Research News

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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

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  Knocking Down Huntingtin in Adult Brains for Treating Huntington Disease Might Safe

  A team led by Dr. LI Xiao-Jiang of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported age- and cell type-dependent function indicates the safety in knocking down HTT in adult brains for treating Huntington disease.

  15 Mar 2016

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  Molecular Mechanism of the Underlying Regulatory Long-distance Shoot-root Communication Is Revealed

  A team led by Dr. FU Xiangdong of the State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported that a bZIP transcription factor ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 (HY5) is a shoot-root mobile signal that mediates light-regulated coupling of shoot growt...

  11 Mar 2016

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  IGDB Scientists Revealed a Key Mechanism of Plant Thermotolerance

  Collaborated research from XUE Yongbiao’s lab and CHENG Zhukuan’s lab, both from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified a novel gene, Thermotolerant Growth Required1 (TOGR1) from a thermosensitive rice mutant (togr1-1) which encodes a DEAD-box RNA helicase and confers thermotolerant growth ...

  26 Feb 2016

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  A New Gene Controls Leaf Rolling in Rice

  Researchers in Dr. CHENG Zhukuan’s group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported a Semi-Rolled Leaf2 (SRL2) gene which encodes a novel plant-specific protein that functions in regulating rice leaf rolling.

  26 Feb 2016

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  Chinese Scientists Find a New Regulatory Module Controlling Grain Size and Yield in Rice

  The group of Prof. LI Yunhai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with researchers from China National Rice Research Institute and Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, identified a new semi-dominant quantitative trait loci (QTL) for gain size and weight (GS2) in rice.

  24 Dec 2015