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Insecticidal Proteins: A Promising Solution for Pest Control
Pests, such as insects, pose a significant threat to agriculture and public health. Traditional methods of pest control, such as chemical pesticides, have raised concerns about their impact on the environment and human health. In recent years, ...
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Scientists Uncover Secrets of Plant Regeneration
Japanese researchers have discovered that the WOX13 gene negatively controls the fate of plant cell regeneration and affects the efficiency of plant stem regeneration. Plants possess the unique ability to regenerate completely from a ...
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New Method Provides Vital Information for Plant Breeding
Plants exhibit enormous variation in traits relevant to breeding, such as plant height, yield, and resistance to insect pests. One of the greatest challenges in modern plant research is determining which differences in genetic information cause such ...
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Ancient roots of wheat virus resistance
The DNA sequence of a gene responsible for resistance to a devastating virus in wheat has been discovered, providing important clues for managing more resistant crops and maintaining a healthy food supply. Wheat crops in the Americas, Asia, ...
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THP9 Can Improve Protein Content and Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency in Maize Seeds
Teosinte is a wild ancestor of maize, and its seed protein content is three times that of most modern maize lines. In a new study, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Normal University tracked the mechanisms responsible for ...
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New Insight into the Importance of Key Photosynthesis Pathways in Plants
Photosynthesis is one of the most important chemical reactions, not only for plants, but also for the entire world. The impact of photosynthesis and its importance should not be underestimated. Therefore, it makes sense that science has long been ...
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Plants Activate `Wartime` Protein Production to Fight Invasion
Plants are constantly attacked by bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. When a plant senses a microbial invasion, fundamental changes occur in the chemical soup of proteins inside its cells, the workhorses of life. In a new study published in Cell, ...
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A Saline Duper Wheat that Tolerates Higher Salt Concentrations!
In the past few decades, agricultural land has been largely lost, and increased salinity in soils around the world has received much attention. Nowadays, nearly 8% of the world's arable land can no longer be used for crop cultivation due to salt ...
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Bananas Face Another Extinction Crisis, Can Gene Editing Save Bananas?
Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in the world, however, in fact bananas are at stake and we may no longer eat them at any time. And the source of this crisis is fungal infection, and in 1950, an outbreak of a banana infectious ...
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Genome Biology: Revealing the Genetic Structure of Seed Coat Content in Brassica Napus
The rapeseed team at Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, published a research paper entitled “Multi-omics analysis dissects the genetic architecture of seed coat content in Brassica napus” in Genome Biology. This study has ...
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New strategy of "two in one" rapid breeding
Xu Cao's research group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper titled “A two-in-one breeding strategy boosts rapid utilization of wild species and elite cultivars” online ...
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Researchers Analyze Rapeseed Thioglycoside Transport Mechanism to Assist High-quality Breeding
Recently, Liu Shengyi, a researcher at the Institute of Oil Materials, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Yang Qingyong, a professor at the School of Information, Huazhong Agricultural University, collaborated to develop a new idea/method ...
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Gene Editing Used to Create Single-sex Mouse Litters
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with Kent University, used gene editing technology to create litters with only female and male mice at 100% efficiency. The study, published today in Nature Communications, shows how ...
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New Study Findings about Fish Gene Editing
Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) are a type of reproductive stem cells with self-renewal and differentiation potential in adult male gonads. Using spermatogonial stem cell transplantation (SSCT) technology, it is possible to achieve cross-individual ...