Research Highlights: Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) phenotypic plasticity will buffer and even benefit from temperature increases in Northeast Europe this century, except for the southern peripheries of the range. Objectives: The “stress test...
The cellular environment modifies cellular phenotypes, in particular, the stress response phenotype, which easily exhibits high phenotypic heterogeneity due to the common characteristics of its regulatory networks. The aim of this work is to quantify...
Cadmium (Cd) pollution is a global environmental issue that severely impacts crop growth and food safety. This study systematically investigates the accumulation characteristics and physiological responses of different varieties of non-heading Chines...
(1) Background: This study used Qingjian No. 1 forage pea (Pisum sativum L.) as a plant material to study its metabolic mechanisms in response to different stresses, given that saline–alkali stress and drought stress often occur simultaneously...
Drought is being annually exacerbated by recent global warming, leading to crucial damage of crop growth and final yields. Soybean, one of the most consumed crops worldwide, has also been affected in the process. The development of a resistant cultiv...
Cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is considered one of the most important economic vegetables worldwide; however, it is subjected to different stresses (salt stress, etc.) during its growth and development, resulting in yield reductions. In this...
Epigenetics refers to dynamic chemical modifications to the genome that can perpetuate gene activity without changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic mechanisms play important roles in growth and development. They may also drive plant adaptation to ad...
Thioredoxin (TRX) is a small molecule protein that participates in the redox process and plays a decisive role in various functions of plants. However, the role of TRX in Medicago sativa (alfalfa), a widely cultivated perennial herb of legume, is sti...
Geographically distant Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) populations are adapted to specific photoperiods and temperature gradients, and markedly vary in the timing of growth patterns and adaptive traits. To understand the variability of adaptive capa...
The cell central metabolism has been shaped throughout evolutionary times when facing challenges from the availability of resources. In the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a set of duplicated genes originating from an ancestral whole-genome...
In this review we examine the functionally diverse ATPase associated with various cellular activities (AAA-ATPase), valosin-containing protein (VCP/p97), its molecular functions, the mutational landscape of VCP and the phenotypic manifestation of VCP...
The damage to crops due to drought is severe, and it is further exacerbated by global warming. Therefore, efforts to breed drought-resistant cultivars are being actively conducted. Various research to develop drought-resistant and sustainable cultiva...
The rapid and selective responses to changes in habitat structure and climate have made butterflies valuable environmental indicators. In this study, we asked whether the decline in butterfly populations near the copper-nickel smelter in Monchegorsk...
Climate change poses significant challenges to temperate rice production, particularly affecting grain quality and market acceptance. This review synthesizes current knowledge of climate-induced quality changes, with a focus on the Australian rice in...
Cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) exhibits numerous phenotypic and transcriptomic responses to drought. However, the ways in which these responses vary with differences in drought timing and severity are insufficiently understood. We used p...
Conversion of CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) from the immature (CD45RA+) to mature (CD45RO+) phenotype has been shown during development and allergic reactions. The relative frequencies of these Treg phenotypes and their responses to oxid...
Phenotypic plasticity is one of the main mechanisms of adaptation to abiotic stresses via changes in critical developmental stages. Altering flowering phenology is a key evolutionary strategy of plant adaptation to abiotic stresses, to achieve the ma...
Polyploidization is an important source of variability for plant breeding. Polyploids are often characterised by increased resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Since drought and pathogen attack are the main threats to apple cultivation, obtaini...
A better understanding of the responsiveness of grain phenotypic indices to terminal water stress (TWS) in wheat might help explain grain weight variations and determine which grain traits are most affected. A two-year field experiment (2020–20...
Water availability critically affects basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) growth and physiological performance, making the early and precise monitoring of water-deficit responses essential for precision irrigation. However, conventional visual or biochemical...
Activation of macrophages plays a key role in both inflammation and oxidative stress, key features of many chronic diseases. Pro-inflammatory M1-like macrophages, in particular, contribute to pro-oxidative environments and are a frequent focus of imm...
Soil salinization, affecting approximately 954 million hectares globally, severely impairs plant growth and agricultural productivity. Apocynum venetum L., a perennial herbaceous plant with ecological and economic value, demonstrates remarkable toler...
Drought stress seriously threatens human food security, and enhancing crops’ drought tolerance is an urgent problem to be solved in breeding. Quinoa is known for its high nutritional value and strong drought tolerance, but its molecular mechani...
Ray-finned fish represent a very interesting group of vertebrates comprising a variety of organisms living in different aquatic environments worldwide. In the case of stenothermal fish, thermal fluctuations are poorly tolerated, thus ambient temperat...
Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental toxicant of public health significance worldwide. Diet is the main Cd exposure source in the non-occupationally exposed and non-smoking populations. Metal transporters for iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), calcium (Ca), and manga...
