Research News
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IGDB Scientists Propose a New "Green Revolution" Breeding Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture
Researchers from Prof. FU Xiangdong’s team at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a generation of new type GRVs with synergistic improvement in high yield and high nitrogen efficiency to realize a “less input, more output” breeding strategy for sustainable agriculture.
31 May 2022
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Harnessing Functions of Microbiota to Combat Fungal Pathogens
Recently, researchers in Prof. BAI Yang’s lab from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with Prof. CHEN Yun and Prof. YU Yunlong’s team at Zhejiang University, found that microbiota from F. graminearum perithecia show antagonistic activity against the Fusarium head blight.
31 May 2022
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Researchers Discover Human Aging-associated Metabolic Features and Pathways
Dr. SHUI Guanghou's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently revealed perturbations in a diverse array of metabolic pathways across human aging.
16 May 2022
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Researchers Reveal How Rice Senses Ambient Temperature Changes
A recent study, delivered by Dr. LI Yunhai’s team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed the important roles of a single amino acid L301P mutation of the histone binding protein OsMS1 in responding to temperature changes and confers thermosensitive genic male sterility in rice.
11 May 2022
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Researchers Boost Rice Yield by Overcoming Trait Tradeoff Between Panicle Number and Size
Researchers from LI Jiayang's group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, provided an effective strategy to overcome the bottleneck of rice yield using the tiling deletion to edit the cis-regulatory region of rice pleiotropic gene IPA1 and breaking the tradeoff of rice yield component traits,.
22 Apr 2022
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Mitochondrial-to-nuclear Communication in Aging Regulation
Dr. TIAN Ye's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, summarized recent studies on the mechanisms by which mito-nuclear communication modulates epigenomes and their effects on regulating the aging process.
13 Apr 2022
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Researchers Reveal Plant E3 Ubiquitin Ligase and Deubiquitinase Pair's Function on Regulating ABA Perception
Researchers from XIE Qi's team in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences found deubiquitinases UBP12 and UBP13 can deubiquitinate protein of VPS23A and maintain its stability so as to regulate abscisic acid perception.
11 Apr 2022
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Researchers Reveal the Novel Molecular Mechanisms underlying the Onset of Autism
Researchers led by Prof. XU Zhiheng from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the important roles of the scaffold protein plenty of SH3s (POSH) in regulating the assembly of the NMDAR/PSD-95/Shank complex at the postsynaptic density.
06 Apr 2022