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Dec 03 2021
ICS Honored with Two International Awards on Plant Mutation Breeding
Two awards were honored to the research team and researcher from the Institute of Crops Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ICS-CAAS) on their contributions to plant mutation breeding ... -
Dec 03 2021
ZFRI Uncovers the Origin and Domestication Characteristics of Chinese Plum (Prunus salicina L.)
Globally, commercialized plum cultivars are mostly diploid Chinese plums (Prunus salicina Lindl.), also known as Japanese plums, and are one of the most abundant and variable fruit tree species. -
Dec 03 2021
Rheological Properties of Pea Protein Isolate-amylose/amylopectin Mixtures and the Application in the High-moisture Extruded Meat Substitutes
Recently, the research team of Wang Qiang, an innovation team for plant protein structure and function regulation, clarified the relationship of rheological properties of pea protein isolate-amylose/a... -
Dec 03 2021
Scientists from ICS Discover the Control Mechanism on Plant Hormone Cytokinins
Cytokinins are classical, historic plant hormones regulating diverse aspects of plant growth and development, including the important agronomic traits such as grain number in rice. The canonical signa... -
Dec 03 2021
ICS Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data to Estimate Leaf Area Index for Maize
Recently, the Crop Cultivation and Physiology Innovation team of the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ICS-CAAS) has constructed the multimodal data and used use dee... -
Dec 03 2021
Directed Evolution of Feruloyl Esterase from Lactobacillus acidophilus and its Application for Ferulic Acid Production
Recently, the innovation team for food enzyme engineering, has applied a directed evolution method to engineer the Lactobacillus acidophilus feruloyl esterase and aimed to enhance the catalytic effici... -
Dec 03 2021
New High-quality Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) Genome Assembly to Analyze the Molecular Evolutionary Mechanism of Volatile Compounds in Peach Fruits
Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) is a globally important temperate deciduous fruit tree. Because of the long history of peach domestication and improvement as well as a small genome size, peach is con... -
Dec 03 2021
Ryegrass and Indian Mustard Intercropping Can Improve the Phytoremediation of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes
Research team of safety utilization of unconventional water resources, Farmland Irrigation Research Institute of CAAS, has made important progress in phytoremediation of soil heavy metals-antibiotics-... -
Dec 03 2021
Scientists from ICS Reveal the Higher Yield with Lower N2O Emissions of Newly-released Winter Wheat Varieties
The Innovation Team of Farming System and Agro-Ecology, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ICS-CAAS), demonstrated the characteristics and biological mechanisms of h... -
Dec 03 2021
Scientists from ICS Discover the Control Mechanism on Plant Hormone Cytokinins
Cytokinins are classical, historic plant hormones regulating diverse aspects of plant growth and development, including the important agronomic traits such as grain number in rice. The canonical signa...