supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China(31570314 and 31925005);by funds from the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at Fudan University.
With the rapid development of omics technologies during the last several decades,genomics,transcriptomics,and proteomics have been extensively used to characterize gene or protein functions in many organisms at the ce...
Inorder to revalorize the nucicultural sector in Ivory Coast, initiatives have been taken to diversify the uses of coconut through the production of sugar from its infloresce...
Prosoestus sculptilis and Prosoestus minor(Coleoptera,Curculionidae)are female inflorescences of the oil palm pest.These insects can cause a considerable decrease(about 40%)of the setting rate.The currently proposed c...
Acknowledgements We thank Professor David Inouye who assisted in manuscript preparation. We also thank Sheng-Jun Huang, Li-Hui Zhang, and Er-Na Xun for their assistance in the field. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China to Yan-Wen Zhang (31170354) and to Ji-Min Zhao (31170384).
The occurrence of nectarlessness flowers in nectar-producing plants is a common and stable phenomenon in many species, but their occurrence is still not well understood. The aim of this study is to examine a question ...
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...
Natural Science Foundation of China(30900162,3096006 and 31370402);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(lzujbky-2013-102).
Aims sex allocation in plants is often plastic,enabling individuals to adjust to variable environments.However,the predicted male-biased sex allocation in response to low resource conditions has rarely been experiment...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(30870388,31370436).
Aims Within inflorescences of sexually reproducing hermaphrodites,the production of ovules,fruits and seeds commonly declines from basal(early-opening)to distal(late-opening)flowers,while pol-len production remains co...
Inflorescences structures in context of their evolution have been conducted for 60 genera and 170 species of Celastrales (according to APG (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) III 2009, almost 60% of genera and 15% of spec...
Dear editor; After receiving the comments from the readers, we checked the results carefully and decided to repeat all the experiments. As the first author has already left the lab, other members are still trying to ...
This work was supported by grants from the Genetically Modified New Varieties of Major Projects of China (2008ZX08002-004; 2009ZX08002-013B; 2009DFB30340) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (30871524).
Chloroplast transformation in wheat was achieved by bombardment of scutella from immature embryos and immature infiorescences, respectively. A wheat chloroplast sitespecific expression vector, pBAGNRK, was constructed...