Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers and their application for diversity assessment in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a major abiotic stress factors that reduces agricultural productivity. GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development. However, the functions of a number of GRAS genes identified in rice are unknown, especially the GRAS genes related to rice dro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu K,Chen S,Li T,Ma X,Liang X,Ding X,Liu H,Luo L

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), is important for many cellular functions in mammals and bacteria, such as steroid biosynthesis, cellular respiration, cell proliferation, apoptosis, immunomodulation, transport of porphyrins and ani...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Balsemão-Pires E,Jaillais Y,Olson BJ,Andrade LR,Umen JG,Chory J,Sachetto-Martins G

更新日期：2011-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are highly abundant in plant genomes and require transcriptional activity for their proliferative mode of replication. These sequences exist in plant genomes as diverse sublineages within the main element superfamilies (i.e., gypsy and copia). While transcriptional...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qiu F,Ungerer MC

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most widespread association between plant roots and fungi in natural and agricultural ecosystems. This work investigated the influence of mycorrhization on the economically relevant part of the tomato plant, by analyzing its impact on the physiology of the fruit. ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Salvioli A,Zouari I,Chalot M,Bonfante P

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phalaenopsis orchids are popular floral crops, and development of new cultivars is economically important to floricultural industries worldwide. Analysis of orchid genes could facilitate orchid improvement. Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end sequences (BESs) can provide the first glimpses into the seq...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hsu CC,Chung YL,Chen TC,Lee YL,Kuo YT,Tsai WC,Hsiao YY,Chen YW,Wu WL,Chen HH

更新日期：2011-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscisic acid (ABA) and proline play important roles in rice acclimation to different stress conditions. To study whether cross-talk exists between ABA and proline, their roles in rice acclimation to hypoxia, rice growth, root oxidative damage and endogenous ABA and proline accumulation were investigated in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cao X,Wu L,Wu M,Zhu C,Jin Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold stress causes dynamic changes in gene expression that are partially caused by small non-coding RNAs since they regulate protein coding transcripts and act in epigenetic gene silencing pathways. Thus, a detailed analysis of transcriptional changes of small RNAs (sRNAs) belonging to all known sRNA classes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tiwari B,Habermann K,Arif MA,Weil HL,Garcia-Molina A,Kleine T,Mühlhaus T,Frank W

更新日期：2020-06-29 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:Assembly of stable light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) in the chloroplast of green algae and plants requires synthesis of chlorophyll (Chl) b, a reaction that involves oxygenation of the 7-methyl group of Chl a to a formyl group. This reaction uses molecular oxygen and is catalyzed by chlorophyllide a oxygenas...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Eggink LL,LoBrutto R,Brune DC,Brusslan J,Yamasato A,Tanaka A,Hoober JK

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is the major environmental stress threatening crop-plant productivity worldwide. Identification of new genes and metabolic pathways involved in plant adaptation to progressive drought stress at the reproductive stage is of great interest for agricultural research. RESULTS:We developed a novel Cross-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shaar-Moshe L,Hübner S,Peleg Z

更新日期：2015-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGPase) is a sugar-metabolizing enzyme (E.C. 2.7.7.9) that catalyzes a reversible reaction of UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate from glucose-1-phosphate and UTP. UDP-glucose is a key intermediate sugar that is channeled to multiple metabolic pathways. The functional role of UGPase ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Payyavula RS,Tschaplinski TJ,Jawdy SS,Sykes RW,Tuskan GA,Kalluri UC

更新日期：2014-10-07 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:Vacuolar invertases (VINs) have been reported to regulate plant growth and development and respond to abiotic stresses such as drought and cold. With our best knowledge, the functions of VIN genes little have been reported in tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.). Therefore, it is necessary to develop research in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qian W,Xiao B,Wang L,Hao X,Yue C,Cao H,Wang Y,Li N,Yu Y,Zeng J,Yang Y,Wang X

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NADP-malic enzyme (NAPD-ME), and pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK) are important enzymes that participate in C4 photosynthesis. However, the evolutionary history and forces driving evolution of these genes in C4 plants are not completely understood. RESULTS:We identified 162 NADP-ME and 35 PPDK genes ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shi W,Yue L,Guo J,Wang J,Yuan X,Dong S,Guo J,Guo P

