Publications by authors named "Feng Zu"

The market value of tea is largely dependent on the tea species and cultivar. Therefore, it is important to develop efficient molecular markers covering the entire tea genome that can be used for the identification of tea varieties, marker-assisted breeding, and mapping important quantitative trait loci for beneficial traits. In this study, genome-wide molecular markers based on intron length polymorphism (ILP) were developed for tea trees.

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Background: Primary adenocarcinoma of the bladder (ACB) is a rare malignant tumor of the bladder with limited understanding of its incidence and prognosis.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with ACB between 2004 and 2015 were obtained from the SEER database. The incidence changes of ACB patients between 1975 and 2016 were detected by Joinpoint software.

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At present, prostate cancer radical surgery still lacks an objective standard for predicting the anatomic difficulty of surgery through preoperative examination. Due to the poor prognosis and surgical complications caused by "Narrow Pelvis," a pelvic model for prediction is urgently needed. The purpose of this study is to present objective preoperative assessing indicators to predict the surgical difficulty caused by pelvic anatomic abnormalities during laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP).

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Objectives: Radical nephrectomy (RN) was the standard treatment for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, recent studies have found that partial nephrectomy (PN) could achieve similar effects as radical nephrectomy, and has the advantages of less bleeding and shorter hospital stay. The choice of surgical strategies has become a concern of clinicians, which could be guided by renal score introduced by Kutikov et al Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to clarify the value of renal score of determining surgical strategies and predicting complications.

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Background: WS24-3A is a newly bred non-heading Chinese cabbage genic male-sterile line, in which sterility is controlled by a recessive gene, designated as Bra2ms. WS24-3A has been used for hybrid breeding.

Objective: To reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms responsible for the sterility of WS24-3A.

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Vegetable oil is an essential constituent of the human diet and renewable raw material for industrial applications. Enhancing oil production by increasing seed oil content in oil crops is the most viable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable approach to meet the continuous demand for the supply of vegetable oil globally. An in-depth understanding of the gene networks involved in oil biosynthesis during seed development is a prerequisite for breeding high-oil-content varieties.

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Yellow seed is a desirable quality trait of the Brassica oilseed species. Previously, several seed coat color genes have been mapped in the Brassica species, but the molecular mechanism is still unknown. In the present investigation, map-based cloning method was used to identify a seed coat color gene, located on A9 in B.

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A recessive epistatic genic male sterile two-type line, 7365AB (Bnms3ms3ms4msRrfRf/BnMs3ms3ms4ms4RfRf), combined with the fertile interim-maintainer 7365C (Bnms3ms3ms4ms4rfrf) is an effective pollination control system in hybrid rapeseed production. We report an effective strategy used to fine map BnMs4 and BnRf. The two genes were both defined to a common microsyntenic region with Arabidopsis chromosome 3 using intron polymorphism (IP) markers developed according to Arabidopsis genome information and published genome organization of the A genome.

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