An analysis of expressed sequence tags of developing castor endosperm using a full-length cDNA library.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paphiopedilum is a horticulturally and ecologically important genus of ca. 80 species of lady's slipper orchids native to Southeast Asia. These plants have long been of interest regarding their chromosomal evolution, which involves a progressive aneuploid series based on either fission or fusion of centromer...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lan T,Albert VA

更新日期：2011-09-12 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

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:The Botrytis cinerea xylanase Xyn11A has been previously shown to be required for full virulence of this organism despite its poor contribution to the secreted xylanase activity and the low xylan content of B. cinerea hosts. Intriguingly, xylanases from other fungi have been shown to have the property, indep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Noda J,Brito N,González C

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oil palm is the world's most productive oil-food crop despite yielding well below its theoretical maximum. This maximum could be approached with the introduction of elite F1 varieties. The development of such elite lines has thus far been prevented by difficulties in generating homozygous parental types for ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dunwell JM,Wilkinson MJ,Nelson S,Wening S,Sitorus AC,Mienanti D,Alfiko Y,Croxford AE,Ford CS,Forster BP,Caligari PD

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clubroot, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin, is a very important disease of Brassica species. Management of clubroot relies heavily on genetic resistance. In a cross of Brassica nigra lines PI 219576 (highly resistant, R) × CR2748 (highly susceptible, S) to clubroot, all F1 plants were resistant to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chang A,Lamara M,Wei Y,Hu H,Parkin IAP,Gossen BD,Peng G,Yu F

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that move along actin filaments, and serve as calcium stores in plant cells. The positioning and dynamics of mitochondria depend on membrane-cytoskeleton interactions, but it is not clear whether microfilament cytoskeleton has a direct effect on mitochondrial function and ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Y,Zhu Y,Ling Y,Zhang H,Liu P,Baluska F,Samaj J,Lin J,Wang Q

更新日期：2010-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Silicon (Si) has been known to regulate plant growth; however, the underlying mechanisms of short-term exogenous Si application on the regulation of calcium (Ca) and nitrogen (N), endogenous phytohormones, and expression of essential proteins have been little understood. RESULTS:Exogenous Si application sig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jang SW,Kim Y,Khan AL,Na CI,Lee IJ

更新日期：2018-01-04 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:The physico-chemical properties of chlorophylls b and c have been known for decades. Yet the mechanisms by which these secondary chlorophylls support assembly and accumulation of light-harvesting complexes in vivo have not been resolved. PRESENTATION:Biosynthetic modifications that introduce electronegative...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Eggink LL,Park H,Hoober JK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With a cultivation area of 1.75 Mio ha and sugar yield of 16.7 Mio tons in 2006, sugar beet is a crop of great economic importance in Europe. The productivity of sugar beet is determined significantly by seed vigour and field emergence potential; however, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underl...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pestsova E,Meinhard J,Menze A,Fischer U,Windhövel A,Westhoff P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:StWhy1, a member of the plant-specific Whirly single-stranded DNA-binding protein family, was first characterized as a transcription factor involved in the activation of the nuclear PR-10a gene following defense-related stress in potato. In Arabidopsis thaliana, Whirlies have recently been shown to be primar...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Sabar M,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Abou-Rached C,Brisson N

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During pollen wall formation in flowering plants, a conserved metabolon consisting of acyl-CoA synthetase (ACOS), polyketide synthase (PKS) and tetraketide α-pyrone reductase (TKPR), is required for sporopollenin synthesis. Despite this, the precise function of each of these components in different species r...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu D,Qu S,Tucker MR,Zhang D,Liang W,Shi J

更新日期：2019-03-18 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:In plants, nitrate (NO3-) nutrition gives rise to a natural N isotopic signature (δ15N), which correlates with the δ15N of the N source. However, little is known about the relationship between the δ15N of the N source and the 14N/15N fractionation in plants under ammonium (NH4+) nutrition. When NH4+ is the m...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ariz I,Cruz C,Moran JF,González-Moro MB,García-Olaverri C,González-Murua C,Martins-Loução MA,Aparicio-Tejo PM

