A role for brassinosteroids in the regulation of photosynthesis in Cucumis sativus.

abstract：:Theobroma cacao (cacao) is cultivated in tropical climates and is exposed to drought stress. The impact of the endophytic fungus Trichoderma hamatum isolate DIS 219b on cacao's response to drought was studied. Colonization by DIS 219b delayed drought-induced changes in stomatal conductance, net photosynthesis, and gre...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Bae H,Sicher RC,Kim MS,Kim SH,Strem MD,Melnick RL,Bailey BA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floral scent is an important factor in attracting pollinators and repelling florivores. In Phalaenopsis bellina (Orchidaceae), the major floral scent components are monoterpenoids. Previously, we determined that expression of GERANYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (PbGDPS) is highly correlated with monoterpene biosynthesis in P...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chuang YC,Hung YC,Tsai WC,Chen WH,Chen HH

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, Argonaute1 (AGO1) interacts with miR168 to modulate the small RNA regulatory pathway. However, the underlying mechanism of regulation and relationship between AGO1 and miR168 is poorly understood in the cash crop Solanum lycopersicum (tomato). We previously found that SlAGO1A and SlAGO1B were ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Xian Z,Huang W,Yang Y,Tang N,Zhang C,Ren M,Li Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondria requires the participation of many nucleus-encoded factors, most of which are pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins. There is a large number of PPR proteins and the functions many of them are unknown. Here, we report a mitochondrion-localized DYW-subgroup PPR protein, PPR27, ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Liu R,Cao SK,Sayyed A,Yang HH,Zhao J,Wang X,Jia RX,Sun F,Tan BC

更新日期：2020-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the molecular basis of plant-insect interactions is hampered by the inability to alter the expression of individual genes in plants growing under natural conditions. The ability of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) to silence the expression of two jasmonate-induced genes known to mediate the expression...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Saedler R,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vivipary, the germination of seeds before they are shed from the parent plant, is a rare event in angiosperms involving complex ecophysiological processes. Pseudovivipary and cryptovivipary occur in approximately 30 (2%) species of the cactus family. A remarkable case of vivipary in Epiphyllum phyllanthus is described...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Cota-Sánchez JH,Abreu DD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereal grain germination is central for plant early development, and efficient germination has a major role in crop propagation and malting. Endosperm starch is the prime energy reserve in germination and seedling establishment. In this study, it was hypothesized that optimized starch granule structure, and not only t...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Shaik SS,Carciofi M,Martens HJ,Hebelstrup KH,Blennow A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual symptoms of the onset of senescence in Sandersonia aurantiaca flowers begin with fading of flower colour and wilting of the tissue. When fully senescent, the flowers form a papery shell that remains attached to the plant. The cell walls of these flowers have been examined to determine whether there are wall mod...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： O'Donoghue EM,Somerfield SD,Heyes JA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rootless, aquatic Utricularia species belong to the largest and most cosmopolitan carnivorous plant genus. Populations of Utricularia plants are an important component of many standing, nutrient-poor, and humic waters. Carbon (C) allocation is an aspect of Utricularia's ecophysiology that has not been studied prev...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Sirová D,Borovec J,Santrůcková H,Santrucek J,Vrba J,Adamec L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts perform many essential metabolic functions and their proper development is critically important in embryogenesis. However, little is known about how chloroplasts function in embryogenesis and more relevant components need to be characterized. In this study, we show that Arabidopsis Ribonuclease J (RNase J...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chen H,Zou W,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual reproduction in higher plants uses pollination, involving interactions between pollen and pistil. Self-incompatibility (SI) prevents self-fertilization, providing an important mechanism to promote outbreeding. SI is controlled by the S-locus; discrimination occurs between incompatible pollen, which is rejected,...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Bosch M,Franklin-Tong VE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:14C-salicylic acid (SA) was used to monitor SA metabolism and its regulation in tobacco cell suspension culture. Two SA concentrations (20 microM and 200 microM) were used for comparison. SA was quickly taken up in both treatments, and the 200 microM-treated cells absorbed approximately 15 times that of 20 microM-trea...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chen HJ,Hou WC,Kuć J,Lin YH

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyse the final step of the triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis of the Kennedy pathway. Two major gene families have been shown to encode DGATs, DGAT1 (type-1) and DGAT2 (type-2). Both genes encode membrane-bound proteins, with no sequence homology to each other. In this study...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Banilas G,Karampelias M,Makariti I,Kourti A,Hatzopoulos P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-dioxygenase (alpha-DOX) enzymes catalyse the oxygenation of fatty acids to yield a newly identified group of oxylipins that play a role in protecting tissues from oxidative damage and cell death. In tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) alpha-DOX was identified as salt-regulated by differential display of mRNA,...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Tirajoh A,Aung TS,McKay AB,Plant AL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally believed that an osmotically generated pressure gradient drives the phloem mass flow. So far, this widely accepted Münch theory has required remarkably few adaptations, but the debate on alternative and additional hypotheses is still ongoing. Recently, a possible shortcoming of the Münch theory has bee...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： De Schepper V,De Swaef T,Bauweraerts I,Steppe K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the uptake of Na+ into the cytosol of rice (Oryza sativa L. cvs Pokkali and BRRI Dhan29) protoplasts was measured using the acetoxy methyl ester of the fluorescent sodium-binding benzofuran isopthalate, SBFI-AM, and fluorescence microscopy. By means of inhibitor analyses the mechanisms for uptake and se...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Kader MA,Lindberg S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several root anatomical phenes affect water acquisition from drying soil, and may therefore have utility in breeding more drought-tolerant crops. Anatomical phenes that reduce the metabolic cost of the root cortex ('cortical burden') improve soil exploration and therefore water acquisition from drying soil. The best e...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Lynch JP,Chimungu JG,Brown KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been discovered in crops, where some of causal quantitative trait genes (QTGs) may not be functionally characterized even in model plant Arabidopsis. We propose an approach to delineate QTGs by coordinating expression of genes located within QTL in crops and known orthologs related w...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Cui Y,Zeng X,Xiong Q,Wei D,Liao J,Xu Y,Chen G,Zhou Y,Dong H,Wan H,Liu Z,Li J,Guo L,Jung C,He Y,Qian W

