Xiaomei Dong

Physiological Responses and Transcriptomic Characteristics of Exogenous Trehalose Alleviating Cadmium Toxicity in Maize Seedlings

Cadmium (Cd) contamination poses a severe ecological risk to ecosystems. Trehalose (TR) is a non-reducing disaccharide which can mitigate the adverse effects of heavy metals. The physiological responses and transcriptomic characteristics underlying TR-mediated heavy metal toleran...

Spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal the complexity of genomic imprinting in maize

Genomic imprinting is a classic epigenetic phenomenon first discovered in maize, which occurs predominantly in the triploid endosperm and is thought to mediate parental influences on seed development. Previous studies based on bulk RNA sequencing of manually dissected endosperm h...