Ligang Pan's research while affiliated with Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences and other places

Publications (50)

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Molecular docking (MD) analysis is currently the most commonly used theoretical simulation method to investigate the interaction of aptamers (receptors) and small molecules (ligands) and understand the recognition mechanism between them at a molecular level. Using the specific aptamers of tetracycline antibiotics (tetracycline (TET), oxytetracyclin...
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Food security is a global issue, since it is closely related to human health. Antibiotics play a significant role in animal husbandry owing to their desirable broad-spectrum antibacterial activity. However, irrational use of antibiotics has caused serious environmental pollution and food safety problems; thus, the on-site detection of antibiotics i...
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An enzyme-free, sensitive, and convenient approach was reported for the P-nitrophenyl substituent organophosphorus pesticides (NSOPs) of paraoxon-methyl (PM), paraoxon-ethyl (PE), parathion-methyl (PTM) and parathion-ethyl (PTE)) by indirectly quantification of the 4-nitrophenol (4-NP, hydrolysis product of the NSOPs). NaOH instead of hydrolase/nan...
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The periodically excessive use of pesticides in agricultural production has caused eco-toxicity and environmental pollution issues. Developing analytical methods for pesticides that respond to the growing need to perform rapid, in situ analysis showed the bio-sensing technique as a complementary tool of classical chromatographic methods for in situ...
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Extensive research has been conducted on plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) chemical application technology in recent years owing to its importance as a means of pest and disease control. UAV spraying in orchards faces the drawback of drift risk and can be hazardous to non-targeted crops, humans, and the environment. A detailed and syst...
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Geographical indications of agricultural products are characterized by high quality and regional attributes, while they are more likely to be counterfeited by similar products from nearby regions. Accurate discrimination of origin on small geographical scales is extremely important for geographical indications of agricultural products to avoid food...
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An automated multi-plug filtration cleanup (m-PFC) method, based on QuEChERS extraction was developed for the analysis of 48 pesticides in green tea. The carboxyl functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-COOH) were firstly packed in m-PFC columns and functioned as promising sorbents with better clean-up capability. The different paramet...
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In this paper, an indirect strategy based on the pH-dependent molecular form conversion was established for rapid, selective detection of the total paraoxon (methyl paraoxon (MP) and ethyl paraoxon (EP)) by using UV-Vis spectroscopy. Under pH 13, the paraoxon (λmax 275 nm) can be quickly hydrolyzed to 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) in 5 min at 50℃, with hydr...
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The authenticity of the geographical origin of peach is crucial because of the increased awareness of consumers on the high quality and safety of foodstuff. This study was conducted to discriminate 150 peach samples from six regions in China by using stable isotope data coupled with multielement analysis. The ratios of three types of stable isotope...
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A microfluidic colorimetric biosensor was developed using thiolated polystyrene microspheres (SH-PSs) for aggregating of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), a novel hose-based microvalve for controlling the flow direction, and a smartphone imaging APP for monitoring colorimetric signals. Aptamer-PS-cysteamine conjugates were used as detection probes and re...
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Salmonella has been recognized as a major foodborne pathogen for humans and animals. In this study, a multiplex real‐time recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) was developed for simultaneous detection of Salmonella enterica serovars, Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium, from chicken, eggs, lettuce, and papaya. The reaction was pe...
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An effective and trustworthy traceability system contributes to improving food quality and safety and responds to consumers’ demand for food provenance information. Safe meat and its products are crucial to consumers and society. Livestock feeding regime and geographical origin are closely related to the properties and the safety of animal origin f...
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A novel microfluidic colorimetric immunoassay was developed using gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for indicating different concentrations of altenariol monomethyl ether (AME), and UV spectroscopy and smart phone imaging for monitoring color change of the GNPs. Norland Optical Adhesive 81 (NOA 81) was used for simple and rapid fabrication of the microflui...
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Based on the high sensitivity and stable fluorescence of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) in conjunction with a specific DNA aptamer, the authors describe an aptamer-based fluorescence assay for the determination of Salmonella Typhimurium. The fluorescence detection and quantification of S. Typhimurium is based on a magnetic separation system, a combination...
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Consumption of foodstuffs is the most likely route for human exposure to heavy metals. This study was designed to investigate the toxic metals (cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), arsenic (As), and mercury (Hg)) concentrations in different foodstuffs (cereals, vegetables, fruits, fish, and meat) and then estimate the potential health risks of t...
