supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2009CB522600);Shenzhen Biological Industry Development Special Foundation-Basic Research Key Projects (JC201005250088A)
In 2011, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104 : H4 resulted in a large outbreak of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and 15 other countries in Europe and North America. This event r...
To engineer crop disease resistance by utilizing natural defense mechanism that was expressed in the incompatible host-pathogen interactions is expected to result in a durable and broad-spectrum resistance. In order t...
60-year prion and scrapie research has led to a dilemma in understanding the unknown aetiology of the infectious neurodegenerative disorders with intriguing features. Current progress and dilemma in prion research are...
The promoter fragments of wheat GstA1 and potato Gst1 have been amplified by PCR, cloned and fused respectively to the minimal promoter sequence of rice actin gene (Act1)) and its 5’ untranslated leader sequence toge...
Three different kinds of viruses, the spherical virus SCSV with a diameter of about 280 nm,the rhabdovirus SCRV with a size about 250×120 nm, and the baculovirus SCBV with a size about 200×100 nm, were observed from...
Silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, and bighead carp, Aristichthys nobilis, habitually celebrated for their being cultured easily with fewer diseases and high-yield, have suffered from a new severe epidemic dise...
One of the major diseases in sericulture is the mid gut polyhedrosis, in which the pathogen is the cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV). After the silkworm larvae had been fed or injected with Poly Ⅰ: C or 2′, 5′...
It has been discovered in the past few years that viroid is a new kind of pathogen, which causes diseases in some important economic plants. Viroids may also be the causative agents of certain animal and human disease...