Criteria for high-level expression of a fungal laccase gene in transgenic maize.

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing of complete genomes has given researchers unprecedented levels of information to study the multifaceted evolutionary changes that have shaped elite plant germplasm. In conjunction with population genetic analytical techniques and detailed online databases, we can more accurately capture the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Campbell BC,Gilding EK,Mace ES,Tai S,Tao Y,Prentis PJ,Thomelin P,Jordan DR,Godwin ID

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subspecies fastigiata of cultivated groundnut lost fresh seed dormancy (FSD) during domestication and human-made selection. Groundnut varieties lacking FSD experience precocious seed germination during harvest imposing severe losses. Development of easy-to-use genetic markers enables early-generation selection in ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kumar R,Janila P,Vishwakarma MK,Khan AW,Manohar SS,Gangurde SS,Variath MT,Shasidhar Y,Pandey MK,Varshney RK

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Recently, CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) from Prevotella and Francisella was engineered to modify plant genomes. In this report, we employed CRISPR-LbCas12a (LbCpf1), which is derived from Lachnospiraceae bacterium ND2006, to edit a citrus genome for the first time. First, LbCas12a was used to modify the CsPDS gene successfully...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jia H,Orbović V,Wang N

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Woody biomass has gained popularity as an environmentally friendly, renewable and sustainable resource for liquid fuel production. Here, we demonstrate biotechnological improvement of the quantity and quality of woody biomass by employing developing xylem (DX)-preferential production of gibberellin (GA), a phytohormon...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jeon HW,Cho JS,Park EJ,Han KH,Choi YI,Ko JH

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is the most devastating plant-parasitic nematode. Most commercial soybean varieties with SCN resistance are derived from PI88788. Resistance derived from PI88788 is breaking down due to narrow genetic background and SCN population shift. PI88788 requires mainly the rhg1-b locus, while 'Peki...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Patil GB,Lakhssassi N,Wan J,Song L,Zhou Z,Klepadlo M,Vuong TD,Stec AO,Kahil SS,Colantonio V,Valliyodan B,Rice JH,Piya S,Hewezi T,Stupar RM,Meksem K,Nguyen HT

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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：:To date, transgenic approaches to biofortify subsistence crops have been rather limited. This is particularly true for the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Cassava has one of the highest rates of CO(2) fixation and sucrose synthesis for any C3 plant, but rarely reaches its yield potentials in the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ihemere U,Arias-Garzon D,Lawrence S,Sayre R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menadione sodium bisulphite (MSB) is a water-soluble derivative of vitamin K3, or menadione, and has been previously demonstrated to function as a plant defence activator against several pathogens in several plant species. However, there are no reports of the role of this vitamin in the induction of resistance in the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Borges AA,Dobon A,Expósito-Rodríguez M,Jiménez-Arias D,Borges-Pérez A,Casañas-Sánchez V,Pérez JA,Luis JC,Tornero P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 3.5 million expressed sequence tags from the major cereal taxa were used to electronically mine over 176,000 putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The density, distribution and degree of linkage between these SNPs were compared among the different taxa. The frequency of sequence polymorphism was lowest...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Barker GL,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought tolerance of the wheat cultivar Bobwhite was previously enhanced by transformation with a construct containing the wheat DREB3 gene driven by the stress-inducible maize Rab17 promoter. Progeny of a single T2 transgenic line were used as pollinators in crosses with four elite bread wheat cultivars from Western ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Shavrukov Y,Baho M,Lopato S,Langridge P

