Response of Sorghum to Cold Stress at Early Developmental Stage by Amandin Rutayisire, Geoffrey Lubadde, Alice Mukayiranga, Richard Edema

“…The goals of the study were to evaluate and identify sorghum lines with tolerance to cold temperature stress and make recommendations on varieties that may be planted in the East African highland regions or used in plant breeding programs for cold tolerance. …”
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Effects of exogenous SLs on growth and physiological characteristics of flue-cured tobacco seedlings under different degrees of drought stress by Xiao-dong Wang, Yi-nan Zhang, Xiao-guo Wang, Ye Zhuang, Shao-hua Ge

“…Strigolactones can alleviate damage caused by various abiotic stresses in plants; however, limited research has been conducted on their ability to enhance drought tolerance in tobacco.MethodsThis study evaluated the drought tolerance of ‘Qin Tobacco 96’ (drought-tolerant) and ‘Yun Tobacco 116’ (moisture-sensitive) before and after the application of gibberellic acid lactone at a concentration of 0.2 mg·L⁻¹ under three drought conditions: mild, moderate, and severe. …”
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St. Augustinegrass - Made for the Florida Shade? by Laurie E. Trenholm, Russell Nagata

“…Kuntze) cultivars are typically recognized as having better shade tolerance than other turf species used in Florida, cultivars do vary considerably in their shade tolerance. …”
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St. Augustinegrass - Made for the Florida Shade? by Laurie E. Trenholm, Russell Nagata

“…Kuntze) cultivars are typically recognized as having better shade tolerance than other turf species used in Florida, cultivars do vary considerably in their shade tolerance. …”
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Suppression of Postprandial Glycaemia by L-Arabinose in Rats is More Associated with Starch than Sucrose Ingestion - Short Report by Jurgoński Adam, Krotkiewski Marcin, Juśkiewicz Jerzy, Billing-Marczak Katarzyna

“…There was no effect of L-arabinose on glycaemia in the glucose tolerance test, whereas it reduced postprandial glycaemia after 15 min of the sucrose tolerance test. …”
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Identification of Heat-Responsive Genes in Guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub] by Aref Alshameri, Fahad Al-Qurainy, Abdel-Rhman Gaafar, Salim Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Saleh Alansi

“…The threat of heat stress on crop production increased dramatically due to global warming leading to the rise on the demand of heat-tolerant crops and understanding their tolerance. The leguminous forage crop Guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) …”
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An epigenetic memory at the CYP1A gene in cancer-resistant, pollution-adapted killifish by Samantha Carrothers, Rafael Trevisan, Nishad Jayasundara, Nicole Pelletier, Emma Weeks, Joel N. Meyer, Richard Di Giulio, Caren Weinhouse

“…However, PAH-tolerant fish reared in clean water recover CYP1A inducibility, indicating a non-genetic effect. …”
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Comparative Transcriptional Profiling of Two Contrasting Barley Genotypes under Salinity Stress during the Seedling Stage by Runhong Gao, Ke Duan, Guimei Guo, Zhizhao Du, Zhiwei Chen, Liang Li, Ting He, Ruiju Lu, Jianhua Huang

“…Identification of the potential novel genes responsible for salt tolerance in barley will contribute to understanding the molecular mechanism of barley responses to salt stress. …”
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Natural variation of CTB5 confers cold adaptation in plateau japonica rice by Haifeng Guo, Shilei Gao, Huahui Li, Jiazhen Yang, Jin Li, Yunsong Gu, Qijin Lou, Runbin Su, Wei Ye, Andong Zou, Yulong Wang, Xingming Sun, Zhanying Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Yawen Zeng, Pingrong Yuan, Youliang Peng, Zichao Li, Jinjie Li

“…Abstract During cold acclimation in high-latitude and high-altitude regions, japonica rice develops enhanced cold tolerance, but the underlying genetic basis remains unclear. …”
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Effects of Drought Frequency on Growth Performance and Transpiration of Young Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) by Dario Mantovani, Maik Veste, Dirk Freese

“…The drought memory affected the plant growth performance and its drought tolerance: the plants resprouting under drought conditions were more drought tolerant than the well-watered ones. …”
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LEA Gene Expression Assessment in Advanced Mutant Rice Genotypes under Drought Stress by Zarifth Shafika Kamarudin, Mohd Rafii Yusop, Mohd Razi Ismail, Mahmud Tengku Muda Mohamed, Abdul Rahim Harun, Oladosu Yusuff, Usman Magaji, Arolu Fatai

