Publications by authors named "Zhourui Liang"

The salinity of the external environment poses a serious threat to most land plants. Although seaweeds can adapt to this, intertidal species are subject to wide fluctuations in salinity, including hypo- and hyper-saline conditions. The red algal genus Bangiales is a typical example; it is one of the oldest eukaryotes with sexual reproduction and has successfully adapted to both marine and freshwater environments.

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Salinity is a serious threat to most land plants. Although seaweeds adapt to salty environments, intertidal species experience wide fluctuations in external salinities, including hyper- and hypo-saline stress. is an economic intertidal seaweed with a strong tolerance to hypo-salinity.

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Saccharina japonica is an ecologically and economically important kelp in cold-temperate regions. When it is cultivated on a large scale in the temperate and even subtropical zones, heat stress is a frequent abiotic stress. This study is the first attempt to reveal the regulatory mechanism of the response to heat stress from the perspective of DNA methylation in S.

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Aureochrome (AUREO) is a kind of blue light photoreceptor with both LOV and bZIP structural domains, identified only in Stramenopiles. It functions as a transcription factor that responds to blue light, playing diverse roles in the growth, development, and reproduction of Stramenopiles. Most of its functions are currently unknown, especially in the economically important alga farmed on a large scale.

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Ubiquitination is a major post-translational modification involved in nearly all aspects of eukaryotic biology. Previous RNA-Seq studies showed that ubiquitination plays essential roles in the heat tolerance of , but to date, large-scale profiling of the ubiquitome in has not been reported. To better understand the regulatory roles of ubiquitination in heat responses of , we investigated its ubiquitome under normal and heat stress by the combination of affinity enrichment and high-resolution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy analysis.

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Background: Caulerpa lentillifera is one of the most important economic green macroalgae in the world. Increasing demand for consumption has led to the commercial cultivation of C. lentillifera in Japan and Vietnam in recent decades.

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Using transcriptome data to mine microsatellite and develop markers has growingly become prevalent. However, characterizing the possible function of microsatellite is relatively rare. In this study, we explored microsatellites in the transcriptome of the brown alga Sargassum thunbergii and characterized the frequencies, distribution, function and evolution, and developed primers to validate these microsatellites.

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As a temperate-cold species, Saccharina japonica often suffers heat stress when it is transplanted to temperate and subtropical zones. Study the heat stress response and resistance mechanism of Saccharina is of great significance for understanding the acclimation to heat stress under domestication as well as for breeding new cultivars with heat stress resistance. In this study, we identified a set of heat stress-responsive miRNAs and analysed their regulation during the heat stress response.

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Saccharina japonica is one of the most important economic seaweeds. Several aspects such as photosynthesis in Saccharina lives are affected by blue light, the predominant light spectrum in the habitat. In this study, transcriptome profiling of S.

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