Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 536: Comparative Analysis of the YABBY Gene Family of Bienertia sinuspersici, a Single-Cell C4 Plant Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8120536 Authors: Soundararajan Won Park Lee Kim The emergence and expression of the YABBY gene family (YGF) coincided with the evolution of leaves in seed plants, and was integral to the early evidence of lamina followed by reproductive development. YGF contains six subclasses, i.e., CRC, INO, FIL, YAB2, YAB3, and YAB5....
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 534: Methyljasmonate Elicitation Increases Terpenoid Indole Alkaloid Accumulation in Rhazya stricta Hairy Root Cultures Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8120534 Authors: Amir Akhgari Into Laakso Hannu Maaheimo Young Hae Choi Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey Heiko Rischer Methyl jasmonate is capable of initiating or improving the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in plants and therefore has opened up a concept for the biosynthesis...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 645: The Buddha’s Empirically Testable “Ten Criteria” Challenges the Authenticity of Truth Claims: A Critical Review and Its Potential Applicability to Debunking the Various Post-Truths Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10120645 Authors: Choi Choo Modern readers who investigate religious theories and practices are exposed to diverse truth claims and worldviews. Such claims are often conflicting and subject the readers to various misconceptions and misguidance....
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 322: Culture and Art Education to Promote Cultural Welfare in Civil Society Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8120322 Authors: Song Kim Today, intellectual education based on the various experiences and emotions of citizens through culture and art education draws attention in terms of obtaining improvements in social welfare. Citizens can become further aware of culture and art and get a wider range of benefits in cultural welfare. Culture and art...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 80: Millennials and ICT—Findings from the Technology 4 Young Adults (T4YA) project: An Exploratory Study Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9040080 Authors: Marston Information communication technology (ICT) is becoming a pivotal element in the twenty-first century, and while there has been substantial work conducted to understand ICT use by older adults, there is a paucity of knowledge relating to ICT use and behavior by Millennials. The Technology 4 Young Adults (T4YA)...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 686: Tables of Toxicity of Botulinum and Tetanus Neurotoxins Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11120686 Authors: Rossetto Montecucco Tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins are the most poisonous substances known, so much so as to be considered for a possible terrorist use. At the same time, botulinum neurotoxin type A1 is successfully used to treat a variety of human syndromes characterized by hyperactive cholinergic nerve terminals. The extreme toxicity of these neurotoxins...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 685: SrfABC Toxin from Xenorhabdus stockiae Induces Cytotoxicity and Apoptosis in HeLa Cells Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11120685 Authors: Yawei Sun Guoyong Zhang Xiaoqing Hou Shuai Xiao Xi Yang Yali Xie Xiyin Huang Fan Wang Xiangtao Mo Xuezhi Ding Liqiu Xia Shengbiao Hu Our previous study showed that the srfABC operon, which was originally identified in Salmonella enterica as an SsrB-regulated operon clustered with the flagellar...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 684: Mycotoxin Dietary Exposure Assessment through Fruit Juices Consumption in Children and Adult Population Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11120684 Authors: Noelia Pallarés Dionisia Carballo Emilia Ferrer Mónica Fernández-Franzón Houda Berrada Consumption of fruit juice is becoming trendy for consumers seeking freshness and high vitamin and low caloric intake. Mycotoxigenic moulds may infect fruits during crop growth, harvest, and storage leading to mycotoxin...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 193: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 Hemagglutinin Fused with the A Subunit of Type IIb Escherichia coli Heat Labile Enterotoxin Elicited Protective Immunity and Neutralization by Intranasal Immunization in Mouse and Chicken Models Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040193 Authors: Neos Tang Shi-Wei Lin Ting-Hsuan Chen Jia-Tsrong Jan Hung-Yi Wu Suh-Chin Wu Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses are classified by the World Organization for Animal...