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Spatial prediction of the concentration of selenium (Se) in grain across part of Amhara Region, Ethiopia (2020)
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Gashu, D., Lark, R., Milne, A., Amede, T., Bailey, E., Chagumaira, C., …McGrath, S. (2020). Spatial prediction of the concentration of selenium (Se) in grain across part of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Science of the Total Environment, 733, Article 139231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139231

Grain and soil were sampled across a large part of Amhara, Ethiopia in a study motivated by prior evidence of selenium (Se) deficiency in the Region's population. The grain samples (teff, Eragrostis tef, and wheat, Triticum aestivum) were analysed fo... Read More about Spatial prediction of the concentration of selenium (Se) in grain across part of Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Investigating the influence of pectin content and structure on its functionality in bio-flocculant extracted from okra (2020)
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Millett, R., Mao, Y., Millet, R., Lee, C. S., Yakubov, G., Harding, S. E., & Binner, E. (2020). Investigating the influence of pectin content and structure on its functionality in bio-flocculant extracted from okra. Carbohydrate Polymers, 241, Article 116414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116414

© 2020 The Author(s) Okra extract is known to have potential application as a bio-flocculant for wastewater treatment. However, no research to date has given insight into the components responsible for the flocculating ability of okra extract or its... Read More about Investigating the influence of pectin content and structure on its functionality in bio-flocculant extracted from okra.

MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis (2020)
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Lu, J. Y., Xiong, S. X., Yin, W., Teng, X. D., Lou, Y., Zhu, J., …Yang, Z. N. (2020). MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(16), 4877-4889. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa219

© 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Sporophytic pollen coat proteins (sPCPs) derived from the anther tapetum are deposited into pollen wall cavities and function in pollen-stigma interactions, pollen hydration, and environmental prot... Read More about MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis.

Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips (2020)
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Reyt, G., Chao, Z., Flis, P., Castrillo, G., Chao, D.-Y., & Salt, D. E. Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips

Casparian strips (CS) are cell wall modifications of vascular plants restricting extracellular free diffusion into and out the vascular system. This barrier plays a critical role in controlling the acquisition of nutrients and water necessary for nor... Read More about Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips.

Soil and foliar zinc biofortification of broccolini: effects on plant growth and mineral accumulation (2020)
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Rivera-Martin, A., Broadley, M. R., & Poblaciones, M. J. (2020). Soil and foliar zinc biofortification of broccolini: effects on plant growth and mineral accumulation. Crop and Pasture Science, 71(5), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.1071/cp19474

© 2020 CSIRO. Millions of people have Zn-deficient diets, so Zn-biofortified crops could prevent such deficiency. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of agronomic Zn biofortification of broccolini-a new hybrid crop variety derived from a cr... Read More about Soil and foliar zinc biofortification of broccolini: effects on plant growth and mineral accumulation.

Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures (2020)
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Toupet, R., Gibbons, A. T., Goodacre, S. L., & Bell, M. J. (2020). Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures. Land, 9(5), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/LAND9050164

© 2020 by the authors. The aim of this research was to assess differences in the quantity and quality of herbage and invertebrate generalist predator abundance among permanent and temporary pastures. Two permanent pastures and four temporary ley past... Read More about Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures.

A comparison between water uptake and root length density in winter wheat: effects of root density and rhizosphere properties (2020)
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Zhang, X. .., Whalley, P. A., Ashton, R. W., Evans, J., Hawkesford, M. J., Griffiths, S., …Whalley, W. R. (2020). A comparison between water uptake and root length density in winter wheat: effects of root density and rhizosphere properties. Plant and Soil, 451, 345-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04530-3

© 2020, The Author(s). Background and aims: We aim to quantify the variation in root distribution in a set of 35 experimental wheat lines. We also compared the effect of variation in hydraulic properties of the rhizosphere on water uptake by roots. M... Read More about A comparison between water uptake and root length density in winter wheat: effects of root density and rhizosphere properties.

Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice (2020)
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Mitchell, E. G., Crout, N. M., Wilson, P., Wood, A. T., & Stupfler, G. (2020). Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), Article 191919. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191919

© 2020 The Authors. Wheat farming provides 28.5% of global cereal production. After steady growth in average crop yield from 1950 to 1990, wheat yields have generally stagnated, which prompts the question of whether further improvements are possible.... Read More about Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice.

Exploiting the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum to expand the gene pool of hexaploid wheat (2020)
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Baker, L., Grewal, S., Yang, C. Y., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., …King, J. (2020). Exploiting the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum to expand the gene pool of hexaploid wheat. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 133, 2213–2226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-020-03591-3

© 2020, The Author(s). Key message: One hundred and thirty four introgressions from Thinopyrum elongatum have been transferred into a wheat background and were characterised using 263 SNP markers. Abstract: Species within the genus Thinopyrum have be... Read More about Exploiting the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum to expand the gene pool of hexaploid wheat.

Changes in dietary patterns when females engage in a weight management programme and their ability to meet Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's fibre and sugar recommendations (2020)
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Strathearn, L., Kaçar, H. K., & Avery, A. (2020). Changes in dietary patterns when females engage in a weight management programme and their ability to meet Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's fibre and sugar recommendations. Public Health Nutrition, 23(12), 2189-2198. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004762

OBJECTIVE: To investigate how dietary patterns (DP) change following engagement in a weight management programme. Using the DP identified, to study their relationship with weight loss achieved and ability to meet the Scientific Advisory Committee on... Read More about Changes in dietary patterns when females engage in a weight management programme and their ability to meet Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's fibre and sugar recommendations.

