supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,China(2023ZD04039-01);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32172008);the Leading Innovative and Entrepreneur Team Introduction Program of Zhejiang,China(2019R01002)。
Pectin is a major constituent of the plant cell wall.Pectate lyase(PEL,EC 4.2.2.2)uses anti-β-elimination chemistry to cleave theα-1,4 glycosidic linkage in the homogalacturonan region of pectin.However,limited info...
funded by the UK Research and Innovation(UKRI)Global Challenges Research Fund(GCRF)GROW Colombia grant via the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council(BB/P028098/1)awarded to F.D.P;This study was partially financed by the following Brazilian sources:Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior(CAPES)Finance Code oo1and by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP,Grant IDs 2020/01375-1,2020/10206-9 and 2021/08635-1),with M.C-S.and J.R.P.as grantees;N.C.was funded by a PhD scholarship from the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh.
Crop wild relatives(CWRs)of cultivated species may provide a source of genetic variation that can contribute to improving product quantity and quality.To adequately use these potential resources,it is useful to unders...
supported by Shaanxi Normal University Academician Expert Workstation Foundation(1110010375);the National Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research Open Project(ZD2021058)。
Durian(Durio zibethinus)is a tropical fruit that has a unique flavor and aroma.It occupies a significant phylogenetic position within the Malvaceae family.Extant core-eudicot plants are reported to share seven ancestr...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2022YFF1001400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32341024);the 2021 Research Program of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City (SKJC-2021-02-001);the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (323CXTD385);the Major Science and Technology Plan of Hainan Province (ZDKJ2021018);Research Startup Funding from the Hainan Institute of Zhejiang University (0202-6602-A12201);the Distinguished Discipline Support Program of Zhejiang University (226-2022-00100).
Members of the Malvaceae family,including Corchorus spp.,Gossypium spp.,Bombax spp.,and Ceiba spp.,are important sources of naturalfibers.In the past decade,the genomes of several Malvaceae species have been assembled...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(nos.41922010 and 41988101);a joint research program of NSFC and NERC(Natural Environ-ment Research Council of the UK)(nos.41661134049 and NE/P013805/1);a postdoctoral fellowship and Senior Visiting Scholar funding from XTBG;the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(nos.XDA20070301 and XDB26000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(no.2019QZKK0705)program.
The fossil record evidences an old origin and diversification of Malvaceae in the Northern Hemisphere.The central Tibetan Plateau was at a low elevation with a monsoon influence during the Eocene,allowing the developm...
A new flavonoid, acacetin-7-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 2)-β-D-glucuronopyranoside (1), together with four known flavonoids, apigenin-7-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 2)-β-D-glucuronopyranoside (2), acacetin (3), acace...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31900194);the Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.183112);the Yunnan Province Natural Science Foundation(No.2019FB061);the“Light of West China”Program,CAS,and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(No.2017439).
Determining whether the high-latitude Bering land bridge(BLB)was ecologically suitable for the migration of mesothermal plants is significant for Holarctic phytogeographic inferences.Paleobotanical studies provide a c...
Animal pollination is a key of reproduction of more plants species including Gossypium hirsutum. This Malvaceae is the best cultivated oilseed plant in tropical and subtropical regions in the world. This rese...
Support for this work was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41872015,41820104002,and 41210001);the State Key Laboratory of Paleobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology,CAS)(No.193118);the Scientific Research Fund,Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University,the State Project(No.075-00872-20-00,Geological Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,to TK);the Russian Foundation for Basic Research(RFBR,Grant No.19-04-00046 for NM,partly for TK).
The genus Burretiodendron Rehder is currently endemic to an area near the China-Vietnam border and the limestone mountains of Thailand and Myanmar.The fossil records of this genus were previously found only from the M...
The co-occurrence of mutational events including substitutions and insertions—deletions(InDels)with oligonucleotide repeats has previously been reported for a limited number of prokaryotic,eukaryotic,and organelle ge...