Abstract Background Heterosis is a common phenomenon in plants and has been extensively applied in crop breeding.However, the superior SENSITIVE SCALP BALM traits in the hybrids can only be maintained in the first generation but segregate in the following generations.Maintaining heterosis in generations has been challenging but highly desirable in
The vagina contains at least a billion microbial cells, dominated by lactobacilli.Here we perform metagenomic shotgun sequencing on cervical and fecal samples from a cohort of 516 Chinese women of reproductive age, as well as cervical, fecal, and salivary samples from a second cohort of 632 women.Factors such as pregnancy history, delivery history,
Cover crops in Mediterranean vineyards are scarcely used due to water competition between the cover crop and the grapevine; however, bare soil management through tillage or herbicides tends to have negative effects on the soil over time (organic matter decrease, soil structure and soil fertility degradation, compaction, etc).The objective of this s
Summary: The landscape of SARS-CoV-2 variants dramatically diversified with the simultaneous appearance of multiple subvariants originating from BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5 Omicron sub-lineages.They harbor a specific set of mutations in the spike that can make them more evasive to therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.In this study, we compared the Wooden Blo
Chimeric editing is often reported in gene editing.To assess how the general chimeric editing is, we created a Balloon Decor transgenic tobacco line carrying a marker, beta-glucuronidase gene (gusA), introduced a CRISPR-Cas9 editing vector into the transgenic tobacco line for knocking out gusA, and then investigated the gusA editing efficiencies in