Molecular distinction amongst varieties of mulberry using RAPD and DAMD profiles.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in multiple biological processes in both mammals and plants. There is growing evidence that they are associated with development; but their expression and regulation during fruit ripening in the model plant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has yet to be described. RE...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang M,Zhao W,Gao L,Zhao L

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B chromosome causes no obvious phenotype variation, its existence might influence A genome gene expression. Previous studies suggested that B chromosomes are evol...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang W,Du Y,Zhao X,Jin W

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome pairing, recombination and DNA repair are essential processes during meiosis in sexually reproducing organisms. Investigating the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Ph2 (Pairing homoeologous) locus has identified numerous candidate genes that may have a role in controlling such processes, includin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lloyd AH,Milligan AS,Langridge P,Able JA

更新日期：2007-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global warming predictions indicate that temperatures will increase by another 2-6°C by the end of this century. High temperature is a major abiotic stress limiting plant growth and productivity in many areas of the world. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a model herbaceous bioenergy crop, due to its rap...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li YF,Wang Y,Tang Y,Kakani VG,Mahalingam R

更新日期：2013-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resistant cultivars are key elements for pathogen control and pesticide reduction, but their repeated use may lead to the emergence of virulent pathogen populations, able to overcome the resistance. Increased research efforts, mainly based on theoretical studies, explore spatio-temporal deployment strategies...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Djian-Caporalino C,Palloix A,Fazari A,Marteu N,Barbary A,Abad P,Sage-Palloix AM,Mateille T,Risso S,Lanza R,Taussig C,Castagnone-Sereno P

更新日期：2014-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auxin-induced genes regulate many aspects of plant growth and development. The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) gene family, one of three major early auxin-responsive families, is ubiquitous in the plant kingdom and its members function as regulators in modulating hormonal homeostasis, and stress adaptations. Specific...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yu D,Qanmber G,Lu L,Wang L,Li J,Yang Z,Liu Z,Li Y,Chen Q,Mendu V,Li F,Yang Z

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phloem of dicotyledonous plants contains specialized P-proteins (phloem proteins) that accumulate during sieve element differentiation and remain parietally associated with the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum in mature sieve elements. Wounding causes P-protein filaments to accumulate at the sieve ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rüping B,Ernst AM,Jekat SB,Nordzieke S,Reineke AR,Müller B,Bornberg-Bauer E,Prüfer D,Noll GA

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a common accompanying dispersal structure, specialized seed appendages play a critical role in the successful germination and dispersal of many plants, and are regarded as an adaptation character for plants survival in diverse environments. However, little is known about how the appendages modulate the li...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhao Y,Zhang Y,Zhao B,Yang Z,Dong L

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parthenium argentatum (guayule) is an industrial crop that produces latex, which was recently commercialized as a source of latex rubber safe for people with Type I latex allergy. The complete plastid genome of P. argentatum was sequenced. The sequence provides important information useful for genetic engine...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kumar S,Hahn FM,McMahan CM,Cornish K,Whalen MC

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Botrytis cinerea xylanase Xyn11A has been previously shown to be required for full virulence of this organism despite its poor contribution to the secreted xylanase activity and the low xylan content of B. cinerea hosts. Intriguingly, xylanases from other fungi have been shown to have the property, indep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Noda J,Brito N,González C

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought conditions adversely affect soybean growth, resulting in severe yield losses worldwide. Increasing experimental evidence indicates miRNAs are important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. However, the drought-responsive molecular mechanism underlying miRNA-mRNA interactions remains la...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou Y,Liu W,Li X,Sun D,Xu K,Feng C,Kue Foka IC,Ketehouli T,Gao H,Wang N,Dong Y,Wang F,Li H

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oil from seeds of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) has unique drying properties that are industrially important. We found that the extended oil accumulation period was related to the high seed oil content at maturity among tung tree population. In order to understand the molecular mechanism underlying the hig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang L,Wu P,Lu W,Lü S

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern agriculture strives to sustainably manage fertilizer for both economic and environmental reasons. The monitoring of any nutritional (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium) deficiency in growing plants is a challenge for precision farming technology. A study was carried out on three species of popular crops,...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Siedliska A,Baranowski P,Pastuszka-Woźniak J,Zubik M,Krzyszczak J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haematococcus lacustris is an ideal source of astaxanthin (AST), which is stored in oil bodies containing esterified AST (EAST) and triacylglycerol (TAG). Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyze the last step of acyl-CoA-dependent TAG biosynthesis and are also considered as crucial enzymes involved ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui H,Zhao C,Xu W,Zhang H,Hang W,Zhu X,Ji C,Xue J,Zhang C,Li R

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat grain avenin-like proteins (ALPs) belong to a recently discovered class of wheat grain storage protein. ALPs in wheat grains not only have beneficial effects on dough quality but also display antifungal activities, which is a novel observation for wheat storage proteins. Previous studies have shown tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang Y,Hu X,Juhasz A,Islam S,Yu Z,Zhao Y,Li G,Ding W,Ma W

