An Efficient Identification of 68 Apple Cultivars Using a Cultivar Identification Diagram (CID) Strategy and RAPD Markers

Wenyan Wang,Kun Wang,Fengzhi Liu,Jinggui Fang 한국원예학회 2012 원예과학기술지 Vol.30 No.5

The study aimed to establish an efficient tool for cultivar identification and characterization being the first steps of apple introduction and improvement program. We utilized a method to efficiently record DNA molecular fingerprints of plant individuals genotyped by RAPD, which could be used as efficient reference information for quick plant identification. Ten of sixty 11-mer primers were screened to identify the 68 apple genotypes which could be distinguished by a combination of several primers. All cultivars were easily identified by the corresponding primers marked on the cultivar identification diagram (CID). The results indicated that the CID strategy developed and employed in the apple cultivar identification could be vital in the utilization of DNA marker in other plants as well as the development of the apple industry.

An Efficient Identification of 68 Apple Cultivars Using a Cultivar Identification Diagram (CID) Strategy and RAPD Markers

Wang, Wenyan,Wang, Kun,Liu, Fengzhi,Fang, Jinggui Korean Society of Horticultural Science 2012 원예과학기술지 Vol.30 No.5

The study aimed to establish an efficient tool for cultivar identification and characterization being the first steps of apple introduction and improvement program. We utilized a method to efficiently record DNA molecular fingerprints of plant individuals genotyped by RAPD, which could be used as efficient reference information for quick plant identification. Ten of sixty 11-mer primers were screened to identify the 68 apple genotypes which could be distinguished by a combination of several primers. All cultivars were easily identified by the corresponding primers marked on the cultivar identification diagram (CID). The results indicated that the CID strategy developed and employed in the apple cultivar identification could be vital in the utilization of DNA marker in other plants as well as the development of the apple industry.

Effects of Aging Temperature on the Mechanical Properties and Precipitation Behavior of a Pre-strained Al–Cu–Mg–Ag Alloy

Jian Wang,Jingpei Xie,Zhiyi Liu,Aiqin Wang,Wenyan Wang 대한금속·재료학회 2023 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.29 No.2

In this work, effects of artificial aging temperature on the mechanical properties and precipitation behavior of a pre-strainedAl–Cu–Mg–Ag alloy were investigated by hardness and tensile tests, and quantitative transmission electron microscopeanalysis. Three aging conditions, a single aging at a high temperature (T8H), a single aging at a low temperature (T8L) andan interrupted aging at low temperature following under-aging at a higher temperature (T8I4), were compared. Based on thequantitative analysis of the strengthening phases, the evolution law of the average diameter, thickness and volume fractionof Ω plates with the aging time for a pre-stretched Al–Cu–Mg–Ag alloy aged at 190 °C/160 °C may be predicted by themodified equations. The precipitation behavior of Ω precipitates was confirmed by considering the coarsening kinetics ofthem. Results show that a higher aging temperature can increase the precipitation kinetics of Ω phase and inhibit the precipitationof θ′ phase. Thus, a new type of interrupted aging treatment, T8I4 (3.2% pre-stretch + 190 °C/1 h + 160 °C/10 h),was proposed to enhance the strength of the pre-stretched Al–Cu–Mg–Ag alloy.

Persistent Malfunction of Glymphatic and Meningeal Lymphatic Drainage in a Mouse Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Tinglin Pu,Wenyan Zou,Weixi Feng,Yanli Zhang,Linmei Wang,Hongxing Wang,Ming Xiao 한국뇌신경과학회 2019 Experimental Neurobiology Vol.28 No.1

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a devastating cerebrovascular event that often is followed by permanent brain impairments. It is necessary to explore the pathogenesis of secondary pathological damages in order to find effective interventions for improving the prognosis of SAH. Blockage of brain lymphatic drainage has been shown to worsen cerebral ischemia and edema after acute SAH. However, whether or not there is persistent dysfunction of cerebral lymphatic drainage following SAH remains unclear. In this study, autologous blood was injected into the cisterna magna of mice to establish SAH model. One week after surgery, SAH mice showed decreases in fluorescent tracer drainage to the deep cervical lymph nodes (dcLNs) and influx into the brain parenchyma after injection into the cisterna magna. Moreover, SAH impaired polarization of astrocyte aquaporin-4 (AQP4) that is a functional marker of glymphatic clearance and resulted in accumulations of Tau proteins as well as CD3+ , CD4+ , and CD8+ cells in the brain. In addition, pathological changes, including microvascular spasm, activation of glial cells, neuroinflammation, and neuronal apoptosis were observed in the hippocampus of SAH mice. Present results demonstrate persistent malfunction of glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic drainage and related neuropathological damages after SAH. Targeting improvement of brain lymphatic clearance potentially serves as a new strategy for the treatment of SAH.

