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**an Qi
Life Sciences
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Epigenetic Regulations During Plant-Microbe Interactions
Epigenetic modification is a mechanism of gene expression resulting from changes in chromatin structure and functions without alteration of the DNA sequence. In eukaryotes (animals, plants, and fungi), DNA is ...
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Understanding the Role of Caveolae in Oxygen Buffering: The Effect of Membrane Curvature
The “oxygen paradox” can be explained as two opposing biological processes with oxygen (O2) as a reactant. On the one hand, oxygen is essential to aerobic metabolism, powering oxidative phosphorylation in mitocho...
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Involvement of Phytohormones in Flooding Stress Tolerance in Plants
As global warming and climate change is occurring all over the world, waterlogging/flooding has become a serious stress for plant growth. The metabolic changes and morphological changes such as aerenchyma form...
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Molecular Events and Defence Mechanism Against Biotic Stress Induced by Bio-Priming of Beneficial Microbes
The monotonous and regular use of chemical pesticides or fertilisers not only adversely affects the nutrient and food quality but also affects the health of human beings and surrounding environment. Hence nowa...
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Functional Trait Variation on Community Organization Scale and Systematic Classification Level of Tropical Cloud Forests on Hainan Island, China
Plants’ performances are to some degrees dependent on functional traits. Analysis on trait variation that occurs at different levels (or scales) could be an indispensable step towards understanding community a...
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Germplasm Resources in Jute
Jute is one of the most important bast fiber crops in the world. There are more than 100 species in jute (Corchorus spp.), but only white jute (C. capsularis) and dark jute (C. olitorius) are cultivated as diploi...
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TDCOSR: A Multimodality Fusion Framework for Association Analysis Between Genes and ROIs of Alzheimer’s Disease
The complementary multimodality data fusion analysis provides a new perspective for revealing associations between genes and brain regions of interests (ROIs) of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this paper, we pro...
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DUS Test and DNA Fingerprinting Construction of Jute Varieties
In order to promote the application of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) test guidelines for jute and to promote the testing and identification of new jute varieties in this chapter, the details of ...
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Bacillus as a Versatile Tool for Crop Improvement and Agro-Industry
Agriculture and the agro-industry form the backbone of any economy, whether traditional or modern sector. Though it contributes less in terms of GDP percentage but employs a significantly large amount of human...
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Enhancing Photosynthetic Efficiency of Crop Through Metabolic Engineering
Several current findings have shown that enhancing the photosynthetic process through genetic engineering could provide a technique to boost crop yield. Photosynthesis is the primary predictor of crop output a...
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Urban Soil Microbiome Functions and Their Linkages with Ecosystem Services
Urban soil microbiomes are key ecological components that provide relevant beneficial ecosystem services (ESs) to humans living in a city and its periphery. In this chapter, we highlight how microbes contribut...
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Sugar Beet Production Under Changing Climate: Opportunities and Challenges
Sugar has formed an essential part of human diets for a long time and is an important raw material for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. It is a common name for sucrose and can be extracted fro...
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BindTransNet: A Transferable Transformer-Based Architecture for Cross-Cell Type DNA-Protein Binding Sites Prediction
To comprehend DNA-protein binding specificity in diverse cell types is essential to reveal regulatory mechanisms in biological processes. Recently, deep learning has been successfully applied to predict DNA-pr...
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Marine Fungal Communities: Metabolic Engineering for Secondary Metabolites and Their Industrial Applications
Apart from playing a key role in the ecosystems, fungi are also beneficial for industrial and other uses such as pigment, drug production, food industry, and bioremediation. Rhizosphere fungi are a critical co...
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Fenugreek Cultivation in the Middle East and Other Parts of the World with Emphasis on Historical Aspects and Its Uses in Traditional Medicine and Modern Pharmaceutical Science
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) belongs to the botanical family Papilionaceae, and its native geographic range is the area extending from Iran to Northern India, but it is presently cultivated also in ot...
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Bioeconomic Model of Fishery Resources Under Ecological and Technological Interdependencies
In the last chapter, we introduced the bioeconomic allocation model and theory of single fishery species under the same fishing fleet. However, any kind of fish population can not survive in the water alone, a...
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Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Fishery Resources and an Early Warning System
Sustainable utilization of fishery resources is the essence and core issue of sustainable development of fishery. Without sustainable utilization of fishery resources, sustainable development of fishery can no...
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Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development of Fisheries
In recent decades, global environmental problems, such as eutrophication, global warming, ozone depletion, and ocean acidification, have attracted worldwide attention. A great deal of facts have proved that th...
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Aquaculture Production Systems
The global wild fishery cannot provide for the increasing demand for fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Aquaculture is the farming of these aquatic organisms that is increasing to meet this demand...
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Genetic Dissecting Complex Traits via Conventional QTL Analysis and Association Map**
Oil palm yield has been stagnated for decades due to long selection cycle; therefore, marker-assisted selection was initiated. Many quantitative trait loci (QTL) for complex traits were dissected using convent...
