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Formula see text] Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most important diseases of apple. The antibiotic streptomycin is routinely used in the commercial apple industries of New York (NY) and New England to manage the disease. In 2002 and again, from 2011 to 2014, outbreaks of streptomycin resistance (SmR) were reported and investigated in NY. Motivated by new grower reports of control failures, we conducted a follow-up investigation of the distribution of SmR and E. amylovora strains for major apple production regions of NY over the last 6 years (2015 to 2020). Characterization of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) profiles revealed that a few "cosmopolitan" strains were widely prevalent across regions, whereas many other "resident" strains were confined to one location. In addition, we uncovered novel CRISPR profile diversity in all investigated regions. SmR E. amylovora was detected only in a small area spanning two counties from 2017 to 2020 and was always associated with one CRISPR profile (412338), which matched the profile of SmR E. amylovora, discovered in 2002. This suggests the original SmR E. amylovora was never fully eradicated and went undetected because of several seasons of low disease pressure in this region. Investigation of several representative isolates under controlled greenhouse conditions indicated significant differences in aggressiveness on 'Gala' apples. Potential implications of strain differences include the propensity of strains to become distributed across wide geographic regions and associated resistance management practices. Results from this work will directly influence sustainable fire blight management recommendations for commercial apple industries in NY state and other regions.The objective of this work is to demonstrate the potential of near-infrared spectroscopy for common screening of falsified medicines in the field by means of a device-independent universal discrimination approach. In order to provide a useful discrimination tool to protect people from low-quality medical products, not only is a low-cost and portable screening device necessary, but a reference library is also essential. The authors believe that a device-dependent reference library inhibits near-infrared spectroscopy from becoming a popular screening tool. In this study, to develop a device-independent method, discrimination performance is evaluated using different devices for training and testing. Setanaxib datasheet The training data sets for the reference library were prepared using a bench-top Fourier transform near-infrared spectrophotometer, and predictive discrimination was performed using the spectral data by a low-cost and portable wavelength dispersive near-infrared spectrophotometer. A near-infrared spectrum-based support vector machine was used for these purposes, but the screening resulted in low accuracy thought to be caused by the intrinsically device-dependent features of the spectra data. Thus, principal component analysis was performed to collect the proper components to discriminate low-quality products from standard products. The principal component score-based support vector machine was able to produce highly accurate results, identifying falsified products with no false positive cases.The rechargeable Zn-air batteries as an environmentally friendly sustainable energy technology have been extensively studied. However, it is still a challenge to develop non-noble metal bifunctional catalysts with high oxygen reduction as well as oxygen evolution reaction (ORR and OER) activity and superior durability, which limit the large-scale application of rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Herein, we synthesized an ultrastable FeCo bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst on Se-doped CNTs (FeCo/Se-CNT) via a gravity guided chemical vapor deposition (CVD) strategy. The catalyst exhibits excellent ORR (E1/2 = 0.9 V) and OER (overpotential at 10 mA cm-2 = 340 mV) properties simultaneously, surpassing commercial Pt/C and RuO2/C catalysts. More importantly, the catalyst shows an unordinary stability, that is, is no obvious decrease after 30K cycles accelerated durability test for ORR and OER processes. The small potential gap (0.75 V) represents superior bifunctional ORR and OER activities of the FeCo/Se-CNT catalyst. The FeCo/Se-CNT catalyst possesses outstanding electrochemical performance for the rechargeable liquid and flexible all-solid-state Zn-air batteries, for example, a high open circuit voltage (OCV) and peak power density of 1.543 and 1.405 V and 173.4 and 37.5 mW cm-2, respectively.Platinum nanocrystals featuring a multiply twinned structure and uniform sizes below 5 nm are superb catalytic materials, but it is difficult to synthesize such particles owing to the high twin-boundary energy (166 mJ/m2) of Pt. Here, we report a simple route to the synthesis of such nanocrystals by selectively growing them from the vertices of Pd icosahedral seeds. The success of this synthesis critically depends on the introduction of Br- ions to slow the reduction kinetics of the Pt(II) precursor while limiting the surface diffusion of Pt adatoms by conducting the synthesis at 30 °C. Owing to the small size and multiply twinned structure of Pt dots, the as-obtained Pd-Pt nanocrystals show remarkably enhanced activity and durability toward oxygen reduction, with a mass activity of 1.23 A mg-1Pt and a specific activity of 0.99 mA cm-2Pt, which are 8.2 and 4.5 times as high as those of the commercial Pt/C.A cascade approach to the synthesis of 5-(indol-3-yl)hydantoin framework has been developed by the reaction of indole with glyoxylic acid/pyruvic acid under a deep eutectic solution, (+)-tartaric acid-dimethylurea. N,N'-Dimethylurea from a deep eutectic solution functions as a reactant as well as a solvent mixture. Isolation of the intermediate, 5-hydroxyhydantoin, and its reaction with indole provides the mechanistic evidence for this reaction. This method was