Plant growth-promoting (PGP) endophytic bacteria are known to benefit plant growth and crop yields in controlled environment experiments, but their efficacy under open-field conditions and over multiple seasons has rarely been validated. Here, we conducted a two-year (2018-2019) open-field trial in a randomized block design to test five individual endophytic bacterial strains (Strain 4 = Curtobacterium sp., Strain 72 = Brevibacillus sp., Strain 167 = Paenibacillus sp., Strain 193 = Bacillus sp.,...

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the most valuable forage crops due to its high biomass yield potential and nutritional values. However, forage biomass and quality are affected by different environmental and genetic factors, including developmental and stress-induced senescence, management, and harvesting stage. The CRISPR/Cas9 technology targeting stress-responsive transcription factors (TFs) offers great potential to enhance plant resilience against abiotic stresses and to develop...

Population-based evidence on cancer survival in individuals with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) remains limited. We compared survival following a first neoplasm in individuals with NF1 to that of the general Danish population and stratified on age, sex, and potential survival-related factors, including cancer stage and comorbidity. Using the Danish Cancer Registry, we identified 428 individuals with NF1 and 392,885 without NF1, all diagnosed with a first neoplasm (1977-2022). We estimated survival...

Gallium-based amalgams and preforms offer promising pathways for room-temperature bonding and low-temperature structural fabrication, yet their mechanical performance is constrained by brittle failure after interdiffusion-based solidification. This study investigates the mechanical and microstructural evolution of pastes formed by mixing copper particles with gallium (Ga), eutectic gallium-indium (GaIn), eutectic gallium-tin (GaSn), and eutectic gallium-indium-tin alloys (GaInSn), subjected to...

While the role of resistance training-induced muscle hypertrophy on early strength gains is still debated, it is unclear whether the specificity of training, such as high-load (H) training for increasing strength, results in different motor unit (MU) adaptations than combined high- and low-load (H + L) training for increasing strength and hypertrophy. Therefore, this study examined the effects of six weeks of either H- or H + L-training on leg press 1-repetition maximum (1-RM), isometric knee...