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Ball milled phosphorus modified biochar improved Nicotiana tabacum L. resistance against Phytophthora nicotianae: reducing oxidative damage, increasing defense hormone content and promoting phenylpropanoid metabolism

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionTobacco black shank (TBS), caused by Phytophthora nicotianae, poses a serious threat to tobacco production, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable management strategies.
Chunlan Ming, Yushuai Zhang, Mengze Li, Mohamed G. Moussa, Tengfei Liu, Hang Wang, Yongfei Ma, Wuxing Huang, Zicheng Xu, Jiayang Xu, Wei Jia   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma, Swati Singh, Agnieszka Kabalska, Ralf Wagner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization [PDF]

, 2000
Evidence from tobacco industry documents reveals that tobacco companies have operated for many years with the deliberate purpose of subverting the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control tobacco use.
Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents, World Health Organization
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi, Ruth O. Sagay, Reon Matemane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in the sustainable biosynthesis of valuable terpenoid flavor compounds and precursors in micro-organisms

Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
Renowned for their distinctive aromas, terpenoid flavor compounds and their precursors are widely used in medicine, food, and the flavor and fragrance industries. Rapid advances in synthetic biology, including the modification of microbial chassis cells,
Qian Li, Yibo Ning, Deyu Liu, Jie Ren, Changtong Lu, Zhifei Chen, Guanglu Wang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Industrial equipment optimization for combustion performance enhancement: a real-world case study

Frontiers in Energy Research
To address the issue of high NOx emission from the combustion chamber, this work optimized the industrial machine structure to enhance the combustion performance.
Tianqin Lin, Qi Cao, Song Huang, Wei Zhang, Hebin Liao, Darius Andriukaitis, Zhixiong Li   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 on Shareholders’ Wealth in the Tobacco Industry

This study examines the impact and efficiency of the design of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 in deregulating the tobacco production industry.
Feleke, Shiferaw T., Carver, Brian C., Tiller, Kelly   +2 more
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Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury

, 2022
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana, Iris Liou, Adrian Reuben, Ayako Suzuki, M. Isabel Fiel, William Lee, Victor Navarro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of molecular weight and chain rigidity on the endocytosis and anti-tumor activity of seleno-lentinan

Journal of Future Foods
This study focused on the modification of lentinan (LNT) and its degradation product, dLNT, through the nitric acid-sodium selenite method, resulting in the synthesis of 4 distinct seleno-polysaccharide (Se-LNTs).
Xuewei Jia, Yalong Liu, Zhifei Chen, Tianxiao Li, Changtong Lu, Chunping Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source