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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

• IGDB Scientists Revealed the Mechanism of Grain Size Control in Rice

  A team led by Prof. CHU Chengcai of the State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently cloned an important grain length associated locus named GL2, and further revealed the molecular mechanism of rice grain size control, by collaborating with Dr. ZHAO Mingfu f...

  22 Dec 2015

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  Key Repressors in Strigolactone Signaling in Arabidopsis Was Found

  The group of Prof. LI Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science reported that the Strigolactone-dependent regulation of shoot branching in Arabidopsis requires three D53-like proteins.

  12 Nov 2015

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  pYAO-based CRISPR/Cas9 Creates High Genome Editing Efficiency in Arabidopsis

  Researchers in Dr. XIE Qi’s group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported a high genome editing efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system.

  11 Nov 2015