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Citrus fruits are among the most popularly consumed fruits worldwide, including oranges, grapefruits, pomelos and lemons. Citrus flavonoids such as hesperidin, naringin and nobiletin have shown an array of health benefits in cell, animal and clinical studies, including antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, anticancer, and anti-obesity activities. Citrus flavonoids have limited bioavailability after oral administration, leaving the major part unabsorbed and persisted in the colon. Recent studies have highlighted the important role of the gut microbiota and in vivo biotransformation on the bioactivity of citrus flavonoids. This article discusses the biological fate of citrus flavonoids from the viewpoint of their absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in vivo. Many delivery systems have been designed to enhance the oral bioavailability of citrus flavonoids, such as emulsions, self-emulsifying systems, nanoparticles and solid dispersions. The ultimate goal of these delivery systems is to enhance the bioefficacy of citrus flavonoids. Several studies have found that the increased bioavailability leads to enhanced bioefficacy of citrus flavonoids in specific animal models. Regarding the complex dynamics of citrus flavonoids and gut microbiota, the bioavailability-bioactivity relationship is an interesting but under-discussed area. Comprehensively understanding the biological fate and bioefficacy of citrus flavonoids would be helpful to develop functional foods with better health benefits.Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) can change gut microbiota composition and play a protective role in food allergy (FA). Furthermore, the protective mechanism of FOS against FA is unclear. In this study, intestinal flora and tryptophan (Trp) metabolites were investigated in a mouse model with FA supplemented with FOS. Meanwhile, we injected aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonists (AhR-A) into a mouse model of FA supplemented with FOS to investigate whether T helper cell (Th) 17/regulatory T (Treg) cell balance was affected. Our research studies showed that dietary intake of FOS provided moderate protection from the intestinal inflammation induced by ovalbumin (OVA). This protective effect disappeared in AhR-A mice. The OVA mice manifestations had significantly lower bacterial richness, when compared to the normal control (NC) mice. Among fecal bacteria, the abundance of Akkermansiaceae (family level) and Verrucomicrobia (phylum level) increased and Ruminococcacere (phylum level) decreased in the feces of allergic miad box P3 (Foxp3) in FOS mice but not in AhR-A mice. These findings suggest that FOS ameliorates allergic symptoms and impacts Th17/Treg balance in mice by modulating the gut microbiota composition and Trp metabolites. FOS may serve as an effective tool for the treatment of FA by regulating immune and gut microbiota.The reaction, BrO + HO2 → HOBr + O2, is exothermic and can produce O2 in both its ground state (X[combining tilde]3∑g-) and its first excited state (ã1Δg). As a result, this reaction can proceed on both a singlet and a triplet potential energy surface. Recently, Tsona, Tang and Du published a paper entitled "Impact of water on the BrO + HO2 gas-phase reaction mechanism, kinetics and products (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019, 21, 20296-203072). The results of this work showed significant differences from those published earlier on this reaction by Chow et al. (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 30554-30569). SC-43 phosphatase agonist Further calculations performed in this present work, combined with higher level calculations published by Chow et al. (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 30554-30569), demonstrate that the work of Tsona et al. is flawed because the integration grid size used in their lowest singlet and triplet calculations is too small, and a closed-shell wavefunction, rather than an open-shell wavefunction, has been used for the singlet surface. The major conclusion in the work of Tsona et al. that the lowest singlet and triplet channels are barrierless is shown to be incorrect. Also, the computed rate coefficients of Tsona et al. showed a positive temperature dependence, which is inconsistent with the experimentally observed negative temperature dependence, whereas the singlet rate coefficients computed by Chow et al. (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 30554-30569) showed a negative temperature dependence consistent with experiment.Monolayer antimonene has drawn the attention of research communities due to its promising physical properties. However, the mechanical properties of antimonene have remained largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate the mechanical properties and fracture mechanisms of two stable phases of monolayer antimonene - β-antimonene (puckered structure) and α-antimonene (buckled structure) - through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Our simulations reveal that a stronger chiral effect results in a greater anisotropic elastic behavior in α-antimonene than in β-antimonene. We focus on crack-tip stress distribution using local volume averaged virial stress definition and derive the fracture toughness from the crack-line stress. Our calculated crack tip stress distribution ensures the applicability of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) for cracked antimonene allotropes with considerable accuracy up to a pristine structure. We evaluate the effect of temperature, strain rate, crack-length, and point-defect concentration on the strength and elastic properties. The tensile strength of antimonene degrades significantly with the increase of temperature, crack length and defect concentration. The elastic modulus is found to be less susceptible to temperature variation but is largely affected by the increase in defects. The strain rate exhibits a power law relationship between strength and fracture strain. Finally, we discuss the fracture mechanisms in the light of crack propagation and establish the relationship between the fracture mechanism and the observed anisotropic properties.Most of the soils of Nepal had a higher potassium (K, expressed as K2O) level inherently. Later in 1976, the Government of Nepal has recommended K fertilizer rate at 30 kg K2O ha-1 in rice-wheat cropping systems. However, those crops began showing K deficiency symptoms in recent decades, which could be due to a large portion of soils with depleted K level or the insufficient input of K fertilizer for crop production. This study explored a limitation of K nutrient in the crops by establishing field trials from 2009-2014 at three agro-ecozones i.e., inner-Terai (2009-2010), high-Hills (2011-2012), and Terai (2012-2014) in Nepal. Seven rates of K fertilizer at 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 kg K2O ha-1 were replicated four times in a randomized complete block design, where crop yields and yield-attributing parameters of rice-wheat cropping system were recorded. Results revealed that an increase in K rates from 45 to 75 kg K2O ha-1 under inner-Terai and Terai conditions and 45 to 60 kg ha-1 under high-Hills conditions produced significantly higher grain yields compared to the recommended K dose.