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The Influence of Substance Properties on Arthropod Chemical Defenses: A Meta-Analysis
Among defenses against predation, chemical defenses are possibly the most studied. However, when addressing the effectiveness of those chemical...
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Avian Chemical Signatures: An Overview
Intraspecific communication in birds can involve the visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory senses. Although the latter is one of the least studied...
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The Effects of Chemical and Organic Fertilizers on Fruit Quality in Amasya’ Apple Variety
This study is conducted in a closed ‘Amasya’ apple orchard located in Sivaslı, Uşak, in order to analyze the changes that occurred due to the usage...
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Stimulus-responsive proteins involved in multi-process regulation of storage substance accumulation during rice grain filling under elevated temperature
BackgroundThe intensified global warming during grain filling deteriorated rice quality, in particular increasing the frequency of chalky grains...
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ICP-OES Analysis for Humic Substance
AbstractThe benefits of ICP-OES analysis (radial observation) for humic products are evaluated in this paper; the proposed method allows one to...
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Mathematical Models for Chemical Mixtures
The toxic effects of chemical mixtures on ecology have long been a matter of interest, and a great deal of related toxicity testing has already been...
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Enzymes in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Enzymes are used today in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry to produce a wide range of products. In this chapter, you will be introduced to...
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Metabolomics reveals the effects producing region and fermentation stage on substance conversion in cigar tobacco leaf
BackgroundThe quality of cigar tobacco leaves was closely related to fermentation. To investigate the substance changes in cigar tobacco leaves...
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Chemical and cytotoxicity profiles of 11 pink pepper (Schinus spp.) samples via non-targeted hyphenated high-performance thin-layer chromatography
IntroductionPink pepper is a worldwide used spice that corresponds to the berries of two species, Schinus terebinthifolia Raddi or S. molle L....
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The Main Quality and Functional Chemical Composition of Tea
Tea plant (Camellia sinensis) biosynthesizes various specialized metabolites, and the main quality and functional chemical compositions of tea are...
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Structure and stability analysis of antibacterial substance produced by selenium enriched Bacillus cereus BC1
Microorganisms can produce many antibiotics against bacteria and fungi, which have been used as a potential choice of new antibiotics. In this paper,...
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Structure revision of tricholomenyn B, an antimitotic geranylcyclohexenone rediscovered as a bitter and antibacterial substance, from a basidiomycete Tricholoma japonicum (Shiro-shimeji)
Tricholomenyn B, an antimitotic geranylcyclohexenone originally discovered from a basidiomycete Tricholoma acerbum , was isolated as a bitter and...
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Preliminary Investigation on Efficacy and Safety of Substance P-Coated Stent for Promoting Re-Endothelialization: A Porcine Coronary Artery Restenosis Model
Background:Current polymer-based drug-eluting stents (DESs) have fundamental issues about inflammation and delayed re-endothelializaton of the vessel...
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Chemical Characterization of Phytoconstituents for Lifestyle Diseases
Medicinal plants have been largely used for the treatment of several illnesses including lifestyle diseases. The observed pharmacological properties...
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Chemical Ecology and Biochemistry of Dytiscidae
The chapter deals with chemical mechanisms that help to control intra- und inter-specific interactions with respect to predaceous diving beetles....
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Neurokinin-2 receptor negatively modulates substance P responses by forming complex with Neurokinin-1 receptor
BackgroundTachykinins and their cognate receptors, neurokinin receptors (NKs) including NK1, NK2, and NK3 play vital roles in regulating various...
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Insect Chemical Ecology
This chapter gives an insight to chemical ecology of insects and its role in insect–plant interactions. Chemicals produced by insects can be broadly...
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Chemical Adulterants in Food: Recent Challenges
Food fraud, the motivated practice of altering food components to deceive consumers for economic gain, has been a huge global concern over the years....
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Significance and Exploitation of Rhizosphere Chemical Signaling Metabolites for Enhancing Soil Nutrient Transformation
Soil microorganisms drive nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems; soil microbial composition can be significantly influenced by chemical signals emitted...
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Impacts of ozone oxidation and borohydride reduction on the optical properties of humic substance isolates
The optical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) are of interest as they are used to monitor or optimize drinking and wastewater treatment...
