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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Climate change, human activity, and plant diversity [PDF]

Plant Diversity
As the highest and largest plateau in the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) covers wide geological, topographical and climatic gradients and thus acts as a major center for biodiversity and houses a diverse array of high elevation ecosystems ...
Yang Yang, Jianguo Chen, Bo Song, Yazhou Zhang, Yang Niu, Zihan Jiang, Hang Sun   +6 more
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PeAP1-mediated oxidative stress response plays an important role in the growth and pathogenicity of Penicillium expansum

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Penicillium expansum is the causal agent of post-harvest blue mold in various fruits and serves as a model for understanding fungal pathogenicity and mycotoxin production.
Yong Chen, Yichen Zhang, Dongying Xu, Zhanquan Zhang, Boqiang Li, Shiping Tian   +5 more
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Terpene produced by coexpression of the TPS and P450 genes from Lavandula angustifolia protects plants from herbivore attacks during budding stages

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
To deter herbivore attacks, plants employ a diverse array of volatile compounds, particularly during the early developmental stages. The highly expressed genes LaTPS7, LaTPS8, and LaCYP71D582 were identified during the budding phases of Lavandula ...
Zhengyi Ling, Jingrui Li, Yanmei Dong, Wenying Zhang, Hongtong Bai, Shu Li, Su Wang, Hui Li, Lei Shi   +8 more
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Identification of errors in draft genome assemblies at single-nucleotide resolution for quality assessment and improvement

Nature Communications, 2023
Assembly of a high-quality genome is important for downstream comparative and functional genomic studies. However, most tools for genome assembly assessment only give qualitative reports, which do not pinpoint assembly errors at specific regions.
Kunpeng Li, Peng Xu, Jinpeng Wang, Xin Yi, Yuannian Jiao   +4 more
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Sex-specific variations in phytochemicals and antimicrobial potentiality of Dioscorea

Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020
Background The monocotyledonous herbaceous crop Dioscorea is native to tropical and temperate regions of the world. Dioscorea tubers are dioecious in nature, have colossal therapeutic potentiality, and are frequently used in traditional medical practices
Chiranjit Paul, Amal Debnath, Kripamoy Chakraborty, Sushanta Ghosh, Abhijit Bhattacharjee, Bimal Debnath   +5 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of Tabebuia rosea (Bignoniaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources
Tabebuia rosea is a world-renowned woody plant with colorful flowers in full bloom. In addition to its high ornamental value, it also has ecological and medicinal value. In this study, the complete circular chloroplast genome of T.
Guihong Xu, Wei Zeng, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jiayu Hu, Jiangli Lei   +4 more
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Dynamics of chromatin accessibility and genome wide control of desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Haberlea rhodopensis

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background Drought is one of the main consequences of global climate change and this problem is expected to intensify in the future. Resurrection plants evolved the ability to withstand the negative impact of long periods of almost complete desiccation ...
Petko Mladenov, Xiaohua Wang, Zhaolin Yang, Dimitar Djilianov, Xin Deng   +4 more
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A comparison of Mopaneveld vegetation in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2003
Data from fifteen phytosociological studies were merged and classified to describe and compare the vegetation of geo­ graphically separated and climatically different Mopanev eld types in South Africa. Namibia and Zimbabw e.
F. Siebert, G. J. Bredenkamp, S. J. Siebert   +2 more
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A PL1 family pectate lyase CP966_RS08110 gene was the pathogenic factor of Streptomyces galilaeus 5T-1 causing potato common scab

Frontiers in Microbiology
Pectate lyases (PL), as important polysaccharide lyases, play an important role in the infection of host plants by pathogenic. A previous study found that the PL gene CP966_RS08110 was up-regulated in the interaction between Streptomyces galilaeus 5T-1 ...
Cuiwen Zhang, Cuiwen Zhang, Chengde Yang, Chengde Yang, Mengjun Jin, Mengjun Jin, Zhonghong Feng, Zhonghong Feng, Richard Osei, Richard Osei, Fengfeng Cai, Fengfeng Cai, Ting Ma, Ting Ma, Yidan Wang, Yidan Wang   +15 more
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Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence

Nature Communications
The transformation from prey to predator is a striking adaptive innovation shared by all carnivorous plants, which capture and digest diverse animal prey for nutrients (nitrogen, N).
Xin-Jian Zhang, Tao Deng, Nan Lin, Heng-Chang Wang, Bo Song, Er-Na Xun, Xian-Han Huang, Quan-Sheng Fu, Jun-Tong Chen, Peng-Rui Luo, Douglas E. Soltis, Hang Sun   +11 more
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