Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Pectin–Protein Complexes: A Design‐Oriented Platform for Tailoring Food Texture Modification

ABSTRACT Pectin–protein complexes have emerged as promising functional ingredients in texture‐modified foods (TMF) due to their multifunctional roles in gelation, emulsification, and water retention. These properties enable the design of customized textures for applications such...

Herbivory‐Induced Stomatal Opening Triggers the Dispersal of an Invasive Insect Herbivore

Stomata play important roles in plant responses to phytopathogens, but less is known about their roles in plant-herbivore interactions. Herbivore damage commonly closes stomata but also elicits the release of herbivory-induced plant volatiles, important mediators of plant-herbivo...

Functional Sex Reversal in Adult Gonochoristic Teleosts is Mediated by Ovarian Germline Stem Cell Plasticity and Somatic Cell Transdifferentiation

ABSTRACT Sexual fate in vertebrates is generally considered developmentally fixed; however, teleost fishes exhibit remarkable flexibility in their reproductive systems. It remains unclear whether a fully differentiated gonochoristic vertebrate can undergo complete and functional...

Rotational canal scheduling in two oasis irrigation districts using a weighted composite objective and a sigmoid-adaptive genetic algorithm

Rotational canal scheduling in arid irrigation districts must satisfy coupled water-volume, timing, and hydraulic constraints while balancing modeled seepage loss and the dispersion of trunk-canal discharge levels. A constrained model with a weighted composite objective was solve...

A Text Classification Model for Agricultural Expert Forums Based on Expert Domain Preferences and Deep Semantics

Agricultural expert forums serve as important platforms for knowledge exchange, containing large volumes of text that embody professional expertise and practical experience. However, because experts often focus on different agricultural subfields and category semantics may overla...

Study on the Accumulation, Excretion, and Distribution of Cadmium in Mice After Dietary Exposure to Cadmium-Rich Swimming Crab Portunus trituberculatus

To investigate the patterns of cadmium accumulation and distribution in mice following oral ingestion of cadmium-enriched Portunus trituberculatus, this study selected 4-week-old ICR mice as a model organism. A control group was fed a standard diet, while an exposure group was fe...

Visual and rapid detection of Fasciola spp. in fecal samples using a one-pot RPA-CRISPR/Cas12a assay

Fasciolosis caused by Fasciola spp. has substantial veterinary and public-health importance, while conventional fecal microscopy has limited sensitivity and PCR depends on laboratory equipment. This study aimed to develop a rapid, visual one-pot recombinase polymerase amplificati...

Preliminary Kinetic Assessment of Quality Deterioration and Shelf-Life Estimation in Yellowfin Tuna Under Different Constant Storage Temperatures

The quality of yellowfin tuna is highly vulnerable to microbial proliferation, which accelerates quality deterioration and spoilage throughout storage. In this study, the dynamic changes in biogenic amines (BAs), total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N), and total plate count (TPC)...

Vanillin Improves Antioxidant Capacity, Immunity, and Gut Microbiota in Broilers

Wle vanillin is widely used as a flavoring agent in food products, its potential as a non-antibiotic feed additive for broilers remains unexplored. This study primarily investigated the effects of dietary supplementation of vanillin on antioxidant activity, anti-inflammatory resp...

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...

Risk Causation and Safety Governance Pathways for Very Large-Scale Biogas (Biomethane) Projects Under Dual-Carbon Goals: A DEMATEL-ISM-Based Empirical Study

Very large-scale biogas (biomethane) projects are important infrastructure systems for integrating organic waste treatment, renewable energy substitution, and carbon mitigation under China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. However, their long process chains, concentra...

Goji berry chromoplasts as water-dispersible carotenoid vehicles: characterization and stability assessment under different storage conditions

Chromoplasts are organelles found in plant cells that store carotenoids. Their naturally hydrophilic structure, which accommodates carotenoids, has garnered increasing interest in recent years. However, the structural characteristics of carotenoid-loaded chromoplasts are still no...

Design and Experimental Study of a Semi-Active Boom Vibration Damping System for a Shielded Soybean-Maize Sprayer

For the problem that, under the soybean-maize strip intercropping pattern, the installation of anti-drift shields changes the mass and inertia characteristics of the boom of a shielded sprayer, making it prone to severe vibration under complex field excitations and thereby affect...

Evolution of water clarity across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region over the past four decades (1984–2024): Driven by hydrological expansion and anthropogenic intervention

Given escalating water scarcity and rapid urbanization, characterizing the long-term evolution of surface water environments across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region is vital for coordinated regional development. Using Landsat imagery spanning 1984–2024, this study quantifie...

Associations of Breed and FUT1 Genotype with the Fecal Microbiota of Weaned Piglets

This study aimed to analyze the associations between the composition and function of the gut microbiome in weaned piglets of different breeds and Fucosyltransferase 1 (FUT1) genotypes. Ear tissue and fecal samples were collected from 163 piglets (61 Durocs, 39 Yorkshires, and 63...

A cooperative regulatory module between TAGL2 and JMJC1 activates specific defense genes against root‐knot nematodes in tomato

Summary Plant‐parasitic nematodes (PPNs) threaten global food security. Although epigenetic modifications are crucial for plant immunity, how histone modifiers contribute to root‐knot nematodes (RKNs, Meloidogyne incognita ) resistance remains unclear. Here, using genetic, molecu...

Structured Multi-Kernel Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process for Crop Straw-to-Grain Ratio Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification

Crop straw-to-grain ratio (SGR) estimation underpins regional straw resource assessment, yet national inventories rely on fixed coefficients that ignore structured variation across variety, environment, and phenotype. We introduce a Structured Multi-Kernel Heteroscedastic Gaussia...

Caspase‐3‐mediated apoptosis‐associated flavor changes in large yellow croaker during cold storage induced by Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter haemolyticus : a metabolomics and headspace solid‐phase microextraction–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry study

Abstract BACKGROUND The flavor changes of large yellow croaker during cold storage are complex. In this study, headspace solid‐phase microextraction–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (HS‐SPME‐GC‐MS) was combined with metabolomics to explore the flavor changes caused by the eff...

Genome-Wide Association Study and Genomic Selection for Average Daily Gain in Ashidan Yak

Average daily gain (ADG) is a core quantitative trait determining the economic benefits of Ashidan yak, a polled new breed adapted to cold barn feeding on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Unraveling its complex genetic architecture is crucial for early molecular breeding selection. In...

Pangenome analyses reveal divergence and extensive introgression in two global corn pests

Introgression between closely related species can profoundly influence evolutionary trajectories, yet how genomic divergence interacts with introgression, especially in invasive hybridization, remains insufficiently understood. Structural variants (SVs), particularly chromosomal...