Search Results - Xiao-rong AN

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Innovative measure is a urgent requirement for managing the huge volume of municipal sewage sludge. The hydrothermal carbonation (HTC) shows some potential advantages for using hydrochar as a soil conditioner. The aim of this work was to investigate the properties of hydrochars, by means of the HTC...

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The research and development of a rice rope laying machine (RRLM) provides new ideas for a design of a rice direct seeding machine, and solves existing problems encountered in direct seeding techniques currently in use. The RRLM has been developed based on an in-depth analysis of the design principl...

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Phosphorus change point indicating the threshold related to P leaching, largely depends on soil properties. Increasing data have shown that biochar addition can improve soil retention capacity of ions. However, we have known little about weather biochar amendment influence the change point of P leac...

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Objective To investigate the regulatory mechanism of miR-204 on proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy of cervical cancer cells.Methods The expression of miR-204 in cervical cancer tissues and cell lines was detected by real-time PCR. Cell viability and apoptosis were detected by MTT and flow cytome...

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It remains unclear whether biochar applications to calcareous soils can improve soil fertility and crop yield. A long-term field experiment was established in 2009 so as to determine the effect of biochar on crop yield and soil properties in a calcareous soil. Five treatments were: 1) straw incorpor...

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Little is known regarding the ability of protozoans to transfer phosphates and improve maize growth. The objective of this study was to determine whether Colpoda cucullus could improve the maize phosphorus (P) level by transferring phosphate. In this three-compartment root box study, the soil in the...

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Aiming at exploring the stability and corrosion resistance changes of graphene - modified zinc powder primer after long - term storage,graphene-modified zinc powder epoxy coatings were prepared with graphene powders obtained by different methods. After long - term storage, the isolated graphene were...

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The spread of invasive pests can exacerbate the threat of pest stress to agricultural production. Screening natural antifeedants from the secondary metabolites of plants may provide efficient alternative control methods for the integrated management of invasive pests. Therefore, in this study, the t...

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Five crop straws (wheat, rice, maize, oil-rape, and cotton) were first steam-exploded for 2 min at 210°C, 2.5 MPa and then pyrolyzed at 500°C for 2 h. Steam explosion (SE) induced 47–95% and 5–16% reduction of hemicellulose and cellulose, respectively, in the crop straws. The biochars derived from S...

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Factors which affect the ISSR analysis of Abies beshanzuensis, such as annealing temperature and concentrations of template DNA, Taq DNA polymerase, Mg²⁺ and dNTP, etc. were examined. The optimal ISSR-PCR reaction system (25 μL) in our experiments was as the following: 1 × Taq...

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The effects of phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertilizers on dry matter accumulation, distribution and yield of soybean were studied by randomized block design in relay strip intercropping system of maize-soybean. The results showed that dry matter accumulations of whole plant and each organ (root...

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Biochar is increasingly proposed as a soil amendment, with reports of benefits to soil physical, chemical and biological properties. In this study, different biochars were produced from 6 feedstocks, including straw and poultry manure, at 3 pyrolysis temperatures (200, 300 and 500°C) and then added...

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It is not certain that long-term grazing exclusion influences arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and their association with steppe vegetation. In this study, soil and plant samples were collected from two sites of grazing exclusion since 1983 (E83) and 1996 (E96), and one site of free-grazing (FG) in...

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Fumigation is a widely applied approach to mitigate the soil-borne diseases. However, the potential effects of currently applied fumigants on ammonification remain unclear. An 84-day incubation experiment was conducted based on non-fumigated soil (CK) and fumigated soil using three common fumigants,...

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Homologous recombination (HR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) are considered the two main double-strand break (DSB) repair approaches in eukaryotes. Inhibiting the activities of the key component in NHEJ commonly enhances the efficiency of targeted gene knockouts or affects growth and developme...

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Skeletal muscle accounts for about 40% of mammalian body weight, the development of which is a dynamic, complex and precisely regulated process that is critical for meat production. We here described the transcriptome expression profile in 21 goat samples collected at 7 growth stages from fetus to k...

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Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) superfamily, is a dominant inhibitor that acts to limit skeletal muscle growth and development. In this study, we generated transgenic mice that express porcine myostatin containg mutations at its cleavage site (RSRR) to evaluate its...

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Global warming has led to increasing occurrence of hot extremes, yet our understanding of the compound heatwaves (CHW) of both day and night—the most threatening and harmful type—remains limited. Here we use the air temperature from ERA5-Land datasets to analyze key characteristics of global CHW fro...

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Muscle fibers are the main component of skeletal muscle and undergo maturation through the formation of myotubes. During early development, a population of skeletal muscle satellite cells (SSCs) proliferate into myoblasts. The myoblasts then undergo further differentiation and fusion events, leading...

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