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Natural and Agricultural Sciences: Recent submissions

  • Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole 
    Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Kim, J.-Y.; Wielgus, Maciek; Röder, J.; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Ros, Eduardo; Agudo, Iván; Myserlis, Ioannis; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Traianou, Efthalia; Zensus, J. Anton; Blackburn, Lindy; Chan, Chi-kwan; Issaoun, Sara; Janssen, Michael; Johnson, M.D.; Fish, Vincent L.; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, A.; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Barrett, J.; Bauböck, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blundell, R.; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, A.; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, K.; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Y.; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, I.; Christian, P.; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Y.; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dougal, Sean; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, R.; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, R.; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, Jose L.; Gu (顾敏峰), Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho (何子山), Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang (黄磊), Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; James, D. J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Jeter, Britton; Jaing, W.; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Jayneel A.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, D.-J.; Kim, J.; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, J.A.; Kramer, Michael; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Daeyoung; Lee, S.-S.; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li, Z.; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, J.; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, A.E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Müller, C.; Müller, H.; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Navarro Fuentes, Santiago; Neilsen, Joey; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Sosapanta Salas, León David; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, T.; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; Van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, J.E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, N.; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis Ilias; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, K.; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, W.; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (EDP Sciences, 2024-02)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • A humidity-resistant and room temperature carbon soot@ZIF-67 composite sensor for acetone vapour detection 
    Malepe, Lesego; Ndinteh, Tantoh Derek; Ndungu, Patrick; Mamo, Messai Adenew (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023-02)
    Zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), carbon nanoparticles (CNPs), and the CNPs@ZIF-67 composite were prepared and used to fabricate sensors for the detection of acetone vapour. The prepared materials were characterized ...
  • CrAssphage may be viable markers of contamination in pristine and contaminated river water 
    Mafumo, Nyasha; Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Le Roux, Wouter Jacobus; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-01)
    Viruses are the most biologically abundant entities and may be ideal indicators of fecal pollutants in water. Anthropogenic activities have triggered drastic ecosystem changes in rivers, leading to substantial shifts in ...
  • Bacteria and archaea regulate particulate organic matter export in suspended and sinking marine particle fractions 
    Dithugoe, Choaro D.; Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Cavan, Emma L.; Froneman, William P.; Thomalla, Sandy J.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P. (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-05)
    The biological carbon pump (BCP) in the Southern Ocean is driven by phytoplankton productivity and is a significant organic matter sink. However, the role of particle-attached (PA) and free-living (FL) prokaryotes (bacteria ...
  • SPARCS-North Wide-field VLBI survey : exploring the resolved mu Jy extragalactic radio source population with EVN plus e-MERLIN 
    Njeri, Ann; Beswick, Robert J.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Thomson, A.P.; Wrigley, N.; Muxlow, T.W.B.; Garrett, M.A.; Deane, Roger. P.; Moldon, Javier; Norris, Ray P.; Kothes, Roland (Oxford University Press, 2023-02)
    The SKA PAthfinder Radio Continuum Surveys (SPARCS) are pro viding deep-field imaging of the faint (sub-mJy) extragalactic radio source populations through a series of reference surveys. One of the key science goals for ...
  • An interferometric SETI observation of Kepler-111 b 
    Wandia, Kelvin; Garrett, Michael A.; Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Garrington, Simon T.; Fawcett, James; Gajjar, Vishal; MacMahon, David H.E.; Varenius, Eskil; Campbell, Robert M.; Paragi, Zsolt; Siemion, Andrew P.V. (Oxford University Press, 2023-05)
    The application of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been limited to date, despite the technique offering many advantages o v er traditional single-dish ...
  • Beyond the genomes of Fulvia fulva (syn. Cladosporium fulvum) and Dothistroma septosporum : new insights into how these fungal pathogens interact with their host plants 
    Mesarich, Carl H.; Barnes, Irene; Bradley, Ellie L.; De la Rosa, Silvia; De Wit, Pierre J.G.M.; Guo, Yanan; Griffiths, Scott A.; Hamelin, Richard C.; Joosten, Matthieu H.A.J.; Lu, Mengmeng; McCarthy, Hannah M.; Schol, Christiaan R.; Stergiopoulos, Ioannis; Tarallo, Mariana; Zaccaron, Alex Z.; Bradshaw, Rosie E. (Wiley, 2023-05)
    Fulvia fulva and Dothistroma septosporum are closely related apoplastic pathogens with similar lifestyles but different hosts: F. fulva is a pathogen of tomato, whilst D. septosporum is a pathogen of pine trees. In 2012, ...
  • Advances in phytonanotechnology : a plant-mediated green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using phyllanthus plant extracts and their antimicrobial and anticancer applications 
    Thatyana, Maxwell; Dube, Nondumiso P.; Kemboi, Douglas; Manicum, Amanda-Lee E.; Mokgalaka, Ntebogeng; Tembu, Jacqueline V. (MDPI, 2023-09-22)
    Nanoparticles and nanotechnology developments continue to advance the livelihood of humankind. However, health challenges due to microorganisms and cancerous cells continue to threaten many people’s lives globally. ...
