An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis using the VISUAL tissue culture platform, which generates vascular stem cells from leaf cells. In this network, they also discovered a new BES/BZR transcription factor, BEH3, and illuminated its role in vascular cell maintenance.
China State Media Says Frequent Warship Activity Near Japan a Warning
On 6/2/21 at 12:58 PM EDT
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Global Times, which espouses some of the Chinese government s most hawkish views, accused Japan of acting hostile toward China through its protection of the disputed Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims as its Diaoyu Islands.
The pointed article was published a day after the Japanese Defense Ministry s Joint Staff Office said it had detected three People s Liberation Army (PLA)warships sailing past Japanese islands into the Pacific on May 31.
The Chinese navy vessels were spotted about 150 nautical miles west of Yakushima Island south of Kyushu, one of Japan s five main islands and were monitored by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS
Scientists have shown that the population of the Yakushima sika deer has declined due to natural factors, suggesting that the population can be regulated.