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  LIU Chunming's group deciphered the machiney underling the zygote activation in plants

  Apr 14, 2016
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  When Hippo meets auxin: a new player in auxin-mediated plant development identified

  Mar 10, 2016
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  Flavone synthases from Lonicera japonica and L. macranthoides reveal differential flavones accumulation patterns

  Mar 10, 2016
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  Structural Basis for the Regulation of Glutamyl-tRNA Reductase in Chloroplast

  Feb 02, 2016
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  Why Flowers Look so Different: Scientists Make Progress in the Flexibility of Floral Structure and Its Underlying Mechanisms

  Arrangement of floral organs can be whorled or spiral. In whorled flowers, the numbers of floral organs are usually fixed; in spiral flowers, in contrast, the numbers of floral organs usually show considerable variation, suggestive of the flexibility in the basic structure of the flower. The underlying mechanisms of the flexibility, however, remain unclear. Using Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae) as a model, Prof. KONG Hongzhi’s research group at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, attempted to address this question.

  Dec 10, 2015
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  Why Roots Grow Vertically: New Breakthrough in the Research on Roots Gravitropism

  Prof. LE Jie’s group in the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported that FLP and MYB88 act redundantly but differentially in regulating the transcription of PIN3 and PIN7 in gravity-sensing cells of primary and lateral roots.

  Nov 23, 2015
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  New Findings in the evolutionary mechanism of molecular regulation in floral symmetry

  CYCLOIDEA (CYC)-like TCP genes have conserved dorsal identity function in patterning floral zygomorphy. Their expression changes are usually related to morphological diversity of zygomorphic flowers. However, it is still a challenge to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying their expression differentiation.

  Nov 20, 2015
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  Resist to Drought: A Novel Regulator in Plant ABA Signaling

  Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that plays a fundamental role in plant development and stress response, especially in the regulation of stomatal closure in response to water deficit stress. The signal transduction that occurs in response to ABA and drought stress is mediated by protein phosphorylation and ubiquitination. Protein ubiquitination plays a fundamental role in accurate adjustment of abundance and activity on some key regulatory proteins. However, the mechanism of how E3 ligase regulated specifically in response to external stimuli is not unclear. Now Prof. QIN Feng and her team from the Institute of Botany, CAS, have identified Arabidopsis thaliana CHYR1 as an ubiquitin E3 ligase.

  Nov 05, 2015
• Molecular Mechanism of Plant Color Change

  Sep 10, 2015
• Scientists use palaeobotanical evidence to estimate Early Miocene elevation in northern Tibet

  Sep 10, 2015