Weikang Zheng's research while affiliated with Huazhong Agricultural University and other places

... Natural bioactive compounds are in demand as humans become more health conscious, especially regarding a balanced diet. Epidemiological studies have shown that consumers of polyphenolic compounds are less susceptible to chronic diseases [1,2]. From this perspective, the fruits of Citrus × paradisi L. are rich in physiologically active components such as phenolic compounds, vitamins, carotenoid pigments, and fiber [3]. ...

... The typical example is phytohormones, whose involvement in seed dormancy regulation has always been a popular topic in seed physiology and biochemistry research [17]. The most reported phytohormone influencing dormancy induction in crops is abscisic acid (ABA), it inhibits the process of seed germination, though complex interactions exist between ABA and other phytohormones [18]. Gibberellic acid (GA) is another important phytohormones known to be involved in dormancy regulation. ...

... This is consistent with other studies on Potentilla L. (Ma et al., 2015), Bos L. (Ma et al., 2022a) and other species of Rhododendron (Liu et al., 2022b). In this sense, one could hypothesize that along a mountain cline, with increasing elevation, the stresses caused by environmental factors become more severe, and as adaptation of species to these changing environments additional genes are activated, also known as environmental adaptation (Sun et al., 2018;Wang et al., 2021b). Therefore, elevation difference may be the most direct factor in affecting gene expression, and it also indicated that there were no differences between the selected organs (late flower and early leaf bud) on gene expression responses to elevational changes. ...