BACKGROUND: Starch is the most abundant constituent (dry weight) in the barley endosperm, followed by protein. Variability of compositional and potentially related physical traits due to genotype and environment can have important implications for the malting and brewing industry. This was the first study to assess the effects of genotype, environm...
status: published
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Changes in weather patterns with emerging drought risks and rising global temperature are widespread and negatively affect crop growth and productivity. In nature, plants are simultaneously exposed to multiple biotic and abiotic stresses, but most studies focus on individual stress conditions. However, the simultaneous occurrence of different stres...
Natural river sand resources are facing depletion, and large-scale mining pollutes the environment and harms humans. To utilize fly ash fully, this study used low-grade fly ash as a substitute for natural river sand in mortar. This has great potential to alleviate the shortage of natural river sand resources, reduce pollution, and improve the utili...
Published in Polymers
In this brief review, we discuss the recent advancements in using poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogels for tissue engineering applications. PEGDA hydrogels are highly attractive in biomedical and biotechnology fields due to their soft and hydrated properties that can replicate living tissues. These hydrogels can be manipulated using l...
Dynamic wetting is a ubiquitous phenomenon and frequently observed in our daily life, as exemplified by the famous lotus effect. It is also an interfacial process of upmost importance involving many cutting-edge applications and has hence received significantly increasing academic and industrial attention for several decades. However, we are still ...
© 2022 The Author(s)The reinforced composite membrane with a two-layered asymmetric structure was fabricated by impregnating the Nafion on a porous polyethylene (PE) substrate to reduce the cost of the membrane used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) as well as to enhance the performance of the cell. The ion conductivity of the reinfor...
status: Published online
This paper characterizes the heat stress response (HSR) and explores the impact of temperatures on the immune response of larvae from two chironomid species, Prodiamesa olivacea and Chironomus riparius. Genes involved in crucial metabolic pathways were de novo identified in P. olivacea: Hsp27, Hsp60, Hsp70, Hsc70, Cdc37, and HSF for the heat stress...
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