Publications by authors named "Zhiyuan Pan"

Background: WRKY transcription factors are plant-specific and play essential roles in growth, development, and stress responses, including reactions to salt, drought, and cold. Despite their significance, the WRKY genes in the wild sweet potato ancestor, Ipomoea pes-caprae, remain unexplored.

Results: In this study, 65 WRKY genes were identified in the I.

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Near-infrared (NIR)-emitting phosphors with high quantum efficiency and thermal stability are crucial to NIR pc-LEDs. Garnet-structured (GdLuCa)(AlSiCr)O ( = 0.01-0.

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Dynamics of gut microbiota and their associations with the corresponding hematological injuries postradiation remain to be elucidated. Using single whole-body exposure to Co- ray radiation at the sublethal dose of 2.5 Gy, we developed a beagle model of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and then monitored the longitudinal changes of gut microbiome and hematology for 45 days.

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  • * This study found that spraying carbon dots (CDs) from Salvia miltiorrhiza on Arabidopsis thaliana improved nitrogen uptake and metabolism by activating specific genes and pathways.
  • * Foliar application of CDs not only increased NUE in sweetpotato from 2.5% to 8.1% but also enhanced crop yields and tolerance to low nitrogen stress, demonstrating their potential benefits in agriculture.
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  • Phosphatidylserine (PS) is crucial for plant growth and helps plants adapt to salt stress, but its specific role in enhancing salt tolerance is not well understood.
  • In a study using sweetpotato plants that overproduce PS, researchers found that these plants had lower sodium (Na) levels in their stems and leaves compared to normal plants.
  • The overexpression of PS led to increased lignin production and upregulation of ethylene synthesis, which together blocked Na entry into the plant's water transport system, helping the plants deal better with salt stress.
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Sweetpotato ( L.) is a strategic crop with both economic and energy value. However, improving sweetpotato varieties through traditional breeding approaches can be a time-consuming and labor-intensive process due to the complex genetic nature of sweetpotato as a hexaploid species (2n = 6x = 90).

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  • The study investigates the role of micro-organisms present in follicular fluid, which is essential for oocyte maturation and fertilization outcomes in women.
  • Researchers sampled follicular fluid from 163 women undergoing fertilization treatments, analyzing 157 samples through 16S rDNA sequencing and 19 samples via culturomics, confirming that the fluid is not sterile.
  • Results showed a correlation between the types and abundance of micro-organisms in the follicular fluid and various fertilization outcomes, indicating that these microbes may serve as predictors for successful fertilization.
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Background: The elevated circulating toxins secondary to the impairment of intestinal barrier integrity commonly elicit a chronic inflammatory response and finally contribute to multiple diseases. These toxins, including bacterial by-products and heavy metals, are the potent risk factors for the development of recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA). Preclinical evidence suggests that several dietary fibers can restore intestinal barrier function and decrease the accumulation of heavy metals.

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Two related anaerobic strains, designated as SWB101512 and SWB19611, were isolated from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of two lung cancer patients. Cells were Gram-stain-positive, non-motile and non-spore-forming. Growth could be observed at 26-45 °C (optimum, 37 °C), pH 5.

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Flexible work arrangements (FWA) are becoming increasingly widespread as an efficient means of coping with a dynamic and competitive business environment. Existing studies have primarily examined the impact of FWA as a management system; however, its impact on employee innovation behavior has not been fully explored. Based on the self-determination theory, this study constructed a moderated mediation model that empirically examined the influence of FWA on the innovation behavior of knowledge employees.

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In China, iron (Fe) availability is low in most soils but cadmium (Cd) generally exceeds regulatory soil pollution limits. Thus, biofortification of Fe along with mitigation of Cd in edible plant parts is important for human nutrition and health. Carbon dots (CDs) are considered as potential nanomaterials for agricultural applications.

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Culturomics employs various cultivating conditions to obtain different types of bacteria and new species. However, current culturomics lacks a highly efficient method for isolating specific pathobionts. Immunomagnetic bead technology, which uses magnetic beads conjugated with antibodies for capturing the antigen to realize enrichment of the targets, has been employed as an alternative method.

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Background: Although the role and mechanism of neutrophils in tumors have been widely studied, the precise effects of aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) on neutrophils remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the roles of ARNT in the function of CD11bGr1 neutrophils in colitis-associated colorectal cancer.

Methods: Wild-type (WT), ARNT myeloid-specific deficient mice and a colitis-associated colorectal cancer mouse model were used in this study.

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Akkermansia muciniphila is considered a next-generation probiotic because of its immense potential to regulate disorders. We isolated 31 strains of from feces or breast milk of healthy people. After genome sequencing, assembly, and analysis, we selected six strains (AM01 to AM06) for further exploration.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world, and a strong relationship exists between CRC and gut microbiota, which affects the occurrence, development, and metastasis of cancer. Bioinformatics-based analyses revealed that the abundance of Parvimonas micra (P. micra) in the feces of patients with cancer is significantly higher than that in healthy people.

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Cellulose acetate membrane (CAM) has become one of the most widely used membrane materials by virtue of stability and hydrophilicity. In this work, to achieve the aim of selective recognition and separation of drug molecule shikimic acid (SA), an effective recognition tactics was proposed by combining boron affinity technology with surface imprinting strategy based on cellulose acetate membrane with low price and biocompatibility. The supporting CAM material was prepared through the phase inversion technique by continuous adjustment of different factors including solvent type and kinds of pore-forming agents, and the optimal CAM with multistage structure and highly porosity was applied for the imprinting of SA.

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Electrospun micro-/nanofibers with tailor-made specific binding sites are extremely popular due to their tremendous potential in separation applications. In this work, teamed boronate affinity (TBA)-functionalized molecularly imprinted hollow carbon electrospun nanofibers (MI-HCESNFs) derived from ZIF-8/PAN fibers with selective binding sites toward shikimic acid (SA) are presented. Each ingredient used in this strategy plays its own part: HCESNFs with excellent structural characteristics as the highly porous electrospun substrate, KH560 as the grafting material for the follow-up polyethyleneimine (PEI) modification, PEI as the dendritic platform to approach more boronic acid owing to its long chain with abundant amino groups, and TBA molecular group as the functional monomer to specifically bind with SA under the neutral condition.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Multiple risk factors are involved in CRC development, including age, genetics, lifestyle, diet and environment. Of these, the role of the gut microbiota in cancer biology is increasingly recognized.

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Biomass-derived carbon dots (CDs) are promising nanotools for agricultural applications and function as a reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger to alleviate plant oxidative stress under adverse environments. Nevertheless, plants need ROS burst to fully activate Ca-regulated defensive signaling pathway. The underlying mechanism of CDs to improve plant environmental adaptability without ROS is largely unknown.

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It is well known that humans physiologically or pathologically respond to high altitude, with these responses accompanied by alterations in the gut microbiome. To investigate whether gut microbiota modulation can alleviate high-altitude-related diseases, we administered probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in rat model with altitude-related cardiac impairment after hypobaric hypoxia challenge and observed that all three treatments alleviated cardiac hypertrophy as measured by heart weight-to-body weight ratio and gene expression levels of biomarkers in heart tissue. The disruption of gut microbiota induced by hypobaric hypoxia was also ameliorated, especially for microbes of and families.

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