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CRISPRed Wheat Helps Farmers Control Weeds
Recently, a research team led by Prof. GAO Caixia and LI Jiayang at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGDB, CAS) and Associate Prof. JIANG Linjian at China Agricultural University (CAU), generated several herbicide tolerant wheat germplasms using base editing to facilitate weed control in wheat field.
12 Apr 2019
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Scientists Discover Resistosome, Illuminating Plant Disease Resistance Mechanisms
In a recent study a team led by scientists at Tsinghua University (TU) and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGDB CAS) solved the first structures of a full-length plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich receptor (NLR) protein and uncovered previously unknown mechanisms of this important class of immun...
04 Apr 2019
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H3K27me3 Demethylase JUMONJI 13 Regulates Flowering Time in Arabidopsis
Recently, a team led by Prof. CAO Xiaofeng at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. SUN Daye’s team from Hebei Normal Unviersity and Prof. DU Jiamu’s team from Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS, revealed the structure of Arabidopsis JMJ13 catalytic domain and...
02 Apr 2019
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IGDB Scientists Found that Xylan Sidechain Deacetylation Determines Cell Wall Architecting
The group of Prof. ZHOU Yihua from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, recently reported that rice DARX1 is a GDSL esterase that removes acetyl groups from excess acetylated arabinosyl substituents of arabinoxylan and modulates xylan conformation and secondary wall architecture.
28 Mar 2019
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Transplanting Adult Spinal Cord Tissues: A New Strategy of Repair Spinal Cord Injury
Dr. Dai Jianwu’s group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, successful used adult spinal cord grafts (aSCGs) derived from adult rat spinal cord tissue as an allograft for the treatment of complete spinal cord injury (SCI) in adult rats.
28 Mar 2019
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Rice Cultivation: Balance of Phosphorus and Nitrogen Determines Growth and Yield
Scientists at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China), collaborated with researchers from the University of Cologne's Botanical Institute and the Cluster of Excellence CEPLAS, discovered a new mechanism in control of plant nutrition which could help to achieve higher harvests in a sustain...
27 Mar 2019
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Snapdragon Enters the Genomic Age
Researchers in China and at the John Innes Centre have successfully assembled a near-complete genome sequence of the popular plant model system Antirrhinum majus.
05 Mar 2019
