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PMC8586421
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{ "abstract": "In the ecosystem, microbiome widely exists in soil, animals, and plants. With the rapid development of computational biology, sequencing technology and omics analysis, the important role of soil beneficial microbial community is being revealed. In this review, we mainly summarized the roles of rhizosph...
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{ "abstract": "Microbial communities are complex living systems that populate the planet with diverse functions and are increasingly harnessed for practical human needs. To deepen the fundamental understanding of their organization and functioning as well as to facilitate their engineering for applications, mathemati...
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PMC6908701
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Dust is an important iron (Fe) source to the ocean, but its utilization by phytoplankton is constrained by rapid sinking and slow dissolution dust-bound iron (dust-Fe). Colonies of the globally important cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium , overcome these constraints by efficient dust capturing and active ...
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33906693
PMC8077780
pmc
5,375
{ "abstract": "Synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials such as metal nanoparticles (MNPs) using various biological entities as smart nanofactories has emerged as one of the foremost scientific endeavors in recent years. The biosynthesis process is environmentally friendly, cost-effective and easy to be scaled up, and ca...
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{ "abstract": "Living cells communicate and cooperate to produce the emergent properties of tissues. Synthetic mimics of cells, such as liposomes, are typically incapable of cooperation and therefore cannot readily display sophisticated collective behavior. We printed tens of thousands of picoliter aqueous droplets t...
226
39435150
PMC11492093
pmc
5,384
{ "abstract": "Summary Microbes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems play crucial roles in driving ecosystem functions, but currently, there is a lack of comparison regarding their taxonomic and functional diversities. Here, we conducted a global analysis to investigate the disparities in microbial taxonomy and micr...
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38730945
PMC11085887
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Environmental pollution and energy crises have garnered global attention. The substantial discharge of organic waste into water bodies has led to profound environmental contamination. Photocatalytic fuel cells (PFCs) enabling the simultaneous removal of refractory contaminants and recovery of the chemi...
1,262
38327185
PMC10894034
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The way strong environmental gradients shape multispecific assemblages has allowed us to examine a suite of ecological and evolutionary hypotheses about structure, regulation and community responses to fluctuating environments. But whether the highly diverse co-occurring microorganisms are sha...
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{ "abstract": "Integrating light-harvesting materials with microbial biochemistry is a viable approach to produce chemicals with high efficiency from the air, water, and sunlight. Yet it remains unclear whether all absorbed photons in the materials can be transferred through the material-biology interface for solar-t...
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{ "abstract": "Mechanical stimuli play a critical role in organ development, tissue homeostasis, and disease. Understanding how mechanical signals are processed in multicellular model systems is critical for connecting cellular processes to tissue- and organism-level responses. However, progress in the field that stu...
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PMC9663904
pmc
5,394
{ "abstract": "Summary Energy harvesting technologies that convert fluid energy into usable electrical energy are of great significance, especially in long-distance pipeline systems. Here, in order to avoid the collision of conventional galloping triboelectric nanogenerators (GTENGs), and cause material damage or noi...
7,862
34467290
PMC8395679
pmc
5,395
{ "abstract": "Biological\nfunneling of lignin-derived aromatic compounds is a\npromising approach for valorizing its catalytic depolymerization products.\nIndustrial processes for aromatic bioconversion will require efficient\nenzymes for key reactions, including demethylation of O -methoxy-aryl groups, an essentia...
1,538
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PMC11184938
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Butyl butyrate is a short‐chain fatty acid ester (C8) with a fruity aroma. It has broad prospects in the fields of foods, cosmetics and biofuels. At present, butyl butyrate is produced by chemical synthesis in the industry, but it is highly dependent on petroleum‐based products. The growing co...
1,827
27685330
PMC5042559
pmc
5,403
{ "abstract": "Understanding plant-microbe relationships can be important for developing management strategies for invasive plants, particularly when these relationships interact with underlying variables, such as habitat type and seedbank density, to mediate control efforts. In a field study located in California, U...
