{"title":"Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Efficacy of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIF-8s) against Plant Pathogens","authors":"Xiyue Zhang, Kui Sun, Zheng Zhang, Jun Yang","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00527","url":null,"abstract":"Plant pathogens pose significant threats to agricultural productivity and economic stability; therefore, the development of green broad-spectrum fungicides is critical to the long-term sustainability of agriculture. Here, zeolitic imidazolate framework nanoparticles (ZIF-8 NPs) with different charge properties were synthesized by a one-pot method and modified by different surfactants under the condition of a water phase at room temperature, which had an excellent bactericidal effect on model Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli) and plant pathogenic bacteria (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri and Pseudomonas syringae). Notably, the IC90 values of CTAB@ZIF-8 NPs for these bacterial strains were all below 50 μg/mL. In addition, ZIF-8 NPs also had antibacterial effects on fungi (Magnaporthe grisea) and oomycetes (Phytophthora infestans). ZIF-8 NPs can destroy the cell wall and cell membrane, eliminate the biofilm, produce ROS, cause DNA damage, and lead to cell death. Together, this work may provide ideas for the development of a promising, sustainable, efficient, broad-spectrum agricultural antimicrobial agent.","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"5 11","pages":"2216-2225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Sturme, J. P. van der Berg, L. Bouwman, A. de Schrijver, R. D. de Maagd, G. Kleter, Evy Battaglia-de Wilde
{"title":"Occurrence and Nature of Off-Target Modifications by CRISPR-Cas Genome Editing in Plants","authors":"M. Sturme, J. P. van der Berg, L. Bouwman, A. de Schrijver, R. D. de Maagd, G. Kleter, Evy Battaglia-de Wilde","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00270","url":null,"abstract":"CRISPR-Cas-based genome editing allows for precise and targeted genetic modification of plants. Nevertheless, unintended off-target edits can arise that might confer risks when present in gene-edited food crops. Through an extensive literature review we gathered information on CRISPR-Cas off-target edits in plants. Most observed off-target changes were small insertions or deletions (1–22 bp) or nucleotide substitutions, and large deletions (>100 bp) were rare. One study detected the insertion of vector-derived DNA sequences, which is important considering the risk assessment of gene-edited plants. Off-target sites had few mismatches (1–3 nt) with the target sequence and were mainly located in protein-coding regions, often in target gene homologues. Off-targets edits were predominantly detected via biased analysis of predicted off-target sites instead of unbiased genome-wide analysis. CRISPR-Cas-edited plants showed lower off-target mutation frequencies than conventionally bred plants. This Review can aid discussions on the relevance of evaluating off-target modifications for risk assessment of CRISPR-Cas-edited plants.","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"69 1","pages":"192 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89207707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ilyonectria Root Rot of Ginseng Is Attenuated via Enzymatic Degradation of the Extracellular Fe3+-Bound Siderophore N,N′,N″-Triacetylfusarinine C","authors":"J. P. Walsh, C. P. Garnham, K. Yeung, M. Sumarah","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.2c00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.2c00023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"323 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72551157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abelardo López-Fernández, Isaac Lucas-Gómez, Brenda Karen González-Pérez, Alejandro Valdez Calderón, A. Rivas-Castillo, M. A. Gayosso-Morales
{"title":"Expired Analgesics as Domestic Germinators Applied to Lactuca sativa (Lettuce) and Daucus carota (Carrot) Species Proposed by Docking of the ETR-1 Site","authors":"Abelardo López-Fernández, Isaac Lucas-Gómez, Brenda Karen González-Pérez, Alejandro Valdez Calderón, A. Rivas-Castillo, M. A. Gayosso-Morales","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73379315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kaundal, D. Sandhu, Vishal Singh, M. Dueñas, B. Acharya, Bradley Nelson, J. F. Ferreira, A. Litt
{"title":"Transgenic Expression of Prunus persica Salt Overly Sensitive 2 (PpSOS2) in the atsos2 Mutant Imparts Salt Tolerance in Arabidopsis","authors":"A. Kaundal, D. Sandhu, Vishal Singh, M. Dueñas, B. Acharya, Bradley Nelson, J. F. Ferreira, A. Litt","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75978021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selenium Accumulation and Speciation in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) Impacted by S in Soils: Potential for Biofortification","authors":"Marjana Yeasmin, D. Lamb, G. Choppala, M. Rahman","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88079881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CRISPR/Cas: The New Frontier in Plant Improvement","authors":"M. R. Maximiano, O. Franco","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73485044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. A. Osipitan, M. Mesgaran, B. Hanson, J. Fernández-Bayo
{"title":"Leveraging Tomato Crop Residues and Pomace for Biosolarization to Deplete Weed Seedbank in Tomato Fields","authors":"O. A. Osipitan, M. Mesgaran, B. Hanson, J. Fernández-Bayo","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77085148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Sacko, Xu Feng, J. R. Morris, R. M. Council-Troche, Sandeep Kumar, J. Lee
{"title":"Sustainable Green Chemistry: Water-Soluble Ozonized Biochar Molecules To Unlock Phosphorus from Insoluble Phosphate Materials","authors":"O. Sacko, Xu Feng, J. R. Morris, R. M. Council-Troche, Sandeep Kumar, J. Lee","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7007,"journal":{"name":"ACS Agricultural Science & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87439764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}