Publications by authors named "Shaoming Liang"
Application and prospects of single-cell and spatial omics technologies in woody plants.
For Res (Fayettev)
November 2023
Over the past decade, high-throughput sequencing and high-resolution single-cell transcriptome sequencing technologies have undergone rapid development, leading to significant breakthroughs. Traditional molecular biology methods are limited in their ability to unravel cellular-level heterogeneity within woody plant tissues. Consequently, techniques such as single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell epigenetics, and spatial transcriptomics are rapidly gaining popularity in the study of woody plants.
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- Salinity stress significantly impacts crop growth, particularly affecting rice during its seedling stage, which is crucial for yield formation.
- Two RIL populations were used in the study to evaluate salinity tolerance through various metrics, identifying 14 QTLs on multiple chromosomes that are associated with this trait.
- The research found that certain genes in the salt-tolerant rice parents had variations from the reference genome, and specific mutations were shown to improve salinity tolerance, offering insights into the genetic basis of rice's response to salt stress.
Background: Salinity tolerance plays a vital role in rice cultivation because the strength of salinity tolerance at the seedling stage directly affects seedling survival and final crop yield in saline soils. Here, we combined a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and linkage mapping to analyze the candidate intervals for salinity tolerance in Japonica rice at the seedling stage.
Results: We used the Na+ concentration in shoots (SNC), K+ concentration in shoots (SKC), Na+/K+ ratio in shoots (SNK), and seedling survival rate (SSR) as indices to assess the salinity tolerance at the seedling stage in rice.
Background: GJB2 mutations are among the most important causes of deafness, and their prevalence varies greatly among different countries and ethnic groups. This study aimed to determine the pathogenic mutation spectrum of GJB2 in patients with nonsyndromic hearing loss (NSHL) in Western Guangdong and to explore the pathogenic characteristics of the c.109G>A locus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCaffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) is one of the core enzymes involved in lignin synthesis. However, there is no systematic study on the rice COMT gene family. We identified 33 COMT genes containing the methyltransferase-2 domain in the rice genome using bioinformatic methods and divided them into Group I (a and b) and Group II.
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