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{ "abstract": "Intrinsically stretchable semiconductors will facilitate the realization of seamlessly integrated stretchable electronics. However, to date demonstrations of intrinsically stretchable semiconductors have been limited. In this study, a new approach to achieve intrinsically stretchable semiconductors is ...
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PMC11817942
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Intense microbial competition in soil has driven the evolution of resistance mechanisms, yet the implications of such evolution on plant health remain unclear. Our study explored the conversion from antagonism to coexistence between Bacillus velezensis ( Bv ) and Trichoderma guizhouense ( Tg ) and ...
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PMC9402938
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{ "abstract": "Alkaliphilic cyanobacteria have gained significant interest due to their robustness, high productivity, and ability to convert CO 2 into bioenergy and other high value products. Effective nutrient management, such as re-use of spent medium, will be essential to realize sustainable applications with mi...
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PMC10223044
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Sound wave is an extensively existing mechanical wave, especially in marine and industrial plants where low-frequency acoustic waves are ubiquitous. The effective collection and utilization of sound waves provide a fresh new approach to supply power for the distributed nodes of the rapidly developing I...
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36593317
PMC9807645
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In insect-pollinated plants, the foraging behavior of pollinators affects their pattern of movement. If distinct bee species vary in their foraging behaviors, different models may best describe their movement. In this study, we quantified and compared the fine scale movement of three bee species foragi...
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PMC5603288
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Microbial ecologists are increasingly turning to small, synthesized ecosystems 1 – 5 as a reductionist tool to probe the complexity of native microbiomes 6 , 7 . Concurrently, synthetic biologists have gone from single-cell gene circuits 8 – 11 to controlling whole populations using intercellular sig...
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PMC10925793
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Stover mulching, as a sustainable agricultural conservation practice, has been shown to effectively increase soil organic matter and enhance crop yields. The impact of stover mulching on soil microorganisms has been extensively studied. However, less attention has been given to endophytic and rhizosphe...
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PMC8498467
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial signaling histidine kinases (HKs) have long been postulated to function exclusively through linear signal transduction chains. However, several HKs have recently been shown to form complex multikinase networks (MKNs). The most prominent MKN, involving the enzymes RetS and GacS, controls the s...
2,503
25348004
PMC4210941
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Vibration energy harvesters scavenge energy from mechanical vibrations to energise low power electronic devices. In this work, we report on vibration energy harvesting scheme based on the charging phenomenon occurring naturally between two bodies with different work functions. Such work function energy...
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{ "abstract": "Collagen mimetic peptides that alone formed two-dimensional nanoscale discs driven by hydrophobic interactions were shown in electron microscopy studies to also co-assemble with natural fibrous proteins to produce discs-on-a-string (DoS) nanostructures. In most cases, peptide discs also facilitated bun...
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28775265
PMC5543068
pmc
8,939
{ "abstract": "Today the high demand for electronics leads to massive production of waste, thus green materials based electronic devices are becoming more important for environmental protection and sustainability. The biomaterial based hydrogels are widely used in tissue engineering, but their uses in photonics are l...
5,003
38550695
PMC10967257
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Smooth interfaces embedded with low surface free energy allow effortless sliding of beaded droplets of selected liquids—with homogeneous wettability. Such slippery interfaces display low or moderate contact angles, unlike other extremely liquid repellent interfaces ( e.g. superhydrophobic). These slip...
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PMC9204736
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) have made significant progress in recent years in all aspects of their technology. BESs usually work with a membrane or a separator, which is one of their most critical components affecting performance. Quite often, biofilm from either the anolyte or catholyte ...
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35620795
PMC9127357
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Silk fibroin is a biobased material with excellent biocompatibility and mechanical properties, but its use in bioelectronics is hampered by the difficult dissolution and low intrinsic conductivity. Some ionic liquids are known to dissolve fibroin but removed after fibroin processing. However, ionic liq...
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PMC11166799
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Due to the loss of photosynthetic ability during evolution, some plant species rely on mycorrhizal fungi for their carbon source, and this nutritional strategy is known as mycoheterotrophy. Mycoheterotrophic plants forming Paris -type arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) exhibit two distinctive mycorrhizal fea...
