Specific cysteine protease inhibitors act as deterrents of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), in transgenic potato.

abstract：:In this article, we explore the intellectual property (IP) landscape relevant to the production and commercialization of Carolight(™) , a transgenic multivitamin corn variety created on humanitarian grounds to address micronutrient deficiencies in low-and-middle-income countries. The successful production of this vari...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Zanga D,Capell T,Zhu C,Christou P,Thangaraj H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burley tobaccos (Nicotiana tabacum) display a nitrogen-use-deficiency phenotype that is associated with the accumulation of high levels of nitrate within the leaf, a trait correlated with production of a class of compounds referred to as tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). Two TSNA species, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Lu J,Zhang L,Lewis RS,Bovet L,Goepfert S,Jack AM,Crutchfield JD,Ji H,Dewey RE

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food supplementation with the conditionally essential amino acid arginine (Arg) has been shown to have nutritional benefits. Degradation of cyanophycin (CGP), a peptide polymer used for nitrogen storage by cyanobacteria, requires cyanophycinase (CGPase) and results in the release of β-aspartic acid (Asp)-Arg dipeptide...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ponndorf D,Ehmke S,Walliser B,Thoss K,Unger C,Görs S,Daş G,Metges CC,Broer I,Nausch H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP), the volatile compound that provides the 'popcorn-like' aroma in a large variety of cereal and food products, is widely found in nature. Deficiency in amino aldehyde dehydrogenase (AMADH) was previously shown to be the likely cause of 2AP biosynthesis in rice (Oryza sativa L.). In this study...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Arikit S,Yoshihashi T,Wanchana S,Uyen TT,Huong NT,Wongpornchai S,Vanavichit A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrate (NO3-) transporter has been selected as an important gene maker in the process of environmental adoption in rice cultivars. In this work, we transferred another native OsNAR2.1 promoter with driving OsNAR2.1 gene into rice plants. The transgenic lines with exogenous pOsNAR2.1:OsNAR2.1 constructs showed enh...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Chen J,Fan X,Qian K,Zhang Y,Song M,Liu Y,Xu G,Fan X

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Recent report reviews and funding initiatives in the field of plant genomic research are considered in the context of their translation into practical and economic value via plant breeding. It is concluded that there is a deficit in investment and that a change in working styles towards knowledge sharing and connectiv...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hughes S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanins have crucial biological functions and affect quality of horticultural produce. Anthocyanins accumulate in ripe peach fruit; differential accumulation is observed in deep coloured cultivar 'Hujingmilu' and lightly pigmented cultivar 'Yulu'. The difference was not fully explained by accumulation of total fl...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Zhao Y,Dong W,Zhu Y,Allan AC,Lin-Wang K,Xu C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato is one of the most cultivated vegetables in the world and an important ingredient of the human diet. Tomato breeders and growers face a continuous challenge of combining high quantity (production volume) with high quality (appearance, taste and perception for the consumers, processing quality for the processing...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Czerednik A,Busscher M,Angenent GC,de Maagd RA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-glycosylation is critical for recombinant glycoprotein production as it influences the heterogeneity of products and affects their biological function. In most eukaryotes, the oligosaccharyltransferase is the central-protein complex facilitating the N-glycosylation of proteins in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticul...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Castilho A,Beihammer G,Pfeiffer C,Göritzer K,Montero-Morales L,Vavra U,Maresch D,Grünwald-Gruber C,Altmann F,Steinkellner H,Strasser R

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a member of the Rhamnaceae family, is an important perennial fruit tree crop of substantial economic, ecological and nutritional value, and is also used as a traditional herbal medicine. Here, we report the resequencing of 493 jujube accessions, including 202 wild and 291 cu...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Guo M,Zhang Z,Li S,Lian Q,Fu P,He Y,Qiao J,Xu K,Liu L,Wu M,Du Z,Li S,Wang J,Shao P,Yu Q,Xu G,Li D,Wang Y,Tian S,Zhao J,Feng X,Li R,Jiang W,Zhao X

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain size and plant architecture are critical factors determining crop productivity. Here, we performed gene editing of the MIR396 gene family in rice and found that MIR396e and MIR396f are two important regulators of grain size and plant architecture. mir396ef mutations can increase grain yield by increasing grain s...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Miao C,Wang D,He R,Liu S,Zhu JK

