Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forests, characterized by their rapid growth and clonal reproduction, have emerged as a significant threat to adjacent forest ecosystems. However, in China, the area, speed, and spatial distribution of moso bamboo f...
Soil microbes play a crucial role in driving biogeochemical cycles and are closely linked with aboveground plants during forest succession. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) encroachment into adjacent forests of varying composition is known to alter...
Driven by climate change and human activities, the expansion of highly invasive moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) into coniferous forests induces a serious ecological imbalance. Its rapidly spreading underground roots significantly alter soil struct...
The disorderly expansion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) into adjacent forests has become a serious ecological issue in southern China; however, the response of soil microbial communities remain unclear. This study investigated the succession p...
Moso bamboo expansion is common across the world. The expansion of moso bamboo into adjacent forests altered plant and soil characteristics. While the community structure of soil fungi and bacteria plays an important role in maintaining the function...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), once highly praised worldwide, has been found to be a problematic species due to its unconstrained expansion into adjacent woodlands and negative effects on the function services of forest ecosystems. To determine...
The unbridled expansion of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) occurs throughout the world and has a series of consequences. However, the effect of bamboo expansion on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is still poorly understood. We assessed the chan...
To reveal the changes on the stock of the litter layer and its nutrient storage capacity during Moso bamboo expansion in subtropical coniferous and broad-leaved forests, permanent plots were set up in the transitional zone in Wuxie National Park, Zhu...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J. Houzeau), which is native to China, is considered to be an invasive species due to its powerful asexual reproductive capabilities that allow it to rapidly spread into neighboring ecosystems and r...
Research Highlights: This study examined the effect of mixing fine roots of Japanese cedar with moso bamboo on soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions with nitrogen (N) addition treatment. Background and Objectives: Moso bamboo expansion into adjacent fo...
The spatial pattern of coarse woody debris (CWD) within the surrounding forest changes continuously during the expansion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), which partly reflects the death process of trees within the community. In this paper, we s...
The expansion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carriere) J. Houzeau) has triggered native forest retreat and a range of ecological issues, especially for the Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) forests with similar grow...
The ATP-binding cassette subfamily B (ABCB) is an important transporter family, and many members are well known for their auxin transport function. However, reports on the function of the ABCB genes during Moso bamboo development are few. In this stu...
The TALE gene family is a subfamily of the homeobox gene family and has been implicated in regulating plant secondary growth. However, reports about the evolutionary history and function of the TALE gene family in bamboo are limited. Here, the homeob...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocyclas) has rapidly expanded in subtropical broadleaf forests of eastern China, raising concerns about biodiversity loss and community restructuring. We investigated how the expansion of this native bamboo influences...
Stoichiometric homeostasis is an important mechanism in maintaining ecosystem structure, function, and stability. Phyllostachys edulis (moso bamboo) is a typical clone plant, forming pure bamboo forests or bamboo–wood mixed forests by expanding...
Bamboo has invaded native forests worldwide, and its aggressive spread by rhizomes facilitates patch expansion and the eventual replacement of adjacent forests. However, fine-scale studies of the spatial pattern and competitive relationships of bambo...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is one of the most important bamboo species in China and the third most important plant species for timber production. However, the dwarf variant of moso bamboo, P. edulis f. tubaeformis (shengyin bamboo), which has...
(1) Background: Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J. Houz.) expansion has seriously altered the species composition and structure of adjacent forest ecosystems in subtropical regions. However, the shift in phosphorus (P) biogeochemi...
Cytokinin is widely involved in the regulation of plant growth, but its pathway-related genes have not been reported in Moso bamboo. In this study, a total of 129 candidate sequences were identified by bioinformatic methods. These included 15 IPT fam...
Moso bamboo, which is essential to China’s economy, is currently facing significant threats due to declining profits. Inadequate management of moso bamboo can negatively impact the surrounding ecosystems. This study investigated allelopathy in...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is one of the fastest growing plants. Gibberellin (GA) is a key phytohormone regulating growth, but there are few studies on the growth of Moso bamboo regulated by GA. The gibberellin 20 oxidase (GA20ox) gene family...
The expansion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) significantly alters the spatial configuration of surrounding trees, leading to dynamic shifts in the spatial distribution of coarse woody debris (CWD). Investigating the spatial patterns of CWD dur...
Zinc finger-homeodomain (ZF-HD) proteins play essential roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. However, knowledge of the expression and evolutionary history of ZF-HD genes in moso bamboo remains limited. In this study, a total of 24...
Although bamboo is widely distributed in Japan, its applications are very limited due to its poor combustion efficiency for fuel. In recent years, the expansion of abandoned bamboo forests has become a social issue. In this research, the possibility...
In subtropical regions of China, the expansion of Moso bamboo has become increasingly prominent, resulting in massive mortality of original trees in adjacent forest stands. Significant changes have also occurred in the population characteristics and...
Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs) are the upstream components of MAPK cascades and are involved in mediating stress responses and developmental processes. Although MAPKKK genes have been investigated in many plants, the identi...
Growth-regulating factors (GRFs) play an important role in regulating plant organ development, acting primarily as positive regulators of cell proliferation. However, research on the evolutionary history and expression patterns of the moso bamboo GRF...
The uncontrolled invasion of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) dramatically alters soil nitrogen cycling and destroys the natural habitat of Alsophila spinulosa. Nevertheless, no clear evidence points out the role of denitrifying bacteria in the...
Expansins, a group of cell wall-loosening proteins, are involved in cell-wall loosening and cell enlargement in a pH-dependent manner. According to previous study, they were involved in plant growth and abiotic stress responses. However, information...
Phyllostachys edulis (Moso bamboo) is a subtropical bamboo species endemic to China and holds substantial economic and ecological value. Ongoing climate change is reshaping the geographic distribution of its suitable habitats. To reveal these climate...
INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) proteins, a family of transcription factors unique to plants, function in multiple developmental processes. Although the IDD gene family has been identified in many plants, little is known about it in moso bamboo. In this p...
The exon junction complex (EJC) is a central mediator of post-transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes. A comprehensive, systematic analysis of EJC core genes has been lacking in Phyllostachys edulis (P. edulis). Here, we identified 147 EJC core gene...
Forest ecosystem succession plays an important role in soil microbiota variation, and soil microbes will re-establish ecosystem function after disturbance events. A distinctive disturbance of the expansion of bamboo forest into the surrounding broadl...
Soil microorganisms are important components of forest ecosystems and play a key role in biogeochemical cycling. Bamboo is invasive due to its strong clonal expansion ability, which often leads to changes in plant communities and soil environments, t...
Polyurethane (PU) foam adhesives were prepared from castor oil as a polyol with isocyanate poly(4,4’-methylene diphenyl isocyanate) (PMDI) using a solvent-free process. The NCO/OH molar ratio used for the preparation of PU foams was 1.5. Water,...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J.Houz.) is a fast-growing species that commonly invades neighboring broadleaf forests and has been widely reported in subtropical forest ecosystems. However, little is known about the effect on soi...
The UBP gene family plays a key role in various physiological processes, including cell cycle regulation, DNA repair, and stress responses. UBPs have been identified and analyzed in several species, including Moso Bamboo, Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza ...