March 31,2014 | Vol. 1

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Li Jiayang meets Science editor-in-chief

On January 14th, President Li Jiayang met with Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of Science at CAAS headquarter in Beijing, to discuss further cooperation between the two sides in agricultural science and technology. Li briefed the guest about the development of CAAS and China’s agriculture. The two sides exchanged views on commonly concerned issues including global food security, water resource management, land use and the role of science and technology in improving agricultural productivity.

Li appreciated the cooperative outcomes between the two sides. He proposed to strengthen the partnership and hoped the journal would continue to help CAAS enhance its innovation strength and international profile.

McNutt agreed on Li’s proposal and spoke highly of CAAS R&D progress. She added, the journal would be willing to receive more high-level research papers from CAAS.

Founded in 1880, Science is a global renowned academic journal with the largest circulation in the world. In recent years, CAAS has kept close cooperation with the journal in series of activities including co-organizing seminars on academic writing. In 2013, Science released a special supplement to introduce CAAS R&D program and development strategies. Read more >>

Research Update

Li Jiayang meets Science editor-in-chief

On January 14th, President Li Jiayang met with Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of Science at CAAS headquarter in Beijing, to discuss further cooperation between the two sides in agricultural science and technology. Li briefed the guest about the development of CAAS and China’s agriculture. The two sides exchanged views on commonly concerned issues including global food security, water resource management, land use and the role of science and technology in improving agricultural productivity.

Li appreciated the cooperative outcomes between the two sides. He proposed to strengthen the partnership and hoped the journal would continue to help CAAS enhance its innovation strength and international profile.

McNutt agreed on Li’s proposal and spoke highly of CAAS R&D progress. She added, the journal would be willing to receive more high-level research papers from CAAS.

Founded in 1880, Science is a global renowned academic journal with the largest circulation in the world. In recent years, CAAS has kept close cooperation with the journal in series of activities including co-organizing seminars on academic writing. In 2013, Science released a special supplement to introduce CAAS R&D program and development strategies.Read more >>

International Cooperation Update

GPA3 plays an essential role in post-golgi trafficking of storage protins in rice

The research group led by Dr. Wan Jianmin at Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS) of CAAS has achieved an important progress on the elucidation of molecular mechanisms regulating the directional trafficking of dense vesicle (DV) to the protein storage vacuole (PSV) in rice endosperm.

The researchers isolated a storage protein sorting deficient mutant from a 60Co-irradiated mutant pool, named glutelin precursor accumulation3 (gpa3). The gpa3 mutant exhibits a floury endosperm phenotype and accumulates high levels of proglutelins in dry seeds. Combination of cytological and immunocytochemistry studies revealed that in the gpa3 mutant, glutelin-filled DVs are missorted to the apoplast. Read more >>

GPA3 plays an essential role in post-golgi trafficking of storage protins in rice

The research group led by Dr. Wan Jianmin at Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS) of CAAS has achieved an important progress on the elucidation of molecular mechanisms regulating the directional trafficking of dense vesicle (DV) to the protein storage vacuole (PSV) in rice endosperm.

The researchers isolated a storage protein sorting deficient mutant from a 60Co-irradiated mutant pool, named glutelin precursor accumulation3 (gpa3). The gpa3 mutant exhibits a floury endosperm phenotype and accumulates high levels of proglutelins in dry seeds. Combination of cytological and immunocytochemistry studies revealed that in the gpa3 mutant, glutelin-filled DVs are missorted to the apoplast. Read more >>

D53 acting as a repressor regulates strigolactone signalling in rice

Recently, Dr. Wan Jianmin’s lab at Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS) of CAAS has made a major progress on the research of strigolactone signaling pathway. A novel protein DWARF 53 which acts a “switch” to control the strigolactone signaling pathway in regulating the developmental processes of tillering of rice was discovered. Corresponding research paper entitled D14–SCFD3-dependent degradation of D53 regulates strigolactone signalling has been published on the third issue of Nature in December of 2013 (doi:10.1038/nature12878).

The popularization and application of hybrid rice is also called “Second Green Revolution”, which makes great contributions for the grain safety of our country. Read more >>

Events

Extending partnership on agricultural technology

China and Australia share common challenges on food security and agricultural sustainability. Further strengthen and deepen the cooperation is a major priority for both countries, whereby both sides have to commit significant expertise to improve global food security to meet the challenge of providing the world’s growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of nutritious food from less land and using available scarce resources. Read more >>

Li Jiayang meets Executive Director of Global Crop Diversity Trust

On February 18th, President Li Jiayang met with Marie Haga, Executive Director of Global Crop Diversity Trust at CAAS headquarter in Beijing. The two sides discussed the future cooperation in the field of crop germplasm conservation and utilization.

Li briefed the guest about China’s latest development in agricultural S&T research. As for the collaboration in the conservation and utilization of crop germplasm, he suggested the two sides carry out project-oriented cooperation, making full use of respective comparative advantages in agricultural expertise and fund-raising. Li also proposed to strengthen the partnership by initiating joint research projects and co-organizing seminars based on a MOU between the two sides. Read more >>

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Chief Editor: ZHANG Lubiao
Content Editors:ZHANG Mingjun, GONG Xifeng
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