Overcoming self-incompatibility and inbreeding depression in diploid potato provides theoretical basis for diploid potato breeding and the reference for deciphering the inbreeding depression in other species, which promotes the process of potato as staple food. The work successfully obtained clonal seeds, established the apomixis strategy in hybrid rice and opened up a new direction for the resear...

The study on the structure of African swine fever virus found a variety of potential key epitopes of ASF virus, which provides important clues for revealing the mechanisms of ASF virus invading host cells and host antiviral immunity, and opens up new avenues for African swine fever vaccine development. The study of recombinant Eimeria as a vaccine vector showed that the co-immunization of multiple...

The chromosome-level genome of Sitobion miscanthi, the dominant wheat pest in China, from a parthenogenetic female aphid colony was successfully assembled and further analyzed. The progress makes S. miscanthi an ideal model for studying host specificity, phenotypic plasticity, and interactions between aphid and various trophic levels and may drive an application breakthrough of aphid control. Yiel...

Both katB, a catalase gene, and oxyR, a peroxide sensor gene, play important roles in oxidative resistance and optimal nitrogenase activity. This study sets the foundation to explore the defensive mechanism of nitrogenase activity against oxidative damage in nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The distribution of potassium in different aggregate fractions was adjusted by acidification improvement for red so...

A combination of machine learning algorithms was first used to elucidate the mechanism of signature microorganisms and their symbiotic partners to promote the rumen volatile fatty acids production and rumen function development in early feeding lambs, providing insights into the ruminant rearing theory. Comparing taxon-level contribution profiles of (A) (B) (C) rumen functional shifts Plan...