A hybrid Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin gives resistance against a coleopteran and a lepidopteran pest in transgenic potato.

abstract：:Antioxidants are protective molecules that neutralize reactive oxygen species and prevent oxidative damage to cellular components such as membranes, proteins and nucleic acids, therefore reducing the rate of cell death and hence the effects of ageing and ageing-related diseases. The fortification of food with antioxid...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Zhu C,Sanahuja G,Yuan D,Farré G,Arjó G,Berman J,Zorrilla-López U,Banakar R,Bai C,Pérez-Massot E,Bassie L,Capell T,Christou P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of genetically modified crops in the late 1980s triggered a regulatory response to the relatively new field of plant genetic engineering. Over a 7-year period, a new regulatory framework was created, based on scientific principles that focused on risk mitigation. The process was transparent and deliberately...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Smyth S,McHughen A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad spectrum protection against different insects and pathogens requires multigene engineering. However, such broad spectrum protection against biotic stress is provided by a single protein in some medicinal plants. Therefore, tobacco chloroplasts were transformed with the agglutinin gene from Pinellia ternata (pta)...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jin S,Zhang X,Daniell H

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：:The plant immune system involves detection of pathogens via both cell-surface and intracellular receptors. Both receptor classes can induce transcriptional reprogramming that elevates disease resistance. To assess differential gene expression during plant immunity, we developed and deployed quantitative sequence captu...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ding P,Ngou BPM,Furzer OJ,Sakai T,Shrestha RK,MacLean D,Jones JDG

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought conditions are among the most serious challenges to crop production worldwide. Here, we report the results of field evaluations of transgenic rice plants overexpressing OsNAC5, under the control of either the root-specific (RCc3) or constitutive (GOS2) promoters. Field evaluations over three growing seasons re...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jeong JS,Kim YS,Redillas MC,Jang G,Jung H,Bang SW,Choi YD,Ha SH,Reuzeau C,Kim JK

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite progress in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, they continue to present a major threat to public health. The frequency of emerging and reemerging infections and the risk of bioterrorism warrant significant efforts towards the development of prophylactic and therapeutic countermeasures. Vaccin...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Streatfield SJ,Kushnir N,Yusibov V

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified fatty acids (mFA) have diverse uses; for example, cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) are feedstocks for producing coatings, lubricants, plastics and cosmetics. The expression of mFA-producing enzymes in crop and model plants generally results in lower levels of mFA accumulation than in their natural-occurring sou...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yu XH,Cahoon RE,Horn PJ,Shi H,Prakash RR,Cai Y,Hearney M,Chapman KD,Cahoon EB,Schwender J,Shanklin J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors have been shown to control the activity of multiple stress response genes in a coordinated manner and therefore represent attractive targets for application in molecular plant breeding. We investigated the possibility of modulating the transcriptional regulation of drought and cold responses in t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Morran S,Eini O,Pyvovarenko T,Parent B,Singh R,Ismagul A,Eliby S,Shirley N,Langridge P,Lopato S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willows (Salix spp.) are important biomass crops due to their ability to grow rapidly with low fertilizer inputs and ease of cultivation in short-rotation coppice cycles. They are relatively undomesticated and highly diverse, but functional testing to identify useful allelic variation is time-consuming in trees and tr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Salmon J,Ward SP,Hanley SJ,Leyser O,Karp A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To infect plants, viruses rely heavily on their host's machinery. Plant genetic resistances based on host factor modifications can be found among existing natural variability and are widely used for some but not all crops. While biotechnology can supply for the lack of natural resistance alleles, new strategies need t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bastet A,Lederer B,Giovinazzo N,Arnoux X,German-Retana S,Reinbold C,Brault V,Garcia D,Djennane S,Gersch S,Lemaire O,Robaglia C,Gallois JL

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome modification by homology-directed repair (HDR) is an attractive tool for the controlled genetic manipulation of plants. Here, we report the HDR-mediated gene exchange of expression cassettes in tobacco BY-2 cells using a designed zinc finger nuclease (ZFN). The target contained a 7-kb fragment flanked by two ZF...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Schneider K,Schiermeyer A,Dolls A,Koch N,Herwartz D,Kirchhoff J,Fischer R,Russell SM,Cao Z,Corbin DR,Sastry-Dent L,Ainley WM,Webb SR,Schinkel H,Schillberg S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:Compared with other plant expression systems used for pharmaceutical protein production, alfalfa offers the advantage of very homogeneous N-glycosylation. Therefore, this plant was selected for further attempts at glycoengineering. Two main approaches were developed in order to humanize N-glycosylation in alfal...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sourrouille C,Marquet-Blouin E,D'Aoust MA,Kiefer-Meyer MC,Seveno M,Pagny-Salehabadi S,Bardor M,Durambur G,Lerouge P,Vezina L,Gomord V