更新日期：2020-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic marks superimposed on the DNA sequence of eukaryote chromosomes provide agility and plasticity in terms of modulating gene expression, ontology, and response to the environment. Modulating the methylation status of cytosine can generate epialleles, which have been detected and characterised at spe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Amoah S,Kurup S,Rodriguez Lopez CM,Welham SJ,Powers SJ,Hopkins CJ,Wilkinson MJ,King GJ

更新日期：2012-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phased small interfering RNA (phasiRNA) is primarily derived from the 22-nt miRNA targeting loci. GhMYB2, a gene with potential roles in cotton fiber cell fate determination, is a target gene of miR828 and miR858 in the generation of phasiRNAs. RESULTS:In the presented work, through the evaluation of phasin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao T,Tao X,Li M,Gao M,Chen J,Zhou N,Mei G,Fang L,Ding L,Zhou B,Zhang T,Guan X

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteases play key roles in plants, maintaining strict protein quality control and degrading specific sets of proteins in response to diverse environmental and developmental stimuli. Similarities and differences between the proteases expressed in different species may give valuable insights into their physio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： García-Lorenzo M,Sjödin A,Jansson S,Funk C

更新日期：2006-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants, nitrate (NO3-) nutrition gives rise to a natural N isotopic signature (δ15N), which correlates with the δ15N of the N source. However, little is known about the relationship between the δ15N of the N source and the 14N/15N fractionation in plants under ammonium (NH4+) nutrition. When NH4+ is the m...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ariz I,Cruz C,Moran JF,González-Moro MB,García-Olaverri C,González-Murua C,Martins-Loução MA,Aparicio-Tejo PM

更新日期：2011-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a major abiotic stress factors that reduces agricultural productivity. GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development. However, the functions of a number of GRAS genes identified in rice are unknown, especially the GRAS genes related to rice dro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu K,Chen S,Li T,Ma X,Liang X,Ding X,Liu H,Luo L

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) is an important fruit crop worldwide. It was particularly sensitive to drought stress because of their fibrous and shallow root systems. Mutant rty of Arabidopsis thaliana ROOTY (RTY) results in increased endogenous auxin levels, more roots, and shoot growth. It is stil...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Yang Y,Raza A,Yin S,Wang H,Zhang Y,Dong J,Wang G,Zhong C,Zhang H,Liu J,Jin W

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Forest trees have important economic and ecological value. As a model tree, poplar has played a significant role in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying tree biology. However, a lack of mutant libraries and time-consuming stable genetic transformation processes severely limit progress into the fun...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zheng L,Yang J,Chen Y,Ding L,Wei J,Wang H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that move along actin filaments, and serve as calcium stores in plant cells. The positioning and dynamics of mitochondria depend on membrane-cytoskeleton interactions, but it is not clear whether microfilament cytoskeleton has a direct effect on mitochondrial function and ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Y,Zhu Y,Ling Y,Zhang H,Liu P,Baluska F,Samaj J,Lin J,Wang Q

更新日期：2010-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD) is a key enzyme that catalyses the conversion of stearoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) to oleoyl-ACP, a precursor for the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids. ZmSAD1 (GenBank: KU949326) is a major QTL for stearic acid content in maize seeds. To investigate...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du H,Huang M,Hu J,Li J

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pilea is a genus of perennial herbs from the family Urticaceae, and some species are used as courtyard ornamentals or for medicinal purposes. At present, there is no information about the plastid genome of Pilea, which limits our understanding of this genus. Here, we report 4 plastid genomes of Pilea taxa (P...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li J,Tang J,Zeng S,Han F,Yuan J,Yu J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heavy metal pollution in crop fields is one of the major issues in sustainable agriculture production. To improve crop growth and reduce the toxic effects of metals is an ideal strategy. Understanding the resilience of gibberellins producing endophytic fungi associated with crop plants in metal contaminated ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan AL,Lee IJ

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) is a critical enzyme catalyzing the β-carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to oxaloacetate, a tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediate. PEPC typically exists as a Class-1 PEPC homotetramer composed of plant-type PEPC (PTPC) polypeptides, and two of the subunits...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Igawa T,Fujiwara M,Tanaka I,Fukao Y,Yanagawa Y

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs; MAP3Ks) are important components of MAPK cascades, which are highly conserved signal transduction pathways in animals, yeast and plants, play important roles in plant growth and development. MAPKKKs have been investigated on their evolution and expres...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang G,Lovato A,Polverari A,Wang M,Liang YH,Ma YC,Cheng ZM

更新日期：2014-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs are known to play important regulatory roles throughout plant development. Until recently, nearly all the miRNAs in maize were identified by comparative analysis to miRNAs sequences of other plant species, such as rice and Arabidopsis. RESULTS:To find new miRNA in this important crop, small RNAs from...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jiao Y,Song W,Zhang M,Lai J

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABA-mediated processes are involved in plant responses to water deficit, especially the control of stomatal opening. However in grapevine it is not known if these processes participate in the phenotypic variation in drought adaptation existing between genotypes. To elucidate this question, the response to sh...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rossdeutsch L,Edwards E,Cookson SJ,Barrieu F,Gambetta GA,Delrot S,Ollat N

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00