Global crop production is severely affected by environmental factors such as drought,salinity,cold,flood etc.Among these stresses,drought is one of the major abiotic stresses reducing crop productivity.It is expected ...
The research on redistributive strategies to secure support has been dominated by a core and swing voter model,which pits two parties against each other in a costly race for support.What are other options beyond targe...
financial assistance provided by the High-End Foreign Expert Recruitment Program(G2022051003L);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32201878);Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Lab(B21HJ0215);Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS(CAASZDRW202002,CAAS-ZDRW202201);Hebei Natural Science Foundation(C2021205013);Long Mao is also a“Yellow River Delta Scholar”in Sino-Agro Experimental Station for Salt Tolerant Crops(SAESSTC),Dongying,Shandong,China.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated plant transformation is a versatile tool for plant genetic engineering following its discovery nearly half a century ago.Numerous modifications were made in its application to increa...
American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies:A Love Story explores the experience of Holocaust survivors in post-Holocaust America.The novel takes the entangled relationship between the protagonists as the ...
Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, said that in this small, interdependent world where countries share many common interests and challen...
It’s easy to get confused.Britain,Great Britain,the United Kingdom,England…Are they all the same place?Ask this question to a Scottish football fan and you’ll get a short answer.No!The United Kingdom(UK)consists of...
MURDERERS cannot tell you why they killed.I spent 5 years getting to know 50 of them,and none could give me a coherent answer.Once they could,once they’d been taught that they too had been born Lovable,Sociable and N...
England and Scotland may be parts of the same country but when it comes to sport,they don’t always see eye to eye.A few years ago,I played a friendly game of football with my friend and colleague,Duncan,and some Japa...
Enemies, one of the most famous short stories by Anton Chekhov, tells a story between a doctor and a patient’s husband. They become enemies because of selfishness, lacking of understanding, cruelty and indifference t...
financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1200600)
The cotton mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley(Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), which is native to North America, emerged as a major invasive insect pest of multiple crops in Asia at the beginning of the 21 st century....