A5101591445- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Light effects on plants
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
Gansu Agricultural University
2021-2025
South China University of Technology
2015-2024
Hebei Agricultural University
2024
Qiqihar Medical University
2018-2022
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
2019-2021
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
2020
Corteva (United States)
2018-2019
Syngenta (United States)
2019
Pioneer Hi-Bred
2007-2015
Beijing Botanical Garden
2015
The mobile floral-promoting signal, florigen, is thought to consist of, in part, the FT protein named after Arabidopsis thaliana gene FLOWERING LOCUS T. transcribed and translated leaves its moves via phloem shoot apical meristem where it promotes transition from vegetative reproductive development. In our search for a maize FT-like floral activator(s), seven Zea mays CENTRORADIALIS (ZCN) genes encoding homologous proteins were studied. ZCN8 stood out as only ZCN having requisite...
Alternative splicing plays a crucial role in plant development as well stress responses. Although alternative has been studied during and response to stress, the interplay between these two factors remains an open question. To assess effects of drought on developmentally regulated maize (Zea mays), 94 RNA-seq libraries from ear, tassel, leaf B73 public inbred line were constructed at four developmental stages under both well-watered conditions. This analysis was supplemented with publicly...
Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth, development and production. However, little known about the effects of P deficiency on nutrient absorption, photosynthetic apparatus performance antioxidant metabolism in citrus. Seedlings ‘sour pummelo’ ( Citrus grandis ) were irrigated with a solution containing 0.2 mM (Control) or 0 (P deficiency) KH 2 PO 4 until saturated every other day 16 weeks. significantly decreased dry weight (DW) leaves stems, increased root/shoot...
Abstract The phosphatidylethanolamine-binding proteins (PEBPs) represent an ancient protein family found across the biosphere. In animals they are known to act as kinase and serine protease inhibitors controlling cell growth differentiation. plants most extensively studied PEBP genes, Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1) function, respectively, a promoter repressor of floral transition. Twenty-five maize (Zea mays) genes that encode PEBP-like...
Increasing maize grain yield has been a major focus of both plant breeding and genetic engineering to meet the global demand for food, feed, industrial uses. We report that increasing extending expression MADS-box transcription factor gene, zmm28, under control moderate-constitutive promoter, results in plants with increased growth, photosynthesis capacity, nitrogen utilization. Molecular biochemical characterization zmm28 transgenic demonstrated their enhanced agronomic traits are...
Abstract Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been regarded as critical regulators of human diseases and biological markers in some types malignancies, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Recently, circ_0007534 has identified a novel cancer‐related circRNA. Nevertheless, its clinical relevance, functional roles, mechanism not studied PDAC. In the current study, real‐time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT‐qPCR) was used to detect expression 60‐paired PDAC tissue samples...
Abstract TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1)-like genes are highly conserved in plants and thought to function the maintenance of meristem indeterminacy. Recently, we described six maize (Zea mays) TFL1-related genes, named ZEA CENTRORADIALIS1 (ZCN1) ZCN6. To gain insight into their functions, generated transgenic overexpressing respective cDNAs driven by a constitutive promoter. Overall, ectopic expression TFL1-like produced similar phenotypes, including delayed flowering altered inflorescence...
The switch from vegetative to reproductive growth is marked by the termination of development and adoption floral identity shoot apical meristem (SAM). This process called transition. To elucidate molecular determinants involved in this process, we performed genome-wide RNA expression profiling on maize (Zea mays) apices at early stages using massively parallel signature sequencing technology. Profiling revealed significant up-regulation two MADS-box (ZMM) genes, ZMM4 ZMM15, after ZMM15 map...
Using high-throughput sequencing, this study aimed to explore the response of soil microbial community and Chinese baby cabbage yield reduction chemical fertilizers combined with bio-organic fertilizer. Our experiments consisted conventional fertilizer (CK), 30% + 6,000 kg/ha (T1), 9,000 (T2), 40% (T3), (T4). Compared CK, diversity richness were higher for all treatments added Principle coordinate analysis (PCoA) showed that bacterial fungal communities in T2 T4 similar each other....
Water deficit (WD) irrigation techniques to improve water use efficiency have been rapidly developed. However, the effect of WD on tomato quality has not sufficiently studied. Here, we investigated effects varying levels [T1-T4: 80%, 65%, 55%, and 45% maximum field moisture capacity (FMC)] full (CK: 90% FMC) fruits from mature-green red-ripening stages, compare nutritional flavour qualities resulting tomatoes. The proline, aspartic, malic, citric, ascorbic acid contents increased,...
