Tuber-specific cphA expression to enhance cyanophycin production in potatoes.

abstract：:Triterpenes are thirty-carbon compounds derived from the universal five-carbon prenyl precursors isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Normally, triterpenes are synthesized via the mevalonate (MVA) pathway operating in the cytoplasm of eukaryotes where DMAPP is condensed with two IPPs to...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kempinski C,Jiang Z,Zinck G,Sato SJ,Ge Z,Clemente TE,Chappell J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low grain moisture at harvest is crucial for safe production, transport, and storage, but the genetic architecture of this trait in maize (Zea mays) remains elusive. Here, we measured the dynamic changes in grain moisture content in an association mapping panel of 513 diverse maize inbred lines at five successive stag...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li W,Yu Y,Wang L,Luo Y,Peng Y,Xu Y,Liu X,Wu S,Jian L,Xu J,Xiao Y,Yan J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensification of agriculture and the development of synthetic insecticides enabled worldwide grain production to more than double in the last third of the 20th century. However, the heavy dependence and, in some cases, overuse of insecticides has been responsible for negative environmental and ecological impacts...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Catarino R,Ceddia G,Areal FJ,Park J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 20 years, stem rust caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), has re-emerged as a major threat to wheat and barley production in Africa and Europe. In contrast to wheat with 60 designated stem rust (Sr) resistance genes, barley's genetic variation for stem rust resistance is very narrow ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hatta MAM,Arora S,Ghosh S,Matny O,Smedley MA,Yu G,Chakraborty S,Bhatt D,Xia X,Steuernagel B,Richardson T,Mago R,Lagudah ES,Patron NJ,Ayliffe M,Rouse MN,Harwood WA,Periyannan S,Steffenson BJ,Wulff BBH

更新日期：2020-08-03 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：:In the past few years, the usefulness of transient expression assays has continuously increased for the characterization of unknown gene function and metabolic pathways. In grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world, recent systematic sequencing projects produced man...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jelly NS,Valat L,Walter B,Maillot P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-expression of protease inhibitors like the tomato cystatin SlCYS8 is useful to increase recombinant protein production in plants, but key proteases involved in protein proteolysis are still unknown. Here, we performed activity-based protein profiling to identify proteases that are inhibited by SlCYS8 in agroinfiltr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jutras PV,Grosse-Holz F,Kaschani F,Kaiser M,Michaud D,van der Hoorn RAL

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Transgenic rice expressing soybean glycinin in its endosperm was crossed with two types of low-glutelin mutants to determine how much storage the protein mutants can contribute to increases in glycinin accumulation. The glycinin level (102 microg/100 mg seed) in the parental transgenic line was enhanced to approximate...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tada Y,Utsumi S,Takaiwa F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in gene sequences, many of which are single nucleotide polymorphisms, underlie some of the most important traits in plants. With humanity facing significant challenges to increase global agricultural productivity, there is an urgent need to accelerate the development of these traits in plants. oligonucleot...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sauer NJ,Mozoruk J,Miller RB,Warburg ZJ,Walker KA,Beetham PR,Schöpke CR,Gocal GF

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors have been shown to control the activity of multiple stress response genes in a coordinated manner and therefore represent attractive targets for application in molecular plant breeding. We investigated the possibility of modulating the transcriptional regulation of drought and cold responses in t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Morran S,Eini O,Pyvovarenko T,Parent B,Singh R,Ismagul A,Eliby S,Shirley N,Langridge P,Lopato S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a devastating disease affecting over 350 plant species. A few peanut cultivars were found to possess stable and durable bacterial wilt resistance (BWR). Genomics-assisted breeding can accelerate the process of developing resistant cultivars by using diagnostic marke...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Luo H,Pandey MK,Khan AW,Wu B,Guo J,Ren X,Zhou X,Chen Y,Chen W,Huang L,Liu N,Lei Y,Liao B,Varshney RK,Jiang H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willows (Salix spp.) are important biomass crops due to their ability to grow rapidly with low fertilizer inputs and ease of cultivation in short-rotation coppice cycles. They are relatively undomesticated and highly diverse, but functional testing to identify useful allelic variation is time-consuming in trees and tr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Salmon J,Ward SP,Hanley SJ,Leyser O,Karp A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the declarations and collective measures taken to eradicate hunger at World Food Summits, food security remains one of the biggest issues that we are faced with. The current scenario could worsen due to the alarming increase in world population, further compounded by adverse climatic conditions, such as increa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh J,Pandey P,James D,Chandrasekhar K,Achary VM,Kaul T,Tripathy BC,Reddy MK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steviol glycosides (SGs) are extracted from Stevia leaves for use as a natural sweetener. Among SGs, stevioside is most abundant in leaf extracts followed by rebaudioside A (Reb A). However, Reb A is of particular interest because of its sweeter and more pleasant taste compared to stevioside. Therefore, the developmen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kim MJ,Zheng J,Liao MH,Jang IC

