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Increased tolerance to abiotic stress in a plant is provided by introducing DNA expressing a cold shock protein, e.g. bacterial cold shock protein.

The invention discloses a chicken manure fermentation organic fertilizer, which is prepared from the following raw materials: chicken manure, straw powders, konjak flour, corn flour, cellulose, zeolite, humic acid, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, urea, peat soil, a leavening agent, a soil improvement agent, a film coating agent, potassium sulfate, borax and calcium superphosphate. The above raw materials are subjected to the integrated treatment of anaerobic fermentation and aerobic fermentation, so that the organic fertilizer is prepared through the fermentation of the chicken manure. The chicken manure fermentation organic fertilizer is complete in fermentation effect, and is capable of killing plant pathogenic bacteria, eggs, weed seeds and other harmful microorganisms in the chicken manure, and generating a large amount of nutrients beneficial to the plant growth and the plant absorption. The process is simple and easy to implement. The raw materials of the prepared organic fertilizer are rich in nutrition. Meanwhile, the prepared organic fertilizer is high in fertilizer efficiency and rich in nutrition, and can coordinate the soil nutrient balance, improve the soil nutrient, promote the plant growth, increase the plant yield and improve the plant quality.

The invention belongs to the field of fresh-cut fruit fresh keeping and particularly relates to a fresh-cut fruit preservative. The preservative mainly comprises the components in parts by weight: 0-5 parts of alkaline preparation and 100 parts of water and further comprises one or more selected from the following components in parts by weight: 0-0.1 part of surfactant, 0-0.1 part of thickening agent, 0-10 parts of humectant and 0-5 parts of antioxidant. The fresh-cut fruit preservative has the advantages of favorably solving the problems of brown stain, discoloration, excessively fast softening, section drying, quality reduction, flavor loss, mildew, pollution and the like of fresh-cut fruits, and prolonging the eating guarantee period of the fresh-cut fruits.

The present invention provides methods for obtaining plants that exhibit useful traits by expression of a DNA methyltransferase fusion protein in progenitor plants. Methods for identifying genetic loci that provide for useful traits in plants and plants produced with those loci are also provided. In addition, plants that exhibit the useful traits, parts of the plants including seeds, and products of the plants are provided as well as methods of using the plants. Recombinant DNA vectors and transgenic plants comprising those vectors that express a DNA methyltransferase fusion protein are also provided.

The invention discloses a method for hybridizing and improving silkworm sex linkage balanced lethal system characters and belongs to the technical field of silkworm breeding. The method is used for culturing an intermediate material with translocation gene on a sex chromosome W by the continuous backcross of the male of ordinary breed and the parent strain female silkworm of the balanced lethal system; the female of the intermediate material and the male silkworm of the balanced lethal system are hybridized and continuously selfed, and the balance 60 of a new balanced lethal system breed is selected and cultured by the phenotype difference of lethal genes. The method has simple operation and small breeding scale, which keeps the gene for controlling sex of a new silkworm sex linkage balanced lethal system and also improves the economic character comprehensively. The male silkworm production of the male silkworm hybridization combination of Huajing is multiplied by the balance 60 is more than 99 percent; compared with the current main bred female-male silkworm breed of Jingsong is multiplied by Haoyue, the cocoon filament quality and the vitality of the invention are much better, thus achieving the male population level in current breed, which can be applied in silkworm breeding organizations.

The invention provides method and compositions for determining the presence and amount of a virus such as HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, RSV, Rotavirus A, and M. tuberculosis in a sample. Also provided are methods for determining whether a subject is infected with HIV, as well as, the type. The methods involve contacting a sample from the subject with a PDZ polypeptide (PDZ) or other PL binding factor and/or PDZ ligands (PL) and determining whether binding interactions occur between PDZ or other binding factor and PL. Assays for identifying anti-viral and anti-bacterial agents are also provided, as well as, methods for using the compositions to alter PDZ binding to PL in viral or bacterial infected cells.

The invention provides a cotton bollworm transformation event and a characteristic sequence and method for detecting primer and method. The carrying a 2 -6 transformation event cotton plants in the first group chromosome comprising said event foreign inserting DNA sequence and the cotton genome DNA sequence of engagement. By utilizing the foreign inserting DNA sequence and the flank engagement region of the cotton genome DNA sequence, a detection primer designed for aiming at a 2 -6 event specificity detection. Aiming at a 2 -6 event detection method for plant breeding by using the affair application provides convenience for tracking the specific gene is inserted into the event., and the specific gene is inserted into the event can be used as molecular markers to improve the breeding efficiency.

