Research News
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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
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Evolutionarily Conservative and Non-conservative Regulatory Networks during Primate Interneuron Development
Recently, researchers led by Prof. XU Zhiheng from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed the evolutionarily conservative and non-conservative regulatory networks during primate interneuron development by single-cell RNA and ATAC sequencing.
23 Mar 2022
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Researchers Developed an "Upgraded" Efficient New Prime Editor
GAO Caixia's group and collaborators from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a more efficient and improved plant prime editing system, named ePPE (Engineered Plant Prime Editor).
23 Mar 2022
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Unprecedented Glycan Nanocompartments Sustain Plant Vessel Wall Patterning and Xylem Robustness
The group of Prof. ZHOU Yihua from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported an identification of unprecedented xylan nanocompartments at the pit borders of xylem vessels in rice and Arabidopsis using super-resolution confocal microscopy.
23 Mar 2022