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Mengxiao **e
Life Sciences
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Soil acidification enhanced soil carbon sequestration through increased mineral protection
As a significant land carbon sink, highly acid subtropical forests in southern China continued to accumulate a significant amount of soil carbon under elevated acid deposition, yet the mechanism of how soil or...
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Open AccessCarbon monoxide is involved in melatonin-enhanced drought resistance in tomato seedlings by enhancing chlorophyll synthesis pathway
Drought is thought to be a major abiotic stress that dramatically limits tomato growth and production. As signal molecule, melatonin (MT) and carbon monoxide (CO) can enhance plant stress resistance. However, ...
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Open AccessComparative physiological and transcriptome analysis between potassium-deficiency tolerant and sensitive sweetpotato genotypes in response to potassium-deficiency stress
Sweetpotato is a typical ‘‘potassium (K+) favoring’’ food crop, which root differentiation process needs a large supply of potassium fertilizer and determine the final root yield. To further understand the regula...
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AUX1, PIN3, and TAA1 collectively maintain fertility in Arabidopsis
We found that auxin synthesis gene TAA1 and auxin polar transport genes AUX1 and PIN3 collectively maintain fertility and seed size in Arabidopsis.
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Expansion spatial transcriptomics
Capture array-based spatial transcriptomics methods have been widely used to resolve gene expression in tissues; however, their spatial resolution is limited by the density of the array. Here we present expans...
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Open AccessCell death affecting the progression of gastric cancer
Gastric cancer is a gastrointestinal tumor with high morbidity and mortality rates. Several factors influence its progression, cell death being an important element. In this review, we summarized the effects o...
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Effects of synthetic nitrification inhibitor (3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate; DMPP) and biological nitrification inhibitor (methyl 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate; MHPP) on the gross N nitrification rate and ammonia oxidizers in two contrasting soils
An aerobic 15N microcosmic experiment was conducted to compare the inhibitory effects of the biological nitrification inhibitor (BNI), methyl 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate (MHPP) at rates of 500 and 1000 mg kg−1
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Open AccessCharacterization of UDP-glycosyltransferase family members reveals how major flavonoid glycoside accumulates in the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis
Flavonoid glycosides extracted from roots of Scutellaria baicalensis exhibit strong pharmaceutical antitumor, antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral activities. UDP glycosyltransferase (UGT) family membe...
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Susceptibility of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to heart rate difference associated with the short-term exposure to metals in ambient fine particles: A panel study in Bei**g, China
Susceptibility of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction associated with exposure to metals in ambient fine particles (PM2.5, particulate matter with ae...
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Open AccessBioinformatic comparison of Kunitz protease inhibitors in Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto and E. multilocularis and the genes expressed in different developmental stages of E. granulosus s.s.
Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis caused by the tapeworms Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto (s.s.) and E. multilocularis, respectively, are important zoonotic diseases. Protease inhibitors are crucial for...
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Open AccessLinkage of microbial living communities and residues to soil organic carbon accumulation along a forest restoration gradient in southern China
Forest restoration has been considered an effective method to increase soil organic carbon (SOC), whereas it remains unclear whether long-term forest restoration will continuously increase SOC. Such large unce...
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Detoxification of Cu(II) by the red yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa: from extracellular to intracellular
The red yeast (Rhodotorula mucilaginosa: Rho) has abundant extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and intracellular vesicles (Ves). This study explored the mechanisms of Rho to resist Cu toxicity from extracell...
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Open AccessStructural basis for gating mechanism of Pannexin 1 channel
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Open AccessAncient events and climate adaptive capacity shaped distinct chloroplast genetic structure in the oak lineages
Understanding the origin of genetic variation is the key to predict how species will respond to future climate change. The genus Quercus is a species-rich and ecologically diverse woody genus that dominates a wid...
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Feasible development of stable HEK293 clones by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated site-specific integration for biopharmaceuticals production
To inspect the feasibility of recombinant stable HEK293 cell lines development for biopharmaceuticals production using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated site-specific integration.
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Open AccessOverexpression a “fruit-weight 2.2-like” gene OsFWL5 improves rice resistance
Rice (Oryza sativa) feeds half of the world’s population. Rice grain yield and quality which are constrained by diseases and mineral nutritions have important human healthy impacts. Plant “fruit-weight 2.2-like” ...
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Interactive effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on plant growth vary with ecosystem type
Co-limitation of ecosystem productivity by nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is gaining increasing recognition, but how co-limitation through N and P interactions differs among different terrestrial ecosystems r...
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Open AccessAnalyses of circRNA profiling during the development from pre-receptive to receptive phases in the goat endometrium
Recent studies have revealed that noncoding RNAs play important regulatory roles in the formation of endometrial receptivity. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a universally expressed noncoding RNA species that hav...
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Open AccessJasmonic Acid-Involved OsEDS1 Signaling in Rice-Bacteria Interactions
The function of Arabidopsis enhanced disease susceptibility 1 (AtEDS1) and its sequence homologs in other dicots have been extensively studied. However, it is unknown whether rice EDS1 homolog (OsEDS1) plays a ro...
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A general platform for efficient extracellular expression and purification of Fab from Escherichia coli
Antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) are an important part of monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics and can be cost-effectively produced using an Escherichia coli (E. coli) expression system. However, Fabs tend to f...
