Xie Zhihua

TL;DR: This study proposes a model for the divergence, dissemination, and independent domestication of Asian and European pears in which pear has eventually spread to western Asia, and then on to Europe, thus promoting outcrossing and accounting for pear genome diversity across the Eurasian continent.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that PbrWRKY53 plays a positive role in drought tolerance, which might be, at least in part, promoting production of vitamin C via regulating PbrNCED1 expression.

TL;DR: Using flow cytometry, it is found that miR-34a promotes granulosa cell apoptosis in pig ovarian follicles and inhibin beta B was found to be a miR -34a target gene, based on luciferase reporter assays, quantitative RT-PCR and Western blotting.

TL;DR: This work combined a new approach for pollen protoplast isolation with a single-cell DNA amplification technique and then used a “barcoding” bioinformatics strategy to incorporate haploid-specific sequence data from 12 pollen cells, ultimately enabling the efficient and accurate phasing of the pear genome into its A and B haploid genomes.

TL;DR: A potential gene regulation network for the single sigmoid pattern was proposed and dual-luciferase assays revealed that the screened bHLH transcription factors induced the expression of cell expansion-related genes, suggesting that the two models explain thesingle sigmoids pattern.