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{ "abstract": "Polyketide synthases (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) comprise biosynthetic pathways that provide access to diverse, often bioactive natural products. Metabolic engineering can improve production metrics to support characterization and drug-development studies, but often native hosts a...
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37440531
PMC10415592
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Many aerobic microbes can utilize alternative electron acceptors under oxygen-limited conditions. In some cases, this is mediated by extracellular electron transfer (or EET), wherein electrons are transferred to extracellular oxidants such as iron oxide and manganese oxide minerals. Here, we s...
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PMC9322151
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Several activities in the agriculture sector lead to the accumulation of Nickel (Ni) in soil. Therefore, effective and economical ways to reduce soil bioavailability of Ni must be identified. Five isolates of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar Viceae (ICARDA 441, ICARDA 36, ICARDA 39, TAL–1148, and ARC–2...
3,149
38224956
PMC10847717
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Microbiome-based solutions are regarded key for sustainable agroecosystems. However, it is unclear how agricultural practices affect the rhizosphere microbiome, plant–microorganism interactions and crop performance under field conditions. Therefore, we installed root observation windows in a w...
5,869
28705169
PMC5513249
pmc
8,950
{ "abstract": "Moth-eye nanostructures, discovered to coat corneae of certain nocturnal insects, have inspired numerous technological applications to reduce light reflectance from solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and optical detectors. Technological developments require such nanocoatings to possess broadband antir...
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PMC5640696
pmc
8,952
{ "abstract": "The rapid development of synthetic biology has conferred almost perfect modification on single cells, and provided methodological support for synthesizing microbial consortia, which have a much wider application potential than synthetic single cells. Co-cultivating multiple cell populations with ration...
1,879
31700196
PMC6837881
pmc
8,953
{ "abstract": "Microorganisms are critical in mediating carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling processes in soils. Yet, it has long been debated whether the processes underlying biogeochemical cycles are affected by the composition and diversity of the soil microbial community or not. The composition and diversity of so...
7,997
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PMC6262304
pmc
8,955
{ "abstract": "The rumen microbial complex adaptive mechanism invalidates various methane (CH 4 ) mitigation strategies. Shifting the hydrogen flow toward alternative electron acceptors, such as propionate, was considered to be a meaningful mitigation strategy. A completely randomized design was applied in in vitro ...
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{ "abstract": "Artificial selection is a promising approach to manipulate microbial communities. Here, we report the outcome of two artificial selection experiments at the microbial community level. Both used \"propagule\" selection strategies, whereby the best-performing communities are used as the inocula to form a...
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PMC9618036
pmc
8,957
{ "abstract": "Significance Some species interactions, termed higher-order interactions, can only emerge when there are many species in an ecological community. These interactions are likely frequent in nature, although their role in shaping the coexistence of species is poorly explored. Here we incorporate higher-or...
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PMC9004645
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Motivation Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) is a widely used approach for the interrogation and stratification of microbiome samples, yet applications to large-scale cohorts are hampered by limited scalability and efficiency of simulations. Results We substantially improved...
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{ "abstract": "Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has enhanced soil carbon (C) stocks in temperate forests. Most research has posited that these soil C gains are driven primarily by shifts in fungal community composition with elevated N leading to declines in lignin degrading Basidiomycetes. Recent research, however...
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{ "abstract": "Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has enhanced soil carbon (C) stocks in temperate forests. Most research has posited that these soil C gains are driven primarily by shifts in fungal community composition with elevated N leading to declines in lignin degrading Basidiomycetes. Recent research, however...
520
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PMC10530074
pmc
8,963
{ "abstract": "Fermentation is a type of metabolism pervasive in oxygen-deprived environments. Despite its importance, we know little about the range and traits of organisms that carry out this metabolism. Our study addresses this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokary...
2,249
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PMC5320584
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8,966
{ "abstract": "The majority of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates that are multiply, extensively and pan-antibiotic resistant belong to two globally disseminated clones, GC1 and GC2, that were first noticed in the 1970s. Here, we investigated microevolution and phylodynamics within GC1 via analysis of 45 whole-genome...