3,170
31052425
PMC6571658
pmc
5,404
{ "abstract": "Currently, many meshes, membranes, and fabrics with extreme wettability of superhydrophobicity/superoleophilicity, or superhydrophilicity and underwater superoleophobicity are promising candidates for oil/water mixture separation. Nevertheless, a facile yet effective way to design and fabricate porous ...
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37325624
PMC10264669
pmc
5,405
{ "introduction": "1 Introduction A leading thinker on inflammation wrote that “inflammation is associated with almost every major human disease” ( 1 ). Inflammation is a defense process of the body against stimuli and a biological response of the immune system to harmful stimuli ( 2 ). Inflammation is usually benefi...
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PMC5753390
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Microbial functional diversification is driven by environmental factors, i.e. microorganisms inhabiting the same environmental niche tend to be more functionally similar than those from different environments. In some cases, even closely phylogenetically related microbes differ more across env...
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{ "abstract": "Regenerated silkworm silk solutions formed metastable, soft-solid-like materials (e-gels) under weak electric fields, displaying interesting mechanical characteristics such as dynamic adhesion and strain stiffening. Raman spectroscopy, in situ electric field dynamic oscillatory rheology and polarized o...
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PMC10903745
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Resistive switching\ndevices based on the Au/Ti/TiO 2 /Au\nstack were developed. In addition to standard electrical characterization\nby means of I – V curves, scanning\nthermal microscopy was employed to localize the hot spots on the top\ndevice surface (linked to conductive nanofilaments, CNFs) and...
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{ "abstract": "Oscillations between reducing and oxidizing conditions are observed at the interface of anaerobic/oxic and anaerobic/anoxic environments, and are often stimulated by an alternating flux of electron donors (e.g., organic carbon) and electron acceptors (e.g., O2 and NO3(-)). In iron (Fe) rich soils and s...
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PMC6420082
pmc
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{ "abstract": "With regard to social and environmental sustainability, second-generation biofuel and biogas production from lignocellulosic material provides considerable potential, since lignocellulose represents an inexhaustible, ubiquitous natural resource, and is therefore one important step towards independence ...
1,237
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PMC5996133
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Trees are crucial for sustaining life on our planet. Forests and land devoted to tree crops do not only supply essential edible products to humans and animals, but also additional goods such as paper or wood. They also prevent soil erosion, support microbial, animal, and plant biodiversity, play key ro...
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PMC4147887
pmc
5,415
{ "abstract": "Motivation: Genome-scale metabolic reconstructions summarize current knowledge about a target organism in a structured manner and as such highlight missing information. Such gaps can be filled algorithmically. Scalability limitations of available algorithms for gap filling hinder their application to ...
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PMC9602832
pmc
5,418
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Forest succession is important for sustainable forest management in terrestrial ecosystems. However, knowledge about the response of soil microbes to forest disease-driven succession is limited. In this study, we investigated the soil fungal biomass, soil enzyme activity, and fungal community ...
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PMC10644656
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Lignocellulose, the most abundant non-edible feedstock on Earth, holds substantial potential for eco-friendly chemicals, fuels, and pharmaceuticals production. Glucose, xylose, and arabinose are primary components in lignocellulose, and their efficient conversion into high-value products is ...
1,153
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PMC9674006
pmc
5,424
{ "abstract": "Fungicides reduce fungal pathogen populations and are essential to food security. Understanding the impacts of fungicides on crop microbiomes is vital to minimizing unintended consequences while maintaining their use for plant protection. However, fungicide disturbance of plant microbiomes has received...
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{ "abstract": "Progress in the field of soft devices-i.e., haptics, robotics, and human-machine interfaces (HRHMIs)-has its basis in the science of polymeric materials and chemical synthesis. However, in examining the relevant literature, we find that most developments have been enabled by off-the-shelf materials use...
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PMC6158934
pmc
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{ "abstract": "An increase in the number of publications in recent years indicates that besides ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) may play an important role in nitrogen removal from wastewater, gaining wide attention in the wastewater engineering field. This paper reviews the current k...
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PMC6297361
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Nitrogen (N) deposition and precipitation could profoundly influence the structure and function of forest ecosystems. However, conventional studies with understory additions of nitrogen and water largely ignored canopy-associated ecological processes and may have not accurately reflected the natural si...
