Publications by authors named "Xiao-qin Wu"

Acer truncatum wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae is a severe soilborne disease that poses a threat to the cultivation of this plant in China. The present study explored the biocontrol efficiency and underlying antagonistic mechanism of Pseudomonas aurantiaca ST-TJ4 against V. dahliae.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH) is a type of pediatric HLH that occurs frequently in Asia. Although immunochemotherapy based on etoposide and hormone has improved survival rates, there are still about 30% of HLH patients that do not respond. The objective of the article is to examine the efficacy and safety of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitors for children with relapsed/refractory (r/r) EBV-HLH.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Verticillium dahliae is among the most devastating fungal pathogens, causing significant economic harm to agriculture and forestry. To address this problem, researchers have focused on eliciting systemic resistance in host plants through utilizing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by biological control agents. Herein, we meticulously measured the quantity of V.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Pine wilt disease (PWD) poses a significant threat to pine trees and results in major economic losses, highlighting the need for better understanding of its molecular mechanisms for effective prevention and treatment.
  • Researchers identified a key virulence effector, BxNMP1, that is expressed early during the infection and interacts with important proteins in pine trees, suggesting it plays a role in disease severity.
  • The study indicates that BxNMP1 not only regulates the pathogenicity of the disease but also interferes with the host's natural defense mechanisms, providing insights that might help in developing strategies for combating PWD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is the pathogen of pine wilt disease, which can devastate the pine forest ecosystem. Usually, plant cells generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a defensive substance or signalling molecules to resist the infection of nematodes. However, little is known about how B.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Palliative care is fraught with numerous challenges when it comes to conducting practical teaching as it involves caring for people facing the complexities of end-of-life and death. Insufficient clinical practice hinders nursing students from mastering knowledge, attitude and ability of hospice care. Virtual clinical simulation has demonstrated its effectiveness as a valuable educational tool in nursing.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Lipase is involved in lipid hydrolysis, which is related to nematodes' energy reserves and stress resistance. However, the role of lipases in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, a notorious plant-parasitic nematode responsible for severe damage to pine forest ecosystems, remains largely obscure. Here, we characterized a class III lipase as a candidate effector and named it BxLip-3.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Persistence in the soil is a function of seed physiology, particularly non-germination and inherent lifespan. However, for seeds with mechanical dormancy, non-germination is also a function of the composition and activity of the soil microbiota. We attempted to screen out microorganisms in the soil that can specifically and rapidly decompose the hard fruit pericarps of Maxim.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • - Pine wilt disease, caused by a specific pathogen, leads to significant economic losses in conifer production by hindering host immune responses through effector proteins.
  • - The study identifies two new effector proteins, BxKU1 and BxKU2, that employ different strategies to suppress plant immunity; they differ in structure, expression patterns, and their effects on host reproduction and feeding rates when silenced.
  • - Both effectors were found to interact with a specific protein (TLP4) in the host, revealing a complex immune evasion strategy that enhances our understanding of plant-pathogen interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Correction for 'Aromatic amine electrochemical sensors based on a Co-MOF: a hydrogen bond-induced specific response' by Xiao-qin Wu , , 2022, , 16861-16869, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dt02049a.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Pine wilt disease (caused by the nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) is extremely harmful to pine forests in East Asia. As a low-resistance pine species, Pinus thunbergii is more vulnerable to pine wood nematode (PWN) than Pinus densiflora and Pinus massoniana. Field inoculation experiments were conducted on PWN-resistant and -susceptible P.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Utilization of rhizosphere microorganisms to improve plant growth and salt tolerance has recently attracted widespread attention. The growth and salt tolerance of willows inoculated with Bacillus cereus JYZ-SD2 and Peniophora cinerea XC were studied under different salt stress conditions. The results showed that the chlorophyll content of willow cuttings inoculated with the XC strain increased significantly by 51.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: In general, medical staff who work in nuclear medicine should be entirely safe in their professional environment. Nevertheless, we already know that the working environment of the nuclear medicine staff is not completely safe due to the handling of high amounts of radionuclides for diagnostic and therapy applications, which is especially relevant for I (as a non-sealed source).

