Article
Plant Sciences
Xue Cong, Sien Li, Dan Hu
Summary: Stomata act as key nodes in the relationship between photosynthesis and transpiration. Existing experimental results have been used to develop an integrated model that describes the dynamics of stomata in seed plants. This model considers both passive mechanical interaction and active regulation, allowing for semi-quantitative reproduction of experimental phenomena and prediction of stomatal responses to environmental changes.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Hubert Matkowski, Agata Daszkowska-Golec
Summary: This review synthesizes the current discoveries on the molecular foundations of stomatal development and behavior in various stress conditions and their implications for water-use efficiency (WUE). It highlights the interplay between stress stimuli, gene expression alterations, and stomatal pattern, structure, and opening. Further exploration of these mechanisms is crucial for enhancing plant resilience.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xukai Wang, Mingran Zhang, Tongtong Zhu, Qiuhua Wei, Guangyao Liu, Jianxun Ding
Summary: Osteomyelitis is a refractory disease in orthopedics caused by infection with pathogenic microorganisms. Antibacterial therapy, in addition to surgical debridement, is currently the main approach for treating osteomyelitis. However, traditional antibiotics are facing bacterial resistance, prompting the development of advanced antibacterial agents. This review discusses the main targets and mechanisms of antibacterial agents for osteomyelitis treatment, as well as their potential clinical applications.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Joao Fonseca, Georgios Douzas, Fernando Bacao
Summary: In the field of remote sensing, Active Learning (AL) is an important technique for collecting ground truth data efficiently. However, traditional AL methods relying heavily on user interaction can be costly and time-consuming. This study introduces a new component, the data generator, to reduce the need for user-labeled data in AL, which significantly decreases the cost and time required for successful AL implementation across various datasets.
Article
Plant Sciences
Dan Jiang, Bin Lu, Liantao Liu, Wenjing Duan, Yanjun Meng, Jin Li, Ke Zhang, Hongchun Sun, Yongjiang Zhang, Hezhong Dong, Zhiying Bai, Cundong Li
Summary: This study demonstrates that exogenous melatonin (MT) can enhance salt tolerance in cotton seedlings by regulating the photosynthetic system, osmotic modulators, chloroplast, and anatomical structure. Treatment with MT alleviates oxidative damage and ion imbalance caused by salt stress, leading to improved growth and biomass production in plants.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Shaopeng Li, Linmao Li, Weiliang Fan, Suping Ma, Cheng Zhang, Jang Chol Kim, Kun Wang, Eugenia Russinova, Yuxian Zhu, Yu Zhou
Summary: Stomata play crucial roles in gas and water exchange in leaves, but manually collecting accurate quantitative data from the leaf surface can be laborious and time-consuming. To address this issue, we have developed LeafNet, a tool that automates the localization of stomata, segmentation of pavement cells, and reporting of morphological parameters. LeafNet improves the efficiency and productivity of leaf phenotyping for plant biologists.
Review
Microbiology
Ines Ripa, Sabina Andreu, Jose Antonio Lopez-Guerrero, Raquel Bello-Morales
Summary: Membrane rafts are small dynamic domains enriched with cholesterol and sphingolipids that play essential roles in processes such as virus entry. They participate in virus attachment, recruitment to the cell surface, and entry mechanisms used by viruses. This review will introduce the specific role of rafts in viral entry and summarize their participation in the entry process of enveloped and non-enveloped viruses.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Business
B. C. Stahl, A. Andreou, P. Brey, T. Hatzakis, A. Kirichenko, K. Macnish, S. Laulhe Shaelou, A. Patel, M. Ryan, D. Wright
Summary: The technical and economic benefits of artificial intelligence are counterbalanced by legal, social, and ethical issues. Human rights principles and legislation play a key role in addressing the ethics of AI and steering it to contribute to human flourishing.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Sameer Saran, Sumit Kumar Chaudhary, Priyanka Singh, Amrapali Tiwari, Vishal Kumar
Summary: Biodiversity information and precise knowledge are essential for sustainable development in biodiversity conservation and management. Efforts have been made to digitize biodiversity information and provide an open-source platform with structured information, compiled knowledge, mapping, and spatial analysis tools. These portals have accelerated biodiversity and conservation research and management, but there are still some unresolved issues.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Manuel Cebral-Loureda, Alberto Hernandez-Baqueiro, Enrique Tames-Munoz
Summary: The power of social media to spread the idea of wellbeing has been studied by psychologists and scholars, but the use of the human flourishing concept in these platforms remains unexplored. This study analyzes over 600 thousand Twitter messages from users associating themselves with human flourishing, comparing them to messages from other Twitter lists. The study aims to identify HF users' interests, vocabulary richness, shared emotions, and grammar usage. Text mining methods including sentiment analysis, natural language processing, and topic modeling were employed. The results show that although HF users exhibit average vocabulary diversity, they share more positive emotions and use a greater variety of emojis. Their discussions cover spiritual, health-related, and practical subjects such as work and success. They also display empathy, caring about people's daily emotions and the world.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Marcelo Oliveira Soares, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Maria Eduarda Alves Santos, Sonia Bejarano, Emanuelle Fontenele Rabelo, Igor Cristino Silva Cruz
Summary: Research shows that in the Southwestern Atlantic reefs, nutrient excess and organic pollution are key drivers of hard coral habitat degradation, potentially leading to the emergence of novel zoantharian-dominated habitats. Zoantharian species have traits that could help them thrive under adverse conditions and may flourish in nutrient-rich regions in the near future. However, zoantharians in intertidal zones are threatened by climate change factors such as higher heat stress and sea-level rise.
