supported by grants from the Jiangsu Seed Industry Revitalization Project[Grant No.JBGS(2021)071];Key Technology R&D Program of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BE2023366);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32172579);the earmarked fund for Jiangsu Agricultural Industry Technology System[Grant No.JATS(2023)421];the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.YDZX2023019);the Project Founded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD)。
Heterosis,a crucial biological phenomenon,plays a vital role in determining the yield and quality of plants.Radish,an important root vegetable crop,exhibits notable heterosis in terms of root yield and quality.Neverth...
supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(32302724 to Jingwei Yuan);the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA(CARS-40 to Yanyan Sun);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(ASTIP-IAS16 to Jilan Chen)。
Background Crossbreeding is widely promoted as an efficient strategy to improve the productivity in agriculture.The molecular mechanism underlying heterosis for egg production is always intriguing in chicken.The trans...
supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)grant Emmy Noether Programme(444755415);DFG Priority Program(SPP2089);Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation—A Key to Rhizosphere Functions grant(403671039)。
Beneficial root-microbiome interactions offer enormous potential to improve crop performance and stress tolerance.Domestication and improvement reduced the genetic diversity of crops and reshaped their phenotypic trai...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32172721);the China Agriculture Research System(CARS-40);the Central Publicinterest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund,China(2021-YWF-ZYSQ-12);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(ASTIP-IAS04)。
Sexual maturation heterosis has been widely exploited in animal crossbreeding.However,the underlying mechanism has been rarely explored in chicken.In the present study,we performed the reciprocal crossing between Whit...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31821001 and 32170528).
Inbreeding and loss of genetic diversity increase the extinction risk of small isolated populations.Genetic rescue by augmenting gene flow is a powerful means for the restoration of lost genetic variation.In this stud...
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF1000204);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32102535);the Key Research and Development Program of Hainan province(ZDYF2023XDNY036);the Guangxi Science and Technology Major Program(GK AA23062049).
Heterosis has been widely utilized in agricultural production.Despite over a century of extensive research,the underlying mechanisms of heterosis remain elusive.Most hypotheses and research have focused on the genetic...
supported by funding from SPE department of INRAE for NN and by the scholarship from China Scholarship Council(CSC)under the collaborative program of CSC&Agreenium(CSC NO.202008440426,https://en.agreenium.fr/page/agreenium)for LL;We are also grateful to Gaetan Clabots,Raphael Bousquet,and Dylan Valenza for maintaining the insect collections of the DGIMI laboratory in Montpellier,France;We also want to thank Antony Champion for providing the corn plants and Laetitia Leclerc and Anne-Sophie Petitot for helping take care of the plants in IRD;We appreciate the help from Sylvia Abdelmalek in setting up the experiment with corn plants;We acknowledge Emmanuelle d'Alencon and Kiwoong Nam for their reviews and comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
Spodoptera frugiperda,also known as fall armyworm(FAW),is an invasive crop pest that can feed on a variety of host plants,posing a serious threat to food security.There are two sympatric strains of FAW that are morpho...
funded by the Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Plan Project(20210202001NC)of Ziyang Zhou;the Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Project(CXGC2021TD011)of Ziyang Zhou。
Despite hybrid dominance contributing to the genetic improvement of crops,little is known about heterosis and inheritance patterns of endogenous substances in sorghum(Sorghum bicolor(L.)Moench)root bleeding sap.In thi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32002382,32293252,U19A2040,32293254);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFD2400202);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2021JJ40339);the Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha(kq2209013);the Earmarked Fund for Agriculture Research System of China(CARS-45);the Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture Project(NT2021008);the 111 Project(D20007);Special Science Found of Nansha-South China Agricultural University Fishery Research Institute,Guangzhou。
The basic mechanism of heterosis has not been systematically and completely characterized.In previous studies,we obtained three economically important fishes that exhibit rapid growth,WR(WCC♀×RCC♂),WR-Ⅱ(WR♀×WCC...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32101813,32370693,and 32300559);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS-OCRI-XKPY-202104 and CAAS-ZDRW202105);the Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province.
Plant architecture can act as a pivotal determinant of crop yield by maximizing photosynthate accumulation in grains,but no B.napus rapeseed ideotype has yet been defined.However,semi-dwarf and compact(SDC)rapeseed pl...