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On the role of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in plant productivity by Zhang, Youjun, Fernie, Alisdair R.

“…The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is one of the canonical energy pathways of living systems, as well as being an example of a pathway in which dynamic enzyme…”
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Progress and Prospects of CRISPR/Cas Systems in Insects and Other Arthropods by Sun, Dan, Guo, Zhaojiang, Liu, Yong, Zhang, Youjun

“…Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing…”
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Metabolons, enzyme–enzyme assemblies that mediate substrate channeling, and their roles in plant metabolism by Zhang, Youjun, Fernie, Alisdair R.

“…Metabolons are transient multi-protein complexes of sequential enzymes that mediate substrate channeling. They differ from multi-enzyme complexes in that they…”
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Selection of Reference Genes for the Normalization of RT-qPCR Data in Gene Expression Studies in Insects: A Systematic Review by Lü, Jing, Yang, Chunxiao, Zhang, Youjun, Pan, Huipeng

“…Reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is a reliable technique for quantifying expression levels of targeted genes during…”
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The response of dislocations, low angle grain boundaries and high angle grain boundaries at high strain rates by Liu, Qian, Fang, Leiming, Xiong, Zhengwei, Yang, Jia, Tan, Ye, Liu, Yi, Zhang, Youjun, Tan, Qing, Hao, Chenchun, Cao, Linhong, Li, Jun, Gao, Zhipeng

“…As a most widely applied structure material, the deformed characteristics of steels primarily presented the adiabatic shear band (ASB) formation and phase…”
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Insect Transcription Factors: A Landscape of Their Structures and Biological Functions in Drosophila and beyond by Guo, Zhaojiang, Qin, Jianying, Zhou, Xiaomao, Zhang, Youjun

“…Transcription factors (TFs) play essential roles in the transcriptional regulation of functional genes, and are involved in diverse physiological processes in…”
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Shock Melting Curve of Iron: A Consensus on the Temperature at the Earth's Inner Core Boundary by Li, Jun, Wu, Qiang, Li, Jiabo, Xue, Tao, Tan, Ye, Zhou, Xianming, Zhang, Youjun, Xiong, Zhengwei, Gao, Zhipeng, Sekine, Toshimori

“…The Earth's core consists of iron as the major component. The melting point of iron at the inner core boundary constrains the thermal structure and…”
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Melting of Iron Explored by Electrical Resistance Jump up to 135 GPa by Hou, Mingqiang, Liu, Jin, Zhang, Youjun, Du, Xueyan, Dong, Hongliang, Yan, Limin, Wang, Junyue, Wang, Lin, Chen, Bin

“…The melting temperature (Tm) of iron at megabar pressures constrains the Earth's core temperature structure and dynamics. Previous experimental studies…”
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Transport properties of Fe-Ni-Si alloys at Earth's core conditions: Insight into the viability of thermal and compositional convection by Zhang, Youjun, Hou, Mingqiang, Driscoll, Peter, Salke, Nilesh P., Liu, Jin, Greenberg, Eran, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Lin, Jung-Fu

“…•Resistivities of hcp Fe-1.8Si and Fe-10Ni were measured up to ∼142 GPa and ∼3400 K.•Resistivities of hcp Fe-1.8Si and Fe-10Ni display quasilinear temperature…”
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Melting behavior of the lower-mantle ferropericlase across the spin crossover: Implication for the ultra-low velocity zones at the lowermost mantle by Fu, Suyu, Yang, Jing, Zhang, Youjun, Liu, Jiachao, Greenberg, Eran, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Okuchi, Takuo, Lin, Jung-Fu

“…Preferential iron partitioning into melt during melting and crystallization of lower mantle minerals – bridgmanite and ferropericlase – can play a critical…”
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The regulation landscape of MAPK signaling cascade for thwarting Bacillus thuringiensis infection in an insect host by Guo, Zhaojiang, Kang, Shi, Wu, Qingjun, Wang, Shaoli, Crickmore, Neil, Zhou, Xuguo, Bravo, Alejandra, Soberón, Mario, Zhang, Youjun