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and Cas9-associated protein systems provide a powerful genetic manipulation tool that can drive plant research forward. Nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) is an enzymatically inactive mutant of Cas9 in which its endonuclease activity is non-functional. The appl...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Moradpour M,Abdulah SNA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs) play major roles in regulating plant growth and development, but their roles in drought stress remain elusive. Here, we cloned and characterized a maize (Zea mays) PIF transcription factor, ZmPIF1. The expression level of ZmPIF1 was significantly induced by independent drought an...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao Y,Wu M,Zhang M,Jiang W,Ren X,Liang E,Zhang D,Zhang C,Xiao N,Li Y,Dai Y,Chen J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a powerful tool for functional analysis of genes in plants. A wide-host-range VIGS vector, which was developed based on the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), was tested for its ability to silence endogenous genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis in soybean. Symptomless infection was...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Nagamatsu A,Masuta C,Senda M,Matsuura H,Kasai A,Hong JS,Kitamura K,Abe J,Kanazawa A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a highly energy-efficient crop primarily for sugar and bio-ethanol production. Sugarcane genetics and cultivar improvement have been extremely challenging largely due to its complex genomes with high polyploidy levels. In this study, we deeply sequenced the coding regions of 307 sugarcane...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yang X,Song J,Todd J,Peng Z,Paudel D,Luo Z,Ma X,You Q,Hanson E,Zhao Z,Zhao Y,Zhang J,Ming R,Wang J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize kernels do not contain enough of the essential sulphur-amino acid methionine (Met) to serve as a complete diet for animals, even though maize has the genetic capacity to store Met in kernels. Prior studies indicated that the availability of the sulphur (S)-amino acids may limit their incorporation into seed stor...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Xiang X,Wu Y,Planta J,Messing J,Leustek T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the cecropin A gene in rice confers resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. In this study, a polymerase chain reaction-based suppression subtractive hybridization approach was used to generate a cDNA macroarray from the elite japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar 'Senia'. Gene expressi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Campo S,Manrique S,García-Martínez J,San Segundo B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooking quality of rice is associated with the starch gelatinization temperature (GT). Rice genotypes with low GT have probably been selected for their cooking quality by humans during domestication. We now report polymorphisms in starch synthase IIa (SSIIa) that explain the variation in rice starch GT. Sequence a...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Waters DL,Henry RJ,Reinke RF,Fitzgerald MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing-based bulked segregant analysis (BSA) for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) provides an efficient alternative approach to conventional QTL analysis as it significantly reduces the scale and cost of analysis with comparable power to QTL detection using full mapping population. We tested the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Deokar A,Sagi M,Daba K,Tar'an B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM crops are the most studied crops in history. Approximately 5% of the safety studies on them show adverse effects that are a cause for concern and tend to be featured in media reports. Although these reports are based on just a handful of GM events, they are used to cast doubt on all GM crops. Furthermore, they tend...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sánchez MA,Parrott WA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae (Ps), together with related Ps species, infects and attacks a wide range of agronomically important crops, including tomato, kiwifruit, pepper, olive and soybean, causing economic losses. Currently, chemicals and introduced resistance genes are used to protect plants against th...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Rooney WM,Grinter RW,Correia A,Parkhill J,Walker DC,Milner JJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salinity and drought are major environmental factors limiting the growth and productivity of alfalfa worldwide as this economically important legume forage is sensitive to these kinds of abiotic stress. In this study, transgenic alfalfa lines expressing both tonoplast NXH and H(+)-PPase genes, ZxNHX and ZxVP1-1 from t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bao AK,Du BQ,Touil L,Kang P,Wang QL,Wang SM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically engineered (GE) rice lines expressing Lepidoptera-active insecticidal cry genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been developed in China. Field surveys indicated that Bt rice harbours fewer rice planthoppers than non-Bt rice although planthoppers are not sensitive to the produced Bt Cry ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wang X,Liu Q,Meissle M,Peng Y,Wu K,Romeis J,Li Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are widely distributed in plants and play important roles in human and animal health and nutrition. Model plants with discernible flavonoid phenotypes, such as Arabidopsis seed patterning lines, are valuable tools that can provide avenues for understanding flavonoid and proanthocyanidin accumulation pattern...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao P,Li X,Cui D,Wu L,Parkin I,Gruber MY

更新日期：2010-12-01 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