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Future Perspectives in the Omics Era for Tea Breeding
Tea is one of the most consumed beverages worldwide, known for its flavor, aroma, and health benefits. The demand for improved tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) cultivars with enhanced traits, such as ...
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Mining for Health: A Comparison of Word Embedding Methods for Analysis of EHRs Data
Electronic health records (EHRs), routinely collected as part of healthcare delivery, offer great promise for advancing precision health. At the same time, they present significant analytical challenges. In EH...
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Engaging Local People in Conserving the Socio-Ecological Production Landscape and Seascape by Practicing Collaborative Governance in Mao’ao Bay, Chinese Taipei
This study shows how collaborative governance actions have been practiced to initiate restoration efforts in northeastern Chinese Taipei’s Mao’ao Bay since 2019. The objectives of these actions were (1) to int...
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Mechanical Management of Modern Planar Fruit Tree Canopies
This chapter will discuss the opportunities and challenges of robotic solutions for tree fruit production with modern planar tree canopy management, including the importance of modern tree canopy systems, robo...
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Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounts for 20% of the world catch and up to 50% in some areas. This industry often uses bonded labour, destructive fishing practices and deceptive practices ...
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Understanding LncRNAs in Biomaterials Development for Osteointegration
Osseointegration of implants is a sophisticated healing process comprising of blood clot formation, immune response, angiogenesis, and osteogenesis. The features of the blood clots take a crucial role in fulfi...
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Community Structure and Species Diversity in Tropical Cloud Forests
Stand structure and species composition and diversity are the essential characteristics of ecological communities and often related to ecosystem processes and functions. However, these characteristics of the t...
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Functional Trait Variation on Community Organization Scale and Systematic Classification Level of Tropical Cloud Forests on Hainan Island, China
Plants’ performances are to some degrees dependent on functional traits. Analysis on trait variation that occurs at different levels (or scales) could be an indispensable step towards understanding community a...
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Intraspecific Trait Variation Promoting Plant Community Assemblage in a Tropical Cloud Forest
Trait-based approaches have been recognized as an effective way to understand the ecological process of structuring plant communities. Despite plant traits found to vary both between and within species, most p...
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Distribution of Horseshoe Crabs, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, and Tachypleus gigas in Singapore, Including Coney Island
Horseshoe crabs are vital in the marine ecosystem food web, but their populations are decreasing in the face of growing threats. There are four extant species of horseshoe crabs worldwide, but only Carcinoscorpiu...
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Relationships Between Plant Diversity and Aboveground Biomass Correlated with Soil Phosphorus Stresses in a Tropical Cloud Forest
The present projected rates of global species loss emphasize the need to precisely understand how biodiversity promotes ecosystem function in different types of ecosystems. Some known mechanisms such as niche ...
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Environmental Characteristics in Tropical Cloud Forests
Tropical cloud forest (TCF), typically distributed at peaks or ridges, is known for its distinctive environmental conditions. Tropical montane evergreen forest (TMEF) and tropical dwarf forest (TDF) are the ma...
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Changes in Species Co-occurrence Patterns with Increasing Environmental Stress Across Two Types of Tropical Cloud Forest
The analysis of co-occurrence patterns between plant species is being increasingly employed to explore biotic interactions at the community level. We assessed such patterns across two types of tropical cloud f...
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Effects of Species Pool Size and Spatial Scale Variation on Tropical Cloud Forest Community Assembly
To explain the ecological processes affecting community assembly is one of the important theoretical and practical issues in ecology research. In recent years, some studies have revealed that local processes a...
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Distribution Patterns of Aboveground Biomass of Tropical Cloud Forests in Hainan Island
The plant biomass is an important ecosystem function of forests and plays a fundamental role in the material cycle and energy flow. The diameter at breast height (DBH) and height of plants with DBH ≥1 cm were ...
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CRISPR Guides
The Cas9-sgRNA complex binds to DNA elements complementary to the sgRNA and causes a steric block that halts transcript elongation by RNA polymerase, resulting in the repression of the target gene.
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The Nonrandom Assembly of Tropical Cloud Forest Community Based on Two Functional Traits
A study on trait-based assembly is a new perspective in community ecology. The small stature of trees in tropical dwarf forests makes it possible to measure two important functional traits (i.e., maximum speci...
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Development and Vision of CRISPR-Based Technology
Genome editing mediated by these nucleases has been used to rapidly, easily and efficiently modify endogenous genes in a wide variety of biomedically important cell types and in organisms that have traditional...
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Microwave Application for Animal Feed Processing to Improve Animal Performance
Feed nutritive value and its utilization by the animal are the two important factors that influence the profitability and sustainability of animal production systems. Microwave (MW) technology is one of the ef...
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Extension and Improvement of CRISPR-Based Technology
The initial use of CRISPR/Cas9 was based on its ability to cut the target DNA sequence. The advent of CRISPR provides researchers with the possibility of editing almost any DNA sequence. CRISPR, however, gives...
