• Hotspots of genetic variation containing reservoirs of anti-phage systems in E. coli phages and their parasitic satellites, and pathogen desiccation tolerance promoted by hydrophilins. (asm.org)
  • The objective of this research is to identify genes associated to desiccation-rehydration cycle in the transcriptome of H. cruentum to better understand the genetic dynamics behind its desiccation tolerance mechanism. (frontiersin.org)
  • Here we provide novel insights into the genetic dynamics behind the desiccation tolerance mechanism of H. cruentum . (frontiersin.org)
  • Thus, the acquisition of desiccation tolerance must have occurred multiple times and under a variety of environmental conditions ( Farrant and Moore, 2011 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Desiccation tolerance (DT) is a complex trait. (frontiersin.org)
  • The adaptation of metabolism is thought to play a role in the acquisition of desiccation tolerance (DT). (inrae.fr)
  • A short video showcasing the desiccation tolerance of the plant Corallodiscus lanuginosus is available at https://youtu.be/DmCf-op_yKo, capturing its fascinating time-lapse transformation. (devdiscourse.com)
  • I share an interest in the ecophysiology of moss desiccation tolerance and work closely with members of the Stark and Deane-Coe labs to address fundamental gaps in our understanding of moss desiccation tolerance. (berkeley.edu)
  • We expect that this rate of rehydration should be tied to the desiccation tolerance strategy of a particular species. (berkeley.edu)
  • Is functional diversity of desiccation tolerance evident among lineages and do these differences vary by life phase or sex, providing evidence for fitness tradeoffs over evolutionary time scales? (berkeley.edu)
  • 2012). Desiccation tolerance in bryophytes is fundamentally a plastic trait, and bryophytes present a wide range of phenotypes (both plastic and non-plastic) in response to desiccation. (berkeley.edu)
  • We determined whether the critical proportion of a seed's germination time after which desiccation tolerance is lost (CIP) is constant within and between species for nine species of neo-tropical pioneer trees. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The acquisition and induction of desiccation tolerance associated with the expression of heat-stable proteins in the developing peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. ) seeds were studied. (jipb.net)
  • Desiccation tolerance of peanut seeds was achieved during 45 to 65 DAP (days after pegging) embryogenesis, while a set of low molecular weight (9 to 15.5 kD) heat-stable polypeptides was preferentially expressed. (jipb.net)
  • Slow drying regime applied in vitro to 25 and 35 DAP peanut embryos induced desiccation tolerance and the expression of the same subset of polypeptides. (jipb.net)
  • It was concluded that the heat-stable proteins may contribute to desiccation tolerance of the peanut seeds, and the low molecular weight heat-stable polypeptides may confer nonspecifieally heat tolerance on peanut storage proteins which were normally heat labile. (jipb.net)
  • Hymenoglossum cruentum (Hymenophyllaceae) is a poikilohydric, homoiochlorophyllous desiccation-tolerant (DT) epiphyte fern. (frontiersin.org)
  • Desiccation tolerant plants occur in phylogenetic distinct clades, along a wide range of environments. (frontiersin.org)
  • Proteome Comparison Between Natural Desiccation-Tolerant Plants and Drought-Protected Caspicum annuum Plants by Microbacterium sp. (ugr.es)
  • García-Fontana C, Vilchez JI and Manzanera M (2020) Proteome Comparison Between Natural Desiccation-Tolerant Plants and Drought-Protected Caspicum annuum Plants by Microbacterium sp. (ugr.es)
  • Desiccation-tolerant plants are able to survive for extended periods of time in the absence of water. (ugr.es)
  • We also compare this root proteome with the proteome found in desiccation-tolerant plants. (ugr.es)
  • We describe those mechanisms shared by desiccation-tolerant plants and sensitive plants protected by microorganisms focusing on protection against oxidative stress, and production of compatible solutes, plant hormones, and other more specific proteins. (ugr.es)
  • Emerged radicles measuring 2 mm long can be rendered tolerant to desiccation by incubation in a polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution with a water potential of -1.5 MPa. (inrae.fr)
  • India's biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats, is home to 62 Desiccation-Tolerant Vascular Plant Species which could have applications in agriculture, particularly in areas with scarcity of water. (devdiscourse.com)
  • Desiccation-tolerant vascular (DT) plants are able to withstand extreme dehydration, losing up to 95% of their water content, and they revive themselves once water is available again. (devdiscourse.com)
  • We expect to find that constitutively desiccation tolerant species will rehydrate more quickly than inducibly desiccation tolerant species. (berkeley.edu)
  • Syntrichia caninervis is a desiccation tolerant moss and is the dominant bryophyte found in biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut desert . (bvsalud.org)
  • These results also improve understanding of desiccation tolerant plants ' adaptations to desiccation stress at the transcription level and provide promising gene resources for transgenic crop breeding . (bvsalud.org)
