Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 447: Priming of Defense Systems and Upregulation of MYC2 and JAZ1 Genes after Botrytis cinerea Inoculation in Methyl Jasmonate-Treated Strawberry Fruits Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040447 Authors: Valenzuela-Riffo Zúñiga Morales-Quintana Lolas Cáceres Figueroa Several attempts have been made to study the effects of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) on plants in the past years. However, the comparative effects of the number and phenological time of MeJA...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 445: Transcriptomic Response to Water Deficit Reveals a Crucial Role of Phosphate Acquisition in a Drought-Tolerant Common Bean Landrace Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040445 Authors: López Pineda Alamillo Drought is one of the most critical factors limiting legume crop productivity. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in the common bean is required to improve the yields of this important crop under adverse conditions. In this work,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 444: Overexpression of MADS-box Gene AGAMOUS-LIKE 12 Activates Root Development in Juglans sp. and Arabidopsis thaliana Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040444 Authors: Grégory Montiel Muriel Gaudet Françoise Laurans Philippe Rozenberg Matthieu Simon Pascal Gantet Christian Jay-Allemand Christian Breton Until recently, the roles of plant MADS-box genes have mainly been characterized during inflorescence and flower differentiation. In order to precise...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 446: Progress and Challenges in Ex Situ Conservation of Forage Germplasm: Grasses, Herbaceous Legumes and Fodder Trees Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040446 Authors: Jean Hanson Richard H. Ellis Forages provide an important livestock feed resource globally, particularly for millions of smallholder farmers, and have important roles in natural resource management and carbon sequestration, reducing soil erosion and mitigating the effects of climate change. Forage germplasm...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 443: Activity of Saponins from Medicago Species against Phytoparasitic Nematodes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040443 Authors: Trifone D’Addabbo Maria Pia Argentieri Jerzy Żuchowski Elisa Biazzi Aldo Tava Wieslaw Oleszek Pinarosa Avato Content of bioactive saponins of Medicago species suggests that they may also exert, as previously demonstrated on M. sativa, nematicidal properties exploitable for the formulation of new products for sustainable phytoparasitic...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 442: Bioactive Compounds from Leaves and Twigs of Guayule Grown in a Mediterranean Environment Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040442 Authors: Piluzza Campesi Molinu Re Sulas Guayule (Parthenium argentatum) is one of the most promising alternatives to produce natural rubber. As the guayule leaves represent a waste byproduct in the rubber extraction process, their exploitation might contribute to the valorization of the whole plant biomass. The specific...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 441: Interactive Effects of the Potassium and Nitrogen Relationship on Yield and Quality of Strawberry Grown Under Soilless Conditions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040441 Authors: Pablo Preciado-Rangel Enrique Troyo-Diéguez Luis Alonso Valdez-Aguilar José Luis García-Hernández José Guadalupe Luna-Ortega K and N are the nutrients with the highest influence on yield and fruit quality. From this perspective, the aim of this study was to determine the effect...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 439: Comparison of Read Mapping and Variant Calling Tools for the Analysis of Plant NGS Data Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040439 Authors: Hanna Marie Schilbert Andreas Rempel Boas Pucker High-throughput sequencing technologies have rapidly developed during the past years and have become an essential tool in plant sciences. However, the analysis of genomic data remains challenging and relies mostly on the performance of automatic pipelines. Frequently applied...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 440: Water Influx through the Wetted Surface of a Sweet Cherry Fruit: Evidence for an Associated Solute Efflux Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040440 Authors: Winkler Riedel Neuwald Knoche Sweet cherries are susceptible to rain-cracking. The fruit skin is permeable to water, but also to solutes. The objectives of this study were to (1) establish whether a solute efflux occurs when a sweet cherry fruit is incubated in water; (2) identify the solutes involved;...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 438: In Vitro Antifungal Activity of Peltophorum dubium (Spreng.) Taub. extracts against Aspergillus flavus Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9040438 Authors: Lucía S. Di Ciaccio Alejandra V. Catalano Paula G. López Dante Rojas Diego Cristos Renée H. Fortunato Adriana E. Salvat Aspergillus flavus is a filamentous, saprophytic fungus, whose colonization occurs mainly in cereal grains and oilseeds once harvested. Under certain conditions, it could produce...