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 192: Application of HDR-CRISPR/Cas9 and Erythrocyte Binding for Rapid Generation of Recombinant Turkey Herpesvirus-Vectored Avian Influenza Virus Vaccines Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040192 Authors: Pengxiang Chang Faisal Ameen Joshua E. Sealy Jean-Remy Sadeyen Sushant Bhat Yongqing Li Munir Iqbal Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are highly contagious and have caused huge economical loss to the poultry industry. AIV vaccines remain one of the...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1087: Codon Usage in the Iflaviridae Family Is Not Diverse Though the Family Members Are Isolated from Diverse Host Taxa Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11121087 Authors: Sheng-Lin Shi Run-Xi Xia All iflavirus members belong to the unique genus, Iflavirus, of the family, Iflaviridae. The host taxa and sequence identities of these viruses are diverse. A codon usage bias, maintained by a balance between selection, mutation, and genetic drift, exists in a wide variety of...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1088: Identification of a Novel Adélie Penguin Circovirus at Cape Crozier (Ross Island, Antarctica) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11121088 Authors: Virginia Morandini Katie M. Dugger Grant Ballard Megan Elrod Annie Schmidt Valeria Ruoppolo Amélie Lescroël Dennis Jongsomjit Melanie Massaro Jean Pennycook Gerald L. Kooyman Kara Schmidlin Simona Kraberger David G. Ainley Arvind Varsani Understanding the causes of disease in Antarctic...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1086: Identification of Nuclear Localization Signals in the ORF2 Protein of Porcine Circovirus Type 3 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11121086 Authors: Chunxiao Mou Minmin Wang Shuonan Pan Zhenhai Chen Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) contains two major open reading frames (ORFs) and the ORF2 gene encodes the major structural capsid protein. In this study, nuclear localization of ORF2 was demonstrated by fluorescence observation and subcellular fractionation assays...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2457: Spatial-Temporal Differences in Water Footprints of Grain Crops in Northwest China: LMDI Decomposition Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w11122457 Authors: Shi Wang Zhang Zhang Agriculture and crop production is the sector with the highest water demand, and because of water shortages and an unbalanced distribution of natural resources in China, improving the efficiency of agricultural water use is essential. In this study, we quantified the total water...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2458: Scaling of Scour Depth at Bridge Pier Based on Characteristic Dimension of Large-Scale Vortex Water doi: 10.3390/w11122458 Authors: Cheng Wei By examining the variations in the dimensions of a horseshoe vortex system in front of a pier, the present study proposes a new length scale, called pier hydraulic radius, for the scaling of the maximum scour depth at a bridge pier. It is shown that, in comparison with other length scales, the pier hydraulic radius...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2456: Simulation of Water and Salt Transport in Soil under Pipe Drainage and Drip Irrigation Conditions in Xinjiang Water doi: 10.3390/w11122456 Authors: Li Liu He Li With the popularization and development of drip irrigation under film, the problem of secondary soil salinization in Xinjiang is becoming more and more serious. To explore water and salt transport in drip irrigation under mulch and drainpipe drainage, drainage tests of drainage ditches...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2454: Flood Monitoring Based on the Study of Sentinel-1 SAR Images: The Ebro River Case Study Water doi: 10.3390/w11122454 Authors: Francisco Carreño Conde María De Mata Muñoz Flooding is the most widespread hydrological hazard worldwide that affects water management, nature protection, economic activities, hydromorphological alterations on ecosystem services, and human health. The mitigation of the risks associated with flooding requires a certain management...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2455: Drought Trend Analysis Based on the Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index Using NASA’s Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections, High Spatial Resolution Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Projections, and Assessment of Potential Impacts on China’s Crop Yield in the 21st Century Water doi: 10.3390/w11122455 Authors: Guo Yang Li You Zeng Cao Hong Drought is among the costliest natural disasters on both...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2453: Analysis of the Behavior of Daily Maximum Rainfall within the Department of Atlántico, Colombia Water doi: 10.3390/w11122453 Authors: Viloria-Marimón González-Álvarez Mouthón-Bello In the Colombian Caribbean region, there are few studies that evaluated the behavior of one of the most commonly used variables in hydrological analyses: the maximum daily rainfall (Pmax-24h). In this study, multiannual Pmax-24h time series from 19 rain gauges, located...
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