5760 papers
This study identifies StCCR6 as a critical regulator that enhances potato resistance against *Ralstonia solanacearum* by coordinating lignin biosynthesis for cell wall reinforcement and boosting antioxidant enzyme activity to mitigate oxidative stress.
While topographic correction minimally altered the total estimated area of tiger home ranges in central India's plateau-gorge landscapes, terrain features critically shaped the internal organization of space use by concentrating core activities in rugged refuges and low-drainage landforms, particularly for females and during specific seasons.
This study systematically characterizes the 18-member SlSTP gene family in tomato, revealing their phylogenetic classification, clade-specific expression patterns, and distinct roles in responding to nematode infection and various abiotic stresses, thereby identifying key candidates for enhancing sugar metabolism and stress tolerance.
This study utilizes long-read 28S rRNA sequencing of 113 samples from the tropical Indian and western Pacific Oceans to reveal extensive hidden fungal diversity, including three novel candidate phyla, and demonstrates that marine fungal community structure is shaped by distinct vertical stratification and environmental drivers such as longitude, phosphate, and salinity.
A study of 55 European bison in Poland found that while *Mycoplasma* spp., *M. bovoculi*, and *Chlamydia* spp. were frequently detected in ocular samples, their presence showed no significant association with the occurrence or severity of infectious keratoconjunctivitis, suggesting they may be part of the normal ocular microbiome rather than primary causative agents.
This study utilizes reverse vaccinology and immunoinformatics to design and computationally validate MEV-2A, a novel multi-epitope vaccine candidate predicted to offer broad genotypic coverage against *Toxoplasma gondii* for One Health applications in livestock and human disease control.
This study identifies the senescence-linked factor CHI3L1 as a key driver of mesenchymal stromal cell dysfunction in aging joints, demonstrating that neutralizing CHI3L1 restores MSC regenerative capacity and effectively treats osteoarthritis by reversing age-related tissue decline.
This study reveals that alpha- and gamma-synuclein define complementary, anti-correlated malignant states in melanoma, where alpha-synuclein drives a metabolic program linked to mitochondrial function and gamma-synuclein promotes an invasive program via integrin-FAK-MAPK signaling, with high gamma-synuclein expression serving as a prognostic biomarker for poor outcomes.
This study demonstrates that in the chameleon prawn (*Hippolyte varians*), solid-coloured individuals act as camouflage specialists with high survival on matching backgrounds, while transparent individuals function as generalists with consistent but trade-off-limited survival across heterogeneous environments, suggesting that environmental variability supports the coexistence of these alternative strategies.
This study demonstrates that fine-tuned Vision Transformers (ViT-B/16) outperform traditional CNN architectures like ResNet50 and DenseNet121 in accurately classifying 19 bacterial species directly from full-plate culture images, achieving a mean accuracy of 99.05% under a unified experimental protocol.