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Elevation Influences Belowground Biomass Proportion in Forests by Affecting Climatic Factors, Soil Nutrients and Key Leaf Traits

  • Xing Zhang,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Jiangfeng Wang,
  • Mengyao Yu,
  • Ruizhi Zhang,
  • Yila Mi,
  • Jiali Xu,
  • Ruifang Jiang and
  • Jie Gao
Plants2024, 13(5), 674;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050674

28 February 2024

Forest biomass allocation is a direct manifestation of biological adaptation to environmental changes. Studying the distribution patterns of forest biomass along elevational gradients is ecologically significant for understanding the specific impacts...

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Climate Factors Influence Above- and Belowground Biomass Allocations in Alpine Meadows and Desert Steppes through Alterations in Soil Nutrient Availability

  • Jiangfeng Wang,
  • Xing Zhang,
  • Ru Wang,
  • Mengyao Yu,
  • Xiaohong Chen,
  • Chenghao Zhu,
  • Jinlong Shang and
  • Jie Gao
Plants2024, 13(5), 727;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050727

4 March 2024

Biomass is a direct reflection of community productivity, and the allocation of aboveground and belowground biomass is a survival strategy formed by the long-term adaptation of plants to environmental changes. However, under global changes, the patte...

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Early Changes in Crayfish Hemocyte Proteins after Injection with a β-1,3-glucan, Compared to Saline Injected and Naive Animals

  • Charlotta Ekblom,
  • Kenneth Söderhäll and
  • Irene Söderhäll
Int. J. Mol. Sci.2021, 22(12), 6464;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22126464

16 June 2021

Early changes in hemocyte proteins in freshwater crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus, in response to an injection with the fungal pattern recognition protein β-1,3-glucan (laminarin) were investigated, as well as changes after saline (vehicle) injectio...

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Climate Factors Affect Above–Belowground Biomass Allocation in Broad-Leaved and Coniferous Forests by Regulating Soil Nutrients

  • Xing Zhang,
  • Yongzhi Zhou,
  • Yuhui Ji,
  • Mengyao Yu,
  • Xinyi Li,
  • Jie Duan,
  • Yun Wang,
  • Jie Gao and
  • Xiali Guo
Plants2023, 12(23), 3926;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12233926

22 November 2023

The allocation of plant biomass above and below ground reflects their strategic resource utilization, crucial for understanding terrestrial carbon flux dynamics. In our comprehensive study, we analyzed biomass distribution patterns in 580 broadleaved...

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Precipitation Dominates the Allocation Strategy of Above- and Belowground Biomass in Plants on Macro Scales

  • Xianxian Wang,
  • Xiaohong Chen,
  • Jiali Xu,
  • Yuhui Ji,
  • Xiaoxuan Du and
  • Jie Gao
Plants2023, 12(15), 2843;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12152843

1 August 2023

The allocation of biomass reflects a plant’s resource utilization strategy and is significantly influenced by climatic factors. However, it remains unclear how climate factors affect the aboveground and belowground biomass allocation patterns o...

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Characterization and Gene Expression of Vitellogenesis-Related Transcripts in the Hepatopancreas and Ovary of the Red Swamp Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852), during Reproductive Cycle

  • Chiara Manfrin,
  • Moshe Tom,
  • Massimo Avian,
  • Silvia Battistella,
  • Alberto Pallavicini and
  • Piero Giulio Giulianini
Diversity2021, 13(9), 445;https://doi.org/10.3390/d13090445

16 September 2021

The major component of the animal egg yolk is the lipoglycoprotein vitellin, derived from its precursor vitellogenin (VTG), which is produced species-specifically in decapod crustaceans in the hepatopancreas and/or in the ovary of reproductive female...

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Diversity of Improved Diploids and Commercial Triploids from Musa spp. via Molecular Markers

  • Juliana Rodrigues Sampaio,
  • Wanderley Diaciso dos Santos Oliveira,
  • Luiz Carlos de Souza Junior,
  • Fernanda dos Santos Nascimento,
  • Ricardo Franco Cunha Moreira,
  • Andresa Priscila de Souza Ramos,
  • Janay Almeida dos Santos-Serejo,
  • Edson Perito Amorim,
  • Renata Darilia Moraes de Jesus and
  • Claudia Fortes Ferreira
Curr. Issues Mol. Biol.2024, 46(11), 11783-11796;https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb46110700

22 October 2024

Banana breeding consists of obtaining diploid, triploid, and tetraploid intra- and interspecific hybrids by conventional breeding methods with the objective of aggregating characteristics of agronomic and commercial interest. Given the narrow genetic...

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Full-Length Transcriptome Comparison Provides Novel Insights into the Molecular Basis of Adaptation to Different Ecological Niches of the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent in Alvinocaridid Shrimps

  • Aiyang Wang,
  • Zhongli Sha and
  • Min Hui
Diversity2022, 14(5), 371;https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050371

7 May 2022

The deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystem is one of the extreme chemoautotrophic environments. Shinkaicaris leurokolos Kikuchi and Hashimoto, 2000, and Alvinocaris longirostris Kikuchi and Ohta, 1995, are typically co-distributed and closely related a...

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