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28 days old root system were collected from soil, quickly washed in water and flash-frozen. Experiment with a bifactorial design. Factor one is the genotype, which include WT (Col-0) and 35S:BRL3. Factor two is the condition, which include control (Properly watered) and 5 days of drought (water-hold) conditions. 3 Biological replicates were collected per each genotype and condition. -- Organism: Arabidopsis thaliana. -- Experiment type: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing., Resources available on the publisher's site: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE119382, Drought is the primary cause of global agricultural losses and represents a major threat to worldwide food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands out as the most promising strategy to increase crop growth in rain-fed conditions. The main mechanisms underlying drought resistance have been uncovered by studies of plant physiology and by engineering crops with drought-resistant genes. However, plants with enhanced drought resistance usually display lower levels of growth, highlighting the need to search for novel strategies capable of uncoupling drought resistance from growth. Here, we show that the brassinosteroid family of receptors, in addition to promoting growth, guides phenotypic adaptation to a great variety of drought stress traits analyzed herein. Whilst mutations in the ubiquitously localized BRI1 receptor pathway show an enhanced drought resistance at the expense of plant growth, we found that vascular-enriched BRL3 receptors confer drought tolerance without penalizing overall growth. Systematic analyses reveal that upon drought stress the BRL3 receptor pathway triggers the synthesis and mobilization of osmoprotectant metabolites, mainly proline and sugars. This preferentially occurs in the vascular tissues of the roots and favors overall plant growth. Altogether, our results uncover a new role for the spatial control of BR signaling in drought tolerance, and offer a novel strategy to address food security issues in an increasingly water-limited climate., Peer reviewed

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Characterization of temperature during the FJH of SWCNT; Raman analyses; TEM images; SEM images; UV–vis characterization; and resistivity of composites made with additives., Peer reviewed

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Resources available on the publisher's site: http://doi.org/10.1039/d1nr06210g, Peer reviewed

Supplementary Note 1: Effects of size and noise. Supplementary Note 2: Effect of the frequency distribution. Supplementary Note 3: Extension to directed networks. Supplementary Note 4: Relating synchronization and percolation thresholds., n this Supplementary Information, we study in more detail the robustness of the explosive phenomena in our model against changes in the main parameters. In particular, focusing on the Kuramoto dynamics, we study the synchronization transitions occurring at single links for different system sizes to validate the abrupt nature of the process when localized perturbations are applied to the system. We measure the maximum jump in the order parameter and the area of hysteresis depending on both size and noise (in terms of the sampling parameter M ), finding that the explosive phenomena is maximized in the large size limit and, unexpectedly, by an optimal amount of noise that compensates the error made by constantly applying a local –decentralized– percolation rule. We also check that our numerical and analytical results hold for a Gaussian and a bimodal distribution of frequencies (note that all results in the main text were presented for a uniform choice of g(ω), which simplified calculations). We also show results for the Kuramoto bomb in directed networks, where we use the modified percolation rule that correctly accounts for directionality in the chosen links while preserving the decentralized nature of the process. Interestingly, we find that the explosive synchronization transitions also occur in the directed case, although with a bistability window that is smaller than in its undirected counterpart. We conclude by exploring in more detail the explicit relation between percolation and synchronization onsets., Peer reviewed

Additional file 1: Table S1. List of primer sequences used for RT-PCR analysis. F: Forward primer. R: Reverse primer., Instituto de Salud Carlos III Gerencia Regional de Salud, Junta de Castilla y León Asociación Española Contra el Cancer (AECC) Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León, Peer reviewed

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This report summarises the activities of the CNB-CSIC (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología) through the years 2021 and 2022, a period still marked by the end of the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2., Peer reviewed