Publications by authors named "Wen Jing Duan"
It is crucial to elucidate the impact of climate change on wheat production in China. This article provides a review of the current climate change scenario and its effects on wheat cultivation in China, along with an examination of potential future impacts and possible response strategies. Against the backdrop of climate change, several key trends emerge: increasing temperature during the wheat growing season, raising precipitation, elevated CO concentration, and diminished radiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Formin, a highly conserved multi-domain protein, interacts with microfilaments and microtubules. Although specifically expressed formin genes in anthers are potentially significant in research on male sterility and hybrid wheat breeding, similar reports in wheat, especially in thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) wheat, remain elusive.
Results: Herein, we systematically characterized the formin genes in TGMS wheat line BS366 named TaFormins (TaFHs) and predicted their functions in inducing stress response.
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- MYC transcription factors are crucial for plant growth and development, and recent research shows their involvement in the interplay between jasmonic acid signaling and light regulation in Arabidopsis, yet similar studies in wheat, particularly in photo-thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (PTGMS) lines, are limited.
- In this research, 27 unique TaMYC gene copies were identified across 13 chromosomes in wheat, revealing their clustering into distinct groups and highlighting their varying expressions in different tissues and responses to stimuli like light and stress.
- The study provides significant insights into the MYC gene family in wheat, detailing their role in stress response and light quality adaptation in the PTGMS line BS366, along with the prediction of
To reveal the effects of decay level of fallen trees and their formed microsite types on soil physicochemical properties, the differences in soil physicochemical properties (bulk density, capillary porosity, total porosity, capillary water holding capacity, saturated moisture capacity, soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorous, available phosphorous, available potassium, and pH) and stoichiometry (C/N, N/P, and C/P) among different decay levels of treefalls and between different microsite types in the formed gaps by fallen trees were analyzed in a spruce-fir fore-st in a valley of Liangshui National Nature Reserve in Xiaoxing' an Mountains. The results showed that the effects of the decay levels of fallen trees on soil physical properties was not significant. In contrast, we found significant effects of the formed microsite types in soil physical properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: COI (CORONATINE INSENSITIVE), an F-box component of the Skp1-Cullin-F-box protein (SCF) ubiquitin E3 ligase, plays important roles in the regulation of plant growth and development. Recent studies have shown that COIs are involved in pollen fertility. In this study, we identified and characterized COI genes in the wheat genome and analyzed expression patterns under abiotic stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our published data have indicated that the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) provides beneficial effects by attenuating neuronal damage induced by interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and up-regulation of the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) represents a crucial part in the neuroprotective effect of EPA. However, the mechanisms of how EPA regulates BDNF expression remains incompletely understood. The present study investigated the role of Akt/CREB signaling in the effect of EPA on BDNF expression and its neuroprotective effect.
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- MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that regulate gene expression in plants, particularly in wheat, a major crop.
- In this study, RNA-seq revealed 917-7,762 novel miRNAs in specific wheat spikelets during male fertility transitions, some of which were confirmed using RT-PCR.
- Differential expression analysis identified 100 known miRNAs with significant changes across developmental stages, suggesting their involvement in pollen development and male sterility in the PTGMS wheat line BS366.