Yue Zhao^1,2,#, Shah Faheem Afzal^2,#, Zhu Chen², Khan Arif Kamal^1,2, Yuzhi Fei², Xin Meng^1,2, Jie Ren^2,*, Hua Liu^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.11, pp. 3109-3130, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.056548 - 30 November 2024

Abstract Acer rubrum is an important garden color-leafed plant. Its leaves will turn red in autumn, which is of great ornamental value. The leaf color change in Acer rubrum is closely associated with anthocyanins accumulation. In anthocyanin synthesis and accumulation, various transcription factor families play significant regulatory roles, including the basic (region) leucine zipper (bZIP). However, there is no report on the systematic identification and functional analysis of the bZIPs in Acer rubrum. In this study, 137 bZIPs distributed on 29 chromosomes of Acer rubrum were identified and renamed according to their locations on the chromosomes. According to the constructed… More >

Ziao Wang^1,3,4,#, Likun An^1,3,4,#, Yongmei Cui^1,2,3,4, Yixiong Bai^1,3,4, Guangping Du¹, Kunlun Wu^1,2,3,4,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.11, pp. 2755-2766, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.055852 - 30 November 2024

Abstract In this study, we analyzed the agronomic and physiological indicators of the leaves and roots of 60 hulless barley varieties under low-temperature treatment, identified the crucial indicators that can reflect the ability of hulless barley to tolerate low-temperature, and evaluated the ability of different hulless barley varieties to tolerate low-temperature. The results indicated significant differences in the agronomic and physiological indicators of 60 hulless barley varieties subjected to low-temperature treatment. Most of the agronomic indicators significantly decreased, whereas most of the physiological indicators significantly increased. However, the magnitude of changes in each agronomic and physiological… More >

Sumrit Mopoung^*, Narissara Namkaew, Sasiwan Srikasaem

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.12, No.8, pp. 1433-1454, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2024.052925 - 06 September 2024

Abstract Activated carbon preparation from sugarcane leaves and rice straw by carbonization (250°C–400°C) and activation at 500°C were studied. The effects of pre-oxidation, hydrolysis of derived charcoals by boiled KMnO₄ aqueous solution were evaluated. The derived charcoals products were pretreated using oxidation-hydrolysis with 1–5 wt.% KMnO₄ at 100°C and then activated at 500°C. The derived charcoal and activated carbon products were characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM-EDS and BET. Iodine number and methylene blue number of derived products were also used for the analysis of the products. It was found that fabricated charcoal materials made at 350°C–400°C possess… More > Graphic Abstract

Honghui Sun^1,2,#, Ruichao Liu^1,2,#, Yueting Qi¹, Hongsheng Gao¹, Xueting Wang¹, Ning Jiang^1,2, Xiaotong Guo^1,2, Hongxia Zhang¹, Chunyan Yu^1,2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.3, pp. 533-549, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.049417 - 28 March 2024

Abstract Grapes, one of the oldest tree species globally, are rich in vitamins. However, environmental conditions such as low temperature and soil salinization significantly affect grape yield and quality. The glutamate receptor (GLR) family, comprising highly conserved ligand-gated ion channels, regulates plant growth and development in response to stress. In this study, 11 members of the VvGLR gene family in grapes were identified using whole-genome sequence analysis. Bioinformatic methods were employed to analyze the basic physical and chemical properties, phylogenetic trees, conserved domains, motifs, expression patterns, and evolutionary relationships. Phylogenetic and collinear analyses revealed that the VvGLRs… More >

Tianyu Zhou¹, Liang Hao¹, Xin Xu^2,3, Meng Si^2,3, Lian Zhang^2,3,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.1, pp. 145-168, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.042798 - 27 December 2023