The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance.

The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield by increasing activity in a plant of an OsMADS18-like polypeptide or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an OsMADS18-like nucleic acid or variant thereof. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having introduced therein an OsMADS18-like nucleic acid or variant thereof, which plants have increased yield relative to corresponding wild type plants. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

The present invention provides methods for identifying polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences which may be associated with commercially or aesthetically relevant traits in domesticated plants or animals. The methods employ comparison of homologous genes from the domesticated organism and its ancestor to identify evolutionarily significant changes and evolutionarily neutral changes. Sequences thus identified may be useful in enhancing commercially or aesthetically desirable traits in domesticated organisms or their wild ancestors.

The invention discloses a freeze-drying method for skin-whitening, anti-wrinkle and skin-care freeze-dried powder containing collagen. According to the method, through regulation and control on the heating speeds, the temperatures, the vacuum degrees and the holding time in the pre-freezing stage, the primary sublimation stage and the analyzing drying stage in the freeze-drying process, the moisture content of the final product is controlled to range from 5% to 8%, and the obtained freeze-dried powder has the advantages that the properties are stable, the appearance is attractive, the activityof the collagen is kept at the relatively high level and the like.

The invention discloses a compound natural facial mask, which is mainly formed by traditional Chinese medicinal materials. The facial mask is prepared from the following effective components in parts by weight: 25-30 parts of aloe, 15-20 parts of mint, 8-10 parts of orange peel, 10-15 parts of rose flower, 10-15 parts of grapefruit flower, 2-3 parts of radix asparagi, 1-3 parts of salvia miltiorrhiza, 1-5 parts of peach kernel, 6-8 parts of rhizoma nardostachyos, 5-6 parts of Chinese angelica, 4-5 parts of lotus seed, 20-30 parts of mung bean and 15-25 parts of lycium barbarum. Furthermore, the invention also provides a preparation method of the facial mask. The compound natural facial mask can be used for effectively treating skin spots, acne and pimples, nourishing and whitening skin, activating cell elasticity and promoting body metabolism.

Methods and systems for enhancing ethanol production using a suspending fluid are described. The suspending fluid includes organic material that has at least partially been anaerobically digested and anaerobic microorganisms, and is substantially free of non-anaerobic microorganisms. Also described are methods and systems for hydrolyzing a feedstock for fermentation that include hydrolyzing a feedstock suspension. The feedstock suspension can include feedstock that includes complex sugars, and a suspending fluid, wherein the suspending fluid includes organic material that has at least partially been anaerobically digested and anaerobic microorganisms, and is substantially free of non-anaerobic microorganisms.

The invention discloses an acid mine repair matrix improver and a preparation method thereof. The acid mine repair matrix improver is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 45-50 parts of red mud, 30-35 parts of an organic fertilizer, 3-5 parts of plant ash, 1-2 parts of high polymer polyacrylamide, 0.2-0.5 part of composite microbial flora, 3-5 parts of sepiolite, 1-2 parts ofEDTA, 3-5 parts of limestone and 0.2-0.5 part of monopotassium phosphate. Various nutrients in soil can be effectively increased by adopting the acid mine repair matrix improver, the character of thesoil matrix is enhanced for a long time, and thus a good external environment is provided for plant growth and recovery.

The invention relates to probiotic powder for intestinal regulation and a preparation method of the probiotic powder, and belongs to the technical field of food processing and production. Various beneficial substances such as Lactobacillus rhamnosus lyophilized powder, Bifidobacterium animalis lyophilized powder, Lactobacillus reuteri lyophilized powder, Lactobacillus acidophilus lyophilized powder, Bifidobacterium breve lyophilized powder, isomaltooligosaccharide, fructooligosaccharide, stachyose and the like are adopted in raw materials, meanwhile, the preparation process is improved, the raw materials are divided into several parts, mixed powder is prepared respectively and further mixed with the other raw materials, so that the prepared solid beverage not only can regulate the intestinal tract and has certain preventing and controlling effect on diarrhea, but also has excellent characteristics, is not prone to caking due to moisture absorption and has higher solubility, homogeneityand whole-powder yield.

