Gansu Agricultural University

Mild deficit irrigation: A water-saving strategy for enhancing fruit quality and water production of wolfberry

Soil salinization, exacerbated by water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions, represents a major constraint on the sustainable intensification of commercial wolfberry production. Appropriate irrigation management offers an approach to reducing water demand, mitigating salt stre...

Potato Planting Quality Detection and Reseeding System Based on Lightweight Detection and Multi-Frame Decision Making

Automatic reseeding in spoon-chain potato planters requires reliable classification of miss-seeding, normal, and multiple-seeding events. Oblique viewing and continuous spoon motion cause scale changes, boundary truncation, blur, and occlusion, which destabilize single-frame pred...

Thinner roots were more efficient to increase soil organic carbon and benefited fungal necromass in an alpine meadow

Abstract Microbial necromass is a key regulator of soil organic carbon (SOC) stability in terrestrial ecosystems, and its formation is directly linked to microbial life cycles. Soil microbes are closely associated with plant community composition and the related root functional t...

Advances in Technologies and Equipment for Potato Seed-Metering Quality Detection and Reseeding

Fast and accurate detection of missed and multiple seeding, followed by timely correction, is needed to maintain potato planting quality. Photoelectric, laser, capacitive, and machine vision methods have been developed for defect detection. Backup metering channels, catch-up comp...

Genome-Wide Identification of the AP2/ERF Family in Alfalfa and Its Association with Antioxidant Regulation Under Drought Stress

In this study, Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) was used as the experimental material to systematically identify members of the AP2/ERF transcription factor family in its genome and to elucidate the response patterns and potential regulatory networks of this family under drought stre...

Molecular Evolution and Expression Analysis of the ADH Gene Family in Apple Bud Mutants

Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) catalyzes the reduction of aldehydes to alcohols, key precursor substrates for volatile ester biosynthesis, which determines the characteristic aroma of apple fruit. However, a comprehensive genome-wide investigation of the ADH gene family in apple has...

Preventive Effects of Fermented Yak Milk-Derived Lacticaseibacillus paracasei CD12-1 Against DSS-Induced Colitis in Mice

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by mucosal barrier disruption, dysregulated immune responses, and gut microbial imbalance. However, limitations of current therapies highlight the need for safe probiotic interventions. This study evaluated...

Effects of Microbial Inoculation on Osmotic Regulation, Ion Homeostasis, Soil Nutrients, and Soil Enzyme Activity in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Under Salt Stress

Microbial inoculation has been unequivocally established as an effective strategy for promoting plant growth and enhancing salinity tolerance. The objective of this work was to examine the influence of AMF (Funneliformis mosseae) inoculation, whether applied singly or together wi...

Mitochondria–Lysosome Quality Flux in Aging Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells: Quality-Control Bottlenecks and Therapeutic Opportunities for Regenerative Decline

Aging mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) lose regenerative capacity as redox imbalance, mitochondrial damage, defective organelle quality control and chronic inflammation converge. Yet these processes are commonly considered in isolation, obscuring whether damaged mitochondria...

Epigenetic multi-omics reveals the molecular regulatory mechanism underlying liver cold resistance in Hezuo pigs

Non-shivering thermogenesis is one of the adaptive modes of heat production in animals to maintain a constant core body temperature in cold environments, in which the liver plays a crucial role. However, the underlying molecular regulatory mechanisms of this process remain unclea...

Threshold-window framework reveals management-sensitive controls of CH4 and N2O emissions in flooded rice

Rice paddies are major sources of methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O), yet co-managing water and nitrogen (N) to limit both gases remains challenging because emissions arise from non-linear interactions among multiple drivers. We combined a two-year field experiment in subt...

MdSPL1‐MdNF‐YB4‐MdCKX7 Module Positively Regulates Saline‐Alkali Tolerance by Mediating Cytokinin Levels in Apple

Saline-alkali stress is a major abiotic factor that compromises plant growth, crop yield, and quality. Cytokinin plays an essential role in plant responses to saline-alkali stress; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear in apple (Malus domestica). In this stu...

Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal early coordination between redox homeostasis and phenylpropanoid metabolism associated with oat resistance to Drechslera avenae

Oat ( Avena sativa L.) is an important grain and forage crop, but oat leaf spot caused by Drechslera avenae ( D. avenae ) severely limits its production. However, the dynamic defense mechanisms underlying genotype-dependent resistance to this disease remain unclear. We characteri...

Botulinum toxin type A attenuates trigeminal neuralgia-like pain by suppressing CGRP release and modulating NaV1.7-associated signaling

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a disabling facial pain disorder, and current treatments remain insufficient for a substantial proportion of patients. Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT/A) has shown therapeutic benefit in TN, but its peripheral analgesic mechanisms remain incompletely und...

Bacillus velezensis and Sinorhizobium meliloti Form a Functional Complementary Alliance to Alleviate the Impact of Salt Stress on Alfalfa Growth

Salt stress is a prevalent abiotic stress worldwide, which markedly inhibits crop growth and triggers yield losses. In this study, salt-tolerant plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria of Cerasus humilis—Bacillus pumilus and B. velezensis, which possess nitrogen-fixing, phosphate-so...

OsCYP71D10 Positively Regulates Rice Sheath Blight Resistance and is Associated with Altered Ascorbate-Related Metabolism and Redox Homeostasis

Rice sheath blight, caused by the necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani , poses a major threat to global rice production. Breeding resistant varieties represents the most sustainable management strategy. Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases play diverse roles in plant defense metaboli...

Ethanolic Extract of Sophora moorcroftiana Seeds Attenuates LPS-Induced Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in RAW 264.7 Macrophages via Modulation of the p62/Keap1/Nrf2 Signaling Pathway

Despite the traditional application of Sophora moorcroftiana seeds (SMS) in Tibetan medicine for heat-clearing, damp-drying, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying properties, the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of SMS remain insufficiently understood and warrant systematic investigation...

Molecular mechanism of drought resistance in oat roots revealed using integrated physiological and multi-omics analyses

Oat ( Avena sativa L.), a key forage crop, is highly susceptible to water deficit. Many studies have elucidated the mechanisms through which oat leaves respond to drought; however, little is known about these mechanisms in roots. We compared the physiological, transcriptomic, and...

Lineage-Associated Genomic and Phenotypic Features of Bovine Mastitis-Associated Staphylococcus aureus from Northwestern China

Staphylococcus aureus is a major contagious pathogen causing bovine mastitis, with persistence and antimicrobial resistance posing ongoing challenges in dairy herds. From July 2022 to July 2023, 942 mastitis milk samples (267 clinical, 675 subclinical) from 10 farms in northweste...

Physiological and Transcriptomic Profiling of Exogenous Jasmonic Acid-Mediated Cold Tolerance in Seedlings of Poa pratensis var. anceps cv. Qinghai

Poa pratensis var. anceps cv. Qinghai is a high-quality forage grass widely distributed across the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, exhibiting exceptional cold tolerance, a well-developed root system, and outstanding soil consolidation capacity, rendering it of great significance for eco...