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The authors describe a fluorometric immunoassay for alternariol monomethyl ether (AME). It is making use of magnetic nanoparticles and quenching of the fluorescence of mercaptopropionic acid-capped CdTe quantum dots (MPA-CdTe QDs) by H2O2. Catalase (CAT) was labeled with AME as a competitive antigen to competitively bind to magnetic nanoparticles c...
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Alternariol monomethyl ether (AME) is one of the major Alternaria mycotoxins present in a wide range of fruits, vegetables, grains, and their products, and possesses the properties of mutagenicity and carcinogenicity. In this study, a simple, rapid, and highly sensitive colorimetric immunosensor based on magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) was firstly de...
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Rationale The stable nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate (NO3⁻) can be an effective tool to identify NO3⁻ sources and understand nitrogen cycling. However, the usefulness of this isotopic tool in environment research has been limited by complex analytical procedures for the nitrogen isotopic analysis of NO3⁻. We aimed to develop a novel method...
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A chemiluminescence (CL) based assay is described for the determination of the environmental pollutant 2-hydroxyfluorene (2-HOFlu) which is found to inhibit the CL of a system composed of the G-quadruplex/hemin complex (a DNAzyme), H2O2, and luminol. The G-rich aptamer PW17 is transformed to a potassium(I)-stabilized G-quadruplex-hemin complex whic...
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Mycotoxins are one of the main factors impacting food safety. Mycotoxin contamination has threatened the health of humans and animals. Conventional methods for the detection of mycotoxins are gas chromatography (GC) or liquid chromatography (LC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS), or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). However, all these me...
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Human hair of different age groups and foodstuff samples were collected in Beijing, China. The concerned metals—Cd, Cr, Pb, As, and Hg—were analyzed, and the metal levels in relation to age, gender, and dietary intake were further assessed. Results showed the highest level of the metals was shown by Pb, with an average concentration of 1.557 ± 0.77...
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A rapid, portable, and semi-quantitative immunochromatographic strip was developed for rapid and visual detection of alternariol monomethyl ether (AME). For this purpose, the anti-AME monoclonal antibody (mAb) was prepared and identified. AME coupled to bovine serum albumin (BSA) via methyl 4-bromobutanoate was prepared as immunogen. The recoveries...
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The genus Alternaria comprises ubiquitous pathogens and saprophytes. They can even grow at low temperature, so they are the main fungi responsible for the spoilage of various fruits, vegetables, grains and their products during long-distance transport and refrigerated storage. Alternaria mycotoxins are the secondary metabolite of the genus Alternar...
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In order to provide reference for the fruit quality research and fruit selective breeding, in this paper, data mining methods of fruit quality in recent years, including fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, analytic hierarchy process method, gray correlation degree analysis method and so on, which were compared for the characteristics of advantag...
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A label-free sensing assay for ethanolamine (EA) detection based on G-quadruplex-EA binding interaction is presented by using G-rich aptamer DNA (Ap-DNA) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The presence of K+ induces the Ap-DNA to form a K+-stabilized G-quadruplex structure which provides binding sites for EA. The sensing mechanism wa...
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The accumulation status, sources and phytoavailability of selected metals in greenhouse vegetable production systems in peri-urban areas of Beijing were investigated. The mean concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Hg and Pb in greenhouse soils were 8.44, 0.25, 69.0, 0.09 and 22.0mgkg(-1), dw, respectively. According to principal component analysis, As, Cd,...
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Heavy metal concentrations of As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn were investigated for 107 soil samples collected from crop land, orchard land, greenhouse land, and wood land in the peri-urban area of Beijing, China. The mean concentrations of As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn in all soil samples were 8.40, 0.20, 24.7, 0.08, 25.0, 23.0, and 77.1 mg/kg, dw...
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Research on digital image processing technology, which began in 1960s, stepped into an active research stage in late 1970s and early 1980s. It was firstly used in industrial and biomedical fields. Although it put into use in agricultural research very late, it has a broad prospect. In order to realize navel orange grading, this paper used Visual C...
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Infrared (IR) micro-imaging technology, also named chemical imaging, has potential applications in analytical technology. The IR micro-image provides not only the full spectrum information but also the component and structural information for each pixel point. Therefore, various groups of pesticides appear corresponding to the absorption peaks in t...
