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The medicinal plant Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. Et Zucc is rich in stilbenes (e.g., polygonin and resveratrol) and anthraquinones (e.g., emodin) for the therapy of human diseases, while how to increase the growth and medicinal composition concentrations of P. cuspidatum has become an urgent issue. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of inoculation with an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Funneliformis mosseae, on plant growth, phosphorus (P) acquisition, medicinal component concentrations, and expressions of resveratrol synthesis-associated enzyme genes of P. cuspidatum at two P levels (0 M and 0.2 M). P supply (0.2 M) stimulated root AM fungal colonization rate. F. mosseae inoculation significantly improved growth performance (height, diameter, and biomass) and root morphology (diameter, length, and projected area), irrespectively of substrate P levels. P supply and F. mosseae distinctly increased soil acid and neutral phosphatase activities, as well as root P concentrations. P supply increased root physcion and resveratrol concentrations in inoculated and uninoculated plants, along with up-regulated expressions of PcCHS1, PcCRS1, PcRS11, and PcSTS. AM plants represented significantly higher root aloe-emodin, chrysophanol, emodin, physcion, polydatin, and resveratrol concentrations than non-AM plants irrespective of P levels, coupled with up-regulated expressions of PcCHS1, PcCHS2, PcRS11, PcRS, and PcSTS. It is concluded that 0.2 M P supply and F. mosseae inoculation promoted chrysophanol, physcion, polydatin, and resveratrol concentrations of P. cuspidatum, with the increase in resveratrol associated with up-regulated expressions of related genes.

A memristor is a nonlinear nanoscale-sized element with memory function, and it has an italic type 8 voltage-current relation curve that looks like a pinched hysteresis loop characteristic. The memristor is utilized to construct chaotic circuit, which has attracted the attention of the researchers. At present, most of studies focus on applying one or two memristors to the chaotic circuit. In order to study the multi memristor chaotic circuit, in this work we propose a six-order chaotic circuit with two flux-controlled memristors and a charge-controlled memristor. A corresponding six-order nonlinear dynamic differential equation of the circuit state variables is established. The dynamic properties of the circuit are demonstrated in detail. The analyses of equilibria and equilibrium stability show that the circuit has an equilibrium located in the three-dimensional space which is constituted by memristor internal state variables, and it is found that the equilibrium stability is determined by the circuit parameters and the initial states of three memristors. The Lyapunov exponent spectra and bifurcation diagrams of the circuit imply that it can produce two bifurcation behaviors by adjusting its parameters, which are Hopf bifurcation and anti-period doubling bifurcation. The hyperchaos, transient chaos and intermittency cycle phenomena are found in the same system. The dynamical behavior of this circuit is dependent on the initial state of memristor, showing different orbits such as chaotic oscillation, periodic oscillation and stable sink under different initial states. Finally, the simulation results indicate that some strange attractors like lotus type and superposition type are observed when voltage and electricity signal in observing chaotic attractors are generalized to power and energy signal, respectively. And the attractor production between the energy signals of the memristors are studied. Specially, when different initial conditions of three memristors are used to simulate the circuit, we can find the coexistence phenomenon of chaotic attractors with different topological structures or quasi-periodic limit cycle and chaotic attractor. The six-order chaotic oscillating circuit is mainly composed of three parts:the parallel connection between a flux-controlled memristor and capacitor, the serial connection between a charge-controlled memristor and inductor, and another flux-controlled memristor that is alone and floating, which enriches the application of memristor in high-order chaotic circuit. Compared with most of other chaotic systems, it has many circuit parameters and very complex topological structure, which enhances the complexity of chaotic system and the randomness of the generated signal. It is more difficult to decipher the encrypted information in chaotic secure communication, and thus it has better security performance and safety performance.