Histone replacement during chromatin-remodeling plays a key role in transcriptional regulation. Replacing their canonical counterparts by histone variants often leads to gene expression changes in eukaryotes, which is one of the most important biological responses to stresses caused by temperatu...

　　How evolutionary forces shape patterns of genetic diversity within species and divergence between species is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. The neutral theory of molecular evolution states that most polymorphisms within species are generally neutral and under mutation-drift ...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) turnover is strongly influenced by substrate and nutrient availability, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Although many short-term N and P addition experiments have investigated the relationship between nutrient availability and soil organic matter (SOM) minera...

Casuarina equisetifolia plantations have been widely established along tropical and subtropical coasts, where they act as a windbreak to shelter coastal areas. C. equisetifolia shelter plantations also fulfill another critical ecosystem service by sequestering large amounts of carbon (C), contrib...

Although only needed in small quantities, mineral nutrients like calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, iron and manganese are important for plants. However, plants absorb these nutrients only from soils, and their availability may be greatly affected by soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availabili...