Mechanistic insights from a quantitative analysis of pollen tube guidance.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sucrose synthase (SUS) is widely considered a key enzyme participating in sucrose metabolism in higher plants and regarded as a biochemical marker for sink strength in crops. However, despite significant progress in characterizing the physiological functions of the SUS gene family, knowledge of the trajector...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu X,Yang Y,Liu C,Sun Y,Zhang T,Hou M,Huang S,Yuan H

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cannabis possesses a rich spectrum of phytochemicals i.e. cannabinoids, terpenes and phenolic compounds of industrial and medicinal interests. Most of these high-value plant products are synthesised in the disk cells and stored in the secretory cavity in glandular trichomes. Conventional trichome analysis wa...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ebersbach P,Stehle F,Kayser O,Freier E

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To maintain sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) growth and yield, sucrose must be transported from the leaves to the roots. Sucrose transporters or carriers (SUTs or SUCs) transport sucrose and are involved in plant growth and response to abiotic stress. However, the mechanisms of SUTs in sweetpotato abio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang D,Liu H,Wang H,Zhang P,Shi C

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydrogen gas (H2) is hypothesised to play a role in plants that are coping with stresses by regulating signal transduction and gene expression. Although the beneficial role of H2 in plant tolerance to cadmium (Cd) has been investigated previously, the corresponding mechanism has not been elucidated. In this ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui W,Yao P,Pan J,Dai C,Cao H,Chen Z,Zhang S,Xu S,Shen W

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a beneficial element for higher plants and essential for mammals. To study the effect of the foliar application of sodium selenate on fragrant rice performance, a pot experiment was conducted in Guangdong, China. At the initial heading stage, one-time foliar application of sodium selenate wi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Luo H,Du B,He L,Zheng A,Pan S,Tang X

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell elongation is mainly limited by the extensibility of the cell wall. Dicotyledonous primary (growing) cell walls contain cellulose, xyloglucan, pectin and proteins, but little is known about how each polymer class contributes to the cell wall mechanical properties that control extensibility. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Derbyshire P,McCann MC,Roberts K

更新日期：2007-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame (Sesame indicum L.) is well-known as a versatile industrial crop having various usages and contains 50-55% oil, 20% protein, 14-20% carbohydrate and 2-3% fiber. Several environmental factors are known to adversely affect yield and productivity of sesame. Our overall aim was to improve the growth, yiel...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nosheen A,Bano A,Naz R,Yasmin H,Hussain I,Ullah F,Keyani R,Hassan MN,Tahir AT

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromatin dynamics and stability are both required to control normal development of multicellular organisms. Chromatin assembly factor CAF-1 is a histone chaperone that facilitates chromatin formation and the maintenance of specific chromatin states. In plants and animals CAF-1 is essential for normal develo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Exner V,Gruissem W,Hennig L

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of transgenic plants as a production platform for biomass-degrading enzymes is a promising tool for an economically feasible allocation of enzymes processing lignocellulose. Previous research has already identified a major limitation of in planta production such as interference with the struc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Klose H,Günl M,Usadel B,Fischer R,Commandeur U

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modifications of DNA and histones in various combinations are correlated with many cellular processes. In this study, we investigated the possible relationship between histone H4 tetraacetylation, DNA methylation and histone H3 dimethylation at lysine 9 during mitosis in maize root meristems. RESULTS:Treatm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang F,Zhang L,Li J,Huang J,Wen R,Ma L,Zhou D,Li L

更新日期：2010-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Citrus encompasses major cultivated plants such as sweet orange, mandarin, lemon and grapefruit, among the world's most economically important fruit crops. With increasing volumes of transcriptomics data available for these species, Gene Co-expression Network (GCN) analysis is a viable option for p...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wong DC,Sweetman C,Ford CM

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant phloem consists of an interdependent cell pair, the sieve element/companion cell complex. Sucrose transporters are localized to enucleate sieve elements (SE), despite being transcribed in companion cells (CC). Due to the high turnover of SUT1, sucrose transporter mRNA or protein must traffic from CC to...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lalonde S,Weise A,Walsh RP,Ward JM,Frommer WB

更新日期：2003-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae), native from Paraguay, accumulates steviol glycosides (SGs) into its leaves. These compounds exhibit acaloric intense sweet taste which answers to consumer demands for reducing daily sugar intake. Despite the developpement of S. rebaudiana cultivation all over the world, the de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cosson P,Hastoy C,Errazzu LE,Budeguer CJ,Boutié P,Rolin D,Schurdi-Levraud V

