Publications by authors named "Feibing Wang"

Article Synopsis
  • Seaweed fertilizer, primarily made from seaweed extract, has been shown to boost nutrient use efficiency, crop yield, quality, and improve soil properties, making it a viable option for sustainable agriculture in China.
  • A meta-analysis of existing studies revealed that applying seaweed fertilizer increased crop yields by an average of 15.17%, with root and tuber crops benefiting the most (21.19% increase).
  • The use of seaweed fertilizers also resulted in notable improvements in crop quality, enhancing factors like sugar-acid ratios, vitamin C content, starch, and protein levels, while positively affecting various plant growth metrics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Rice is the main food crops with the higher capacity for cadmium (Cd) uptake, necessitating the urgent need for remediation measures to address Cd in paddy soil. Reasonable agronomic methods are convenient and favorable for fixing the issue. In this study, a pot experiment was employed to evaluate the effects of two foliar (NaHPO, SDP; KHPO, PDP) and two solid phosphate fertilizers (double-superphosphate, DSP; calcium-magnesium phosphate, CMP) on uptake and remobilization of Cd in rice plants under the low-P and rich-Cd soil.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study explores how biofortifying rice with zinc (Zn) and silicon (Si) can reduce harmful cadmium (Cd) accumulation in rice grains.
  • It highlights that applying Zn/Si together significantly lowers Cd levels in roots and promotes the production of protective compounds like phytochelatins and glutathione during Cd stress.
  • The findings suggest that Zn/Si not only helps compartmentalize Cd but also improves the nutritional quality of rice by enhancing amino acid metabolism, which reduces Cd in important protein fractions by nearly 51%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Heavy metals such as cadmium (Cd) in farmland soil not only affect crop production, but also endanger human health through the food chain. Rice is the main food crop with the strongest ability to absorb Cd, remediation techniques to reduce soil uptake and grain accumulation of Cd are urgently required, for which the application of foliar spraying seems to be a convenient and auspicious method. This study clarified the effects of nitrogen (N), zinc (Zn), 24-epibrassionlide (EBL) and their combined application on the growth performance and physiological characteristics of Cd and Zn in rice plants under Cd stress.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Oxidative stress and inflammation seriously affected the growth and development of piglets. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescriptions has been used to prevent various diseases of piglets, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. Here, we identified the effects of Xiao-Jian-Zhong-Tang (XJZT) and Jingsananli-sepsis (JJS) on the oxidative stress and inflammatory in the liver of piglets.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In animal husbandry, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a reasonable alternative to antibiotics has attracted more and more concerns to reduce microbial resistance. This study was aimed to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with TCM prescriptions on serum parameters and thymus inflammation responses in finishing pigs. Thirty finishing pigs were randomly divided into three groups, which included the Con group (basal diet), the TCM1 group (basal diet supplemented with prescriptions), and the TCM2 group (basal diet supplemented with -sepsis).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal with toxicity that induces mitochondrial dysfunction and aging, and selenium (Se) can alleviate its toxicity. However, the underlying mechanism of Se alleviating Cd-induced aging in sheep livers deserves further study. This study was to explore the protective mechanism of Se on the Cd-induced aging in the livers of sheep.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Auxin/indoleacetic acid (Aux/IAA) proteins play an important regulatory role in the developmental process of plants and their responses to stresses. A previous study has shown that constitutive expression of , an Aux/IAA transcription factor gene of rice improved salt and osmotic tolerance in transgenic plants. However, little work is known about the regulatory functions of the gene in regulating the abiotic stress tolerance of rice.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In plants, auxin/indoleacetic acid (Aux/IAA) proteins are transcriptional regulators that regulate developmental process and responses to phytohormones and stress treatments. However, the regulatory functions of the L. (grapevine) Aux/IAA transcription factor gene have not been reported.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Sucrose non-fermenting-1-related protein kinase 1 (SnRK1) has been shown to play an essential role in regulating saccharide metabolism and starch biosynthesis of plant. The regulatory role of from potato in regulating carbohydrate metabolism and starch accumulation has not been investigated. In this work, a cDNA encoding the SnRK1 protein, named , was isolated from potato.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A plastidic ATP/ADP transporter (AATP) is responsible for importing ATP from the cytosol into plastids. Increasing the ATP supply is a potential way to facilitate anabolic synthesis in heterotrophic plastids of plants. In this work, a gene encoding the AATP protein, named , was successfully isolated from tomato.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In plants, transcriptional regulation is the most important tool for modulating flavonoid biosynthesis. The AtMYB12 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana has been shown to regulate the expression of key enzyme genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis, leading to the increased accumulation of flavonoids. In this study, the codon-optimized AtMYB12 gene was chemically synthesized.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor gene from Antirrhinum, AmDEL , increases flavonoids accumulation and enhances salt and drought tolerance via up-regulating flavonoid biosynthesis, proline biosynthesis and ROS scavenging genes in transgenic Arabidopsis. In plants, transcriptional regulation is the most important tools for increasing flavonoid biosynthesis. The AmDEL gene, as a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor gene from Antirrhinum, has been shown to increase flavonoids accumulation in tomato.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

IbZFP1, encoding a Cys 2/His 2 zinc finger protein gene from sweetpotato, enhances salt and drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis by regulating ABA signaling pathway, proline biosynthesis, stress responses and ROS scavenging. In plants, Cys2/His2 zinc finger proteins play important roles in regulating the growth and development or responses to abiotic stresses. In this study, a novel Cys2/His2 zinc finger protein gene, named IbZFP1, was isolated from drought-tolerant sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Sweetpotato highly produces carotenoids in storage roots. In this study, a cDNA encoding geranylgeranyl phyrophosphate synthase (GGPS), named IbGGPS, was isolated from sweetpotato storage roots. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) was fused to the C-terminus of IbGGPS to obtain an IbGGPS-GFP fusion protein that was transiently expressed in both epidermal cells of onion and leaves of tobacco.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Influenza A virus (IAV) is characterized by eight single-stranded, negative sense RNA segments, which allows for gene reassortment among different IAV subtypes when they co-infect a single host cell simultaneously. Genetic reassortment is an important way to favor the evolution of influenza virus. Novel reassortant virus may pose a pandemic among humans.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase (MIPS) is a key rate limiting enzyme in myo-inositol biosynthesis. The MIPS gene has been shown to improve tolerance to abiotic stresses in several plant species. However, its role in resistance to biotic stresses has not been reported.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF