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Flavonol Profile Is a Reliable Indicator to Assess Canopy Architecture and the Exposure of Red Wine Grapes to Solar Radiation

Johann Martínez-Lüscher, Luca Brillante, and Sahap Kaan Kurtural Abstract Exposure to solar radiation is a determining factor of grape composition. Flavonol synthesis is upregulated by solar radiation leaving a fingerprint on flavonol profile. This study aimed to test...

Structural colors of pearls

Ryotaro Ozaki, Kei Kikumoto, Masataka Takagaki, Kazunori Kadowaki & Kazushi Odawara Abstract The luster is the most important characteristic of pearls, whose colors depend on periodic structures of aragonite crystal layers and conchiolin sheets. We here propose an...