Fitorremediación asistida a través de bacterias, para suelos contaminados con metales pesados y plaguicidas

TANIA GÓMEZ MORALES (2023, [Otro, Trabajo terminal, especialidad])

El suelo es un recurso no renovable que nos proporciona diferentes beneficios, incluidos los servicios ecosistémicos. Sin embargo, actividades antropogénicas como la minería y la agricultura lo han contaminado. Las prácticas mineras y agrícolas liberan contaminantes como plaguicidas y metales pesados al suelo como contaminantes individuales o mezclas, generando importantes efectos adversos para el ambiente y la salud humana. Debido a esta problemática, se han desarrollado diferentes estrategias de remediación para sitios con presencia de estos co-contaminantes. Una de ellas es la fitorremediación asistida por bacterias, una técnica basada en la asociación de plantas y bacterias, donde ambos organismos se benefician y mejoran la eficiencia de la remediación.

Soil is a non-renewable resource that provides us with different benefits, including ecosystem services. However, anthropogenic activities such as mining and agriculture have contaminated it. Minery and agriculture practices release contaminants such as pesticides and heavy metals into the soil as individual pollutants or mixtures, generating important adverse environmental and human health effects. Due to this problem, different remediation strategies have been developed for sites with the presence of these co-contaminants; one of them is bacterial-assisted phytoremediation, a technique based on the association of plants and bacteria, where both organisms benefit and improve remediation efficiency.

BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA suelo, fitorremediación, bacterias, plaguicidas, metales pesados, co-contaminados. soil, phytoremediation, bacteria, pesticides, heavy metals, co-contaminated

Novel mutant alleles reveal a role of the extra-large G protein in rice grain filling, panicle architecture, plant growth, and disease resistance

Akshaya Biswal Daisuke Urano (2022, [Artículo])

Heterotrimeric G Proteins Extra-Large G Proteins Cas9 OsXLG CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CRISPR RICE PROTEINS PLANT GROWTH DISEASE RESISTANCE

Neural network assisted composition for piano in jazz

Ismael Medina Muñoz (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

Artificial Intelligence has taken an important role in activities that were once considered exclusively human. Generative AI is a vibrant area of research, with increasing interest in application fields related to the arts. The recent plethora of innovations in fields like visual arts and natural language processing, which are able to engage in dialogue with users, are just two examples of commercial applications that are driving innovation research for big tech giants. It would not be untrue to say that these innovations are shaping mankind’s development.

Music is an investigative field that presents a challenge. Musical theory itself is challenging for humans, and music is as diverse and rich as the cultures in which it has evolved. This research and proposal is intended as a novel approach to creating a generative artificial intelligence that assists in piano composition for jazz tunes. This genre was selected because of the challenge that its richness and complexity for musical execution and interpretation pose.

By using a Recurrent Neural Net to create new sequences of n-notes from an initial n-note set and using a probabilistic approach to set the duration of each note in the produced n-notes set, the generative artificial intelligence described in this document is the piano composer assistant for jazz tunes.

Inteligencia Artificial INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICAS TECNOLOGÍA DE LAS TELECOMUNICACIONES DISPOSITIVOS DE GRABACIÓN DISPOSITIVOS DE GRABACIÓN

Chinches besuconas contra hongos come insectos: una batalla biológica

Ana Padilla ANY LAURA FLORES VILLEGAS BERENICE JIMENEZ SANTIAGO Conchita Toriello MARTHA BUCIO TORRES PAZ MARIA SALAZAR SCHETTINO Mauro Vences MARGARITA CABRERA BRAVO (2022, [Artículo])

Los triatominos o chinches besuconas son los insectos portadores de Trypanosoma cruzi, el parásito causal de la enfermedad de Chagas, uno de los mayores problemas de salud pública en Latinoamérica dada la distribución y adaptación a condiciones domésticas del vector. Para su control, se han utilizado insecticidas piretroides que han generado resistencia en algunas especies, una alternativa al uso de éstos es el control biológico basado en organismos como bacterias, virus, depredadores (avispas del género Telenomus) y hongos entomopatógenos. Los hongos come insectos poseen ventajas para la erradicación de las chinches besuconas, como su infección por contacto externo, virulencia y capacidad de inmunosupresión en el insecto, además de tener menor impacto en el ambiente con respecto al control químico.

