A novel chorismate mutase effector secreted from root-knot nematode Meloidogyne enterolobii manipulates plant immunity to promote parasitism

Meloidogyne spp.is an economically important plant-parasitic nematode distributed worldwide.To fight with host immune system for successful parasitism,plant parasitic nematodes secrete effectors to promote infection.In this study,we identified one chorismate mutase(CM)effector from M.enterolobii,named Me-CM.Spatial and temporal expression assays exhibited Me-cm is expressed in esophageal glands and up-regulated at parasitic-stage juveniles.Me-CM affects the pathogenicity of M.enterolobii based on the reduced infection rate,number of galls,egg masses,eggs per mass and multiplication rate collected from RNA silencing experiments.We showed that Me-CM localized in the cytoplasm and nucleus of plant cells and decreased the expression level of the marker gene PR1 of salicylic acid(SA)pathway.Besides,constitutive expression of Me-cm in Arabidopsis thaliana significantly reduced salicylic acid concentration.These results suggested that M.enterolobii may secrete effector Me-CM to fight with plantimmunesystemsvia regulating SA signaling pathway when interacting with host plants,ultimately facilitating parasitism.

Superb creep lives of Ni-based single crystal superalloy through size effects and strengthening heterostructure γ/γ' interfaces

This study presents a design strategy to enhance the high-temperature creep resistance of Ni-based superalloys.This strategy focuses on two principles:(1)minimizing the dimensions ofγ/γ′interfaces andγchannels by reducing the size of theγ′phase;(2)key alloy composition control to strengthen the heterostructureγ/γ′interfaces.This strategy proved very effective by the designed three superalloys'prolonged creep lives.An alloy exhibits ultra-long creep life by 388 h at 1100°C/137 MPa,which runs at the highest level among those alloys without Ru addition.With Ru addition,an alloy that lasted for 748 h with a creep strain of~6%at 1110°C/137 MPa is developed.This study provides a new route of high-temperature creep lives through heterostructure interfacial design with size effects and key alloying elements.

Synthesis, characterization and photoactivity of bi-crystalline mesoporous TiO2

Mesoporous titania （meso-TiO2） has received extensive attention owing to its versatile potential applications. This paper reports a low-temperature templating approach for the fabrication of meso-TiO2 using the peroxo titanic acid （PTA） sol as precursor and Pluronic P123 as nonionic template. The TGA, XRD, N2 sorption, FE-SEM and HRTEM were used to characterize the obtained samples. The results showed that meso-TiO2 with high surface area up to 163 m2.g^-1 and large pore volume of 0.65 cm3.^-1 can be obtained. The mesopore sizes can be varied between 13 and 20 nm via this synthesis approach. The amount of P123 and the calcination conditions were found to have great influence on the mesoporous and crystalline structures of meso-TiO2. The photocatalytic activity testing clearly shows that the high surface area and bi-crystallinity phases of meso-TiO2 play important roles in enhancing photocatalytic properties of meso-TiO2 in photo-decomposing Rhodamine B in water.

Twin crystal structured Al-10 wt.% Mg alloy over broad velocity conditions achieved by high thermal gradient directional solidification

Twin crystal structured Al-10 wt.% Mg alloys that were grown over a broad solidification velocity range were prepared and studied for the first time.The high thermal gradient(G)and growth velocity(V)of directional solidification resulted in the dominant solidification of twins:the twinned dendrite trunks at constant high Vs curved in the G direction with large angles in 7 mm diameter crucibles and invaded regular columnar grains because of a distinct kinetics growth advantage.Transitive deceleration experiments were designed to produce twin crystals that evolved with lower values of V(100,10,and 0.5μm/s)and had a structural coarsening trend.Twin cell growth in the absence of arms occurred at a growth velocity of 10μm/s.A coherency loss was observed at a growth velocity of 0.5μm/s with straight coherent twin boundaries turning into curved incoherent boundaries.Linear theoretical analyses were performed to understand the structural evolution of the twins.These results demonstrate the possibility of producing dense and controlled twin crystals in the Al-Mg system under most industrial production conditions;thus,this approach can be a new structural choice for designing Al-Mg-based alloys that have widespread commercial applications.

Facile and controllable preparation of mesoporous TiO2 using poly（ethylene glycol） as structure-directing agent and peroxotitanic acid as precursor

This work demonstrated that mesoporous TiO= （meso-TiO2） with con- trollable mesoporous and crystalline structures can be facilely prepared by using poly （ethylene glycol） （PEG） as structure-directing （SD） agent and peroxotitanic acid （PTA） as precursor. Meso-TiO2 with high specific surface area （157 m2.g-1）, pore volume （0.45 cm3.g-1） and large mesopore size of 13.9 nm can be obtained after calcination at 450℃. Such meso-TiO2 also shows relatively high thermal stability. BET surface area still reaches 114 m2-g-1 after calcination at 550℃. In the synthesis and calcination process, PEG that plays multiple and important roles in delivering thermally stable and tunable mesoporous and crystalline structures shows to be a suitable low-cost SD agent for the controllable preparation of nanocrystalline meso-TiO2. The photocataiytic activity tests show that both high surface area and bi-crystallinity of obtained meso-TiO2 are important in enhancing the performance in photo-decomposing Rhodamine B in water.