更新日期：2011-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical plant breeding was extremely successful in generating high yielding crop varieties. Yet, in modern crops, the long domestication process has impoverished the genetic diversity available for breeding. This is limiting further improvements of elite germplasm by classical approaches. The CRISPR/Cas system now e...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wolter F,Schindele P,Puchta H

更新日期：2019-05-02 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:Lycoris species have great ornamental and medicinal values; however, their low regeneration efficiency seriously restricts their commercial production. Understanding the mechanism of bulblet propagation in this genus, which has remained underexplored to date, could provide a theoretical basis for improving t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu J,Li Q,Yang L,Li X,Wang Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isoprenylcysteine methylesterases (ICME) demethylate prenylated protein in eukaryotic cell. Until now, knowledge about their molecular information, localization and expression pattern is largely unavailable in plant species. One ICME in Arabidopsis, encoded by At5g15860, has been identified recently. Over-ex...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lan P,Li W,Wang H,Ma W

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legumes have the unique capacity to undergo two important root endosymbioses: the root nodule symbiosis and the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Medicago truncatula is widely used to unravel the functions of genes during these root symbioses. Here we describe the development of an artificial microRNA (amiR)...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Devers EA,Teply J,Reinert A,Gaude N,Krajinski F

更新日期：2013-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last two years, considerable advances have been made in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genomics, especially with the completion of the genome sequence and the availability of RNAseq data. However, as common bean is recalcitrant to stable genetic transformation, much work remains to be done for ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pflieger S,Blanchet S,Meziadi C,Richard MM,Thareau V,Mary F,Mazoyer C,Geffroy V

更新日期：2014-08-29 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：:The inclusive threshold policy for publication in BMC journals including BMC Plant Biology means that editorial decisions are largely based on the soundness of the research presented rather than the novelty or potential impact of the work. Here we discuss what is required to ensure that research meets the requirement ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Costa F,Cramer G,Finnegan EJ

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xylogen, a chimeric arabinogalactan protein containing a non-specific lipid transfer protein domain, can promote xylem cell differentiation. No comprehensive study has been carried out on the XYLP gene family in rice. As a first step in research on this gene family and as a useful strategy in general, a geno...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma T,Ma H,Zhao H,Qi H,Zhao J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing has become a revolutionary technique for crop improvement as it can facilitate fast and efficient genetic changes without the retention of transgene components in the final plant line. Lack of robust bioinformatics tools to facilitate the design of highly specific functional guide RN...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cram D,Kulkarni M,Buchwaldt M,Rajagopalan N,Bhowmik P,Rozwadowski K,Parkin IAP,Sharpe AG,Kagale S

更新日期：2019-11-06 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:Water permeability governed by seed coat is a major facet of seed crops, especially soybean, whose seeds lack physiological dormancy and experience rapid deterioration in seed viability under prolonged storage. Moreover, the physiological and chemical characteristics of soybean seeds are known to vary with s...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ramakrishna G,Kaur P,Nigam D,Chaduvula PK,Yadav S,Talukdar A,Singh NK,Gaikwad K

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dehydrins play positive roles in regulating plant abiotic stress responses. The objective of this study was to characterize two dehydrin genes, CdDHN4-L and CdDHN4-S, generated by alternative splicing of CdDHN4 in bermudagrass. RESULTS:Overexpression of CdDHN4-L with φ-segment and CdDHN4-S lacking of φ-segm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lv A,Su L,Liu X,Xing Q,Huang B,An Y,Zhou P

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) assemble a family of small (7-9 kDa) ubiquitous cationic proteins with an ability to bind and transport lipids as well as participate in various physiological processes including defense against phytopathogens. They also form one of the most clinically relevant classes of...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bogdanov IV,Shenkarev ZO,Finkina EI,Melnikova DN,Rumynskiy EI,Arseniev AS,Ovchinnikova TV

更新日期：2016-04-30 00:00:00