Purpose: The goal of this study was to assess the inhaled I thyroid dose in nuclear medicine workers and to introduce a simple method for internal exposure monitoring.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The pinewood nematode is one of the top ten plant-parasitic nematodes, causing pine wilt, which negatively impacts both the economy and sustainable development in East Asia.
  • Researchers cloned and studied a pathogenic protein called BxTTR-52 from the nematode, which plays a role in immune evasion by suppressing the host plant's immune response.
  • The study found that BxTTR-52 is mostly produced in the nematode's esophageal glands and affects the infection process, revealing potential targets for managing the disease in pine trees.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A 2D Co-MOF, {[Co(L)(bipy)](DMA)·2HO} (Co-1, HL = 2,5-thienedioic acid; bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine; DMA = ,'-dimethyl acetamide), was synthesized by hydrothermal method. Co-1 has excellent air stability. When modifying the surface of a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) with Co-1, the obtained electrochemical senor Co-1/GCE shows excellent sensitivity towards 1,3-dinitrobenzene (-DNB) and 2,4-dinitroaniline (2,4-DNA), although the electrochemical conductivity of Co-1 is not that good.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • VOCs produced by the T2 microorganism show promise in controlling soil-borne diseases, specifically targeting a fungal pathogen that causes significant agricultural losses.
  • The study utilized solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the VOCs and found that they significantly inhibited fungal growth and reduced disease severity in plants like tobacco and cotton.
  • Key compounds identified include 3-octanone and 3-methyl-1-butanol, which effectively decreased specific enzyme activities and genes related to melanin synthesis, highlighting T2's potential as a biofumigant for disease management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Pseudocydonia sinensis is an ornamental plant from China, valued in landscaping and for its medicinal fruit, but it faced a leaf spot disease noted at Nanjing Forestry University in June 2020, affecting 85% of the trees.
  • The disease produced irregular red-brown spots on leaves, and researchers isolated the causative fungus by sterilizing leaf samples and culturing them on potato dextrose agar, where they identified a representative isolate (NJMG 5-7) that showed distinctive growth characteristics.
  • Further molecular characterization was done using specific gene sequences (ITS, CAL, EF1-a, and TUB), confirming the species identity through amplification with various primers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria are important for improving plant iron nutrition, but the interactions among inoculants, host plants and soil microorganisms have not been greatly explored. JZ-GX1 was applied to treat the increasingly serious iron deficiency chlorosis in , and the resulting improvement in chlorosis was determined by assessing the contents of chlorophyll, active iron, Fe and antioxidant enzymes in leaves, the effects on the soil microbial community and the metabolism in the rhizosphere by high-throughput sequencing techniques and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The results showed that inoculation with JZ-GX1 significantly increased the chlorophyll content of , which promoted the redistribution of active iron in roots and leaves, increased the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and thus reduced membrane damage in iron-deficient caused by reactive oxygen species.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Iron deficiency causes chlorosis and growth inhibition in , an important landscaping tree species. Siderophores produced by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria have been widely reported to play an indispensable role in plant iron nutrition. However, little to date has been determined about how microbial siderophores promote plant iron absorption.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The migratory plant-parasitic nematode is the pathogen of the pine wilt disease (PWD), causing serious damage to pine forests in China. During the process of plant resistance to multiple pathogens, plant immunity plays a key role. In this current study, the pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) BxCDP1 in has been identified, but the host target protein of BxCDP1 and its key amino acid region inducing the plant immunity have yet to be elucidated.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

is one of the most destructive fungal pathogens, causing substantial economic losses in agriculture and forestry. The use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) is an effective and environmentally friendly strategy for controlling diseases caused by . In this study, 90 mm in diameter Petri plates were used to test the effect of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by different concentrations of ST-TJ4 cells suspension on mycelia radial growth and biomass.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Cornus officinalis, a plant from the Cornaceae family, is commonly found in certain provinces of China and is used for ornamental purposes.
  • A new disease affecting this plant was discovered in Xuanwu Lake Park since 2020, showing high infection rates with around 90% of sampled trees displaying symptoms like brown lesions on leaves.
  • The pathogen responsible was identified as Botryosphaeria dothidea through morphological analysis and genetic sequencing, confirming its identity with sequences uploaded to GenBank for reference.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: In the present study, we analyzed radiation injuries to Chinese workers exposed to low-dose radiation. We discuss the relationships between dose and injury.

Methods: This study randomly selected 976 radiation workers who underwent occupational health monitoring.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

is the most economically important species of migratory plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) and causes severe damage to forestry in China. The successful infection of relies on the secretion of a repertoire of effector proteins. The effectors, which suppress the host pine immune response, are key to the facilitation of parasitism.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A previous study found that a biocontrol bacterium, Bacillus pumilus HR10, inhibited the Sphaeropsis shoot blight disease of pine, and the fermentation broth of HR10 strain contained protein antifungal substances. The optimal formulation of the fermentation medium for the antagonistic substance of B. pumilus HR10 was finally obtained by single-factor test, Packett-Burman test, steepest ascent test and Box-Behnken Design (BBD) response surface test, and the best formulation of the fermentation medium for the antagonistic substance of B.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Xiao-qin Wu"

  • - Xiao-Qin Wu's recent research focuses on the interplay between plant pathogens and their hosts, particularly examining the molecular mechanisms involved in diseases affecting economically important tree species, such as pine wilt disease caused by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus.
  • - Wu's work includes exploring innovative treatment options for pediatric conditions like Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome, highlighting the potential of PD-1 inhibitors in enhancing treatment efficacy for difficult cases.
  • - The studies also investigate the role of soil microbiota and volatile organic compounds produced by beneficial microbes in promoting plant resistance to pathogens, indicating a holistic approach to understanding plant health and disease resistance strategies.