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:In a de novo genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis of short, 64-base tag-level haplotypes in 4657 accessions of cultivated oat, we discovered 164741 tag-level (TL) genetic variants containing 241224 SNPs. From this, the marker density of an oat consensus map was increased by the addition of more than 70000 loci. The...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bekele WA,Wight CP,Chao S,Howarth CJ,Tinker NA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome modification by homology-directed repair (HDR) is an attractive tool for the controlled genetic manipulation of plants. Here, we report the HDR-mediated gene exchange of expression cassettes in tobacco BY-2 cells using a designed zinc finger nuclease (ZFN). The target contained a 7-kb fragment flanked by two ZF...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Schneider K,Schiermeyer A,Dolls A,Koch N,Herwartz D,Kirchhoff J,Fischer R,Russell SM,Cao Z,Corbin DR,Sastry-Dent L,Ainley WM,Webb SR,Schinkel H,Schillberg S

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Cellulose is an abundant biopolymer and a prominent constituent of plant cell walls. Cellulose is also a central component to plant morphogenesis and contributes the bulk of a plant's biomass. While cellulose synthase (CesA) genes were identified over two decades ago, genetic manipulation of this family to enhance cel...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hu H,Zhang R,Feng S,Wang Y,Wang Y,Fan C,Li Y,Liu Z,Schneider R,Xia T,Ding SY,Persson S,Peng L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance and urgency of providing humans and animals with quality proteins are reflected in the growing scientific and industrial interest in augmenting the nutritive value of the world's protein sources. Such nutritive value is determined by the protein content in 'essential amino acids', those that cannot be s...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Beauregard M,Hefford MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The root system is fundamental for plant development, is crucial for overall plant growth and is recently being recognized as the key for future crop productivity improvement. A major determinant of root system architecture is the initiation of lateral roots. While knowledge of the genetic and molecular mechanisms reg...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jansen L,Hollunder J,Roberts I,Forestan C,Fonteyne P,Van Quickenborne C,Zhen RG,McKersie B,Parizot B,Beeckman T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc), is severely damaging to the global citrus industry. Targeted editing of host disease-susceptibility genes represents an interesting and potentially durable alternative in plant breeding for resistance. Here, we report improvement of citrus canker resistanc...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Peng A,Chen S,Lei T,Xu L,He Y,Wu L,Yao L,Zou X

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a pressing need to develop novel antibacterial agents given the widespread antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria and the low specificity of the drugs available. Endolysins are antibacterial proteins that are produced by bacteriophage-infected cells to digest the bacterial cell wall for phage progeny...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Stoffels L,Taunt HN,Charalambous B,Purton S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replacement of crude allergen extracts by selected allergens currently represents a major goal for the improvement of allergy diagnosis and immunotherapy. Indeed, the development of molecularly defined vaccines would facilitate both standardization and enhance batch-to-batch reproducibility as well as treatment sp...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Lienard D,Tran Dinh O,van Oort E,Van Overtvelt L,Bonneau C,Wambre E,Bardor M,Cosette P,Didier-Laurent A,de Borne FD,Delon R,van Ree R,Moingeon P,Faye L,Gomord V

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Threonine (Thr) is one of a few limiting essential amino acids (EAAs) in the animal feed industry, and its level in feed rations can impact production of important meat sources, such as swine and poultry. Threonine as well as EAAs lysine (Lys) and methionine (Met) are all synthesized via the aspartate family pathway. ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Qi Q,Huang J,Crowley J,Ruschke L,Goldman BS,Wen L,Rapp WD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome to tolerate introgression from related genomes can be exploited for wheat improvement. A resistance to powdery mildew expressed by a derivative of the cross-bread wheat cv. Tähti × T. militinae (Tm) is known to be due to the incorporation of a Tm segment into ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Abrouk M,Balcárková B,Šimková H,Komínkova E,Martis MM,Jakobson I,Timofejeva L,Rey E,Vrána J,Kilian A,Järve K,Doležel J,Valárik M

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate target genes through mRNA cleavage or translational inhibition. miRNA is known to play an important role in the root development and environmental responses in both the Arabidopsis and rice. However, little information is available to f...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kong X,Zhang M,Xu X,Li X,Li C,Ding Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00