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Deep-injected straw incorporation enhances subsoil quality and wheat productivity
Straw incorporation is an important management practice in global agriculture. However, present straw returning usually focus on returning straw into the topsoil, while neglecting the amendment of subsoil. The...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Removal of the C4-domain preserves the drought tolerance enhanced by CsMYB4a and eliminates the negative impact of this transcription factor on plant growth
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Open AccessRemoval of the C4-domain preserves the drought tolerance enhanced by CsMYB4a and eliminates the negative impact of this transcription factor on plant growth
The MYB4 transcription factor family regulates plant traits. However, their overexpression often results in undesirable side effects like growth reduction. We have reported a green tea (Camellia sinensis) MYB4 tr...
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Open AccessMulti-modal molecular determinants of clinically relevant osteoporosis subtypes
Due to a rapidly aging global population, osteoporosis and the associated risk of bone fractures have become a wide-spread public health problem. However, osteoporosis is very heterogeneous, and the existing s...
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Open AccessBiogeographic patterns of meio- and micro-eukaryotic communities in dam-induced river-reservoir systems
Although the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, little is known about the spatial–temporal patterns and community assembly mechanisms of meio- and micro-eukaryotes and its two sub...
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Open AccessIncreased serum extrachromosomal circular DNA SORBS1circle level is associated with insulin resistance in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus
Extrachromosomal circular DNAs (eccDNAs) exist in human blood and somatic cells, and are essential for oncogene plasticity and drug resistance. However, the presence and impact of eccDNAs in type 2 diabetes me...
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Open AccessTwo somatic mutations in the androgen receptor N-terminal domain are oncogenic drivers in hepatocellular carcinoma
The androgen receptor (AR) plays an important role in male-dominant hepatocellular carcinoma, and specific acquired somatic mutations of AR have been observed in HCC patients. Our previous research have establish...
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A recombinase polymerase amplification–SYBR Green I assay for the rapid and visual detection of Brucella
Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by Brucella, which poses a great threat to human health and animal husbandry. Pathogen surveillance is an important measure to prevent brucellosis, but the traditional method is t...
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Effects of phosphorus supply and salt stress on plant growth, organic acid concentration, and sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus utilization in wheat
Nutrient utilization efficiency in wheat could be affected by fertilizer supply and soil properties such as salinity. A greenhouse pot study involving two wheat genotypes (Shavano and AK58), two phosphorus (P)...
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Open AccessDlMYB113 mutation affects anthocyanin accumulation in red pericarp longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.)
Fruit color influences fruit quality and commodity value. Most longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) varieties have a yellowish-brown or grayish-yellow pericarp, and the discovery of red pericarp (RP) longan expanded ...
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Open AccessThe global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our understanding of the fa...
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Open AccessEssential oil extracted from Quzhou Aurantii Fructus prevents acute liver failure through inhibiting lipopolysaccharide-mediated inflammatory response
Quzhou Aurantii Fructus (QAF) has a long history as a folk medicine and food for the treatment of liver diseases. While our earlier study provided evidence of hepatoprotective properties contained within the f...
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Which molecular marker is better? Comparative analyses of COI and ITS2 in molecular identification of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
The accurate identification of pests and their natural enemies is critically important in pest management. Without requiring specialized taxonomic expertise, molecular identification has been widely used in th...
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A comprehensive analysis of the Bencao (herbal) small RNA Atlas reveals novel RNA therapeutics for treating human diseases
Cross-kingdom herbal miRNA was first reported in 2012. Using a modified herbal extraction protocol, we obtained 73,677,287 sequences by RNA-seq from 245 traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), of which 20,758,257 ...
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Open AccessStem cell-derived intestinal organoids: a novel modality for IBD
The organoids represent one of the greatest revolutions in the biomedical field in the past decade. This three-dimensional (3D) micro-organ cultured in vitro has a structure highly similar to that of the tissu...
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Effect of gradual increase and decrease in temperature on innate, cellular and humoral immunity in striped hamsters
Environmental temperature can affect immune responses in animals. In order to understand the effect of gradual increase or decrease of temperature on immune function, adult female striped hamsters (Cricetulus bar...
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Open AccessIGF2BP3 promotes adult myocardial regeneration by stabilizing MMP3 mRNA through interaction with m6A modification
Myocardial infarction that causes damage to heart muscle can lead to heart failure. The identification of molecular mechanisms promoting myocardial regeneration represents a promising strategy to improve cardi...
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Cloning, expression, and characterization of two pectate lyases isolated from the sheep rumen microbiome
Pectate lyases (Pels) have a vital function in degradation of the primary plant cell wall and the middle lamella and have been widely used in the industry. In this study, two pectate lyase genes, IDSPel16 and IDS...
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A natural allele of proteasome maturation factor improves rice resistance to multiple pathogens
Crops with broad-spectrum resistance loci are highly desirable in agricultural production because these loci often confer resistance to most races of a pathogen or multiple pathogen species. Here we discover a...
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The interaction of MC3R and MC4R with MRAP2a in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Melanocortin 3 and 4 receptors are two important neural G protein-coupled receptors that regulate energy homeostasis in vertebrates. Melanocortin receptor accessory protein 2 (MRAP2) is also involved in the re...
