Published in Astrophysics and Space Science
Evidence and observations favoring the hypothesis that Venus is habitable, and the celestial mechanisms promoting the interplanetary transfer of life, are reviewed. Venus may have been contaminated with Earthly life early in its history via interplanetary transfer of microbe-laden bolide ejecta; and this seeding with life may have continued into th...
Published in Molecular Breeding
The resource and environmental challenges faced by rice production call for resource-saving and environment-friendly rice varieties. Water-saving and drought-resistance rice (WDR) is a new type of cultivated rice combining both high yield potential and acceptable grain quality as a current lowland paddy rice, as well as water-saving and drought res...
Published in Molecular Breeding
Triterpenoid saponins are major secondary metabolites in soybean; they are classified into group A and DDMP saponins. Group A saponins cause bitterness and an astringent aftertaste, whereas DDMP saponins are less bitter and more beneficial to human health. Therefore, a need exists for genetic improvement to develop bitter-free soybeans without losi...
Published in Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an important reaction in fuel cells. Designing electrocatalysts with outstanding performance is always the key to renewable-energy technologies for fuel cells. Herein, we demonstrate the Fe, Co, and N co-doped porous carbon nanofibers (FeCo/N-C CNFs) as a novel high-performance electrocatalyst for ORR. The synthes...
Published in Molecular Breeding
Distant hybridizations are important for developing common wheat germplasm. Thinopyrum ponticum (2n = 10x = 70), which is a wild relative of wheat, has numerous advantages for enhancing the tolerance of plants to biotic and abiotic stresses. ES-11 and ES-12 are two stable lines derived from a cross between the Triticum aestivum–Th. ponticum partial...
Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
We study the low-regularity (in-)extendibility of spacetimes within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian length spaces developed in Kunzinger and Sämann (Ann Glob Anal Geom 54(3):399–447, 2018). To this end, we introduce appropriate notions of geodesics and timelike geodesic completeness and prove a general inextendibility result. Our re...
Published in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Plant biostimulants are defined as materials containing microorganisms or substances whose function when applied to plants or the rhizosphere is to stimulate natural mechanisms to enhance plant growth, nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stressors and crop quality, independent of their nutrient content. In agriculture, seaweeds (Macroalga...
Published in Biology & Philosophy
We introduce a new type of pluralism about biological function that, in contrast to existing, demonstrates a practical integration among the term’s different meanings. In particular, we show how to generalize Sandra Mitchell’s notion of integrative pluralism to circumstances where multiple epistemic tools of the same type are jointly necessary to s...
Published in Astrophysics and Space Science
In this investigation we intend to study the dynamics of an anisotropic dark energy cosmological model in the presence of a massive scalar field in a modified Riemannian manifold proposed by Lyra (Math. Z. 54:52, 1951) in the background of a five dimensional Kaluza-Klein space time. We solve the Einstein field equations using some physically signif...
Published in Journal of Polymer Research
Alginate hydrogels are natural materials which can be used for biomedical purposes in order to trigger natural remineralization of damaged hard tissues. Mineralization of alginate hydrogels by using diverse protocols is extensively studied, with a goal of obtaining biocomposite materials having improved mechanical properties. The majority of the st...