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Although much explored, oral tolerance for treatment of autoimmune diseases still awaits the establishment of novel and effective vectors. We investigated whether the tolerogenic CTA1(R7K)-COL-DD fusion protein can be expressed in edible plants, to induce oral tolerance and protect against arthritis. The fusion protei...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hansson C,Schön K,Kalbina I,Strid Å,Andersson S,Bokarewa MI,Lycke NY

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic improvement of fibre quality is one of the main breeding goals for the upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, but there are difficulties with precise selection of traits. Therefore, it is important to improve the understanding of the genetic basis of phenotypic variation. In this study, we conducted phenotyping an...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sun Z,Wang X,Liu Z,Gu Q,Zhang Y,Li Z,Ke H,Yang J,Wu J,Wu L,Zhang G,Zhang C,Ma Z

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) is an essential hormone for plant defence and development. SA perception is usually measured by counting the number of pathogens that grow in planta upon an exogenous application of the hormone. A biological SA perception model based on plant fresh weight reduction caused by disease resistance in A...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Canet JV,Dobón A,Ibáñez F,Perales L,Tornero P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue fever is a mosquito (Aedes aegypti) -transmitted viral disease that is endemic in more than 125 countries around the world. There are four serotypes of the dengue virus (DENV 1-4) and a safe and effective dengue vaccine must provide protection against all four serotypes. To date, the first vaccine, Dengvaxia (C...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： van Eerde A,Gottschamel J,Bock R,Hansen KEA,Munang'andu HM,Daniell H,Liu Clarke J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of a reference genome sequence of bread wheat is challenging due to its specific features such as the genome size of 17 Gbp, polyploid nature and prevalence of repetitive sequences. BAC-by-BAC sequencing based on chromosomal physical maps, adopted by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium as...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Staňková H,Hastie AR,Chan S,Vrána J,Tulpová Z,Kubaláková M,Visendi P,Hayashi S,Luo M,Batley J,Edwards D,Doležel J,Šimková H

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:One goal of modern agriculture is the improvement of plant drought tolerance and water-use efficiency (WUE). Although stomatal density has been linked to WUE, the causal molecular mechanisms and engineered alternations of this relationship are not yet fully understood. Moreover, YODA (YDA), which is a MAPKK kinase gen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Meng LS,Yao SQ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain size, number and starch content are important determinants of grain yield and quality. One of the most important biological processes that determine these components is the carbon partitioning during the early grain filling, which requires the function of cell wall invertase. Here, we showed the constitutive exp...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li B,Liu H,Zhang Y,Kang T,Zhang L,Tong J,Xiao L,Zhang H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional breeding methods are hindered in bananas due to the fact that major cultivars are sterile, parthenocarpic, triploid and thus clonally propagated. This has resulted in a narrow genetic base and limited resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses. Mutagenesis of in vitro propagated bananas is one method to int...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Datta S,Jankowicz-Cieslak J,Nielen S,Ingelbrecht I,Till BJ

更新日期：2018-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods based on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), copy number variation (CNV) and presence/absence variation (PAV) discovery provide a valuable resource to study gene structure and evolution. However, as a result of these structural variations, a single reference genome is unable to cover the entire gene content ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Dolatabadian A,Bayer PE,Tirnaz S,Hurgobin B,Edwards D,Batley J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) is the main causative agent associated with a group of diseases collectively known as porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCAD). There is a significant economic strain on the global swine industry due to PCAD and the production of commercial PCV-2 vaccines is expensive. Plant expre...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gunter CJ,Regnard GL,Rybicki EP,Hitzeroth II

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments of tools for targeted genome modification have led to new concepts in how multiple traits can be combined. Targeted genome modification is based on the use of nucleases with tailor-made specificities to introduce a DNA double-strand break (DSB) at specific target loci. A re-engineered meganuclease ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： D'Halluin K,Vanderstraeten C,Van Hulle J,Rosolowska J,Van Den Brande I,Pennewaert A,D'Hont K,Bossut M,Jantz D,Ruiter R,Broadhvest J

更新日期：2013-10-01 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