Efficient Visual Place Recognition by Adaptive CNN Landmark Matching

( Yutian Chen ),( Wenyan Gan ),( Yi Zhu ),( Hui Tian ),( Cong Wang ),( Wenfeng Ma ),( Yunbo Li ),( Dong Wang ),( Jixian He ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.11

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task of mobile robot navigation and localization. The existing VPR methods are usually based on some pairwise similarity of image descriptors, so they are sensitive to visual appearance change and also computationally expensive. This paper proposes a simple yet effective four-step method that achieves adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) landmark matching for VPR. First, based on the features extracted from existing CNN models, the regions with higher significance scores are selected as landmarks. Then, according to the coordinate positions of potential landmarks, landmark matching is improved by removing mismatched landmark pairs. Finally, considering the significance scores obtained in the first step, robust image retrieval is performed based on adaptive landmark matching, and it gives more weight to the landmark matching pairs with higher significance scores. To verify the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method, evaluations are conducted on standard benchmark datasets. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method reduces the feature representation space of place images by more than 75% with negligible loss in recognition precision. Also, it achieves a fast matching speed in similarity calculation, satisfying the real-time requirement.

Overexpression of StNHX1, a Novel Vacuolar Na+/H+ Antiporter Gene from Solanum torvum, Enhances Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Vegetable Soybean

Guo-Hu Chen,Wenyan Wang,Li-Fei Yang,Jun-Yi Gai,Yue-Lin Zhu 한국원예학회 2014 Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology Vol.55 No.3

Soil salinity is the primary limiting factor affecting the growth and production of vegetable soybean[Glycine max (L.) Merrill] worldwide. Plants can survive in salinity conditions through the mechanism of sodium ion(Na+) compartmentalization, during which the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter (NHX) genes play a critical role. In the presentstudy, a novel vacuolar NHX gene from Solanum torvum Swartz ‘Torvum Vigor’ (StNHX1; GenBank accessionnumber: JN606860.1) was isolated and transferred into the vegetable soybean ‘Xinliaoxian’ through an Agrobacteriummediatedprotocol. The PCR and southern blot analyses confirmed the successful integration of the exogenous genes. The GUS assay and semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed that the alien genes were inherited by the progeniesand that the StNHX1 gene was overexpressed in the T3 generation. The overexpression of this gene conferred hightolerance to salt stress. Under 100 mM NaCl conditions, the scorch scores and the Na+ and malondialdehyde (MDA)contents of the leaves of the transgenic lines were significantly lower as compared with the wild-type (WT) plants,while the K+/Na+ ratio, the contents of K+, relative chlorophyll and relative water, and some morphological traits of thetransgenic plants were significantly higher than those of the WT. These results indicate that the overexpression ofStNHX1 enhances the salt tolerance of vegetable soybean and that StNHX1 is one of the promising target genes thatcan be manipulated to improve the salinity tolerance of crops.

Damage and Deterioration Mechanism of Coal Gangue Mixed Pumice Aggregate Concrete Under Freeze–Thaw Cycles

Wen Li,Hailong Wang,Wenyan Zhang 한국콘크리트학회 2024 International Journal of Concrete Structures and M Vol.18 No.1

The world is facing the problem of depletion of natural sand and gravel resources, and a large amount of coal gangue solid waste is produced in Inner Mongolia, China, which has low utilization rate and causes ecological pollution. In order to improve the gangue in the mining infrastructure construction of a wide range of application prospects, the use of coal gangue as the coarse aggregate of pumice concrete is of great significance. Inner Mongolia is a cold region, and gangue mixed aggregate concrete (MFC) will certainly face the damage caused by freeze–thaw cycles. Therefore, design gangue by different volume replacement rate (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) to replace pumice coarse aggregate. The results show that with the increase of gangue substitution rate, the mass loss rate, relative dynamic elastic modulus, and peak stress of MFC decrease, but the trend of peak strain increases. It is mainly attributed to the less Al2O3 and SiO2 content of gangue, which makes the MFC hydration products decrease with the increase of substitution rate and more original microcracks and pores in the specimens. In addition, the damage model of MFC was established by using Weibull statistical distribution theory and the principle of LEMAITRE equivalent effect variation assumption, and the damage evolution characteristics were explored by combining the experimental results. It can provide the theoretical basis for the application of MFC in cold regions.