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eukaryotic cilia are complex, highly conserved microtubule-based organelles with a broad phylogenetic distribution. Cilia were present in the last eukaryotic common ancestor and many proteins involved in cilia function have been conserved through eukaryotic diversification. However, cilia have also been lost...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hodges ME,Wickstead B,Gull K,Langdale JA

更新日期：2011-12-30 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: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:Rab GTPases are important regulators of endomembrane trafficking, regulating exocytosis, endocytosis and membrane recycling. Many Rab-like proteins exist in plants, but only a subset have been functionally characterized. RESULTS:Here we report that AtRabD2b and AtRabD2c play important roles in pollen develo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Peng J,Ilarslan H,Wurtele ES,Bassham DC

更新日期：2011-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame (Sesamum indicum L., 2n = 2x = 26) is an important oilseed crop with high oil content but small seed size. To reveal the genetic loci of the quantitative seed-related traits, we constructed a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) linkage map of an F2 population by using specific length amp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du H,Zhang H,Wei L,Li C,Duan Y,Wang H

更新日期：2019-12-27 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:Herbivory imposes an important selective pressure on plants. In Arabidopsis thaliana leaf trichomes provide a key defense against insect herbivory; however, trichome production incurs a fitness cost in the absence of herbivory. Previous work on A. thaliana has shown an increase in trichome density in respons...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bloomer RH,Lloyd AM,Symonds VV

更新日期：2014-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most plant viruses rely on vectors for their transmission and spread. One of the outstanding biological questions concerning the vector-pathogen-symbiont multi-trophic interactions is the potential involvement of vector symbionts in the virus transmission process. Here, we used a multi-factorial system conta...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shi XB,Yan S,Zhang C,Zheng LM,Zhang ZH,Sun SE,Gao Y,Tan XQ,Zhang DY,Zhou XG

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamine synthetase (GS) acts as a key enzyme in plant nitrogen (N) metabolism. It is important to understand the regulation of GS expression in plant. Promoters can initiate the transcription of its downstream gene. Eichhornia crassipes is a most prominent aquatic invasive plant, which has negative effects...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhong Y,Lu X,Deng Z,Lu Z,Fu M

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elytrigia lolioides (Kar. et Kir.) Nevski, which is a perennial, cross-pollinating wheatgrass that is distributed in Russia and Kazakhstan, is classified into Elytrigia, Elymus, and Lophopyrum genera by taxonomists on the basis of different taxonomic classification systems. However, the genomic constitution ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang L,Jiang Y,Shi Q,Wang Y,Sha L,Fan X,Kang H,Zhang H,Sun G,Zhang L,Zhou Y

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteases play key roles in plants, maintaining strict protein quality control and degrading specific sets of proteins in response to diverse environmental and developmental stimuli. Similarities and differences between the proteases expressed in different species may give valuable insights into their physio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： García-Lorenzo M,Sjödin A,Jansson S,Funk C

更新日期：2006-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit maturation and ripening are genetically regulated processes that involve a complex interplay of plant hormones, growth regulators and multiple biological and environmental factors. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has been used as a model of biological and genetic studies on the regulation of specific rip...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma N,Feng H,Meng X,Li D,Yang D,Wu C,Meng Q

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD) is a key enzyme that catalyses the conversion of stearoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) to oleoyl-ACP, a precursor for the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids. ZmSAD1 (GenBank: KU949326) is a major QTL for stearic acid content in maize seeds. To investigate...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du H,Huang M,Hu J,Li J

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individual plants adapt to their immediate environment using a combination of biochemical, morphological and life cycle strategies. Because woody plants are long-lived perennials, they cannot rely on annual life cycle strategies alone to survive abiotic stresses. In this study we used suppression subtractive...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bassett CL,Baldo AM,Moore JT,Jenkins RM,Soffe DS,Wisniewski ME,Norelli JL,Farrell RE Jr

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medicinal plant Artemisia annua is covered with filamentous trichomes and glandular, artemisinin producing trichomes. A high artemisinin supply is needed at a reduced cost for treating malaria. Artemisinin production in bioreactors can be facilitated if a better insight is obtained in the biosynthesis of...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Soetaert SS,Van Neste CM,Vandewoestyne ML,Head SR,Goossens A,Van Nieuwerburgh FC,Deforce DL

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:microRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in plant development processes and play pivotal roles in plant adaptation to environmental stresses. Salicornia europaea, a salt mash euhalophyte, is a suitable model plant to study salt adaptation mechanisms. S. europaea is also a vegetable, forage, and oilseed that can be ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Feng J,Wang J,Fan P,Jia W,Nie L,Jiang P,Chen X,Lv S,Wan L,Chang S,Li S,Li Y

更新日期：2015-02-26 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