Publications by authors named "Zhongfeng Zhu"

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  • * The bacterial solution and cell-free supernatant derived from SF416 demonstrated notable preventive effects against the blight, achieving efficacies of 45.1% and 34.18%, respectively, while also showing some therapeutic effects.
  • * Genomic analysis of SF416 revealed genes related to motility, cold and heat shock proteins, antibiotic resistance, and growth promotion, along with gene clusters that produce phenazine compounds linked to its antagonistic abilities against the bacterial pathogen.
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Background: Rose is recognized as an important ornamental plant worldwide, and it is also one of the most widely used flowers in gardens. At present, the improvement of rose traits is still difficult and uncertain, and molecular breeding can provide new ideas for the improvement of modern rose varieties. Somatic embryos are quite good receptors for genetic transformation.

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Several generations of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been developed for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in clinic. However, emerging drug resistance mediated by new EGFR mutations or activations by pass, leads to malignant progression of NSCLC. Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have been utilized to overcome the drug resistance acquired by mutant EGFR, newly potent and selective degraders are still need to be developed for clinical applications.

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Natural rubber is an important national strategic and industrial raw material. The leaf anthracnose of rubber trees caused by the species is one of the important factors restricting the yields of natural rubber. In this study, we isolated and identified strain SF334, which exhibited significant antagonistic activity against both .

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In this study, sustainable engineered cementitious composites (ECC) exhibiting high tensile strength as well as high tensile strain capacity were successfully developed by incorporating polyethylene (PE) fiber, local recycled fine aggregate (RFA), and limestone calcined clay cement (LC). The improvement in tensile strength and tensile ductility was attributed to the self-cementing properties of RFA as well as the pozzolanic reaction between calcined clay and cement. Carbonate aluminates were also generated owing to the reaction between calcium carbonate in limestone and the aluminates in both calcined clay and cement.

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  • * The study explored the genomic and transcriptomic data of strain 504, revealing it shares significant genetic similarities with two other strains and has gene clusters for producing anti-BLS compounds like difficidin and bacilysin.
  • * Strain 504 was found to effectively lower the expression of various genes in the BLS pathogen linked to its virulence and mobility, achieving over 70% control efficiency in some rice varieties and demonstrating potential against other plant pathogenic fungi as well.
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Limestone calcined clay cement (LC) is successfully used to fabricate engineered cementitious composites (ECC) exhibiting tensile strength of 9.55 ± 0.59 MPa or tensile strain capacity of 8.

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Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been used in various industries, thus a large amount of FRP wastes have been generated due to the out-of-service of FRP products. Recycling FRP wastes into coarse aggregates to replace natural coarse aggregates (NCA) to form the recycled FRP aggregate concrete (RFAC) is a potential approach to dispose of huge quantities of FRP wastes with low environmental impact. In this paper, waste glass FRP (GFRP) bars were cut into particles of 12 sizes to enable the grading of recycled FRP aggregate (RFA) as similar as possible to that of NAC.

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