Huyuan Feng

Huyuan Feng
Lanzhou University | LZU · School of Life Science

PhD

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AMF represents a promising avenue in addressing drought stress and enhancing crop production. These fungi establish mutualistic symbiotic partnerships with the roots of nearly all plants, enabling the exchange of nutrients between the fungus and the host plant. The role of AMF in drought mitigation is multifaceted and involves several mechanisms th...
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Abstract book containing 66 papers both in English and in Chinese that presented during this symposium.
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It is well understood that agricultural management influences arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, but there is controversy about whether farmers should manage for AM symbiosis. We assessed AM fungal communities colonizing wheat roots for three consecutive years in a long‐term (> 14 yr) tillage and fertilization experiment. Relationships among mycorr...
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Background Microbial colonization represents one of the main threats to the conservation of subterranean cultural heritage sites. Recently, the microbial colonization on murals in tombs has gradually attracted attention. Methods In this study, a total of 33 samples, including 27 aerosol samples and 6 mural painting samples, were collected from dif...
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Radiation mutation breeding is an important method for obtaining new crop varieties. In radiation mutation breeding research, the dose effect of radiation has long been a topic of concern. However, the molecular mechanism behind the dose effect is still unclear. Through analyzing the transcriptome and proteome of M1 generation pea (Pisum sativum L....
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Biodeterioration of ancient wall paintings is a ubiquitous phenomenon that threatens the long-term survival of invaluable cultural heritage. In this study, the Naumannella cuiyingiana AFT2 T , isolated from the surface of tomb paintings dating back 1500 years, was observed to be capable of altering the appearing colors of Pb-containing pigments. By...
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Metagenomics and metaproteomics analyses were used to determine the microbial diversity and taxon composition, as well as the biochemical potentials of the microbiome on the sandstone of Beishiku Temple located in Northwest China. Taxonomic annotation of the metagenomic dataset revealed the predominant taxa of the stone microbiome on this cave temp...
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Radiation mutation breeding is an important method for obtaining new crop varieties. In radiation mutation breeding research, the dose effect of radiation has long been a topic of concern. However, the molecular mechanism behind the dose effect is still unclear. Through analyzing the transcriptome and proteome of M generation pea ( Pisum sativum L....
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In the Tibetan Plateau grassland ecosystems, nitrogen (N) availability is rising dramatically; however, the influence of higher N on the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) might impact on plant competitive interactions. Therefore, understanding the part played by AMF in the competition between Vicia faba and Brassica napus and its dependence on the...
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Microbial colonization on stone monuments leads to subsequent biodeterioration; determining the microbe diversity, compositions, and metabolic capacities is essential for understanding biodeterioration mechanisms and undertaking heritage management. Here, samples of epilithic biofilm and naturally weathered and exfoliated sandstone particles from d...
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Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 1987, suffers from microbial colonization and deterioration of the wall paintings with the visible appearance of black spots and microbial biomasses in selected caves. In this study, next-generation sequencing (NGS) and microscopy analyses were combined to reveal the microbial community co...
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Aims This study investigated the mycorrhizal responsiveness of modern hexaploid wheat and its ancestors under different soil fertility and inferred which ancestor contributed primarily to the mycorrhizal responsiveness of modern wheat. Methods Three or four accessions of each of five species, including hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum; AABB...
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The availability of limiting nutrients plays a crucial role in shaping communities of endophytes. Moreover, whether fungal endophytes are host-specific remains controversial. We hypothesized that in a harsh and nitrogen (N)-deficient area, diversity and community composition of foliar endophytic fungi (FEFs) varied substantially among plots with ex...
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Murals or wall paintings are important cultural heritage, but are both valuable and vulnerable. Because of the intrinsic interactions among living organisms, nutritious materials and the surrounding environmental conditions, most of murals are facing severe and irreversible deterioration and damages from aesthetic alteration to material degradation...
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Fungi, cyanobacteria and algae are specific microbial groups associated with the deterioration and safety of stone monuments. In this study, high-throughput sequencing analysis was used to investigate the diversity, distributions, ecological functions, and interaction patterns of both the fungal and microalgal (including cyanobacteria and algae) co...