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Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 7: The Influence of User-Adapted, Instructive Information on Participation in a Recycling Scheme: A Case Study in a Medium-Sized Swedish City Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5020007 Authors: Eric Mehner Adeel Naidoo Coralie Hellwig Kim Bolton Kamran Rousta Several theories and case studies have shown that information has little or no direct influence on waste sorting behavior. However, it is often suggested that information plays a vital role by indirectly...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 37: Impact of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Drinking Water Ecosystem Services in Wami River Basin, Tanzania Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9040037 Authors: Sekela Twisa Mohamed Mwabumba Mathew Kurian Manfred F. Buchroithner Land-use/land-cover changes are considered the dominant form of anthropogenic pressure on the environment, causing changes in ecosystem service patterns and affecting water supply services. Using the spatial econometric technique,...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 21: Augmented Reality for Robotics: A Review Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9020021 Authors: Zhanat Makhataeva Huseyin Atakan Varol Augmented reality (AR) is used to enhance the perception of the real world by integrating virtual objects to an image sequence acquired from various camera technologies. Numerous AR applications in robotics have been developed in recent years. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of AR research in robotics during the...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 20: Classification of All Non-Isomorphic Regular and Cuspidal Arm Anatomies in an Orthogonal Metamorphic Manipulator Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9020020 Authors: Christos Koukos-Papagiannis Vassilis Moulianitis Nikos Aspragathos This paper proposes a classification of all non-isomorphic anatomies of an orthogonal metamorphic manipulator according to the topology of workspace considering cusps and nodes. Using symbolic algebra, a general kinematics polynomial...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 23: Static and Dynamic Evaluation of an UWB Localization System for Industrial Applications Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2020023 Authors: Mickaël Delamare Remi Boutteau Xavier Savatier Nicolas Iriart Many applications in the context of Industry 4.0 require precise localization. However, indoor localization remains an open problem, especially in complex environments such as industrial environments. In recent years, we have seen the emergence of Ultra WideBand (UWB)...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 22: How to Achieve Compliance with GDPR Article 17 in a Hybrid Cloud Environment Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2020022 Authors: Miriam Kelly Eoghan Furey Kevin Curran On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Article 17, the Right to Erasure (‘Right to be Forgotten’) came into force making it vital for organisations to identify, locate and delete all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) where a valid request is received from...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 39: Implications of Educational Policy-Making Which Encourages Schools to Collaborate with the Community, External Agencies, Private Companies, Employers and Voluntary Organisations Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9040039 Authors: Julia Everitt Despite the move to state education, policy-makers since the early 1900s have encouraged the community, external agencies, private companies, employers and voluntary organisations to become involved in schools....
