This work was supported by Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31920103003 and 31530050);National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(Grant No.2011CB100700).
Triterpene scaffolds are cyclized by differential functional genes of the oxidosqualene cyclase (OSC) gene family, which are widely present in plant species. Thirty-nine OSCs were identified from the hexaploid bread w...
We are grateful to Prof.Lars M.Steinmetz for the Tn5 plasmid.This work was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016YFD0100902 to X.H.,2018YFD1000701 and 2019YFD1000703 to J.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31825015 to X.H.);the Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader(18XD1402900 to X.H.);the Innovation Program of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(2017-01-07-00-02-E00039 to X.H.);the Shanghai Municipal Afforestation&City Appearance and Environmental Sanitation Administration(G182402,G192413,G192414,and G202402 to J.Y.);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(to J.Y.);the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding support Program(CAFYBB2019ZY001 to D.P.).
Many important crops(e.g.,tuber,root,and tree crops)are cross-pollinating.For these crops,no inbred lines are available for genetic study and breeding because they are self-incompatible,clonally propagated,or have a l...
This work was supported by grants to Songmin Ying from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016YFA0100301);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81870007,81920108001);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LD19H160001);the Zhejiang Provincial Program for the Cultivation of High-Level Innovative Health Talents(2016-63).
Common fragile sites(CFSs)are genomic loci prone to the formation of breaks or gaps on metaphase chromosomes.They are hotspots for chromosome rearrangements and structural variations,which have been extensively implic...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2015 BAD02B01)
Excess salinity is a natural stress that causes crop yield losses worldwide. The genetic bases of maize salt tolerance remain largely unknown. Here we investigated the survival rates of 445 maize natural accessions af...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31601333);the Doctoral Fund Southwest University (SWU118010);the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program: 2015CB150201);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XDJK2017B036)
Glucosinolates are amino acid-derived secondary metabolites that act as chemical defense agents against pests.However,the presence of high levels of glucosinolates severely diminishes the nutritional value of seed mea...
In this study, combined analysis of expression profiling in the hippocampus of 76 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 40 healthy controls was performed. The effects of covariates (including age, gender, postmor...
supported by the National Transgenic Project of China(2018ZX0800928B);the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2015BAD03B01);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31501930)
Background: Preadipocyte differentiation plays a critical role in subcutaneous fat deposition in pigs.However,the roles of different RNAs,such as messenger RNAs(mRNAs),long non-coding RNAs(lncRNAs),and circular RNAs(c...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31390421);the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB138404).
Heat shock proteins (HSP)are essential molecular chaperones that play important roles in the stress stimulation of insects.Bemisia tabaci,a phloem feeder and invasive species,can cause extensive crop damage through di...
This work was supported by grants from the National Key Basic Research Program(973 Program)of MOST,China(Grant No.2015CB910601);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31370843 and 31500681)to P.K;Zhou and the National Natural Science Foundation,China(Grant Nos.31570853 and 81602799)to T.Ma.
Dear Editor,The DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit(DNA-PKcs)forms a serine/threonine protein kinase complex with the Ku heterodimer(Ku70/Ku80)and plays an important role in the DNA damage response(DDR)and ...
supported by the “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA01010201);National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (2014CB964804, 2015CB964500);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31430058, 31571513, 31630043, 91519314)
The diverse morphologies among vertebrate species stems from the evolution of a basic body plan that is constituted by a spatially organized ensemble of tissue lineage progenitors. At gastrulation, this body plan is e...