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PMC6787799
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract We hypothesized that population diversities of partners in nitrogen‐fixing rhizobium–legume symbiosis can be matched for “interplaying” genes. We tested this hypothesis using data on nucleotide polymorphism of symbiotic genes encoding two components of the plant–bacteria signaling system: (a) ...
3,897
38495150
PMC10943344
pmc
8,969
{ "abstract": "Given the challenges imposed by climate change and societal challenges, the European Union established ambitious goals as part of its Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy. Focussed on accelerating the transition to systems of sustainable food production, processing and consumption, a key element of F2F is to re...
4,880
31758021
PMC6874579
pmc
8,970
{ "abstract": "Nanoscale memristive phenomena are of great interest not only to miniaturize devices and improve their performance but also to understand the details of the underlying mechanism. Herein, we utilize conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) as a non-invasive method to examine the nanoscale memristive p...
8,558
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PMC10647011
pmc
8,971
{ "abstract": "Genetic engineering allows fine-tuning and controlling\nprotein\nproperties, thus exploiting the new derivatives to obtain novel materials\nand systems with improved capacity to actively interact with biological\nsystems. The elastin-like polypeptides are tunable recombinant biopolymers\nthat have prov...
10,613
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PMC8819722
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Flexible electrodes that allow electrical conductance to be maintained during mechanical deformation are required for the development of wearable electronics. However, flexible electrodes based on metal thin-films on elastomeric substrates can suffer from complete and unexpected electrical disconnectio...
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PMC7705324
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Drought and agricultural management influence soil microorganisms with unknown consequences for the functioning of agroecosystems. We simulated drought periods in organic (biodynamic) and conventional wheat fields and monitored effects on soil water content, microorganisms and crops. Above the...
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{ "abstract": "Biotechnological production of high value chemical products increasingly involves engineering in vivo multi-enzyme pathways and host metabolism. Recent approaches to these engineering objectives have made use of molecular tools to advance de novo pathway identification, tunable enzyme expression, and r...
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PMC8752620
pmc
8,975
{ "abstract": "Increasing yeast robustness against lignocellulosic-derived inhibitors and insoluble solids in bioethanol production is essential for the transition to a bio-based economy. This work evaluates the effect exerted by insoluble solids on yeast tolerance to inhibitory compounds, which is crucial in high gr...
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{ "abstract": "One approach to understanding gut microbiome-host interactions, described in this review, is to examine how natural variation in a model organism, where environmental factors can be controlled, affects the microbiome and, in turn, how the microbiome is associated with physiological or clinical traits. ...
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PMC10468875
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{ "abstract": "Background Cold-adapted archaea have diverse ecological roles in a wide range of low-temperature environments. Improving our knowledge of the genomic features that enable psychrophiles to grow in cold environments helps us to understand their adaptive responses. However, samples from typical cold regio...
3,614
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PMC10454618
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The evolution of endosymbionts and their hosts can lead to highly dynamic interactions with varying fitness effects for both the endosymbiont and host species. Wolbachia , a ubiquitous endosymbiont of arthropods and nematodes, can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on host fitness. We docume...
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{ "abstract": "The phosphogypsum (PG) endogenous bacterial community and endophytic bacterial communities of four plants growing in phosphogypsum-contaminated sites, Suaeda fruticosa ( SF ), Suaeda mollis ( SM ), Mesembryanthmum nodiflorum ( MN ) and Arthrocnemum indicum ( AI ) were investigated by amplicon s...
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{ "abstract": "Bacteria grown on a mixture of carbon substrates exhibit two utilization patterns: hierarchical utilization (HU) and simultaneous utilization (SU). How and why cells adopt these different behaviors remains poorly understood despite decades of research. Recent studies address various open questions from...
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PMC6956225
pmc
8,984
{ "abstract": "Multifunctionalities linked with the microbial communities associated with the millet crop rhizosphere has remained unexplored. In this study, we are analyzing microbial communities inhabiting rhizosphere of kodo millet and their associated functions and its impact over plant growth and survival. Metag...