  • Hybrid vigor in Eucalyptus increases resistance against Phytophthora root rot 
    Bose, Tanay; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Jones, Wayne; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2023-04)
    Eucalyptus nitens is a cold-tolerant eucalypt that is native to Eastern Australia. Pure E. nitens as well as its hybrids, such as Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus nitens, is propagated commercially in various regions of ...
  • Phytophthora : an underestimated threat to agriculture, forestry, and natural ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Bose, Tanay; Spies3, Christoffel F.J.; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Springer, 2023-11-19)
    Phytophthora species are highly destructive plant pathogens and pose a significant threat to plants in various ecosystems, including agriculture, forest plantations, and natural environments. In sub-Saharan Africa, a total ...
  • Oomycete composition in Proteaceae orchards and natural stands on three continents 
    Migliorini, Duccio; Vivas, Maria; Wingfield, Michael J.; Shaw, Christopher; Burgess, Treena I. (Springer, 2023-10-13)
    The Proteaceae, a diverse family of woody flowering plants in the Southern Hemisphere, contains many species known to be susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi, both in the natural environment and in cut-flower orchards. ...
  • Leveraging off higher plant phylogenetic insights for antiplasmodial drug discovery 
    Moyo, Phanankosi; Invernizzi, Luke; Mianda, Sephora Mutombo; Andayi, Warren A.; Wang, Mingxun; Crouch, Neil R.; Maharaj, Vinesh J. (Springer, 2023-10-05)
    The antimalarial drug-resistance conundrum which threatens to reverse the great strides taken to curb the malaria scourge warrants an urgent need to find novel chemical scaffolds to serve as templates for the development ...
  • Prioritised identification of structural classes of natural products from higher plants in the expedition of antimalarial drug discovery 
    Moyo, Phanankosi; Invernizzi, Luke; Mianda, S.M.; Rudolph, Wiehan; Andayi, Andrew W.; Wang, Mingxun; Crouch, Neil R.; Maharaj, Vinesh J. (Springer, 2023-10-12)
    The emergence and spread of drug-recalcitrant Plasmodium falciparum parasites threaten to reverse the gains made in the fight against malaria. Urgent measures need to be taken to curb this impending challenge. The ...
  • Drivers of leopard population dynamics in the Kruger National Park, South Africa 
    Maputla, Nakedi Walter (University of Pretoria, 2014-08)
    In the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa, five of the six extant members of the large carnivore guild: lions, Panthera leo, spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta, leopards, P. pardus, cheetahs, Acynonyx jubatus, and wild ...
  • Unidirectional mating-type switching is underpinned by a conserved MAT1 locus architecture 
    Wilken, Pieter Markus; Lane, Frances Alice; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2024-02)
    Unidirectional mating-type switching is a form of homothallic reproduction known only in a small number of filamentous ascomycetes. Their ascospores can give rise to either self-sterile isolates that require compatible ...
  • High-resolution melting curve analysis : a detection assay for Ceratocystis eucalypticola and C. manginecans in infected Eucalyptus 
    Lynn, Kira Mary Theresa; Wingfield, Michael J.; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Barnes, Irene (Elsevier, 2024-10)
    Eucalyptus spp. in plantations are negatively affected by canker and wilt diseases caused by several species of Ceratocystis, particularly those in the Latin American Clade (LAC). Ceratocystis eucalypticola and Ceratocystis ...
  • Biophysical Reviews’ “Meet the IUPAB councillor series” : a brief profile of Tjaart P. J. Krüger 
    Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (Springer, 2024)
    It is a great privilege for me to have been elected to the IUPAB Council earlier this year and to represent the African continent on the Council. In this short commentary, I am giving a very brief account of my academic ...
  • Push-pull cropping system soil legacy alter maize metabolism and fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) resistance through tritrophic interactions 
    Mutyambai, Daniel Munyao; Mutua, Johnstone Mutiso; Kessler, André; Jalloh, Abdul A.; Njiru, Basilio Ngari; Chidawanyika, Frank; Dubois, Thomas; Khan, Zeyaur; Mohamed, Samira A.; Niassy, Saliou; Subramanian, Sevgan (Springer, 2024-05)
  • Examination of head versus body heading may help clarify the extent to which animal movement pathways are structured by environmental cues? 
    Gunner, Richard M.; Wilson, Rory P.; Holton, Mark D.; Bennett, Nigel C.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Mohammed, Osama B.; Wang, Tobias; Manger, Paul R.; Ismael, Khairi; Scantlebury, D. Michael (BMC, 2023-10-27)
    Understanding the processes that determine how animals allocate time to space is a major challenge, although it is acknowledged that summed animal movement pathways over time must define space-time use. The critical question ...
  • Steroids and fatty acid esters from Cyperus sexangularis leaf and their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-elastase properties 
    Miya, Gugulethu Mathews; Oriola, Ayodeji Oluwabunmi; Payne, Bianca D.; Cuyler, Marize; Lall, Namrita; Oyedeji, Adebola Omowunmi (MDPI, 2023-04-13)
    Cyperus sexangularis (CS) is a plant in the sedges family (Cyperaceae) that grows abundantly in swampy areas. The leaf sheath of plants in the Cyperus genus are mostly used domestically for mat making, while they are ...