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Not only can NIR micro-imaging acquire the spectra information but also the spatial distribution information, which is superior to the traditional NIR spectroscopy analysis. In this study, the NIR micro-image of wheat flour mixed with lime (calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide) was collected. Based on the study of the NIR spectra and the 2nd derivat...
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Outlier elimination plays an important role in the procedures of NIR calibration model development. In this thesis, the calibration models of capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin and total capsaicin were developed by partial least square combined with full cross validation algorithm before and after the outliers being eliminated. The result indicated that a...
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An online gel permeation chromatography-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GPC-GC/MS) method was developed for determining volatile compounds in different parts of Panax quinquefolius L. (American ginseng). First, samples were extracted by accelerated solvent extraction (ASE), and the optimum ASE operations were dichloromethane as extraction sol...
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In this thesis, classical least square (CLS) regression was applied in the attenuate total reflection mid-infrared (ATR-MIR) spectra data processing of lime in wheat flour to develop the corrected peak height model of the raw spectra, the corrected peak area model of the raw spectra, the corrected peak height model of the 2nd derivative spectra and...
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A surface sampling method for analysis of pesticide residues in pome fruit was studied by layer-by-layer scan from pericarp to kernel. Phoxim residues of apples, pears and papayas was determined by GC-MS, respectively, in core, different layers of pulp, peel,as well as the whole fruit. Phoxim residue content was decreased when depth of the layer in...
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As China enlarged the investment in agriculture, the agricultural scientific instruments promoted rapidly. It required us to face the questions scientifically such as the procurement, management, resources sharing, evaluation and etc. in agricultural scientific instruments. Because of the lack of unified classification and code standards, it greatl...
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Tracing of heavy metal pollution sources is a current hot issue of agricultural soil quality management. Land utilization is one of the important factors which affect the heavy metal contents of regional soil. In order to model the relationship between soil heavy metal contamination and land utilization, this paper adopts a novel positive and negat...
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The paper presents a new high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the simultaneous determination of three herbicides (thifensulfuron-methyl, atrazine and acetochlor) residues in soybeans. The methodology consists of an acetonitrile extraction and dispersive solid phase extraction (SPE) purified step. Then the samples were analyzed...
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Soil samples were collected from five provinces over China, including Beijing, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Yunnan, and Jiangsu. Heavy metal Cr, Zn, Pb and As in soils were analyzed by a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). For predicating metal concentration in soils, a partial least square regression model (PLSR) was established. After cros...
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This study demonstrates a new electrochemical method for rapid determination of ascorbic acid in real samples with electrochemically pretreated screen-printed carbon electrodes. Cyclic voltammetry results indicated that the electrochemically activated electrodes possessed an excellent electrocatalytic activity toward ascorbic acid oxidation and can...
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Microorganisms live in all parts of the biosphere and are critical to nutrient recycling in ecosystems. In recent years, the development of methodologies for the analysis of microorganisms and microbial ecology, at the molecular level, has progressed phenomenally. This review introduces and compares the various molecular methods for studying microb...
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Molecular imprinting technique offers a means of producing practical materials that are able to recognize a certain molecule in terms of shape, size and chemical functionality. In order to obtain a highly selective recognition of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs), we synthesized molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) using pirimiphos-methyl as the...
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The temporal and spatial variations of phoxim residue in apples were studied. The insecticide phoxim was applied by spraying according to the recommended dosage. The phoxim residues in different parts of apple were extracted with acetonitrile, purified by primary secondary amine (PSA) and C18 filler, and then determined by gel permeation chromatogr...
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The detection of apple juice is very important for its quality and safety assurance. The developing of fast, non-invasive detection system is beneficial to the improvement of producing efficiency and cost. In this study, the homemade near infrared (NIR) spectrometer was applied to detect the soluble solid contents (SSC) and conductivity of apple ju...
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Soil classification systems organize soil variability into useful groupings that can be identified by field investigation and documented in soil survey, and form the basis for the exchange and extension of soil science research and soil resources management. Fuzzy clustering analysis may be used whenever a composite classification of soil incorpora...

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... 采用分子对接手段对抗生素诱导细菌毒性的作 用机制进行探究 [37] . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ...
... However, other diseases such as neurodegenerative or cardiovascular diseases, among others, have also been targeted in aptamer studies [47][48][49][50][51][52]. In addition to the development of aptamers as therapeutic molecules, other notable approaches include the applications of aptamers as biosensors, through the development of aptamer-based devices and platforms for disease diagnosis [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], and as molecular tools to deliver therapeutic drugs to specific target cells, as well as to improve access to malignant molecules whose inactivation is desirable [65][66][67][68][69][70]. These applications have driven the significant development of the aptamers-based discipline in recent years. ...