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{ "abstract": "Particle get-together: Surface functionalization with a branched copolymer surfactant is used to create responsive inorganic particles that can self-assemble in complex structures. The assembly process is triggered by a pH switch that reversibly activates multiple hydrogen bonds between ceramic particl...
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PMC9777906
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{ "abstract": "Social insects such as honey bees exhibit complex behavioral patterns, and their distributed behavioral coordination enables decision-making at the colony level. It has, therefore, been proposed that a high-level description of their collective behavior might share commonalities with the dynamics of ne...
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{ "abstract": "Using electrical signals to guide materials' deposition has a long-standing history in metal coating, microchip fabrication, and the integration of organics with devices. In electrodeposition, however, the conductive materials can be deposited only onto the electrode surfaces. Here, an innovative proce...
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PMC8597079
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8,990
{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin is an abundant natural feedstock that offers great potential as a renewable substitute for fossil‐based resources. Its polyaromatic structure and unique properties have attracted significant research efforts. The advantages of an enzymatic over chemical or thermal approach to construct ...
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39868335
PMC11760724
pmc
8,991
{ "abstract": "Metatranscriptome (MetaT) sequencing is a critical tool for profiling the dynamic metabolic functions of microbiomes. In addition to taxonomic information, MetaT also provides real-time gene expression data of both host and microbial populations, thus permitting authentic quantification of the function...
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{ "abstract": "YisP is involved in biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis and has been predicted to produce C30 isoprenoids. We determined the structure of YisP and observed that it adopts the same fold as squalene and dehydrosqualene synthases. However, the first aspartate-rich motif found in essentially all isopren...
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PMC11192851
pmc
8,993
{ "abstract": "Abstract Direct ammonia oxidation (Dirammox) might be of great significance to advance the innovation of biological nitrogen removal process in wastewater treatment systems. However, it remains unknown whether Dirammox bacteria can be selectively enriched in activated sludge. In this study, a lab-scale...
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PMC8547634
pmc
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{ "abstract": "While numerous studies have revealed that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) enhance plant performance, the influence of these symbionts on temperate-forest herbaceous species in relation to soil physical and chemical properties has been left largely unexplored. Therefore, two perennial herbs, Geum ur...
3,128
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PMC4302308
pmc
8,995
{ "abstract": "Overwhelming evidence supports the endosymbiosis theory that mitochondria originated once from the Alphaproteobacteria. However, its exact position in the tree of life remains highly debated. This is because systematic errors, including biased taxonomic sampling, high evolutionary rates and sequence co...
2,818
35468283
PMC9631990
pmc
8,996
{ "abstract": "Treated wastewater\nis a major pathway by which antibiotic resistance\ngenes (ARG) enter aquatic ecosystems. However, knowledge gaps remain\nconcerning the dissemination of specific ARG and their association\nwith bacterial hosts. Here, we employed shotgun metagenomics to track\nARG and taxonomic marke...
7,752
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PMC3022399
pmc
8,997
{ "abstract": "Most plants form root symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, which provide them with phosphate and other nutrients. High soil phosphate levels are known to affect AM symbiosis negatively, but the underlying mechanisms are not understood. This report describes experimental conditions which tr...
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{ "abstract": "Empirical knowledge of diversity-stability relationships is mostly based on the analysis of temporal variability. Variability, however, often depends on external factors that act as disturbances, which makes comparisons across systems difficult to interpret. Here, we show how variability can reveal inh...
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19321003
PMC2679711
pmc
9,000
{ "abstract": "Background Metabolomics has emerged as a powerful tool in the quantitative identification of physiological and disease-induced biological states. Extracellular metabolome or metabolic profiling data, in particular, can provide an insightful view of intracellular physiological states in a noninvasive ma...
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PMC3945496
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Clostridium sp. strain Ade.TY is potentially a new biohydrogen-producing species isolated from landfill leachate sludge. Here we present the assembly and annotation of its genome, which may provide further insights into its gene interactions for efficient biohydrogen production." }
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PMC9675646
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Understanding the extent to which species’ traits mediate patterns of community assembly is key to predict the effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystem functioning. Here, we apply a trait-based community assembly framework to understand how four different habitat configurations (ke...
