Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

The current pandemic of COVID-19 is fueled by more infectious emergent Omicron variants.
Ongoing concerns of emergent variants include possible recombinants, as genome …

The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic started in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since
impacted a large portion of China and raised major global concern. Herein, we investigated …

Anthracnose is an important plant disease often caused by Colletotrichum spp. Fungicide
resistance is a major challenge in controlling anthracnose. The Fungicide Resistance Action …

With a possible origin from bats, the alphacoronavirus Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
(PEDV) causes significant hazards and widespread epidemics in the swine population …

Apomixis, the clonal formation of seeds, is a rare yet widely distributed trait in flowering
plants. We have isolated the PARTHENOGENESIS (PAR) gene from apomictic dandelion …

Increasing habitat fragmentation leads to wild populations becoming small, isolated, and
threatened by inbreeding depression. However, small populations may be able to purge …

The indica and japonica rice (Oryza sativa) subspecies differ in nitrate (NO3−) assimilation
capacity and nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE). Here, we show that a major component of …

Summary The SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of COVID-19, is undergoing constant
mutation. Here, we utilized an integrative approach combining epidemiology, virus genome …

The new SARS-CoV-2 poses a significant threat to human health but many aspects of its
basic biology remain unknown. Its genome encodes accessory genes that differ significantly …