Lactiplantibacillus plantarum is a kind of extensively utilized probiotic species, which plays a critical role in the prevention of pathogenic bacteria and development of functional probiotics. Our group previously isolated one Lactiplantibacillus from Jiang Shui, a traditional Chinese fermented vegetable, which remarkably inhibited the growth of Aspergillus flavus. Herein, the safety of this isolate was assessed to ensure its application feasibility in food industry. Firstly, the phenotypic analyses including tolerance to low pH and bile salt, aggregation ability, and hemolytic activity detection, indicated the isolate could survive and colonize in the gastrointestinal tract, without hemolysin activity. The susceptibilities of the isolate to eight antibiotics and the absence of most resistance genes were demonstrated by agar disk diffusion and PCR, respectively. Furthermore, no mortality or toxicity was observed in mice by in vivo tests using gross autopsy, hematology, serum biochemistry, and HE-staining. Taken together, this study demonstrated the safety of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum WYH as a probiotic strain in terms of phenotypic analyses, absence of antimicrobial resistance and toxin-related genes, as well as mice toxicity test, while supported the prospect of applying isolate in suppression of fungal growth and mycotoxin biosynthesis.

Bougainvillea glabra is one of the most popular ornamental and landscaping plants planted in tropical and subtropical regions. The brightly colored bracts, long florescence and strong stress resistance make B. glabra perfect ornamental horticulture plant. Bougainvillea plants have been frequently hybridized, resulting in more than 400 varieties. To investigate the chloroplast genome will help us to understand the biological diversity and stress resistance of Bougainvillea plants better. Here, we report the complete chloroplast genome of B. glabra, which is 154,542 bp in length, including a large single copy (LSC) region of 85,695 bp and a small single copy (SSC) region of 18,077 bp, separated by a pair of identical inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 25,385 bp each. A total of 128 genes were identified, including 83 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on 12 chloroplast genomes showed that B. glabra , accompanied with its sister species B. spectabilis, formed a base clade in Nyctaginaceae which was close to Pisonia aculeata . This study will be helpful for better understanding of the genetic diversity and stress resistance of Bougainvillea plants.

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With the rapid development of information technology, the electricity consumption of Internet Data Centers (IDCs) increases drastically, resulting in considerable carbon emissions that need to be reduced urgently. In addition to the introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), the joint use of the spatial migration capacity of IDC workload and the temporal flexibility of the demand of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs) provides an important means to change the carbon footprint of the IDC. In this paper, a sustainability improvement strategy for the IDC carbon emission reduction was developed by coordinating the spatial-temporal dispatch flexibilities of the IDC workload and the EVCS demand. Based on the Minkowski sum algorithm, a generalized flexible load model of the EVCSs, considering traffic flow and Road Impedance (RI) was formulated. The case studies show that the proposed method can effectively increase the renewable energy consumption, reduce the overall carbon emissions of multi-IDCs, reduce the energy cost of the DCO, and utilize the EV dispatching potential. Discussions are also provided on the relationship between workload processing time delay and the renewable energy consumption rate.