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PMC7758711
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary The eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities are predicted to affect both the tempo and trajectory of evolution in constituent species [ 1 ]. While community composition determines available niche space, species sorting dynamically alters composition, changing over time the distributi...
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PMC6170577
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Insects from the order Embioptera (webspinners) spin silk fibres which are less than 200 nm in diameter. In this work, we characterized and compared the diameters of single silk fibres from nine species— Antipaluria urichi , Pararhagadochir trinitatis , Saussurembia calypso , Diradius vandykei , Ap...
7,195
32770001
PMC7414886
pmc
5,433
{ "abstract": "Microbial production of adipic acid from lignin-derived monomers, such as catechol, is a greener alternative to the petrochemical-based process. Here, we produced adipic acid from catechol using catechol 1,2-dioxygenase (CatA) and a muconic acid reductase (MAR) in Escherichia coli . As the reaction pr...
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{ "abstract": "During the early days of molecular biology, cell-free protein synthesis played an essential role in deciphering the genetic code and contributed to our understanding of translation of protein from messenger RNA. Owing to several decades of major and incremental improvements, modern cell-free systems ha...
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PMC8709429
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Room temperature liquid metal (LM) showcases a great promise in the fields of flexible functional thin film due to its favorable characteristics of flexibility, inherent conductivity, and printability. Current fabrication strategies of liquid metal film are substrate structure specific and sustain from...
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PMC3033426
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{ "abstract": "The phytoplankton community in the oligotrophic open ocean is numerically dominated by the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus , accounting for approximately half of all photosynthesis. In the illuminated euphotic zone where Prochlorococcus grows, reactive oxygen species are continuously generated via ph...
6,008
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PMC6138402
pmc
5,438
{ "abstract": "Habitat-forming species sustain biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in harsh environments through the amelioration of physical stress. Nonetheless, their role in shaping patterns of species distribution under future climate scenarios is generally overlooked. Focusing on coastal systems, we assess ho...
1,580
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PMC10425419
pmc
5,439
{ "abstract": "Microorganisms play essential roles in the health and resilience of cnidarians. Understanding the factors influencing cnidarian microbiomes requires cross study comparisons, yet the plethora of protocols used hampers dataset integration. We unify 16S rRNA gene sequences from cnidarian microbiome studie...
5,006
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PMC11725763
pmc
5,440
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Harnessing in situ microbial communities to clean‐up polluted natural environments is a potentially efficient means of bioremediation, but often the necessary genes to breakdown pollutants are missing. Genetic bioaugmentation, whereby the required genes are delivered to resident bacteria via h...
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PMC11949745
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Field studies of cleaning mutualisms use a variety of methods to quantify behavioral dynamics. Studies in marine systems typically utilize data recorded by human observers on scuba or snorkel or via remote underwater video. The effects of these different methods on cleaner–client behaviors hav...
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PMC4108913
pmc
5,448
{ "abstract": "The potential for production of chemicals from microalgal biomass has been considered as an alternative route for CO 2 mitigation and establishment of biorefineries. This study presents the development of consolidated bioprocessing for succinate production from microalgal biomass using engineered Cor...
1,030
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PMC8359318
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5,449
{ "abstract": "Summary An anaerobic enrichment with CO from sediments of hypersaline soda lakes resulted in a methane‐forming binary culture, whereby CO was utilized by a bacterium and not the methanogenic partner. The bacterial isolate ANCO1 forms a deep‐branching phylogenetic lineage at the level of a new family wi...
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PMC9290524
pmc
5,451
{ "abstract": "Plants have evolved diverse strategies for foraging, e.g., mycorrhizae, modification of root system architecture, and secretion of phosphatase. Despite extensive molecular/physiological studies on individual strategies under laboratory/greenhouse conditions, there is little information about how plants...
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{ "abstract": "A simple strategy for generating stimuli-responsive peptide-based hydrogels " }
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PMC4804515
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{ "abstract": "Background Biofilm formation is an important survival strategy of Salmonella in all environments. By mutant screening, we showed a knock-out mutant of fabR , encoding a repressor of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis (UFA), to have impaired biofilm formation. In order to unravel how this regulator ...
