Maize is cultivated as a staple crop worldwide, reaching more than 1 billion tons of grain yield in 2013. As for all crop plants, insects cause large losses in maize production; however, very little is known about how maize responds to insect herbivory.In China, Mythimna separata Walker as one of the major pests cause great losses of maize production.
The predominantly aquatic order Alismatales, which includes approximately 4500 species within Araceae, Tofieldiaceae, and the core alismatid families, is a key group in investigating the origin and early diversification of monocots.
Natural Products and Bioprospecting (NPB);Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Physalacria peck is the type genus of the family Physalacriaceae in Agaricales, and is characterized by the physalacrioid basidiomata with a bubble-like head (usually less than 6 mm in wide) and a stuffed stipe (≤ 1 cm in height).
One of the main goals of conservation biology is to understand the factors shaping variation in biodiversity across the planet. This understanding is critical for conservation planners to be able to develop effective conservation strategies. Although many studies have focused on species richness and the protection
of rare and endemic species, less attention has been paid to the protection of th...
Changing climate is likely to impact on both tree species and agroforestry systems in a variety of ways. A multi-model ensemble approach based on ecological niche modelling was used to understand the impact of climate on distribution of agroforestry trees in Yunnan Province of China.
Urticaceae is a family with more than 2000 species, which contains remarkable morphological diversity. It has undergone many taxonomic reorganizations, and is currently the subject of further systematic studies. To gain more resolution in systematic studies and to better understand the general patterns of character evolution in Urticaceae, based on our previous phylogeny including 169 accession...
Thrombotic disease is one of the major causes of human death. Unfortunately, almost all anticoagulants currently used could cause severe risk of bleeding. Because intrinsic coagulant factors are necessary for thrombosis but not required for hemostasis, developing new anticoagulants which selectively inhibit components of the intrinsic coagulant factors has become a hot and challenging focus in ...
Natural hybridization in plants is universal and plays an important role in evolution. Based on morphology it has been presumed that hybridization occurred in the genus Buddleja, though genetic studies confirming this assumption have not been conducted to date. The two species B. crispa and B. officinalis overlap in their distributions over a wide range in South-West China, and we aimed to prov...