Abstract This paper discussed the experimental results of the performance of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system with an ultra-low temperature heat source. The low boiling point working medium R134a was adopted in the system. The simulated heat source temperature (SHST) in this work was set from 39.51°C to 48.60°C by the simulated heat source module. The influence of load percentage of simulated heat source (LPSHS) between 50% and 70%, the rotary valve opening (RVO) between 20% and 100%, the resistive load between 36 Ω and 180 Ω or the no-load of the generator, as well… More >

Genhai Hu^1,*, Maoni Chao¹, Xiuren Zhou², Yuanzhi Fu²

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.9, pp. 2535-2554, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.030163 - 28 July 2023

Abstract Gossypium hirsutum L. is an important cash crop native to the subtropics and is widely cultivated around the world. Low temperature is an important stress that seriously affects seed germination and emergence during planting. In this study, transcriptomic profiles of low-temperature- and normal-temperature-germinated seeds of Xinluzao 25, a variety with low-temperature tolerance and high germination rates, were analyzed and compared. The following results were obtained. (1) A total of 81.06 Gb of clean data were obtained after transcriptome sequencing and assembly, and 76,931 non-redundant Unigene sequences were obtained after data consolidation and concatenation; of these, 69,883… More >

Hongxiu Gao¹, Lin Zhu², Tianqi Liu¹, Xueyu Leng¹, Zhenxing Zhu³, Wei Xie¹, Haitao Lv¹, Zhengxun Jin¹, Ping Wu^4,#, Zhongchen Zhang^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.6, pp. 1743-1763, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.026516 - 11 April 2023

Abstract Cyclophilin (CYP) plays an important role in plant response to stress, and OsCYP2, one gene of cyclophlilin family, is involved in auxin signal transduction and stress signaling in rice. However, the mechanism that OsCYP2 is involved in rice response to low temperature is still unclear. We identified a new OsCYP2 allelic mutant, lrl3, with fewer lateral roots, and the differences in shoot height, primary root length and adventitious root length increased with the growth process compared to the wild-type plant. Auxin signaling pathway was also affected and became insensitive to gravity. The transgenic rice plants with over-expression… More >

Bingsong Yang^1,2,#, Xiaomeng Shi^2,#, Tingting Guo^1,2, Meixia Liang^1,2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.2, pp. 559-575, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.024266 - 12 October 2022

Abstract Low temperature is one of the adversities threatening the growth and development and reduces the yield of rubber trees. However, molecular mechanisms toward rubber trees in response to low temperature are largely unclear. In this study, 7,159 and 7,600 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in ‘Reyan 73397’ rubber trees. Through GO analysis, the catalytic activity was the representative of the GO term in the only DEGs at the two studied temperatures (room temperature and 4°C, respectively), while KEGG analysis showed that carbon metabolism was the most important grouping under the comparison of these two More >

Peng Chen^*, Wentao Shi, Jian Wan, Lu Huang

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 1017-1029, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.023699 - 22 September 2022

Abstract The poly(epoxy-N-methylaniline) conductive organic carrier was used as the bonding phase of the low-temperature conductive silver paste. Then, this was mixed with different proportions of silver powder to prepare the lowtemperature conductive silver paste. Afterwards, the effect of the conductive organic carrier on the properties of the low-temperature conductive silver paste was determined by IR, DMA and SEM. The results revealed that the prepared conductive paste has good conductivity, film-forming performance, printing performance, low-temperature curing performance, and anti-aging performance. When the mass percentage of the bonding phase/conductive phase was 40/60, the lowest volume resistivity of More > Graphic Abstract

Yiding Cao

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.19, pp. 1-16, 2022, DOI:10.5098/hmt.19.2

Abstract This paper introduces a novel air-water thermal power plant working at low temperatures and employing hot water as a heat-supply fluid to produce utility-scale power with high second-law efficiency. The air-water power plant uses both air and water as working fluids and employs a direct-contact mass and heat transfer packing to facilitate latent heat (in terms of vapor) and sensible heat transfer from the hot water to moist air for expansion in a gas turbine to produce power. A cycle analysis indicates that with a heat source temperature of around 100o C, the power plant… More >