Publications by authors named "Dian-Feng Zheng"

The growth and yield of rapeseed are significantly hampered by salt stress. Indole-3-butyric Acid Potassium Salt (IBA-K) has been found to alleviate the impact of salt stress on plant growth. However, the regulatory effect of IBA-K dipping on salt-stressed rapeseed remains unclear.

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  • Salinity stress significantly hinders rice growth, but Prohexadione calcium (Pro-Ca) has been shown to effectively improve salt tolerance in rice.
  • The study found that Pro-Ca enhanced root and shoot growth, increased chlorophyll content, and boosted photosynthetic capacity, leading to improved plant biomass under salt conditions.
  • Additionally, molecular analysis revealed that Pro-Ca helps regulate gene expression related to ion balance and photosynthesis, supporting root growth and reducing harmful effects of salt stress in rice.
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Background: Salt stress severely restricts rapeseed growth and productivity. Hemin can effectively alleviate salt stress in plants. However, the regulatory effect of Hemin on rapeseed in salt stress is unclear.

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Background: Salt stress is one of the key factors limiting rice production. Alginate oligosaccharides (AOS) enhance plant stress resistance. However, the molecular mechanism underlying salt tolerance in rice induced by AOS remains unclear.

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Background: Due to global warming, drought climates frequently occur on land, and despite being drought resistant, pineapples are still subjected to varying degrees of drought stress. Plant growth regulators can regulate the stress tolerance of plants through hormonal effects. This experiment aims to investigate the regulatory effects of different plant growth regulators on Tainong- 16 and MD-2 Pineapple when subjected to drought stress.

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  • Brassinolide (BR) helps plants grow better and fight stress from salt, which can harm them.
  • A study showed that soaking rice seeds in BR helps them breathe better and grow more even when salt is around, making them healthier.
  • BR also helps plants manage important nutrients and hormones, protecting them from damage and improving their overall growth.
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The field experiment was conducted at two farms at Jiusan in Heihe (the fourth accumulated temperature zone) and at Lindian County of Daqing (the second accumulated temperature zone), both sites located in Heilongjiang Province, China. With soybean Kenfeng 41 as the test material, uniconazole (S, 50 mg·L) and 2-N, N- diethylamino ethyl caproate (DTA-6, 50 mg·L) were sprayed on leaves in the early flowering period of soybean. Through grey correlation analysis, the main factors affecting soybean yield were examined, and the differences of the light and heat utilization efficiency and soybean yield in two ecological conditions were compared.

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A field experiment with two broomcorn millet varieties Longmi 8 (strong drought-resistant variety) and Jinmi 4 (drought-sensitive variety) was conducted to compare their differences in growth, field microclimate and photosynthetic capacity from anthesis to maturity under different fertility conditions. The results showed that, fertilization decreased canopy temperature, air temperature, soil temperature, illumination, but improved the relative humidity among broomcorn millet plants compared with the non-fertilization treatment. With an increase of the fertilizer level, the plant height, SPAD, LAI, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration in broomcorn millet showed an increasing trend, which of the high fertilization treatment were 9.

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Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are genome-encoded, small non-coding RNAs that play important functions in development, biotic and abiotic stress responses, and other processes. Our aim was to explore the regulation of miRNA expression.

Methods: We used bioinformatics methods to predict the core promoters of 440 miRNAs identified from a soybean (Glycine max) degradome library and to analyze cis-acting elements for 369 miRNAs.

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