Publications by authors named "Zi-Feng Gao"

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal and readily accumulates in tobacco, which imperils public health via Cd exposure from smoking. Beneficial microbes have a pivotal role in promoting plant growth, especially under environmental stresses such as heavy metal stresses. In this study, we introduced a novel fungal strain Trichoderma nigricans T32781, and investigated its capacity to alleviate Cd-induced stress in tobacco plants through comprehensive physiological and omics analyses.

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Aluminum (Al) toxicity in acidic soil is a major factor affecting crop productivity. The extensive genetic diversity found in Tibetan wild barley germplasms offers a valuable reservoir of alleles associated with aluminum tolerance. Here, resequencing of two Al-tolerant barley genotypes (Tibetan wild barley accession XZ16 and cultivated barley Dayton) identified a total of 19,826,182 and 16,287,277 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), 1628,052 and 1386,973 insertions/deletions (InDels), 61,532 and 57,937 structural variations (SVs), 248,768 and 240,723 copy number variations (CNVs) in XZ16 and Dayton, respectively, and uncovered approximately 600 genes highly related to Al tolerance in barley.

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In order to investigate the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenström macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM), 16 patients with LPL/WM were analyzed retrospectively. The results showed that the average age of 16 patients with LPL/WM was 65.1 years old, the most common syndromes were anemia and hyperviscosity syndrome, bone marrows were composed of small lymphocyte, admixed with variable numbers of plasma cells and plasmacytoid lymphocytes.

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Aim: To produce high-quality polyclonal antibody to lysosome-associated protein transmembrane 4B-35 and to identify LAPTM4B-35 expression in cancer tissues and its correlation with differentiation status of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: The 297 bp 5' end of LAPTM4B cDNA was obtained by PCR and inserted into prokaryotic expression vector pGEX-KG. Then the recombinant pGEX-KG-N(1-99) was transformed into E.

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