AtRabD2b and AtRabD2c have overlapping functions in pollen development and pollen tube growth.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation and histone modifications regulate a wide range of processes in plant development. Cytosine methylation and demethylation exist in a dynamic balance and have been associated with gene silencing or activation, respectively. In Arabidopsis, cytosine demethylation is a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kapazoglou A,Drosou V,Argiriou A,Tsaftaris AS

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial blight of rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a devastating rice disease in Southeast Asia and West Africa. OsSWEET14, encoding a sugar transporter, is known to be a major susceptible gene of bacterial blight targeted by four different transcription activator-like (TAL) effector...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zeng X,Luo Y,Vu NTQ,Shen S,Xia K,Zhang M

更新日期：2020-07-03 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:Drought stress in juvenile stages of crop development and premature leaf senescence induced by drought stress have an impact on biomass production and yield formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Therefore, in order to get information of regulatory processes involved in the adaptation to drought stress an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wehner G,Balko C,Humbeck K,Zyprian E,Ordon F

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coordination between nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) assimilation is required to suitably provide plants with organic compounds essential for their development and growth. The N source induces the adaptation of many metabolic processes in plants; however, there is scarce information about the influence that ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Coleto I,de la Peña M,Rodríguez-Escalante J,Bejarano I,Glauser G,Aparicio-Tejo PM,González-Moro MB,Marino D

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pear fruit exhibit a single sigmoid pattern during development, while peach and strawberry fruits exhibit a double sigmoid pattern. However, little is known about the differences between these two patterns. RESULTS:In this study, fruit weights were measured and paraffin sections were made from fruitlet to m...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pei MS,Cao SH,Wu L,Wang GM,Xie ZH,Gu C,Zhang SL

更新日期：2020-03-06 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:There are clear differences in embryo development between angiosperm and gymnosperm species. Most of the current knowledge on gene expression and regulation during plant embryo development has derived from studies on angiosperms species, in particular from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The few publis...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodrigues AS,De Vega JJ,Miguel CM

更新日期：2018-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as important gene regulators in plants. MiRNAs and their targets have been extensively studied in Arabidopsis and rice. However, relatively little is known about the characterization of miRNAs and their target genes in peach (Prunus persica), which is a complex crop w...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu H,Xia R,Zhao B,An YQ,Dardick CD,Callahan AM,Liu Z

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs are known to play important regulatory roles throughout plant development. Until recently, nearly all the miRNAs in maize were identified by comparative analysis to miRNAs sequences of other plant species, such as rice and Arabidopsis. RESULTS:To find new miRNA in this important crop, small RNAs from...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jiao Y,Song W,Zhang M,Lai J

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is known that hexaploid common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has stronger adaptability to many stressful environments than its tetraploid wheat progenitor. However, the physiological basis and evolutionary course to acquire these enhanced adaptabilities by common wheat remain understudied. Here, we aimed t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang C,Yang Z,Zhao L,Sun F,Liu B

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea. L) is one of the most important oil crops in the world. After flowering, the peanut plant forms aboveground pegs (gynophores) that penetrate the soil, giving rise to underground pods. This means of reproduction, referred to as geocarpy, distinguishes peanuts from most oth...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao C,Zhao S,Hou L,Xia H,Wang J,Li C,Li A,Li T,Zhang X,Wang X

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acid component of grape berries, originating in the metabolism of malate and tartrate, the latter being less well-known than the former, is a key factor at play in the microbiological stability of wines destined for distillation. Grape acidity is increasingly affected by climate changes. The ability to c...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cholet C,Claverol S,Claisse O,Rabot A,Osowsky A,Dumot V,Ferrari G,Gény L

更新日期：2016-06-28 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:The selective removal of grapevine leaves around berry clusters can improve the quality of ripening fruits by influencing parameters such as the berry sugar and anthocyanin content at harvest. The outcome depends strongly on the timing of defoliation, which influences the source-sink balance and the modified...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pastore C,Zenoni S,Fasoli M,Pezzotti M,Tornielli GB,Filippetti I

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to grow, plants rely on soil nutrients which can vary both spatially and temporally depending on the environment, the soil type or the microbial activity. An essential nutrient is nitrogen, which is mainly accessible as nitrate and ammonium. Many studies have investigated transport genes for these i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dechorgnat J,Francis KL,Dhugga KS,Rafalski JA,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2019-05-20 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:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on linkage disequilibrium (LD) provide a promising tool for the detection and fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) underlying complex agronomic traits. In this study we explored the genetic basis of variation for the traits heading date, plant height, tho...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pasam RK,Sharma R,Malosetti M,van Eeuwijk FA,Haseneyer G,Kilian B,Graner A

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The physico-chemical properties of chlorophylls b and c have been known for decades. Yet the mechanisms by which these secondary chlorophylls support assembly and accumulation of light-harvesting complexes in vivo have not been resolved. PRESENTATION:Biosynthetic modifications that introduce electronegative...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Eggink LL,Park H,Hoober JK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tomato gray leaf spot caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is a serious disease that can severely hinder tomato production. To date, only Sm has been reported to provide resistance against this disease, and the molecular mechanism underlying resistance to this disease in tomato remains unclear....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang H,Shen F,Wang H,Zhao T,Zhang H,Jiang J,Xu X,Li J

更新日期：2020-08-15 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:Plants trigger and tailor defense responses after perception of the oral secretions (OS) of attacking specialist lepidopteran larvae. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates (FACs) in the OS of the Manduca sexta larvae are necessary and sufficient to elicit the herbivory-specific responses in Nicotiana attenuata, a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gilardoni PA,Schuck S,Jüngling R,Rotter B,Baldwin IT,Bonaventure G

更新日期：2010-04-14 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:Response and adaptation strategies of plants to the environment have always been the core issues in ecological research. So far, relatively little study exists on its functional traits responses to warming, especially in an urban environment. This information is the key to help understand plant responses and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu J,Zhu H,Cao Y,Li J,Zhu Q,Yao J,Xu C

更新日期：2020-04-03 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:An interesting seed protein family with a role in preventing insect herbivory is the multi-gene, APA family encoding the alpha-amylase inhibitor, phytohemagglutinin and arcelin proteins of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Variability for this gene family exists and has been exploited to breed for insect res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Blair MW,Prieto S,Díaz LM,Buendía HF,Cardona C

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agrobacterium infection, which is widely used to generate transgenic plants, is often accompanied by T-DNA-linked mutations and transpositions in flowering plants. It is not known if Agrobacterium infection also affects the rates of point mutations, somatic homologous recombinations (SHR) and frame-shift mut...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shah JM,Ramakrishnan AM,Singh AK,Ramachandran S,Unniyampurath U,Jayshankar A,Balasundaram N,Dhanapal S,Hyde G,Baskar R

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have several known functions involving various biological regulatory processes in plant. However, the possible roles of lncRNAs during peanut seed development have not been fully explored. RESULTS:In this study, two peanut recombinant inbred lines (RIL8) that differ in seed siz...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma X,Zhang X,Traore SM,Xin Z,Ning L,Li K,Zhao K,Li Z,He G,Yin D

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among secondary metabolites, flavonoids are particularly crucial for plant growth, development, and reproduction, as well as beneficial for maintenance of human health. As a flowering plant, safflower has synthesized a striking variety of flavonoids with various pharmacologic properties. However, far less re...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tu Y,Liu F,Guo D,Fan L,Zhu Z,Xue Y,Gao Y,Guo M

更新日期：2016-06-10 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