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Genetics & Heredity
Chad J. Creighton
Summary: GenomePaint is a dynamic web-based data portal for exploring noncoding somatic alterations in cancer by genomic location, incorporating data from N3800 pediatric tumors and allowing users to upload their own data. Multiple omics platforms can be visualized together on this portal.
TRENDS IN GENETICS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fabricio Casarejos, Carlos Rufin, Ivan Engel
Summary: The study proposes a new concept of Regenerative Democracy with a focus on global sustainability and democracy. The empirical trend shows democratic instability, decline in quality distribution among democratic states, and an increasing risk of socio-ecological degeneration. The results also reveal the interdependent relationship between historical achievements of societal needs and global democratic stability.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Laura Marciano, Kasisomayajula Viswanath
Summary: This study aims to fill the research gap on the influence of social media on the well-being of adolescents. Findings suggest that positive social media experiences and social media inspirations from others are positively associated with flourishing, while negative social media experiences are negatively associated with flourishing. It is recommended to promote healthy development of adolescents through positive online social relationships and inspirational contents.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Zhuojun Song, Le Wang, May Lee, Gen Hua Yue
Summary: Drought stress is a significant environmental hazard, and plants respond to it differently. C3 and C4 plants exhibit different cellular responses to drought, which may be associated with the divergent expression of their SPEECHLESS genes. Our research investigated the drought tolerance of C3 and C4 plants through gene expression analysis and stomatal assay under drought stress.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Cell Biology
John L. Bowman, Eduardo Flores Sandoval, Hirotaka Kato
Summary: The article discusses the importance of indole-3-acetic acid in the auxin pathway in plants, as well as its origins and development in species evolution, including processes such as gene transfer and neofunctionalization.
COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Chin Hong Lee, Nathaniel P. Hawker, Jonathan R. Peters, Thierry G. A. Lonhienne, Nial R. Gursanscky, Louisa Matthew, Christopher A. Brosnan, Christopher W. G. Mann, Laurence Cromer, Christelle Taochy, Quy A. Ngo, Venkatesan Sundaresan, Peer M. Schenk, Bostjan Kobe, Filipe Borges, Raphael Mercier, John L. Bowman, Bernard J. Carroll
Summary: The DEM1 and DEM2 genes play essential roles in cell division and gamete viability in plants, with DEM2 playing a more important role than DEM1. DEM proteins interact with the highly conserved RAN protein, which controls cell division in all eukaryotic organisms.
Article
Biology
Tom Dierschke, Eduardo Flores-Sandoval, Madlen Rast-Somssich, Felix Althoff, Sabine Zachgo, John L. Bowman
Summary: Eukaryotic life cycles involve alternating between haploid and diploid phases. In diverse unicellular eukaryotes, the expression of paralogous homeodomain genes in gametes plays a role in priming the transition from haploid to diploid.
Article
Plant Sciences
Liam N. Briginshaw, Eduardo Flores-Sandoval, Tom Dierschke, John P. Alvarez, John L. Bowman
Summary: KANADI transcription factors play important roles in the sporophyte generation of angiosperms, but are not required in the gametophyte generation. In this study, we characterized the MpKAN gene in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha and found that it functions in the gametophyte generation, regulating branching and tissue differentiation. Unlike angiosperm orthologs, MpKAN does not influence tissue polarity.
Review
Plant Sciences
Samarth Kulshrestha, Rubina Jibran, John W. van Klink, Yanfei Zhou, David A. Brummell, Nick W. Albert, Kathy E. Schwinn, David Chagne, Marco Landi, John L. Bowman, Kevin M. Davies
Summary: This review summarizes the knowledge on how specialized metabolite pathways in bryophytes contribute to their stress tolerance capabilities in terrestrial environments. The data on bryophytes are compared with those available for angiosperms, highlighting the differences in specialized metabolite diversity and function between these two plant groups.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Jonathan Levins, Tom Dierschke, John L. Bowman
Article
Plant Sciences
Kevin M. Davies, Marco Landi, John W. van Klink, Kathy E. Schwinn, David A. Brummell, Nick W. Albert, David Chagne, Rubina Jibran, Samarth Kulshrestha, Yanfei Zhou, John L. Bowman
Summary: Land plants commonly produce red pigmentation in response to environmental stressors, with different types of pigments in different lineages. Some plants have lost the ability to produce anthocyanins and instead produce betalain pigments, while some terrestrial algae also produce red pigmentation under stress.
