Long-Term Benefits of Residual Roots Improved the Quality and Microbial Diversity of Rhizosphere Sandy Soil through Cellulose Degradation in the Ulan Buh Desert, Northwest China.

Long-term plant residue retention can effectively replenish soil quality and fertility. In this study, we collected rhizosphere soil from the residual roots of annual in the Ulan Buh Desert over the past 10 years. The area, depth, and length of these roots decreased over time.

Influence of selenium on the mycelia of the shaggy bracket fungus, Inonotus hispidus.

Background: Selenium (Se) is a needed trace element for animals and humans. Many fungi have effective mechanisms to acquire, transform and accumulate Se in organic form. In this study, the effects of inorganic Se (sodium selenite) on the medicinal fungus Inonotus hispidus was investigated.

An Effective Biclustering-Based Framework for Identifying Cell Subpopulations From scRNA-seq Data.

The advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) techniques opens up new opportunities for studying the cell-specific changes in the transcriptomic data. An important research problem related with scRNA-seq data analysis is to identify cell subpopulations with distinct functions. However, the expression profiles of individual cells are usually measured over tens of thousands of genes, and it remains a difficult problem to effectively cluster the cells based on the high-dimensional profiles.