Publications by authors named "Bimeng Li"
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- Verticillium wilt, caused by a soil fungus, threatens over 200 plant species, and understanding how soil microbiota affects plant resistance is essential, especially for perennial trees.
- A study focused on smoke trees found that the Bacillus genus of bacteria is crucial for suppressing the disease and promoting plant growth, as they helped increase resistance when used in soil.
- Combining Bacillus with a fungicide created a promising strategy for controlling Verticillium wilt, paving the way for environmentally friendly disease management practices.
Rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques have enabled the assembly and engineering of viral and microbial genomes, presenting new opportunities for synthetic genomics in multicellular eukaryotic organisms. These organisms, characterized by larger genomes, abundant transposons and extensive epigenetic regulation, pose unique challenges. Here we report the in vivo assembly of chromosomal fragments in the moss Physcomitrium patens, producing phenotypically virtually wild-type lines in which one-third of the coding region of a chromosomal arm is replaced by redesigned, chemically synthesized fragments.
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