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Bog ecosystems as a playground for plant–microbe coevolution: bryophytes and vascular plants harbour functionally adapted bacteria
BackgroundBogs are unique ecosystems inhabited by distinctive, coevolved assemblages of organisms, which play a global role for carbon storage,...
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Marine Plants and Sound
Plants have been considered passive, static, and immutable organisms for a long time, but research shows that plants can perceive their environment...
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Dissecting the complexity of local and systemic circadian communication in plants
The plant circadian clock regulates daily and seasonal rhythms of key biological processes, from growth and development to metabolism and physiology....
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Antineoplastic Drug Leads from Plants and Microbes
This chapter focuses on antineoplastic lead molecules identified from plants and microbial sources. It discusses the various natural products used in...
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Evolution and Analysis of Caffeic Acid Transferase (COMT) in Seed Plants
Caffeic acid transferase ( COMT ) is a key enzyme in the lignin and melatonin synthesis pathways and plays an important role in plant growth and...
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Strategies for Engineering of Virus-Resistant Plants: Focus on RNases
AbstractCurrently, there are approximately 6500 species of viruses known in the world, among which more than 1500 are plant viruses. Most of them are...
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Medicinal plants of the Tomsk region and possibilities of their application
As a result of the analysis of the distribution of wild medicinal plants on the territory of the Tomsk region, a list of species used for medical...
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MicroRNAs and Vascular Activity
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecules sized about 22 nucleotides that suppress mRNA translation via mRNA cleavage or...
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Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution
Zygnematophyceae are the algal sisters of land plants. Here we sequenced four genomes of filamentous Zygnematophyceae, including chromosome-scale...
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Health Effects of Occupational and Environmental Exposures to Nuclear Power Plants: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
Purpose of ReviewNumerous epidemiological studies have shown increased health risks among workers and residents living near nuclear power plants...
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Immunity in Invertebrates, Plants, and Prokaryotes
Vertebrates are not the only organisms with well-developed immune systems. Practically all organisms have some form of innate immunity, and many have...
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Ethnomedicinal review of plants utilized by the Abagusii people of Western Kenya
The Abagusii people of Western Kenya have rich traditional medicine practices which have remained scantly documented. The current study sort to...
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Types of Vascular Response to Direct Intraoperative Electrical Stimulation of the Sciatic Nerve after Autoneuroplasty and Their Effect on Limb Function Recovery
We studied different types of the vascular response to direct intraoperative low-frequency electrical stimulation of the sciatic nerve after...
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Immunomodulation Potential of Woody Plants
It is suggested that a myriad of plant-derived natural products may present immunomodulation properties, being an important source for future...
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Bioprospecting and Evolutionary Significance of Photoprotectors in Non-flowering Lower Plants
Environmental change as well as the continued increase in UV radiation (UVR; 280–400 nm) has a significant impact on terrestrial and aquatic...
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Protection of Oxygen Glucose Deprivation-Induced Human Brain Vascular Pericyte Injury: Beneficial Effects of Bellidifolin in Cellular Pyroptosis
Pericytes play critical roles in the maintenance of brain vascular homeostasis. However, very little is currently known about how pericytes regulate...
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Microbiota and functional analyses of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root-knot nematode parasitism of plants
BackgroundRoot-knot nematodes (RKN) are among the most important root-damaging plant-parasitic nematodes, causing severe crop losses worldwide. The...
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Recent Advancement in the Use of Medicinal Plants in Brain Aging
Humans now have a wide range of treatment options, thanks to plant-derived phytochemicals. In the twenty-first century, cognitive dysfunction is a...
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Principles and practice of virus induced gene silencing for functional genomics in plants
Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) has, of late, emerged as an important tool for transient silencing of genes in plants. This is now being...
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Potential plants for inflammatory dysfunction in the SARS-CoV-2 infection
The inflammatory process is a biological response of the organism to remove injurious stimuli and initiate homeostasis. It has been recognized as a...