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Two glomoid spore-producing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were grown in single-species cultures that were established from soil-borne spores collected from high altitude (2800 m a.s.l.) of Tibet Plateau, China. Phylogenetic analyses were performed with sequences of nuclear rDNA (spanning the partial small subunit, whole internal transcribed spacer,...
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The effects of climate warming and season on soil organic carbon (SOC) have received widespread attention, but how climate warming affects the seasonal changes of SOC remains unclear. Here, we established a gradient warming experiment to investigate plant attributes and soil physicochemical and microbial properties that were potentially associated...
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Slope aspect is an important topographic feature that can influence local environmental conditions. While strong effects of slope aspect on aboveground and belowground communities have been frequently elucidated, how slope aspect affects soil nitrogen (N) cycling microbes remains unclear. Here, we characterized the communities of soil N-cycling mic...
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The succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities during ecosystem development has received widespread attention, but the ecological mechanism that drives the succession of AMF communities during the restoration process in alpine meadow ecosystems remains unclear. Here, we treated “Black Beach” (severely degraded alpine meadow) as th...
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In this study, a systematic survey of cultural airborne fungi was carried out in the occurrence environments of wall paintings that are preserved in the Tiantishan Grottoes and the Western Xia Museum, China. A bio-aerosol sampler was used for sampling in four seasons in 2016. Culture-dependent and-independent methods were taken to acquire airborne...
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Fungi, cyanobacteria and algae are specific microbial groups associated with the deterioration and safety of stone monuments. In this study, high-throughput sequencing analysis was used to investigate the diversity, distributions, ecological functions, and interaction patterns of both the fungal and microalgal (including cyanobacteria and algae) co...
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Due to natural factors and human activities, ancient murals, stone carvings and other precious cultural heritages tend to suffer from widespread diseases such as disruption, salt efflorescence crusting, powdering, weathering, sootiness and pollution. The research and development of corresponding conservation and restoration materials and technology...
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The deposition of the airborne microorganisms onto cultural heritage is associated closely with the subsequent biodeterioration. In this study, a systematic investigation was carried out to detect the seasonal variation and diversity of airborne fungal concentration at the World Cultural Heritage Site Maijishan Grottoes in western China. A bio-aero...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widespread root-associated microorganisms that participate in many ecosystem processes. However, the response of AMF communities to global warming still remains poorly understood, especially in high-altitude regions. This study investigated the responses of AMF communities to 17-year experimental warming with...
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We irradiated pea seeds with neutrons from a 252Cf source and studied the radiation dose effects on various morphological development parameters during the growth of M1 generation peas. We found that in the dose range of 0.51–9.27 Gy, with the increase in neutron-absorbed dose, the morphological development parameters of M1 generation peas at the i...
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Two glomoid spore-producing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were grown in single-species cultures established from soil-borne spores collected from high altitude (2,800 m a.s.l.) of Tibet Plateau, China. Phylogenetic analyses were performed with sequences of nuclear rDNA (spanning the partial small subunit, whole internal transcribed spacer, and parti...
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Numerous studies have confirmed that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can promote plant nitrogen and phosphorus absorption, and prime systemic plant defense to plant pathogenic microbes. Despite that, the information on the interaction between AMF and plant pathogenic microbes is limited, especially the influence of plant pathogenic microbes on t...
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Microorganisms can accelerate the deterioration of stone monuments. In this study, we used next-generation sequencing (Illumina MiSeq PE300 Platform) to investigate the microbial biofilm communities that have developed on sandstone in two famous Buddhist cave temples, the Maijishan Grottoes and Tiantishan Grottoes, located on the historical Silk Ro...
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The tomb murals preserved at the original sites are generally threatened by the microbial disease, and the long-term controlling of these microorganisms is a long-standing problem in the field of cultural heritage conservation. We aimed to explore the cultivable fungal diversity on moldy murals of the tomb corridor surfaces, to isolate the dominant...
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The Beishiku (North Grottoes) Temple is suffering from serious weathering erosion as well as biological attacks. In this study, the total genomic DNA of 72 samples was extracted to elucidate the communities and distribution of both bacteria and archaea in biodeteriorated and weathered sandstone materials using a high-throughput sequencing analysis....
