Li, Min Feng, Jiming Zhou, Han Najeeb, Ullah Li, Jincai Song, Youhong Zhu, Yulei
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Frontiers in Plant Science
The reproductive compromise under heat stress is a major obstacle to achieve high grain yield and quality in wheat worldwide. Securing reproductive success is the key solution to sustain wheat productivity by understanding the physiological mechanism and molecular basis in conferring heat tolerance and utilizing the candidate gene resources for bre...
le berre;, diana
Prokaryotic transcription was extensively studied over the last half-century. A great deal of data has been accumulated regarding the control of gene expression by transcription factors regulating their target genes by binding at specific DNA sites. However, there is a significant gap between the mechanistic description of transcriptional control o...
boutet;, emilie
Small RNAs (sRNAs) are essential regulators in the adaptation of bacteria to environmental changes and act by binding targeted mRNAs through base complementarity. Approximately 550 distinct families of sRNAs have been identified since their initial characterization in the 1980s, accelerated by the emergence of RNA-sequencing. Small RNAs are found i...
Núñez, Cinthia López-Pliego, Liliana Ahumada-Manuel, Carlos Leonel Castañeda, Miguel
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Alginates are a family of polymers composed of guluronate and mannuronate monomers joined by β (1–4) links. The different types of alginates have variations in their monomer content and molecular weight, which determine the rheological properties and their applications. In industry, alginates are commonly used as additives capable of viscosifying, ...
Mortlock, Sally McKinnon, Brett Montgomery, Grant W.
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Frontiers in Reproductive Health
The endometrium is a complex and dynamic tissue essential for fertility and implicated in many reproductive disorders. The tissue consists of glandular epithelium and vascularised stroma and is unique because it is constantly shed and regrown with each menstrual cycle, generating up to 10 mm of new mucosa. Consequently, there are marked changes in ...
Das, Tuhin Das, Tushar Kanti Khodarkovskaya, Anne Dash, Sabyasachi
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Bioengineered
Esquilin-Lebron, Karla Dubrac, Sarah Barras, Frédéric Boyd, Jeffrey M.
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mBio
Building iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters and assembling Fe-S proteins are essential actions for life on Earth. The three processes that sustain life, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and respiration, require Fe-S proteins. Genes coding for Fe-S proteins can be found in nearly every sequenced genome. Fe-S proteins have a wide variety of functions, and...
Alam, Beena Lǐ, Jùnwén Gě, Qún Khan, Mueen Alam Gōng, Jǔwǔ Mehmood, Shahid Yuán, Yǒulù Gǒng, Wànkuí
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Endophytic fungi (EF) are a group of fascinating host-associated fungal communities that colonize the intercellular or intracellular spaces of host tissues, providing beneficial effects to their hosts while gaining advantages. In recent decades, accumulated research on endophytic fungi has revealed their biodiversity, wide-ranging ecological distri...
Pudlo, Nicholas A. Martens, Eric C.
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Journal of Bacteriology
The last two decades have seen numerous studies connecting physiological behaviors in Bacteroides —including polysaccharide degradation and capsule production—with elements of global regulation, but a complete model is still elusive. A new study by Adams et al. in this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology reveals another layer of regulation by desc...
Price, Erin E Román-Rodríguez, Franklin Boyd, Jeffrey M
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Molecular microbiology
Bacterial respiration of diverse substrates is a primary contributor to the diversity of life. Respiration also drives alterations in the geosphere and tethers ecological nodes together. It provides organisms with a means to dissipate reductants and generate potential energy in the form of an electrochemical gradient. Mechanisms have evolved to sen...
