the Department of Sciences and Technology of Yunnan Province (2016BB001);the National Basic Research Program of China (2013CB835200);a Key Grant of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department (2013GA004)
Rice yield is an important and complex agronomic trait controlled by multiple genes.In recent decades,dozens of yield-associated genes in rice have been cloned,many of which can increase production in the form of loss...
supported by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2015BAI09B03, 2016YFE0113700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371496, 31571320);the National Basic Research Program (2013CB35102)
Nowadays, genome editing tools are indispensable for studying gene function in order to increase our knowledge of biochemical processes and disease mechanisms. The extensive availability of mutagenesis and transgenesi...
supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No.31125003 and No.31321001);the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (Grants 2010CB530103)
Japanese encephalitis virus(JEV) is one of the most common pathogens of severe viral encephalitis, which is a severe threat to human health. Despite instability of the JEV genome in bacteria, many strategies have been...
ln this study, effects of UV irradiation and 60Co-γ irradiation on fermenta-tion of xylose to ethanol by Pichia stipitis were analyzed to investigate the optimal mutagenic conditions. According to the growth curve an...
supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(2014CB745100);the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2012AA022101)
Dear Editor,Transposable phages,which are reproduced by transposition(Harshey,2012;Taylor,1963),have been widely applied in the field of biotechnology to manipulate operon/gene fusions,in vivo cloning,randomion mutage...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB126504);the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund(KYCX2011023);State Key Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology(2012SKLAB01-2)
Nitrogenase catalyzes the ATP-dependent reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia,the central process of biological nitrogen fixation.The mechanism of electron transfer from the P-cluster to the iron-molybdenum cofactor(FeMo...
supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2012AA10A303);the Ministry of Agriculture of China(2011ZX08010-001)
Plant mutants are important bio-resources for crop breeding and gene functional studies. Conventional methods for generating mutant libraries by mutagenesis of seeds with physical or chemical agents are of low efficie...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30871442) to Z.Cui;the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2012CB944500)
Expression-independent gene or polyadenylation[poly(A)]trapping is a powerful tool for genome-wide mutagenesis regardless of whether a targeted gene is expressed.Although a number of poly(A)-trap vectors have been...
ε-Poly-L-lysine (ε-PL) is an L-lysine linear homopolymer, which is produced by bacteria belonging to the Streptomycetaceae family and by ergot fungi. How- ever, the production of ε-PL by the wild bacteria strain ...
Supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2007CB714301 and 2007CB707801);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA021306);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30621005)
By functional complementation of Escherichia coli mutants defective in potassium (K+) uptake, two genes that are required for K+ uptake in halo-alkaliphilic Alkalimonas amylolytica strain N10 were cloned. These two ge...