Melatonin application has obvious improving effects on alleviating the drought-induced inhibition of plant growth. However, the root phenotypic dynamics in wheat treated with melatonin remain unknown. This study was conducted using RhizoPot, a novel...
Climate change is intensifying drought frequency and severity, posing increasing challenges for tropical forest species whose growth and survival depend on water availability. Ochroma pyramidale (Cav. ex Lam.) Urb. (balsa) is a fast-growing pioneer t...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes or oncosomes, often carry oncogenic molecules derived from tumor cells. In addition, accumulating evidence indicates that tumor cells can eject anti-cancer drugs such as chemotherapeutics and targeted dr...
This study was designed to evaluate the response of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium to food preservative-related stresses, such as lactic acid and sodium chloride (NaCl). S. Typhimurium cells were exposed to 1 µg/mL of ciprofloxacin...
This study focused on the response mechanism of plants in karst ecosystems under rock stress, and explored the influence of aboveground rocks on the root phenotype and leaf water potential of plants. By quantifying the root characteristics of a total...
The application of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies (WGS) data remain an increasingly discussed but vastly unexplored resource in the public health domain of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). This is due to challenges includin...
Maternal stress during gestation may affect the development and responsiveness of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) and immune system in the progeny. Stressor type, duration and gestational stage at which the stressor occurs m...
Individual differences in coping with stress may determine either a vulnerable or resilient phenotype. Therefore, it is important to better understand the biology underlying the behavioral phenotype. We assessed whether individual behavioral phenotyp...
Maize, one of the world’s major food crops, is facing the challenge of rising temperature. Leaf senescence is the most significant phenotypic change of maize under heat stress at the seedling stage, but the underlying molecular mechanism is sti...
Drought severely limits crop yield every year, making it critical to clarify the genetic basis of drought tolerance for breeding of improved varieties. As drought tolerance is a complex quantitative trait, we analyzed three phenotypic groups: (1) agr...
Salt stress is one of the major adverse factors affecting plant growth and crop production. Rapeseed is an important oil crop, providing high-quality edible oil for human consumption. This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of salt s...
Previous plant phenotyping studies have focused on the visible (VIS, 400–700 nm), near-infrared (NIR, 700–1000 nm) and short-wave infrared (SWIR, 1000–2500 nm) range. The ultraviolet range (UV, 200–380 nm) has not yet been use...
Background/Objectives: The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a crucial role in the progression of the malignant phenotype through several mechanisms, such as hypoxia and nutrient deprivation, among others. These insults activate several intracellula...
The ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (atm) gene is activated in response to genotoxic stress and leads to activation of the tp53 tumor suppressor gene which induces either senescence or apoptosis as tumor suppressive mechanisms. Atm also serves non-cano...
Drought is a main factor limiting crop yields. Modern agricultural technologies such as irrigation systems, ground mulching, and rainwater storage can prevent drought, but these are only temporary solutions. Understanding the physiological, biochemic...
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a multifactorial, specific learning disorder. Susceptibility genes have been identified, but there is growing evidence that environmental factors, and especially stress, may act as triggering factors that determine an i...
In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) and their target genes have been demonstrated to form an essential component of the molecular response to salt stress. In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA BINDING1 (DRB1) and DRB2 are required to p...
The convenient model Arabidopsis thaliana has allowed tremendous advances in plant genetics and physiology, in spite of only being a weed. It has also unveiled the main molecular networks governing, among others, abiotic stress responses. Through the...
As climate change progresses, the breeding of drought-tolerant forest trees is necessary. Breeding drought-tolerant trees requires screening for drought stress using a large number of individuals and a high-throughput phenotyping method. The aim of t...
The Ficus genus, having radiated from the tropics and subtropics to the temperate zone worldwide, is the largest genus among woody plants, comprising over 800 species. Evolution of the Ficus species results in genetic diversity, global radiation and...
Mitigation of stress is of great importance in poultry production, as chronic stress can affect the efficiency of production traits. Selective breeding with a focus on stress responses can be used to combat the effects of stress. To better understand...
Maternal separation with early weaning (MSEW) is a popular early life stress (ELS) model in rodents, which emulates childhood neglect through scheduled mother-offspring separation. Although variations of ELS models, including maternal separation and...
Protein ubiquitination plays important roles in plants, including stress responses. The ubiquitin (Ub) E2 enzymes are required in the transfer of Ub to a substrate and are also important in determining the Ub-chain linkage specificity. However, for m...
Climate change is intensifying the co-occurrence of drought and heat stresses, which substantially constrain global crop yields and threaten food security. Developing climate–resilient crop varieties requires a comprehensive understanding of th...
Previously, we found that basal corticosterone pulsatility significantly impacts the vulnerability for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Rats that exhibited PTSD-phenotype were characterized by blunted basal corticosterone pulsatility...
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