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of the microsomal ω6 oleate desaturase during the seed development of soybean (Glycine max) with the 420-bp soybean FAD2-1A intron as RNAi trigger shifts the conventional fatty acid composition of soybean oil from 20% oleic and 60% polyunsaturates to one containing greater than 80% oleic acid and less than...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wagner N,Mroczka A,Roberts PD,Schreckengost W,Voelker T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of resistance to the insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in insects is the major threat to the continued success of transgenic Bt crops in agriculture. The fitness of Bt-resistant insects on Bt and non-Bt plants is a key parameter that determines the development of Bt resistance in insect ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tetreau G,Wang R,Wang P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has deleterious impact on the environment. Increase in yield potential at low nitrogen supply is regarded as a cereal breeding goal for future agricultural sustainability. Although natural variations of nitrogen transporters have been investigated, key genes associated with assimi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yu J,Xuan W,Tian Y,Fan L,Sun J,Tang W,Chen G,Wang B,Liu Y,Wu W,Liu X,Jiang X,Zhou C,Dai Z,Xu D,Wang C,Wan J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolate is produced in autotrophic cells under high temperatures and Ci -limitation via oxygenation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate. In unicellular algae, glycolate is lost via excretion or metabolized via the C2 cycle by consuming reductants, ATP and CO2 emission (photorespiration). Therefore, photorespiration is an i...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Taubert A,Jakob T,Wilhelm C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid-proline-rich protein encoding gene (CcHyPRP) has been isolated and characterized, for the first time, from the subtracted cDNA library of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) plants subjected to drought stress. Functionality of CcHyPRP has been validated for abiotic stress tolerance using the heterologous yeast and A...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Priyanka B,Sekhar K,Reddy VD,Rao KV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome to tolerate introgression from related genomes can be exploited for wheat improvement. A resistance to powdery mildew expressed by a derivative of the cross-bread wheat cv. Tähti × T. militinae (Tm) is known to be due to the incorporation of a Tm segment into ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Abrouk M,Balcárková B,Šimková H,Komínkova E,Martis MM,Jakobson I,Timofejeva L,Rey E,Vrána J,Kilian A,Järve K,Doležel J,Valárik M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High temperature impairs rice (Oryza sativa) grain filling by inhibiting the deposition of storage materials such as starch, resulting in mature grains with a chalky appearance, currently a major problem for rice farming in Asian countries. Such deterioration of grain quality is accompanied by the altered expression o...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hakata M,Kuroda M,Miyashita T,Yamaguchi T,Kojima M,Sakakibara H,Mitsui T,Yamakawa H

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Genotype specificity is a big problem lagging the development of efficient hexaploid wheat transformation system. Increasingly, the biosecurity of genetically modified organisms is garnering public attention, so the generation of marker-free transgenic plants is very important to the eventual potential commercial rele...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wang K,Liu H,Du L,Ye X

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is one of the major crops in the world, corn has poor nutritional quality for human and animal consumption due to its low lysine content. Here, we report a method of simultaneous expression of a deregulated lysine biosynthetic enzyme, CordapA, and reduction of a bifunctional lysine degradation enzyme, lysi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Frizzi A,Huang S,Gilbertson LA,Armstrong TA,Luethy MH,Malvar TM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Glycine betaine plays an important role in some plants, including maize, in conditions of abiotic stress, but different maize varieties vary in their capacity to accumulate glycine betaine. An elite maize inbred line DH4866 was transformed with the betA gene from Escherichia coli encoding choline dehydrogenase (EC 1.1...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Quan R,Shang M,Zhang H,Zhao Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of genetic markers linked to genes of agronomic importance is a major aim of crop research and breeding programmes. Here, we identify markers for Yr15, a major disease resistance gene for wheat yellow rust, using a segregating F2 population. After phenotyping, we implemented RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq)...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ramirez-Gonzalez RH,Segovia V,Bird N,Fenwick P,Holdgate S,Berry S,Jack P,Caccamo M,Uauy C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants offer fast, flexible and easily scalable alternative platforms for the production of pharmaceutical proteins, but differences between plant and mammalian N-linked glycans, including the presence of β-1,2-xylose and core α-1,3-fucose residues in plants, can affect the activity, potency and immunogenicity of plan...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jansing J,Sack M,Augustine SM,Fischer R,Bortesi L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular plant peptides perform a large variety of functions, including signalling and defence. Intracellular peptides often have physiological functions or may merely be the products of general proteolysis. Plant peptides have been identified and, in part, functionally characterized through biochemical and genet...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Farrokhi N,Whitelegge JP,Brusslan JA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, the usefulness of transient expression assays has continuously increased for the characterization of unknown gene function and metabolic pathways. In grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world, recent systematic sequencing projects produced man...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jelly NS,Valat L,Walter B,Maillot P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00