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 223: Impact of Bacterial Toxins in the Lungs Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12040223 Authors: Lucas Hadizamani Gonzales Gorshkov Bodmer Berthiaume Moehrlen Lode Huwer Hudel Mraheil Toque Chakraborty Hamacher Bacterial toxins play a key role in the pathogenesis of lung disease. Based on their structural and functional properties, they employ various strategies to modulate lung barrier function and to impair host defense...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 222: A Review of the Impact of Mycotoxins on Dairy Cattle Health: Challenges for Food Safety and Dairy Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12040222 Authors: David Chebutia Kemboi Gunther Antonissen Phillis E. Ochieng Siska Croubels Sheila Okoth Erastus K. Kangethe Johannes Faas Johanna F. Lindahl James K. Gathumbi Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of fungi that contaminate food and feed and have a significant negative...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 159: Immunization with the H5N1 Recombinant Vaccine Candidate Induces High Protection in Chickens against Vietnamese Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Strains Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020159 Authors: Hoang Nguyen Nguyen Pham Nguyen Le Tran Chu Nguyen Abstract: Vietnam is one of the countries most affected worldwide by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, which caused enormous economic loss and posed threats...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 37: A Case of Sebaceous Adenitis and Concurrent Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in a Dog Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7020037 Authors: Sartori Peruccio Sebaceous adenitis and concurrent meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) were diagnosed in a two-year-old mongrel dog presenting with hypotrichosis, exfoliative dermatitis and blepharitis. Diagnosis of sebaceous adenitis was based on history, clinical signs, the histological demonstration of multifocal...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 395: Differences in Tissue and Species Tropism of Reptarenavirus Species Studied by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Pseudotypes Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12040395 Authors: Korzyukov Iheozor-Ejiofor Levanov Smura Hetzel Szirovicza de la Torre Martinez-Sobrido Kipar Vapalahti Hepojoki Reptarenaviruses cause Boid Inclusion Body Disease (BIBD), and co-infections by several reptarenaviruses are common in affected snakes. Reptarenaviruses...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 394: Distinct Contributions of Different Domains within the HIV-1 Gag Polyprotein to Specific and Nonspecific Interactions with RNA Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12040394 Authors: Tomas Kroupa Siddhartha A. K. Datta Alan Rein Viral genomic RNA is packaged into virions with high specificity and selectivity. However, in vitro the Gag specificity towards viral RNA is obscured when measured in buffers containing physiological salt. Interestingly, when the binding is...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 21: Examining the Role of Familiarity in the Perception of Depth Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4020021 Authors: Mischenko Negishi Gorbunova Sawada Bishop Berkeley suggested that the distance of an object can be estimated if the object’s size is familiar to the observer. It has been suggested that humans can perceive the distance of the object by using such “familiarity” information, but most or many of the prior experiments...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1022: A Perforated Baffle Design to Improve Mixing in Contact Tanks Water doi: 10.3390/w12041022 Authors: Nasyrlayev Kizilaslan Kurumus Demirel Aral In this study, a perforated baffle design is proposed to improve mixing in contact tanks. Turbulent flow through the perforated baffle is studied at the perforation hole scale. The contribution of jets emerging from the perforations to the mixing process is evaluated in terms of standard mixing indexes...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1020: Seakeeping Analysis of Planing Craft under Large Wave Height Water doi: 10.3390/w12041020 Authors: Bi Zhuang Su The purpose of this paper is to conduct a seakeeping analysis of planing craft under regular wave with large wave height. To obtain a reliable numerical method to simulate the sailing of planing craft in waves, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solver and overset method are adopted. The motion response and resistance of the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1021: Influence of Farming Intensity and Climate on Lowland Stream Nitrogen Water doi: 10.3390/w12041021 Authors: Guillermo Goyenola Daniel Graeber Mariana Meerhoff Erik Jeppesen Franco Teixeira-de Mello Nicolás Vidal Claudia Fosalba Niels Bering Ovesen Joerg Gelbrecht Néstor Mazzeo Brian Kronvang Nitrogen lost from agriculture has altered the geochemistry of the biosphere, with pronounced impacts on aquatic ecosystems. We aim to elucidate...