The highly conserved actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) plays an important role in plant growth, development and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. A total of 72 ADF genes in Arabidopsis, wheat, rice and sorghum can be divided into four groups....
Identification of actin-depolymerizing factor homology (ADF-H) domains in the structures of several related proteins led first to the formation of the ADF/cofilin family, which then expanded to the ADF/cofilin superfamily. This superfamily includes t...
Actin Depolymerizing Factor (ADF) proteins are key regulators of actin cytoskeleton dynamics, mediating numerous essential plant life processes, including cell elongation, division, and signal transduction in response to environmental stress. Althoug...
The actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) proteins have growth, development, defense-related and growth regulatory functions in plants. The present study used genome-wide analysis to investigate ADF family genes in tomato. Eleven tomato ADF genes were id...
The Actin Depolymerizing Factor (ADF) protein, highly conserved among eukaryotes, is essential for plant growth, development, and stress responses. Cotton, a vital economic crop with applications spanning oilseed, textiles, and military sectors, has...
The actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin protein family is essential for actin dynamics, cell division, chemotaxis and tumor metastasis. Cofilin-1 (CFL-1) is a primary non-muscle isoform of the ADF/cofilin protein family accelerating the actin f...
Actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF) is a small class of actin-binding proteins that regulates the dynamics of actin in cells. Moreover, it is well known that the plant ADF family plays key roles in growth, development and defense-related functions. Res...
To address the coupling between the vertical and pitch motions of a vehicle body and the difficulty of suppressing instantaneous large impact under combined road- and operation-induced excitations, a five-degree-of-freedom (5-DOF) half-vehicle dynami...
Actin filaments are essential for plant adaptation to high temperatures. However, the molecular mechanisms of actin filaments in plant thermal adaptation remain unclear. Here, we found that the expression of Arabidopsis actin depolymerization factor...
Drought stress is seriously affecting the growth and production of crops, especially when agricultural irrigation still remains quantitatively restricted in some arid and semi-arid areas. The identification of drought-tolerant genes is important for...
The actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF) gene family regulates changes in actin. However, the entire ADF family in the sweet orange Citrus sinensis has not been systematically identified, and their expressions in different organs and biotic stress have...
Abiotic stress significantly affects plant growth and has devastating effects on crop production. Drought stress is one of the main abiotic stressors. Actin is a major component of the cytoskeleton, and actin-depolymerizing factors (ADFs) are conserv...
The objective of this study was to determine the relationships between nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (P), acid detergent fiber (ADF) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) contents of sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa Lam.) pasture and canopy reflecta...
Actin plays a critical role in the rhizobium–legume symbiosis. Cytoskeletal rearrangements and changes in actin occur in response to Nod factors secreted by rhizobia during symbiotic interactions with legumes. These cytoskeletal rearrangements...
Surface soil moisture (SSM) plays a critical role in climate change, hydrological processes, and agricultural production. Decision trees and deep learning are widely applied to SSM retrieval. The former excels in interpretability while the latter out...
Building change detection (BCD) plays a vital role in city planning and development, ensuring the timely detection of urban changes near metro lines. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the advantage of providing continuous image time series with all-...
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Dietary fiber plays an important role in porcine gut health and welfare. Fiber is degraded by microbial fermentation in the intestine, and most gut microbiota related to fiber digestibility in pigs are worth pursuing. The aim of this study was to ide...
Adoption of no-till systems in Eastern Washington has been slow due to the difficulty of managing wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) straw residue and the unknown decomposition potential of cultivars. We hypothesize that by analyzing wheat straw with near-...
Shaft misalignment is among the most common faults in rotating machinery, and although many diagnostic methods have been proposed, reliably detecting it under varying load conditions remains a major challenge for vibration-based techniques. To addres...
Seed biochemical composition critically influences the quality and industrial value of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). Understanding the genetic basis of seed oil, protein, and fiber content is essential for breeding improved cultivars. Here we con...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of an application of biostimulants, against the background of varied nitrogen regime, on the share of neutral detergent fraction (NDF), acid detergent fraction (ADF), and acid detergent lignin (ADL)...
Mirror twin boundaries (MTBs) have brought intriguing one-dimensional physics into the host 2D crystal. In this letter, we reported a chalcogen atom exchange route to induce MTBs into as-formed MoS2 monolayers via post-synthesis tellurium doping. Res...
Test, verification, and development activities of vehicles with ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and ADF (Automated Driving Functions) generate large amounts of measurement data. To efficiently evaluate and use this data, a generic understan...
Actin cytoskeleton is a fundamental cellular structure governing stress signal transduction and cellular homeostasis in plants. While its involvement in heat stress adaptation has been documented, the transcriptional and cytoskeletal regulatory netwo...
Intermittent fasting (IF) has been indicated as a valuable alternative to the classical caloric restriction dietary regimen for lowering body weight and preventing obesity-related complications, such as metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes. Howeve...
