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In woody plants, phase transitions substantially affect growth and development. Although there has been considerable interest in the regulatory mechanisms underlying phase changes, the associated epigenetic modifications remain relatively uncharacterized. We examined the DNA methylation changes and the transcriptional responses in adult and juvenile Malus hupehensis leaves. The DNA methylations were 66.61% and 68.3% in the CG context, 49.12% and 52.44% in the CHG context, and 7.02% and 8.22% in the CHH context for the adult and juvenile leaves, respectively. The number of differentially methylated regions in all contexts distributed in the genic regions varied. Additionally, inhibited DNA methylation in adult leaves activated the transcription of indole-3-acetic acid related genes in the signaling, response, and transport pathways. Moreover, the opposite methylation and expression patterns were observed for the SPL and AP2 family genes between the adult and juvenile leaves. Both gene families contribute to thion.Integrin-transmitted cellular forces have rich spatial dynamics and are vital to many cellular functions. To advance the sensitivity and spatial resolution of cellular force imaging, we developed a force-activatable emitter reporting single-molecular tension events and the associated cellular force nanoscopy (CFN). Immobilized on a surface, the emitters are initially dark (>99.8% quenched), providing a low fluorescence background despite the high coating density (>2000/μm2) required for sampling cellular force properly. The emitters fluoresce brightly once switched on by integrin tensions and can be switched off by photobleaching, enabling continuous real-time imaging of integrin molecular tensions in live cells. With multiple cycles of molecular tension imaging and localization, CFN reproduces cellular force images with 50 nm resolution. Applied to both migratory cells and stationary cells, CFN revealed ultranarrow distribution of integrin tensions at the cell leading edge, and showed that force distribution in focal adhesions (FAs) is off-centered and FA size-dependent.The objectives of this study were to reveal the implication of modified chemical profiles of protein in cool-season-adapted cereal seeds through heat-related processing to protein nutrition and metabolic characteristics in ruminant systems. The parameters of protein-related chemical and nutritive profiles modified by heat-related processing included (a) chemical and nutrient profiles, (b) degradation kinetics (Kd and BCP), (c) digestion (IDP and TDP), (d) degraded protein balance (DPB/OEB value), and (e) metabolizable protein (MP, DVE, and FMV values). The seeds used in this study included cool-season-adapted wheat (CSW), triticale (CST), and corn (CSC). Each grain source had 3 consecutive year-replicated samples and were subjected to different heat-related processing dry heating (DH) and moist heating (MH). The results showed that (1) the heat-related processing significantly modified metabolic characteristics of protein in the seeds (p less then 0.05), (2) in comparison to DH, MH had a dramatic improvement (p less then 0.05) in protein utilization profiles (decreased rumen degradation and increased intestinal digestion), (3) the seeds had significant (p less then 0.05) difference in rumen degradation and intestinal digestion, (4) among the seeds, the CSW had the highest milk value (FMV; p less then 0.05) and was increased by MH application (p less then 0.05), and (5) the results showed that the seeds responded independently to different heat-related processing. find more MH-related processing had a more profound impact on CSW and CST in chemical profiles and nutrition. The CSC had less response to the heat-related processing.The need for accurate and efficient force fields for modeling 3D structures of macrobiomolecules and in particular intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) has increased with recent findings to associate IDPs and human diseases. However, most conventional protein force fields and recent IDP-specific force fields are limited in reproducing accurate structural features of IDPs. Here, we present an environmental specific precise force field (ESFF1) based on CMAP corrections of 71 different sequence environments to improve the accuracy and efficiency of MD simulation for both IDPs and folded proteins. MD simulations of 84 different short peptides, IDPs, and structured proteins show that ESFF1 can accurately reproduce spectroscopic properties for different peptides and proteins whether they are disordered or ordered. The successful ab initio folding of five fast-folding proteins further supports the reliability of ESFF1. The extensive analysis documented here shows that ESFF1 is able to achieve a reasonable balance between ordered and disordered states in protein simulations.In spite of modern crop protection measures, the overall crop losses due to pests and pathogens are huge. Rhizoctonia solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, Sclerotium rolfsii, and Fusarium oxysporum are one of the most devastating soil-borne fungi and cause numerous plant diseases. Therefore, the present study aimed to systematically design and develop new nanofungicides based on imidazole drugs, clotrimazole, econazole nitrate, and miconazole nitrate, for effective and efficient management of plant diseases. The assessment of these antifungal medicines for their fungicide likeness using Hao's rule and their enzyme inhibitory potential by molecular docking was helpful in ensuring their utility as antifungal agents in managing phytopathogenic fungi. Nanotechnological strategies were used to develop nanoformulations of test compounds in poly(ethylene glycol) 300 for further augmenting their bioactivity. Transmission electron microscopy studies confirmed the nanosize of the prepared products. Analysis of their in vitro and in vivo antifungal properties revealed their usefulness in controlling the test fungi, R. solani, M. phaseolina, S. rolfsii, and F. oxysporum. Excellent in vitro antifungal activities were displayed by the clotrimazole nanoformulation with a median effective dose (ED50) of 1.18 μg/mL against R. solani, the econazole nitrate nanoformulation with an ED50 of 5.25 μg/mL against S. rolfsii, and the miconazole nitrate nanoformulation with an ED50 of 1.49 and 1.82 μg/mL against M. phaseolina and F. oxysporum. Furthermore, in vivo studies against test fungi demonstrated the antifungal potency of all the nanoformulations with disease incidences ranging from 11.11 to 27.38% in plants treated with nanoformulations of test chemicals as compared to the inoculated control (39.68-72.38%).