- Research in Cotton Cultivation
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Textile materials and evaluations
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation
- Color Science and Applications
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
Beijing University of Agriculture
2006-2025
Southeast University
2024
Capital Normal University
2008-2023
Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University
2023
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2023
Purdue University West Lafayette
2000-2021
China Agricultural University
2016
University of Georgia
2009
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
2004-2006
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004-2006
Significance The genome analysis presented here represents a major step forward in the field of desiccation tolerance and much-anticipated resource that will have far-reaching effect many areas plant biology agriculture. We present ∼1.69-Gb draft Boea hygrometrica , an important model for understanding responses to dehydration. To our knowledge, this is first sequence desiccation-tolerant extremophile, offering insight into evolution trait look, organization tolerance. underpinning...
Significance Adzuki bean ( Vigna angularis ) is distinct in its high starch and low fat accumulation. However, the underlying genetic basis still not well understood. In this study, we generated a high-quality draft genome sequence of adzuki by using whole-genome shotgun sequencing strategy. By comparative genomic transcriptome analyses, demonstrated that significant difference content between soybean were caused transcriptional abundance rather than copy number variations genes related to...
Abstract Seed coat color is an important quality and domestication trait. The adzuki bean has more than a dozen seed colors closely associated with the anthocyanin flavonoid metabolism pathways. In this study, we explored pigment composition of 10 different beans including red, black mottle on gray, golden, green, black, ivory, brown, light brown. results showed that anthocyanins are main in coat. There were no carotenoid or pelargonidin derivatives coats any accessions. Different have...
Abstract For many years, commercial‐grade hexane has been the preferred solvent for extracting oil from cottonseed. Recent environmental and health concerns about may limit use of this solvent; therefore, need a replacement become an important issue. Heptane is similar to hexane, but does not have associated with latter. On laboratory scale, delinted, dehulled, ground cottonseed was extracted heptane. The solvent‐to‐meal ratio 10:1 (vol/wt). yield quality meal by heptane were that hexane....
Abstract Background Regulation of gene expression plays a pivotal role in controlling the development multicellular plants. To explore molecular mechanism plant developmental-stage transition and cell-fate determination, genome-wide analysis was undertaken sequential developmental time-points individual tissue types model moss Physcomitrella patens because short life cycle relative structural simplicity this plant. Results Gene analyzed by digital tag profiling samples taken from P....
Abstract Commercial processing of cottonseed requires hexane to extract and recover edible oil. Gossypol aflatoxin are not removed from extracted meals. A bench‐top extraction process with 95% (vol/vol) aqueous ethanol (EtOH) solvent has been developed that extracts all three the above materials a much less volatile solvent. In this process, is pretreated ambient EtOH remove gossypol then hot oil aflatoxin. Membranes adsorption columns used purify various streams, so they can be recycled...
The adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) is an important grain legume. Fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) and qualitative genes plays role in gene cloning, molecular-marker-assisted selection (MAS), improvement. However, the genetic control agronomic traits remains poorly understood. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are invaluable construction high-density maps. We mapped 26 QTLs five related to pigmentation using 1,571 polymorphic SNP markers from genome via...
Azuki bean (Vigna angularis Ohwi & Ohashi) is one of the traditional grain legumes in China. From 2010 to 2013, mosaic and crumpling symptoms on leaves stunting, all typical a viral disease, were observed cultivars CWA030, CWA221, JCA002 azuki with incidence rates 30 100% yield losses 50 95% three fields Changping district, Beijing. To identify possible pathogen(s), 21 symptomatic leaf samples from different collected total RNA was extracted subjected RT-PCR testing degenerate primers...
Abstract Hexane has been used for decades to extract edible oil from cottonseed. However, due increased regulations affecting hexane because of the 1990 Clean Air Act and potential health risks, oil‐extraction industry urgently needs alternative hydrocarbon solvents replace hexane. Five solvents, n ‐heptane, isohexane, neohexane, cyclohexane, cylopentane, were compared with commercial using a benchscale extractor. The extractions done solvent cottonseed flake ratio 5.5 1 (w/w) miscella...
This study was conducted to evaluate the toxic effect of gossypol from gossypol-acetic acid, and (+)- (-)-isomers on growth Edwardsiella ictaluri.Inhibitory various concentrations E. ictaluri determined. Bacterial recovery performed by preincubation bacteria in medium containing subsequent activation inoculating gossypol-free plates. Concentrations racemic gossypol, (+)-gossypol (-)-gossypol 1.5 microg ml(-1) or higher significantly reduced number bacterial colonies compared with that...
