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Science Advances: New Gate open to CAAS Scientists
On May 26th, CAAS President Li Jiayang met with Alan Leshner, the CEO of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Executive Publisher of Science at CAAS in Beijing. Both sides agreed to push forward the collaboration in the future.
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.
Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015 ---Science Advances, which is a new publication encouraging more diverse topics such as Agricultural S&T.
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015-Science Advances.
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Research Update
Science Advances: New Gate open to CAAS Scientists
On May 26th, CAAS President Li Jiayang met with Alan Leshner, the CEO of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Executive Publisher of Science at CAAS in Beijing. Both sides agreed to push forward the collaboration in the future.
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.
Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015 ---Science Advances, which is a new publication encouraging more diverse topics such as Agricultural S&T.
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015-Science Advances.Read more >>
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.
Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015 ---Science Advances, which is a new publication encouraging more diverse topics such as Agricultural S&T.
Li highly recognized the leading role of US Agricultural S&T in the world and greatly appreciated the agricultural cooperative achievements between Science and CAAS. He briefly introduced CAAS and ASTIP (Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program) with existing cooperation with Science.Leshner expressed the deep impression of rapid agricultural progress made in China. He added the good news that AAAS is going to launch a digital-only journal in early 2015-Science Advances.Read more >>
International Cooperation Update
CAAS scientists construct the first genetic linkage map in ramie
The first Ramie molecular marker genetic linkage map was constructed by Dr. Touming Liu and his research team in the Institute of Bast Fiber Crops (IBFC) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The team has also completed the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for Ramie fiber yield-related traits. The good news is, the genetic map of molecular makers drawn will be directly applied in Ramie molecular marker to assist the selection in breeding that will improve the yield.
Ramie is one of the most important natural fiber crops which is well known in China by the name “China grass”. The traits of ramie including yield, quality and other important agronomic traits are inherited in a quantitative manner. The traits are also susceptible to the environment, which pose a challenge to characterize the genetic basis. Read more >>
Ramie is one of the most important natural fiber crops which is well known in China by the name “China grass”. The traits of ramie including yield, quality and other important agronomic traits are inherited in a quantitative manner. The traits are also susceptible to the environment, which pose a challenge to characterize the genetic basis. Read more >>
CAAS scientists construct the first genetic linkage map in ramie
The first Ramie molecular marker genetic linkage map was constructed by Dr. Touming Liu and his research team in the Institute of Bast Fiber Crops (IBFC) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The team has also completed the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for Ramie fiber yield-related traits. The good news is, the genetic map of molecular makers drawn will be directly applied in Ramie molecular marker to assist the selection in breeding that will improve the yield.
Ramie is one of the most important natural fiber crops which is well known in China by the name “China grass”. The traits of ramie including yield, quality and other important agronomic traits are inherited in a quantitative manner. The traits are also susceptible to the environment, which pose a challenge to characterize the genetic basis. Read more >>
Ramie is one of the most important natural fiber crops which is well known in China by the name “China grass”. The traits of ramie including yield, quality and other important agronomic traits are inherited in a quantitative manner. The traits are also susceptible to the environment, which pose a challenge to characterize the genetic basis. Read more >>
Scientists expound the evolutionary mechanism of multicopy genes and subgenomes divergence
Researchers at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), have expounded the mechanism of multicopy genes and subgenomes divergence in plant polyploidy evolution. This work, in collaborated with researchers from University of California and University of Berkeley, has been published online in PNAS on March 24, 2014.
Whole-genome duplications happen repeatedly in a typical flowering plant lineage. With the rapid development of DNA sequencing, genome sequences for many plants have been released, therefore provide a good platform to reveal the process of evolutional polyploidy.
After the successful accomplishment of Brassica rapa genome sequencing in 2011, Dr Wang Xiaowu and his fellow researchers at the IVF further discovered that the B. rapa genome can be divided into three different subgenomes. And among which, one exhibits the dominant phenomenon in gene dosage and gene expression comparing with the other two. Read more >>
Whole-genome duplications happen repeatedly in a typical flowering plant lineage. With the rapid development of DNA sequencing, genome sequences for many plants have been released, therefore provide a good platform to reveal the process of evolutional polyploidy.
After the successful accomplishment of Brassica rapa genome sequencing in 2011, Dr Wang Xiaowu and his fellow researchers at the IVF further discovered that the B. rapa genome can be divided into three different subgenomes. And among which, one exhibits the dominant phenomenon in gene dosage and gene expression comparing with the other two. Read more >>
Events
Agroforestry & Sustainable Farming Joint Lab Inaugurated
On March 27th, Wu Kongming, Vice President of CAAS met Tony Simons, Director of World Agroforestry Center (WAC). In their meeting several issues were discussed including strengthen the cooperation in science and technology.There after they signed the cooperation agreement of “CAAS-WAC Agroforestry & Sustainable Farming Joint Lab”, and inaugurated the lab.
The lap will be based in the Institute of Animal Sciences of CAAS in Beijing, the lap designed to provide full capacity to the scientific research experiences and advantageous achievements of both sides. It will also promote cooperation in fields of resource evaluation and cyclic utilization of ligneous forage and oil crops, ecological diversity of environmental microorganisms and nutrient cycle, low carbon and emission reduction of the farming industry and sustainable development. Read more >>
The lap will be based in the Institute of Animal Sciences of CAAS in Beijing, the lap designed to provide full capacity to the scientific research experiences and advantageous achievements of both sides. It will also promote cooperation in fields of resource evaluation and cyclic utilization of ligneous forage and oil crops, ecological diversity of environmental microorganisms and nutrient cycle, low carbon and emission reduction of the farming industry and sustainable development. Read more >>
CAAS to open its first overseas joint laboratory in Europe
In November 2013, the Vice Minister of Agriculture and CAAS President Li Jiayang and his team paid a visit to the VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University. Li signed a memorandum of understanding with Ghent University, aimed at enhancing cooperation with the university in the fields of animal veterinary science, remote sensing for agriculture, soil ecology and biotechnology, and capacity building. The two sides also reached consensus on building a joint laboratory. It was the third science and technology cooperation deal that CAAS has reached with Belgian research institutes or universities, following agreements with CODA-CERVA (Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre) and University of Liège.
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