  • Some fern gametophytes have been reported to be desiccation tolerant (capable of recovery from near-complete drying), and this trait is believed to be dependent on the plant's drying speed. (pepperdine.edu)
  • This paper reviews numerical methods used to simulate desiccation cracks in clayey soils. (lsbu.ac.uk)
  • The article concludes by reviewing the integration of multiple numerical methods to enhance the simulation of desiccation cracks in clayey soils and proposing what is the best option to continue improving the study of this problem. (lsbu.ac.uk)
  • In the last century of so, the process of desiccation and development of cracks in clayey soils was studied but a general framework and theory to understand the process is yet to be proposed. (growkudos.com)
  • How can disc desiccation be treated? (healthzap.co)
  • As such, certain degenerative conditions can surface, one of which is Disc Desiccation. (healthzap.co)
  • Disc desiccation is a degenerative disease affecting older people. (healthzap.co)
  • This is because there are other causes of disc desiccation, like trauma to the spinal region, improper weightlifting and sudden weight gain, causing supplementary exertion on the vertebral discs. (healthzap.co)
  • Usually, when someone is suffering from disc desiccation they can experience back pain especially in the lumbar area. (healthzap.co)
  • Massage therapy is a great way to alleviate some of the pain associated with disc desiccation. (healthzap.co)
  • What is disc desiccation? (capitolimagingservices.com)
  • In some radiology test results for a diagnostic exam such as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine (i.e. the lower back), one condition that may be diagnosed and reported on by the radiologist is what is known as disc desiccation. (capitolimagingservices.com)
  • Disc desiccation can be very painful. (capitolimagingservices.com)
  • What Is Disc Desiccation and How to Treat It? (steptohealth.com)
  • Disc desiccation is a medical condition characterized by dehydration of the intervertebral discs. (steptohealth.com)
  • What are the symptoms of disc desiccation? (steptohealth.com)
  • The clinical manifestations of disc desiccation are varied and nonspecific. (steptohealth.com)
  • Disc desiccation occurs when the fluids that form part of the tissue of the intervertebral discs drain away. (steptohealth.com)
  • How can disc desiccation be diagnosed? (steptohealth.com)
  • Finally, there are surgical interventions whose indication may be limited, considering the advanced age of many patients with disc desiccation. (steptohealth.com)
  • Can I prevent disc desiccation? (steptohealth.com)
  • Avoiding direct trauma and maintaining healthy lifestyle habits during youth and adulthood are the best methods to prevent cases of disc desiccation. (steptohealth.com)
  • Don't forget that excess weight and obesity increase the risk of suffering disc desiccation. (steptohealth.com)
  • During germination, orthodox seeds loose their ability to tolerate desiccation. (elsevierpure.com)
  • For a long time, it was assumed that a sugar called trehelose gave tardigrades the ability to tolerate desiccation. (eurekalert.org)
  • to tolerate osmotic and desiccation stresses and identifies gaps in knowledge which need to be addressed to ensure the safety of low water activity and desiccated food products. (teagasc.ie)
  • Consequently, the present study primarily investigated the effect of exposing biochar-amended marine soil (BAS) to constant and cyclic temperatures on its swell-shrink, evaporation and desiccation cracking characteristics. (monash.edu)
  • Disease leads to alterations in the properties of biological fluids, which in turn, lead to changes in the final desiccation patterns arising from droplet evaporation on surfaces. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The effect of substrate temperature on the evaporation and dried patterns of Foetal Bovine Serum (FBS) drops is then investigated and found to affect the number of cracks and the mechanism of crack formation, as well as the crystallisation patterns in desiccation deposits. (ed.ac.uk)
  • However, the effect of biochar amendment on the desiccation behaviour of coastal soils has not yet been examined. (monash.edu)
  • In biology and ecology, desiccation refers to the drying out of a living organism, such as when aquatic animals are taken out of water, slugs are exposed to salt, or when plants are exposed to sunlight or drought. (wikipedia.org)
  • The amazing thing about this plant is that it is able to survive desiccation. (plant-and-flower-guide.com)
  • The question has been, 'If tardigrades aren't relying on trehelose to survive desiccation, what do they use instead? (eurekalert.org)
  • Molecular Cell , Boothby et al: "Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation. (eurekalert.org)
  • For example, in one study the investigators found that Caenorhabditis elegans dauer is a true anhydrobiote that can withstand extreme desiccation and that the basis of this ability is founded in the metabolism of trehalose. (wikipedia.org)
  • Winter desiccation, also known as winter burn, is a common type of winter injury that occurs in vegetation when the amount of water lost by chilly winter winds exceeds the amount of water the plant can draw up through the frozen soil. (turfmagazine.com)