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The deposition of the airborne microorganisms onto cultural heritage is associated closely with the subsequent biodeterioration. In this study, a systematic investigation was carried out to detect the seasonal variation and diversity of airborne fungal concentration at the World Cultural Heritage Site Maijishan Grottoes in western China. A bio-aero...
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Climate and environmental conditions are the main driving factors that are responsible for the biological colonization and deterioration of stone heritage materials, especially for open-air sites. It is critical to determine the relationships among climate, microbial communities, and potential biodeterioration to conserve stone relics. In this stud...
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Irradiation breeding is an important technique in the effort to solve food shortages and improve the quality of agricultural products. In this study, a field test was implemented on the M3 generation of two mutant pea plants gained from previous neutron radiation of pea seeds. The relationship between agronomic characteristics and yields of the mut...
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The Maijishan Grottoes, located on the ancient Silk Road in West China, was constructed from the 4th centuries onward for more than 1500 years and became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 2014. A severe microbe outbreak occurred on the wall paintings in the caves of the Maijishan Grottoes in 2018. To prevent and control microbial damage to the wa...
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Although drinking water disinfection proved to be an effective strategy to eliminate many pathogens, bacteria can still show disinfection tolerance in drinking water distribution systems. To date, the molecular mechanisms on how environmental stress affects the tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to monochloramine are not well understood. Here, we...
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Possible high biodeterioration of the microorganisms due to their metabolic pathway and activities on stone materials causes solemn problems in cultural heritage. Different kinds of laboratory-scale methods have been used for the reduction of microbial growth, that is, chemical, mechanical, and physical, which are cost-effective and not ecofriendly...
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The ecosystem approach has been developed since the 1940s. An ecosystem is a community of living organism and their interaction and conjugation with abiotic factors of the environment. The ecosystem is not endemic to the aquatic environment only but, the terrestrial environment is also considered to be a part of an ecosystem. Soil act as mother rol...
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The post-translational modification (PTM) serves as an important molecular switch mechanism to modulate diverse biological functions in response to specific cues. Though more commonly found in eukaryotic cells, many PTMs have been identified and characterized in bacteria over the past decade, highlighting the importance of PTMs in regulating bacter...
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Background: The deposition of the airborne fungi onto cultural heritage is associated closely with the subsequently biodeterioration taking place. In this study, a systematic survey of the culturable airborne fungi was carried out in the occurrence environments of the wall paintings that preserved in the Tiantishan Grottoes and the Western Xia Muse...
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Two subterranean ancient Chinese tombs of over 1700 years old, one from the Jin Dynasty and another from the Han Dynasty, were investigated in relation to black spots associated with microbiological deterioration of brick mural paintings within. The objectives of this study were to characterize the diversity of culturable fungal communities and ass...
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Irradiation breeding is an important technique in the effort to solve food shortages and improve the quality of agricultural products. In this study, a field test was implemented on the M3 generation of two mutant pea plants gained from previous neutron radiation of pea seeds. The relationship between agronomic characteristics and yields of the mut...
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Background Being an underdeveloped country, the COVID-19 epidemic has been posed a major risk factor for the health and economy of Pakistan. The SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) model of epidemiological analysis predicts that there should be more cases since late March 2020 in Pakistan. Why yet no rapid spread in Pakistan as compared to the ent...
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The toxin–antitoxin (TA) system is composed of a stable toxin and an unstable antitoxin that neutralizes the toxin. Being perhaps the most studied among the different TA types, type II TA systems are widely distributed and often exist in multiple copies within chromosomes of eubacteria and archaea. Exhibiting diverse molecular activities such as RN...
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The bioweathering of stone cultural relics is a ubiquitous problem. Weathering prevention is an escalating challenge under the increasing global climate and environmental changes. Here, the mechanisms of lichen-microorganism mediated weathering of stone materials and their relationships with climatic and environmental factors were reviewed. The bio...
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Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes and Wuwei Tiantishan Grottoes, were two renowned Buddhist cave temples located on the ancient Silk Road in Gansu Province, which belong to two distinct climatic regionalization. The former have a warm, semi-humid continental climate with plentiful rain and the latter have a cold and semi-arid climate with scarce rain, re...
