A tripartite ssDNA mycovirus from a plant pathogenic fungus is infectious as cloned DNA and purified virions

Recently, a research paper titled “A tripartite ssDNA mycovirus from a plant pathogenic fungus is infectious as cloned DNA and purified virions”, was published in the journal Science Advances by Prof. Guo Lihua and co-workers at IPP-CAAS. In this report, the authors presented FgGMTV1 as the first multipartite DNA virus isolated from a fungus. Phylogenetic analyses also suggested that the multipartite genome of FgGMTV1 may have evolved from a monopartite genome of an ancient genomovirus. They also constructed the first infectious DNA clones of a DNA mycovirus and analyzed the biological function of FgGMTV1.

A plant RNA virus activates selective autophagy in a UPR-dependent manner to promote virus infection

Plant breeding involving genetic engineering does not result in unacceptable unintended effects in rice relative to conventional cross-breeding

Scientists from IPP-CAAS developed novel herbicide-resistant rice germplasm

Exploiting broad-spectrum disease resistance in crops: from mo-lecular dissection to breeding

Quantitative proteomics analysis revealed important roles of N-glycosylation on ER quality control system for development and pathogenesis in rice blast fungus

Genomic base editors facilitate artificial evolution of endogenous genes in rice

A rapid technical methodology of determining pesticide utilization rate in field was established by the Pesticide Application Technol-ogy Research Group

The mechanism of obligate endosymbionts limiting thermal toler-ance of host species was revealed

A Review on insect-resistant genetically engineered crops in China: development, application, and prospects for use

Nuclear autophagy degrades a geminivirus nuclear protein to restrict viral infection in Solanaceous plants

New CRISPR/Cas9 toolkits for efficient genome editing in rice

The study of Magnaporthe oryzae pathogenesis and rice re-sistance mechanism was selected as one of the Top 10 Science & Technology Advances of CAAS in 2018

A paper published by the Research Group of Economic Crop Viral Diseases was recommended in F1000Prime

Prof. WANG Zhenying’s research team made progress in using graphene oxide as a pesticide synergist

Recently, Prof. WANG Zhenying's team has published their research results as a front-cover paper entitled “Graphene oxide as a multifunctional synergist of insecticides against Lepidopteran insect” on Environmental Science: Nano, a prestigious journal affiliated with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This work demonstrated graphene oxide (GO) was innovatively used as a synergist of insecticides, which significantly improved the biological activity of insecticides.

The degradation dynamics of a novel fumigant dimethyl disulfide was revealed

soil types and conditions for adding different soil amendments. This new finding entitled, the factors that affected DMDS degradation in soil under different conditions were revealed. In conclusi...

The Innovation Team for Functional Genomics of Pathogenesis and Host Resistance was invited to published a review entitled “The bC1 protein of Geminivirus-Betasatellite Complexes: a target and repressor of host defenses” on Molecular Plant

A novel method for identifying polymorphic transposable elements via scanning of high-throughput short reads

Houxiang Kang, Dan Zhu, Runmao Lin, Stephen Obol Opiyo, Ning Jiang, Shin-Han Shiu, and Guo-Liang Wang

The Efficacy of Chinese Medicinal Herbs towards Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch) (Hemiptera, Phylloxeridae)

Yongqiang Liu, Zhongyue Wang, Junping Su, Weiwei Liu, Khalid Hussain Dhiloo, Yuyuan Guo

Molecular Characterization and Expression Profiles of Polygalacturonase Genes in Apolygus lucorum (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Lili Zhang, Pengjun Xu, Haijun Xiao, Yanhui Lu, Gemei Liang, Yongjun Zhang, Kongming Wu