Fanli Meng

TL;DR: ThIPK2 was transferred into soybean through an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and altered the ratio of fatty acid components in soybean seeds, resulting in an increase of oleic acid (C18:1) and seed size was increased in transgenic plants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a genome-wide prediction of intronic enhancers in Arabidopsis thaliana using open chromatin signatures based on DNase I sequencing and found that deletion of these enhancers, which span key transcription factor binding sites, did not abolish gene expression but caused varying levels of transcriptional repression of their cognate genes.

TL;DR: SpbP0 dsRNA-expressing transgenic plants may be useful for controlling insect pests and transferring P0 double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into plants may help prevent SPB-induced damage.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the percentage of seeds damaged by SPB was positively correlated with glycitein content (GC), whereas it was negatively correlated with genistein (GT), daidzein (DZ) and total isoflavone content (TI).

TL;DR: A rapid and efficient plant enhancer validation system based on a luciferase reporter and N. benthamiana-based leaf agroinfiltration can be used for initial screening of leaf-specific enhancers and for validating candidate leaf enhancers from dicot species.