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Natural variation in ZmDapF1 enhances maize drought resilience

In maize, ZmDapF1 suppresses the activity of ZmMDH6 in chloroplasts, exacerbating oxidative damage under drought. Knocking out ZmDapF1 or using its favourable allele with lower gene expression enhances drought resilience without yield penalty.

Yongyan Lian
Shiping Yang
Feng Qin
Research30 Oct 2025
Nature Plants

Volume: 11, P: 2381-2394
Overestimated nitrogen loss from denitrification for natural terrestrial ecosystems in CMIP6 Earth System Models

Nitrogen loss due to soil denitrification in global natural ecosystems is quantified using an isotope-benchmarking method, and is overestimated by almost two times in the current earth system models.

Maoyuan Feng
Shushi Peng
Yi Xi
ResearchOpen Access27 May 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Aridity threshold in controlling ecosystem nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid grasslands

Understanding the relationship between aridity and ecosystem N-cycling is important in predicting the effects of global climate change. Here, the authors present N isotopes across an aridity gradient and identify a tipping point, which marks a divergence in N-cycling controlling factors and mechanisms.

Chao Wang
Xiaobo Wang
Edith Bai
Research04 Sept 2014
Nature Communications

Volume: 5, P: 1-8
Asymmetric α-benzylation of cyclic ketones enabled by concurrent chemical aldol condensation and biocatalytic reduction

Given the importance of the chiral α-benzyl cyclic carbonyl motif in pharmaceutically active compounds, various transformations have been developed to access chiral compounds containing this motif but they often include harsh reaction conditions. Here the authors develop a one-pot concurrent chemoenzymatic cascade reaction and demonstrate the synthesis of α-benzylcyclic ketones with high enantioselectivity.

Yunting Liu
Teng Ma
Yanjun Jiang
ResearchOpen Access02 Jan 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink

A study using paired ¹⁵N tracers shows atmospheric N deposited in oxidized form is more likely retained by trees, while the reduced form is retained in soil. The authors argue that this is a greater contribution of deposited N to the global forest C sink than previously reported.

Geshere Abdisa Gurmesa
Ang Wang
Yunting Fang
ResearchOpen Access15 Feb 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-9
Nicotine-mediated OTUD3 downregulation inhibits VEGF-C mRNA decay to promote lymphatic metastasis of human esophageal cancer

The mechanism of how VEGF-C is regulated to promote lymphatic metastasis of oesophageal cancer is unclear. Here the authors show that nicotine prevents the mRNA decay of VEGF-C mRNA and promotes lymphatic metastasis by downregulating deubiquitinase OTUD3 and RNA binding protein ZFP36.

Meng Wang
Yue Li
Libing Song
ResearchOpen Access01 Dec 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-17
Driving effect of government environmental protection expenditure on green technology from the perspective of fiscal transparency

Chao Zhou
Min Li
Yunting Zhao
ResearchOpen Access08 Apr 2025
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-11
Country-level evenness measure in assessing progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Yunting Qi
Xunpeng Shi
Yifan Shen
ResearchOpen Access31 Aug 2024
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-13
Efficiency of two nitrification inhibitors (dicyandiamide and 3, 4-dimethypyrazole phosphate) on soil nitrogen transformations and plant productivity: a meta-analysis

Ming Yang
Yunting Fang
Yuanliang Shi
ResearchOpen Access23 Feb 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-10

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Natural variation in ZmDapF1 enhances maize drought resilience

Overestimated nitrogen loss from denitrification for natural terrestrial ecosystems in CMIP6 Earth System Models

Aridity threshold in controlling ecosystem nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid grasslands

Asymmetric α-benzylation of cyclic ketones enabled by concurrent chemical aldol condensation and biocatalytic reduction

Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink

Nicotine-mediated OTUD3 downregulation inhibits VEGF-C mRNA decay to promote lymphatic metastasis of human esophageal cancer

Driving effect of government environmental protection expenditure on green technology from the perspective of fiscal transparency

Country-level evenness measure in assessing progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Efficiency of two nitrification inhibitors (dicyandiamide and 3, 4-dimethypyrazole phosphate) on soil nitrogen transformations and plant productivity: a meta-analysis

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