Tomato bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a persistent and destructive disease that leads to serious yield losses worldwide. 

Polyploid plants often undergo extensive genomic restructuring, which can generate new traits and enhance adaptability. 

In a remarkable leap forward for green chemistry, researchers at the School of Life and Environmental Science, Shaoxing University, China, have developed an innovative method to efficiently adsorb and reduce Au(III) ions to gold particles using cost-effective chitosan-functionalized cellulose nanofibers. This groundbreaking study, titled "Efficient Adsorption and Reduction of Au(III) to Gold Particles Using Cost-Effective Chitosan Functionalized Cellulose Nanofiber," offers a sustainable and eco-friendly solution for gold recovery, led by Prof. Baowei Hu.

A new genomic study provides a breakthrough in understanding cold tolerance in pomegranates, a major hurdle for cultivating prized soft-seeded varieties.

Conventional photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors have coupled electrical and thermal outputs, limiting the temperature of the delivered thermal energy typically to < 60 °C. Concentrating PV-T (CPV-T) collector designs can reach higher temperatures, but cell overheating from similar coupling limitations reduces their electrical efficiency. Spectral splitting—dividing the solar spectrum so that only useful wavelengths reach the PV cells—promises to break this compromise, yet to go beyond previous studies and propose advanced spectral-splitting CPV-T designs capable of breakthrough performance, it is necessary to develop fully coupled optical, electrical and thermal-fluid models validated at the collector scale.