Mutations in a plastid-localized elongation factor G alter early stages of plastid development in Arabidopsis thaliana.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant breeding has been proposed as one of the most effective and environmentally safe methods to control fungal infection and to reduce fumonisin accumulation. However, conventional breeding can be hampered by the complex genetic architecture of resistance to fumonisin accumulation and marker-assisted selec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Samayoa LF,Cao A,Santiago R,Malvar RA,Butrón A

更新日期：2019-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hordeum chilense, a native South American diploid wild barley, is one of the species of the genus Hordeum with a high potential for cereal breeding purposes, given its high crossability with other members of the Triticeae tribe. Hexaploid tritordeum (×Tritordeum Ascherson et Graebner, 2n=6×=42, AABBH(ch)H(ch...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castillo A,Ramírez MC,Martín AC,Kilian A,Martín A,Atienza SG

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global warming predictions indicate that temperatures will increase by another 2-6°C by the end of this century. High temperature is a major abiotic stress limiting plant growth and productivity in many areas of the world. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a model herbaceous bioenergy crop, due to its rap...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li YF,Wang Y,Tang Y,Kakani VG,Mahalingam R

更新日期：2013-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photosynthesis plays a vital role as an energy source for plant metabolism, and its efficiency may be drastically reduced owing to abiotic stresses. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), is a renewable and versatile resource with significant ecological and economic value, which encounters high light stress wit...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao H,Lou Y,Sun H,Li L,Wang L,Dong L,Gao Z

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant genomes have been transformed with full-length cDNA copies of viral genomes, giving rise to what has been called 'amplicon' systems, trying to combine the genetic stability of transgenic plants with the elevated replication rate of plant viruses. However, amplicons' performance has been very variable r...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Calvo M,Dujovny G,Lucini C,Ortuño J,Alamillo JM,Simón-Mateo C,López-Moya JJ,García JA

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent genome sequencing enables mega-base scale comparisons between related genomes. Comparisons between animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria demonstrate extensive synteny tempered by rearrangements. Within the legume plant family, glimpses of synteny have also been observed. Characterizing syntenic relatio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mudge J,Cannon SB,Kalo P,Oldroyd GE,Roe BA,Town CD,Young ND

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Callose (beta-1,3 glucan) separates developing pollen grains, preventing their underlying walls (exine) from fusing. The pollen tubes that transport sperm to female gametes also contain callose, both in their walls as well as in the plugs that segment growing tubes. Mutations in CalS5, one of several Arabido...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nishikawa S,Zinkl GM,Swanson RJ,Maruyama D,Preuss D

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The green peach aphid (GPA), Myzus persicae, is economically one of the most threatening pests in pepper cultivation, which not only causes direct damage but also transmits many viruses. Breeding aphid resistant pepper varieties is a promising and environmentally friendly method to control aphid populations ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun M,Voorrips RE,Steenhuis-Broers G,Van't Westende W,Vosman B

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the sixth most important food crop in the world. The formation and development of storage roots in sweet potato is a highly complicated and genetically programmed process. However, the underlying mechanisms of storage root development have not yet been elucidated. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dong T,Zhu M,Yu J,Han R,Tang C,Xu T,Liu J,Li Z

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding of gravity sensing and response is critical to long-term human habitation in space and can provide new advantages for terrestrial agriculture. To this end, the altered gene expression profile induced by microgravity has been repeatedly queried by microarray and RNA-seq experiments to understand...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kruse CPS,Meyers AD,Basu P,Hutchinson S,Luesse DR,Wyatt SE

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms of grapevine leafroll disease (GLRD) in red-fruited wine grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars consist of green veins and red and reddish-purple discoloration of inter-veinal areas of leaves. The reddish-purple color of symptomatic leaves may be due to the accumulation of anthocyanins and could reflec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gutha LR,Casassa LF,Harbertson JF,Naidu RA

更新日期：2010-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Western white pine (WWP, Pinus monticola Douglas ex D. Don) is of high interest in forest breeding and conservation because of its high susceptibility to the invasive disease white pine blister rust (WPBR, caused by the fungus Cronartium ribicola J. C. Fisch). However, WWP lacks genomic resource development ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu JJ,Sniezko RA,Sturrock RN,Chen H

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccharina japonica is an important commercial brown seaweed, its main product is alginate, which is used in food, textile and by the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. GDP-mannose dehydrogenase (GMD) is the key enzyme involved in the synthesis of alginate. However, little is known about GMD in S. japon...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang P,Shao Z,Jin W,Duan D

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea. L) is one of the most important oil crops in the world. After flowering, the peanut plant forms aboveground pegs (gynophores) that penetrate the soil, giving rise to underground pods. This means of reproduction, referred to as geocarpy, distinguishes peanuts from most oth...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao C,Zhao S,Hou L,Xia H,Wang J,Li C,Li A,Li T,Zhang X,Wang X

