Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Trichoderma Isolates from Vegetable Crop Rhizospheres in Nepal [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Arvind Kumar Keshari, Suraj Baidya, Aashaq Hussain Bhat, Ram B. Khadka, Puja Jaiswal

“…Results The morphological characteristics and phylogenetic trees for both regions provided a clear species resolution, with four main clades: Harzianum, Viride, Brevicompactum and Longibrachiatum with 12 species T. harzinaum, T. afroharzianum, T. lentiforme, T. inhamatum, T. camerunense, T. azevedoi, T. atroviride, T. asperellum, T. asperelloides, T. koningii, T. longibrachiatum and T. brevicompactum and nine species as a new country record. …”
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Correlation Between <i>Cryptococcus</i> Infection and the Nasal Mycobiota in a Population of Free-Ranging Koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) in New South Wales, Australia by Andrew S. McPherson, Sophie L. Haworth, Alex Kan, Luisa Monteiro de Miranda, Mark B. Krockenberger

“…Nasal colonisation and subclinical cryptococcosis are common in koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) due to their shared environmental niche with <i>Cryptococcus</i>: <i>Eucalyptus</i> trees. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the prevalence of clinical disease is low in koalas. …”
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Identification and Pathogenicity of <i>Fusarium</i> Species from Herbaceous Plants on Grassland in Qiaojia County, China by Yanzhu Gao, Zhixiao Zhang, Mei Ji, Sangzi Ze, Haodong Wang, Bin Yang, Lianrong Hu, Ning Zhao

“…Through morphological means and based on ITS, <i>RPB2</i>, and <i>TEF-1</i> gene sequences, we compared and constructed polygenic phylogenetic trees to classify and identify the <i>Fusarium</i> species. …”
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Antagonism of Eucalyptus endophytic fungi against some important crop fungal diseases by Parmida Aleahmad, Leila Ebrahimi, Naser Safaie, Hassan Reza Etebarian

“…In this study, endophytic fungi were isolated from Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees, and their antifungal activity was evaluated against four significant plant pathogens namely Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, Macrophomina phaseolina, and Rhizoctonia solani. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome sequences of monotypic genus Pseudogalium, and comparative analyses with its relative genera by Wei Yu, Xiao-Juan Li, Zhen Lv, Li-E Yang, De-Li Peng

“…To investigate the phylogenetics of P. paradoxum and its related genera, we first sequenced, assembled, and annotated the chloroplast genome of two subspecies of P. paradoxum in China and reconstructed the phylogenetic trees. Due to the lack of samples of P. paradoxum subsp. franchetianum from Japan, this study only analyzed and discussed P. paradoxum subsp. paradoxum and P. paradoxum subsp. duthiei. …”
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Powdery mildew resistance of apple clonal rootstocks from the collection of the Michurinsk State Agrarian University by I. N. Shamshin, M. L. Dubrovsky, A. A. Trifonova, K. V. Boris, A. M. Kudryavtsev

“…Apple clonal rootstocks are the basis of modern intensive horticulture, providing a rapid increase in yield and convenience of fruit trees cultivation. Production of clonal rootstocks under high humidity often causes powdery mildew infection caused by the pathogenic fungus Podosphaera leucotricha Salm., which significantly reduces the productivity of stoolbed. …”
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Osobowość ekologiczna płci - badania ankietowe by Irena Grochowska

“…Quoting Estes we can say that mature woman (surviving woman) looking at a forest sees a home for herself and other people, whilst others looking at the same forest imagine cutting down trees and making money on it. Clean environment allowing life is like air necessary to live and you can only breathe deeply with clean air. …”
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Investigating the effects of hyperparameter sensitivity on machine learning algorithms for PV forecasting by Ehtsham Muhammad, Rotilio Marianna, Cucchiella Federica, Di Giovanni Gianni, Schettini Domenico

“…Four state-of-the-art ML models, namely Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Support Vector Regression (SVR) were investigated. …”
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Machine learning-driven solar irradiance prediction: advancing renewable energy in Rajasthan by Aayushi Tandon, Amit Awasthi, Kanhu Charan Pattnayak, Aditya Tandon, Tanupriya Choudhury, Ketan Kotecha

“…Various machine learning models were tested and compared for solar irradiance prediction, including Linear Regression, Random Forest, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, and Gradient Boosting. …”
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Soil data from the Barbastro-Balaguer gypsum belt, NE SpainMendeley Data by Juan Herrero, María Tierra, Carmen Castañeda

“…Traditionally chesas were rangeland, with sparse almond and olive trees and rainfed winter cereals confined at the flat —and often terraced— valley bottoms, or vales as known in NE Spain. …”
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Influence of food availability on the diet and activity budget of two western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) groups of differing size in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park,... by Terence Fuh Neba, Giuseppe Donati, Angelique Todd, Shelly Masi

