supported by a RGC grant HKUST6105/00M awarded to Li Ning.
The biologically active cis-cinnamic acid (cis-CA) has been perceived as a synthetic plant growth regulator for decades. However, in the present study, we found that cis-CA actually exists as a naturally occurring com...
the State Key Basic Research Development Program of China (Grant No. G1999011703) ; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39770167).
The expression of inducible genes in plants is regulated by specific transcription factors at the transcrip-tional level. A typical transcription factor usually contains a DNA-binding domain, a transcription regulatio...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39899370 ); the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 980952) ;the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. KZ951-B1-110 and KZ95T-40-02- 03).
To examine the reliability of using tree ring δ13C and the model of isotopic fractionation in reconstructing atmospheric CO2 levels, we studied the variations of some important parameters of several subtropical speci...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Over the years, there has been a great deal of interest in developing artificial enzymesthat hydrolyse amide bond of peptides and proteins. Recently, we found that Pd(Ⅱ)complexes bind to the sulfur atom of S-methylcy...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The formation of molecular oxygen from water by PSⅡ is supposed to occur by meansof a linear, four-electron oxidation process involving five so-called S-state intermediates(S0→S4). The Mn-clu...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Ordered thin organic films deposited on solid substrates by the Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) technique have attracted much attention because of their possibility of being applied tofunctional molecular device architectures, ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
RgH (Rg represents the rare gases) molecules are different from the commonhydrides, becasue its ground state is repulsive, but its excited state is bound. So it isexpected to be used as the producer of laser, of which...
It has been investigated for a long time by many authors to mimic the vision pro-cess.The most important step is to synthesize pigments having similar function ofrhodopsin,for example,to combine ll-cis-retinal with op...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
1 Introduction Generally beryllium is considered as a bivalent element, which implies that its oxidation state is+2. However, almost all compounds of beryllium are covalent ones with partial ionic character, even thos...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
It is well known that the Cr—Cr bond length, 1.68 (?), 2.5(?), observed in Cr2 is much shorter than that in the bulk of metal Cr, 2.5A. In the view that this evidence may relate to the existence of met...