171 Result(s)
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Data-Driven Modeling for Crop Map** and Yield Estimation
In the context of climate change, crop map** and yield estimation are critical for improving crop management and ensuring food security. Data-driven methods have succeeded in crop map** and yield estimatio...
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Mechanistic Insights into Mulching and Plant Physiological Attributes Under Abiotic Stresses
Drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and heavy metals are the major environmental factors that limit sustainable crop production worldwide and consequently restrict crop yield. There is a dire need for env...
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Genome Editing Toward Wheat Improvement
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the important field cereal crops, providing human and animal nutrition and maintaining food security globally. Thereby, it is essential to improve wheat for its economic traits...
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A combined transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of chrysanthemum provides new insights into petal senescence
Numerous transcription factor genes and methylation-related genes were differentially expressed in senescent petals compared with control petals.
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Open AccessCombining QTL-seq and linkage map** to uncover the genetic basis of single vs. paired spikelets in the advanced populations of two-ranked maize×teosinte
Teosinte ear bears single spikelet, whereas maize ear bears paired spikelets, doubling the number of grains in each cupulate during maize domestication. In the past 20 years, genetic analysis of single vs. pai...
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Physiological Response to Short-Term Magnesium Deficiency in Banana Cultivars
This study aimed to evaluate the biochemical impact of magnesium (Mg) deficiency on banana cultivars. Seedlings of three banana cultivars, Baxi (Musa, AAA), Haigong (Musa, AA), and Guangfen no.1 (Musa, ABB), with...
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Fine map** and identification of the candidate gene BFS for fruit shape in wax gourd (Benincasa hispida)
Non-synonymous mutations in the BFS gene, which encodes the IQD protein, are responsible for the shape of wax gourd fruits.
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Open AccessNatural astaxanthin enhanced antioxidant capacity and improved semen quality through the MAPK/Nrf2 pathway in aging layer breeder roosters
Natural astaxanthin (ASTA) has strong antioxidant properties and has been widely used as a health product to improve human health. However, the effects of ASTA on the reproductive performance of aging roosters...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association study uncovers major genetic loci associated with seed flooding tolerance in soybean
Seed flooding stress is one of the threatening environmental stressors that adversely limits soybean at the germination stage across the globe. The knowledge on the genetic basis underlying seed-flooding toler...
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Combined gene family characterization and RNA-Seq to study the response of β-ketoacyl-CoA synthase to abiotic stress in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
β-ketoacyl-CoA synthase is a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of over-long-chain fattty acids; thus, it plays a crucial role in plant resistance to stress. Herein, 33 OsKCSs were classified into five subfamilies ba...
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Walnut blight investigation, spray materials screening, and bactericide application timing for walnut blight control in Northeast China
Walnut blight (WB), caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis,continues to be a serious disease of walnut in northern China, where weather conditions favor disease development. From 2013 to 201...
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Advances in application of genome editing in tomato and recent development of genome editing technology
Genome editing, a revolutionary technology in molecular biology and represented by the CRISPR/Cas9 system, has become widely used in plants for characterizing gene function and crop improvement. Tomato, servin...
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Genome-wide association map** for agronomic traits in an 8-way Upland cotton MAGIC population by SLAF-seq
One sub-MAGIC population was genotyped using SLAF-seq, and QTLs and candidate genes for agronomic traits were identified in Upland cotton.
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification of PTI1 family in Setaria italica and salinity-responsive functional analysis of SiPTI1–5
PTI1 (Pto-interacting 1) protein kinase belongs to the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (RLCK) group of receptor-like protein kinases (RLK), but lack extracellular and transmembrane domains. PTI1 was first ide...
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Open AccessCombining QTL-seq and linkage map** to fine map a candidate gene in qCTS6 for cold tolerance at the seedling stage in rice
Cold stress caused by low temperatures is an important factor restricting rice production. Identification of cold-tolerance genes that can stably express in cold environments is crucial for molecular rice bree...
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Biological activity-based modeling identifies antiviral leads against SARS-CoV-2
Computational approaches for drug discovery, such as quantitative structure–activity relationship, rely on structural similarities of small molecules to infer biological activity but are often limited to ident...
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification, characterization and expression analysis of BES1 gene family in tomato
As the key regulators in BR signaling, BES1 family genes regulate thousands of target genes involved in various development processes. So far, the functions of BES1 family are poorly understood in tomato, and a c...
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Open AccessDevelopment of genic KASP SNP markers from RNA-Seq data for map-based cloning and marker-assisted selection in maize
Maize is one of the most important field crops in the world. Most of the key agronomic traits, including yield traits and plant architecture traits, are quantitative. Fine map** of genes/ quantitative trait ...
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Mycorrhizal and rhizospheric fungal community assembly differs during subalpine forest restoration on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Mycorrhizosphere is the interface between roots and soil where a myriad of microorganisms mediate plant growth, nutrient acquisition and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, and result in driving ecosystem ...
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Screening and functional characterization of candidate resistance genes to powdery mildew from Dasypyrum villosum#4 in a wheat line Pm97033
Three genes designated DvLox, Pm21#4, and Pm21#4-H identified in a wheat–Dasypyrum villosum#4 T6V#4S·6DL translocation line Pm97033 conferred wheat for powdery mildew resistance.