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Diversity and Succession of the Microbiota in Sauce-Aroma Baijiu
As one of the most representative traditional fermented foods in China, sauce-aroma baijiu is produced through four steps: daqu making, heap fermentation, pit fermentation, and distillation [1]. As shown in Fig. ...
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Adaptive seeding for profit maximization in social networks
Social networks are becoming important dissemination platforms, and a large body of works have been performed on viral marketing, but most are to maximize the benefits associated with the number of active node...
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Open AccessGenome-wide characterization, expression analyses, and functional prediction of the NPF family in Brassica napus
NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER (NRT1/PTR) family (NPF) members are essential transporters for many substrates in plants, including nitrate, hormones, peptides, and secondary metabolites. Here, we re...
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification and comparative analysis of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) gene family and their expression profiling in Brassica napus under abiotic stress
Diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs) are signaling enzymes that play pivotal roles in response to abiotic and biotic stresses by phosphorylating diacylglycerol (DAG) to form phosphatidic acid (PA). However, no compre...
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Open AccessGenome-wide survey of the bHLH super gene family in Brassica napus
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Long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase (LACS) is one of the key enzymes involved in fatty acid metabolism, including phospholipid biosynthesis, triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis, and fatty acid β-oxidation in plants....
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Open AccessMultiple cerebral metastases and metastatic aneurysms in patients with left atrial Myxoma: a case report
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Open AccessGenome-wide survey and expression analyses of the GRAS gene family in Brassica napus reveals their roles in root development and stress response
Genome-wide identification, classification, expression analyses, and functional characterization of GRAS genes in oil crop, Brassica napus, indicate their importance in root development and stress response.
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Open AccessIdentification of candidate genes controlling oil content by combination of genome-wide association and transcriptome analysis in the oilseed crop Brassica napus
Increasing seed oil content is one of the most important targets for rapeseed (Brassica napus) breeding. However, genetic mechanisms of mature seed oil content in Brassica napus (B. napus) remain little known. To...
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Open AccessWhole-genome resequencing reveals Brassica napus origin and genetic loci involved in its improvement
Brassica napus (2n = 4x = 38, AACC) is an important allopolyploid crop derived from interspecific crosses between Brassica rapa (2n = 2x = 20, AA) and Brassica oleracea (2n = 2x = 18, CC). However, no truly wild
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Transcriptomic comparison between Brassica oleracea and rice (Oryza sativa) reveals diverse modulations on cell death in response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
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Open AccessTranscriptomic comparison between Brassica oleracea and rice (Oryza sativa) reveals diverse modulations on cell death in response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sclerotinia stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a devastating disease of Brassica crops, but not in rice. The leaves of a rice line, a partial resistant (R) and a susceptible (S) Brassica oleracea pool...
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Open AccessThe Evolutionary History of R2R3-MYB Proteins Across 50 Eukaryotes: New Insights Into Subfamily Classification and Expansion
R2R3-MYB proteins (2R-MYBs) are one of the main transcription factor families in higher plants. Since the evolutionary history of this gene family across the eukaryotic kingdom remains unknown, we performed a ...
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Reproductive factors in relation to risk of brain tumors in women: an updated meta-analysis of 27 independent studies
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An approximation algorithm for k-center problem on a convex polygon
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