotypes like colonization stability and environmental adaptation. This systematic review explores the processes used to construct SynComs, the assessment of the mechanisms of metabolic interaction
Yuxiao Zhang, Minyu Jing, Lihui Lyu, Li Nie, Xihui Xu, Ru Sun, Xiyuan Xu, Siyu Chen, Shuobing He, Yumeng Zhang, Ping Huang, Weijie Luo, Jiaojiao Liang, Guifeng Gao, Kunkun Fan, Teng Yang, Liyan Zhang, Xiao Fu, Sarah M. Allard, Jack A. Gilbert, Jiabao Zhang, Haiyan Chu   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methods for quantifying rain-splash dispersal of Neonectria ditissima conidia in apple canopies

Frontiers in Horticulture, 2023
Many microorganisms can be dispersed by rain-splash, whereby spores become suspended in water and are spread via droplets. The resulting dispersal gradient is dependent on several factors including rainfall intensity, the nature of the plant canopy and ...
Rebecca E. Campbell, D. Roger Wallis, Monika Walter   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coherent spore dispersion via drop-leaf interaction

Science Advances
The dispersion of plant pathogens, such as rust spores, is responsible for more than 20% of global crop yield loss annually. However, the release mechanism of pathogens from flexible plant surfaces into the canopy is not well understood. In this study, we investigated the interplay between leaf elasticity and rainfall, revealing how a flexible leaf ...
Zixuan Wu, Saikat Basu, Seungho Kim, Mark Sorrells, Francisco J. Beron-Vera, Sunghwan Jung   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The origin and distribution of neotropical species of Campylopus [PDF]

, 1990
Of the 65 species of Campylopus known from tropical America, 33 are andine in distribution, 16 are found only in SE Brazil, 8 have wide ranges through Central and South America, 3 species are disjunct in SE-North America and Brazil, 3 are confined to the
Frahm, Jan-Peter
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