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Biodeterioration is when living organisms chemically or physically change or alter the appearance of materials objects. Organisms can colonize and destroy valuable cultural heritage. New advances in biotechnology and applied microbiology provide important information on conserving cultural heritage. Various physical and mechanical methods have prev...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) establish symbiotic interaction with 80% of known land plants. It has a pronounced impact on plant growth, water absorption, mineral nutrition, and protection from abiotic stresses. Plants are very dynamic systems having great adaptability under continuously changing drying conditions. In this regard, the function...
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Revegetation accelerates the recovery of degraded lands. Different microbial trophic groups underpin this acceleration from the aspects of soil structure stabilization, nutrient accumulation, and ecosystem functions. However, little is known about how revegetation influences the community and biodiversity of different soil microbial trophic groups....
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This study aims to further identify the biological effects of neutron-irradiated plants and provides insights into the mutation breeding of such plants. In this study, the neutron irradiation device designed by our institute was used to analyze the relationship between the seed components in different legume crops and their neutron absorption dose...
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Abstract: Takamatsuzuka Tumulus is a national cultural heritage site in Japan, and the in-situ conservation of this site was considered to be an international paragon for the field of cultural heritage conservation in the last century. Nevertheless, the gradually uncontrolled biodeterioration resulted in the dismantlement of the ancient tumulus to...
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Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) often limit biological processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Based on previous studies mainly focusing on plants, the concept of resource limitation has evolved towards a theory of (co)limitations by multiple resources. However, this ecological framework has not been applied to analyse how soil micro‐organisms and pla...
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ABSRACT Revegetation is widely used to enhance degraded topsoil recovery with the enhancements of soil nutrient accumulation and soil structure stabilization. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important for the allocation of carbon into soil and the formation of soil aggregates. Thus, we hypothesized that AMF could construct more niches for ot...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form a mutualistic association with plant roots by improving phosphorus (P) uptake of the host plant. Previous studies demonstrated that AMF exert various influences on soil enzyme activity; however, quantification of these effects has not been published to date. This study explored the effect of AMF on soil enzym...
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Tiantishan Grottoes, a famous site well known for its historical status in the spread of Buddhism art in ancient China, were selected for a comparison and analysis of microbial taxonomic characteristics on the wall paintings under different preservation conditions: in situ and ex situ conservation. A total of 12 samples were collected from three di...
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Nitrogen (N) availability is increasing dramatically in many ecosystems, but the influence of elevated N on the functioning of arbuscular mycorrhizal ( AM ) fungi in natural ecosystems is not well understood. We measured AM fungal community structure and mycorrhizal function simultaneously across an experimental N addition gradient in an alpine mea...
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The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is a key plant‐microbe interaction in sustainable functioning ecosystems. Increasing anthropogenic disturbance poses a threat to AM fungal communities worldwide, but there is little empirical evidence about its potential negative consequences. In this global study we sequenced AM fungal DNA in soil samples...
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The molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi remains largely unexplored in sedge-dominated ecosystems, much less their responses to global climate change and grazing. To determine the molecular diversity of AM fungi and how they are affected by climate change and grazing, we examined AM fungal communities inside roots in a sedge mea...
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Plant pectin methyl-esterase (PME) and PME inhibitor (PMEI) belong to large gene families whose members are proposed to be widely involved in growth, development, and stress responses; however, the biological functions of most PMEs and PMEIs have not been characterized. In this study, we studied the roles of CbPMEI1, a cold-induced pectin methyl-es...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been demonstrated to influence many ecological processes in their natural ecosystems. However, little is known about how AMF communities respond to gradient warming and grazing, especially winter grazing. In the present study, we conducted an experiment to examine the interaction between warming and winter gr...
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Strain AFT2T was isolated from a mural painting sample from a ca. 1500-year-old tomb located in Shanxi Province, China. The isolate was a Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, aerobic and oval to short-rod-shaped bacterium that formed white-pigmented colonies. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain...
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Description of Naumannella cuiyingiana sp. nov., isolated from a ca. 1500-year-old mural painting and emended description of the genus Naumannella
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In this study, a culture-independent Illumina MiSeq sequencing strategy was applied to investigate the microbial communities colonizing the ancient painted sculptures of the Maijishan Grottoes, a famous World Cultural Heritage site listed by UNESCO in China. Four mixed samples were collected from Cave 4–4 of the Maijishan Grottoes, the so-called Up...