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PMC11051187
pmc
5,455
{ "abstract": "The exceptional corrosion resistance and combined physical and chemical self-cleaning capabilities of superhydrophobic photocatalytic coatings have sparked significant interest among researchers. In this paper, we propose an economical and eco-friendly superhydrophobic epoxy resin coating that incorpor...
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PMC4914502
pmc
5,456
{ "abstract": "Strategic enrichment of microcosms derived from wood foragers can facilitate the discovery of key microbes that produce enzymes for the bioconversion of plant fiber (i.e., lignocellulose) into valuable chemicals and energy. In this study, lignocellulose-degrading microorganisms from the digestive syste...
6,932
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PMC4312070
pmc
5,457
{ "abstract": "Filamentous cells belonging to the candidate bacterial phylum KSB3 were previously identified as the causative agent of fatal filament overgrowth (bulking) in a high-rate industrial anaerobic wastewater treatment bioreactor. Here, we obtained near complete genomes from two KSB3 populations in the biore...
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{ "abstract": "Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under conditions at which these reactions occur, the topology of covalent adaptable networks (CANs) can rearrange, meaning that they...
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{ "abstract": "The past three decades have witnessed steady growth in our ability to harness DNA branched junctions as building blocks for programmable self-assembly of diverse supramolecular architectures. The DNA-origami method, which exploits the availability of long DNA sequences to template sophisticated nanostr...
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PMC9969146
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5,461
{ "introduction": "Introduction Francisella tularensis , the causative agent of tularemia, is found in humans, can produce various clinical symptoms ranging from skin lesions (ulcerous lesion), swollen lymph nodes as well as severe pneumonia, depending on the route of infection. Thus, the disease is defined by the fo...
2,797
39433727
PMC11493965
pmc
5,462
{ "abstract": "The anaerobic oxidation of alkanes is a microbial process that mitigates the flux of hydrocarbon seeps into the oceans. In marine archaea, the process depends on sulphate-reducing bacterial partners to exhaust electrons, and it is generally assumed that the archaeal CO 2 -forming enzymes (CO dehydrogen...
3,552
35131853
PMC8833168
pmc
5,463
{ "abstract": "Significance Microbial cells organized on solid surfaces are the most ancient form of biological communities. Yet how single cells interact with surfaces and integrate a variety of signals to establish a sessile lifestyle is poorly understood. We developed and used sensitive biosensors to determine the...
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5,465
{ "abstract": "Regeneration of functional polymer surfaces after damage or contamination is an unresolved scientific challenge, and also of practical importance. In this proof-of-concept study, we present a method to regenerate a functional surface property using a polymer multi-layer architecture. This is exemplifie...
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PMC10048633
pmc
5,466
{ "abstract": "Polysaccharide-based graft copolymers bearing thermo-responsive grafting chains, exhibiting LCST, have been designed to afford thermo-responsive injectable hydrogels. The good performance of the hydrogel requires control of the critical gelation temperature, T gel . In the present article, we wish to ...
5,587
38107308
PMC10724560
pmc
5,467
{ "abstract": "Integrating two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials into memristor structures has paved the way for emerging 2D materials to be employed in a vast field of memory applications. Bismuth oxyselenide (Bi 2 O 2 Se), a 2D material with high electron mobility, has attracted significant research interes...
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{ "abstract": "The origin of eukaryotic cell size and complexity is often thought to have required an energy excess supplied by mitochondria. Recent observations show energy demands to scale continuously with cell volume, suggesting that eukaryotes do not have higher energetic capacity. However, respiratory membrane ...
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37923724
PMC10624904
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In active matter, particles typically experience mediated interactions, which are not constrained by Newton’s third law and are therefore generically non-reciprocal. Non-reciprocity leads to a rich set of emerging behaviors that are hard to account for starting from the microscopic scale, due to the ab...
2,008
26359181
PMC4628080
pmc
5,470
{ "abstract": "Haloalkaliphilic microorganisms that grow optimally at high-pH and high-salinity conditions can be found in natural environments such as soda lakes. These globally spread lakes harbour interesting anaerobic microorganisms that have the potential of being applied in existing technologies or create new o...
