{"title":"Building Food from CO<sub>2</sub>: Can We Transform Global Food Production to Net Zero?","authors":"Zhaoxi Wang, Chelsea Zhang, Feng Jiao","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional agricultural methods face increasing pressure due to environmental and geopolitical factors. Recent advancements in electro-biological hybrid systems offer a promising alternative for producing food from CO<sub>2</sub>, water, and electricity, bypassing the need for photosynthesis. This letter provides an overview of the concept behind these hybrid systems, highlighting their key advantages and addressing the main challenges they face. Using meat production as a case study, we show the potential benefits for this new electro-agriculture system to meet global protein demands and explore the considerable resource savings that could result from transitioning away from conventional agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":93846,"journal":{"name":"ACS agricultural science & technology","volume":"5 5","pages":"681-686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12093292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aya Nakai, Shiho Fukushima, Kazuaki Mawatari, Akira Takahashi, Takeshi Nikawa, Shintaro Inoue, Takahito Watanabe, Taro Mito and Katsuyuki Miyawaki*,
{"title":"Differential Expression of Key Isoflavone Synthesis Genes in Soybean Sprouts under Two LED Treatments","authors":"Aya Nakai, Shiho Fukushima, Kazuaki Mawatari, Akira Takahashi, Takeshi Nikawa, Shintaro Inoue, Takahito Watanabe, Taro Mito and Katsuyuki Miyawaki*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.4c0064610.1021/acsagscitech.4c00646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00646https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00646","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Soybean seeds and sprouts contain isoflavones, including aglycones, glucosides, and malonylated glucosides, and their contents vary across soybean varieties. During germination and photomorphogenesis, blue light-emitting diode (LED) irradiation suppressed hypocotyl growth and enhanced the expression levels of <i>chalcone synthase 7</i>, <i>isoflavone synthase</i> (<i>IFS</i>), and <i>isoflavone reductase</i> (<i>IFR</i>). Conversely, red LED irradiation enhanced hypocotyl growth and decreased the expression levels of <i>IFS</i> and <i>IFR</i>. The contents of some glycosides or malonylated glycosides in sprouts and young green soybeans were significantly higher under blue LED irradiation than under red LED irradiation. These results imply that blue light more effectively increased the concentrations of some isoflavones during early germination and/or hydroponics cultivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":93846,"journal":{"name":"ACS agricultural science & technology","volume":"5 6","pages":"981–989 981–989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290235","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":"Building Food from CO2: Can We Transform Global Food Production to Net Zero?","authors":"Zhaoxi Wang, Chelsea Zhang and Feng Jiao*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.5c0023310.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Traditional agricultural methods face increasing pressure due to environmental and geopolitical factors. Recent advancements in electro-biological hybrid systems offer a promising alternative for producing food from CO<sub>2</sub>, water, and electricity, bypassing the need for photosynthesis. This letter provides an overview of the concept behind these hybrid systems, highlighting their key advantages and addressing the main challenges they face. Using meat production as a case study, we show the potential benefits for this new electro-agriculture system to meet global protein demands and explore the considerable resource savings that could result from transitioning away from conventional agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":93846,"journal":{"name":"ACS agricultural science & technology","volume":"5 5","pages":"681–686 681–686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fan Yang, Chaojie Yang, Xu Tao, Baiheng Jiang, Zhilin Yao, Churui Huang, Lili Lin, Dong Tian* and Fei Shen*,
{"title":"Valorization of Lignin Biomass Waste through Lignin Nanoantioxidant Fabrication","authors":"Fan Yang, Chaojie Yang, Xu Tao, Baiheng Jiang, Zhilin Yao, Churui Huang, Lili Lin, Dong Tian* and Fei Shen*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.5c0006010.1021/acsagscitech.5c00060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00060https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c00060","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This work proposed a facile method to prepare lignin nanosphere antioxidants by self-assembly for the valorization of biomass lignin waste. The technical feasibility of four biomass lignin extractions with choline chloride–lactic acid deep eutectic solvents (DESs) was comparatively assessed. Results showed that the lignin fractionation with DES pretreatment was effective, and the lignin yield reached up to 18.4%. The average particle size of the obtained lignin nanospheres (LNPs) was in the range of 20 ∼ 80 nm at pH = 7. It was proposed that LNPs prepared from deep eutectic solvent technical lignin could be used as promising biodegradable nanoantioxidants with comparable antioxidant ability to natural phenolic compounds. The large number of phenolic hydroxyl groups exposed on the LNP surface benefited its antioxidation performance. This work showed a facile way to prepare lignin nanoantioxidants with DES technical lignin and also provided useful chemical information on the correlation between lignin phenolic hydroxyl groups and its antioxidation ability.</p>","PeriodicalId":93846,"journal":{"name":"ACS agricultural science & technology","volume":"5 5","pages":"884–895 884–895"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083426","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":"Morphological Traits and Biochemical and Volatile Compound Composition along with Gene Expression Profiling in Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. Grown under Soil and Soil-Less Conditions","authors":"Mahinder Partap, Anjali Chandel, Diksha Sharma, Kamlesh Verma, Priyanka Parmar, Vikas Soni, Vidyashankar Srivatsan and Bhavya Bhargava*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsagscitech.4c0034910.1021/acsagscitech.4c00349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00349https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00349","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The present investigation corroborates the effect of different cultivation conditions (polyhouse soil and Dutch bucket soil-less) on morpho-physiological traits, biochemical content, volatile compound composition, and gene expression analysis in four different flower colors cultivars of <i>Chrysanthemum morifolium</i> (‘Meghna Orange’, ‘Aishwarya Yellow’, ‘Shanka White’, ‘Chandra Pink’). The results revealed that maximum performance in morphological traits such as plant height, leaf length, leaf width, and flower diameter was recorded in <i>C. morifolium</i> cultivars grown in soil-less conditions compared with soil cultivation. However, a marginal increase in the number of flowers per plant was observed in soil-cultivated cultivars. Further, the number of days to flowering was shortened in <i>C. morifolium</i> cultivars grown in soil-less conditions compared to plants grown in soil cultivation. The growth biomass of flowers, chlorophyll content of leaves, total carbohydrates, total sugar, and total carotenoids content of the flowers produced from soil-less cultivation were enhanced compared to that of soil cultivated flowers. However, a slight decrease in total phenolics, flavonoids, and antioxidant capacity was observed in flowers obtained from soil-less cultivation compared to the soil-cultivated ones. A total of 49 volatile compounds were identified in flowers, with eucalyptol being the predominant compound in <i>C. morifolium</i> produced under both cultivation systems. However, the total identified percentage of volatile compounds was the highest in soil-cultivated cultivars. Interestingly, the expression of differentially expressed genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis, plant hormone signal transduction, and photosynthesis was higher in flowers cultivated under soil-less conditions compared to soil conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":93846,"journal":{"name":"ACS agricultural science & technology","volume":"5 5","pages":"701–713 701–713"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083493","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}