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  Chinese Researchers Find Direct Evidence that Zika Causes Microcephaly in Mice

  Chinese researchers said Wednesday they have found direct evidence that Zika infection causes microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head, in mouse experiments. Mouse fetuses injected with the Zika virus and carried to term within their pregnant mothers display the characteristic features of microcephaly, they reported in the...

  12 May 2016

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  Centromere Behavior Has Great Impact on Generation of New Wheat Germplasm

  Dr. HAN Fangpu’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences studied De Novo centromere formation and centromeric sequence expansion in wheat and its wide hybrids, and found the centromere behavior has great impact on generation of new wheat germplasm

  12 May 2016

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  Fetal Mice with Zika Infection Get Microcephaly

  Zika virus disrupts neural progenitor development and leads to microcephaly in mice

  12 May 2016

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  Hterotrimeric G Proteins Regulate Plant Immunity

  The research group led by Dr. ZHOU Jianmin at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with the group of Dr. ZHANG Yuelin at University of British Columbia, reported that the hterotrimeric G proteins positively regulate plant immunity by directly interacting with the FLS2-BIK1 immune receptor...

  25 Apr 2016

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  Scientists Find a Novel Mechanism of Meristemoid Cells in Plant Organ Size Control

  The group of Prof. LI Yunhai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), collaborated with Prof. WANG Yingchun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS and Prof. INZE Dirk from Ghent University, Belgium, reported that the F-box protein STERILE APETALA (SAP) controls organ size...

  20 Apr 2016

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  A New Component in Regulating Plant DNA Methylation Identified

  A team led by WANG Xiu-Jie of the Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperated with ZHANG Xiuren’s team at Texas A & M University, recently reported the function and associated sRNA features of Arabidopsis AGO3 as a new component in regulating DNA methylation.

  20 Apr 2016

• Feeding the World: Uncovering a Key Regulator of Flower Head Development in Rice

  Discovering how rice flower structures develop in response to environmental cues will help breeders increase the productivity of this crucial food crop. In a groundbreaking study, scientists uncovered an important regulator of this developmental process through mutant and molecular analysis.

  05 Apr 2016

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  The Receptors Perceiving the Female Attractant in Plants Identified

  A team led by Dr. YANG Wei-Cai of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported the identification of a cell-surface receptor heteromer, MDIS1–MIK, on the pollen tube that perceives the female attractant LURE1 in plant.

  15 Mar 2016