supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31370660 and 31670673);the 111 Project(B16010)
Betula platyphylla Sukaczev tetraploids have significantly larger leaf, fruit and stoma (gigantic phenotype) than diploids of the same species;however, the mechanism underlying this difference remains unclear. Tetrapl...
supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant 2013-67013-21105 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food to YW;the National Natural Science Foundation of China to YH (No. 31271350)
Interspecific hybridization and allopolyploidization contribute to the improvement of many important crops. Recently, we successfully developed an amphidiploid from an interspecific cross between cucumber(Cucumis sati...
supported by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(No. 30725028);State Key Basic Research and Development Program of China(No.2007CB109200)
The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and the gonadotropin hormone (GTH) play crucial roles in regulating the gonadal development of the vertebrate. In this study, the Gnrh2, Fshβ and Lhβ cDNAs were cloned a...
This study was in part supported by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of Education Ministry of China;a grant from the Department of Energy Biosciences,USA,to University of Columbia,JB.
The maize quadraplex tetraploids and duplex tetraploids were developed using Kato’s protocols. The phenotype ofheterosis and inbreeding depression over generations in their parents and progenies of F1, F2 and F3 were...
Project supported by the president grant from Academia Sinica.
1 Introduction Gynogenesis is a rare reproductive mode in fish. Among a few of species reproduced by this method, silver crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) is the most special one. The specialities mainly includ...