Nanjing Agricultural University

Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses

A Comprehensive Review on Lipid Oxidation in Meat and Meat Products

Meat and meat products are a fundamental part of the human diet. The protein and vitamin content, as well as essential fatty acids, gives them an appropriate composition to comp...

CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted nucleic acid detection

Lignins: Biosynthesis and Biological Functions in Plants

Lignin is one of the main components of plant cell wall and it is a natural phenolic polymer with high molecular weight, complex composition and structure. Lignin biosynthesis e...

Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security

Plant abiotic stress response and nutrient use efficiency

Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence genes

Defense cargo shuttles in vesicles Plants can use small RNAs (sRNAs) to interfere with virulence factor gene expression in pathogens. Cai et al. show that the small mustard plan...

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale