Rice and wheat provide nearly 40%of human calorie and protein requirements.They share a common ancestor and belong to the Poaceae(grass)family.Characterizing their genetic homology is crucial for developing new cultiv...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.32072013,31801383 to X.Z.);the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant no.2021YFF1001203 to X.Z.)。
Soybean(Glycine max L.)is a typical photoperiodsensitive crop,such that photoperiod determines its flowering time,maturity,grain yield,and phenological adaptability.During evolution,the soybean genome has undergone tw...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31501393,31671671 and 31671612);the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice(Wuhan University,China)(Grant No.KF201803)。
Grain yield is a polygenic trait that can be influenced by environmental factors and genetic compositions at all plant growth stages.Currently,the molecular mechanisms behind the coordination of the interaction betwee...
supported by Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, and Beijing Municipal Government Science Foundation (IDHT20170513)。
TaMs1 encodes a non-specific lipid transfer protein(nsLTP) and is required for pollen development in wheat. Although MS1 is a Poaceae-specific gene, the roles of MS1 genes in other Poaceae plants are unknown, especial...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFA0707600 and 2020YFC0841000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970171 and 31670164);the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2016-12M-1-014 and 2020-12M-Co V19-010)。
Bat coronavirus(CoV)RaTG13 shares the highest genome sequence identity with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)among all known coronaviruses,and also uses human angiotensin converting enzyme 2(...
supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K13459 and Grace S.Shieh was supported in part by MOST 106-2118-M-001-017 and MOST 107-2118-M-001-009-MY2.
For structural comparisons of paired prokaryotic genomes,an important topic in synthetic and evolutionary biology,the locations of shared orthologous genes(henceforth orthologs)are observed as binned data.This and oth...
RNA secondary structure plays a critical role in gene regulation. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important food crops in the world. However, RNA structure in rice has scarcely been studied. Here, we have suc...
Orthology relations can be used to transfer annotations from one gene (or protein) to another. Hence, detecting orthology relations has become an important task in the post-genomic era. Various genomic events, such ...
supported by the China Human Proteomics Project (2014DFB30010);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2015AA020104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31071162);the Graduate School of East China Normal University
Human and mouse orthologs are expected to have similar biological functions; however, many discrepancies have also been reported. We systematically compared human and mouse orthologs in terms of alternative splicing p...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31222041);the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2012AA10A307)
Genome information from model species such as rice can assist in the cloning of genes in a complex genome, such as maize. Here, we identified a maize ortholog of rice GS5 that contributes to kernel development in maiz...