Climate change has intensified the damage caused to agricultural production by abiotic stress conditions such as drought, salinity, freezing, and flooding. More comprehensive understanding of plant stress tolerance mechanisms ...

The optimal timing of transition from vegetative to floral reproductive phase is critical for plant productivity and agricultural yields. Light plays a decisive role in regulating this transition. The B-box (BBX) family ...

Isoquinoline derivatives, a prominent class of nitrogen-containing heterocycles, serve a pivotal role in medicinal chemistry due to their broad spectrum of bioactivities. While traditional synthetic routes for these scaffolds ...

Rapid climate change and degrading quality of once-fertile agricultural lands makes it imperative to turn attention towards marginal and desert lands for practice of farming. Additionally, wild xerophytes (desert plants) ...

The outer membrane acts as a selective uptake barrier in Gram negative bacteria. It contains protein channels (porins) which provide an entry pathway for hydrophilic molecules like small nutrient molecules and β-lactam ...

The Light Harvesting 2 (LH2) complex is a vital part of the photosystem of purple bacteria. It is responsible for the absorption of light and transport of the resulting excitations to the reaction center in a highly efficient ...

To quantify the flow of small uncharged molecules into and across nanopores, one often uses ion currents. The respective ion-current fluctuations caused by the presence of the analyte make it possible to draw some conclusions ...

Among other mechanisms the cause for Multidrug Resistant (MDR) bacteria is their reduced permeability for antibiotics in particular in Gram-negative bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumanii. Owing to the low permeability ...

The rapid spreading of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria has become a major threat for humans as well as animals. As one of the main factors involved, the permeability of the outer membrane has attracted ...

DcaP is putative dicarboxylate specific channel, located in the outer membrane of the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The X-ray crystal structure reveals that DcaP is the first trimeric channel identified in Acinetobacter ...