Juan Mao

The Influence of Planting Different Green Manures in Apple Orchards on Soil Fertilizer and Apple Quality in the Loess Plateau

Long-term clean tillage in apple orchards on the Loess Plateau has degraded soil properties and diminished fruit quality, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable cover cropping strategies. In a two-year field experiment (two consecutive growing seasons), eight green manure species (annual ryegrass, perennial ryegr...

E3 ubiquitin ligases as central hubs orchestrating plant cold stress responses

Low temperature is a major environmental constraint limiting plant growth, development, productivity, and geographical distribution. To survive chilling and freezing conditions, plants have evolved sophisticated regulatory systems that perceive thermal changes and convert them into coordinated transcriptional, hormon...

Functional characterization of the grape VvCAD15-like gene in enhancing cold tolerance via regulation of lignin biosynthesis

Evolutionary analysis of the bZIP gene family across green plants and its lineage-specific pangenomic landscape in apple ( Malus )

Novel insights are provided into the evolutionary origin, expansion pattern, and functional divergence of the bZIP family in green plants and Rosaceae, while laying a theoretical and genetic foundation for future molecular breeding aimed at improving stress resistance in fruit trees.

Genome-Wide Identification of the Ca2+-ATPase Gene Family and Functional Analysis of MdACA39 in Resistance to Alternaria alternata in Malus domestica

This study systematically characterizes the apple Ca2+-ATPase family and identifies MdACA39 as a key regulator of fungal resistance, providing valuable gene resources for dissecting Ca2+ signaling-mediated disease resistance in apple.

Jasmonate ZIM-domain protein 2 orchestrates ABA/JA signaling and flavonoid biosynthesis to suppress cold tolerance in grapevine.

Findings suggest that VvJAZ2 may function as a potential regulatory node, and support a working model of a dynamic "transcription-protein interaction" module to coordinate hormone signaling and metabolic reprogramming under cold stress.