1,342
34644117
PMC8514098
pmc
5,471
{ "abstract": "Coral diversity positively affects corals, but these benefits have limits and are threatened by ongoing species loss.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Loss of biodiversity is altering ecosystems worldwide, negatively affecting their ecological function, sustainability, and provision of ecosystem servi...
4,602
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PMC8945700
pmc
5,472
{ "abstract": "Machine learning\nand signal processing on the edge are poised to\ninfluence our everyday lives with devices that will learn and infer\nfrom data generated by smart sensors and other devices for the Internet\nof Things. The next leap toward ubiquitous electronics requires increased\nenergy efficiency o...
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5,474
{ "abstract": "Phytostabilization of mine tailings acts to mitigate both eolian dispersion and water erosion events which can disseminate barren tailings over large distances. This technology uses plants to establish a vegetative cover to permanently immobilize contaminants in the rooting zone, often requiring additi...
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{ "abstract": "Phytostabilization of mine tailings acts to mitigate both eolian dispersion and water erosion events which can disseminate barren tailings over large distances. This technology uses plants to establish a vegetative cover to permanently immobilize contaminants in the rooting zone, often requiring additi...
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{ "abstract": "No abstract available" }
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PMC3443666
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5,478
{ "abstract": "Background Acid Mine Drainages (AMDs) are extreme environments characterized by very acid conditions and heavy metal contaminations. In these ecosystems, the bacterial diversity is considered to be low. Previous culture-independent approaches performed in the AMD of Carnoulès (France) confirmed this lo...
7,106
31340591
PMC6784372
pmc
5,479
{ "abstract": "The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising environmental biotechnology that has been proposed mainly for power production and wastewater treatment. Though small power output constrains its application for directly operating most electrical devices, great progress in its chemical, electrochemical, and...
1,443
26542393
PMC4819788
pmc
5,480
{ "abstract": "The closely linked fitness of the Epichloë symbiont and the host grass is presumed to align the coevolution of the species towards specialization and mutually beneficial cooperation. Ecological observations demonstrating that Epichloë -grass symbioses can modulate grassland ecosystems via both above...
2,433
34947905
PMC8706314
pmc
5,481
{ "abstract": "Future manned space travel will require efficient recycling of nutrients from organic waste back into food production. Microbial systems are a low-energy, efficient means of nutrient recycling, but their use in a life support system requires predictability and reproducibility in community formation and...
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{ "abstract": "Inspired by this elegant system of cellular adaptivity, we herein report the rational design of a dynamic artificial adaptive system able to sense and respond to environmental stresses in a unique sense-and-respond mode. Utilizing DNA nanotechnology, we constructed an artificial signal feedback network...
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PMC9066182
pmc
5,483
{ "abstract": "The objective of this study is to assess bioelectricity generation, pollutant removal (COD, ammonium, nitrate) and the bacterial communities on anodes in constructed wetlands coupled with microbial fuel cells (CW-MFCs), through feeding the systems with three different types of synthetic wastewater (sys...
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PMC6367776
pmc
5,484
{ "abstract": "Background Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can be used for energy recovery and sludge reduction in wastewater treatment. Electric current density, which represents the rate of wastewater treatment and H 2 production, is not sufficiently high for practical applications of MECs with real wastewater....
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35362106
PMC9324912
pmc
5,485
{ "abstract": "Abstract Seed inoculation with beneficial microorganisms has gained importance as it has been proven to show biostimulant activity in plants, especially in terms of abiotic/biotic stress tolerance and plant growth promotion, representing a sustainable way to ensure yield stability under low input susta...
4,485
40268300
PMC12018069
pmc
5,486
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Microbial communities are often complex and highly diverse, typically with dozens of species sharing spatially‐restricted environments. Within these species, genetic and ecological variation often exists at a much finer scale, with closely related strains coexisting and competing. While the co...
3,887
37428910
PMC10629567
pmc
5,487
{ "abstract": "Significance Weaver ants link their bodies together to form chains over gaps and reach unexplored territories. The decision to join or leave a chain is made by individuals, but has cost implications at the colony level, as longer chains sequester more ants, which cannot perform other tasks. Furthermore...