Sex differences in auditory fear discrimination are associated with altered medial prefrontal cortex function (2020)
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Day, H. L. L., Suwansawang, S., Halliday, D. M., & Stevenson, C. W. (2020). Sex differences in auditory fear discrimination are associated with altered medial prefrontal cortex function. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 6300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63405-w

© 2020, The Author(s). The increased prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that is observed in women may involve sex differences in learned fear inhibition and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) function. PTSD is characterized by fear over... Read More about Sex differences in auditory fear discrimination are associated with altered medial prefrontal cortex function.

Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose (2020)
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van Munster, J. M., Daly, P., Blythe, M. J., Ibbett, R., Kokolski, M., Gaddipati, S., …Archer, D. B. (2020). Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-020-01702-2

Background
Understanding how fungi degrade lignocellulose is a cornerstone of improving renewables-based biotechnology, in particular for the production of hydrolytic enzymes. Considerable progress has been made in investigating fungal degradation d... Read More about Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose.

Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis (2020)
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Fernández-Gómez, J., Talle, B., Tidy, A., & Wilson, Z. A. (2020). Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(12), 3475-3484. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa156

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Wheat is one of the most important crops in the world; however, loss of genetic variability and abiotic stress caused by variable clima... Read More about Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis.

Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time (2020)
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Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Nathanail, P., MacNaughtan, W., & Gomes, R. L. (2020). Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time. Environmental Pollution, 263, Article 114481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114481

Plastic pollution represents one of the most salient indicators of society’s impact on the environment. The microplastic component of this is ubiquitous, however, microplastic studies are seldom representative of the locations they sample. Over 12 mo... Read More about Freshwater microplastic concentrations vary through both space and time.

Modified approach to estimating daily methane emissions of dairy cows by measuring filtered eructations during milking (2020)
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Bell, M. J., Garnsworthy, P., Mallis, D., Eckard, R., Moate, P., & Yan, T. (2020). Modified approach to estimating daily methane emissions of dairy cows by measuring filtered eructations during milking. Landbauforschung, 69(1), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3220/LBF15841062570004

The aim of this study was to compare metrics for quantifying enteric methane (CH4) emissions from individual cows during milking using frequent spot measurements and peak analysis methods. An infrared gas analyser was used to measure the CH4 emitted... Read More about Modified approach to estimating daily methane emissions of dairy cows by measuring filtered eructations during milking.

Klebsiella pneumoniae type VI secretion system-mediated microbial competition is PhoPQ controlled and reactive oxygen species dependent (2020)
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Storey, D., McNally, A., Åstrand, M., sa-Pessoa Graca Santos, J., Rodriguez-Escudero, I., Elmore, B., …Bengoechea, J. A. (2020). Klebsiella pneumoniae type VI secretion system-mediated microbial competition is PhoPQ controlled and reactive oxygen species dependent. PLoS Pathogens, 16(3), Article e1007969. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007969

Copyright: © 2020 Storey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and sou... Read More about Klebsiella pneumoniae type VI secretion system-mediated microbial competition is PhoPQ controlled and reactive oxygen species dependent.

Leucine and mTORc1 act independently to regulate 2-deoxyglucose uptake in L6 myotubes (2020)
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Yin, Q., Brameld, J. M., Parr, T., & Murton, A. J. (2020). Leucine and mTORc1 act independently to regulate 2-deoxyglucose uptake in L6 myotubes. Amino Acids, 52, 477–486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-020-02829-0

© 2020, The Author(s). Chronic mTORc1 hyperactivation via obesity-induced hyperleucinaemia has been implicated in the development of insulin resistance, yet the direct impact of leucine on insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in muscle cells remains unc... Read More about Leucine and mTORc1 act independently to regulate 2-deoxyglucose uptake in L6 myotubes.

Improved functional connectivity network estimation for brain networks using multivariate partial coherence (2020)
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Halliday, D. M., Senik, M. H., Makhtar, S. N., Stevenson, C. W., & Mason, R. (2020). Improved functional connectivity network estimation for brain networks using multivariate partial coherence. Journal of Neural Engineering, 17(2), Article 026013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ab7a50

Objective: Graphical networks and network metrics are widely used to understand and char-acterise brain networks and brain function. These methods can be applied to a range of electro-physiological data including electroencephalography, local field p... Read More about Improved functional connectivity network estimation for brain networks using multivariate partial coherence.

Genetic control of root architectural plasticity in maize (2020)
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Schneider, H. M., Klein, S. P., Nord, E., Kaeppler, S. M., Brown, K., Warry, A., …Lynch, J. (2020). Genetic control of root architectural plasticity in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(10), 3185-3197. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa084

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Root phenotypes regulate soil resource acquisition; however, their genetic control and phenotypic plasticity are poorly understood. We... Read More about Genetic control of root architectural plasticity in maize.

Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions (2020)
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Prigge, M. J., Platre, M., Kadakia, N., Zhang, Y., Greenham, K., Szutu, W., …Estelle, M. (2020). Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions. eLife, 9, Article e54740. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54740

© 2020, Prigge et al. The TIR1/AFB auxin co-receptors mediate diverse responses to the plant hormone auxin. The Arabidopsis genome encodes six TIR1/AFB proteins representing three of the four clades that were established prior to angiosperm radiation... Read More about Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions.