the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11872273, 11472191, 11602163, and 11672297);the Major Program of the National Science Foundation of China (Grant 11890683);the Opening Fund of State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics;the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship.
Tendril-bearing climbing plants must recur to the tendril helices with chiral perversion or dual chirality for climbing and to obtain sun exposure. Despite researchers' prolonged fascination with climbing tendrils sin...
This study is supported by a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, awarded to Ning Zhang, the Laboratories of Analytical Biology of the Smithsonian, and grants from the National Science Foundation (DEB 0743474 to S.R. Manchester and J. Wen), the Smithsonian Endowment Grant Program, and the Small Grant Program of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.
The leaf-opposed tendril, a characteristic organ in Vitaceae (grape family), is likely a morphological key innovation for the family. It has been considered as the homologous organ of the inflorescence. Expression o...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB937500);Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(21226005)from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11272230 and 11172207);the Basic Application and Advanced Technology Research Project in Tianjin(11JCYBJC09700)
Self-shaping materials such as shape memory polymers have recently drawn considerable attention owing to their high shape-changing ability in response to changes in ambient conditions, and thereby have promising appli...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91023002,51073059);the National Basic Research Project of Program(2012CB932900,2009CB930604)
320 years ago,the adhesive tendrils of Parthenocissus were studied.Recently,the permanent attachment system of the tendrils is retrieved concerns.Light microscopy,scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ;Fok Ying Dung Education Foundation.
Actins are ubiquitous to all of the known eukaryotic organisms. Since the firstdiscovery of actins in higher plants by Yen et al. in 1960s, the actin research ofhigher plants has been extensively carried out. It has b...