Research News
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IGDB Scientists Identify Direct Downstream Transcription Factor of D53 in Strigolactone Signaling in Rice
Researchers from Prof. LI Jiayang’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently found that Ideal Plant Architecture 1 (IPA1) is the long-speculated direct downstream transcription factor repressed by D53 in SL signaling in rice.
28 Aug 2017
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Transcriptome Association Explains Wheat Spike Architecture
Researchers in Dr. JIAO Yuling’s group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. WANG Xiangfeng’s group from China Agricultural University recently used a population associative transcriptomic approach in combination with coexpression network analysis to infer the identities of genes related...
17 Aug 2017
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Chinese Researchers Report for the First-time Neurodevelopmental Abnormality in a Non-human Primate Carrying a SHANK3 Mutation
Recently, the researchers from Dr. ZHANG Yongqing’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), found neurodevelopmental abnormality in SHANK3-deficient non-human primate for the first time.
03 Aug 2017
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Populations Living with High Densities of Fast-food and Full Service Restaurants Do Not Have Higher Levels of Obesity.
Researchers from Professor John Speakman’s group at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently found that variations in the densities of fast-food and full-service restaurants are not linked to the prevalence of obesity in the United States.
26 Jul 2017
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MYC2-orchestrated Transcriptional Cascade Regulates Jasmonate-Mediated Plant Immunity in Tomato
In a recent study, Scientists from Dr. LI Chuanyou’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered that the tomato master regulator MYC2 orchestrates a hierarchical transcriptional program that underlies JA-mediated plant immunity.
26 Jul 2017
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Interactive Protein Posttranslational Modifications Regulate Stress Responses
proposed model of the NO-mediated S-nitrosylation of PRMT5 regulates stress responses
28 Jul 2017
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Histone Modifications Promote the Consistency of Gene Expression Among Isogenic Cells
In a recent study, researchers from QIAN Wenfeng’s Lab at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered that the gene expression noise can be suppressed, to a certain degree, by gene-body-localized histone modifications (such as H3K79 methylation), in multiple embryonic developmental stages in huma...
17 Jul 2017
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The Otubain-like Protease WTG1 Regulates Grain Size and Shape in Rice
A recent study by Dr. LI Yunhai’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Dr. Wang Dekai at Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, isolated a wide and thick grain 1 (wtg1-1) mutant and identified the WTG1 gene, revealed a novel otubain-like protease WTG1 that reg...
03 Jul 2017