5,602
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PMC10776987
pmc
9,007
{ "abstract": "Polymer nanofiber in nanofibrous membrane produced by electrospinning process can be employed in various fields such as medical engineering, environmental engineering, biotechnology, energy, tissue scaffolds, and protective clothing. In these applications, the mechanical properties of the nanofibrous m...
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37974103
PMC10652448
pmc
9,008
{ "abstract": "Food security and environmental pollution are major concerns for the expanding world population, where farm animals are the largest source of dietary proteins and are responsible for producing anthropogenic gases, including methane, especially by cows. We sampled the fecal microbiomes of cows from vary...
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20405029
PMC2853565
pmc
9,010
{ "abstract": "Background Hydrogen production by fermenting bacteria such as Escherichia coli offers a potential source of hydrogen biofuel. Because H 2 production involves consumption of 2H + , hydrogenase expression is likely to involve pH response and regulation. Hydrogenase consumption of protons in E. coli ...
2,460
26478859
PMC4606470
pmc
9,013
{ "abstract": "D-glucaric acid can be used as a building block for biopolymers as well as in the formulation of detergents and corrosion inhibitors. A biosynthetic route for production in Escherichia coli has been developed ( Moon et al., 2009 ), but previous work with the glucaric acid pathway has indicated that c...
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PMC4960307
pmc
9,015
{ "abstract": "The ability to reconfigure elementary building blocks from one structure to another is key to many biological systems. Bringing the intrinsic adaptability of biological systems to traditional synthetic materials is currently one of the biggest scientific challenges in material engineering. Here we intr...
519
25631933
PMC4309967
pmc
9,017
{ "abstract": "The mechanistic understanding of the dynamic processes linking nutrient acquisition and biomass production of competing individuals can be instructive in optimizing intercropping systems. Here, we examine the effect of inoculation with Funneliformis mosseae on competitive dynamics between wheat and f...
3,657
29463739
PMC5877936
pmc
9,020
{ "abstract": "Significance Bioproduction of chemicals offers a sustainable alternative to petrochemical synthesis routes by using genetically engineered microorganisms to convert waste and simple substrates into higher-value products. However, efficient high-yield production commonly introduces a metabolic burden th...
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29659511
PMC5924552
pmc
9,023
{ "abstract": "The pathogen Agrobacterium induces gall formation on a wide range of dicotyledonous plants. In this bacteria, most pathogenicity determinants are borne on the tumour inducing (Ti) plasmid. The conjugative transfer of this plasmid between agrobacteria is regulated by quorum sensing (QS). However, proc...
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PMC5029188
pmc
9,024
{ "abstract": "Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) of the genus Nitrospina have exclusively been found in marine environments. In the brine–seawater interface layer of Atlantis II Deep (Red Sea), Nitrospina -like bacteria constitute up to one-third of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences. This is muc...
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PMC9300077
pmc
9,025
{ "abstract": "Abstract Nanomaterials offer exciting properties and functionalities. However, their production and processing frequently involve complex methods, cumbersome equipment, harsh conditions, and hazardous media. The capability of organisms to accomplish this using mild conditions offers a sustainable, bioc...
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{ "abstract": "Semiconductors are central to the modern electronics and optics industries. Conventional semiconductive materials bear inherent limitations, especially in emerging fields such as interfacing with biological systems and bottom-up fabrication. A promising candidate for bioinspired and durable nanoscale s...
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PMC8215182
pmc
9,029
{ "abstract": "A consortium of microbial community was used for the treatment of acid mine drainage wastewater laden with sulphate and heavy metals. The wastewater was treated in an anaerobic continuously stirred tank bioreactor. The microbial community activity increased the pH from 5.6 to 6.5, and improved sulphate...
4,291
34976308
PMC8666610
pmc
9,030
{ "abstract": "Graphical abstract", "introduction": "1 Introduction In terrestrial microenvironments, microbial communities often provide beneficial effects to other organisms, e.g., biocontrol agents grown on the surface of plant roots, thereby preventing the growth of bacterial and fungal pathogens [1] .This ben...
