Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1103: Automatic Identification of Players in the Flavonoid Biosynthesis with Application on the Biomedicinal Plant Croton tiglium Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091103 Authors: Boas Pucker Franziska Reiher Hanna Marie Schilbert The flavonoid biosynthesis is a well-characterised model system for specialised metabolism and transcriptional regulation in plants. Flavonoids have numerous biological functions such as UV protection and pollinator attraction, but also...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1105: Photosynthetic Traits and Nitrogen Uptake in Crops: Which Is the Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi? Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091105 Authors: Raffaella Balestrini Cecilia Brunetti Walter Chitarra Luca Nerva Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are root symbionts that provide mineral nutrients to the host plant in exchange for carbon compounds. AM fungi positively affect several aspects of plant life, improving nutrition and leading to a better growth,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1101: Differential Evolution of α-Glucan Water Dikinase (GWD) in Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091101 Authors: Muyiwa S. Adegbaju Olanrewaju B. Morenikeji Eli J. Borrego André O. Hudson Bolaji N. Thomas The alpha-glucan water dikinase (GWD) enzyme catalyzes starch phosphorylation, an integral step in transitory starch degradation. The high phosphate content in stored starch has great industrial value, due to its physio–chemical properties...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1100: The East Asian Winter Monsoon Acts as a Major Selective Factor in the Intraspecific Differentiation of Drought-Tolerant Nitraria tangutorum in Northwest China Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091100 Authors: Hengxia Yin Lirong Wang Yong Shi Chaoju Qian Huakun Zhou Wenying Wang Xiao-Fei Ma Lam-Son Phan Tran Benyin Zhang The influence of Quaternary climate fluctuation on the geographical structure and genetic diversity of species distributed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1099: Temporal Variation of Phenolic and Mineral Composition in Olive Leaves Is Cultivar Dependent Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091099 Authors: Igor Pasković Igor Lukić Paula Žurga Valerija Majetić Germek Mia Brkljača Olivera Koprivnjak Nikola Major Kristina Grozić Mario Franić Dean Ban Šime Marcelić Smiljana Goreta Ban In order to investigate the potential of various olive cultivars and leaf sampling times for phytochemical farming...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1102: Effects of Green Brazilian Propolis Alcohol Extract on Nociceptive Pain Models in Rats Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091102 Authors: Mohammed T. Al-Hariri Turki S. Abualait Pain is one of the most common symptoms encountered in the medical practice. None of the management procedures used currently offer a complete relief for patients suffering from nociceptive pain. New treatment strategies for pain management are needed. Propolis has been used in traditional...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 442: From Secular to Sacred: Bringing Work to Church Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090442 Authors: Elaine Howard Ecklund Denise Daniels Rachel C. Schneider Work and faith are significant life commitments for many people. Understanding how people integrate these facets of life is important for scholars, faith leaders, and religious communities. We use data from Faith at Work: An Empirical Study, which includes a U.S. general population survey (n = 13,270)...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 441: Interreligious Dialogue in Public Service Broadcasting. A Case Study in Catalonia (Spain) Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090441 Authors: Amparo Huertas Bailén This text addresses how the media deals with interreligious dialogue based on the case study of the Catalan public television stations. Our theoretical framework revolves around the concept of mediation, which is regarded as a communicative concept that emphasizes the socializing power of the mass media...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 103: Variability of Air Temperature, Precipitation and Outflows in the Vistula Basin (Poland) Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9090103 Authors: Katarzyna Kubiak-Wójcicka This study examines trends in temperature, precipitation and discharge rates over a 65-year observation period (1951–2015) and compares the two sub-periods 1951–1980 and 1981–2015. The research was carried out on annual and monthly values. The research area is the...