“…First, we compared food availability between home-ranges by monitoring leafing/fruiting patterns of major gorilla food trees. Second, we compared the groups’ activity budgets and diet composition/diversity, testing for differences between high (HF) and low fruit seasons (LF). …”
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Codon usage patterns and genomic variation analysis of chloroplast genomes provides new insights into the evolution of Aroideae by Xinbi Jia, Jiaqi Wei, Yuewen Chen, Chenghong Zeng, Chan Deng, Pengchen Zeng, Yufei Tang, Qinghong Zhou, Yingjin Huang, Qianglong Zhu

“…Furthermore, the maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic trees constructed from complete chloroplast genomes and protein-coding sequences presented similar topologies. …”
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Is The SARS-CoV2 Evolved in Human Being: A prospective Genetic Analysis by Salvatore Dimonte, Paywast Jamal Jalal, Hiwa Abdulrahman Ahmad, Safa Bakr Karim, Taib Ahmed Hama Soor, Salar Ibrahim Ali, Muhammed Babakir-Mina, Francesco Greco

“…An attempt has been made to investigate the epidemiological study of this new contagious virus using molecular biology techniques. The phylogenetic trees for all human coronaviruses with the novel Coronavirus have been built using a several complete amino acid sequences of the four known structural proteins, S (spike), E (envelope), M (membrane), and N (nucleocapsid). …”
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Effects of biochar on the chemical properties of soils and the volume of wood in a plantation of Acacia mangium Willd in the Colombian Orinoquía (highlands) by Giovanni Reyes-Moreno, Aquiles Enrique Darghan, Carlos Rivera-Moreno

“…Result: We found an increase in the different chemical variables of the soil analyzed in treatments with BAM and BAM + SF and an increase in the volume of the stem of the trees in treatments with BAM + SF. The analysis by partial least squares showed how the EC and SOC variables were the most important in explaining the volume of wood. …”
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Breeding Performances of the European Blackbird (Turdus merula) in Morocco: Habitat Selection, Breeding Phenology, and Breeding Success by Abderahim El Hassani, Ismail Mansouri, Wafae Squalli, Abdelbari El Agy, Amine Assouguem, Kenza Bouayad, Abdellah Markou, Mohamed Mounir, Hamid Achiban, Mohamed Dakki, Lahsen El Ghadraoui

“…Results showed that the European Blackbird nests mainly in apple orchards, on Golden Delicious and Starkrimson Delicious trees. Nest height above the ground was 214.15 ± 0.09 cm. …”
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Ethnobotany, floristic and phytochemical studies of medicinal plants used to treat uterine fibroids in Mbarara City, Uganda by Calton Nantinda, Esther Lynnet Kisakye, David Musana, Isaac Ssessanga, Ukashar Ssenabulya, Timothy Omara, Ivan Kahwa, Florence Nalimu

“…Leaves (47.6%), stems (17.5%) and flowers (9.5%) of herbs (61.7%), trees (23.4%) and shrubs (14.9%) were the primarily utilized plant parts for preparing decoctions that are administered orally (94%). …”
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Seroprevalence of Asymptomatic Leishmania donovani among Laborers and Associated Risk Factors in Agricultural Camps of West Armachiho District, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectiona... by Animen Ayehu, Yibeltal Aschale, Wossenseged Lemma, Animut Alebel, Ligabaw Worku, Ayalew Jejaw, Abebe Genetu Bayih

“…Leishmania donovani infection had a statistically significant association with sleeping under Balanites trees (AOR: 4.36, 95%CI: 1.186-16.06), presence of domestic animals near sleeping place (AOR: 4.68, 95% CI: 1.25-17.56), and lack of knowledge about VL transmission (AOR: 3.79, 95% CI: 1.07-13.47). …”
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Measurement report: The ice-nucleating activity of lichen sampled in a northern European boreal forest by U. Proske, U. Proske, U. Proske, M. P. Adams, G. C. E. Porter, M. A. Holden, M. A. Holden, J. Bäck, B. J. Murray

“…A potential source of INPs that were not covered in snow was lichens that grow on trees; hence, we investigated these lichens as a potential source of biological INPs in this boreal forest environment. …”
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Multi-Feature Driver Variable Fusion Downscaling TROPOMI Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Approach by Jinrui Fan, Xiaoping Lu, Guosheng Cai, Zhengfang Lou, Jing Wen

“…Various machine learning models, including CNN, Stacking, Extreme Random Trees, AdaBoost, and GBDT, were compared, with Random Forest yielding the best performance, achieving R² = 0.931, RMSE = 0.052 mW/m²/nm/sr, and MAE = 0.031 mW/m²/nm/sr for 2018–2019 and R² = 0.926, RMSE = 0.058 mW/m²/nm/sr, and MAE = 0.034 mW/m²/nm/sr for 2019–2020. …”
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Analysis of Volatile Components and Key Aroma Components in Dianhong Congou Black Tea Produced by Variable Temperature Fermentation by WANG Yanyan, LIU Zhiwei, YAN Huiting, LU Jianwei, HE Yamei, GAO Jun, BAI Bing, LU Liping

“…One bud with two or three leaves from large leafed trees grown in Yunnan that were plucked in summer were used to manufacture Dianhong congou black tea (DCT) by five variable temperature fermentation processes. …”
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