Search Results - Quan Zhang

The Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown worldwide is divided into two subspecies, indica and japonica. It is well known that the heterosis of inter-subspecies is usually stronger than that of intra-subspecies. Since the 1970s, indica hybrid rice, an intra-subspecific hybrid rice, has being...

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The rapid emergence of the platform economy has accelerated the practice of embedded innovation, with ecosystem partner selection serving as a critical first step in platform enterprises’ innovation collaborations and playing a key role in enhancing innovation efficiency and outcomes. Based on the t...

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Increasing evidence has suggested that MircroRNAs (miRNAs) dysregulated in pathogenesis and tumorigenicity in human cancers including gastric cancer (GC). MiR-143 had been reported to function as tumor suppressor in GC progression, however, the underlying function of miR-143 in GC still need to be w...

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BackgroundPeriprosthetic infections remain a significant challenge in orthopedic surgeries, primarily due to bacterial biofilm formation on implant surfaces. To address this issue, we developed a novel iodine-based coating on titanium implants designed to rapidly release iodine, thereby preventing a...

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The multi-terminal HVDC (MTDC) grid, which connects asynchronous AC regions, can support frequency regulation. Nevertheless, under diverse disturbance scenarios, in order to enhance the frequency regulation performance of the MTDC, the couplings among the power, frequency, and DC voltage of the conv...

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As global aging intensifies, the incidence of degenerative bone and joint diseases such as osteoarthritis bone aging and osteoporosis continues to rise. Traditional treatment methods face bottlenecks in long-term management, including drug side effects and low patient compliance. Traditional Chinese...

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Drought is one of the severe meteorological disasters and causes of serious losses for agricultural productions, and early assessment of drought hazard degree is critical in management of maize farming. This study proposes a novel method for assessment of maize drought hazard in different growth sta...

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Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is one of the most common complications of diabetes, characterized by high morbidity and disability rates, and can lead to heart failure. However, specific therapeutic agents for DCM are currently lacking. Natural compounds derived from traditional Chinese medicine have...

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This study investigates the structural effects of dilute acid and alkali treatments on cotton fibers, aiming to understand the influence of chemical pretreatment on cellulose morphology. Cotton samples were exposed to 1% sulfuric acid and 1% sodium hydroxide at 90 °C, and the resulting changes were...

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Climate change is expected to have substantial effects on agricultural productivity worldwide. However, these impacts will differ across commodities, locations and time periods. As a result, landowners will see changes in relative returns that are likely to induce modifications in production practic...

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Ovine bones are the major by-products after slaughtered. The present study was conducted to extract and characterize acid soluble collagens (ASC) and pepsin soluble collagens (PSC) from ovine bones (Ujumuqin sheep). Ovine bones collagen were identified by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel el...

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China’s western alpine regions are rich in mineral resources. However, factors such as freeze-thaw erosion, earthquakes, rainfall, and mining disturbances have weakened the strength of rock masses in alpine mine slopes, leading to structural weathering. These issues severely compromise the safety an...

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Phosphorylation post-translational modification plays an important role in postmortem muscle quality traits. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an energy source and a key substrate of phosphorylation which provides the phosphatase groups to proteins in the presence of protein kinases. However, in postm...

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Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an important horticultural crop worldwide. Ethylene regulates the ripening process and affects the ripening rate. To screen genes that are differentially expressed at the burst of ethylene climacteric in melon fruit, we performed suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH)...

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Fatty acid composition of neutral lipids (NLs), phospholipids (PLs) and free fatty acids (FFAs) from intramuscular fat (IMF), lipid oxidation and lipase activity in muscle Semimembranosus (SM) and msucle Biceps femoris (BF) of dry-cured Xuanwei ham during the 90-d salting stages were analysed. The s...

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Highly active and durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst is a vital component of cost-effective proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer. Rutile-phase RuO2 has inspired extensive attention as an acidic OER electrocatalyst due to its lower cost and similar activity compared...

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Marker assisted selection (MAS) for residual feed intake (RFI) is considered to be one of the powerful means to improve feed conversion efficiency, and therefore reduce production costs. To test the inner relationship among body compositions, growth traits and RFI, four models were proposed to asses...

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The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of lairage after transport on post mortem muscle glycolysis, protein phosphorylation and lamb meat quality. Two preslaughter animal treatments, transport for 3 h and lairage for 0 h (T3L0) and transport for 3 h and then lairage for 12 h (T3L1...

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This study investigated the influence of activities of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and lactate dehydrogenase-B (LDH-B) on the colour stability of mutton. From 60 sheep (Bayannur mutton sheep), 15 longissimus dorsi (LD) muscles were selected on the basis of colour stability (R630...

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Eating and cooking qualities (ECQs) of rice are important attributes due to its major influence on consumer acceptability. To better understand the molecular mechanism of the variation in ECQs, we investigated and compared the expressions among different alleles of the Waxy (Wx) gene and its effect...

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