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 102: Assessment of the Renewable Energy Sector Performance Using Selected Indicators in European Union Countries Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9090102 Authors: Dominika Čeryová Tatiana Bullová Natália Turčeková Izabela Adamičková Danka Moravčíková Peter Bielik Renewable energy is the key pillar and plays an important role in the energy systems of European Union member states and in mitigating climate change. It is supporting the transition towards...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 550: Fraternine, a Novel Wasp Peptide, Protects against Motor Impairments in 6-OHDA Model of Parkinsonism Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090550 Authors: Andréia Mayer Biolchi Danilo Gustavo Rodrigues de Oliveira Henrique de Oliveira Amaral Gabriel Avohay Alves Campos Jacqueline Coimbra Gonçalves Adolfo Carlos Barros de Souza Marcos Robalinho Lima Luciano Paulino Silva Márcia Renata Mortari Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 549: Jitter Evaluation in Distant and Adjacent Muscles after Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A Injection in 78 Cases Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090549 Authors: Joao Aris Kouyoumdjian Carla Renata Graça Fabio Nazare Oliveira To study the jitter parameters in the distant (DM) and the adjacent muscle (AM) after botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) injection in 78 patients, jitter was measured by voluntary activation in DM (n = 43), and in AM (n = 35). Patients were...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 482: Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030482 Authors: Jiahao Wang Rize Jing Xiaozhen Lai Haijun Zhang Yun Lyu Maria Deloria Knoll Hai Fang Background: Faced with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the development of COVID-19 vaccines has been progressing at an unprecedented rate. This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination in China and...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 480: Determinants of Vaccination Uptake in Risk Populations: A Comprehensive Literature Review Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030480 Authors: Laura Doornekamp Leanne van Leeuwen Eric van Gorp Helene Voeten Marco Goeijenbier Vaccination uptake has decreased globally in recent years, with a subsequent rise of vaccine-preventable diseases. Travellers, immunocompromised patients (ICP), and healthcare workers (HCW) are groups at increased risk for (severe)...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 481: Recent Advances in the Development of Virus-Like Particle-Based Flavivirus Vaccines Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030481 Authors: Naru Zhang Chaoqun Li Shibo Jiang Lanying Du Flaviviruses include several medically important viruses, such as Zika virus (ZIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), West Nile virus (WNV) and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). They have expanded in geographic distribution and refocused international attention in recent years. Vaccination...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 483: Efficient Removal of Non-Structural Protein Using Chloroform for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Production Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030483 Authors: Sun Young Park Jung-Min Lee Ah-Young Kim Sang Hyun Park Sim-In Lee Hyejin Kim Jae-Seok Kim Jong-Hyeon Park Young-Joon Ko Choi-Kyu Park To differentiate foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)-infected animals from vaccinated livestock, non-structural proteins (NSPs) must be removed during...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 478: Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Is More Difficult to Neutralize by Antibodies Than Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030478 Authors: Christiane Silke Heilingloh Christopher Lull Elissa Kleiser Mira Alt Leonie Schipper Oliver Witzke Mirko Trilling Anna-Maria Eis-Hübinger Ulf Dittmer Adalbert Krawczyk Infections with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2) are a global health burden. Besides painful...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 477: Current Flavivirus Research Important for Vaccine Development Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030477 Authors: Elizabeth Geerling Tara L. Steffen James D. Brien Amelia K. Pinto The Flaviviridae family of RNA viruses includes numerous human disease-causing pathogens that largely are increasing in prevalence due to continual climate change, rising population sizes and improved ease of global travel [...]
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 479: Vaccines against RNA Viruses Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030479 Authors: Juan-Carlos Saiz RNA viruses cause animal, human, and zoonotic diseases that affect millions of individuals, as is being exemplified by the devastating ongoing epidemic of the recently identified SARS-Cov-2 [...]
