supported by the National Characteristic Vegetable Industry Technology System of China(Grant No.CARS24-A-07);the Jiangsu Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System Construction Special Fund(Grant No.JATS[2023]050);Xuzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences Research Fund Project(Grant No.XM2021003)。
Commercial cultivars of garlic,a popular condiment,are sterile,making genetic variation and germplasm innovation of this plant challenging.Understanding mechanism of gamete sterility in garlic and their key regulatory...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32022018 and 31871360 to J.Gao)。
Reproductive aging is a natural process conserved across species and is well-known in females.It shows age-related follicle depletion and reduction of oocyte quality,eventually causing reproductive senescence and meno...
During the double fertilization process of flowering plants(angiosperms),pollen tubes transport a pair of immobile sperm cells toward and inside the embryo sac for fusion with egg and central cell,respectively.Male–f...
In angiosperms,the molecular mechanism controlling polytubey/polyspermy block and fertilization recovery was not unraveled until recently(Zhong et al.,2022),which can be described as fol ows:Five pol en tube-expressed...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32122014,31991202,31830004,and 32070854);Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association of Science&Technology(Grant No.2019QNRC001);supported by the Peking-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences;supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG)。
Double fertilization is an innovative phenomenon in angiosperms,in which one sperm cell first fuses with the egg cell to produce the embryo,and then the other sperm fuses with the central cell to produce the endosperm...
A genetically and functionally proficient gamete is essential for normal fertilization and embryonic development.Any change in gamete health affects fertilization and subsequent events,including embryonic development,...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82088102);Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-064);Collaborative Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Health Commission(2020CXJQ01);Clinical Research Plan of Shanghai Hospital Development Center(SHDC2020CR1008A);Shanghai Frontiers Science Research Base of Reproduction and Development;Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LQ21H040005)。
The events occurring before and soon after birth appear to impact an individual’s health throughout adulthood significantly.The pioneering work of David J.P.Barker studied the nutritional status of 2414 pregnant wome...
supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to S.Z.(Award 1856093)。
Arabidopsis MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE3(MAPK3 or MPK3)and MPK6 play important signaling roles in plant immunity and growth/development.MAPK KINASE4(MKK4)and MKK5 function redundantly upstream of MPK3 and MPK6 in...
the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFD1000200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31820103011);the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province(2020BBA036);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(2662019QD048).The authors thank their colleague Professor Robert M.Larkin for critical reading of the manuscript.
Seedless fruits are desirable in the citrus fresh fruit market.Triploid production via diploid x tetraploid interploidy crosses is thought to be the most efficient and widely-used strategy for the breeding of seedless...
The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of serum inhibin B(INHB)as a predictor of the retrieval outcome of testicular haploid gametes(spermatids and testicular spermatozoa)in nonobstructive ...