Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Effects of Red and Blue Light on Steady-State and Dynamic Photosynthesis of Cucumber Seedlings

Our previous study revealed a significant effect of red and blue light on steady-state and dynamic photosynthesis in cucumber seedlings. To further investigate the mechanism by which red and blue light affect photosynthesis, cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Jinyou 365) seedlings...

Life History Traits of Mythimana loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Two Transformation Events (DBN9936 and Ruifeng 125)

Mythimna (=Leucania) loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an important pest of summer maize (Zea mays) in China’s Huang–Huai–Hai region. The approved transformation events DBN9936 (Cry1Ab) and Ruifeng 125 (Cry1Ab/Cry2Aj) were primarily developed to target Ostrinia furnacalis, and t...

SAMSN1 restricts Japanese encephalitis virus replication by recruiting TRIM21 to degrade viral proteins and activate the interferon pathway

Abstract Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a zoonotic mosquito-transmitted flavivirus, induces human encephalitis and swine reproductive diseases. No antiviral drugs or treatments exist for flavivirus infections, which cause severe symptoms. Even though some host proteins can su...

A practical workflow combining Kaplan-Meier and Bayesian accelerated failure time analyses for censored reproductive phenology data in soybean

Abstract Developmental progression in plants is inherently a time-to-event process, yet plant phenology data are often analyzed as ordinary endpoint traits even when some individuals fail to reach the target stage within the observation window. Such observations are right-censore...

Genetic diversity analysis and core collection construction of 259 garlic germplasm resources based on SSR molecular markers

This study utilized 23 SSR primer pairs for amplification and capillary electrophoresis detection across 259 garlic germplasm accessions. Genetic diversity and clustering were assessed through locus-based statistical methods. A core collection was identified using Powercore softw...

An elite allele TaNPF7.6-A1mod enhances nitrogen use efficiency and grain yield in wheat

Breeding wheat varieties with a high nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) reduces both production costs and threats to the ecological environment. Here, using candidate-gene and genome-wide association studies, we identify TaNPF7.6-A1 as a positive regulator of NUE in wheat. A widely co...

RegPathTopic: deterministic regulatory-path topic modeling with traceable regulatory vocabularies for single-cell annotation

Single-cell RNA sequencing annotation can achieve high label accuracy when suitable references are available, but assigned labels do not necessarily expose the regulatory features associated with cell identity or state. Existing regulator-activity methods address related biologic...

Enhancing Food Quality Through Radio Frequency Drying of In‐Shell Oil Crops: A Critical Review of Mechanisms, Advantages, and Challenges

ABSTRACT The postharvest drying of in‐shell oil crops is severely constrained by their shell–kernel structure, which creates stubborn heat and mass transfer resistance, leading to prolonged processing times, high energy consumption, and rapid quality deterioration, including lipi...

First report of cowpea mild mottle virus naturally infecting Salvia miltiorrhiza in China

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge, also called Danshen, is a perennial Chinese herbal medicine belonging to the family Lamiaceae and has been used for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (Jung et al. 2020). Henan province is one of the main and genuine production a...

A complete correspondence between the Newman–Penrose and 1+1+2 formalisms

Abstract We establish a correspondence between the Newman–Penrose and 1+1+2 semitetrad covariant formalisms by expressing all Newman–Penrose spin coefficients, Ricci scalars, and Weyl scalars in terms of the scalar, vector, and tensor variables of the 1+1+2 decomposition. In addi...

Integrative genomic and functional analyses identify LjbZIP36 as a candidate regulator of β-carotene accumulation during floral color transition in Lonicera japonica

Abstract Background Floral color transition is a characteristic developmental process in Lonicera japonica , during which flowers gradually change from white to golden yellow during flower maturation owing to carotenoid accumulation. Although carotenoid biosynthetic genes have be...

Rapid Detection of N9 Subtype Avian Influenza Viruses Using an NA-Targeting Lateral Flow Immunoassay

The emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (AIVs) poses significant threats to global public health and the poultry economy. Rapid detection methods targeting the hemagglutinin (HA) protein have become increasingly unreliable due to ongoing antigenic drift and gen...

Nitrogen Sources Reshape Microbial Community Assembly and Interaction Networks to Regulate Straw Decomposition and Carbon Release in Cropland Soils of the North China Plain

The decomposition of crop residue is indispensable for carbon (C) cycling in agricultural ecosystems, and nitrogen (N) application has a pronounced effect on this by regulating the C/N ratio and microbial growth strategy. This study investigated how different inorganic and organi...

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...

Wavelength-Specific Artificial Light Disrupts Calling Behavior, Pheromone Blend Composition, and Mating Success in the Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Artificial light at night (ALAN) and the broader use of artificial light in agriculture are increasingly recognized to affect the physiology and behavior of nocturnal insects, yet their influence on pheromone-mediated reproductive communication in economically important insect pe...