Cytosolic 5′-nucleotidase II (NT5C2) is a highly regulated enzyme involved in the maintenance of intracellular purine and the pyrimidine compound pool. It dephosphorylates mainly IMP and GMP but is also active on AMP. This enzyme is highly expr...
The stock index is an important indicator to measure stock market fluctuation, with a guiding role for investors’ decision-making, thus being the object of much research. However, the stock market is affected by uncertainty and volatility, maki...
Sorghum is a Poaceae family plant that produces a lot of hay. A field experiment was carried out at the University of Thessaly’s experimental farm to investigate the hay yield and quality characteristics of six different sorghum varieties (V1:...
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is closely tied to CO2 emissions and energy consumption issues. This initiative aims to modernize the country’s economy, diversify its energy sources, and enhance sustainability. This paper examines the relation...
Cape Verde is a semiarid country where lack of rainfall exacerbates the scarce resources available for livestock which, therefore, make it very vulnerable to climate change. By providing reclaimed water (RW) for irrigation, it is possible to decrease...
Traditional approaches to predicting business cycles are limited by their omission of financial variables, which, in turn, leads to failures to signal financial-sector crises and to misestimate the duration and intensity of economic events. This stud...
This study employs convolutional neural network (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), and gated recurrent unit (GRU) deep learning models to simulate daily streamflow using precipitation data. Two approa...
Welding is a critical joining process in modern manufacturing, with defects contributing to 50–80% of structural failures. Traditional inspection methods are often inefficient, subjective, and inconsistent. To address challenges in weld defect...
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Recent research in range ecology has emphasized the importance of forage quality as a key indicator of rangeland condition. However, we lack tools to evaluate forage quality at scales appropriate for management. Using canopy reflectance data to measu...
The global prevalence of obesity continues to rise and is a significant risk factor for the onset and progression of cardiovascular diseases. Despite the development of new pharmacological therapies, novel strategies are being explored to mitigate th...
This study examines the relationship between house prices and the factors driving their growth during the transition from a long-standing currency board regime to Eurozone membership. The main objective is to identify and quantify the key factors exp...
Size distributions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), extracted from softwood pulp via strong sulfuric acid hydrolysis, exhibit large variability when analyzed from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images. In this article, the causes of this var...
Fatty acid and retinol binding proteins (FAR) are unique proteins found in nematodes and are considered potential targets for controlling these parasites. However, their functions in nematode parasitism and pathogenicity and interaction with hosts ar...
The aim of this research carried out in the period 2021–2023 was to analyse the influence of competitiveness between Festuca arundinacea Schreb. and Trifolium pratense L., cultivated in simple mixtures, on the quality of the fodder obtained, un...
This work introduces and examines a new programmable electronic system, Board ADF339, designed for filtering analog measurement signals of low frequencies. The system operates in a mixed mode in collaboration with a digital controller implemented on...
Maize biomass from agricultural residues can be a substrate for biofuel production. However, commercial breeding programs have focused on grain yield for food and feed, and whole plant yield and nutritive value for silage, with little attention paid...
Depopulation of food-producing animals is becoming increasingly common in response to both disease outbreaks and supply chain disruptions. In 2019, the American Veterinary Medical Association released depopulation guidelines classifying certain heats...
The increased consumption of fossil fuels worldwide has resulted in unprecedented historic environmental degradation and global warming. According to the United Nations, this is both the defining crisis of our time and a race the world could win give...
The modern Power Distribution Systems (PDS) operate more and more often with distributed generators and the optimal operation of the utility distribution systems has to take into account the possibility of bi-directional energy flows, although this e...
Oil prices have had considerable surges and bursts since the first oil crisis of 1973. Until then its price was stable, with almost zero volatility. Since then, apart from the two oil crises of 1973 and 1978/9, oil prices had consecutive bubble episo...
As a core industry of the national economy, there is no doubt that the agricultural sector has to adapt to the new economic development. In the literature, many researchers have agreed that agricultural export is an important factor affecting economi...
Stock bubbles are characterized by unpredictable price surges and subsequent declines, causing significant losses for investors. This study investigates the effectiveness of the Generalized Sup Augmented Dickey–Fuller (GSADF) test in identifyin...
We investigate the application of prepivoting in conjunction with lag length selection to correct the size and power performance of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test for a unit root. The bootstrap methodology used to perform the prepivoting is a resid...
Background/Objectives: Intermittent fasting (IF) has gained increasing attention as a nutritional strategy to improve metabolic health, body composition, and disease-related outcomes. However, its effects are often interpreted as broadly uniform, des...
Climate policy in Italy has come to treat energy and resource productivity as central levers, reflecting a broader recognition that how efficiently an economy uses energy and materials shapes its environmental outcomes. This study aims to investigate...
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