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{ "abstract": "Most natural microbial systems have evolved to function in environments with temporal and spatial variations. A major limitation to understanding such complex systems is the lack of mathematical modelling frameworks that connect the genomes of individual species and temporal and spatial variations in t...
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9,032
{ "abstract": "Computation underlies the organization of cells into higher-order structures, for example during development or the spatial association of bacteria in a biofilm. Each cell performs a simple computational operation, but when combined with cell-cell communication, intricate patterns emerge. Here we study...
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PMC8461876
pmc
9,033
{ "abstract": "Background Microorganisms can be metabolically engineered to produce a wide range of commercially important chemicals. Advancements in computational strategies for strain design and synthetic biological techniques to construct the designed strains have facilitated the generation of large libraries of p...
11,036
30795747
PMC6387494
pmc
9,034
{ "abstract": "Background Ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECM) play a central role in nutrient cycling in boreal and temperate forests, but their role in the soil food web remains little understood. One of the groups assumed to live as specialised mycorrhizal feeders are Protura, but experimental and field evidence is lacking...
2,063
31697017
PMC6973155
pmc
9,035
{ "abstract": "Abstract With the goal of imposing shape and structure on supramolecular gels, we combine a low‐molecular‐weight gelator (LMWG) with the polymer gelator (PG) calcium alginate in a hybrid hydrogel. By imposing thermal and temporal control of the orthogonal gelation methods, the system either forms an ex...
6,232
36380916
PMC9632252
pmc
9,039
{ "abstract": "PET (polyethylene terephthalate) has good transparency, corrosion resistance, gas barrier properties and mechanical properties, and is widely used in beverage bottles, fabrics, food packaging, tires, films, engineering plastics and other fields. With the rapid growth in demand and use of PET materials,...
2,050
32925899
PMC7529429
pmc
9,040
{ "abstract": "In this study we analyze the growth-phase dependent metabolic states of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus by constructing a fully compartmented, mass and charge-balanced genome-scale metabolic model of this predatory bacterium ( i CH457). Considering the differences between life cycle phases driving the gro...
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25626903
PMC4324309
pmc
9,041
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT   Understanding the structure, functions, activities and dynamics of microbial communities in natural environments is one of the grand challenges of 21st century science. To address this challenge, over the past decade, numerous technologies have been developed for interrogating microbial comm...
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34035260
PMC8149669
pmc
9,043
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) associations are critical for host-tree performance. However, how mycorrhizal associations correlate with the latitudinal tree beta-diversity remains untested. Using a global dataset of 45 forest plots representing 2,804,270 trees across 3840 specie...
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PMC7318629
pmc
9,046
{ "abstract": "Abstract Soil legacy effects are commonly highlighted as drivers of plant community dynamics and species co‐existence. However, experimental evidence for soil legacy effects of conditioning plant communities on responding plant communities under natural conditions is lacking. We conditioned 192 grassla...
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9,048
{ "abstract": "Peptidic natural products (PNPs) include many antibiotics and other bioactive compounds. While the recent launch of the Global Natural Products Social (GNPS) molecular networking infrastructure is transforming PNP discovery into a high-throughput technology, PNP identification algorithms are needed to ...
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9,049
{ "abstract": "Natural products and secondary metabolites comprise an indispensable resource from living organisms that have transformed areas of medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology. Recent advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing and computational analysis suggest that the vast majority of natural products re...
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30930856
PMC6428765
pmc
9,050
{ "abstract": "Hadal ocean sediments, found at sites deeper than 6,000 m water depth, are thought to contain microbial communities distinct from those at shallower depths due to high hydrostatic pressures and higher abundances of organic matter. These communities may also differ from one other as a result of geograph...
5,117
22509169
PMC3325761
pmc
9,052
{ "abstract": "We used medic ( Medicago truncatula ) to investigate effects of inoculation with two arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and application of arsenate (AsV) and phosphate (Pi) on mechanisms underlying increased tolerance (in terms of growth) of AM plants to AsV. We tested the hypotheses that (1) inoculatio...
4,617
38129516
PMC10739816
pmc
9,053
{ "abstract": "The Escherichia coli chemotaxis network, by which bacteria modulate their random run/tumble swimming pattern to navigate their environment, must cope with unavoidable number fluctuations (“noise”) in its molecular constituents like other signaling networks. The probability of clockwise (CW) flagellar...