TRIATOMINOS ENTOMOPATOGENOS BIOCONTROL RESISTENCIA BIOPESTICIDAS BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Medir para conservar

SARA DENNIS PACHECO Jorge Omar López Martínez Erika Betzabeth Palafox Juárez MARIANA ELVIRA CALLEJAS JIMENEZ (2022, [Artículo])

Todos alguna vez hemos necesitado hacer mediciones, por lo regular lo hacemos con herramientas que tenemos disponibles como reglas, cintas métricas y demás instrumentos que son útiles para medir casi cualquier cosa que se nos ocurra. Pero cuando lo que nos interesa medir es tan grande como un paisaje ¿con qué lo medimos? y ¿por qué nos interesa medir un paisaje? A lo largo de estas páginas hablaremos de la importancia que tiene comprender cómo está estructurado nuestro entorno, las herramientas que se utilizan para medirlo y lo interesante que es conocer lo que hay en él. Además, descubriremos la utilidad de interpretar características espaciales para poder preservar y conservar la naturaleza, haciendo alusión a la frase: “no se cuida lo que no se conoce”.

CONSERVACION ECOLOGIA METRICAS DEL PAISAJE PERCEPCION REMOTA BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Directrices para incrementar el rendimiento de grano en sistemas de cultivos asociados

Jacques Fils Pierre (2022, [Artículo])

Aunque el sistema de cultivo intercalado de la Península de Yucatán se considera amigable con el medio ambiente y juega un papel crucial en la producción de alimentos esenciales para la dieta mexicana, todavía se caracteriza por un bajo rendimiento debido a la competencia inter e intraespecífica (es decir, la disposición espacial de dos o más cultivos cuando se plantan en sistemas intercalados). En este sentido, el enfoque de este trabajo es proporcionar diferentes métodos que se pueden utilizar en sistemas de cultivo intercalado de maíz/leguminosas para reducir la competencia entre especies por los recursos.

AGRICULTURA CULTIVO INTERCALADO FRIJOL MAIZ MILPA XPELON BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Heliconias péndulas: un breve recorrido a su conocimiento en México y su potencial ornamental

CELSO GUTIERREZ BAEZ PEDRO ZAMORA CRESCENCIO (2022, [Artículo])

Existen tres especies con inflorescencia péndula del género Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) que crecen en México y que tienen vistosas inflorescencias que le dan un alto valor ornamental. Dos de ellas son endémicas. El cultivo de estas especies puede representar una fuente adicional de ingresos para familias campesinas del sureste de México.

HELICONIACEAE HORTICULTURA PLANTAS ENDEMICAS PLANTAS ORNAMENTALES BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

The cerato-mandibular ligament: a key functional trait for grazing in damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

Damien Olivier Bruno Frederich MILTON ALEJANDRO SPANOPOULOS ZARCO Eduardo Francisco Balart Páez Eric Parmentier (2014, [Artículo])

"The success of a taxonomic group can be promoted by a key character that allows the group to interact with its environment in a different way and to potentially occupy new niches. The Pomacentridae possess a synapomorphic trait, the cerato-mandibular (c-md) ligament, which joins the hyoid bar to the inner part of the lower jaw. It has previously been shown that this ligament is a key trait in communication in damselfishes because it enables them to slam the oral jaws shut causing teeth collision and sound production. This specific behavior of mouth closing could, however, also be used for other tasks, such as feeding. Many territorial damselfishes are referred to as farmers, due to their ability to manage algal crops on which they feed. This study hypothesizes that the c-md ligament provides an advantage for grazing filamentous algae, and should thus be considered a key trait for farming behavior."

