Guangzhou Academy of Building Research (China)

DOF transcription factors (TFs), which are specific to plants and contain zinc finger motifs, play a crucial role in various physiological and biochemical processes throughout plant life. Citrus sweet orange, one of the most economically and aesthetically valuable fruit crops globally, has not been the subject of thorough systematic analyses regarding its <italic>CsDOF</italic> gene members and their functions. In this study, we identified 24 <italic>CsDOF</italic> genes that are distributed unevenly across 19 scaffolds in sweet orange. We provide a detailed overview of these <italic>CsDOF</italic> genes, including their scaffold locations, phylogenetic relationships with the Arabidopsis DOF family, and structural characteristics. The phylogenetic analysis grouped the 60 DOF members identified from citrus and Arabidopsis into six main groups. Additionally, we detected distinct expression patterns of <italic>CsDOF</italic> genes under both normal and drought conditions using qRT-qPCR. Notably, the <italic>CsDOF10</italic> gene showed high expression level in response to drought treatment, suggesting a potential adaptation to drought stress. The overexpression of <italic>CsDOF10</italic> in Arabidopsis increases the plant's resistance to drought, stimulates the growth of primary roots, and suppresses the formation of lateral roots. CsDOF10 is located in the nucleus and has transcriptional activation activity. Moreover, additional studies have demonstrated that the expression of <italic>CsDOF10</italic> is influenced by the upstream regulatory factor CsKNOX9. Our discoveries offer significant insights for future investigations into the ability of citrus sweet orange to cope with drought stress.

Apalochrini is a tribe of the family Melyridae characterised by the shortened pedicel, with 13 genera recorded in China at present. Dicranolaius Champion and Intybia Pascoe of Apalochrini are distributed in Asia and Southeast Asia, with the former genus extending to Australia, but not being found in China. In a recent expedition in the mangrove forests of Zhangzhou City (Fujian Province), eastern China, specimens of D.mangalicola Asano ＆ Kawashima, 2010 and I.swatowensis (Wittmer, 1956) were collected. Dicranolaius Champion is recorded from China for the first time and I.swatowensis is newly recorded for Fujian Province. Diagnostic characters of D.mangalicola is provided and I.swatowensis is re-described in details. An updated key to genera of the Chinese Apalochrini, based on male characters, is given.

Abstract Workplace ostracism is prevalent and has profound consequences for both organizations and individuals. Based on the conservation of resources and job demands–resources theories, we propose a moderated mediation model to examine when and how workplace ostracism induces employee turnover intentions in China. We collected 214 valid questionnaires from a two‐wave survey conducted in 28 Chinese hotels. The results indicate that workplace ostracism is positively associated with employees' turnover intentions. Moreover, this relationship is mediated by job insecurity and is stronger when coaching leadership is low. These findings shed light on the role of job insecurity and coaching leadership in the relationship and the importance of mitigating the destructive effects of workplace ostracism. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Lateral superlattices have been a research focus due to the strain induced in their coherent structure, while the growth of a large size heterostructure with high density of heterointerfaces remains challenging. In this work, we report a gap-filling approach to synthesize large-scale lateral mesh heterostructures of WS2 embedded in a MoS2 matrix. This synthesis method utilizes the uniformly distributed gaps in single crystalline MoS2, made by the sulfur substitution-induced transformation of metastable-MoTe2 as the growth pattern, for the second material growth. By finely controlling the growth kinetics, a highly crystalline WS2/MoS2 lateral heterostructure mesh is successfully grown. Optical images and Raman mapping show a clear spatial distribution of WS2 channels embedded in MoS2. The coherent epitaxial nature is further confirmed by scanning transmission electron microscopy, showing insignificant dislocation at the interfaces. Density function theory simulation suggests that the growth of WS2 starts from the edges of cracked MoS2. The MoS2/WS2/MoS2 heterostructure device demonstrates an intrinsic electric barrier formed at the interfaces. This work provides a new tool for the practical preparation of large-scale high density 2D heterostructures.

Due to illumination variation under different lighting conditions, texture-less objects have posed significant challenges to visual object localization algorithms fur robot grasping. We propose a method to determine the GD pose of both textured and texture-less objects from a single RGB-D image with a Kinect. First, we apply hierarchical clustering strategy to pre-process the point cloud of a scene. Then, we achieve the 3D object detection by comparing the diameter between clustering point cloud and object model. Last, the rough pose of object is estimated through Hough voting and the estimation result is refined by ICP (Iterative Closest Point). Experimental results show that the accumulation error between the model and the corresponding point in the scene is less than Gmm and the attitude error is less than 1.5°. The average detection accuracy rate of the proposed method reaches 97% which can satisfy the grasping requirements of the manipulator. We also demonstrate that our approach has good performance in dynamic lighting conditions.