Publications by authors named "Yumei Yin"

is a smut fungus that obligately infects and stimulates tissue swelling to form galls. Unlike T-type, MT-type can only proliferate within plant tissues and infect the offspring of their host. Production of telispores, haploid life, and plant cuticle penetration are not essential for it, which may lead to the degeneration in these processes.

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Dehydration-responsive element binding proteins (DREBs) are an important class of transcription factors related to plant stress tolerance. Ammopiptanthus mongolicus is an evergreen broadleaf shrub endemic to desert areas of northwest China, and it has a very high tolerance to harsh environments. In order to reveal the functions and mechanisms of the AmDREB1F gene from this species in enduring abiotic stresses, we performed subcellular localization test, expression pattern analysis, and stress tolerance evaluation of transgenic Arabidopsis harboring this gene.

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undergoes an endophytic life cycle in . It induces the stem of its host to swell, forming the edible galls called in China, which are the second most commonly cultivated aquatic vegetable in China. raised for can only reproduce asexually because the infection completely inhibits flowering.

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Background: The portosystemic shunt is the pathway between the portal vein (PV) and systemic circulation. A spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (SPISS) is a rare portosystemic shunt type. Here we report an extremely rare type of SPISS, a spontaneous intrahepatic PV-inferior vena cava shunt (SPIVCS).

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Ustilago esculenta is closely related to the smut fungus Ustilago maydis and, in an endophytic-like life in the plant Zizania latifolia, only infects host stems and causes swollen stems to form edible galls called Jiaobai in China. In order to study its different modes of invasion and sites of symptom development from other smut fungi at the molecular level, we first characterized the a and b mating-type loci of U. esculenta.

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Dehydration-responsive element-binding (DREB) transcription factors (TFs) play a vital role in plant response to abiotic stresses. However, little is known about DREB TFs in plants adapted to harsh environments and in the formation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), a major membrane component closely associated with plant stress tolerance. Here, we characterized AmDREB2C in Ammopiptanthus mongolicus (Maxim.

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