Publications by authors named "Ya-Qian Yan"

(, ) species are parasitic fungi with a wide global distribution, causing tar spots on plants. In this study, we describe three newly discovered species: , , and from in China. These species were characterized using morphological traits and multi-locus phylogeny based on the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) with the intervening 5.

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Carbon‑carbon (C-C) bonds serve as the fundamental structural backbone of organic molecules. As a critical CC bond forming enzyme, α-oxoamine synthase is responsible for the synthesis of α-amino ketones by performing the condensation reaction between amino acids and acyl-CoAs. We previously identified an α-oxoamine synthase (AOS), named as Alb29, involved in albogrisin biosynthesis in Streptomyces albogriseolus MGR072.

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  • Celastrol is being researched as a potential anticancer drug, leading to the creation of 28 new derivatives with specific chemical modifications.
  • Researchers tested these derivatives on human cancer and normal cells, comparing their effectiveness to celastrol and cisplatin.
  • Among the new compounds, derivative 2f showed the strongest effectiveness against HOS cancer cells, indicating it could be a promising option for osteosarcoma treatment.
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Crop residue retention and fertilizer application are the main sources of soil nutrient input in fields. Crop residue retention combined with appropriate fertilizer application rates could provide necessary nutrients for crop production under the premise of environmentally friendly conditions. The aim of this study was to clarify the influence of different topdressing nitrogen rates on the soil fungal community in a wheat field under crop residue retention and to evaluate the rationality of nitrogen fertilizer management in winter wheat from the perspective of soil ecological function.

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  • Evaluating various crop rotation patterns can enhance ecological sustainability and crop productivity.
  • Different crops like summer peanut and soybean were tested, showing diverse effects on soil nutrients and bacterial communities.
  • Summer soybean rotations notably improved the yield and weight of succeeding winter wheat compared to summer maize rotations.
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Crop-soil microorganism interactions and feedback are critical to soil health and crop production. The aim of this study was to clarify the difference in soil fungal communities under diversified rotations of wheat and different crops in the North China Plain and to provide a theoretical basis for the construction and optimization of ecological sustainable planting systems. The soil fungal community abundance, composition, and diversity of continuous winter wheat-summer maize M, winter wheat-summer peanut (summer maize) PM, and winter wheat-summer soybean (summer maize) SM treatments were studied using real-time quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing technology.

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