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 119: A One-Health Model for Reversing Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Decline Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030119 Authors: Philip Donkersley Emily Elsner-Adams Siobhan Maderson Global insect decline impacts ecosystem resilience; pollinators such as honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) have suffered extensive losses over the last decade, threatening food security. Research has focused discretely on in-hive threats (e.g., Nosema and Varroa destructor)...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 953: Structure of the Capsid Size-Determining Scaffold of “Satellite” Bacteriophage P4 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090953 Authors: James L. Kizziah Cynthia M. Rodenburg Terje Dokland P4 is a mobile genetic element (MGE) that can exist as a plasmid or integrated into its Escherichia coli host genome, but becomes packaged into phage particles by a helper bacteriophage, such as P2. P4 is the original example of what we have termed “molecular piracy”,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 952: Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Reactivation by Targeting of a dCas9-Based Transcription Activator to the ORF50 Promoter Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090952 Authors: Endrit Elbasani Francesca Falasco Silvia Gramolelli Veijo Nurminen Thomas Günther Jere Weltner Diego Balboa Adam Grundhoff Timo Otonkoski Päivi M. Ojala CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) has revealed great potential as a tool to modulate the expression of targeted cellular...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 949: Study of a SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in a Belgian Military Education and Training Center in Maradi, Niger Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090949 Authors: Jean-Paul Pirnay Philippe Selhorst Christel Cochez Mauro Petrillo Vincent Claes Yolien Van der Beken Gilbert Verbeken Julie Degueldre France T’Sas Guy Van den Eede Wouter Weuts Cedric Smets Jan Mertens Philippe Geeraerts Kevin K. Ariën Pierre Neirinckx Patrick Soentjens Coronavirus...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 950: Molecular Characterization of Hovenia Dulcis-Associated Virus 1 (HDaV1) and 2 (HDaV2): New Tentative Species within the Order Picornavirales Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090950 Authors: Flávia M. B. Nery Fernando L. Melo Leonardo S. Boiteux Simone G. Ribeiro Renato O. Resende Anelise F. Orílio Josiane G. Batista Mirtes F. Lima Rita C. Pereira-Carvalho In a systematic field survey for plant-infecting viruses, leaf tissues were collected...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 951: Transcriptome Analysis of Rice Reveals the lncRNA–mRNA Regulatory Network in Response to Rice Black-Streaked Dwarf Virus Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090951 Authors: Tianze Zhang Qian Liang Chenyang Li Shuai Fu Jiban Kumar Kundu Xueping Zhou Jianxiang Wu The plant genome can produce long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), some of which have been identified as important regulators of gene expression. To better understand the response mechanism...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 948: Identification and Prevalence of Phascolarctid Gammaherpesvirus Types 1 and 2 in South Australian Koala Populations Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090948 Authors: Vasilli Kasimov Tamsyn Stephenson Natasha Speight Anne-Lise Chaber Wayne Boardman Ruby Easther Farhid Hemmatzadeh To determine Phascolarctid gammaherpesviruses (PhaHV) infection in South Australian koala populations, 80 oropharyngeal swabs from wild-caught and 87 oropharyngeal spleen...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 947: Structure and Sequence Determinants Governing the Interactions of RNAs with Influenza A Virus Non-Structural Protein NS1 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090947 Authors: Alan Wacquiez Franck Coste Emmanuel Kut Virginie Gaudon Sascha Trapp Bertrand Castaing Daniel Marc The non-structural protein NS1 of influenza A viruses is an RNA-binding protein of which its activities in the infected cell contribute to the success of the viral cycle, notably through...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 946: Alternaria alternata Accelerates Loss of Alveolar Macrophages and Promotes Lethal Influenza A Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090946 Authors: Caroline M. Percopo Michelle Ma Eric Mai Jamie L. Redes Laura S. Kraemer Mahnaz Minai Ian N. Moore Kirk M. Druey Helene F. Rosenberg Chronic inhalation of fungi and fungal components has been linked to the development of respiratory disorders, although their role with respect to the pathogenesis...