Drought stress is one of the factors limiting pepper production in water-stressed regions.It affects growth and development by inducing morphological,biochemical,and physiological changes.Breeding drought-resistant va...Drought stress is one of the factors limiting pepper production in water-stressed regions.It affects growth and development by inducing morphological,biochemical,and physiological changes.Breeding drought-resistant varieties is a sustainable strategy to mitigate drought,therefore,reliable evaluation systems are essential to identify drought-resistant pepper accessions.In this study,100 pepper accessions were screened for drought resistance under highly controlled conditions at the vegetative stage.Selected accessions exhibited a significantly higher recovery rate after water-deficiency and showed durable resistance under greenhouse conditions.Correlation analysis between drought resistance with morphological and physiological traits showed that the recovery rate was positively correlated with root length and relative water content,and negatively correlated with plant height and leaf area.Gene expression analysis showed that the drought-resistant accession exhibited higher expression levels of drought-responsive genes under drought stress.Among the accessions,anthocyanin-accumulating peppers showed more significant drought resistance compared to other accessions.When the MYB transcription factor An2,the genetic determinant of anthocyanin accumulation,was silenced,drought resistance was significantly reduced.Drought-resistant accessions with favorable adaptive traits identified in this study will be valuable in various breeding programs to generate new pepper cultivars to cope with climate change.展开更多
To overcome the serious technological issues affecting lithium-sulfur(Li-S) batteries,such as sluggish sulfur redox kinetics and the detrimental shuttle effect,heterostructure engineering has been investigated as a st...To overcome the serious technological issues affecting lithium-sulfur(Li-S) batteries,such as sluggish sulfur redox kinetics and the detrimental shuttle effect,heterostructure engineering has been investigated as a strategy to effectively capture soluble lithium polysulfide intermediates and promote their conversion reaction by integrating highly polar metal oxides with catalytically active metals sulfides.However,to fully exploit the outstanding properties of heterostructure-based composites,their detailed structure and interfacial contacts should be designed rationally.Herein,optimally arranged TiO_(2)and MoS_(2)-based heterostructures(TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)) are fabricated on carbon cloth as a multifunctional interlayer to efficiently trap polysulfide intermediates and accelerate their redox kinetics.Owing to the synergistic effects between TiO_(2)and MoS_(2)and the uniform heterointerface distribution that induces the ideally oriented built-in electric field,Li-S batteries with TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)interlayers exhibit high rate capability(601 mA h g^(-1)at 5 C),good cycling stability(capacity-fade rate of 0.067% per cycle over 500 cycles at2 C),and satisfactory areal capacity(5.2 mA h cm^(-2)) under an increased sulfur loading of 5.2 mg cm^(-2).Moreover,by comparing with a MoS_(2)@TiO_(2)interlayer composed of reversely arranged heterostructures,the effect of the built-in electric field’s direction on the electrocatalytic reactions of polysulfide intermediates is thoroughly investigated for the first time.The superior electrocatalytic activities of the rationally arranged TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)interlayer demonstrate the importance of optimizing the built-in electric field of heterostructures for producing high-performance Li-S batteries.展开更多
基金supported by Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development(Grant No.RS-2020-RD009069)Rural Development Administration and the National Research Foundation of Korea(Grant No.RS-2021-NR059647),Republic of Korea.
文摘Drought stress is one of the factors limiting pepper production in water-stressed regions.It affects growth and development by inducing morphological,biochemical,and physiological changes.Breeding drought-resistant varieties is a sustainable strategy to mitigate drought,therefore,reliable evaluation systems are essential to identify drought-resistant pepper accessions.In this study,100 pepper accessions were screened for drought resistance under highly controlled conditions at the vegetative stage.Selected accessions exhibited a significantly higher recovery rate after water-deficiency and showed durable resistance under greenhouse conditions.Correlation analysis between drought resistance with morphological and physiological traits showed that the recovery rate was positively correlated with root length and relative water content,and negatively correlated with plant height and leaf area.Gene expression analysis showed that the drought-resistant accession exhibited higher expression levels of drought-responsive genes under drought stress.Among the accessions,anthocyanin-accumulating peppers showed more significant drought resistance compared to other accessions.When the MYB transcription factor An2,the genetic determinant of anthocyanin accumulation,was silenced,drought resistance was significantly reduced.Drought-resistant accessions with favorable adaptive traits identified in this study will be valuable in various breeding programs to generate new pepper cultivars to cope with climate change.
基金supported by the National R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2018M3D1A1058793 and 2021R1A3B1068920)supported by the Creative Materials Discovery Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2018M3D1A1058744)the Yonsei Signature Research Cluster Program of 2021 (2021-22-0002)。
文摘To overcome the serious technological issues affecting lithium-sulfur(Li-S) batteries,such as sluggish sulfur redox kinetics and the detrimental shuttle effect,heterostructure engineering has been investigated as a strategy to effectively capture soluble lithium polysulfide intermediates and promote their conversion reaction by integrating highly polar metal oxides with catalytically active metals sulfides.However,to fully exploit the outstanding properties of heterostructure-based composites,their detailed structure and interfacial contacts should be designed rationally.Herein,optimally arranged TiO_(2)and MoS_(2)-based heterostructures(TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)) are fabricated on carbon cloth as a multifunctional interlayer to efficiently trap polysulfide intermediates and accelerate their redox kinetics.Owing to the synergistic effects between TiO_(2)and MoS_(2)and the uniform heterointerface distribution that induces the ideally oriented built-in electric field,Li-S batteries with TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)interlayers exhibit high rate capability(601 mA h g^(-1)at 5 C),good cycling stability(capacity-fade rate of 0.067% per cycle over 500 cycles at2 C),and satisfactory areal capacity(5.2 mA h cm^(-2)) under an increased sulfur loading of 5.2 mg cm^(-2).Moreover,by comparing with a MoS_(2)@TiO_(2)interlayer composed of reversely arranged heterostructures,the effect of the built-in electric field’s direction on the electrocatalytic reactions of polysulfide intermediates is thoroughly investigated for the first time.The superior electrocatalytic activities of the rationally arranged TiO_(2)@MoS_(2)interlayer demonstrate the importance of optimizing the built-in electric field of heterostructures for producing high-performance Li-S batteries.
