Fertilizer plays an important role in maintaining soil fertility, increasing yields and improving
harvest quality. However, a significant portion of fertilizers are lost, increasing agricultural …

Many studies have shown that greenhouse gas (GHG)-induced global warming may lead to
increased surface aridity and more droughts in the twenty-first century due to decreased …

Upconversion is an optical process that involves the conversion of lower-energy photons
into higher-energy photons. It has been extensively studied since mid-1960s and widely …

Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that regulate the expression of target genes by
binding to specific cis-elements in promoter regions. Transcriptional regulators (TRs) also …

Human selection has reshaped crop genomes. Here we report an apple genome variation
map generated through genome sequencing of 117 diverse accessions. A comprehensive …

Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) share the property of cellular internalization. The question
of how these peptides reach the cytoplasm of cells is still widely debated. Herein, we have …

A facile bottom-up method for the synthesis of highly fluorescent graphene quantum dots
(GQDs) has been developed using a one-step pyrolysis of a natural amino acid, L-glutamic …

During recent decades there have been remarkable advances in biology, in which one of
the most important discoveries is RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a specific post …

Commercial tomatoes are widely perceived by consumers as lacking flavor. A major part of
that problem is a postharvest handling system that chills fruit. Low-temperature storage is …

Domestication of the apple was mainly driven by interspecific hybridization. In the present
study, we report the haplotype-resolved genomes of the cultivated apple (Malus domestica …