successfully applied in the first total synthesis of an alkaloid, (±)-oxoaplysinopsin B, with an overall yield of 48%.Diboron-mediated rhodium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of functionalized arenes is reported. In addition to good functional group tolerance, the reaction features operational simplicity and controllable chemoselectivity. The general applicability of this procedure is demonstrated by the selective hydrogenation of a range of arenes, including functionalized benzenes, biphenyls, and polyaromatics.Gas bubble manipulations in liquid have long been a concern because of their vital roles in various gas-related fields. To deal with the weakness in long-distance gas transportation of previous works, we took inspiration from the ridgelike structure on Nepenthes pitcher's peristome and successfully prepared a two-dimensional superaerophilic surface decorated with asymmetric aerophobic barriers capable of unidirectional and long-distance gas bubble delivery. For the first time, this process was investigated by in situ bubble-releasing experiments recorded by a high-speed camera and finite element modeling, which demonstrates a kinetic process regulated by the anisotropic motion resistance arising from the patterns. Furthermore, the Nepenthes alata-inspired two-dimensional surface (NATS) was integrated into a water electrolysis system for H2 directional transportation and efficient collection. As a result, the NATS design was proved to be a potential solution for facile manipulation of gas bubbles and provides a simple, adaptive, and reliable strategy for long-range gas transport underwater.We report the first synthesis of the complex amino acid labionin in a fully orthogonally protected and stereopure form. The structure-which incorporates five orthogonal protecting groups and three stereogenic centers-was assembled using two key synthetic steps (1) a thia-Michael addition for installing the thioether bridge; (2) an electrophilic azidation for creating the central quaternary α-amino acid carbon in a stereochemically pure form. This work is expected to enable the solid phase synthesis of both natural and synthetic analogues labyrinthopeptins.A novel intramolecular Smiles rearrangement of α-fluoro-β-keto-pyrimidylsulfones (usually used as a carbon nucleophile) was developed, providing a versatile avenue for synthesis of tri/tetra-substituted monofluorinated pyrimidyl enol ethers. Among these, diverse (Z)-monofluorovinylsulfones and sulfinates were efficiently assembled by adding extra electrophile and fine-tuning reaction conditions. The process is triggered by a keto-enol tautomerism from enol oxyanion to pyrimidine 2-carbon, completely different from the classical carbon nucleophilic addition reaction approach.The design and chemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoresonators exhibiting a strong magnetic response in the visible is a key requirement to the realization of efficient functional and self-assembled metamaterials. However, novel applications like Huygens' metasurfaces or mu-near-zero materials require stronger magnetic responses than those currently reported. Our numerical simulations demonstrate that the specific dodecahedral morphology, whereby 12 silver satellites are located on the faces of a nanosized dielectric dodecahedron, provides sufficiently large electric and magnetic dipolar and quadrupolar responses that interfere to produce so-called generalized Huygens' sources, fulfilling the generalized Kerker condition. Using a multistep colloidal engineering approach, we synthesize highly symmetric plasmonic nanoclusters with a controlled silver satellite size and show that they exhibit a strong forward scattering that may be used in various applications such as metasurfaces or perfect absorbers.We propose electrospray-ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry as a robust and powerful method for the in situ analysis of carbanions. ESI mass spectrometry selectively probes the charged components of the sampled solution and, thus, is ideally suited for the detection of free carbanions. We demonstrate the potential of this method by analyzing acetonitrile solutions of 15 different carbon acids AH, whose acidities cover a range of 11.1 ≤ pKa(DMSO) ≤ 29.5. After treatment with KOtBu as a strong base, all but the two least acidic compounds were successfully detected as free carbanions A- and/or as potassium-bound aggregates [Kn-1An]-. The association equilibria can be shifted toward smaller aggregates and free carbanions by the addition of the crown ether 18-crown-6, which facilitates the evaluation of the mass spectra. When KOtBu was replaced by other bases (LiOH, LiNiPr2, NaH, NaOH, KOH, NBu4OH) or when tetrahydrofuran or methanol was used as a solvent, carbanions were also successfully observed. For further demonstrating the utility of the proposed method, we applied it to the analysis of the Michael addition of deprotonated dimedone to butenone. ESI mass spectrometry allowed us to follow the decrease of the reactant carbanion and the buildup of the product carbanion in time.To date, most of the low-molecular-weight gels are found serendipitously, and modification on known gelator structures via organic synthesis is an efficient methodology to prepare gel series. However, a simple, direct, and rational modification method for a known gelator is still a challenge. Herein, we employ Glaser coupling reaction to synthesize a novel dendrimer gelator BisDEC with the (ALS2)2 structure, starting from terminal alkyne-based gelator DEC with the ALS2 structure. This structural change results in gels with distinct gelation solvents, mechanical properties, and stimuli-responsive abilities. The gelation abilities of DEC and BisDEC in nonpolar and polar solvents, respectively, have been examined and discussed by several experiments and Hansen constants. It is also shown that the BisDEC gel system shows intriguing self-healing, self-supporting, and grinding chromism properties.
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