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30091100
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9,054
{ "abstract": "Cyanobacteria are attractive hosts for converting carbon dioxide and sunlight into desirable chemical products. To engineer these organisms and manipulate their metabolic pathways, the biotechnology community has developed genetic tools to control gene expression. Many native cyanobacterial promoters a...
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PMC4583624
pmc
9,055
{ "abstract": "An actinobacterial strain, designated SO9-6, was isolated from a copper iron sulfide mineral. The organism is Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, and coccoid. Chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic properties were consistent with its classification in the genus Kocuria . Here, we report the first draft g...
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PMC9995654
pmc
9,057
{ "abstract": "Abstract Excitable optoelectronic devices represent one of the key building blocks for implementation of artificial spiking neurons in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonic systems. This work introduces and experimentally investigates an opto-electro-optical (O/E/O) artificial neuron built with a reso...
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37646003
PMC10462140
pmc
9,058
{ "abstract": "Human activity is altering the environment in a rapid pace, challenging the adaptive capacities of genetic variation within animal populations. Animals also harbor extensive gut microbiomes, which play diverse roles in host health and fitness and may help expanding host capabilities. The unprecedented ...
2,170
36339794
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s2
9,059
{ "abstract": "Neurons in the brain are complex machines with distinct functional compartments that interact nonlinearly. In contrast, neurons in artificial neural networks abstract away this complexity, typically down to a scalar activation function of a weighted sum of inputs. Here we emulate more biologically real...
262
37234932
PMC10206485
pmc
9,060
{ "abstract": "Microbial tolerance to toxic compounds formed during biomass pretreatment is a significant challenge to produce bio-based products from lignocellulose cost effectively. Rational engineering can be problematic due to insufficient prerequisite knowledge of tolerance mechanisms. Therefore, adaptive labora...
6,997
38361533
PMC10868416
pmc
9,061
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT   The rapid advancement in intelligent bionics has elevated electronic skin to a pivotal component in bionic robots, enabling swift responses to diverse external stimuli. Combining wearable touch sensors with IoT technology lays the groundwork for achieving the versatile functionality of elect...
11,559
38927101
PMC11201641
pmc
9,062
{ "abstract": "In recent years, there has been growing interest in the development of metal-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective biopolymer-based piezoelectric strain sensors (bio-PSSs) for flexible applications. In this study, we have developed a bio-PSS based on pure deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and cu...
3,969
32893469
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s2
9,063
{ "abstract": "Chemoautotrophic bacteria from the SUP05 clade often dominate anoxic waters within marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) where they use energy gained from the oxidation of reduced sulfur to fuel carbon fixation. Some of these SUP05 bacteria are facultative aerobes that can use either nitrate or oxygen as ...
297
26413054
PMC4568871
pmc
9,064
{ "abstract": "Native rhizobia are ideal for use as commercial legume inoculants. The\ncharacteristics of the carrier used to store the inoculants are important for the\nsurvival and symbiotic potential of the rhizobia. The objective of this study was to\ninvestigate the effects of peat (PEAT), perlite sugarcane baga...
4,355
29085916
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s2
9,067
{ "abstract": "Microorganisms are in constant competition for growth niches and environmental resources. In Gram-negative bacteria, contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems link the fate of one cell with its immediate neighbor through touch-dependent, receptor-mediated toxin delivery. Though discovered for t...
160
39974203
PMC11835149
pmc
9,068
{ "abstract": "l -Homoserine embodies significant\nfunctional properties\nas an amino acid of utmost importance, showcasing remarkable utility\nwithin the industrial realm. As synthetic biology and biotechnology\ncontinue to advance, the synthesis of l -homoserine through\nmicrobial fermentation emerges as a compell...
2,311
26774999
PMC4766943
pmc
9,070
{ "abstract": "The tree model and tree-based methods have played a major, fruitful role in evolutionary studies. However, with the increasing realization of the quantitative and qualitative importance of reticulate evolutionary processes, affecting all levels of biological organization, complementary network-based mo...
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