Abstract miRNAs are non-coding small RNAs that involve diverse biological processes. Until now, little is known about their roles in plant drought resistance. Physcomitrella patens highly tolerant to drought; however, it not clear the basic biology of traits contribute P. this important character. In work, we discovered 16 stress-associated miRNA (DsAmR) families through computational analysis. Due possible discrepancy expression periods and tissue distributions between potential DsAmRs...
Abstract Background Over the past decade, pathway and gene-set enrichment analysis has evolved into study of high-throughput functional genomics. Owing to poorly annotated incomplete data, researchers have begun combine as well network module-based approaches identify crucial relationships between different molecular mechanisms. Methods To meet new challenge phenotype discovery, in this work, we developed an integrated online database, P athway A nd G ene E nrichment D atabase (PAGED),...
Summary Adzuki bean ( Vigna angularis ) is an important legume crop cultivated in over 30 countries worldwide. We developed a high‐quality chromosome‐level reference genome of adzuki cultivar Jingnong6 by combining PacBio Sequel long‐read sequencing with short‐read and Hi‐C technologies. The assembled covers 97.8% the contig N50 approximately 16 Mb total 32 738 protein‐coding genes. also generated comprehensive variation map whole‐genome resequencing (WGRS) 322 diverse beans accessions...
The cancer microbiota was considered the main risk factor for progression. We had proved that Fusobacterium periodonticum (F.p) higher abundance in Esophageal cancer(EC)tissues. Bioinformation analysis found BCT a key virulence protein of F.p. However, little is known about role and mechanism EC. This study aimed to recognize F.p explore promoting
Applications of aminocyclopyrachlor in 2011 to turf resulted brown and twisted shoots, leaves, needles; shoot dieback; some cases, death trees ornamental plants adjacent treated areas. Our research objective was determine if a sensitive plant could be injured from wood chips (mulch) obtained aminocyclopyrachlor-damaged trees, quantify movement contaminated into soil its subsequent uptake by roots landscape tissues. Tomatoes were grown under greenhouse conditions mulched with chipped tree...
Seed coat colour is an important nutritional quality trait. Variations in anthocyanins and flavonoids induce the diversity of seed adzuki bean ( Vigna angularis L.). Red black are cultivars. Insights into differences flavonoid metabolic pathways between red significant. In this study, we explored that difference (Jingnong6) (AG118) caused by accumulation anthocyanins. The RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) real-time reverse transcription (qRT)-PCR results showed L. color VaSDC1 ) gene, R2R3-MYB...
Abstract Hexane has been used for decades to extract oil from cottonseed and is still the solvent of choice edible‐oil industry. Due increased regulations as a result 1990 Clean Air Act potential health risks, extraction industry urgently needs an alternate hydrocarbon replace hexane. Based on laboratory‐scale tests, two solvents, heptane isohexane, were recommended replacements A processing mill with 270 MT/day (300 tons/day) capacity agreed test both solvents their expander‐solvent...
The critical moisture content of cottonseed flakes extracted with an aqueous alcohol solvent can be defined as that flake level at which the lose no during extraction. This study shows for ethanol (92%, w/w) is 3%. For isopropanol (88%, this value 6%. If contents are above these levels, then solvents pick up moisture. below level, adsorb and actually dry alcohol. It proposed latter capability used a basis method to control water accumulation in extractions.
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of free gossypol from glanded-cottonseed meal (G-CSM) (natural gossypol) or gossypol-acetic acid on growth performance, body composition, haematology, immune response and resistance channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Edwardsiella ictaluri challenge. Soya bean meal-based diets supplemented with 0, 100, 200, 400, 800 mg kg−1 G-CSM were fed juvenile in triplicate aquaria apparent satiation twice daily for 12 weeks. Neither sources nor levels...
Abstract Chinese melon ( Momordica charantia L.), also known as bitter gourd, is a tropical crop, grown throughout Asian countries for use food and medicinals. In 1993, four cultivars of were in Mississippi the seeds collected. Oil contents ranged from 41 to 45% oils contained 63–68% eleostearic acid 22–27% stearic acid. Industrially important tung oil, “fast‐drying oil” used paints varnishes, contains 90% 2–3% The ratio seed oil ten times greater than that oil. higher should reduce rate...