A5102826222- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Insects and Parasite Interactions
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
Pennsylvania State University
2023-2024
National Taiwan University
2009-2022
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2014-2018
Cornell University
2013
Cytosine methylation at CG sites ((m)CG) plays critical roles in development, epigenetic inheritance, and genome stability mammals plants. In the dicot model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, methyltransferase 1 (MET1), a principal methylase, functions to maintain (m)CG during DNA replication, with its null mutation resulting global hypomethylation pleiotropic developmental defects. Null of methylase has not been characterized whole-genome level other higher eukaryotes, leaving generality findings...
The environmental residue/sublethal doses of neonicotinoid insecticides are believed to generate a negative impact on pollinators, including honey bees. Here we report our recent investigation how imidacloprid, one the major neonicotinoids, affects worker bees by profiling transcriptomes various ages exposed different imidacloprid during larval stage. results show that treatments stage severely altered gene expression profiles and may induce precocious foraging. Differential foraging...
Impairment in the learning/memory behavior of bees is responsible for massive disappearance bee populations and its consequent agricultural economic losses. Such impairment might be because o both pesticide exposure pathogen infection, with a key contributor deformed wing virus (DWV). The present study found that sodium butyrate (NaB) significantly increased survival reversed DWV-infected bees. A next-generation sequencing analysis showed NaB affected expression genes involved glycolytic...
Abstract Fleshy fruit evolved independently multiple times during angiosperm history. Many climacteric fruits utilize the hormone ethylene to regulate ripening. The fruitENCODE project shows there are evolutionary origins of regulatory circuits that govern Eudicot with recent whole-genome duplications (WGDs) their ripening systems using duplicated floral identity genes, while others without WGD utilised carpel senescence genes. monocot banana uses both leaf and floral-identity forming two...
Abstract A colony of axenic ‘sweet potato’ whiteflies (i.e., free from culturable microorganisms) was established on tissue-cultured plants and used to demonstrate in vitro begomovirus transmission. co-culture system based non-viral host cabbage ( Brassica oleracea ) provides for efficient maintenance a whitefly Bemisia tabaci colony. The recovery emerging through coupled tissue culture vessels new allows robust subculturing facilitates the production hundreds adults per month 1.1 L vessel....
Fleshy fruit evolved independently multiple times during flowering plant (angiosperm) history yet many utilize the hormone ethylene to regulate ripening. The fruitENCODE project highlights three evolutionary origins of ripening regulatory circuits. Eudicots that experienced recent whole-genome duplications (WGDs) their systems using duplicated floral identity genes, while others without WGD utilised carpel senescence genes. monocot banana uses both floral-identity and leaf forming two...
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Abstract Whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci) and the diseases they transmit are active enemies of global crop yield therefore multidisciplinary studies involving plant-insect-virus interactions needed. Presented here is establishment a colony axenic (culturable microorganism free) whiteflies on tissue-cultured plants. Colony was achieved with surface sterilization whitefly eggs laid phototrophically The recovery transfer emerging through coupled tissue culture vessels to new plants allows robust...
<title>Abstract</title> Background Transgenic plants expressing proteins that target the eggs of ubiquitous plant pest <italic>Bemisia tabaci</italic> (whitefly) could be an effective insecticide strategy. Two approaches for protein delivery are assessed using mCherry reporter gene in transgenic tomato plants, while accommodating autofluorescence both plant, phloem-feeding whitefly and pedicle-attached eggs. Results Both strategies were segregated to homozygous genotype digital PCR. The...
Abstract Background Transgenic plants expressing proteins that target the eggs of ubiquitous plant pest Bemisia tabaci (whitefly) could be an effective insecticide strategy. Two approaches for protein delivery are assessed using mCherry reporter gene in transgenic tomato plants, while accommodating autofluorescence both plant, phloem-feeding whitefly and pedicle-attached eggs. Results Both strategies were segregated to homozygous genotype digital PCR. The first strategy uses a...
Thigmotaxis is required in small animals. In this study, we examined how the shelter angle affects development of German cockroaches, Blattella germanica. Groups and individual cockroaches showed a strong preference for shelters with an ≤40° after 15 min or 24 h shelter-selection trials. For that developed 90/180-degree shelters, survival fecundity were low, nymphal stage lasted longer. Post-molting transcriptomes second- sixth-instar nymphs analyzed at 12 2 days post-molting. Upregulation...