Recent advances and perspectives in crop biofortification

Folates in Plants: Research Advances and Progress in Crop Biofortification

Folates, also known as B9 vitamins, serve as donors and acceptors in one-carbon (C1) transfer reactions. The latter are involved in synthesis of many important biomolecules, such as amino acids, nucleic acids and vitamin B5. Folates also play a central role in the methyl cycle that provides one-carbon groups for methylation reactions. The important functions fulfilled by folates make them essen...

Biofortification of Crop Plants

Recent Advances in e-Health and Perspectives

We propose in this paper some considerations above the advances in e-health technology based on the papers presented in the present special issue, as well as some perspectives about prototypes in achievement, discussing their acceptability in the framework of a mutual benefit both for elderly people and for the society, depending on the sensorimotor abilities as well as cognitive and decisional...

Manipulating photorespiration to increase plant productivity: recent advances and perspectives for crop improvement.

Recycling of the 2-phosphoglycolate generated by the oxygenase reaction of Rubisco requires a complex and energy-consuming set of reactions collectively known as the photorespiratory cycle. Several approaches aimed at reducing the rates of photorespiratory energy or carbon loss have been proposed, based either on screening for natural variation or by means of genetic engineering. Recent work in...

Lyme disease: recent advances and perspectives

Lyme Disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by Ixodes scapularis (deer tick or blacklegged tick), has been gaining in incidence over the past decade. Without treatment, it is a long-term infection characterized by inflammation of the joints, heart and nervous system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies it as an Emerging Infectious Dise...