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2410: Microplastic and Fibre Contamination in a Remote Mountain Lake in Switzerland Water doi: 10.3390/w12092410 Authors: Angel de Jesús Negrete Velasco Lionel Rard Wilfried Blois David Lebrun Franck Lebrun Franck Pothe Serge Stoll The contamination of aquatic environments by microplastics has been largely documented in the last years, especially in oceans, rivers, and lakes, but their occurrence in remote mountain lakes has been scarcely considered....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2411: Clustering of Time Series Water Quality Data Using Dynamic Time Warping: A Case Study from the Bukhan River Water Quality Monitoring Network Water doi: 10.3390/w12092411 Authors: Seulbi Lee Jaehoon Kim Jongyeon Hwang EunJi Lee Kyoung-Jin Lee Jeongkyu Oh Jungsu Park Tae-Young Heo It is essential to monitor water quality for river water management because river water is used for various purposes and is directly related to the health and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2409: On the Origin of Deep Soil Water Infiltration in the Arid Sandy Region of China Water doi: 10.3390/w12092409 Authors: Yiben Cheng Wenbin Yang Hongbin Zhan Qunou Jiang Mingchang Shi Yunqi Wang Soil water moisture is one of the most important influencing factors in the fragile ecosystems in arid sandy regions, and it serves as a bridge connecting the rainfall and groundwater, two important water sources in arid sandy regions. The hydrological...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2405: Modelling Prospective Flood Hazard in a Changing Climate, Benevento Province, Southern Italy Water doi: 10.3390/w12092405 Authors: Luigi Guerriero Giuseppe Ruzza Domenico Calcaterra Diego Di Martire Francesco M. Guadagno Paola Revellino The change of the Earth’s climate and the increasing human action (e.g., increasing impervious areas) are influencing the recurrence and magnitude of flooding events and consequently the exposure of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2407: Generalizing Fuzzy SARSA Learning for Real-Time Operation of Irrigation Canals Water doi: 10.3390/w12092407 Authors: Kazem Shahverdi J. M. Maestre Farinaz Alamiyan-Harandi Xin Tian Recently, a continuous reinforcement learning model called fuzzy SARSA (state, action, reward, state, action) learning (FSL) was proposed for irrigation canals. The main problem related to FSL is its convergence and generalization in environments with many variables such...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2406: Genetic Structure and Population Demography of White-Spotted Charr in the Upstream Watershed of a Large Dam Water doi: 10.3390/w12092406 Authors: Souta Nakajima Shun K. Hirota Ayumi Matsuo Yoshihisa Suyama Futoshi Nakamura White-spotted charr (Salvelinus leucomaenis leucomaenis) is an anadromous fish that has been severely harmed by human land-use development, particularly through habitat fragmentation. However, the anthropogenic impacts on populations...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2408: Why (Not) Desalination? Exploring Driving Factors from Irrigation Communities’ Perception in South-East Spain Water doi: 10.3390/w12092408 Authors: Rubén Villar-Navascués Sandra Ricart Salvador Gil-Guirado Antonio M. Rico-Amorós Ana Arahuetes Desalination for sustaining agricultural production is conceived as an alternative water source in some Mediterranean countries faced with climatological and hydrological constraints. Although high costs are...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2404: Critical Continuous Rainfall Map for Forecasting Shallow Landslide Initiations in Busan, Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w12092404 Authors: Joon-Young Park Seung-Rae Lee Seboong Oh Jung Hyun Lee Jun-Seo Jeon Young-Suk Song Hyun-Su Park In recent years, precipitation patterns in Korea have shifted to be characterized as short and intense rainfalls. In consideration of shallow landslide initiations primarily governed by heavy rainfalls at short-time...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2403: Underground Barrier Wall Evaluation for Controlling Saltwater Intrusion in Sloping Unconfined Coastal Aquifers Water doi: 10.3390/w12092403 Authors: Asaad M. Armanuos Nadhir Al-Ansari Zaher Mundher Yaseen Barrier walls are considered one of the most effective methods for facilitating the retreat of saltwater intrusion (SWI). This research plans to examine the effect of using barrier walls for controlling of SWI in sloped unconfined aquifers. The sloping...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2402: An Eighteen Year Temporal Trends Analysis of Bifenthrin Sediment Concentrations in California Waterbodies Water doi: 10.3390/w12092402 Authors: Lenwood W. Hall Ronald D. Anderson The goal of this study was to conduct long-term temporal trends analysis of bifenthrin sediment concentrations for measurements conducted from 2001 to 2019 in California waterbodies. Long-term data sites defined as spanning 6 years were available for 143 sites but 17 of these sites...
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