Characterization of bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase expressed in male gametophyte of higher plants.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Quercus suber, cork oak, a Mediterranean forest tree of economic and social interest, rapid production of isogenic lines and clonal propagation of elite genotypes have been achieved by developing in vitro embryogenesis from microspores and zygotic embryos respectively. Despite its high potential in tree b...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodríguez-Sanz H,Manzanera JA,Solís MT,Gómez-Garay A,Pintos B,Risueño MC,Testillano PS

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many flowering plants produce bicellular pollen. The two cells of the pollen grain are destined for separate fates in the male gametophyte, which provides a unique opportunity to study genetic interactions that govern guided single-cell polar expansion of the growing pollen tube and the coordinated control o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hafidh S,Breznenová K,Růžička P,Feciková J,Capková V,Honys D

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PLATZ proteins are a novel class of plant-specific zinc-dependent DNA-binding proteins that are classified as transcription factors (TFs). However, their common biochemical features and functions are poorly understood. RESULT:Here, we identified and cloned 17 PLATZ genes in the maize (Zea mays) genome. All ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang J,Ji C,Li Q,Zhou Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-10-05 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

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:Protoplast technologies offer unique opportunities for fundamental research and to develop novel germplasm through somatic hybridization, organelle transfer, protoclonal variation, and direct insertion of DNA. Applying protoplast technologies to develop Dutch elm disease resistant American elms (Ulmus americ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jones AM,Chattopadhyay A,Shukla M,Zoń J,Saxena PK

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phloem of dicotyledonous plants contains specialized P-proteins (phloem proteins) that accumulate during sieve element differentiation and remain parietally associated with the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum in mature sieve elements. Wounding causes P-protein filaments to accumulate at the sieve ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rüping B,Ernst AM,Jekat SB,Nordzieke S,Reineke AR,Müller B,Bornberg-Bauer E,Prüfer D,Noll GA

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vacuolar type H+-ATPases play a critical role in the maintenance of vacuolar homeostasis in plant cells. V-ATPases are also involved in plants' defense against environmental stress. This research examined the expression and regulation of the catalytic subunit of the vacuolar type H+-ATPase in Arabidopsis tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Magnotta SM,Gogarten JP

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cattail (Typha domingensis Pers.) is a perennial emergent plant which is used in Green Floating Filters (GFFs), one of the most innovative systems of wastewater treatment to bioremediate eutrophic waters and produce biomass as biofuel feedstocks. The establishment of cattails in GFFs depends on the seed germ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Carhuancho León FM,Aguado Cortijo PL,Morató Izquierdo MDC,Castellanos Moncho MT

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are increasingly recognized as regulatory component of post-transcriptional gene expression. RBPs interact with mRNAs via RNA-binding domains and these interactions affect RNA availability for translation, RNA stability and turn-over thus affecting both RNA and protein expression ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Marondedze C,Thomas L,Gehring C,Lilley KS

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:APETALA2-like genes encode plant-specific transcription factors, some of which possess one microRNA172 (miR172) binding site. The miR172 and its target euAP2 genes are involved in the process of phase transformation and flower organ development in many plants. However, the roles of miR172 and its target AP2 ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang T,Ping X,Cao Y,Jian H,Gao Y,Wang J,Tan Y,Xu X,Lu K,Li J,Liu L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grapevine powdery mildew Erysiphe necator is a major fungal disease in all grape growing countries worldwide. Breeding for resistance to this disease is crucial to avoid extensive fungicide applications that are costly, labor intensive and may have detrimental effects on the environment. In the past decade, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pap D,Riaz S,Dry IB,Jermakow A,Tenscher AC,Cantu D,Oláh R,Walker MA

更新日期：2016-07-29 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:Celery is a widely cultivated vegetable abundant in ascorbate (AsA), a natural plant antioxidant capable of scavenging free radicals generated by abiotic stress in plants. Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) is a plant antioxidant enzyme that is important in the synthesis of AsA and scavenging of excess hydrogen pero...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu JX,Feng K,Duan AQ,Li H,Yang QQ,Xu ZS,Xiong AS

