Main conclusion The xyloglucans of all aquatic Araceae species examined had unusual structures compared with those of other non-commelinid monocotyledon families previously examined. Abstract The aquatic Araceae species Lemna minor was earlier shown to have xyloglucans with a different structure from the fucogalactoxyloglucans of other non-commelinid monocotyledons. We investigated 26 Araceae species (including L. minor ), fro...

DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism involved in gene regulation under environmental stresses in plants. However, little information is available regarding its responses to high temperature (HT) and association with HT tolerance in rice. In this study, fourteen rice genotypes were classified into the susceptible, moderate, and tolerant groups by the high temperature susceptibility index (HTSI) after HT treatmen...

The intron-based stabilization approach is a very useful strategy for construction of stable flavivirus infectious clones. SA 14 -14-2 is a highly attenuated Japanese encephalitis (JE) live vaccine strain that has been widely used in China since 1989. To develop safe and effective recombinant vaccines with SA 14 -14-2 as a backbone vector, we constructed the DNA-based infectious clone pCMW-JEV of SA 14 -14-2 using the intron-b...

Malformation disease (MD) is one of the major constraints in the mariculture of the commercially important seaweed Saccharina japonica , which can cause severe losses of the kelp seedlings in the production process. However, the pathogenesis of MD remains largely undetermined. In this study, using cultivation experiments under laboratory conditions, MD severity was estimated for the young sporophytes of S. japonica , which wer...

Estuaries, as important fish nursery habitats, usually include a variety of larval fishes of different ecological guilds and exhibit complicated changing environmental conditions. We carried out a survey to examine the spatiotemporal dynamics of different ecological guild larval fishes and their relationships with environmental factors in the springs and summers from 2018 to 2020 in the Yangtze Estuary (China). The aims of the...