Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs), a kind of contaminants of emerging concern, often occur in the reclaimed water (RW) discharged from urban sewage treatment plants.
On December 22nd, 2021, Nature published online the latest research results of the Bioenergy Microbiome Team of Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. In collaboration with other research teams, the team discovered a new type of methanogenic archaeon and confirmed that it can directly oxidize long-chain alkanes to produce methane
The potato is the third most important staple food crop consumed by approximately 1.3 billion people. A major challenge appears in terms of expanding the potato’s contribution to feeding the fast-growing global population, especially under the threat of climate change.
Previous reports have shown that C-to-G transversion could be achieved by replacing the uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) of a CBE with a uracil-DNA glycosylase (UNG), while these C-to-G editors showed efficient editing at limited target sites and provided few rules for efficient C-to-G editing.
Tea is a traditional beverage in China, which has a variety of health effects. Recently, scientists from the Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has published a review paper in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition to introduce the recent research advance on the refined extraction techniques of tea polyphenols (TPs).
The Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, identified the composition of polyphenols in pomegranate peels by LC-MS/MS method, established a new extraction and purification process of pomegranate peel-derived punicalagin, and demonstrated its α-glucosidase inhibitory mechanism by enzyme inhibition kinetics and molecular docking.
Recently, scientists from the Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(IUA, CAAS), systematically and comprehensively reviewed the newest techniques and chemometric methods for wheat authentication. This research has been published in Critical Review in Food Science and Nutrition .
In open filed cultivation, the average growth period of rice is around 120 days. The long growth period severely restricts the efficiency of rice breeding.
In recent years, agencies in the United States (NASA), Europe (ESA), China (CNSA), Russia (RAKA), and other countries have formulated a series of deep-space exploration plans. Furthermore, NASA and CNSA even plan to build permanent settlements on the moon and the mars.
The Innovation Team of Development and Utilization of Urban Agricultural Growing Substrate of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IUA, CAAS), proposed a novel torrefaction technology recently.