Background Plant diurnal rhythms are vital environmental adaptations to coordinate internal physiological responses alternating day-night cycles. A comprehensive view of biology has been lacking for maize (Zea mays), a major world crop. Methodology photosynthetic tissue, the leaf, and non-photosynthetic developing ear, were sampled under natural field conditions. Genome-wide transcript profiling was conducted on high-density 105 K Agilent microarray investigate rhythms. Conclusions In both...
Drought is a common abiotic stress which significantly limits global crop productivity. Maize an important staple and its yield determined by successful development of the female inflorescence, ear. We investigated drought responses across several developmental stages maize B73 inbred line under field conditions. suppressed plant growth, but had little impact on progression through stages. While ear growth was drought, process spikelet initiation not affected. Tassel reduced to lesser extent...
Tomatoes have high nutritional value and abundant bioactive compounds. Moderate water deficit irrigation alters metabolic levels of fruits, improving composition quality. We investigated the effects (T1, T2, T3, T4) treatments adequate (CK) on tomato polyphenol composition, antioxidant capacity, Compared with CK, total flavonoid content increased by 33.66% 44.73% in T1 phenols 57.64%, 72.22%, 55.78% T1, respectively. The T2 treatment significantly enhanced antioxidant’ capacities (ABTS,...
Pancreatic cancer is a common malignant tumor with high incidence of metastasis. Currently, there no absolute standard for the choice b-value diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) pancreatic cancer. The rarely reported in animal model study, especially cancer/mass pancreatitis rabbit models. authors' aim was to determine different b-values differentiate diagnosis and mass models using DWI. When comparing effect diagnostic process, pathological results could be regarded as gold standard. In this...
Maize originated as a tropical plant that required short days to transition from vegetative reproductive development. ZmCCT10 [CO, CONSTANS, CO-LIKE and TIMING OF CAB1 (CCT) transcription factor family] is regulator of photoperiod response was identified major QTL controlling sensitivity in maize. We modulated expression transgenic maize using two constitutive promoters with different levels. Transgenic plants over expressing either promoter were delayed their development but not affected...
Supplementary light exposure using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) promotes the growth of tomato plants in greenhouses. Owing to biological clock plants, determining period during which they must be exposed supplementary is essential enhance growth. In this study, we used red and blue LEDs (red:blue = 7:2) as source, determine effects different supplemental periods on photosynthetic characteristics seedlings. Light supplementation morning evening promoted varying degrees, including accumulation...
The transition from vegetative to reproductive development is a critical turning point in plant’s life cycle. It now widely accepted that leaf-borne signal, florigen, moves via the phloem leaves shoot apical meristem trigger its reprogramming produce flowers. In part, florigenic signal comprises protein belongs phosphatidylethanolamine-binding (PEBP) family present all living organisms but displays diverse functions. founding floral-promoting PEBP gene Arabidopsis FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)...
A biosynthetic precursor of tetrapyrrol, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), is widely used in agricultural production, as an exogenous regulatory substance that effectively regulates plant growth. Previous studies have shown heme and chlorophyll accumulate plants under salt stress, when treated with ALA. In this study, we explored the role plants, by spraying 25 mg L-1 ALA onto leaves cucumber seedlings synthesis inhibitor (2,2'-dipyridyl, DPD) scavenger (hemopexin, Hx), 50 mmol NaCl stress. The...
Optimal plant growth in many species is achieved when the two major forms of N are supplied at a particular ratio. This study investigated optimal nitrogen and ratios for tomato using 'Jingfan 502' variety. Thirteen treatments were applied with varying proportions nitrate (NN), ammonium (AN), urea (UN). Results revealed that combination AN UN inhibited photosynthetic capacity. Conversely, joint application NN or led to significant enhancement growth. Notably, T12 (75%UN:25%NN) T4...
Sub-optimal light environments in controlled agricultural settings often limit the productivity of plants. While LED supplementary lighting has been widely adopted to mitigate deficiencies, spatial arrangement sources remains a critical but under-explored factor affecting plant physiological responses. In this study, we used affiliation function method comprehensively analyze effects four configurations—top-down (T1), mid-canopy upward (T2), downward (T3), and bottom-up (T4)—on growth...