更新日期：2020-03-30 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:Cultivated rice species (Oryza sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud.) are generally considered among the crop species most sensitive to salt stress. A handful of lines are known to be tolerant, and a small number of these have been used extensively as donors in breeding programs. However, these donors use many ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Platten JD,Egdane JA,Ismail AM

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) are economically the most important fruit crop worldwide. However, the complexity of molecular and biochemical events that lead to the onset of ripening of nonclimacteric fruits is not fully understood which is further complicated in grapes due to seasonal and cultivar specific var...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fortes AM,Agudelo-Romero P,Silva MS,Ali K,Sousa L,Maltese F,Choi YH,Grimplet J,Martinez-Zapater JM,Verpoorte R,Pais MS

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Damask roses (Rosa damascena Mill.) are mainly used for essential oil production. Previous studies have indicated that all production material in Bulgaria and Turkey consists of only one genotype. Nine polymorphic microsatellite markers were used to analyze the genetic diversity of 40 accessions of R. damasc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Babaei A,Tabaei-Aghdaei SR,Khosh-Khui M,Omidbaigi R,Naghavi MR,Esselink GD,Smulders MJ

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are conserved proteolytic enzymes found in a wide range of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plant species. Acting on the plant extracellular matrix, they play crucial roles in many aspects of plant physiology including growth, development and the response to stresses ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Schiermeyer A,Hartenstein H,Mandal MK,Otte B,Wahner V,Schillberg S

更新日期：2009-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici), is a major disease that causes huge yield damage. New pathogen races appeared in the last few years and caused a broke down in the resistant genotypes. In Egypt, some of the resistant genotypes began to be susceptible to stripe rust in recent...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Abou-Zeid MA,Mourad AMI

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auxin response factors (ARFs) in auxin signaling pathway are an important component that can regulate the transcription of auxin-responsive genes involved in almost all aspects of plant growth and development. To our knowledge, the comprehensive and systematic characterization of ARF genes has never been rep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Niu J,Bi Q,Deng S,Chen H,Yu H,Wang L,Lin S

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repetitive DNA is a major fraction of eukaryotic genomes and occurs particularly often in plants. Currently, the sequencing of the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) genome is under way and knowledge of repetitive DNA sequences is critical for the genome annotation. We generated a c0t-1 library, representing highly ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zakrzewski F,Wenke T,Holtgräwe D,Weisshaar B,Schmidt T

更新日期：2010-01-11 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:The thylakoid system in plant chloroplasts is organized into two distinct domains: grana arranged in stacks of appressed membranes and non-appressed membranes consisting of stroma thylakoids and margins of granal stacks. It is argued that the reason for the development of appressed membranes in plants is tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rumak I,Mazur R,Gieczewska K,Kozioł-Lipińska J,Kierdaszuk B,Michalski WP,Shiell BJ,Venema JH,Vredenberg WJ,Mostowska A,Garstka M

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants, HIR (Hypersensitive Induced Reaction) proteins, members of the PID (Proliferation, Ion and Death) superfamily, have been shown to play a part in the development of spontaneous hypersensitive response lesions in leaves, in reaction to pathogen attacks. The levels of HIR proteins were shown to corre...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou L,Cheung MY,Li MW,Fu Y,Sun Z,Sun SM,Lam HM

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalizing through reference genes, or housekeeping genes, can make more accurate and reliable results from reverse transcription real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Recent studies have shown that no single housekeeping gene is universal for all experiments. Thus, suitable reference gen...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Artico S,Nardeli SM,Brilhante O,Grossi-de-Sa MF,Alves-Ferreira M

更新日期：2010-03-21 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:Fruit coloration of red-skinned grapevines is mainly due to anthocyanin pigments. We analysed a panel of nine cultivars that included extreme phenotypes for berry colour, ranging from green (absence of anthocyanins) to red, purple, violet and blue. Expression of six genes of the anthocyanin pathway coding fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castellarin SD,Di Gaspero G

更新日期：2007-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a common accompanying dispersal structure, specialized seed appendages play a critical role in the successful germination and dispersal of many plants, and are regarded as an adaptation character for plants survival in diverse environments. However, little is known about how the appendages modulate the li...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhao Y,Zhang Y,Zhao B,Yang Z,Dong L

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crop quality and yield are affected by abiotic and biotic stresses, and heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are considered to play important roles in regulating plant tolerance under various stresses. To investigate the response of Cucurbita moschata to abiotic stress, we analyzed the genome of C. moscha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shen C,Yuan J

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00