Optimal Area and Intrinsic Coherent Resonance of Neurons due to Ion Channel Noise under an external Stimulus

Zhengzhen Zhang,Shaowen Zeng,Wenyan Tang,Jinlin Hu,Rongfeng Wang,Liming Zhou,Shangyou Zeng 한국물리학회 2012 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.61 No.1

In this paper, we study the intrinsic coherence resonance of neurons due to ion channel noise under an external stimulus. We find that the external stimulus cannot only increase the spiking coherence of neurons but also increase the optimal area of neuronal membrane for maximal spiking coherence. The optimal membrane area is approximately 3 μm² without the external stimulus. However, when the external stimulus is 6 μA/cm², the optimal membrane area is approximately 400 μm². Because 400 μm² is the area of a common neuronal soma, our finding has a realistic meaning. Under the external stimulus, common neurons have an optimized conformation to guarantee maximal spiking coherence and the best sub-threshold signal encoding.

Identification and Characterization of a Novel Antibacterial Peptide, Avian β-Defensin 2 from Ducks

Deying Ma,Ruiqin Wang,Wenyan Liao,Zongxi Han,Shengwang Liu 한국미생물학회 2009 The journal of microbiology Vol.47 No.5

In this study, a novel avian β-defensin (AvBD) was isolated from duck pancreas. The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene contained an 195 bp open reading frame encoding 64 amino acids. Homology, characterization and comparison of the gene with AvBD from other avian species confirmed that it was duck AvBD2. The mRNA expression of the gene was analyzed in 17 tissues from 21-day-old ducks. AvBD2 was highly expressed in the trachea, crop, heart, bone marrow, and pancreas; moderately expressed in the muscular stomach, small intestine, kidney, spleen, thymus, and bursa of Fabricius; and weakly expressed in skin. We produced and purified recombinant AvBD2 by expressing the gene in Escherichia coli. As expected, the recombinant peptide exhibited strong bactericidal properties against Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pasteurella multocida, and weak bactericidal properties against E. coli and Salmonella choleraesuis. In addition, the recombinant protein retained antimicrobial activity against S. aureus under different temperatures (range, -20°C to 100°C) and pH values (range, 3 to 12).

Upregulation of MicroRNA-34a Sensitizes Ovarian Cancer Cells to Resveratrol by Targeting Bcl-2

Shangli Yao,Ming Gao,Zujun Wang,Wenyan Wang,Lei Zhan,Bing Wei 연세대학교의과대학 2021 Yonsei medical journal Vol.62 No.8

Purpose: Resveratrol (REV), a natural compound found in red wine, exhibits antitumor activity in various cancers, includingovarian cancer (OC). However, its potential anti-tumor mechanisms in OC are not well characterized. Here, we tried to elucidatethe underlying mechanisms of REV in OC cells. Materials and Methods: The anti-proliferative effects of REV against OC cells were measured using CCK-8 assay. Apoptosis wasmeasured using an Annexin V-FITC/PI apoptosis detection kit. The anti-metastasis effects of REV were evaluated by invasion assayand wound healing assay. The miRNA profiles in REV-treated cells were determined by microarray assay. Results: Our results showed that REV treatment suppresses the proliferation, induces the apoptosis, and inhibits the invasion andmigration of OV-90 and SKOV-3 cells. miR-34a was selected for further study due to its tumor suppressive roles in various humancancers. We found miR-34a overexpression enhanced the inhibitory effects of REV on OC cells, whereas miR-34a inhibition hadthe opposite effect in OC cells. In addition, we verified that BCL2, an anti-apoptotic gene, was found directly targeted by miR-34a. We also found that REV reduced the expression of Bcl-2 in OC cells. Further investigations revealed that overexpression of Bcl-2significantly abolished the anti-tumor effects of REV on OC cells. Conclusion: Overall, these results demonstrated that REV exerts anti-cancer effects on OC cells through an miR-34a/Bcl-2 axis,highlighting the therapeutic potential of REV for treatment of OC.