  • A method has been designed to compare the response of different species to winter desiccation, which occurs under conditions of (1) low night temperature, (2) very high irradiation and increase in needle temperature during the photoperiod, (3) frozen soil, and (4) low wind speed. (silvafennica.fi)
  • For crop desiccation by application of herbicides, see Crop desiccation . (atptree.com)
  • crop.zone , the new hybrid electric solution for alternative crop desiccation and weed management, has been voted the most innovative new technology in potato production by potato professionals worldwide. (potatonewstoday.com)
  • A boxwood shows signs of winter desiccation. (turfmagazine.com)
  • However, winter desiccation can be deterred by maintaining proper vegetation precipitation during the late fall and early winter months and by using natural water conservation agent and soil amendment H2OExcel from Brookside Agra . (turfmagazine.com)
  • One of the primary ways to deter winter desiccation is to provide adequate water and nutrients to vegetation for as long as the ground is not frozen. (turfmagazine.com)
  • Christersson L., Fircks H. A. v. (1988) Injuries to conifer seedlings caused by simulated summer frost and winter desiccation. (silvafennica.fi)
  • Injuries to conifer seedlings caused by simulated summer frost and winter desiccation. (silvafennica.fi)
  • There were differences in response to winter desiccation between pine and spruce species. (silvafennica.fi)
  • Seedlings of Pinus contorta tolerated these winter desiccation conditions much better than those of P. sylvestris or Picea abies . (silvafennica.fi)
  • The functions necessary to survive ionizing radiation are also necessary to survive prolonged desiccation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of this thesis is to probe the effect of various parameters on the evaporative behaviour and final desiccation patterns of micro-litre bio-fluid droplets. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In addition, the proteins that these genes encode can be used to protect other biological material--like bacteria, yeast, and certain enzymes--from desiccation. (eurekalert.org)
  • Desiccation (from Latin de- 'thoroughly', and siccare 'to dry') is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several bacterial species have been shown to accumulate DNA damages upon desiccation. (wikipedia.org)
  • We expect to uncover a variety of physiological responses to desiccation that serve to identify patterns of diversity among the 15 different North American species of Syntrichia. (berkeley.edu)
  • The False Jericho Rose is sometimes confused with the True Jericho Rose, which is a completely other plant but has the same adaptation to desiccation. (plant-and-flower-guide.com)
  • Ecologists frequently study and assess various organisms' susceptibility to desiccation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although enrichment of air to 600 p.p.m.v. CO 2 increased soil water content (SWC), 1.5/3.0 °C day/night warming resulted in desiccation, such that combined CO 2 enrichment and warming had no effect on SWC relative to control plots. (nature.com)
  • The relative water content (RWC) and maximum quantum efficiency ( F v / F m ) of H. cruentum fronds decayed to 6% and 0.04, respectively, at the end of the desiccation stage. (frontiersin.org)
  • Japanese maple leaf desiccation. (ubc.ca)
  • A number of genes were identified, which have previously been shown to be involved in water transport and desiccation such as members of the aquaporin family. (nih.gov)
  • One of the most striking examples is the desiccation ravaging the arid peninsula, the water supply to which mainland Ukraine cut off following Russia's landgrab. (euromaidanpress.com)
  • Shira Shafir] We found that while the eggs survive complete drying, what we call desiccation, for six months at room temperature, they all died after seven months with no water. (cdc.gov)
  • A numerical model that allows the study of desiccation and cracking in soil is implemented in MATLAB. (growkudos.com)
  • Mars was doomed to desiccation by its small size, a new study suggests. (livescience.com)
  • As long as there is adequate moisture in the root zone, desiccation can be reduced. (turfmagazine.com)
  • This is the most common method to show signs of desiccation and disc herniation. (steptohealth.com)
  • H. cruentum plants were subjected to a 7 days long desiccation-rehydration process and then used to identify key expressed genes associated to its capacity to dehydrate and rehydrate. (frontiersin.org)
  • This approach uses the classical equations of unsaturated soil mechanics plus concepts of fracture mechanics that allow the implementation of a code able to reproduce the behavior during the process of desiccation in the laboratory and the field. (growkudos.com)
  • Mycobacterium smegmatis mutant strains that are deficient in the ability to repair double-strand breaks by the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway are more sensitive to prolonged desiccation during stationary phase than wild-type strains. (wikipedia.org)
  • Identification of these clones in specific libraries associated with desiccation validates the computational analysis by library rather than producing a global overview of all libraries combined. (nih.gov)