“…Host-pathogen interactions are central components of ecological networks where the MAPK signaling pathways act as central hubs of these complex interactions…”
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Synthesis of clathrate cerium superhydride CeH9 at 80-100 GPa with atomic hydrogen sublattice by Salke, Nilesh P., Davari Esfahani, M. Mahdi, Zhang, Youjun, Kruglov, Ivan A., Zhou, Jianshi, Wang, Yaguo, Greenberg, Eran, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Liu, Jin, Oganov, Artem R., Lin, Jung-Fu

“…Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high- T c superconductors. Recent experiments discovered superhydrides at very high pressures,…”
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MAPK-dependent hormonal signaling plasticity contributes to overcoming Bacillus thuringiensis toxin action in an insect host by Guo, Zhaojiang, Kang, Shi, Sun, Dan, Gong, Lijun, Zhou, Junlei, Qin, Jianying, Guo, Le, Zhu, Liuhong, Bai, Yang, Ye, Fan, Wu, Qingjun, Wang, Shaoli, Crickmore, Neil, Zhou, Xuguo, Zhang, Youjun

“…The arms race between entomopathogenic bacteria and their insect hosts is an excellent model for decoding the intricate coevolutionary processes of…”
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MAPK-mediated transcription factor GATAd contributes to Cry1Ac resistance in diamondback moth by reducing PxmALP expression by Guo, Le, Cheng, Zhouqiang, Qin, Jianying, Sun, Dan, Wang, Shaoli, Wu, Qingjun, Crickmore, Neil, Zhou, Xuguo, Bravo, Alejandra, Soberón, Mario, Guo, Zhaojiang, Zhang, Youjun

“…The benefits of biopesticides and transgenic crops based on the insecticidal Cry-toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are considerably threatened by insect…”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the Cytochrome P450 Gene Family in Bemisia tabaci MED and Their Roles in the Insecticide Resistance by Qin, Penghao, Zheng, Haoyuan, Tao, Yunli, Zhang, Youjun, Chu, Dong

“…The whitefly, MED (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is an omnivorous agricultural pest, which causes huge economic losses to agriculture and is highly resistant to…”
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Reconciliation of Experiments and Theory on Transport Properties of Iron and the Geodynamo by Zhang, Youjun, Hou, Mingqiang, Liu, Guangtao, Zhang, Chengwei, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Greenberg, Eran, Fei, Yingwei, Cohen, R. E., Lin, Jung-Fu

“…We measure the electrical resistivity of hcp iron up to ∼ 170 GPa and ∼ 3000 K using a four-probe van der Pauw method coupled with homogeneous flattop laser…”
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Molecular and Binding Characteristics of OBP5 of Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae) by Yuting, Yang, Dengke, Hua, Caihua, Shi, Wen, Xie, Youjun, Zhang

“…Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) capture and transport semiochemicals to olfactory receptors (OR) and function in the first step in insect olfaction. In the…”
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MAPK signaling pathway alters expression of midgut ALP and ABCC genes and causes resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin in diamondback moth by Guo, Zhaojiang, Kang, Shi, Chen, Defeng, Wu, Qingjun, Wang, Shaoli, Xie, Wen, Zhu, Xun, Baxter, Simon W, Zhou, Xuguo, Jurat-Fuentes, Juan Luis, Zhang, Youjun

“…Insecticidal crystal toxins derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are widely used as biopesticide sprays or expressed in transgenic crops…”
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Genome assembly of wild tea tree DASZ reveals pedigree and selection history of tea varieties by Zhang, Weiyi, Zhang, Youjun, Qiu, Haiji, Guo, Yafei, Wan, Haoliang, Zhang, Xiaoliang, Scossa, Federico, Alseekh, Saleh, Zhang, Qinghua, Wang, Pu, Xu, Li, Schmidt, Maximilian H-W, Jia, Xinxin, Li, Daili, Zhu, Anting, Guo, Fei, Chen, Wei, Ni, Dejiang, Usadel, Björn, Fernie, Alisdair R., Wen, Weiwei

“…Wild teas are valuable genetic resources for studying domestication and breeding. Here we report the assembly of a high-quality chromosome-scale reference…”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of Udp-Glucuronosyltransferases in the Whitefly Bemisia Tabaci (Gennadius) (HemipterA: Aleyrodidae) by Guo, Litao, Xie, Wen, Yang, Zezhong, Xu, Jianping, Zhang, Youjun

“…(Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is an important agricultural pest worldwide. Uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) are one of the…”
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