2,877
26457194
PMC4599204
pmc
5,488
{ "abstract": "Background Filamentous fungi are well known for their ability to degrade lignocellulosic biomass and have a natural ability to convert certain products of biomass degradation, for example glucose, into various organic acids. Organic acids are suggested to give a competitive advantage to filamentous fun...
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PMC7771537
pmc
5,489
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form tight symbiotic relationships with the majority of terrestrial plants and play critical roles in plant P acquisition, adding a further dimension of complexity. The plant-AM fungus-bacterium system is considered a continuum, with the bacteria colonizing not only th...
4,610
38739531
PMC11472818
pmc
5,491
{ "abstract": "Bacteria have evolved various strategies to combat heavy\nmetal\nstress, including the secretion of small molecules, known as metallophores.\nThese molecules hold a potential role in the mitigation of toxic metal\ncontamination from the environment (bioremediation). Herein, we employed\ncombined compar...
6,986
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PMC12019922
pmc
5,492
{ "abstract": "Abstract Advances in tactile and haptic intelligence are driven by development of advanced funtional materials capable of translating subtle physical interactions into precise electrical signals. This study presents an innovative approach to enhancing touch sensitivity by incorporating 3D Zinc Oxide (Z...
7,557
22967216
PMC3495685
pmc
5,494
{ "abstract": "Background A new strain of Geobacter sulfurreducens , strain KN400, produces more electrical current in microbial fuel cells and reduces insoluble Fe(III) oxides much faster than the wildtype strain, PCA. The genome of KN400 was compared to wildtype with the goal of discovering how the network for ext...
10,024
31266970
PMC6606572
pmc
5,495
{ "abstract": "Synthetic fertilizer production is associated with a high environmental footprint, as compounds typically dissolve rapidly leaching emissions to the atmosphere or surface waters. We tested two recovered nutrients with slower release patterns, as promising alternatives for synthetic fertilizers: struvit...
6,049
34276250
PMC8256426
pmc
5,496
{ "abstract": "Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is an abundant and extremely useful material, with widespread applications across society. However, there is an urgent need to develop technologies to valorise post-consumer PET waste to tackle plastic pollution and move towards a circular economy. Whilst PET degradat...
4,429
36259916
PMC9828261
pmc
5,497
{ "abstract": "Abstract Control phenomena in biology usually refer to changes in gene expression and protein translation and modification. In this paper, another mode of regulation is highlighted; we propose that photosynthetic organisms can harness the interplay between localization and delocalization of energy tran...
4,451
37512813
PMC10384328
pmc
5,498
{ "abstract": "In this paper, sediments from the Santiago River were characterized to look for an alternative source of inoculum for biogas production. A proteomic analysis of methane-processing archaea present in these sediments was carried out. The Euryarchaeota superkingdom of archaea is responsible for methane ...
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PMC8385953
pmc
5,499
{ "conclusion": "Conclusions We report that Bd21-3 and Si form a mutualistic symbiosis with a promoting effect on plant yield and development, accompanied by changes in gene expression in both organisms, including putative protein Si effectors and RNAi-related genes. sRNA profiles of both organisms also changed, ...
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PMC10521942
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5,501
{ "abstract": "Abstract   The biotechnological production of methyl ketones is a sustainable alternative to fossil-derived chemical production. To date, the best host for microbial production of methyl ketones is a genetically engineered Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 ∆6 pProd strain, achieving yields of 101 mgg −1...
7,386
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PMC10173193
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5,502
{ "abstract": "Graphical abstract", "conclusion": "Conclusion Our study has important implications for understanding how soil bacterial communities induced by organic fertilization respond to climate extremes. The results reveal that organic amendments could maintain high bacterial diversity during drought and incr...
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PMC4858559
pmc
5,506
{ "abstract": "Summary Type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are nanomachines used for interbacterial killing and intoxication of eukaryotes. Although Vibrio cholerae is a model organism for structural studies on T6SSs, the underlying regulatory network is less understood. A recent study showed that the T6SS is part of...
