Environmental Stress and Plants

Land plants are constantly subjected to multiple unfavorable or even adverse environmental conditions. Among them, abiotic stresses (such as salt, drought, heat, cold, heavy metals, ozone, UV radiation, and nutrient deficiencies) have detrimental effects on plant growth and productivity and are increasingly important considering the direct or indirect effects of climate change. Plants respond in many ways to abiotic stresses, from gene expression to physiology, from plant architecture to primary, and secondary metabolism. These complex changes allow plants to tolerate and/or adapt to adverse conditions. The complexity of plant response can be further influenced by the duration and intensity of stress, the plant genotype, the combination of different stresses, the exposed tissue and cell type, and the developmental stage at which plants perceive the stress. It is therefore important to understand more about how plants perceive stress conditions and how they respond and adapt (both in natural and anthropogenic environments). These concepts were the basis of the Special Issue that International Journal of Molecular Sciences expressly addressed to the relationship between environmental stresses and plants and that resulted in the publication of 5 reviews and 38 original research articles. The large participation of several authors and the good number of contributions testifies to the considerable interest that the topic currently receives in the plant science community, especially in the light of the foreseeable climate changes. Here, we briefly summarize the contributions included in the Special Issue, both original articles categorized by stress type and reviews that discuss more comprehensive responses to various stresses.     

企业标准化体系与质量体系的关系

＠蔡伟￥太原化学工业集团公司企业按ＧＢ／Ｔ１９０００—ＩＳＯ９０００系列标准建立完善的质量体系,既强化内部管理,严格过程控制,降低生产成本,提高产品质量,增加经济效益,又为企业带来了良好的市场效益。企业标准化工作由原来单一的技术标准延伸到管理工作范围。工业...     

Direct sampling of chemical weapons in water by photoionization mass spectrometry

The vulnerability of water supplies to toxic contamination calls for fast and effective means for screening water samples for multiple threats. We describe the use of photoionization (PI) mass spectrometry (MS) for high-speed, high-throughput screening and molecular identification of chemical weapons (CW) threats and other hazardous compounds. The screening technology can detect a wide range of compounds at subacute concentrations with no sample preparation and a sampling cycle time of approximately 45 s. The technology was tested with CW agents VX, GA, GB, GD, GF, HD, HN1, and HN3, in addition to riot agents and precursors. All are sensitively detected and give simple PI mass spectra dominated by the parent ion. The target application of the PI MS method is as a routine, real-time early warning system for CW agents and other hazardous compounds in air and in water. In this work, we also present comprehensive measurements for water analysis and report on the system detection limits, linearity, quantitation accuracy, and false positive (FP) and false negative rates for concentrations at subacute levels. The latter data are presented in the form of receiver operating characteristic curves of the form of detection probability P(D) versus FP probability P(FP). These measurements were made using the CW surrogate compounds, DMMP, DEMP, DEEP, and DIMP. Method detection limits (3sigma) obtained using a capillary injection method yielded 1, 6, 3, and 2 ng/mL, respectively. These results were obtained using 1-microL injections of water samples without any preparation, corresponding to mass detection limits of 1, 6, 3, and 2 pg, respectively. The linear range was about 3-4 decades and the dynamic range about 4-5 decades. The relative standard deviations were generally <10% at CW subacute concentrations levels.     

天然气超声流量计健康状态评价方法初探

目的天然气计量用超声流量计性能诊断主要采用设定参数阈值的诊断方法,为降低误报、漏报等情况,建立了基于生成对抗神经网络(generated adjoint neural network,GAN)和高维非线性无监督学习的超声流量计健康状态系统诊断方法。 方法采用GAN对原始数据进行学习、生成和扩充,保障超声流量计健康状态诊断建模的数据基础,提取超声流量计在运行过程中的健康状态参数并对其进行时序分析,采用高维非线性无监督聚类学习方法,结合超声流量计失效模式分析,对超声流量计设备进行在线的健康状态诊断。 结果结合超声流量计工作原理和现场实际采集数据,对生成的故障数据集进行了验证。 结论能够准确识别超声流量计当前状态,显著解决传统阈值法误报率、漏报率高的问题,为超声流量计健康诊断的统一管理与开发给予支撑。      

一种5.0~9.3 GHz低功耗宽带低噪声放大器设计

针对Wi-Fi 6、Wi-Fi 6E(5 GHz、6 GHz)的低功耗、宽带宽等无线局域网(WLAN)设备需求,基于65 nm CMOS工艺设计了一款两级低功耗宽带低噪声放大器(LNA)。电路第一级采用结合互补共源电路的共源共栅结构,通过电感峰化技术和负反馈技术的运用,提高输入跨导,降低噪声,并拓展带宽和提高增益平坦度。第二级在共漏极缓冲器基础上引入辅助放大结构、电感峰化技术,实现抵消第一级共源管的噪声并拓展带宽。电路采用提出的前向衬底自偏置技术,以降低电路对电源电压的依赖,整体电路实现两路电流复用,从而有效降低了功耗。仿真结果表明,在5~9.3 GHz频带内LNA的S21为17.8±0.1 dB,S11小于-9 dB、S22小于-11.9 dB,噪声系数小于1.34 dB。在0.8 V电压下整体电路功耗为5.3 mW。     

膜生物反应器中污泥EPS的提取方法

采用七种方法（热、酸、碱处理等）提取MBR（Membrane Bioreactor）中污泥EPS（extracellular polymeric substances）,研究了这些方法对于污泥EPS的最佳提取条件。在综合考虑各种方法的精确性、操作简易度、提取效果、对污泥细胞的破坏程度后,确定EDTA二钠提取（浓度2%,3h）和热提取（80℃,45min）是最简便有效的两种提取方法。NaOH提取（1mol.L^-1,2h）对污泥细胞具有很大的破坏作用,投加甲醛（浓度2%,2h）之后提取核酸含量减少了21.5%,降低了NaOH溶液提取对于细胞的破坏作用。     

The E3 Ligase GmPUB21 Negatively Regulates Drought and Salinity Stress Response in Soybean

E3-ubiquitin ligases are known to confer abiotic stress responses in plants. In the present study, GmPUB21, a novel U-box E3-ubiquitin ligase-encoding gene, was isolated from soybean and functionally characterized. The expression of GmPUB21, which possesses E3-ubiquitin ligase activity, was found to be significantly up-regulated by drought, salinity, and ABA treatments. The fusion protein GmPUB21-GFP was localized in the cytoplasm, nucleus, and plasma membrane. Transgenic lines of the Nicotiana benthamiana over-expressing GmPUB21 showed more sensitive to osmotic, salinity stress and ABA in seed germination and inhibited mannitol/NaCl-mediated stomatal closure. Moreover, higher reactive oxygen species accumulation was observed in GmPUB21 overexpressing plants after drought and salinity treatment than in wild-type (WT) plants. Contrarily, silencing of GmPUB21 in soybean plants significantly enhanced the tolerance to drought and salinity stresses. Collectively, our results revealed that GmPUB21 negatively regulates the drought and salinity tolerance by increasing the stomatal density and aperture via the ABA signaling pathway. These findings improved our understanding of the role of GmPUB21 under drought and salinity stresses in soybean.