Tag: agriculture
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What guidelines can be provided for aspiring microbial cartographers?
Consider, for example, the starting and ending time point of a fecal transplantation series , where it’s obvious that the clusters are statistically significantly different, but it is not obvious what direction this difference is in or what it means. However, when we perform a meta-analysis and put these samples in the context of the Human…
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Several studies investigated the health potential of supplementing PP into animal feed
In 2015, about 282,000 tons of pomegranate fruit were grown in California, with an economic value of $115.4 million . Pomegranate consists of three major parts , namely pomegranate peel , pomegranate seed , and pomegranate aril that is the flesh part for pomegranate juice production. Teh studied the different fruit part distribution of 5 pomegranate cultivars grown…
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The PRC matrices were produced using a custom lisp function
A third use of PMN is in genome annotation. Gupta et al. used RNA-seq data from blueberry to annotate a draft genome sequence for the plant. Gene models were BLASTed against metabolic genes from AraCyc and other species-specific pathway genome databases, and the results were used to improve the annotations. The annotations were then used to examine…
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The system of equations that governs fire dynamics is very complex
Differences in the relative strength and role of the stream wise and cross-stream turbulent eddies in fire spread and the relative importance of some terms of the TKE budget over others at each of the measurement heights have been discussed, based on fire intensity and the surface-fire environment. Shear production and buoyancy production in sub-canopy surface…
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The consequences of this increasing reliance upon ready-to-eat food is not yet clear
Crew members could taste the food before making their selections. As mentioned before, taste testing the food ahead of time could promote greater food satisfaction by getting crew members accustomed to the food. However, they should be reminded that in the spacecraft, they may experience digestive discomfort and they may therefore want to select foods that would…
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The first method we pursued was conducting ancestral state reconstructions
Targeting these mediators may be a novel therapeutic strategy for anti-fibrosis and anti-tumor treatment. Many small molecules suppress EMT by targeting these mediators, including commercial drugs and compounds derived from natural products. In addition, these compounds that target EMT have shown anticancer effects on multiple types of cancer. For example, luteolin not only attenuated gastric…
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Egg clutches and pupae were topically exposed to each of the seven pesticides
The other pesticides tested caused only low rates of acute mortality in H. convergens and were considered harmless. However, in addition to direct effects on mortality, it is also important to test for potential sublethal effects of pesticide exposure, such as effects on development time, sex ratio, fecundity, or fertility, before concluding whether a particular…
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Dispersal is the stochastic process by which taxa move between local communities
We specifically highlight studies that address assembly processes during seed development and maturation, as these stages are understudied compared to seed dormancy and germination, and they are likely the source of microbes that persist between plant generations . Lastly, we suggest future lines of research to gain a more mechanistic, scale-explicit understanding of seed microbiome…
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It is well established that diet itself can prolong or shorten lifespan
There is no known effective regimen for this rare malignancy. Several case reports describe treatment regimens involving surgical resection with adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation treatment; however, survival rates are exceedingly low. The presence of disseminated metastases, present in many patients at diagnosis, precludes surgical resection, and in most cases no treatment is able to be…
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A number of other factors also regulate stilbene synthase expression and resveratrol production
In comparison with synthetic chemicals, natural ingredients are generally considered to be cheaper and more widely available, but still exhibit comparable benefits. Among natural ingredients, bio-flavonoids, including hesperidin, apigenin, epigallocatechin gallate, and resveratrol, exhibit a wide spectrum of biological activities, including antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antiaging, and UV protection, while improving cutaneous functions. In this article, we…