2,674
37416906
PMC10320358
pmc
5,507
{ "abstract": "Lignin has long been a trait of interest, especially in bioenergy feedstocks such as Populus . While the stem lignin of Populus is well studied, foliar lignin has received significantly less consideration. To this end, leaves from 11 field grown, natural variant Populus trichocarpa genotypes were ...
7,815
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PMC10328015
pmc
5,508
{ "abstract": "The ecological deterioration caused by the continuous and excessive use of synthetic\ninputs in agriculture has prompted the search for environmentally favorable resources for\ncrop production. Many have advocated for the use of soils from termite mounds to improve\nsoil and plant health; therefore, th...
2,753
33014998
PMC7513618
pmc
5,509
{ "abstract": "Over the past decades, enormous progress has been achieved with regard to research on environmentally friendly polymers. One of the most prominent families of such biopolymers are bacterially synthesized polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) that have been known since the 1920s. However, only as recent as the 1...
1,668
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PMC11997550
pmc
5,510
{ "abstract": "Abstract Marine heatwaves occurring against the backdrop of rising global sea surface temperatures have triggered mass coral bleaching and mortality. Irradiance is critical to coral growth but is also an implicating factor in photodamage, leading to the expulsion of symbiotic algae under increased temp...
6,535
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PMC6052697
pmc
5,512
{ "abstract": "Background The production of ethanol through the biochemical conversion of syngas, a mixture of H 2 , CO and CO 2 , has been typically studied using pure cultures. However, mixed microbial consortia may offer a series of benefits such as higher resilience and adaptive capacity, and non-sterile operatio...
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PMC9080261
pmc
5,516
{ "abstract": "Dielectric materials typically demonstrate poor thermal conductivity, which limits their application in emerging technologies in integrated circuits, computer chips, light-emitting diode lamps, and other electronic packaging areas. Using liquid metal microdroplets as inclusions to develop thermal inter...
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms are ubiquitous in nature, yet strategies to direct biofilm behavior without genetic manipulation are limited. Due to the small selection of materials that have been used to successfully grow biofilms, the availability of functional materials that are able to support growth and program microbia...
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38410171
PMC10895711
pmc
5,519
{ "abstract": "Context Anthropogenic and natural disturbances may interact synergistically, magnifying their individual effects on biodiversity. However, few studies have measured responses of ecological communities to multiple stressors at landscape scales. Objectives We use a long-term dataset to test for synergist...
4,300
32525284
PMC8085915
pmc
5,520
{ "abstract": "Summary Anaerobic digesters produce biogas, a mixture of predominantly CH 4 and CO 2 , which is typically incinerated to recover electrical and/or thermal energy. In a context of circular economy, the CH 4 and CO 2 could be used as chemical feedstock in combination with ammonium from the digestate. ...
10,633
27942435
PMC5120057
pmc
5,521
{ "abstract": "Background Rice bran is a by-product of the rice milling process and mostly discarded in Japan. Although many studies have shown that microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are able to generate electricity from organic wastes, limited studies have examined MFCs for generating electricity from rice bran. Findings ...
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37603734
PMC10469513
pmc
5,522
{ "abstract": "Significance Multispecies microbial communities play an essential role in the health of ecosystems ranging from the ocean to the human gut. A major challenge in microbial ecology is to understand and predict which species can coexist within a community. While a simple empirical rule utilizing only pair...
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26137472
PMC4468278
pmc
5,524
{ "abstract": "Biofuels from renewable plant biomass are gaining momentum due to climate change related to atmospheric CO 2 increase. However, the production cost of enzymes required for cellulosic biomass saccharification is a major limiting step in this process. Low-cost production of large amounts of recombinant ...
3,056
39921902
PMC11842047
pmc
5,525
{ "abstract": "Abstract Summary Constraint-based metabolic models offer a scalable framework to investigate biological systems using optimality principles. Construction and simulation of detailed models that utilize multiple kinds of constraint systems pose a significant coding overhead, complicating implementation o...
794
39921902
PMC11842047
pmc
5,525
{ "abstract": "Abstract Summary Constraint-based metabolic models offer a scalable framework to investigate biological systems using optimality principles. Construction and simulation of detailed models that utilize multiple kinds of constraint systems pose a significant coding overhead, complicating implementation o...
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