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Sultan Qaboos University
Education•Muscat, Oman•
About: Sultan Qaboos University is a education organization based out in Muscat, Oman. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 7767 authors who have published 14605 publications receiving 241390 citations. The organization is also known as: SQU.
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TL;DR: In conclusion, salt stress caused reduction in growth and biomass soybean due to oxidative damage and osmotic stresses, however, soybean performance was improved by seed priming with EBL.
Abstract: This study was conducted to evaluate the influence of brassinosteroid (24-epibrassinolide, EBL) seed priming and optimal nitrogen (N) supply in improving salt tolerance in soybean. The experimental treatments were (a) control (nutrient solution without N and without EBL priming), (b) nutrient solution without N and EBL seed priming, (c) N supplemented nutrient solution without EBL priming and (d) EBL seed priming + N supplemented nutrient solution under optimal (0 mM NaCl) and salt stress (0 mM NaCl) conditions. Salt stress caused significant reduction in growth and biomass accumulation of soybean. However, EBL seed priming and application of N improved the soybean performance under optimal and salt stress conditions. In this regard, treatments receiving both EBL and N were more effective. EBL priming and N, alone and in combination, triggered the accumulation of osmolytes including proline, glycine betaine and sugars resulting in better photo-protection through maintenance of tissue water content. Antioxidant activity and osmolyte accumulation significantly increased due to combined treatment of N and EBL under normal as well as salt stress conditions. In conclusion, salt stress caused reduction in growth and biomass soybean due to oxidative damage and osmotic stresses. However, soybean performance was improved by seed priming with EBL. Supplementation of N further improved the effectiveness of EBL treatment in improving salt tolerance in soybean.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the relative merits of strategies to control groundwater pumping based on water quotas, electricity quotas and electricity pricing were analyzed and a cost benefit approach was used to evaluate the feasibility of three strategies over a period of 25 years and to compare them to the business as usual option.
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TL;DR: A probabilistic optimization model is developed that integrates the bid generation and pricing problems together with the routing of the carrier’s fleet and proposes two heuristic procedures that enable us to solve models with up to 400 auctioned loads.
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TL;DR: The results from extensive simulation analysis reveal that the proposed Bi-directional Stable Communication scheme outperforms existing multi-hop broadcasting schemes in terms of packet delivery ratio when evaluated over a densely populated VANETs.
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TL;DR: This comprehensive overview of gene modifications will be useful to researchers in the field to employ on their strains to increase their yields and improve the economic feasibility of the production process.
Abstract: A lot of research has been performed on Cyanobacteria and microalgae with the aim to produce numerous biotechnological products. However, native strains have a few shortcomings, like limitations in cultivation, harvesting and product extraction, which prevents reaching optimal production value at lowest costs. Such limitations require the intervention of genetic engineering to produce strains with superior properties. Promising advancements in the cultivation of Cyanobacteria and microalgae have been achieved by improving photosynthetic efficiency through increasing RuBisCO activity and truncation of light-harvesting antennae. Genetic engineering has also contributed to final product extraction by inducing autolysis and product secretory systems, to enable direct product recovery without going through costly extraction steps. In this review, we summarize the different enzymes and pathways that have been targeted thus far for improving cultivation aspects, harvesting and product extraction in Cyanobacteria and microalgae. With synthetic biology advancements, genetically engineered strains can be generated to resolve demanding process issues and achieve economic practicality. This comprehensive overview of gene modifications will be useful to researchers in the field to employ on their strains to increase their yields and improve the economic feasibility of the production process.
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Richard H. Friend | 169 | 1182 | 140032 |
Philippe Froguel | 166 | 820 | 118816 |
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Ian G. Stiell | 100 | 477 | 37892 |
Muhammad Farooq | 92 | 1341 | 37533 |
Kadambot H. M. Siddique | 77 | 632 | 22552 |
Gilles J. Guillemin | 70 | 341 | 17566 |
Julia M. Yeomans | 69 | 410 | 18437 |
Muhammad Usman | 61 | 1203 | 24848 |
R.K. O'Nions | 60 | 94 | 14636 |
Mohd Ali Hashim | 60 | 290 | 13382 |
Rema Raman | 59 | 199 | 13921 |
Norbert Nowotny | 56 | 261 | 11623 |
Joydeep Dutta | 55 | 298 | 10792 |
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