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Jul 15 2019
A Robust Breeding Technology Developed for Supersweet, Waxy, and Supersweet-waxy Compound Fresh Specialty Corn
Maize is one of the major cereals that are important for feedstuff, industrial feedstock and human foods. Specialty maize, such as sweet corns and waxy corns, has been welcomed by consumers for a long... -
Jul 15 2019
Discovery of a new member of rice male sterility genes——TIP3, regulating Ubisch bodies and pollen wall formation in rice
Male reproductive development involves a complex series of biological events and precise transcriptional regulation is essential for this biological process in flowering plants. -
Jul 15 2019
A Robust Breeding Technology Developed for Supersweet, Waxy, and Supersweet-waxy Compound Fresh Specialty Corn
Maize is one of the major cereals that are important for feedstuff, industrial feedstock and human foods. Specialty maize, such as sweet corns and waxy corns, has been welcomed by consumers for a long... -
Jun 05 2019
Progress made in using graphene oxide as a pesticide synergist
Recently, Prof. Wang Zhenying’s team from Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS has published their research results as a front-cover paper entitled “Graphene oxide as a multifunctional synergist of ins... -
Jun 05 2019
New CRISPR/Cas9 toolkits for efficient genome editing in rice
Recently, an article entitled “Cas9-NG greatly expands the targeting scope of genome-editing toolkit by recognizing NG and other atypical PAMs in rice” was published in the Molecular Plant (IF = 9.326... -
Apr 22 2019
The Mechanism of Peach Ethylene Response Factor (ERFs) Regulating Fruit Abscisic Acid Biosynthesis
The research team led by Professor Wang Zhiqiang from the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) has been working on the study of peach fruit quality bio... -
Apr 19 2019
The new progress of gene identifying associated with fruit domestication traits in peach through comparative population genomics study
Crop evolution is a long-term process involving selection by natural evolutionary forces and anthropogenic influences; however, the genetic mechanisms underlying the domestication and improvement of f... -
Apr 09 2019
RNA Transcript-templated Homology-directed DNA Repair Enables Precise Gene Replacement in Rice
One of the main obstacles to achieve gene replacement in plants is efficient delivery of a donor repair template (DRT) into the nucleus for homology-directed DNA repair (HDR) of double-stranded DNA br... -
Apr 09 2019
Evolution from covalent conjugation to non-covalent interaction in the ubiquitin-like ATG12 system
A group of researchers led by Dr. Honglin Jia from Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of CAAS, in collaboration with Dr. Noboru Mizushima of Tokyo University and other researchers found an evolution... -
Mar 21 2019
Project kick-off meeting of Evaluation and risk assessment of combined toxic effects of mixed pollutants in fresh food held in Beijing
On March 1, 2019, a project of National key research and development program entitled 'Evaluation and risk assessment of combined toxic effects of mixed pollutants in fresh food' was kicked off in Bei...