Potential chromosomal introgression barriers revealed by linkage analysis in a hybrid of Pinus massoniana and P. hwangshanensis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit quality depends on a series of biochemical events that modify appearance, flavour and texture throughout fruit development and ripening. Cell wall polysaccharide remodelling largely contributes to the elaboration of fleshy fruit texture. Although several genes and enzymes involved in cell wall polysacc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dheilly E,Gall SL,Guillou MC,Renou JP,Bonnin E,Orsel M,Lahaye M

更新日期：2016-09-15 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:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pst), which is the pathogen responsible for tobacco wildfire disease, has received considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this study was to clarify the responses of photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) to Pst infection in tobacco leaves. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cheng DD,Zhang ZS,Sun XB,Zhao M,Sun GY,Chow WS

更新日期：2016-01-25 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:Pumilio RNA-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes and are involved in RNA decay, transport, and translation repression in the cytoplasm. Although a majority of Pumilio proteins function in the cytoplasm, two nucleolar forms have been reported to have a function in rRNA processin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park SH,Kim HS,Kalita PJ,Choi SB

更新日期：2020-05-24 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:Soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines, SCN) is the most economically damaging pathogen of soybean (Glycine max) in the U.S. The Rhg1 locus is repeatedly observed as the quantitative trait locus with the greatest impact on SCN resistance. The Glyma18g02680.1 gene at the Rhg1 locus that encodes an apparen...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Melito S,Heuberger AL,Cook D,Diers BW,MacGuidwin AE,Bent AF

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While floral symmetry has traditionally been assessed qualitatively, recent advances in geometric morphometrics have opened up new avenues to specifically quantify flower shape and size using robust multivariate statistical methods. In this study, we examine, for the first time, the ability of geometric morp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Berger BA,Ricigliano VA,Savriama Y,Lim A,Thompson V,Howarth DG

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When plant tissue is passaged through in vitro culture, many regenerated plants appear to be no longer clonal copies of their donor genotype. Among the factors that affect this so-called tissue culture induced variation are explant genotype, explant tissue origin, medium composition, and the length of time i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bednarek PT,Orłowska R,Koebner RM,Zimny J

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cunninghamia lanceolata (C. lanceolata) is the main fast-growing timber species in southern China. As an alternative to conventional lighting systems, LED has been demonstrated to be an artificial flexible lighting source for commercial micropropagation. The application of LED can provide rapid propagation o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu Y,Yang M,Cheng F,Liu S,Liang Y

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant immune response is associated with a large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, which is regulated by numerous transcription regulators such as the Elongator complex. Elongator is a multitasking protein complex involved in diverse cellular processes, including histone modification, DNA methylation, and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Silva KJP,Brunings AM,Pereira JA,Peres NA,Folta KM,Mou Z

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat is a momentous crop and feeds billions of people in the world. The improvement of wheat yield is very important to ensure world food security. Normal development of grain is the essential guarantee for wheat yield formation. The genetic study of grain phenotype and identification of key genes for grain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fu C,Du J,Tian X,He Z,Fu L,Wang Y,Xu D,Xu X,Xia X,Zhang Y,Cao S

更新日期：2019-11-08 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:Soybean (Glycine max (L.)) is one the most important oil-yielding cash crops. However, the soybean production has been seriously restricted by salinization. It is therefore crucial to identify salt tolerance-related genes and reveal molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in soybean crops. A better un...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun TJ,Fan L,Yang J,Cao RZ,Yang CY,Zhang J,Wang DM

更新日期：2019-11-05 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:Dehydrins (DHNs) protect plant cells from desiccation damage during environmental stress, and also participate in host resistance to various pathogens. In this study, we aimed to identify and characterize the DHN gene families from Vitis vinifera and wild V. yeshanensis, which is tolerant to both drought and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang Y,He M,Zhu Z,Li S,Xu Y,Zhang C,Singer SD,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-08-10 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:The molecular mechanisms of genome reprogramming during transcriptional responses to stress are associated with specific chromatin modifications. Available data, however, describe histone modifications only at individual plant genes induced by stress. We have no knowledge of chromatin modifications taking pl...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： van Dijk K,Ding Y,Malkaram S,Riethoven JJ,Liu R,Yang J,Laczko P,Chen H,Xia Y,Ladunga I,Avramova Z,Fromm M

更新日期：2010-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The modification effect of leaching fraction (LF) on the physiological responses of plants to irrigation water salinity (ECiw) remains unknown. Here, leaf gas exchange, photosynthetic light-response and CO2-response curves, and total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) accumulation in hot pepper leaves were investig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qiu R,Liu C,Li F,Wang Z,Yang Z,Cui N

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in multiple biological processes in both mammals and plants. There is growing evidence that they are associated with development; but their expression and regulation during fruit ripening in the model plant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has yet to be described. RE...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang M,Zhao W,Gao L,Zhao L

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor), belonging to the gall midge family (Cecidomyiidae), is a devastating pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum) causing significant yield losses. Despite identification and characterization of numerous Hessian fly-responsive genes and associated biological pathways involved in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nemacheck JA,Schemerhorn BJ,Scofield SR,Subramanyam S

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dendrobium moniliforme (Linnaeus) Swartz is a well-known plant used in traditional Chinese medicine due to bioactive constituents. Polysaccharides are the main medicinal ingredients, yet no studies have been published on polysaccharide biosynthesis in D. moniliforme. To comprehensively investigate the polysa...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yuan Y,Zhang J,Kallman J,Liu X,Meng M,Lin J

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scopoletin and its glucoside scopolin are important secondary metabolites synthesized in plants as a defense mechanism against various environmental stresses. They belong to coumarins, a class of phytochemicals with significant biological activities that is widely used in medical application and cosmetics in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Siwinska J,Kadzinski L,Banasiuk R,Gwizdek-Wisniewska A,Olry A,Banecki B,Lojkowska E,Ihnatowicz A

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two component systems (TCS) are phosphotransfer-based signal transduction pathways first discovered in bacteria, where they perform most of the sensing tasks. They present a highly modular structure, comprising a receptor with histidine kinase activity and a response regulator which regulates gene expression...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Muñiz LM,Royo J,Gómez E,Baudot G,Paul W,Hueros G

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mulberry trees are the most important host for rearing mulberry silkworms in sericulture. Improved varieties of mulberry tree have been developed through traditional breeding procedures. Not much work, however, has been carried out on the molecular characterization of these varieties. Random Amplified Polymo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bhattacharya E,Ranade SA

更新日期：2001-01-01 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: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:Plant defensins are small (45-54 amino acids), basic, cysteine-rich proteins that have a major role in innate immunity in plants. Many defensins are potent antifungal molecules and are being evaluated for their potential to create crop plants with sustainable disease resistance. Defensins are produced as pre...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lay FT,Poon S,McKenna JA,Connelly AA,Barbeta BL,McGinness BS,Fox JL,Daly NL,Craik DJ,Heath RL,Anderson MA

更新日期：2014-02-05 00:00:00

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:As one of largest angiosperm families, orchids have long fascinated evolutionary biologists with their staggering diversity in floral design and display to promote outcrossing. Two of the most intriguing aspects of orchid pollination that promote cross-pollination are pollinarium reconfiguration (PR) and dec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xiaohua J,Dezhu L,Zongxin R,Xiaoguo X

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00