With the tolerance of flooding and strong winds, Taxodium has been widely recognized as an ecologically important tree in China. Red blight disease, caused by fungal pathogen Pestalotiopsis maculans, is known one most severe leaf diseases Taxodium. However, limited information available regarding host plant defense response to this pathogen. To uncover mechanism plant–pathogen interaction, we p...

The baldcypress leafroller, Archips goyerana Kruse (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is a specialist on Taxodium distichum (L.) Richard and has caused serious defoliation in swamps of southeastern Louisiana, accelerating decline of baldcypress forests concurrently suffering from nutrient depletion, prolonged flooding, and saltwater intrusion. We investigated the composition of the sex pheromone of th...

UNLABELLED Phenoloxidase (PO), which is classified as a type 3 copper protein, catalyzes the hydroxylation of monophenol to o-diphenol and subsequent oxidation to the corresponding o-quinone. The geometry and coordination environment of the active site of the arthropod PO are very similar to those of the arthropod hemocyanin (Hc). However, unlike the POs, Hc is an oxygen carrier in crustaceans,...

Pu Zhang, Shan Feng, Huiyuan Bai, Panying Zeng, Feng Chen, Chengxiang Wu, Yi Peng, Qin Zhang, Qiuyao Zhang, Qichao Ye, Qiang Xue, Xiaoyu Xu, Erqun Song, and Yang Song Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; and Department of Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University,...