“…The upregulated genes by these two varieties showed high similarity with the drought-tolerant check variety, Aeron1. This indicates that these advanced mutant genotypes have better tolerance to drought stress. …”
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Relationship between Maternal Immunological Response during Pregnancy and Onset of Preeclampsia by Alicia Martínez-Varea, Begoña Pellicer, Alfredo Perales-Marín, Antonio Pellicer

“…Maternofetal immune tolerance is essential to maintain pregnancy. The maternal immunological tolerance to the semiallogeneic fetus becomes greater in egg donation pregnancies with unrelated donors as the complete fetal genome is allogeneic to the mother. …”
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Regulatory T Cells Accumulate in the Lung Allergic Inflammation and Efficiently Suppress T-Cell Proliferation but Not Th2 Cytokine Production by Lucas Faustino, Daniel Mucida, Alexandre Castro Keller, Jocelyne Demengeot, Karina Bortoluci, Luiz Roberto Sardinha, Maisa Carla Takenaka, Alexandre Salgado Basso, Ana Maria Caetano Faria, Momtchilo Russo

“…Foxp3+CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells are vital for peripheral tolerance and control of tissue inflammation. In this study, we characterized the phenotype and monitored the migration and activity of regulatory T cells present in the airways of allergic or tolerant mice after allergen challenge. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of the heat shock proteins Hsp70, Hsp90, and Hsp90b in Litopenaeus vannamei under low-temperature stress by Min Peng, Hui Wang, Shuiping Wen, Zheng Liang, Zheng Huang, Bin Zhang, Tianchong Chen, Qingyun Liu, Qiangyong Li, Yuan Meng, Yuliu Huang, Chunling Yang, Digang Zeng, Manyuan Li, Weilin Zhu, Yongzhen Zhao

“…Linkage disequilibrium analysis revealed that eight SNPs in hsp70 were significantly associated with low-temperature tolerance (P < 0.01), and 4 SNPs were moderately associated with low-temperature tolerance (P < 0.05). …”
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The use of drought resistance indices in the study of the spring bread wheat collection under the conditions of Aktobe Region by Zh. T. Kalybekova, V. I. Tsygankov, E. V. Zuev, L. Yu. Novikova

“…To assess the drought tolerance of the accessions, the following indices were used: mean productivity (MP), stress tolerance (TOL), yield stability index (YSI), drought resistance index (DI), and stress tolerance index (STI).Results and discussion. …”
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Biosorption of Cadmium by Filamentous Fungi Isolated from Coastal Water and Sediments by Lebeth C. Manguilimotan, Jayzon G. Bitacura

“…This study was conducted to isolate Cadmium (Cd) tolerant fungi from coastal waters and sediments, compare their biosorption capabilities, and identify the isolates with the highest Cd uptake. …”
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On Asymptotic Analysis of Packet and Wormhole Switched Routing Algorithm for Application-Specific Networks-on-Chip by Nitin

“…For this, four fault-tolerant parallel algorithms are proposed. It allows different NoCs to communicate in parallel using either fault-tolerant irregular Penta multistage interconnection network (PNN) or fault-tolerant regular Hexa multistage interconnection network (HXN). …”
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Single-Event-Upset Sensitivity Analysis on Low-Swing Drivers by Nor Muzlifah Mahyuddin, Gordon Russell

“…It is found that, with temperature, there is no clear factor that can justify the direct impact of temperature on the SEU tolerance. Thus, in order to improve the SEU tolerance, high bias currents are still considered to be the most effective method in improving the SEU sensitivity. …”
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Associations of TG/HDL Ratio with the Risk of Prediabetes and Diabetes in Chinese Adults: A Chinese Population Cohort Study Based on Open Data by Rongpeng Gong, Yuanyuan Liu, Gang Luo, Wenjing Liu, Ziqi Jin, Zixin Xu, Zheng Li, Lixin Yang, Xiaoxing Wei

“…In the global chronic diseases, type 2 diabetes shows a significant upward trend, and there are more people before prediabetes (impaired glucose tolerance). Many patients with impaired glucose tolerance and undiagnosed diabetes do not know that their glucose metabolism system has been in a state of disorder. …”
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Splicing and expression dynamics of SR genes in hot pepper (Capsicum annuum): regulatory diversity and conservation under stress by Lin Li, Yueqin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Rui Zhang, Xiangtao Cen, Yongxiang Huang, Yongxiang Huang, Hanqiao Hu, Hanqiao Hu, Xingyu Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Yu Ling, Yu Ling

“…Notably, transcription levels of several proteins, including CaSR33, CaSR34, and CaSR34a, were upregulated by salt, drought, and cold stresses, suggesting potential roles of these proteins in stress tolerance. We also observed an increase of CaSR transcript population resulting from alternative splicing (AS) regulation, mainly intron retention. …”
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