Zongbo Qiu's research while affiliated with Henan Normal University and other places

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Salvia farinacea, commonly referred as mealycup sage, is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Salvia genus of the Lamiaceae family. It originates from the Mediterranean region, North America, and Europe and is globally cultivated due to its appealing and captivating flowers. Moreover, mealycup sage is utilized as traditional Chinese medici...
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Lagopsis supina (Xia Zhi Cao) is a widely distributed and cultivated herbal plant that has been extensively used as a traditional Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine and Mongolian medicine for disease treatments for centuries. While the bioactive compounds of L. supina are extensively studied, the fungal pathogens of this plant are still obscure. In...
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Cladosporium spp. are known to be mycoparasites and inhibit phytopathogenic fungi. However, so far, little information is available on the impacts of Cladosporium spp. on powdery mildews. Based on the morphological characteristics and molecular analysis, C. sphaerospermum was identified as a mycoparasite on the wheat powdery mildew fungus (Blumeria...
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The yield and quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is seriously affected by soil cadmium (Cd), a hazardous material to plant and human health. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) of plants are shown actively involved in response to various biotic and abiotic stresses by mediating the gene regulatory networks. However, the functions of lncRNAs in whea...
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Veronica persica, Persian speedwell, is a flowering plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. Due to its showy flowers, this plant is widely planted in many home gardens, city parks and universities in China. From April to June 2021, signs and symptoms of powdery mildew were found on leaves of V. persica growing on the campus of Henan Normal Un...
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Trichothecium roseum is an economically and agriculturally important fungal pathogen that causes postharvest pink rot on a variety of fruits and vegetables. In addition, it is a biocontrol agent against insects and phytopathogens. However, few genome-sequence resources of T. roseum are publicly available, and this has likely limited progress in und...
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Simplicillium spp. are mycoparasites that exert growth-inhibitory effects on phytopathogenic fungi. However, limited studies have examined the effects of Simplicillium spp . on powdery mildews. In this study, morphological and molecular analyses revealed that S. aogashimaense is a mycoparasite of the wheat powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria graminis f...
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Trichothecium roseum is known to be a mycoparasite and inhibit phytopathogenic fungi. However, so far, only scarce information is available on the impacts of T. roseum on powdery mildews. Based on the morphological and molecular analysis, we identified T. roseum as a mycoparasite on colonies of the wheat powdery mildew fungus (Blumeria graminis f....
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Salt stress is a severe environmental factor that detrimentally affects wheat growth and production worldwide. Previous studies illustrate that exogenous jasmonic acid (JA) significantly improved salt tolerance in plants. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms of JA induced physiochemical changes in wheat seedlings under...
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Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most hazardous heavy metals that negatively affect the growth and yield of wheat. He-Ne laser irradiation is known to ameliorate cadmium (Cd) stress in wheat. However, the underlying mechanism of He-Ne laser irradiation on protecting wheat against Cd stress is not well recognized. In present study, Cd-treated wheat showed...
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Impatiens balsamina (garden balsam) is an annual herb and widely grown for ornamental and medicinal use in China. In 2020 and 2021, powdery mildew symptoms were found on I. balsamina in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, China. The pathogenic fungus was identified based on its morphological characteristics and molecular analysis. The internal transcrib...
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Mepiquat chloride (MC) is the most important plant growth retardant that is widely used in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production to suppress excessive vegetative growth and improve plant architecture. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important gene expression regulators that control plant growth and development. However, miRNA-mediated post-transcription...
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Background: Post-transcriptional gene regulation is one of the critical layers of overall gene expression programs and microRNAs (miRNAs) play an indispensable role in this process by guiding cleavage on the messenger RNA targets. The transcriptome-wide cleavages on the target transcripts can be identified by analyzing the degradome or PARE or GMU...

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... Ultimately, these lncRNA-mRNA pairs facilitated Cd tolerance by influencing cell-wall composition, safeguarding photosynthesis, and controlling hormonal signaling . In addition, a recent transcriptomic analysis by Zhu et al. (2023) identified 10 044 novel lncRNAs that were responsive to Cd in wheat roots. Among these, 69 lncRNAs were identified as being involved in cis regulation of nearby protein-coding genes associated with Cd detoxification, antioxidant defenses, and photosynthesis. ...
... Among these, P. fuliginea is frequently reported across North America, Asia, and Europe [5]. However, recent studies have reported G. cichoracearum as a powdery mildew pathogen of Veronica [9,24,26], in many countries, including Korea [32]. The taxonomy of both aforementioned pathogens in relation to Veronica species assumes that powdery mildews have a broad host spectrum across plant families; however, this leads to an incomplete understanding of their diversity and host specificity. ...
... tritici. As a result, they impaired colony formation on wheat leaves and effectively suppressed wheat powdery mildews [13][14][15][16]. However, limited biocontrol microbes are used in powdery mildew management. ...
... tritici. As a result, they impaired colony formation on wheat leaves and effectively suppressed wheat powdery mildews [13][14][15][16]. However, limited biocontrol microbes are used in powdery mildew management. ...
... It is noteworthy that, in hormone experiments, MeJA promoted both seed germination and shoot elongation. Many studies have revealed that jasmonates induce defense responses against pathogens but have negative effects on plant growth and germination(Linkies and Leubner-Metzger 2012; Yang et al. 2012; Ghorbel et al. 2021;Sohn et al. 2022;Pan et al. 2023). The level of jasmonates is closely correlated with the accumulation of ABA in Arabidopsis seeds(Dave et. ...
... These morphological features were consistent with those of Podosphaera xanthii (Braun and Cook 2012). Following the previously described method (White et al. 1990;Bradshaw et al. 2022;Zhu et al. 2022a), the sequences of ITS and Glyceraldehyde-3phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) regions were amplified with specific primers ...
... Both cultivars exhibited signi cant growth arrest when exposed to high levels of Cd, resulting in a reduction in shoot and root length as well as biomass. This is consistent with previous studies which have shown that Cd can signi cantly reduce shoot and root lengths, inhibit plant growth, and decrease biomass in wheat plants [30,32]. Notably, a greater growth inhibition was observed in W4, which carries a loss-of-function OsHMA3 allele. ...
... MiRNA targets were computationally predicted using psRNATarget [47] with the default parameters. The expression level of each identified miRNA was calculated as transcripts per million (TPM) using the formula: mapped read count/total reads × 1,000,000 [71]. To assess the expression changes between tissues, three biological replicates were pooled based on the mean TPM values. ...
... Part of the experimental process is similar to the ChIP-loop experiment and the process can be summarized as follows: Cells are immobilized with formalin; the genome is digested with restriction enzymes; the protein DNA complex is precipitated with antibodies specific to the target protein; a biotin labeled splice is added to the digested fragment (this splice has a specific cleavage site; such as MmeI); and a secondary ligation reaction is performed [224,236]. Then, an enzyme with a splice is used for digestion (such as MmeI) and the resulting product is coupled with a splice, before performing in-depth sequencing [237][238][239]. ...