更新日期：2020-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of photosynthesis can be lower in plants grown under conditions of high leaf-to-air vapour pressure difference (VPD) than under low VPD. Leaf phenotype plasticity is a primary factor determining photosynthetic responses to environmental stimuli. However, it remains unclear how changes in leaf anatomical traits d...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Du Q,Liu T,Jiao X,Song X,Zhang J,Li J

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:(1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans (mixed-linkage glucans) are found in tissues of members of the Poaceae (grasses), and are particularly high in barley (Hordeum vulgare) grains. The present study describes the isolation of three independent (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucanless (betaglucanless; bgl) mutants of barley which completely lack (1,...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Taketa S,Yuo T,Tonooka T,Tsumuraya Y,Inagaki Y,Haruyama N,Larroque O,Jobling SA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought events are a major challenge for many horticultural crops, including grapes, which are often cultivated in dry and warm climates. It is not understood how the cuticle contributes to the grape berry response to water deficit (WD); furthermore, the cuticular waxes and the related biosynthetic pathways are poorly...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Dimopoulos N,Tindjau R,Wong DCJ,Matzat T,Haslam T,Song C,Gambetta GA,Kunst L,Castellarin SD

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The MGOUN3(MGO3)/BRUSHY1(BRU1)/TONSOKU(TSK) gene of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a nuclear leucine-glycine-asparagine (LGN) domain protein that may be implicated in chromatin dynamics and genome maintenance. Mutants with defects in MGO3 display a fasciated stem and disorganized meristem structures. The transition to f...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Guyomarc'h S,Benhamed M,Lemonnier G,Renou JP,Zhou DX,Delarue M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants respond to many environmental changes by rapidly adjusting their hydraulic conductivity and transpiration rate, thereby optimizing water-use efficiency and preventing damage due to low water potential. A multiple-load-cell apparatus, time-series analysis of the measured data, and residual low-pass filtering met...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Wallach R,Da-Costa N,Raviv M,Moshelion M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinins (CKs) are plant hormones affecting numerous developmental processes. Zeatin and its derivatives are the most important group of isoprenoid CKs. Zeatin occurs as two isomers: while trans-zeatin (transZ) was found to be a bioactive substance, cis-zeatin (cisZ) was reported to have a weak biological impact. Ev...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Gajdosová S,Spíchal L,Kamínek M,Hoyerová K,Novák O,Dobrev PI,Galuszka P,Klíma P,Gaudinová A,Zizková E,Hanus J,Dancák M,Trávnícek B,Pesek B,Krupicka M,Vanková R,Strnad M,Motyka V

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing leaf transpiration efficiency (TE) may provide leads for growing rice like dryland cereals such as wheat (Triticum aestivum). To explore avenues for improving TE in rice, variations in stomatal conductance (gs) and mesophyll conductance (gm) and their anatomical determinants were evaluated in two cultivars ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ouyang W,Struik PC,Yin X,Yang J

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding the economic importance of non-climacteric fruits like grape and strawberry, little is known about the mechanisms that regulate their ripening. Up to now no growth regulator has emerged with a primary role similar to that played by ethylene in the ripening of the climacteric fruits. Strawberries can pr...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Trainotti L,Pavanello A,Casadoro G

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unlinked semi-dominant loci, A (NIC1) and B (NIC2), control nicotine and related alkaloid biosynthesis in Burley tobaccos. Mutations in either or both loci (nic1 and nic2) lead to low nicotine phenotypes with altered environmental stress responses. Here we show that the transcripts derived from the pathogenesis-re...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ma H,Wang F,Wang W,Yin G,Zhang D,Ding Y,Timko MP,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inefficient use of phosphorus (P) in agriculture adds to production costs, increases the risk of eutrophication of waterways, and contributes to the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable rock phosphate supplies. The removal of large quantities of P from fields in harvested grains is a major driver in the global...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Wang F,Rose T,Jeong K,Kretzschmar T,Wissuwa M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Images taken at different spectral bands are increasingly used for characterizing plants and their health status. In contrast to conventional point measurements, imaging detects the distribution and quantity of signals and thus improves the interpretation of fluorescence and reflectance signatures. In multispectral fl...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Lenk S,Chaerle L,Pfündel EE,Langsdorf G,Hagenbeek D,Lichtenthaler HK,Van Der Straeten D,Buschmann C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary adhesion of zoospores of the green macroalga Enteromorpha to substrata involves a massive release of adhesive glycoproteins from Golgi-derived, membrane-bounded vesicles in the anterior region of the spore, followed by rapid curing. This process is sensitive to low concentrations (5-10 microg x ml(-1)) of the ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Callow ME,Crawford S,Wetherbee R,Taylor K,Finlay JA,Callow JA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00