Publications by authors named "Haishan Zhu"

Article Synopsis
  • Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is a major threat to tomato production, and researchers developed a tomato inbred line, YNAU335, that shows immunity to this virus.
  • Genetic analysis revealed that the immunity is controlled by a dominant gene located in a specific region on chromosome 9, with a particular gene responsible for flavonoid synthesis being a strong candidate for resistance.
  • By altering the levels of flavonoids through gene manipulation, researchers found that increased flavonoid content enhances tomatoes' resistance to TSWV, providing valuable insights into the mechanisms of resistance.
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Ethylene is very important in the process of plant development and regulates the biosynthesis of many secondary metabolites. In these regulatory mechanisms, transcription factors (TFs) that mediate ethylene signals play a very important role. Capsaicinoids (CAPs) are only synthesized and accumulated in species, causing their fruit to have a special pungent taste, which can protect against attack from herbivores and pathogens.

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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a maternally inherited trait that derives from the inability to produce functional pollen in higher plants. CMS results from recombination of the mitochondrial genome. However, understanding of the molecular mechanism of CMS in pepper is limited.

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Late blight (caused by ) poses a serious threat to tomato production but the number of late blight resistance genes isolated from tomato is limited, making resistance gene mining a high research priority. In this study, highly resistant CLN2037E and susceptible No. 5 tomato inbred lines were used to identify late blight resistance genes.

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Dehydration-responsive element binding (DREB) transcription factors play crucial regulatory roles in abiotic stress. The only DREB transcription factor in tomato (), SlDREBA4 (Accession No. MN197531), which was determined to be a DREBA4 subfamily member, was isolated from cv.

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One-hundred and fifty five large-scale crop rice and root soil samples were collected in Nanchuan District of Chongqing, and some samples of corn, potato, tomato, rapeseed, plum and kiwifruit, and root soil were collected for testing and analysis. The bioavailability of the elements was characterized by bioconcentration factors. The effects of soil physical and chemical properties, soil composition, geological background, and crop types on the bioavailability of Cd were analyzed.

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The measurement of gene expression can provide important information about gene function and the molecular basis for developmental processes. We analyzed the transcriptomes at three different developmental stages of pepper flower [sporogenous cell division, stage (B1); pollen mother cell meiosis, stage (B2); and open flower (B3)]. In the cDNA libraries for B1, B2, and B3: 82718, 77061, and 91491 unigenes were assembled, respectively.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) was one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies. The molecular mechanisms involved in the progression of CRC remain unclear. Accumulating evidences showed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) played key roles in tumorigenesis, cancer progression, and metastasis.

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