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Plant Sciences
**an-Hui Zhong
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Countering beta-cypermethrin: partitioning roles of the insect gut and its bacteria
Insects and their gut bacteria can degrade insecticides separately, which is helpful for insecticide resistance development. However, there is little knowledge about insect and gut bacteria cooperation or thei...
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Open AccessCytochemical and comparative transcriptome analyses elucidate the formation and ecological adaptation of three types of pollen coat in Zingiberaceae
The pollen ornate surface of flowering plants has long fascinated and puzzled evolutionary biologists for their variety. Each pollen grain is contained within a pollen wall consisting of intine and exine, over...
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Transcriptomic analyses reveal the effect of nitric oxide on the lateral root development and growth of mangrove plant Kandelia obovata
Kandelia obovata, a dominant mangrove species in China, produces complex buttress roots and prop roots in intertidal wetlands where high quantities of nitric oxide (NO) are produced by reducing sediments. NO, a ...
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Open AccessOne-step generation of composite soybean plants with transgenic roots by Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation
Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated (ARM) transformation is a highly efficient technique for generating composite plants composed of transgenic roots and wild-type shoot, providing a powerful tool for studying root...
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MdHIR4 transcription and translation levels associated with disease in apple are regulated by MdWRKY31
Here we describe that the regulation of MdWRKY31 on MdHIR4 in transcription and translation levels associated with disease in apple.
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Favus of Scrotum Due to Trichophyton rubrum in Immunocompetent Patients: A Clinical, Mycological and Ultrastructural Study
To characterize the clinical and mycological features of favus of scrotum due to Trichophyton rubrum.
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Cotton plants export microRNAs to inhibit virulence gene expression in a fungal pathogen
Plant pathogenic fungi represent the largest group of disease-causing agents on crop plants, and are a constant and major threat to agriculture worldwide. Recent studies have shown that engineered production o...
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Erratum to: First molecular detection of porcine circovirus type 2 in bovids in China
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Lampropedia puyangensis sp. nov., isolated from symptomatic bark of Populus × euramericana canker and emended description of Lampropedia hyalina (Ehrenberg 1832) Lee et al. 2004
A Gram-stain negative, Neisser-stain negative, aerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming, slimy, glossy bacterial strain with single or clustered coccoid cells and white colony colour, designated as 2-binT, was iso...
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First molecular detection of porcine circovirus type 2 in bovids in China
For the worldwide pig industries, porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is an economically important pathogen. At present, the prevalence of PCV2 is common in Chinese swine herds. However, there is little informati...
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Nymphal performance correlated with adult preference for flowering host plants in a polyphagous mirid bug, Apolygus lucorum (Heteroptera: Miridae)
Apolygus lucorum (Heteroptera: Miridae), a polyphagous mirid bug, often shows a strong preference for flowering host plants. It is hypothesized that host plant selection by phytophagous insects r...
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The roles of ascorbic acid and glutathione in symptom alleviation to SA-deficient plants infected with RNA viruses
Salicylic acid (SA) is required for plant systemic acquired resistance (SAR) to viruses. However, SA-deficient plants adapt to RNA virus infections better, which show a lighter symptom and have less reactive o...
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Addition of HPMA affects seed germination, plant growth and properties of heavy saline-alkali soil in northeastern China: comparison with other agents and determination of the mechanism
China has a large area of inland saline-alkali land, equivalent to 40% of the total cultivated land in the country. The principal features of these lands are high salt content, high pH, and poor soil structure...
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A broad-spectrum, efficient and nontransgenic approach to control plant viruses by application of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid
Plant viruses cause many diseases that lead to significant economic losses. However, most of the approaches to control plant viruses, including transgenic processes or drugs are plant-species-limited or virus-...
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Comparative performance of species-richness estimators using data from a subtropical forest tree community
We used survey data collected from a large plot (20 ha) of sub-tropical forest in the Dinghushan Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province, southern China, in 2005 to test the comparative performance of nine species-...
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Molecular mutations associated with the in vitro passage of virulent porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Mutants of a highly pathogenic, porcine reproductive, and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), JXA1 strain, were prepared by continuous in vitro passage. Genomic sequence comparisons were made between mutants o...
