Shanxi Agricultural University

PbAP2 accelerates postharvest chlorophyll degradation by directly activating PbNYC1 transcription in ‘Yuluxiang’pear

Yuluxiang’ pear is a premium pear cultivar widely cultivated in China, but postharvest peel chlorosis caused by chlorophyll degradation severely shortens its shelf life and impairs commercial value. This study investigated the dynamic changes in physicochemical quality and peel p...

Integrated management strategies for sustainable intensification of a sweet maize–vegetable triple-cropping system in a water-sensitive region

Context and objective Intensive sweet maize–vegetable cropping systems are critical for food production but typically rely on excessive nutrient inputs, leading to substantial nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) losses, particularly in water-sensitive regions. However, most field stu...

Ultrasound-Assisted Sustainable Extraction of Berberine from Coptis chinensis Franch. Using Temperature-Responsive Deep Eutectic Solvents

Abstract The development of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) that can be readily and sustainably recycled is expected to reduce costs and enhance the environmental friendliness of extracting plant-derived active ingredients. Here, a novel temperature-responsive DES prepared from pro...

QTL-Guided Prioritization of SiMGT2 as a Candidate Gene Associated with Grain Fat Content in Foxtail Millet

Grain fat content contributes to nutritional quality in foxtail millet, but its genetic basis remains incompletely understood. We evaluated a 256-line recombinant inbred population derived from Jingu21 and Chuang29 in two environments. Among the individual environments, qFC5 was...

Transcriptomic Analysis of Hemolymph in Pollen-Foraging and Non-Pollen-Foraging Apis mellifera ligustica and Identification of Candidate Genes

Foraging is a physiologically demanding behavior in honey bees, requiring substantial energy expenditure and continuous physiological adaptation. To investigate the molecular responses of hemolymph during foraging, pollen-foraging workers returning from pear flowers and non-forag...

Metagenomic Insights into Microbial Functional Potential Associated with Soil Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycling Along an Elevational Gradient in a Warm-Temperate Forest

Soil microbial functional potential is crucial to maintaining forest productivity and ecosystem functions. However, how microbially mediated soil nutrient cycling responds to environmental changes, particularly those caused by variations in elevation, remains poorly understood. U...

Fermentation Technology of Ganoderma lucidum and Cordyceps militaris : Advances in Process Optimization, Bioactive Compound Transformation, and Functional Food Development

The growing global demand for functional foods has intensified interest in the biotechnological exploitation of medicinal mushrooms. Ganoderma lucidum and Cordyceps militaris are the two most widely recognised medicinal mushrooms in China, each possessing a well-characterised rep...

Fulvic acid and hydrogen sulfide synergistically mitigate chromium stress in tobacco seedlings by regulating oxidative stress indicators and antioxidant defense mechanisms

Chromium (Cr) toxicity poses a significant threat to crop growth and agricultural productivity. Fulvic acid (FA) and hydrogen sulfide (HS) have emerged as promising agents for mitigating metal-induced toxicity; however, their combined effects on physiological and biochemical resp...

Differentiation of Acclimation Responses and Seedling Source Effects in Deciduous and Evergreen Conifer Seedlings Under Cross-Altitude Transplantation

Understanding the acclimation responses of conifer species with different functional types in response to altitudinal gradient changes is of significance for deepening our knowledge of how plants cope with global climate change. This study focused on seedlings of larch (Larix pri...

Estimation of Soil Total Nitrogen in Hemerocallis citrina Across Multiple Phenological Stages Using Partitioned Feature Bands

Rapid and non-destructive monitoring of soil total nitrogen (STN) is important for precision nutrient management in ecologically fragile agricultural systems. This study established a controlled spectral resampling experiment to simulate the multispectral responses of Sentinel-2,...

A broadly applicable somatic embryogenesis platform accelerates regeneration and genetic transformation in elite alfalfa

Alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L. ) is a globally important perennial forage crop, but molecular breeding is constrained by slow, genotype-dependent regeneration and transformation. This bottleneck is particularly pronounced in elite commercial cultivars, for which efficient protocols...

Enhancing the Skatole Degradation Capacity of Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 Through the Heterologous Expression of the Ska Enzyme from Acinetobacter piscicola p38

Skatole is a harmful, odorous pollutant in livestock manure. Skatole-degrading strains are mostly harmful Gram-negative bacteria, whereas safe Gram-positive strains demonstrate poor degradation performance, limiting bioremediation applications. To solve this problem, this study w...

Engineering a dimeric porcine deltacoronavirus S-RBD subunit vaccine for enhanced immunogenicity and neutralizing antibody responses

Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging swine enteric coronavirus that has caused global epidemics and substantial economic losses, posing a potential risk of cross-species transmission, including to humans. However, commercial vaccines are currently scarce. The receptor...

Prediction of Leaf Net Photosynthetic Rate in Greenhouse-Grown Zucchini Using a GA-Optimized Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System

Accurate prediction of the net photosynthetic rate (Pn) is important for understanding crop responses to environmental conditions in protected cultivation. The Pn responds nonlinearly to the temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), and CO2 concentration, making acc...

Integrated Proteomic Profiling Reveals Dynamic Remodeling of the Intestinal Proteome in Toxoplasma gondii-Infected C57BL/6J Mice

The intestinal mucosa is the primary site of Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection and interaction with the host. While the intestinal responses have been characterized through transcriptomic and histopathological studies, a comprehensive, system-wide analysis of the functional...

Labile carbon input suppresses Q10 of soil organic carbon decomposition by dynamically lowering microbial activation energy mediated by a shift in microbial metabolic strategy

Understanding the temperature sensitivity (Q 10 ) of soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition, as constrained by the activation energy (E a ) of microbial metabolism, is critical for predicting climate-carbon feedbacks. This study examined how exogenous glucose influences Q 10 in...

Genome-wide identification of tomato B-RRs gene family and expression analysis in response to ABA and drought

B-type Response Regulators (B-RRs) play a crucial regulatory role in cytokinin signal transduction and are significant for plant development and stress resistance. However, studies on B-RRs in tomato are limited. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the B-RRs g...

WMSP-RTDETR: An RT-DETR with Weighted Multi-Scale Fusion and Position-Enhanced Attention for Pig Detection in Crowded Barn Scenes

Accurate pig detection in crowded barns is hindered by frequent body contact, similar appearance, overlapping torso boundaries, and scale variations, which weaken instance separation and bounding-box localisation. In the original Real-Time DEtection Transformer (RT-DETR) architec...

Landscape Ecological Risk Evolution and Its Nonlinear Driving Mechanisms in a Topographically Constrained River-Valley Basin: A Case Study of the Taiyuan Section of the Fen River Basin

In regions where severe topographic constraints coincide with intensive human activity, the mechanisms underlying landscape ecological risk (LER) and its spatial differentiation remain poorly understood. In particular, the nonlinear responses and threshold effects arising from th...

Oxidative stress in pigs and opportunities with selenium-containing amino acids

Modern pig farming practices, characterized by highly-productive and fast-growing genetics, early weaning, and uncontrolled factors such as heat stress and various nutritional challenges, impose cumulative stress on the animal. Elevated concentrations of reactive oxygen species w...