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    Identification and characterization of circular RNAs involved in the fertility stability of cotton CMS-D2 restorer line under heat stress

    As a vital type of noncoding RNAs, circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in plant growth and development and stress response. However, little is known about the biological roles of circRNAs in regulati...

    Ruijie Wang, Meng Zhang, Hui Wang, Liangliang Chen, Xuexian Zhang in BMC Plant Biology (2024)

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    Structural Characteristics of Cooked Black Rice Influenced by Different Stabilization Treatments and Their Effect Mechanism on the In Vitro Digestibility

    Superheated steam (SS), far-infrared radiation (FIR), and microwave treatment (Mw) are emerging stabilization treatments to improve the shelf life of black rice. However, their effects on the digestibility of ...

    Yejun Zhong, Yaqi Zhang, **aozhen Liu, Chengmei Liu in Food and Bioprocess Technology (2023)

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    Progress and perspective on cotton breeding in Pakistan

    Cotton is the prime natural fiber with economic significance globally. Cotton farming and breeding have a long history in Pakistan. The development of high yielding upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) varieties gr...

    Kashif Shahzad, Iqra Mubeen, Meng Zhang, Xuexian Zhang in Journal of Cotton Research (2022)

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    Comparative performance of hybrid generations reveals the potential application of F2 hybrids in upland cotton

    The utilization of heterosis has greatly improved the productivity of cotton worldwide. However, a major constraint for the large-scale promotion of F1 hybrid cotton is artificial emasculation and pollination. Th...

    Liangliang CHEN, Huini TANG, Xuexian ZHANG, Tingxiang QI in Journal of Cotton Research (2022)

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    Comparative transcriptome analysis between inbred and hybrids reveals molecular insights into yield heterosis of upland cotton

    Utilization of heterosis has greatly improved the productivity of many crops worldwide. Understanding the potential molecular mechanism about how hybridization produces superior yield in upland cotton is criti...

    Kashif Shahzad, Xuexian Zhang, Li** Guo, Tingxiang Qi, Lisheng Bao in BMC Plant Biology (2020)

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    Genetic analysis of yield and fiber quality traits in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivated in different ecological regions of China

    Cotton is an important fiber crop worldwide. The yield potential of current genotypes of cotton can be exploited through hybridization. However, to develop superior hybrids with high yield and fiber quality tr...

    Kashif SHAHZAD, Xue LI, Tingxiang QI, Li** GUO, Huini TANG in Journal of Cotton Research (2019)

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    Power Ultrasound for Extraction and Modification of Polysaccharides from Medicinal Fungi

    Power ultrasound (US) (low-frequency range of 20–100 kHz) has been used to enhance or facilitate a wide range of chemical, food, and biological processes (in liquid media) such as extraction, dispersion, filtr...

    Jianyong Wu in Advances in Food Processing Technology (2019)

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    Correction to: Genome-wide analysis of Rf-PPR-like (RFL) genes and a new InDel marker development for Rf1 gene in cytoplasmic male sterile CMS-D2 Upland cotton

    In the original publication of this article (Zhang et al. 2018) the first name and surname of the eighth author are in reverse order. The correct name of the eighth author should be SHAHZAD Kashif. In ‘Authors...

    Bingbing ZHANG, Xuexian ZHANG, Li** GUO, Tingxiang QI in Journal of Cotton Research (2018)

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    Genome-wide analysis of Rf-PPR-like (RFL) genes and a new InDel marker development for Rf1 gene in cytoplasmic male sterile CMS-D2 Upland cotton

    Cytoplasmic male sterility in flowering plants is a convenient way to use heterosis via hybrid breeding and may be restored by nuclear restorer-of-fertility (Rf) genes. In most cases, Rf genes encoded pentatricop...

    Bingbing ZHANG, Xuexian ZHANG, Li** GUO, Tingxiang QI in Journal of Cotton Research (2018)

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    A combined small RNA and transcriptome sequencing analysis reveal regulatory roles of miRNAs during anther development of Upland cotton carrying cytoplasmic male sterile Gossypium harknessii (D2) cytoplasm

    Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in flowering plants is usually caused by incompatibility between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, and can be restored by nuclear genes known as restorer-of-fertility (Rf). Altho...

    Bingbing Zhang, Xuexian Zhang, Guoyuan Liu, Li** Guo, Tingxiang Qi in BMC Plant Biology (2018)

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    Genome sequence of cultivated Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum TM-1) provides insights into genome evolution

    Two draft sequences of Gossypium hirsutum, the most widely cultivated cotton species, provide insights into genome structure, genome rearrangement, gene evolution and cotton fiber biology.

    Fuguang Li, Guangyi Fan, Cairui Lu, Guanghui **ao, Changsong Zou in Nature Biotechnology (2015)

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    Low-temperature stratification strategies and growth regulators for rapid induction of Paris polyphylla var. yunnanensis seed germination

    The seeds of Paris polyphylla var. yunnanensis are deeply dormant, and they remain dormant for 18 months or longer in their natural environment. Periodic exposure of the seeds to a low-temperature of 4 °C broke t...

    Ligang Zhou, Jianyong Wu, Shilin Wang in Plant Growth Regulation (2003)