supported by the National Natural Science Foundation(32070246)to Ying Bao.
Rubisco is assembled from large subunits(encoded by chloroplast gene rbcL)and small subunits(encoded by the nuclear rbcS multigene family),which are involved in the processes of carbon dioxide fixation in the Calvin c...
Uridine diphosphate-dependent glycosyltransferases(UGTs)mediate the glycosylation of plant metabolites,thereby altering their physicochemical properties and bioactivities.Plants possess numerous UGT genes,with the enc...
Gene duplication provides raw material for functional innovation,but gene duplicability varies considerably.Previous studies have found widespread asymmetrical sequence evolution between paralogs.However,it remains un...
The realization that body parts of animals and plants can be recruited or coopted for novel functions dates back to, or even predates the observations of Darwin. S.J. Gould and E.S. Vrba recognized a mode of evolution...
Acknowledgements We thank Yamao Chen for manuscript editing and Yaqiong Wang, Ren Ren, Haifeng Wang, and Lei Wang for technical assistance and discussion. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31130006) to H.M. and (Grant No. 31371330) to J.Q.
Gene duplication allows for functional divergence and innovation that provide selective advantages. However, in flowering plants genetic studies have revealed that single-gene mutations affecting one of two or more cl...
This project was funded by the National Agriculture Ministry“948 Project”(#2011-G21);China and by the Priority Academic Program Development of Modern Horticultural Science in Jiangsu Province,China.
Cation/proton antiporter 1(CPA1)proteins function as regulators of monovalent ions,pH homeostasis,and other developmental processes in plants.Better understanding of the expression and regulation of CPA1 in plant resp...
microRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of-22 nucleotide (nt) regulatory RNAs that are pervasive in higher eukaryotic genomes. In order to fully understand their prominence in genomes, it is necessary to elucidat...