Restricted cell elongation in Arabidopsis hypocotyls is associated with a reduced average pectin esterification level.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome pairing, recombination and DNA repair are essential processes during meiosis in sexually reproducing organisms. Investigating the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Ph2 (Pairing homoeologous) locus has identified numerous candidate genes that may have a role in controlling such processes, includin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lloyd AH,Milligan AS,Langridge P,Able JA

更新日期：2007-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nectar is a major floral attractant and reward for insects that ensures pollination. Liriodendron, a genus of the Magnoliaceae family, includes only two relict species, L. chinense and L. tulipifera, which are considered "basal angiosperms" according to plant evolutionary history. The flowers of Liriodendron...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu H,Ma J,Li H

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a commercially important crop that produces climacteric fruits with a soft and sweet pulp that contain a wide range of health promoting phytochemicals. Despite its importance, little is known about transcriptional modifications during papaya fruit ripening and their control. In t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fabi JP,Seymour GB,Graham NS,Broadley MR,May ST,Lajolo FM,Cordenunsi BR,Oliveira do Nascimento JR

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salicylic acid (SA) is a significant signaling molecule that induces rice resistance against pathogen invasion. Protein phosphorylation carries out an important regulatory function in plant defense responses, while the global phosphoproteome changes in rice response to SA-mediated defense response has not be...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun R,Qin S,Zhang T,Wang Z,Li H,Li Y,Nie Y

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tomato gray leaf spot caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is a serious disease that can severely hinder tomato production. To date, only Sm has been reported to provide resistance against this disease, and the molecular mechanism underlying resistance to this disease in tomato remains unclear....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang H,Shen F,Wang H,Zhao T,Zhang H,Jiang J,Xu X,Li J

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bread wheat is one of the most important crops for the human diet, but the increasing soil salinization is causing yield reductions worldwide. Improving salt stress tolerance in wheat requires the elucidation of the mechanistic basis of plant response to this abiotic stress factor. Although several studies h...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Duarte-Delgado D,Dadshani S,Schoof H,Oyiga BC,Schneider M,Mathew B,Léon J,Ballvora A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China has diverse wheat varieties that adapt to very different environments divided into ten agro-ecological zones. A better understanding of genomic differences and patterns of selection among agro-ecological zones could provide useful information in selection of specific adaptive traits in breeding. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Guo J,Li C,Zhao J,Guo J,Shi W,Cheng S,Zhou M,Hao C

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants constantly monitor changes in photoperiod or day length to trigger the flowering cycle at the most appropriate time of the year. It is well established that photoperiodic flowering is intimately associated with the circadian clock in Arabidopsis. In support of this notion, many clock-defective mutants...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park MJ,Kwon YJ,Gil KE,Park CM

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum is an important C4 crop which relies on applied Nitrogen fertilizers (N) for optimal yields, of which substantial amounts are lost into the atmosphere. Understanding the genetic variation of sorghum in response to limited nitrogen supply is important for elucidating the underlying genetic mechanisms ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gelli M,Mitchell SE,Liu K,Clemente TE,Weeks DP,Zhang C,Holding DR,Dweikat IM

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many flowering plants produce bicellular pollen. The two cells of the pollen grain are destined for separate fates in the male gametophyte, which provides a unique opportunity to study genetic interactions that govern guided single-cell polar expansion of the growing pollen tube and the coordinated control o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hafidh S,Breznenová K,Růžička P,Feciková J,Capková V,Honys D

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under natural conditions, soil nutrients are heterogeneously distributed, and plants have developed adaptation strategies to efficiently forage patchily distributed nutrient. Most previous studies examined either patch strength or patch size separately and focused mainly on root morphological plasticity (inc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cai L,Wang Y,Tigabu M,Hou X,Wu P,Zhou C,Ma X

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant biologists have long speculated about the mechanisms that guide pollen tubes to ovules. Although there is now evidence that ovules emit a diffusible attractant, little is known about how this attractant mediates interactions between the pollen tube and the ovules. RESULTS:We employ a semi-in vitro ass...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stewman SF,Jones-Rhoades M,Bhimalapuram P,Tchernookov M,Preuss D,Dinner AR

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Local infection with necrotizing pathogens induces whole plant immunity to secondary challenge. Pathogenesis-related genes are induced in parallel with this systemic acquired resistance response and thought to be co-regulated. The hypothesis of co-regulation has been challenged by induction of Arabidopsis PR...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang C,Shapiro AD

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among various pests, the brown planthopper (BPH) that damages rice is the major destructive pests. Understanding resistance mechanisms is a critical step toward effective control of BPH. This study investigates the proteomics of BPH interactions with three rice cultivars: the first resistant (PR) to BPH, the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang X,Yin F,Xiao S,Jiang C,Yu T,Chen L,Ke X,Zhong Q,Cheng Z,Li W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Castor seeds are a major source for ricinoleate, an important industrial raw material. Genomics studies of castor plant will provide critical information for understanding seed metabolism, for effectively engineering ricinoleate production in transgenic oilseeds, or for genetically improving castor plants by...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lu C,Wallis JG,Browse J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc (Zn) deficiency is one of the most widespread mineral nutritional problems that affect normal development in plants. Because Zn cannot passively diffuse across cell membranes, it must be transported into intracellular compartments for all biological processes where Zn is required. Several members of the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gainza-Cortés F,Pérez-Dïaz R,Pérez-Castro R,Tapia J,Casaretto JA,González S,Peña-Cortés H,Ruiz-Lara S,González E