Biomechanics, Evolution, Farming, Functional morphology BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA ANIMAL (ZOOLOGÍA) ZOOLOGÍA MARINA ZOOLOGÍA MARINA

De Novo assembly and annotation of the Pacific calico scallop (Argopecten ventricosus) transcriptome for immune-related gene discovery

RUTH ESCAMILLA MONTES GENARO DIARTE PLATA GABRIELA BERENICE MENDOZA MALDONADO Aarón Barraza Celis Carlos Eliud Angulo Valadez Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar Jesús Arturo Fierro Coronado ANTONIO LUNA GONZALEZ (2022, [Artículo])

"Invertebrates' immune defense mechanisms play a critical role in pathogen recognition and elimination. De novo assembly and annotation of the Argopecten ventricosus transcriptome were performed for the immune-related gene identification. Scallops (height: 4.4 cm) were challenged with inactivated Vibrio parahaemolyticus IPNGS16. The RNA from different tissues was pooled for a single cDNA library construction sequenced by NextSeq 500 platform 2×75 paired‐end chemistry. Before de novo assembling with Trinity, reads were analyzed with FastQC, Trimmomatic, and Prinseq. Assembled sequences were analyzed by CD-HIT-EST and TransDecoder. The corresponding annotation was performed against NCBI-nr, RefSeq protein, and KAAS (KEGG) databases. The Trinity assembly yielded 107,516 contigs. TransDecoder yielded 25,285 sequences as CDSs of which, 16,123 were annotated against the NCBI-nr protein, most of them scored with Crassostrea gigas data. Gene ontology mapped sequences (15,262) were classified in molecular functions (~13,000), cellular components (~11,000), and biological processes (~13,000). The KAAS analysis showed biological categories for metabolism (13%), cellular processes (12%), genetic information processing (10%), organismal systems (19%), environmental information (13%), and human diseases (33 %). Within the organismal systems, 467 immune-related genes (KO) were identified. Sixty-four immune-related genes were annotated/blasted against the NCBI-nr and RefSeq protein databases. An RT-qPCR was performed to analyze the expression level of immune-related genes obtained in the transcriptome analysis in scallops (height 4.5 cm) treated with probiotic bacilli added to culture water. Bacilli significantly increased the expression of the HSP70 and PGRP genes. The gene transcripts analysis of A. ventricosus will better understand its immune response against pathogens in culture systems."

Argopecten ventricosus, calico scallop, transcriptome, bivalve, immune genes BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA ANIMAL (ZOOLOGÍA) INMUNOLOGÍA INMUNOLOGÍA

Gene expression in primary hemocyte culture of the Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei infected with different white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) strains

Delia Patricia Parrilla Taylor REGINA ELIZONDO GONZALEZ Jesús Neftalí Gutiérrez Rivera SILVIA ALEJANDRA GARCIA GASCA NORBERTO VIBANCO PEREZ MA. DE JESUS DURAN AVELAR RICARDO VAZQUEZ JUAREZ (2022, [Artículo])

"Five previously analyzed white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) strains from northwest Mexico,differing in their genome architecture as well as in virulence, were selected (high virulence JP and LG strains;moderate virulence GVE and DIV strains; and low virulence LC10 strain) to evaluate pathogenesis response in vitro. Expression of phagocytosis-activating protein PAP, manganese superoxide dismutase MnSOD and peroxiredoxin PRX, and two genes of immediate-early expression (IE1 and WSSV304) were measured by qPCR in a primary hemocyte cell culture from Penaeus vannamei at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 h post-infection (hpi). PAP expression was significantly higher at 1 and 3 hpi, and JP and LC10 strains induced the highest expression. The response of MnSOD was high at 1 hpi, and a significant increase in PRX expression was detected at 3 hpi, probably due to the occurrence of an oxidative burst; expression levels of MnSOD and PRX were significantly higher at 1 and 3 hpi, respectively, induced by the LG strain (high virulence), suggesting an acute response. In general, expression of most immune-related - genes decreased after the initial hours of infection. Expression levels of IE1 and WSSV304 were exceptionally high at 1 hpi in almost all five WSSV analyzed strains,confirming their efficient mechanism for replication and viral fitness. The results of this study do not show an accurate link between the genome size and WSSV virulence of the strains, albeit the strain with the smallest genome showed the highest virulence. All strains induced an early immune response in heterogeneous ways."

Penaeus vannamei, virulence, gene expression, viral fitness, viral pathogenesis, immune response BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA ANIMAL (ZOOLOGÍA) PATOLOGÍA ANIMAL PATOLOGÍA ANIMAL