IGDB in Media
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Study Highlights an Effective Technique to Overcome the Rice Yield Constraint
24 Apr 2022Tradeoffs between diverse agronomic traits constrain crop breeding to a great extent. Because gene pleiotropy causes many of these tradeoffs, lowering gene pleiotropy may make it simpler to overcome tradeoffs in plant breeding. Few successful tech...
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Cavefish Modulate Lipid Metabolism to Adapt to Life in Caves
21 Mar 2022Researchers led by Prof. SHUI Guanghou from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Dr. Meng Fanwei from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences presented new findings pertaining to the differential regulation o...
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Unprecedented Glycan Nanocompartments Sustain Plant Vessel Wall Patterning and Xylem Robustness
22 Mar 2022Researchers led by Prof. Zhou Yihua from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently reported an identification of unprecedented xylan nanocompartments at the pit borders of xylem ve...
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Chinese Researchers Develop Fragrant Sorghum with Gene Editing
28 Feb 2022Chinese researchers have successfully cultivated fragrant sorghum using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology.
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Researchers Develop Novel 3D Bioprinting Platform to Aid Natural Cell Function Preservation
22 Feb 2022A collaborative study headed by Professor Xiujie Wang at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Charlie Wang C. L. at The University of Manchester, and Professor Yongjin Liu at the TsingHu...
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Study creates a new wheat mutant with resistance to disease
14 Feb 2022Chinese scientists explained their use of genome editing to produce significant disease resistance without any growth problems in a study published online in Nature. This result marks a significant theoretical and technological advancement in the ...