更新日期：2012-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoid biosynthesis is strongly influenced by phytohormones. For example, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) enhances the flavonoid accumulation in pear. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the MeJA-induced flavonoid biosynthesis in pear is largely uncharacterized. Therefore, the transcriptome of pear calli ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Premathilake AT,Ni J,Shen J,Bai S,Teng Y

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs; MAP3Ks) are important components of MAPK cascades, which are highly conserved signal transduction pathways in animals, yeast and plants, play important roles in plant growth and development. MAPKKKs have been investigated on their evolution and expres...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang G,Lovato A,Polverari A,Wang M,Liang YH,Ma YC,Cheng ZM

更新日期：2014-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotiana tabacum is an important economic crop. Topping, a common agricultural practice employed with flue-cured tobacco, is designed to increase leaf nicotine contents by increasing nicotine biosynthesis in roots. Many genes are found to be differentially expressed in response to topping, particularly gene...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin Y,Bai S,Li W,Sun T,Galbraith DW,Yang Z,Zhou Y,Sun G,Wang B

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The normal growth of Rehmannia glutinosa, a widely used medicinal plant in China, is severely disturbed by replant disease. The formation of replant disease commonly involves interactions among plants, allelochemicals and microbes; however, these relationships remain largely unclear. As a result, no effectiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Yang Y,Feng F,Zhang B,Chen S,Yang C,Gu L,Wang F,Zhang J,Chen A,Lin W,Chen X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to grow, plants rely on soil nutrients which can vary both spatially and temporally depending on the environment, the soil type or the microbial activity. An essential nutrient is nitrogen, which is mainly accessible as nitrate and ammonium. Many studies have investigated transport genes for these i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dechorgnat J,Francis KL,Dhugga KS,Rafalski JA,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposing imbibed seeds to high temperatures may lead to either thermo-inhibition of germination or thermo-dormancy responses. In thermo-inhibition, seed germination is inhibited but quickly resumed when temperatures are lowered. Upon prolonged exposure to elevated temperatures, thermo-dormancy may be induced...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Geshnizjani N,Ghaderi-Far F,Willems LAJ,Hilhorst HWM,Ligterink W

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants encode a large number of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases. Legumes encode several LRR-RLK linked to the process of root nodule formation, the ligands of which are unknown. To identify ligands for these receptors, we used a combination of profile hidden Markov models and position-specific iter...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Oelkers K,Goffard N,Weiller GF,Gresshoff PM,Mathesius U,Frickey T

更新日期：2008-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soil salinity is an important factor affecting growth, development, and productivity of almost all land plants, including the forage crop alfalfa (Medicago sativa). However, little is known about how alfalfa responds and adapts to salt stress, particularly among different salt-tolerant cultivars. RESULTS:Am...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lei Y,Xu Y,Hettenhausen C,Lu C,Shen G,Zhang C,Li J,Song J,Lin H,Wu J

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) represent a ubiquitous gene family encoding detoxification enzymes able to recognize reactive electrophilic xenobiotic molecules as well as compounds of endogenous origin. Anthocyanin pigments require GSTs for their transport into the vacuole since their cytoplasmic retentio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Licciardello C,D'Agostino N,Traini A,Recupero GR,Frusciante L,Chiusano ML

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant nuclear pore complex has strongly attracted the attention of the scientific community during the past few years, in particular because of its involvement in hormonal and pathogen/symbiotic signalling. In Arabidopsis thaliana, more than 30 nucleoporins have been identified, but only a few of them ha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Boeglin M,Fuglsang AT,Luu DT,Sentenac H,Gaillard I,Chérel I

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic manipulation of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis or signaling is a promising strategy to improve crop yield and quality. However, the relationships between the BR-promoted growth and photosynthesis and the exact mechanism of BR-regulated photosynthetic capacity are not clear. Here, we generated tran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li XJ,Guo X,Zhou YH,Shi K,Zhou J,Yu JQ,Xia XJ

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pumilio RNA-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes and are involved in RNA decay, transport, and translation repression in the cytoplasm. Although a majority of Pumilio proteins function in the cytoplasm, two nucleolar forms have been reported to have a function in rRNA processin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park SH,Kim HS,Kalita PJ,Choi SB

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sucrosylgalactoside oligosaccharide raffinose (Raf, Suc-Gal1) accumulates in Arabidopsis leaves in response to a myriad of abiotic stresses. Whilst galactinol synthases (GolS), the first committed enzyme in Raf biosynthesis are well characterised in Arabidopsis, little is known of the second biosynthetic...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Egert A,Keller F,Peters S

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residual heterozygosity (RH) in advanced inbred lines of plants benefits quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping studies. However, knowledge of factors affecting the genome-wide distribution of RH remains limited. RESULTS:A set of 2196 heterogeneous inbred family (HIF) maize lines derived from 12 recombinant...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu N,Liu J,Li W,Pan Q,Liu J,Yang X,Yan J,Xiao Y

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00