supported by grants from the Zhejiang Science and Technology Department Project(2023C04004);Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding(2021C02068-6);Department of Science Technology of Huzhou City(2023GZ33);Zhejiang Team Technology Ambassador Project(Tongxiang);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32172724).
Hu sheep is an indigenous breed from the Taihu Lake Plain in China,known for its high fertility.Although Hu sheep belong to the Mongolian group,their demographic history and genetic architecture remain inconclusive.He...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF1200904,2021YFA1302500 to J.-R.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32122022,31871320 to J.-R.Y.);by Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China(2014A030304053 to X.Z.).
In multicellular organisms,developmental history of cell divisions and functional annotation of terminal cells can be organized into a cell lineage tree(CLT).The reconstruction of the CLT has long been a major goal in...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32272124,31991210)and the 2115 Talent Development Program.
Bread wheat provides an essential fraction of the daily calorific intake for humanity.Due to its huge and complex genome,progress in studying on the wheat genome is substantially trailed behind those of the other two ...
This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970591 to H.Ma),the Shanghai Pujiang Program(19PJ1408000 to H.Ma);the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan(21JC1404800 to H.Ma);We thank Luke Lavis(Janelia Research Campus,Howard Hughes Medical Institute,Ashburn,VA,USA)for providing the HaloTag JF-549.U2OS Genomic DNA was a gift from Xingxu Huang.We thank Pengwei Zhang and Shuangli Zhang for their help with cell sorting.
The human genome can be demarcated into domains based on distinct epigenetic states.The trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9(H3K9me3)is essential for the formation of constitutive heterochromatin nanodomains.However,...
This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0904900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32225031,32171449,81903776);the Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project(TSBICIP-KJGG-017);the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation(20JCYBJC00310);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2022177).
CRISPR base editor(BE)techniques are a promising tool for precise cytosine(C)to thymine(T),adenine(A)to guanine(G),and C to G base editing(CBE,ABE,and GBE,respectively)without the use of a donor DNA template conversio...
the support of founding by the Key Research Project of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region(2022BBF02017);the earmarked fund for CARS-36;the Program for Changjiang Scholar and Innovation Research Team in University(IRT-15R62)。
Subcutaneous fat deposition has many important roles in dairy cattle,including immunological defense and mechanical protection.The main objectives of this study are to identify key candidate genes regulating subcutane...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970525,31672112);the National Key Research and Development Project of China(2019YFD1001401-GJ03);Advanced Foreign Experts Project(G2021157012L,G20200017071);Cultivating Fund Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2022hspy002);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2662018PY099)from Chinese government;Breeding of breakthrough new citrus varieties and creation of new germplasms,Science and Technology Planning Project of Sichuan Province(2021YFYZ0023-02);Comprehensive experimental station of middle and late maturing citrus in Chengdu,China Agriculture Research System(CARS-26)。
Citrus sinensis is the most cultivated and economically valuable Citrus species in the world,whose genome has been assembled by three generation sequencings.However,chromosome recognition remains a problem due to the ...
supported by the Key Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-SW-L14);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2021YFC0863400,2021YFC2301305,and 2020YFC0847000)。
Understanding the origins of zoonoses is critical to developing the means to prevent zoonotic spillover into the future.Like 60% of emerging diseases in humans(Jones et al.,2008),SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have zoonotic ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100500);the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(C2021201048);Interdisciplinary Research Program of Natural Science of Hebei University。
Pan-genomics can encompass most of the genetic diversity of a species or population and has proved to be a powerful tool for studying genomic evolution and the origin and domestication of species,and for providing inf...
supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation Competitive Research Programme(NRF-CRP22-2019-0001);the intramural research support from National University of Singapore and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory。
Orchids make up one of the largest families of flowering plants(Orchidaceae) with a variety of ecological habitats and broad economic impact for their ornamental and medicinal values in the world.Sexual hybridization ...