supported by baseline funding and Competitive Research Grants(CRG 2017,CRG 2020)given to Salim Al-Babili from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST).
Vitamin A deficiency remains a severe global health issue,which creates a need to biofortify crops with provitamin A carotenoids(PACs).Expanding plant cell capacity for synthesis and storing of PACs outside the plasti...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31000551; 30970127)~~
[Objective] This study aimed to investigate the regulatory mechanisms of carotenoid biosynthesis in Neurospora crassa. [Method] Gene knockout mutants pro- ducing less carotenoid were screened from 6 087 mutants; the y...
This work was supported by grants from National Institutes of Health(Grant Nos.GM062591 and GM068496 to Y.L.)and Welch Foundation(to Y.L.).Y.L.is the Louise W.Kahn endowed scholar in Biomedical Research at University of Texas South-western Medical Center.
Circadian clocks are the internal time-keeping mechanisms for organisms to synchronize their cellular and physiological processes to the daily light/dark cycles.The molecular mechanisms underlying circadian clocks are...
Thanks are due to Prof. Qian Shijun of the Institute of Microbiology of the CAS for valuable suggestion.
Genes of NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH) were cloned from Neurospora intermedia (Ni), N. crassa (Nc), and N. sitophila (Ns). The sequences showed a high degree of homology at the cDNA and protein level. The th...
The measurement of specific-locus mutations in various eukaryotic organismshas been used as a mechanism to estimate the genetic consequences of humanexposure to environmental mutagens.Specific-iocus assays are usually...