The ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus plays an important role in anxiolytic-like effect of neuropeptide S.

Neuropeptide S (NPS), the endogenous neuropeptide ligand of NPSR, has been reported to regulate anxiety-related behavior involved in multiple brain regions, including amygdale, locus coeruleus and Barrington's nucleus. However, little research has been conducted on the anxiolytic-like behaviors of NPS on the hypothalamus, which was an important area in defensive behavior. Here, we investigated a role of hypothalamus in anxiolytic-like behaviors of NPS.

[Mapping QTLs controlling vascular bundle and panicle-related traits from Yuanjiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.)].

An advanced backcross population (BC3F2), derived from the cross between Yuanjiang common wild rice as the donor parent and Teqing as recurrent parent, was used to map QTLs controlling the number of vascular bundle and panicle-related traits from Yuanjiang common wild rice. Seven QTLs controlling the number of large vascular bundles in peduncle were detected on chromosome 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10. Five QTLs for the number of small vascular bundles in peduncle were mapped on chromosome 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8.

[Identification of quantitative trait loci controlling plant height and days to heading from Yuanjiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.)].

An advanced backcross strategy was used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with plant height and days to heading in the BC3F2 population derived from an accession of common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) from Yuanjiang in Yunnan Province of China, as the donor, and an elite Indica cultivar "Teqing", as the recipient. Based on analyses of 116 SSR markers distributed throughout the rice genome and by using single-point analysis, four putative QTLs derived from O.