Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences

Effects of Dietary Alpinia officinarum Extract on Performance, Immunity, Microbiota, and Aeromonas hydrophila Resistance in Red Claw Crayfish

Plant extracts contain multiple bioactive compounds and have been extensively investigated as alternatives to antibiotic-based feed additives in aquaculture. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with galangal (Alpinia officinarum) extr...

Integrated Transcriptome and WGCNA Analyses Reveal Candidate Regulatory Networks Associated with Shell Hardening in Macadamia integrifolia

To characterize the transcriptomic dynamics underlying shell hardening in Macadamia integrifolia, RNA sequencing was performed on pericarp and shell tissues collected at three key developmental stages. A total of 18 libraries were generated, yielding 125.19 Gb of clean data. Gene...

Assessing Cultivated Land Abandonment in Hainan Island: Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Driving Mechanism

Cultivated land abandonment poses a growing threat to regional food security and sustainable land resource allocation in tropical island regions, making the accurate identification of its spatio-temporal characteristics and driving mechanisms an urgent research priority. This stu...