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Researchers Resolve the 40-Gb Decaploid Thinopyrum ponticum Genome
A collaborative team led by HE Fei and other partners, generated a homoeolog-resolved reference genome for decaploid Thinopyrum ponticum, an important wild relative of wheat.
20 Oct 2026
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Researchers Decipher How Strigolactones Regulate Drought Resistance in Rice
WANG Bing lab clarified that the hormone strigolactone acts as a key negative regulator of drought resistance and suggest new targets for breeding drought-resistant, high-yield rice varieties.
20 Oct 2026
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Scientists Engineer Elite Herbicide-Tolerance Alleles by Coupling Protein Design with Gene-Expression Tuning
A research team led by Prof. GAO Caixia and Prof. CHEN Yuhang developed a “dual-layer” allele engineering strategy, which coordinats structure-guided protein design with precise cis-regulatory tuning, to generate rice and wheat with improved herbicide tolerance.
15 Oct 2026
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A Spatiotemporal Lifecycle Atlas Decodes Spatial Coordination in Rice
Recently, a group led by Prof. YANG Weicai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with several research teams, built a 3D spatiotemporal atlas of rice spanning 10 organs and 61 stages from seed to seed.
10 Oct 2026
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Researchers Develop SpaceA: A Spatial Omics Technology for Higher-Order Chromatin Architecture
A group led by Prof. LI Xiang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed SpaceA, a spatial 3D genomics technology that enables high-confidence, in situ profiling of long-range chromatin interactions within tissue sections, through integrating microfluidic spatial barcoding with a SPRITE-like ...
05 Oct 2026
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OpenFISH enables same-section spatial transcriptomics and MALDI–MSI integration
Prof. DUAN Lihui at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), developed an open, low-cost imaging-based spatial transcriptomics platform that can also integrate spatial metabolomics on the very same slide.
24 Sep 2026
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Researchers Reveal How Tiny Alarm Signals Help Soybean Fight Different Diseases
A research Group led by Dr. LI Lei at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered a flexible warning system that helps soybean defend different diseases.
27 Aug 2026
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Researchers Develop Bridge RNA-Guided Large-Fragment Editing System for Cross-Kingdom Precise Genome Manipulation
A team led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a bridge RNA-guided recombinase system that enables programmable, scarless large-fragment genome editing across both plant and mammalian cells.
25 Aug 2026
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