Effects of cultivar and nitrogen application rate on lint, seed, oil, and protein yields of field-grown cotton (open access)

Effects of cultivar and nitrogen application rate on lint, seed, oil, and protein yields of field-grown cotton

Article describes how the objective of this study was to evaluate the lint, seed, oil, and protein yield responses of cultivars with different seed mass and composition to N application rates (0–168 kg N ha−1) for field-grown cotton. The authors conclude that variability in the distribution of photosynthates to fiber and seed as well as seed oil and protein composition can significantly alter trends in fiber, seed, and seed component yields in response to cultivar or N application rates for field-grown cotton.
Date: March 9, 2023
Creator: Parkash, Ved; Snider, John L.; Bruce, Aaron; Ermanis, Alessandro; Virk, Gurpreet; Kaur, Navneet et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diverse values of nature for sustainability (open access)

Diverse values of nature for sustainability

Article describes how, twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystems services for human well-being, addressing the global biodiversity crisis still implied confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. The authors assert that a better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever.
Date: August 9, 2023
Creator: Pascual, Unai; Balvanera, Patricia; Anderson, Christopher B.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Christie, Michael; González-Jiménez, David et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background (open access)

Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background

Article describes how soil moisture (SM) and atmospheric humidity (AH) are crucial climatic variables that significantly affect the climate system. However, the combined influencing mechanisms of SM and AH on the land surface temperature (LST) under global warming are still unclear. The authors systematically analyzed the interrelationships among annual mean values of SM, AH, and LST using ERA5-Land reanalysis data and revealed the role of SM and AH on the spatiotemporal variations of LST through mechanism analysis and regression methods.
Date: May 9, 2023
Creator: Jiang, Kang; Pan, Zhihua; Pan, Feifei; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Han, Guolin; An, Pingli et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeing plants as never before (open access)

Seeing plants as never before

Authors of the article assert that imaging has long supported our ability to understand the inner life of plants, their development, and response to a dynamic environment. The purpose of this review was to provide the scientific community with an overview of current imaging methods, which rely variously on either nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS) or infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and to present some examples of their application in order to illustrate their utility.
Date: March 9, 2023
Creator: Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Horn, Patrick J.; Chapman, Kent Dean; Jakob, Peter M.; Gündel, Andre & Rolletschek, Hardy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographic Fabrication of 3D Moiré Photonic Crystals Using Circularly Polarized Laser Beams and a Spatial Light Modulator (open access)

Holographic Fabrication of 3D Moiré Photonic Crystals Using Circularly Polarized Laser Beams and a Spatial Light Modulator

The authors of the article state that holographic fabrication of a 3D moiré photonic crystal is very difficult due to the coexistence of the bright and dark regions, where the exposure threshold is suitable for one region but not for the other. In this paper, the authors study the holographic fabrication of 3D moiré photonic crystals using an integrated system of a single reflective optical element (ROE) and a spatial light modulator (SLM) where nine beams (four inner beams + four outer beams + central beam) are overlapped.
Date: June 9, 2023
Creator: Hurley, Noah; Kamau, Steve; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two legume fatty acid amide hydrolase isoforms with distinct preferences for microbial- and plant-derived acylamides (open access)

Two legume fatty acid amide hydrolase isoforms with distinct preferences for microbial- and plant-derived acylamides

Article describes how analysis of FAAHs from multiple angiosperm species, which revealed two conserved phylogenetic groups that differed in key conserved residues in the substrate binding pocket. The authors combined computational and biochemical approaches to compare the structural and enzymatic properties of two FAAH isoforms in the legume Medicago truncatula designated MtFAAH1 MtFAAH2a.
Date: May 9, 2023
Creator: Arias-Gaguancela, Omar; Herrell, Emily; Aziz, Mina & Chapman, Kent Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library