The team of Professor Qu Shenchun from Nanjing Agricultural University has made new progress in the research on the disease resistance mechanism of apple resistant germplasm

　Recently, Plant Physiology published online the research paper titled "MicroRNA candidate miRcand137 in apple is induced by Botryosphaeria dothideafor impairing host defense" from Pr.

Disease is a key factor that threatens the safe production of apples (Malus domestica Bor.

MicroRNA (miRNA)-mediated gene silencing is a major gene expression regulatory pathway in plant-pathogen interactio.

Yu Xinyi, a young researcher in Zhongshan, the Fruit Tree Biotechnology Laboratory of the School of Horticulture, is the first author of the paper, and Professor Qu Shenchun is the corresponding auth.

In October 2021, Horticulture Research published a research paper titled "MdWRKY75eenhances resistance to Alternaria alternatain Malus domestica" by Pr.

In this study, the differentially expressed MdWRKY75e was identified from the excellent apple variety "Su Shuai" bred by the team after infection by.

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The above research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program, the Key Discipline Development Program of Jiangsu Province, the Fundamental Research Fund of the Central Universities and the Construction Project of the Superior Discipline of Jiangsu Universiti.