The arbuscular mycorrhizal status has an impact on the transcriptome profile and amino acid composition of tomato fruit.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants of the genus Taxus have attracted much attention owing to the natural product taxol, a successful anti-cancer drug. T. fuana and T. yunnanensis are two endangered Taxus species mainly distributed in the Himalayas. In our study, an untargeted metabolomics approach integrated with a targeted UPLC-MS/MS ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yu C,Luo X,Zhan X,Hao J,Zhang L,L Song YB,Shen C,Dong M

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To gain insight into the regulation of fruit ascorbic acid (AsA) pool in tomatoes, a combination of metabolite analyses, non-labelled and radiolabelled substrate feeding experiments, enzyme activity measurements and gene expression studies were carried out in fruits of the 'low-' and 'high-AsA' tomato cultiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mellidou I,Keulemans J,Kanellis AK,Davey MW

更新日期：2012-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, Tectona grandis is one of the most valuable trees in the world and no transcript dataset related to secondary xylem is available. Considering how important the secondary xylem and sapwood transition from young to mature trees is, little is known about the expression differences between those succe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Galeano E,Vasconcelos TS,Vidal M,Mejia-Guerra MK,Carrer H

更新日期：2015-09-15 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: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:The normal growth of Rehmannia glutinosa, a widely used medicinal plant in China, is severely disturbed by replant disease. The formation of replant disease commonly involves interactions among plants, allelochemicals and microbes; however, these relationships remain largely unclear. As a result, no effectiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Yang Y,Feng F,Zhang B,Chen S,Yang C,Gu L,Wang F,Zhang J,Chen A,Lin W,Chen X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chrysanthemum, a leading ornamental species, does not tolerate salinity stress, although some of its related species do. The current level of understanding regarding the mechanisms underlying salinity tolerance in this botanical group is still limited. RESULTS:A comparison of the physiological responses to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gao J,Sun J,Cao P,Ren L,Liu C,Chen S,Chen F,Jiang J

更新日期：2016-04-21 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:Legumes have the unique capacity to undergo two important root endosymbioses: the root nodule symbiosis and the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Medicago truncatula is widely used to unravel the functions of genes during these root symbioses. Here we describe the development of an artificial microRNA (amiR)...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Devers EA,Teply J,Reinert A,Gaude N,Krajinski F

更新日期：2013-05-16 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: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:The roles in photosystem I (PSI) assembly of the nucleus-encoded thylakoid protein Y3IP1 who interacts with the plastid-encoded Ycf3 protein that has been well-characterized in plants. However, its function and potential mechanisms in other aspects remain poorly understood. RESULTS:We identified the apple M...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yu JQ,Wang JH,Sun CH,Zhang QY,Hu DG,Hao YJ

更新日期：2018-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalizing through reference genes, or housekeeping genes, can make more accurate and reliable results from reverse transcription real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Recent studies have shown that no single housekeeping gene is universal for all experiments. Thus, suitable reference gen...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Artico S,Nardeli SM,Brilhante O,Grossi-de-Sa MF,Alves-Ferreira M

更新日期：2010-03-21 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:Fruit coloration of red-skinned grapevines is mainly due to anthocyanin pigments. We analysed a panel of nine cultivars that included extreme phenotypes for berry colour, ranging from green (absence of anthocyanins) to red, purple, violet and blue. Expression of six genes of the anthocyanin pathway coding fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castellarin SD,Di Gaspero G

更新日期：2007-08-30 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:Although it is known that resistant rootstocks facilitate management of fire blight disease, incited by Erwinia amylovora, the role of rootstock root traits in providing systemic defense against E. amylovora is unclear. In this study, the hypothesis that rootstocks of higher root vigor provide higher toleran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Singh J,Fabrizio J,Desnoues E,Silva JP,Busch W,Khan A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) were previously identified in phloem exudate of hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides) using proteomics methods, and their sieve element localization confirmed by immunofluorescence. In the current study, we analyzed different tissues to further understand TLP e...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dafoe NJ,Gowen BE,Constabel CP

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Olive (Olea europaea L.) is an emblematic oil tree crop in the Mediterranean basin. Currently, despite olive features as a moderately thermophilic species, its cultivation is worldwide spreading due to the health-related impact of olive products on human nutrition. A point of concern for the expanding olive ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bruno L,Picardi E,Pacenza M,Chiappetta A,Muto A,Gagliardi O,Muzzalupo I,Pesole G,Bitonti MB

更新日期：2019-10-16 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:In cereal crops such as wheat, an optimal timing of developmental transitions is required to maximize grain yield. Many of these developmental changes are precisely regulated by changes in the duration, intensity or quality of light. Phytochromes are dimeric photoreceptors that absorb light maximally in the ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pearce S,Kippes N,Chen A,Debernardi JM,Dubcovsky J

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among eukaryotic organisms, alternative splicing is an important process that can generate multiple transcripts from one same precursor messenger RNA, which greatly increase transcriptome and proteome diversity. This process is carried out by a super-protein complex defined as the spliceosome. Specifically, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang KL,Feng Z,Yang JF,Yang F,Yuan T,Zhang D,Hao GF,Fang YM,Zhang J,Wu C,Chen MX,Zhu FY

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc (Zn) deficiency is one of the most widespread mineral nutritional problems that affect normal development in plants. Because Zn cannot passively diffuse across cell membranes, it must be transported into intracellular compartments for all biological processes where Zn is required. Several members of the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gainza-Cortés F,Pérez-Dïaz R,Pérez-Castro R,Tapia J,Casaretto JA,González S,Peña-Cortés H,Ruiz-Lara S,González E

更新日期：2012-07-23 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fusarium graminearum, one of the causal agents of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB, scab), leads to severe losses in grain yield and quality due to the production of mycotoxins which are harmful to human and livestock. Different traits for FHB resistance in wheat were identified for common wheat (Triticum aestivum ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lionetti V,Giancaspro A,Fabri E,Giove SL,Reem N,Zabotina OA,Blanco A,Gadaleta A,Bellincampi D

更新日期：2015-01-19 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: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:It is increasingly appreciated that electrical controls acting at the cellular and supra-cellular levels influence development and initiate rapid responses to environmental cues. An emerging method for non-invasive optical imaging of electrical activity at cell membranes uses genetically-encoded voltage indi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Matzke AJ,Matzke M

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant cell walls are complex dynamic structures that play a vital role in coordinating the directional growth of plant tissues. The rapid elongation of the inflorescence stem in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is accompanied by radical changes in cell wall structure and chemistry, but analysis of the un...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hall H,Ellis B

更新日期：2013-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With a cultivation area of 1.75 Mio ha and sugar yield of 16.7 Mio tons in 2006, sugar beet is a crop of great economic importance in Europe. The productivity of sugar beet is determined significantly by seed vigour and field emergence potential; however, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underl...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pestsova E,Meinhard J,Menze A,Fischer U,Windhövel A,Westhoff P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00