更新日期：2015-08-04 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:In cereal crops such as wheat, an optimal timing of developmental transitions is required to maximize grain yield. Many of these developmental changes are precisely regulated by changes in the duration, intensity or quality of light. Phytochromes are dimeric photoreceptors that absorb light maximally in the ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pearce S,Kippes N,Chen A,Debernardi JM,Dubcovsky J

更新日期：2016-06-21 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:Trees belonging to the Casuarinaceae and Betulaceae families play an important ecological role and are useful tools in forestry for degraded land rehabilitation and reforestation. These functions are linked to their capacity to establish symbiotic relationships with a nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium of the ge...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Diédhiou I,Tromas A,Cissoko M,Gray K,Parizot B,Crabos A,Alloisio N,Fournier P,Carro L,Svistoonoff S,Gherbi H,Hocher V,Diouf D,Laplaze L,Champion A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought stress in juvenile stages of crop development and premature leaf senescence induced by drought stress have an impact on biomass production and yield formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Therefore, in order to get information of regulatory processes involved in the adaptation to drought stress an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wehner G,Balko C,Humbeck K,Zyprian E,Ordon F

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub, is a member of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) family and is economically the most important of the four species in the genus. The endosperm of guar seed is a rich source of mucilage or gum, which forms a viscous gel in cold water, and is used as an emulsifier, thickener a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Naoumkina M,Torres-Jerez I,Allen S,He J,Zhao PX,Dixon RA,May GD

更新日期：2007-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A positive relationship between genome size and intron length is observed across eukaryotes including Angiosperms plants, indicating a co-evolution of genome size and gene structure. Conifers have very large genomes and longer introns on average than most plants, but impacts of their large genome and longer ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stival Sena J,Giguère I,Boyle B,Rigault P,Birol I,Zuccolo A,Ritland K,Ritland C,Bohlmann J,Jones S,Bousquet J,Mackay J

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is known that resistant rootstocks facilitate management of fire blight disease, incited by Erwinia amylovora, the role of rootstock root traits in providing systemic defense against E. amylovora is unclear. In this study, the hypothesis that rootstocks of higher root vigor provide higher toleran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Singh J,Fabrizio J,Desnoues E,Silva JP,Busch W,Khan A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABC1K (Activity of BC1 complex Kinase) is an evolutionarily primitive atypical kinase family widely distributed among prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The ABC1K protein kinases in Arabidopsis are predicted to localize either to the mitochondria or chloroplasts, in which plastid-located ABC1K proteins are involved...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin X,Duan Z,Zheng Y,Liu WC,Guo S,Botella JR,Song CP

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants trigger and tailor defense responses after perception of the oral secretions (OS) of attacking specialist lepidopteran larvae. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates (FACs) in the OS of the Manduca sexta larvae are necessary and sufficient to elicit the herbivory-specific responses in Nicotiana attenuata, a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gilardoni PA,Schuck S,Jüngling R,Rotter B,Baldwin IT,Bonaventure G

更新日期：2010-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing the productivity of rapeseed as one of the widely cultivated oil crops in the world is of upmost importance. As flowering time and plant architecture play a key role in the regulation of rapeseed yield, understanding the genetic mechanism underlying these traits can boost the rapeseed breeding. Me...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shah S,Karunarathna NL,Jung C,Emrani N

更新日期：2018-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tomato kinase Pto confers resistance to bacterial speck disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in a gene for gene manner. Upon recognition of specific avirulence factors the Pto kinase activates multiple signal transduction pathways culminating in induction of pathogen defense. The soluble cyt...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Herrmann MM,Pinto S,Kluth J,Wienand U,Lorbiecke R

更新日期：2006-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitrogen application can effectively mitigate the damage to crop growth and yield caused by drought. However, the efficiency of heavy nitrogen application before drought (NBD) and heavy nitrogen application after drought (NAD) to regulate rice response to drought stress remains controversial. In this study, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du J,Shen T,Xiong Q,Zhu C,Peng X,He X,Fu J,Ouyang L,Bian J,Hu L,Sun X,Zhou D,He H,Zhong L,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Real-time RT-PCR has become a powerful technique to monitor low-abundance mRNA expression and is a useful tool when examining bacterial gene expression inside infected host tissues. However, correct evaluation of data requires accurate and reliable normalisation against internal standards. Thus, the identifi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Takle GW,Toth IK,Brurberg MB

更新日期：2007-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought conditions adversely affect soybean growth, resulting in severe yield losses worldwide. Increasing experimental evidence indicates miRNAs are important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. However, the drought-responsive molecular mechanism underlying miRNA-mRNA interactions remains la...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou Y,Liu W,Li X,Sun D,Xu K,Feng C,Kue Foka IC,Ketehouli T,Gao H,Wang N,Dong Y,Wang F,Li H

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent development of novel repeat-fruiting types of blackberry (Rubus L.) cultivars, combined with a long history of morphological marker-assisted selection for thornlessness by blackberry breeders, has given rise to increased interest in using molecular markers to facilitate blackberry breeding. Yet no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lewers KS,Saski CA,Cuthbertson BJ,Henry DC,Staton ME,Main DS,Dhanaraj AL,Rowland LJ,Tomkins JP

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00