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1019: Investigating Atrazine Concentrations in the Zwischenscholle Aquifer Using MODFLOW with the HYDRUS-1D Package and MT3DMS Water doi: 10.3390/w12041019 Authors: Beegum Vanderborght Šimůnek Herbst Sudheer Nambi Simulation models that describe the flow and transport processes of pesticides in soil and groundwater are important tools to analyze how surface pesticide applications influence groundwater quality. The aim of this study is to investigate...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1018: Assessing the Cadmium Effects on the Benthic Foraminifer Ammonia cf. parkinsoniana: An Acute Toxicity Test Water doi: 10.3390/w12041018 Authors: María Teresa Losada Ros Eqbal Al-Enezi Erica Cesarini Barbara Canonico Carla Bucci Maria Virgínia Alves Martins Stefano Papa Fabrizio Frontalini Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous pollutants in marine environments because of their bioaccumulation and biomagnification capabilities. Among...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1017: Numerical Simulation of Water Renewal Timescales in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia Water doi: 10.3390/w12041017 Authors: Pham Van de Brye de Brauwere Hoitink Soares-Frazao Deleersnijder Water renewal timescales, namely age, residence time, and exposure time, which are defined in accordance with the Constituent-oriented Age and Residence time Theory (CART), are computed by means of the unstructured-mesh, finite element model Second-generation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1016: The Impact of Submerged Breakwaters on Sediment Distribution along Marsh Boundaries Water doi: 10.3390/w12041016 Authors: Iacopo Vona Matthew W. Gray William Nardin Human encroachment and development on coastlines have led to greater amounts of armoring of shorelines. Breakwaters are a common feature along coastlines, which are used to dampen wave energy and protect shorelines from flash floods or overwash events. Although common, their effects on sediment...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1015: Numerical Simulation of Flow Velocity Characteristics during Capsule Hydraulic Transportation in a Horizontal Pipe Water doi: 10.3390/w12041015 Authors: Fei Li Yongye Li Xihuan Sun Xiaoni Yang Capsule hydraulic transportation is a kind of low-carbon and environmentally friendly pipeline transportation technique. In this study, the flow velocity characteristics in the pipeline when the capsule is transported in a straight pipe section were simulated...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1013: The Design of A Vapor-Condensing Plume Abatement System and Devices for Mechanical Draft Cooling Towers Water doi: 10.3390/w12041013 Authors: Xiaojing Zhu Weihui Xu Weishu Wang Xu Shi Gang Chen Shifei Zhao Cooling towers are widely used in many fields, but the generation of visible plumes has a serious impact on the environment. Moreover, the evaporation losses also cause a great waste of water. In this paper, a vapor-condensing plume abatement...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1014: Model Analysis and System Parameters Investigation for Transient Wave in a Pump–Pipe–Valve System Water doi: 10.3390/w12041014 Authors: Zubin Liu Dingyi Pan Fengzhong Qu Jianxin Hu The frequency responses of the transient wave propagating in a pump–pipe–valve system are studied with the system transfer matrix analysis (STMA) method. Being different to that in the reservoir–pipe–valve system, the transient wave...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1012: Reactive Barriers for Renaturalization of Reclaimed Water during Soil Aquifer Treatment Water doi: 10.3390/w12041012 Authors: Cristina Valhondo Jesús Carrera Lurdes Martínez-Landa Jingjing Wang Stefano Amalfitano Caterina Levantesi M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is known to increase available water quantity and to improve water quality. However, its implementation is hindered by the concern of polluting aquifers, which...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1011: Diffusion of Electronic Water Payment Innovations in Urban Ghana. Evidence from Tema Metropolis Water doi: 10.3390/w12041011 Authors: Godfred Amankwaa Festus A. Asaaga Christian Fischer Patrick Awotwe Recent advances in mobile technologies, especially in the utility payment space, are having an increasingly profound impact on our daily lives and offer advantageous services in the utility sectors. This paper examines the prevalence and patterns of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1010: Comparison of Soil EC Values from Methods Based on 1:1 and 1:5 Soil to Water Ratios and ECe from Saturated Paste Extract Based Method Water doi: 10.3390/w12041010 Authors: George Kargas Paraskevi Londra Anastasia Sgoubopoulou The present study investigates the effect of three different methods of obtaining 1:1 and 1:5 soil-over-water mass ratios (soil:water) extracts for soil electrical conductivity (EC) measurements (EC1:1, EC1:5). On the same soil...
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