Agriculture and Forestry University

Recombinant Lactococcus lactis Expressing IFN-γ Alleviates Viral Enteritis via Microbial and Metabolic Modulation

Abstract Viral enteritis severely impacts the animal industry. Current vaccines and antibiotics have limited efficacy due to virus mutation, drug resistance, and side effects. This study developed an edible lactic acid bacteria (LAB) delivery system, constructing a recombinant st...

Exploring carpel evolution: morphological, anatomical, and STM gene expression evidence from Illicium carpel

Abstract The origin of the carpel is crucial for understanding the evolution of angiosperms. A key unresolved debate centres on whether ovules originate from leaf-like structures or shoot structures. We conducted morphological, anatomical, and gene expression investigations on fl...

Convergent innovation of (crypto)vivipary via asymmetric dismantling of seed desiccation and dormancy machinery

Cryptovivipary and vivipary, referred to as (crypto)vivipary, occur across multiple angiosperm lineages and enable embryos to continue developing before dispersal. Yet, this trait raises a fundamental question: how are seed-specific abscisic acid (ABA) responses modulated to supp...

How certification credibility and benefit framing shape heterogeneous consumer responses to sustainable products in e-commerce

On e-commerce platforms, sustainable products succeed or fail on a compressed product page where certification logos, benefit descriptions, and platform trust cues compete for attention. Retailers treat these cues as interchangeable signals, yet they address two different questio...

Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China

Wang, Jirui, Du, Yuzhou, Xu, Zhihong (2016): Six newly recorded species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China. Zoological Systematics 41 (4): 427-438, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201647, URL: http://zoobank.org/e5980ac9-2fa0-49bd-a7be-7e0b48841fc0

V 0 and V 1 domains of vacuolar H + ‐ ATPase play distinct roles in cadmium tolerance of Broussonetia papyrifera

Abstract Cadmium (Cd) contamination poses a major threat to forest ecosystems, and Broussonetia papyrifera is a promising woody species with strong Cd tolerance and accumulation capacity. Vacuolar H + ‐ATPase (V‐ATPase) is central to ion homeostasis and heavy metal detoxification...

Host-mediated insecticide sequestration in target-site-resistant pests impacts parasitoid fitness and evolution

Insecticide resistance poses a major challenge to global pest management, yet its cascading effects on ecological networks remain poorly understood. Here, we show that target-site-resistant herbivorous insects can accumulate unmetabolized insecticides and inadvertently function a...

β-carotene enhances drought tolerance in fenugreek by modulating antioxidant defense and redox homeostasis

Drought stress is one of the main abiotic factors that modulates the morphology and physiology of crops. This study investigated the effect of foliar application of β-carotene on the growth, physiological, and biochemical responses of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) unde...

Housing tenure, climate resilience, and ecological segregation

A key challenge to ensuring no one is left behind in the green transition lies in the persistent segregation of urban populations and the unequal distribution of environmental costs and benefits. Residential segregation has long reinforced socioeconomic and racialized disparities...

A Taxonomic Review of the Gall Wasp Genus Saphonecrus Dalla-Torre and Kieffer and other Oak Cynipid Inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Mainland China, with Updated Keys to Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Species

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Mapping emotional patterns in linear recreational landscapes: Spatial structure, positive-negative co-occurrence patterns, and nonlinear drivers

As landscape planning shifts toward experience-oriented design, emotion mapping has become critical to understanding how spatial environments shape human perception. However existing approaches are largely grounded in site-based or area-based spatial units, limiting their ability...

The absence of functional CAF-1 results in deficiencies in H3.3 levels at transcribed loci in Arabidopsis

Eukaryotic organisms organize their genetic material in chromatin rather than naked DNA. Efficient chromatin assembly is essential for all DNA-templated processes, including replication, transcription, and DNA repair. Our research focused on two major histone H3 deposition comple...

Explainable lightweight deep learning architectures for crop anomaly detection using enhanced Grad-CAM and transfer learning

This study improves the interpretability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for crop anomaly detection while identifying architectures suitable for deployment on resource constraints edge devices. Six CNNs, including the proposed hybrid, were evaluated across 10 crop species...

Development and validation of the “Yucan-1” 5 K liquid chip for genomic studies in the silkworm (Bombyx mori)

The silkworm ( Bombyx mori ) is a lepidopteran model of paramount economic and scientific importance. While genomic resources are available, a high-throughput, cost-effective, and breed-specific genotyping platform for targeted genetic studies in Chinese local breeds, particularl...

Factors affecting the adoption of climate smart aquaculture ( CSAq ) practices among pond fish farmers in Nepal

Abstract Aquaculture is an important sector for Nepal's economy and rural livelihoods, but its long‐term sustainability is increasingly threatened by climate change. Climate Smart Aquaculture (CSAq) has emerged as a promising approach for adaptation, mitigation and productivity e...