... Carbon dots (CDs) are a rising star in the family of carbon nanoparticles and have garnered extensive attention due to their luminescent properties [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. The past decade has witnessed rapid development in carbon dots (CDs) owing to their diverse sources, including (a) fullerene; (b) graphite; (c) graphene oxide; (d) carbon nanotubes; (e) carbohydrates; etc., as well as significant advantages, such as (a) elemental abundance; (b) hypotoxicity; (c) chemical inertness; (d) outstanding biocompatibility; (e) unique physical properties; (f) affordability; and so on [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Various methods are commonly used to synthesize fluorescent CDs, such as (a) electrochemical synthesis processes; (b) chemical oxidation methods; (c) hydrothermal cutting strategies; (d) carbonizing organics routes; (e) laser ablation of graphite; (f) ultrasonic methods; (g) hydrothermal; (h) solvothermal; (i) microwaveassisted pyrolysis; etc. [17][18][19][20]. ...
... Food safety is critical to human health. With the improvement in living standards, food safety issues are receiving increased attention [1]. Food safety issues include pathogenic contamination, pesticides and veterinary drug residues, heavy metals and fungal toxin contamination, and illegal and adulterated use of food additives. ...
... Compared to traditional analytical techniques, electrochemical bio sensors exhibit competitive advantages owing to their low-cost instrumentation, automation, and performance comparable to expensive methods entrenched in scienti c practice. Among electrochemical bio sensors, glassy carbon electrode (GCE) [3], screen-printed electrode (SPE) [4], and interdigitated electrode (IDE) [5] have garnered signi cant attention due to their versatility, ease of construction, reliability, and reproducibility. The increasing demand for in-situ and real-time detection of chemical species like biomarkers, pollutants, and drugs has spurred the development of ultra-sensitive, portable electrochemical systems. ...
... For example, it can increase the settling rate of droplets, increase the ratio of fine droplets to reduce drift, decrease evaporation of the liquid in high-temperature and windy conditions, enhance the adhesion rate of the liquid on crop surfaces, and improve the spreading and penetration of the liquid on the crop surface [5][6][7]. Pesticide adjuvants can be classified based on their usage in pesticides, functions, surfactant properties, structural types, molecular sizes, etc. [8][9][10][11][12]. ...
... These fingerprints can vary based on the production processes, raw materials' origins, storage conditions, or adulteration techniques that have affected the levels of metabolites (Medina et al., 2019). In recent years, the authenticity of a variety of food commodities has been developed using omics-based technologies, which are linked to the power of powerful and enormous molecular tools and can help get around the constraints of existing approaches (Balkir et al., 2021;Kafantaris et al., 2020;Zhao et al., 2022). In particular, foodomics uses a variety of omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to offer molecular data on the various expression levels (i.e., gene, transcript, protein, or metabolite), as well as to integrate these data from a systems biology viewpoint (Afzaal et al., 2022 ...
... Several analytical methods have been developed to detect the concentration of paraoxon-ethyl in the environmental matrices based on ultraviolet−visible spectroscopy, 19 surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, 20 chemiluminescence, 21 high-performance liquid chromatography−mass spectrometry, 22 gas chromatography−mass spectrometry, 23 quartz crystal microbalance, 24 biosensors, 25,26 and electrochemical methods. 27−29 Although these methods are accurate and trustworthy, their applicability is compromised by their complex pretreatment for sample preparation, overpriced instruments, and the requirement of trained personnel, which make them impractical for daily routine analysis. ...
... Qin et al. 30 established an m-PFC clean-up method for 25 pesticides in six typical matrices, including wheat, spinach, and carrot, and compared it with the QuEChERS method, which stands for quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe. Song et al. 31 established a pesticide residue analysis method for 48 pesticides in green tea by combining m-PFC with LC-MS/MS. Currently, existing reports show that the rapid ltration purication technology, known as multiplug ltration clean-up (m-PFC), has been applied as a pretreatment in detecting various pesticide residues in fruits, vegetables, and edible fungi using mass spectrometry analyses such as GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS. ...
... China is a major producer of peaches and occupies an important position in the field of economic crops [1,2]. Currently, grafted seedlings are mostly used in peach production, with Amygdalus persica L. and Amygdalus davidiana (Carr.) ...