Publications by authors named "Ling-Li Wu"
Investigations on the impact of drought stress on the reproductive growth of have been relatively limited compared to the extensive research conducted on its nutritional growth. To study the effects of drought stress on the growth and development of flower buds, we investigated the effects of drought stress on the bud anatomical structure, relative water content, relative electrical conductivity, antioxidant enzyme activity, osmoregulation substance content, and hormone contents of using 4-year-old potted plants ('Huaxin' cultivar) as experimental materials. We observed flower bud shrinkage, faded pollen colour, shortened style length, decreased relative water content, increased relative electrical conductivity, and decreased pollen germination rate under drought stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The () cultivars 'Huashuo' (HS) and 'Huaxin' (HX) are new high-yielding and economically valuable cultivars that frequently encounter prolonged cold weather during the flowering period, resulting in decreased yields and quality. The flower buds of HS sometimes fail to open or open incompletely under cold stress, whereas the flower buds of HX exhibit delayed opening but the flowers and fruits rarely drop.
Methods: In this study, flower buds at the same development stage of two cultivars were used as test materials for a combination of physiological, transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses, to unravel the different cold regulatory mechanisms between two cultivars of .
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- A study was conducted to investigate how nanosilver affects soil microorganisms involved in nitrification and nitrogen transformation by applying different doses of nanosilver and silver ions to yellow brown and paddy soils.
- Results showed that both nanosilver and silver ions significantly reduced the populations of nitrite and nitrate bacteria, inhibited soil invertase activity, and lowered the abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea.
- The presence of these pollutants led to increased ammonium nitrogen accumulation and decreased conversion to nitrate nitrogen, indicating that nanosilver and silver ions can be toxic to soil nitrification processes, with effects varying based on soil properties.
Objective: To investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in six candidate genes (enamelin [ ENAM]; tuftelin 1 [ TUFT1]; matrix metallopeptidase 13 [ MMP13]; interleukin 1 beta [ IL1B]; interleukin 10 [ IL10]; interleukin 1 receptor antagonist [ IL1RN]) and dental caries in children from northwest China.
Methods: This case-control study enrolled children (12-15 years) who underwent routine dental examinations. The children were divided into two groups based on the presence of dental caries.