Biomimetic sensors and biosensors for qualitative and quantitative analyses of five ...

April 10^th，2017

As is known to all, the basic taste includes sweetness, bitterness, sourness, saltiness and umami. The core of taste evaluation is the sense of taste. Sensory evaluation and chemical detection, as the methods of evaluating flavor quality, are commonly use...

Rational design of high-yield and superior-quality rice

April 07^th，2017

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population. To meet the ever-increasing demand for food, because of population growth and improved living standards, world rice production needs to double by 2030. The development o...

OsCUL3a Negatively Regulates Cell Death and Immunity by Degrading OsNPR1 in Rice

February 09^th，2017

The ubiquitin/proteasome pathway is a major system for the selective degradation of proteins in eukaryotes. Previous studies in plants have demonstrated that the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway is an essential component of the regulatory networks controlling...

Regulatory Role of OsMADS34 in the Determination of Glumes Fate, Grain Yiel...

January 23^th，2017

In most flowering plants, flowers consist of sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, which are arranged in concentric whorls. Genetic and morphological studies of floral homeotic mutants in eudicots have established the classical ABC model of floral develop...

Genome Editing in Rice Using CRISPR-Cpf1 System

December 14^th，2016

Cpf1 is a class 2/typeV CRISPR effector that has been recently harnessed for genome editing in animal and human cell. Compared with CRIPSR-Cas9 system, Cpf1 recognizes thymidine-rich sequence as the protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) at the 5’ end of target...