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Elimination of Apple stem pitting virus from in vitro-cultured pear by an antiviral agent combined with thermotherapy
Six in vitro pear cultivars, Wonhwang, Xuehua, Conference, Stankimson, Starcrimson and Red Bastlett were infected by Apple stem pitting virus (ASPV) and were treated by combination of 25 μg/ml ribavirin and tempe...
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The incidence and molecular characteristics of Apple stem grooving virus from pear in China
Apple stem grooving virus (ASGV) occurs worldwide on apple (Malus pumila), pear (Pyrus pyrifolia), citrus (Citrus reticulata) and lily (Lilium brownii). Its incidence in pears trees from ...
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SPINK3: A novel growth factor that promotes rat liver regeneration
Serine peptidase inhibitor, Kazal type 3 (SPINK3) is a trypsin inhibitor, and also a growth factor that has an identical structure to epidermal growth factor (EGF), which could combine with epidermal growth fa...
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Adeno-associated virus-mediated gene transfer targeting normal and traumatized mouse utricle
Balance dysfunction is closely associated with loss of vestibular hair cells (HCs). Gene therapy shows promise when used to protect or regenerate vestibular HCs to preserve or restore adequate vestibular funct...
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Open AccessMicroRNA-497 targets insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor and has a tumour suppressive role in human colorectal cancer
Past studies have shown that amplified insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1)/IGF1 receptor (IGF1-R) signalling has an important role in colorectal cancer (CRC) development, progression and resistance to treatmen...
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Improved drought resistance in a wheat stay-green mutant tasg1 under field conditions
We investigated the drought resistance of a wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) stay-green mutant tasg1 and its wild-type (WT) in field experiments conducted for two years. Drought stress was imposed by controlling irri...
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Open AccessOptofluidic waveguide as a transformation optics device for lightwave bending and manipulation
Transformation optics represents a new paradigm for designing light-manipulating devices, such as cloaks and field concentrators, through the engineering of electromagnetic space using materials with spatially...
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Eight paths of ERK1/2 signalling pathway regulating hepatocyte proliferation in rat liver regeneration
Although it is known that hormones, growth factors and integrin promote hepatocyte proliferation in liver regeneration (LR) through ERK1/2 signalling pathway, reports about regulating processes of its intracel...
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Broadband slow-light in graded-grating-loaded plasmonic waveguides at telecom frequencies
We explore develo** graded-grating-loaded plasmonic waveguide for “trapped rainbow” at telecom frequencies by modulating feature sizes of gratings to extend its operational frequencies to the infrared domain...
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Exogenously-supplied trehalose protects thylakoid membranes of winter wheat from heat-induced damage
The effects of trehalose pretreatment on thylakoid membranes of winter wheat were investigated under heat stress. Under normal growth conditions, the winter wheat synthesized 502 μg g−1(f.m.) trehalose, which inc...
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Erratum to: Overaccumulation of glycine betaine enhances tolerance to drought and heat stress in wheat leaves in the protection of photosynthesis
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The protection of wheat plasma membrane under cold stress by glycine betaine overproduction
We aimed to study the protection of wheat plasma membrane (PM) under cold stress (0–2 °C) by the overaccumulation of glycine betaine (GB). For this, we used wild-type winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Shi 4...
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Overaccumulation of glycine betaine enhances tolerance of the photosynthetic apparatus to drought and heat stress in wheat
To investigate the role of glycine betaine in photosynthesis under stress, a transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) line T6 overaccumulating glycine betaine and its wild type Shi4185 were used. Seedlings were ex...
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Overaccumulation of glycine betaine enhances tolerance to drought and heat stress in wheat leaves in the protection of photosynthesis
We investigated the different responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants to drought- (DS) and heat stress (HS), and analyzed the physiological mechanisms of glycine betaine (GB) involved in the improvement ...
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Cadmium and Other Metal Uptake by Lobelia chinensis and Solanum nigrum from Contaminated Soils
Cadmium concentrations in two plant species and their corresponding soils were evaluated in a metal contaminated area. The average Cd concentrations reached 36.9 and 141 mg kg−1 in Solanum nigrum leaves and Lobel...
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Overaccumulation of glycine betaine alleviates the negative effects of salt stress in wheat
To investigate the physiological mechanisms of glycinebetaine (GB) involved in the improvement of salt tolerance of wheat, three transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lines-T1, T4, and T6-and the wild-type (WT)...
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High resolution genetic and physical map** of the I-3 region of tomato chromosome 7 reveals almost continuous microsynteny with grape chromosome 12 but interspersed microsynteny with duplications on Arabidopsis chromosomes 1, 2 and 3
The tomato I-3 gene introgressed from the Lycopersicon pennellii accession LA716 confers resistance to race 3 of the fusarium wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. We have improved the high-resolut...
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V-shaped metal–dielectric multilayers for far-field subdiffraction imaging
We propose a kind of v-shaped planar silver and dielectric multilayers for far-field subdiffraction imaging. Finite difference time domain simulations reveal that two linear sources with a separation far below...
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Nanofocusing of light energy by ridged metal heterostructures
With regard to thin Ag and Al films of the same thickness, the phase velocity of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on the Ag surface is smaller than that on the Al surface. We have designed a ridged metal hete...
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Ultra-high resolution trap-loss spectroscopy of ultracold 133Cs atom long-range states in a magnetooptical trap
We present an ultra-high resolution spectroscopic study of the photoassociation of cesium atoms inside a magnetooptical trap using trap-loss detection with photoassociation laser slow scanning. The photoassoci...
