Submitted to Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1 2 Polysaccharide-degrading thermophiles generated by heterologous gene 3 expression in Geobacillus kaustophilus HTA426 4 5 Hirokazu Suzuki, Ken-ichi Yoshida, and Toshihisa Ohshima 6 7 Functional Genomics of Extremophiles, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu 8 University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan 9 Department of Agrobioscience, Gra...

Patients with brain tumors provide a unique opportunity to understand functional brain plasticity. Using advanced imaging techniques, such as functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging, we have gained tremendous knowledge of brain tumor behavior, transformation, infiltration and destruction of nearby structures. Using these advanced techniques as an adjunct with more proven techniques, such as...

Excessive concentration of greenhouse gases in atmosphere emitted from human activities has been considerably changing the world’s climate, especially last 50 years. Agriculture, as humans’ food production system, undoubtedly interrelated with climate change (CC). During current decades, impacts CC on agriculture have properly investigated; however, received lower attention. This may be due to ...

The diagnosis and treatment of cancer have been greatly improved with the recent developments in nanotechnology. One of the promising nanoscale tools for cancer diagnosis is fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs), such as organic dye-doped NPs, quantum dots and upconversion NPs that enable highly sensitive optical imaging of cancer at cellular and animal level. Furthermore, the emerging development of...

Conservation agriculture has been identified as one of the farming systems likely to deliver sustainable but its effects over time on diversity and composition weed communities are poorly documented. Using a network 100 winter wheat fields selected encompass gradient years in conservation from 1 20 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (France), we analyzed changes that occurred several years, both α-...

The patterns of different cropping systems are highly variable—as diverse as are the crops themselves and the climates, habitats, levels of mechanization, and human customs under which crop production is undertaken. Depending on the part of the world, certain considerations will weigh more heavily than others. In one place primitive methods are appropriate, in another the system is highly mecha...

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Watershed-scale anthropogenic stressors have profound effects on aquatic communities. Although several functional traits of stream macroinvertebrates change predictably in response to land development and urbanization, little is known about macroinvertebrate functional responses in lakes. We assessed functional community structure, functional diversity (Rao's quadratic entropy) and voltinism in...