• Gold octahedra nanoparticles (Au_0.03 and Au_0.045): Synthesis and impact on marine clams Ruditapes decussatus 

  Fkiri, Anis; Sellami, Badreddine; Selmi, Aymen; Khazri, Abdelhafidh; Saidani, Wiem; Imen, Bouzidi; Sheehan, David; Hamouda, Beyrem; Smiri, Leila Samia (Elsevier, 2018-07-05)

  The increased use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in several applications has led to a rise in concerns about their potential toxicity to aquatic organisms. In addition, toxicity of nanoparticles to aquatic organisms is ...
• Genome editing in Kluyveromyces and Ogataea yeasts using a broad-host-range Cas9/gRNA co-expression plasmid 

  Juergens, Hannes; Varela, Javier A.; Gorter de Vries, Arthur R.; Perli, Thomas; Gast, Veronica J. M.; Gyurchev, Nikola Y.; Rajkumar, Arun S.; Mans, Robert; Pronk, Jack T.; Morrissey, John P.; Daran, Jean-Marc G. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  While CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing has transformed yeast research, current plasmids and cassettes for Cas9 and guide-RNA expression are species specific. CRISPR tools that function in multiple yeast species could ...
• Trade-offs between manure management with and without biogas production 

  Grösch, Norbert; Delivand, Mitra K.; Barz, Mirko; Bittrich, Petra (Bentham Open, 2018)

  Introduction: In rural developing countries with a traditional manure management, animal manure is a value-added agricultural commodity being utilized as a source of fuel and plant nutrients. The sustainable environmental ...
• Portable broadband cavity-enhanced spectrometer utilizing Kalman filtering: application to real-time, in situ monitoring of glyoxal and nitrogen dioxide 

  Fang, Bo; Zhao, Weixiong; Xu, Xuezhe; Zhou, Jiacheng; Ma, Xiao; Wang, Shuo; Zhang, Weijun; Venables, Dean S.; Chen, Weidong (Optical Society of America, 2017)

  This article describes the development and field application of a portable broadband cavity enhanced spectrometer (BBCES) operating in the spectral range of 440-480 nm for sensitive, real-time, in situ measurement of ambient ...
• Competition between Lemna minuta, Lemna minor, and Azolla filiculoides. Growing fast or being steadfast? 

  Paolacci, Simona; Jansen, Marcel A. K.; Harrison, Simon (Frontiers Media, 2018)

  A substantial number of Lemnaceae are invasive outside their natural distribution area. Lemna minuta is considered invasive in several European countries, where it can occur in the same habitat as invasive Azolla filiculoides ...

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