Engineering of enhanced glycine betaine synthesis improves drought tolerance in maize.

abstract：:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) approaches have been used in a large proportion of transcriptome analyses published to date. The accuracy of the results obtained by this method strongly depends on accurate transcript normalization using stably expressed genes, known as references. Statistical ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gutierrez L,Mauriat M,Guénin S,Pelloux J,Lefebvre JF,Louvet R,Rusterucci C,Moritz T,Guerineau F,Bellini C,Van Wuytswinkel O

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell cultures constitute eco-friendly biotechnological platforms for the production of plant secondary metabolites with pharmacological activities, as well as a suitable system for extending our knowledge of secondary metabolism. Despite the high added value of taxol and the importance of taxanes as anticancer c...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ramírez-Estrada K,Altabella T,Onrubia M,Moyano E,Notredame C,Osuna L,Vanden Bossche R,Goossens A,Cusido RM,Palazon J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threonine (Thr) is one of a few limiting essential amino acids (EAAs) in the animal feed industry, and its level in feed rations can impact production of important meat sources, such as swine and poultry. Threonine as well as EAAs lysine (Lys) and methionine (Met) are all synthesized via the aspartate family pathway. ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Qi Q,Huang J,Crowley J,Ruschke L,Goldman BS,Wen L,Rapp WD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate target genes through mRNA cleavage or translational inhibition. miRNA is known to play an important role in the root development and environmental responses in both the Arabidopsis and rice. However, little information is available to f...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kong X,Zhang M,Xu X,Li X,Li C,Ding Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tef, Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter, is the most important cereal in Ethiopia. Tef is cultivated by more than five million small-scale farmers annually and constitutes the staple food for more than half of the population of 80 million. The crop is preferred by both farmers and consumers due to its beneficial traits as...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Girma D,Assefa K,Chanyalew S,Cannarozzi G,Kuhlemeier C,Tadele Z

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to create a novel mechanism for herbicide resistance in plants, we expressed a single-chain antibody fragment (scFv) in tobacco with specific affinity to the auxinic herbicide picloram. Transgenic tobacco plants and seedlings expressing this scFv against picloram were protected from its effect in a dose-depen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Almquist KC,Niu Y,McLean MD,Mena FL,Yau KY,Brown K,Brandle JE,Hall JC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc), is severely damaging to the global citrus industry. Targeted editing of host disease-susceptibility genes represents an interesting and potentially durable alternative in plant breeding for resistance. Here, we report improvement of citrus canker resistanc...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Peng A,Chen S,Lei T,Xu L,He Y,Wu L,Yao L,Zou X

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of phospholipase Dα1 (PLDα1) produces lipid messenger phosphatidic acid and promotes stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. To explore the use of the PLDα1-mediated signalling towards decreasing water loss in crop plants, we introduced Arabidopsis PLDα1 under the control of a guard cell-specific promoter AtKa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Lu S,Bahn SC,Qu G,Qin H,Hong Y,Xu Q,Zhou Y,Hong Y,Wang X

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing new strategies for crop plants to respond to drought is crucial for their innovative breeding. The down-regulation of nuclear cap-binding proteins in Arabidopsis renders plants drought tolerant. The CBP80 gene in the potato cultivar Desiree was silenced using artificial microRNAs. Transgenic plants displaye...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Pieczynski M,Marczewski W,Hennig J,Dolata J,Bielewicz D,Piontek P,Wyrzykowska A,Krusiewicz D,Strzelczyk-Zyta D,Konopka-Postupolska D,Krzeslowska M,Jarmolowski A,Szweykowska-Kulinska Z

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA recombination reactions (site-specific and homologous) were monitored in the progeny of transgenic maize plants by bringing together two recombination substrates (docking sites and shuttle vectors) in the zygotes. In one combination of transgenic events, the recombination marker gene (yellow fluorescent protein ge...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Djukanovic V,Orczyk W,Gao H,Sun X,Garrett N,Zhen S,Gordon-Kamm W,Barton J,Lyznik LA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the effects of the accumulation of cysteine protease inhibitors on the food preferences of adult female western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), were investigated. Representative members of the cystatin and thyropin gene families (stefin A, cystatin C, kininogen domain 3 and equista...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Outchkourov NS,de Kogel WJ,Schuurman-de Bruin A,Abrahamson M,Jongsma MA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-expression of protease inhibitors like the tomato cystatin SlCYS8 is useful to increase recombinant protein production in plants, but key proteases involved in protein proteolysis are still unknown. Here, we performed activity-based protein profiling to identify proteases that are inhibited by SlCYS8 in agroinfiltr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jutras PV,Grosse-Holz F,Kaschani F,Kaiser M,Michaud D,van der Hoorn RAL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensification of agriculture and the development of synthetic insecticides enabled worldwide grain production to more than double in the last third of the 20th century. However, the heavy dependence and, in some cases, overuse of insecticides has been responsible for negative environmental and ecological impacts...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Catarino R,Ceddia G,Areal FJ,Park J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sumoylation is a posttranslational regulatory process in higher eukaryotes modifying substrate proteins through conjugation of small ubiquitin-related modifiers (SUMOs). Sumoylation modulates protein stability, subcellular localization and activity; thus, it regulates most cellular functions including response to envi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li Z,Hu Q,Zhou M,Vandenbrink J,Li D,Menchyk N,Reighard S,Norris A,Liu H,Sun D,Luo H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulosic feedstocks can be converted to biofuels, which can conceivably replace a large fraction of fossil fuels currently used for transformation. However, lignin, a prominent constituent of secondary cell walls, is an impediment to the conversion of cell walls to fuel: the recalcitrance problem. Biomass pretr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Poovaiah CR,Nageswara-Rao M,Soneji JR,Baxter HL,Stewart CN Jr

