We thank Jian-Min Zhou (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for critical comments on the manuscript, Weicai Yang (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing binary vector pWM101 and assistance in isolating mitochondria and chloroplasts, Qijun Chen (China Agricultural University) for providing CRISPR/Cas9 binary vector pHEE2A-TRI, and Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) for providing som787-2 (N877710), som328-2 (N362639), dit2.1-1 (N663245), dit2.1-2 (N669411), dit2.2-1 (N661169), dit2.2-2 (N655976), and Isdl (N542687) seeds. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31521001, 31661143025), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB13030300).
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a fundamental biological process. Deficiency in MOSAIC DEATH 1 (MOD1), a plastid-localized enoyl- ACP reductase, leads to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and PCD,...
We thank Xinnian Dong (Duke University) for critically reading the manuscript and Weicai Yang (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing the pWM101 vector. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30830009, 91335204) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Programmed cell death (PCD) is of fundamental importance to development and defense in animals and plants. In plants, a well-recognized form of PCD is hypersensitive response (HR) triggered by pathogens, which inv...
We are indebted to our colleagues for providing reagents (Dr Xinyu Zhao, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; Dr Casper C Hoogenraad, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Dr Evelyne Coudrier, Institut Curie, France) and for critical comments on the manuscript (Dr Tieshan Tang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China). We are grateful to Dr Lan Bao (Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Dr Hongli Feng, Dr Ping Zhu and Lei Sun (Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) for technical assistance and advices on electron microscopy. This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (2014CB942802 to J-JL and CZ, 2011CB965002 to J-JL), the Na- tional Natural Science Foundation of China (31325017, 30830059 to J-JL, 31222025, 31171025 to CZ) and CAS Key Project (KSCX2-EW-R-05 to J-JL). YY was supported by Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30900718).
Dendritic spines are actin-rich membrane protrusions that are the major sites of excitatory synaptic input in the mammalian brain, and their morphological plasticity provides structural basis for learning and memory. ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the Open Funds of State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Chinese Academy of Sciences),the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University
We determined the linear complexity of a family of p2-periodic binary threshold sequences and a family of p2-periodic binary sequences constructed using the Legendre symbol,both of which are derived from Fermat quotie...
Acknowledgments We thank Ms Mekie Takahashi, Ms Ritsuko Kanda (Nagaya University, Japan), Dr Changliang Fu and Dr Shouqing Lu (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for technical assistance. This work was partly supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10602031) and Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (#15086270 to M.S.) and Creative Research (# 16GS0308 to M.S.) from the Ministry of Education Science Sports and Culture, Japan.
Some large-conductance Ca^2+ and voltage-activated K^+(BK) channels are activated by membrane stretch. However, the mechanism of mechano-gating of the BK channels is still not well understood. Previous studies hav...
We thank Si-Ping Li for technical contributions to this study, Dr Shi-Liang Zhou (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jian-Cheng Shen and Qing-Bo Tang for data processing, and Li Feng for help in rearing insects. We are particularly grateful to Dr De-Xing Zhang for his constructive comments that greatly improved the manuscript. Also we appreciate thoughtful discussions with Professor Li-Huang Zhu (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30330100 and 30471148).
Here we use amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) to assess genetic differentiation of Helicoverpa armigera and H. assulta. The results indicated that both species-specific fingerprints and cluster analysis ...
We thank Dr Senya Matsufuji(Jikei University,Japan)for providing the yeast spe2 strain,Dr Guixian Xia(Institute of Microbiology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China)for yeast expression vector pREP5N and ABRC stock center for BAC clones(F17K4 and T16G12)and T-DNA insertion lines(Salk_007279 and Salk_020185).This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(30330040);the Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China(J02-A-001).
Polyamines are implicated in regulating various developmental processes in plants, but their exact roles and how they govern these processes still remain elusive. We report here an Arabidopsis bushy and dwarf mutant, ...