Publications by authors named "Jianmin Yan"

Article Synopsis
  • The import of nuclear-encoded preproteins into chloroplasts is crucial for normal plant function and is facilitated by specific receptors known as Toc GTPases.
  • Researchers identified seven Toc GTPase genes in tomatoes, categorized into two subclasses, which are involved in tissue expression and hormonal responses.
  • Silencing the SIToc34-1 gene led to lighter green tomato fruits and reduced chlorophyll, suggesting its vital role in early chloroplast development and gene expression related to photosynthesis.
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The demand for accurate perception of the physical world leads to a dramatic increase in sensory nodes. However, the transmission of massive and unstructured sensory data from sensors to computing units poses great challenges in terms of power-efficiency, transmission bandwidth, data storage, time latency, and security. To efficiently process massive sensory data, it is crucial to achieve data compression and structuring at the sensory terminals.

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Multimodal perception can capture more precise and comprehensive information compared with unimodal approaches. However, current sensory systems typically merge multimodal signals at computing terminals following parallel processing and transmission, which results in the potential loss of spatial association information and requires time stamps to maintain temporal coherence for time-series data. Here we demonstrate bioinspired in-sensor multimodal fusion, which effectively enhances comprehensive perception and reduces the level of data transfer between sensory terminal and computation units.

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Autophagy is a highly conserved self-degradation process that involves the degradation and recycling of cellular components and organelles. Although the involvement of autophagy in metabolic changes during fruit ripening has been preliminarily demonstrated, the variations in autophagic flux and specific functional roles in tomato fruit ripening remain to be elucidated. In this study, we analyzed the variations in autophagic flux during tomato fruit ripening.

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Motion processing has proven to be a computational challenge and demands considerable computational resources. Contrast this with the fact that flying insects can agilely perceive real-world motion with their tiny vision system. Here we show that phototransistor arrays can directly perceive different types of motion at sensory terminals, emulating the non-spiking graded neurons of insect vision systems.

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We report the synthesis of transition-metal-doped ferromagnetic elemental single-crystal semiconductors with quantum oscillations using the physical vapor transport method. The 7.7 atom% Cr-doped Te crystals (Cr:Te) show ferromagnetism, butterfly-like negative magnetoresistance in the low temperature (<3.

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On a global scale, drought, salinity, extreme temperature, and other abiotic stressors severely limit the quality and yield of crops. Therefore, it is crucial to clarify the adaptation strategies of plants to harsh environments. Chloroplasts are important environmental sensors in plant cells.

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Valley pseudospin is an electronic degree of freedom that promises highly efficient information processing applications. However, valley-polarized excitons usually have short pico-second lifetimes, which limits the room-temperature applicability of valleytronic devices. Here, we demonstrate room-temperature valley transistors that operate by generating free carrier valley polarization with a long lifetime.

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The post-translational import of nuclear-encoded chloroplast preproteins is critical for chloroplast biogenesis, and the Toc159 family of proteins is the receptor for this process. Our previous work identified and analyzed the Toc GTPase in tomato; however, the tomato-specific transport substrate for Toc159 is still unknown, which limits the study of the function of the TOC receptor in tomato. In this study, we expand the number of preprotein substrates of slToc159 receptor family members using slToc159-1 and slToc159-2 as bait via a split-ubiquitin yeast two-hybrid membrane system.

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The development of continuous conducting polymer fibres is essential for applications ranging from advanced fibrous devices to frontier fabric electronics. The use of continuous conducting polymer fibres requires a small diameter to maximize their electroactive surface, microstructural orientation, and mechanical strength. However, regularly used wet spinning techniques have rarely achieved this goal due primarily to the insufficient slenderization of rapidly solidified conducting polymer molecules in poor solvents.

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Stoichiometric CrSe single crystals are particular layer-structured antiferromagnets, which possess a noncollinear spin configuration, weak ferromagnetic moments, moderate magnetoresistance (MR ∼14.3%), and poor metallic conductivity below the antiferromagnetic phase transition. Here, we report an interesting >16 000% colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) effect in Ti (1.

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We report on the growth of high-quality stoichiometric layered CrSesingle crystals with metallic and noncollinear antiferromagnetic ground state using the chemical vapor transport (CVT) method. The crystals show weak ferromagnetism in the in-plane and out-of-plane directions below the Neél temperature (), however, the field-cooled out-of-plane magnetization at 500 Oe and 10 K (∼0.24/f.

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Background: Barn-integrated operating rooms have been used in an effort to save space and improve operating room efficiency during orthopedic surgeries. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of performing several thoracic surgeries in a barn-integrated operating room simultaneously.

Methods: Both numerical simulation and field measurement approaches were applied to evaluate the performance of the ventilation system for the barn-integrated operating room.

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Perovskite oxides with luminescent ions hold great promise in optoelectronic devices because of their outstanding thermal stabilities and electro-optic performance. As one typical perovskite upconversion (UC) host material, lead-free potassium sodium niobate ((K, Na)NbO3/(KxNa1-x)NbO3 or KNN) has attracted much attention in recent years. In the present work, a novel routine was developed to tune the upconversion photoluminescence (UC PL) performance by controlling the oxygen vacancy concentration in the KNN matrix, based on the 0.

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A series of Cr-doped InCrO (ICO) semiconductor thin films were epitaxially grown on (111)-oriented 0.71Pb(MgNb)O-0.29PbTiO (PMN-0.

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Single-phase (00 l)-oriented BiTe topological insulator thin films have been deposited on (111)-oriented ferroelectric 0.71Pb(MgNb)O-0.29PbTiO (PMN-PT) single-crystal substrates.

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The translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts (Toc) mediates the recognition and initial import into the organelle of thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins. These proteins are translated in the cytosol as precursor proteins with cleavable amino-terminal targeting sequences called transit peptides. The majority of the known Toc components that mediate chloroplast protein import were originally identified in pea, and more recently have been studied most extensively in Arabidopsis.

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Drought is a major threat to agriculture production worldwide. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play a pivotal role in sensing and converting stress signals into appropriate responses so that plants can adapt and survive. To examine the function of MAPKs in the drought tolerance of tomato plants, we silenced the SpMPK1, SpMPK2, and SpMPK3 genes in wild-type plants using the virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) method.

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LI Shizhen mentioned Fanguan Neishi in Qijing Bamaikao, but without interpretation. There are various interpretations of Fanguan Neishi, such as perception induced by Qigong and methodology of TCM, which are not evidence-based. According to the meaning of perception in traditional culture, neuroscience and psychological research, the physiological function of the brain is introversive thinking on which perception is based.

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Objective: To probe into essence and concept of Meridian, and discuss with the author of the paper "A new way for study of Meridian essence".

Methods: Review courses of studies on Meridian and collaterals in the half century, and look up and analyze the literature.

Conclusion: Theories of Meridian and Collaterals originate from Yin and Shang Dynasties, and are perfected in two Han Dynasties.

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