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Qian** Li
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Plant Sciences
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Open AccessGenetic Dissection of Major Rice QTLs for Strong Culms and Fine Map** of qWS5 for Breeding Application in Transplanted System
Rice is one of the major staples that feeds about one half of the global populations, and it is important to identify the genetic loci for the traits related to yield improvement. Lodging will cause severe yie...
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Open AccessGenome-wide identification and analysis of monocot-specific chimeric jacalins (MCJ) genes in Maize (Zea mays L.)
The monocot chimeric jacalins (MCJ) proteins, which contain a jacalin-related lectin (JRL) domain and a dirigent domain (DIR), are specific to Poaceae. MCJ gene family is reported to play an important role in ...
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Plastome structure, phylogeny and evolution of plastid genes in Reevesia (Helicteroideae, Malvaceae)
Reevesia is an eastern Asian-eastern North American disjunction genus in the family Malvaceae s.l. and comprises approximately 25 species. The relationships within the genus are not well understood. Here, 15 plas...
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Optimizing Nitrogen Fertilization Managements Under Mechanical Deep Placement for Raising Rice Grain Yield
It is not known whether both reducing tiller-fertilizer and increasing panicle-fertilizer can significantly increase grain yield under mechanical deep placement. The two-year field experiment was conducted to ...
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Identification of a QTL for Setaria italica bristle length using QTL-seq
Long bristles facilitate seed dispersal and protect seeds from herbivores. Early domesticated Setaria italica cultivars had long bristles, but most of the modern cultivars have short bristles. Little is known abo...
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Interactive Effects of Drip Irrigation and Nitrogen Fertilization on Wheat and Maize Yield: A Meta-analysis
Population growth and climate change are pushing the need for sustainable food production and reduced water usage in agriculture due to limited water resources. Irrigation and fertilization have been proposed ...
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The organic manure-improved yield and quality in strawberries is attributed to metabolic reprogramming to increase amino acids, sugar/acid ratio, flavonoids and phenolic volatiles
Application of organic manure improves strawberry yield, but the underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms remain largely unclear.
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Establishment of tissue culture regeneration system of Ficus tikoua
Ficus tikoua Bureau is an ecologically functional perennial vine that belongs to the Moraceae family. Tissue culture is a common method for the rapid propagation of plants and is suitable for the rapid propagatio...
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Phosphorus mining activities alter endophytic bacterial communities and metabolic functions of surrounding vegetables and crops
[Aims] The goal was to evaluate the effect of phosphorus mining on the endophytic bacterial community of surrounding crops and vegetables and screen beneficial bacteria. [Methods] 16S rRNA sequencing was used ...
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Mechanistic insights into DNA damage recognition and checkpoint control in plants
The plant DNA damage response (DDR) pathway safeguards genomic integrity by rapid recognition and repair of DNA lesions that, if unrepaired, may cause genome instability. Most frequently, DNA repair goes hand ...
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Long-term Fertilizer Application Induces Changes in Carbon Storage and Distribution, and the Consequent Color of Black soil
This study investigated the impact of different fertilizer treatments on soil color and humic substances (HSs) in a maize crop** system over a 33-year long-term field trial on black soil. Five treatments wer...
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Crop-Soil-Environment Benefits of Equivalent Carbon Input from Organic Amendments in Rice Production Ecosystems
Sustainable production of rice is essential in supplying staple food worldwide and mitigating climate change. However, the comprehensive evaluation of different organic amendment applications in single-season ...
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High-efficiency Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Lotus corniculatus using DsRed2 positive selection and vermiculite-based rooting method
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation is widely used for the genetic transformation of Lotus corniculatus. In this study, we optimized the genetic transformation system of L. corniculatus to improve t...
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Open AccessYGL3 Encoding an IPP and DMAPP Synthase Interacts with OsPIL11 to Regulate Chloroplast Development in Rice
As the source of isoprenoid precursors, the plastidial methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway plays an essential role in plant development. Here, we report a novel rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant ygl3 (yellow-gre...
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Rice PIFs: Critical regulators in rice development and stress response
Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs) belong to a subfamily of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors, which serve as a “hub” for development and growth of plants. They have the cap...
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Climatic controls on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of temperate grasslands in northern China
The natural abundances of stable carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) are extensively used to indicate the C and N biogeochemical cycles at large spatial scales. However, the spatial patterns of δ
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The Arabidopsis thaliana integrin-like gene AT14A improves drought tolerance in Solanum lycopersicum
Using effective genes to improve crop stress tolerance through genetic engineering is an important way to stabilize crop yield and quality across complex climatic environments. Integrin-like AT14A, as a contin...
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Open AccessOverexpression of the Persimmon Abscisic Acid DkUGT3 Gene Alters Plant/Fruit Development in Transgenic Tomato
Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) contains numerous uridine diphosphate glucosyltransferases (UGT), and their roles in fruit development and quality formation have not been well studied because of limited genetic...
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The fertilization process in Lithocarpus dealbatus (Fagaceae) and its implication on the sexual reproduction evolution of Fagales
The pistillate flowers of Lithocarpus dealbatus show two pollen tube (PT) arresting sites (the style-joining and micropyle) within the pistil during the postpollination-prezygotic stage. The PT, arrested at the p...
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Application of AtMYB75 as a reporter gene in the study of symbiosis between tomato and Funneliformis mosseae
Composite plants containing transgenic hairy roots produced with Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation have become an important method to study the interaction between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal...
