Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici ( Pst ), is one of the most important diseases on wheat in China. To assess resistance in wheat cultivars and breeding lines in China, 330 leading cultivars and 164 advanced breeding lines were evaluated with stripe rust. In the greenhouse tests, seedlings of the entries were inoculated separately with several Pst pathotypes. In the field tests, the entries were evalua...

Aim The goals of our study were to assess the population history and genetic structure of the widespread bat H ipposideros armiger , and to evaluate the effect of palaeoclimatic changes and dispersal patterns on this species. Location S outh C hina, mainland S outheast A sia and the S outh H imalayas. Methods We amplified two mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA ) regions (cyt b and D ‐loop) and seven nuclear microsatellite loci (n SSR s...

We used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C‐dated sediments of the Holocene basal supratidal flat to upper tidal flat facies in 11 cores on the southern Yangtze delta plain to reconstruct relative sea levels of 8.5–8.0 cal ka BP. Three cores were further AMS 14 C dated and used to examine the evolution of sedimentary geomorphological environments in response to the rapid sea‐level rise during the early to mid‐Holocene. Re...