Article
Developmental Biology
Martin A. Mecchia, Moritz Rovekamp, Alejandro Giraldo-Fonseca, Dario Meier, Philippe Gadient, Hannes Vogler, Daria Limacher, John L. Bowman, Ueli Grossniklaus
Summary: Plant cells are surrounded by a cell wall that is crucial for cell shape, communication, and interaction with the environment. The CrRLK1L gene family plays diverse roles in plant physiology and development, including cell expansion and integrity maintenance.
Article
Plant Sciences
Dongdong Li, Tom Dierschke, Stijn Roden, Kunsong Chen, John L. Bowman, Caren Chang, Bram Van de Poel
Summary: In seed plants, ACC is the precursor of the plant hormone ethylene but also has ethylene-independent signaling roles. Nonseed plants produce ACC but do not efficiently convert it to ethylene. In this study, researchers isolated an ACC-insensitive mutant (Mpain) in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha and identified MpLHT1 as an ACC and amino acid transporter. They found that MpLHT1 is involved in vegetative growth and reproduction in M. polymorpha. This study highlights the diverse physiological functions of MpLHT1 in plants.
Article
Plant Sciences
Shogo Kawamura, Facundo Romani, Masaru Yagura, Takako Mochizuki, Mika Sakamoto, Shohei Yamaoka, Ryuichi Nishihama, Yasukazu Nakamura, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, John L. Bowman, Takayuki Kohchi, Yasuhiro Tanizawa
Summary: In this study, a web-based suite of tools, MBEX, was developed to analyze and summarize transcriptome data of Marchantia polymorpha. Using oil body biogenesis as an example, the results generated by MBEX were consistent with experimental evidence and revealed a novel transcriptional network.
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
John L. Bowman, Mario Arteaga-Vazquez, Frederic Berger, Liam N. Briginshaw, Philip Carella, Adolfo Aguilar-Cruz, Kevin M. Davies, Tom Dierschke, Liam Dolan, Ana E. Dorantes-Acosta, Tom J. Fisher, Eduardo Flores-Sandoval, Kazutaka Futagami, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Rubina Jibran, Takehiko Kanazawa, Hirotaka Kato, Takayuki Kohchi, Jonathan Levins, Shih-Shun Lin, Hirofumi Nakagami, Ryuichi Nishihama, Facundo Romani, Sebastian Schornack, Yasuhiro Tanizawa, Masayuki Tsuzuki, Takashi Ueda, Yuichiro Watanabe, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Sabine Zachgo
Summary: The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been a model plant in biological studies since the 18th century and is currently experiencing a Renaissance in genomic and genetic research. Its simple cultivation, worldwide distribution, ease of crossing, and availability of genetic tools make it an ideal model organism for studying physiological, developmental, and evolutionary aspects of land plants.
Review
Plant Sciences
Richard M. McCourt, Louise A. Lewis, Paul K. Strother, Charles F. Delwiche, Norman J. Wickett, Jan de Vries, John L. Bowman
Summary: Green plants, including green algae and land plants, successfully evolved from aquatic to terrestrial environments multiple times throughout history. This transition allowed for the colonization of various drier habitats on Earth, leading to a diverse and dominant land plant ecosystem for the past 500 million years. This review examines the process of greening the land from different perspectives and highlights the gaps in our understanding of this important event in the evolution of life on Earth.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Tom J. Fisher, Eduardo Flores-Sandoval, John P. Alvarez, John L. Bowman
Summary: This study provides the first characterization of PIN proteins in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. The MpPIN1 protein is localized in the plasma membrane and plays essential roles in plant growth and development, including the regulation of leaf and flower development. These findings contribute to our understanding of signal transduction and directional growth in plant development.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Shilpi Singh, Kevin M. Davies, David Chagne, John L. Bowman
Summary: Liverworts are a primary land plant lineage with chromosomal sex determination. The evolution of monoicy in Ricciocarpos natans is proposed to involve chromosomal rearrangements and redistribution of essential genes. Similar genomic rearrangements may have occurred in other monoicous liverworts. These findings provide insights into the rewiring of genetic networks controlling sex determination.
Review
Plant Sciences
John L. Bowman
Summary: The origin of land plants had significant impacts on the evolution of life and the geology of the Earth. Through the evolution of complex multicellularity, land plants diversified rapidly and dominated terrestrial habitats. Genome sequences have provided insights into the genetic basis for the origin of land plants, with the evolution of embryos being critical to their rise to dominance.
