Publications by authors named "Kuiyin Li"

Sorghum () is a significant crop serving food, energy, feed, and industrial raw materials, featuring extensive growth adaptability and diverse utility values. Despite the achievements in sorghum breeding in the last decades, conventional breeding methods still confront challenges such as lengthy breeding cycles, low efficiency, and complex genetic backgrounds. With the rapid advancement of molecular biology, genetics, and bioinformatics, molecular breeding has carved new pathways for enhancing sorghum yield and quality.

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  • Heterosis improves crop performance, particularly in tobacco, but the study of leaf vein ratios and their genetic impacts has been underexplored, leading to inefficiencies in resource use.
  • The research analyzed 12 hybrid combinations to investigate heterosis in leaf vein ratios, revealing that some hybrids, like the F hybrid (G70 × Qinggeng), demonstrated significant negative heterosis of up to -19.79% 80 days post-transplant.
  • A transcriptome analysis uncovered that 39.04% of differentially expressed genes showed dominant patterns, emphasizing the importance of gene expression dynamics in leaf vein ratio heterosis and linking these genes to key biological processes like hormone signaling and plant development.
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Sorghum is the world's fifth-largest cereal crop, and anthracnose (Colletotrichum sublineola) is the main disease affecting sorghum. However, systematic research on the cellular structure, physiological and biochemical, and genes related to anthracnose resistance and disease resistance evaluation in sorghum is lacking in the field. Upon inoculation with anthracnose (C.

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  • The study focuses on the WRKY transcription factor in Tritipyrum, which is a plant created by crossing wheat and Thinopyrum elongatum, and investigates its role in coping with abiotic stress like salt.
  • Researchers identified 346 WRKY genes in Tritipyrum, categorizing them into three subfamilies and noting a discrepancy in their location across 28 chromosomes, with a significant number being duplicates.
  • Among these, TtWRKY256 was highlighted for its high sensitivity to salt stress, showing positive correlations with many genes involved in various biological processes, particularly in roots, stems, and leaves under stress conditions.
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Background: The trihelix family of transcription factors plays essential roles in the growth, development, and abiotic stress response of plants. Although several studies have been performed on the trihelix gene family in several dicots and monocots, this gene family is yet to be studied in Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa).

Results: In this study, 47 C.

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E. Pritz is not only an important medicinal plant for rheumatism and cough relief, but it is also an important forage plant. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of was assembled for the first time and reported to be 146,837 base pairs (bp) long with a typical tetragonal structure and including a large single-copy of 79,657 bp, a small single-copy of 17,712 bp, and two inverted repeats of 24,734 bp each.

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Background: As transcription factors, the TCP genes are considered to be promising targets for crop enhancement for their responses to abiotic stresses. However, information on the systematic characterization and functional expression profiles under abiotic stress of TCPs in Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn.

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Background: The basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor (TF) is one of the largest families of transcription factors (TFs). It is widely distributed and highly conserved in animals, plants, and microorganisms. Previous studies have shown that the bZIP TF family is involved in plant growth, development, and stress responses.

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Background: Transcription factors, including trihelix transcription factors, play vital roles in various growth and developmental processes and in abiotic stress responses in plants. The trihelix gene has been systematically studied in some dicots and monocots, including Arabidopsis, tomato, chrysanthemum, soybean, wheat, corn, rice, and buckwheat. However, there are no related studies on sorghum.

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