The invention discloses a method for optimizing a freeze-drying curve of a torasemide freeze-drying preparation for injection. According to the technical scheme, the characters of dried frozen aquatic products are improved by selecting reasonable pre-freezing and sublimating temperatures. The quality standards meet various indexes specified in National Drug Standards. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of stable characters of the dried frozen aquatic products, small auxiliary material addition amount, short freeze-drying time and the like.

The invention discloses a molecular mark tightly linked with a rice large-grain gene GS12 and application, and belongs to the field of rice high-yield and high-quality breeding and crop molecular genetics. An F2 separation population and a near-isogenic line thereof are obtained by utilizing hybridization of a large-grain variety K1562 and a small-grain variety G1025 through genetic linkage analysis, a large-grain new gene GS12 on a chromosome 12 of rice is finely located, the large-grain new gene GS12 is located between molecular marks G103 and G108, and the selection efficiency of three marks of G96, G87 and G111 in the region are all about 98 percent; the molecular mark tightly linked with the GS12 is utilized for detecting whether the large-grain variety K1561 and derived varieties (lines) thereof contain the GS12 or not. The molecular mark disclosed by the invention is applied to assisted-selection breeding and pyramiding breeding of rice yield and appearance quality, genotype selection can be carried out on low-generation breeding materials in a seedling stage, the breeding efficiency is increased, and the breeding progress is quickened.

The invention belongs to the field of sorghum breeding, and particularly relates to a sorghum dwarfing mutation breeding method. The method comprises the steps of conducting pretreatment after seed selection; conducting physical mutation, wherein sorghum seeds are put into a plastic bag for irradiation treatment; conducting chemical mutation, wherein the seeds subjected to irradiation treatment are soaked in a chemical mutation agent for treatment, and chemical mutation seeds are obtained; conducting mutation aftertreatment; screening dwarfing sorghum mutants; planting M1-generation seeds harvested from a single plant in the next year to form M2-generation strains, selecting untreated seeds as a contrast, comparing the flowering period with the contrast, observing the stability of the characters of the flowering period in the strains, conducting mixed harvesting and mixed threshing on the seeds which tend to be stable, harvesting M3-generation seeds, and obtaining a dwarf variant sorghum variety; and planting the strains with the characters continuously separated, continuing to plant and harvest the single plant, harvesting M3-generation seeds, and continuing to conduct identification and selection on the next system in the M4 generation till the dwarf variant sorghum variety is obtained.

The invention relates to the field of medicines and in particular relates to a medicine for treating skin diseases. The medicine for treating skin diseases comprises a first composition component, wherein the first composition component comprises the following raw materials in parts by mass: 8-12 parts of cortex dictamni, 12-18 parts of fructus cnidii, 10-15 parts of radix sophorae flavescentis, 7-12 parts of rhizoma zingiberis, 6-12 parts of radix angelicae pubescentis, 3-8 parts of aloe, 8-14 parts of phellodendron Chinese schneid, 8-15 parts of moutan bark and 450-560 parts of rice vinegar. The medicine as a traditional Chinese medicine formula is remarkable in treatment effect, free of side effect and good in treatment effect on various skin diseases frequently occurring in spring and autumn; meanwhile, the skin diseases are not easy to recur.

The invention discloses a method for separating halimasch from endophytic fungi of gastrodia elata, thereby solving problems that the existing halimasch separation method is limited in separation material, prone to infectious microbe infection, prone to strain degradation and the like. The invention relates to a method for separating halimasch from endophytic fungi of gastrodia elata creatively; the method comprises the steps of pretreatment of gastrodia elata, tissue separation, tissue culture, separation of endophytic fungi, purification and preservation. The halimasch strain subjected to separation, purification and subculture need to be subjected to cultivation tests with gastrodia elata before application to production; the cultivation tests include asexual cultivation of hemp and halimasch and sexual cultivation of gastrodia elata seeds, germinating bacteria and halimasch. The method is high in practicability and convenient to operate; with the method, effects that the separationpollution rate is low, and the separated halimasch strains are high in infectivity and not prone to degradation in gastrodia elata cultivation can be realized.