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded oligonucleotides (ssODNs) can be used to direct the exchange of a single nucleotide or the repair of a single base within the coding region of a gene in a process that is known, generically, as gene editing. These molecules are composed of either all DNA residues or a mixture of RNA and DNA bases and u...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Rivera-Torres N,Kmiec EB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance and urgency of providing humans and animals with quality proteins are reflected in the growing scientific and industrial interest in augmenting the nutritive value of the world's protein sources. Such nutritive value is determined by the protein content in 'essential amino acids', those that cannot be s...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Beauregard M,Hefford MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific expression of transgenes is essential in plant breeding programmes to avoid the fitness costs caused by constitutive expression of a target gene. However, knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene expression and practicable tissue-specific promoters is limited. In this study, we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Cai M,Wei J,Li X,Xu C,Wang S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, wheat is the most widely grown crop and one of the three most important crops for human and livestock feed. However, the complex nature of the wheat genome has, until recently, resulted in a lack of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based molecular markers of practical use to wheat breeders. Recently, lar...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Allen AM,Barker GL,Wilkinson P,Burridge A,Winfield M,Coghill J,Uauy C,Griffiths S,Jack P,Berry S,Werner P,Melichar JP,McDougall J,Gwilliam R,Robinson P,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1980s and 1990s saw a major expansion of biotechnology into new areas of science including genomics and recombinant technologies. This was coupled to the widespread emergence of academics into the commercial sector as they were encouraged to spin out companies or commercialize their intellectual property. There we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Paul MJ,Thangaraj H,Ma JK

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A precursor of miR156 (MsmiR156d) was cloned and overexpressed in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) as a means to enhance alfalfa biomass yield. Of the five predicted SPL genes encoded by the alfalfa genome, three (SPL6, SPL12 and SPL13) contain miR156 cleavage sites and their expression was down-regulated in transgenic al...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Aung B,Gruber MY,Amyot L,Omari K,Bertrand A,Hannoufa A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considered responsible for one million deaths in Ireland and widespread famine in the European continent during the 1840s, late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, remains the most devastating disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) with about 15%-30% annual yield loss in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting mainly sm...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ghislain M,Byarugaba AA,Magembe E,Njoroge A,Rivera C,Román ML,Tovar JC,Gamboa S,Forbes GA,Kreuze JF,Barekye A,Kiggundu A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutein and zeaxanthin cannot be synthesized de novo in humans, and although lutein is abundant in fruit and vegetables, good dietary sources of zeaxanthin are scarce. Certain corn varieties provide adequate amounts because the ratio of endosperm β:ε lycopene cyclase activity favours the β-carotene/zeaxanthin branch of...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Naqvi S,Zhu C,Farre G,Sandmann G,Capell T,Christou P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt stress has detrimental effects on crop growth and yield, and the area of salt-affected land is increasing. Soybean is a major source of vegetable protein, oil and feed, but considered as a salt-sensitive crop. Cultivated soybean (Glycine max) is domesticated from wild soybean (G. soja) but lost considerable amoun...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jin T,Sun Y,Shan Z,He J,Wang N,Gai J,Li Y

更新日期：2020-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:For future food security, it is important that wheat, one of the most widely consumed crops in the world, can survive the threat of abiotic and biotic stresses. New genetic variation is currently being introduced into wheat through introgressions from its wild relatives. For trait discovery, it is necessary that each ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Grewal S,Hubbart-Edwards S,Yang C,Devi U,Baker L,Heath J,Ashling S,Scholefield D,Howells C,Yarde J,Isaac P,King IP,King J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant chloroplasts are promising vehicles for recombinant protein production, but the process of protein folding in these organelles is not well understood in comparison with that in prokaryotic systems, such as Escherichia coli. This is particularly true for disulphide bond formation which is crucial for the biologic...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bally J,Paget E,Droux M,Job C,Job D,Dubald M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid accumulation of defensive transgene products in plants only on pathogen invasion has clear advantages over their constitutive synthesis. In this study, two antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretions of frogs, MsrA2 (N-methionine-dermaseptin B1) and temporin A, were evaluated for engineering pathogen-ind...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yevtushenko DP,Misra S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus fruit has a unique structure with soft leathery peel and pulp containing vascular bundles and several segments with many juice sacs. The function and morphology of each fruit tissue are different. Therefore, analysis at the organ-wide or mixed-tissue level inevitably obscures many tissue-specific phenomena. Hig...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Feng G,Wu J,Xu Y,Lu L,Yi H

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit ripening is regulated co-operatively by the action of ethylene and a hierarchy of transcription factors, including RIPENING INHIBITOR (RIN) and NON-RIPENING (NOR). Mutations in these two genes have been adopted commercially to delay ripening, and accompanying textural deterioration,...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Osorio S,Carneiro RT,Lytovchenko A,McQuinn R,Sørensen I,Vallarino JG,Giovannoni JJ,Fernie AR,Rose JKC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steviol glycosides (SGs) are extracted from Stevia leaves for use as a natural sweetener. Among SGs, stevioside is most abundant in leaf extracts followed by rebaudioside A (Reb A). However, Reb A is of particular interest because of its sweeter and more pleasant taste compared to stevioside. Therefore, the developmen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kim MJ,Zheng J,Liao MH,Jang IC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00