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic marks superimposed on the DNA sequence of eukaryote chromosomes provide agility and plasticity in terms of modulating gene expression, ontology, and response to the environment. Modulating the methylation status of cytosine can generate epialleles, which have been detected and characterised at spe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Amoah S,Kurup S,Rodriguez Lopez CM,Welham SJ,Powers SJ,Hopkins CJ,Wilkinson MJ,King GJ

更新日期：2012-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B chromosome causes no obvious phenotype variation, its existence might influence A genome gene expression. Previous studies suggested that B chromosomes are evol...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang W,Du Y,Zhao X,Jin W

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a commercially important crop that produces climacteric fruits with a soft and sweet pulp that contain a wide range of health promoting phytochemicals. Despite its importance, little is known about transcriptional modifications during papaya fruit ripening and their control. In t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fabi JP,Seymour GB,Graham NS,Broadley MR,May ST,Lajolo FM,Cordenunsi BR,Oliveira do Nascimento JR

更新日期：2012-12-21 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:Wheat grain avenin-like proteins (ALPs) belong to a recently discovered class of wheat grain storage protein. ALPs in wheat grains not only have beneficial effects on dough quality but also display antifungal activities, which is a novel observation for wheat storage proteins. Previous studies have shown tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang Y,Hu X,Juhasz A,Islam S,Yu Z,Zhao Y,Li G,Ding W,Ma W

更新日期：2020-01-29 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:Breeding for cold tolerance in maize promises to allow increasing growth area and production in temperate zones. The objective of this research was to conduct genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) in temperate maize inbred lines and to find strategies for pyramiding genes for cold tolerance. Two panels of ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Revilla P,Rodríguez VM,Ordás A,Rincent R,Charcosset A,Giauffret C,Melchinger AE,Schön CC,Bauer E,Altmann T,Brunel D,Moreno-González J,Campo L,Ouzunova M,Álvarez Á,Ruíz de Galarreta JI,Laborde J,Malvar RA

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most of the natural variation in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana can be attributed to allelic variation at the gene FRIGIDA (FRI, AT4G00650), which activates expression of the floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC, AT5G10140). Usually, late-flowering accessions carry functional FRI alleles (FRI-wt),...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Schmalenbach I,Zhang L,Ryngajllo M,Jiménez-Gómez JM

更新日期：2014-08-13 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:Bread wheat is one of the most important crops for the human diet, but the increasing soil salinization is causing yield reductions worldwide. Improving salt stress tolerance in wheat requires the elucidation of the mechanistic basis of plant response to this abiotic stress factor. Although several studies h...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Duarte-Delgado D,Dadshani S,Schoof H,Oyiga BC,Schneider M,Mathew B,Léon J,Ballvora A

更新日期：2020-09-16 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: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：BACKGROUND:There are two plant phosphorus (P)-uptake pathways, namely the direct P uptake by roots and the indirect P uptake through arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Maximizing the efficiency of root and AMF processes associated with P acquisition by adjusting soil conditions is important for simultaneously ensuring...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mai W,Xue X,Feng G,Tian C

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone modifications and histone variants are of importance in many biological processes. To understand the biological functions of the global dynamics of histone modifications and histone variants in higher plants, we elucidated the variants and post-translational modifications of histones in soybean, a le...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu T,Yuan T,Tsai SN,Wang C,Sun SM,Lam HM,Ngai SM

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum is an important C4 crop which relies on applied Nitrogen fertilizers (N) for optimal yields, of which substantial amounts are lost into the atmosphere. Understanding the genetic variation of sorghum in response to limited nitrogen supply is important for elucidating the underlying genetic mechanisms ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gelli M,Mitchell SE,Liu K,Clemente TE,Weeks DP,Zhang C,Holding DR,Dweikat IM

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoids are secondary metabolites that play important roles in the entire tea plant life cycle and have potential health-promoting properties. MYB transcription factors (TFs) are considered potentially important regulators of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. However, the molecular mechanisms by which MYB...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang WL,Wang YX,Li H,Liu ZW,Cui X,Zhuang J

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00