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    Dirigent gene editing of gossypol enantiomers for toxicity-depleted cotton seeds

    Axial chirality of biaryls can generate varied bioactivities. Gossypol is a binaphthyl compound made by cotton plants. Of its two axially chiral isomers, (−)-gossypol is the bioactive form in mammals and has a...

    Jia-Ling Lin, **n Fang, Jian-Xu Li, Zhi-Wen Chen, Wen-Kai Wu in Nature Plants (2023)

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    An Improved AhR Reporter Gene Assay for Analyzing Dioxins in Soil, Sediment and Fish

    Our goal was to develop a fast-screening bioassay to determine dioxin levels in the environmental and biological samples from dioxin-contaminated areas. Our original dioxin-responsive-element (DRE)-driven luci...

    How-Ran Chao, Ya-Fan Wang, Yao-Nan Wang in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (2012)

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    Porphyra: Complex Life Histories in a Harsh Environment: P. umbilicalis, an Intertidal Red Alga for Genomic Analysis

    Porphyra encompasses a large group of multicellular red algae that have a prominent gametophytic phase. The complex, heteromorphic life history of species in this genus, their remarkable resilien...

    Elisabeth Gantt, G. Mine Berg, Debashish Bhattacharya in Red Algae in the Genomic Age (2010)