Marine macroalgae play an important yet underrecognized role in coastal and benthic carbon cycling, with recent attention focusing on their contribution to blue carbon storage via detrital pathways. However, their ecological significance remains underrepresented in molecular monitoring studies, partly due to the absence of dedicated genetic markers for sedimentary detection. Here, we developed and validated a novel environment...

Rice cultivation is a significant source of agricultural methane (CH₄), yet routine quantification still relies heavily on gas chromatography (GC), which limits throughput and field deployment. Here, we evaluated a portable tunable-diode-laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) detector (PMD) as an alternative to GC for measuring CH₄ released from pot-grown rice plants under field conditions. Weekly closed-chamber samples from fi...

How functional genetics research can be applied to improving crop yields is a timely challenge. One of the most direct methods is to produce larger inflorescences with higher productivity, which should be accompanied by a balance between stem cell proliferation and lateral organ initiation in meristems. Unbalanced proliferation of stem cells causes the fasciated inflorescences, which reflect the abnormal proliferation of meris...