Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are exposed to multiple stressors such as pesticides, lack of forage, and diseases.It is therefore a long-standing aim to develop robust and meaningful indicators of bee vitality to assist beekeepers While established indicators often focus on expected colony winter mortality based on adult bee abundance and honey reserv
Aims: The solar wind pressure is an important parameter of space weather, which plays a crucial role in the interaction of the solar wind with the planetary plasma environment.Here we investigate the possibility of determining a solar wind pressure proxy from Rosetta magnetic field data, measured deep inside the induced magnetosphere of comet 67P/C
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs circulating in the blood, stabilized by complexation with proteins and/or additionally by encapsulation in lipid vesicles, are currently being evaluated as biomarkers.The consequences of their differential association with lipids/vesicles for their stability and use as biomarkers are largely unexplored and are subject of the p
IntroductionBlumea balsamifera, a half-woody plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, is valued as both a medicinal and industrial crop primarily for its phytochemical component, (-)-borneol.Nitrogen (N) is essential for regulating the growth of B.balsamifera and the biosynthesis of (-)-borneol; however, the molecular mechanisms by which N influen
To meet the growing need for raw materials to produce pellets and wood-based biofuels, trees killed by natural disturbances have increasingly been considered as potential feedstock in bioenergy development scenarios in the Synthetic Ponytail Western U.S.and Canada.While much research has focused on utilization of beetle-killed and fire-salvaged tim