Poinsettia protoplasts - a simple, robust and efficient system for transient gene expression studies.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Starch is the most important source of calories for human nutrition and the majority of it is produced by cereal farming. Starch is also used as a renewable raw material in a range of industrial sectors. It can be chemically modified to introduce new physicochemical properties. In this way starch is adapted ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Carciofi M,Blennow A,Nielsen MM,Holm PB,Hebelstrup KH

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant metabolites are commonly functionally classified, as defense- or growth-related phytohormones, primary and specialized metabolites, and so forth. Analytical procedures for the quantifications of these metabolites are challenging because the metabolites can vary over several orders of magnitude in conce...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Schäfer M,Brütting C,Baldwin IT,Kallenbach M

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Roses are widely used as garden ornamental plants and cut flowers. Rosa chinensis cv 'Old Blush' has been used as a model genotype in rose studies due to its contribution to recurrent flowering and tea scent traits of modern roses. The deficiency of efficient genetic transformation systems is a handicap limi...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Lu J,Bai M,Ren H,Liu J,Wang C

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Strigolactones represent the most recently described group of plant hormones involved in many aspects of plant growth regulation. Simultaneously, root exuded strigolactones mediate rhizosphere signaling towards beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, but also attract parasitic plants. The seed germination o...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Floková K,Shimels M,Andreo Jimenez B,Bardaro N,Strnad M,Novák O,Bouwmeester HJ

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allotetraploid white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is an important forage legume widely cultivated in most temperate regions. Only a small number of microsatellite markers are publicly available and can be utilized in white clover breeding programs. The objectives of this study were to develop an integrated a...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Zhang Y,He J,Zhao PX,Bouton JH,Monteros MJ

更新日期：2008-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Functional genomic studies using genetics approaches of conifers are hampered by the complex and enormous genome, long vegetative growth period, and exertion in genetic transformation. Thus, the research carried out on gene function in Pinus tabuliformis is typically performed by heterologous expression base...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Liu S,Ma J,Liu H,Guo Y,Li W,Niu S

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Charcoal rot is a fungal disease that thrives in warm dry conditions and affects the yield of soybeans and other important agronomic crops worldwide. There is a need for robust, automatic and consistent early detection and quantification of disease symptoms which are important in breeding programs for the de...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Nagasubramanian K,Jones S,Sarkar S,Singh AK,Singh A,Ganapathysubramanian B

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pollen tubes extend rapidly when pollen grains are incubated in defined media. Tube extension requires many critical functions of plant cells including molecular signaling, cytoskeleton remodeling, secretion, and cell wall synthesis. Consequently, pollen tube growth has been established as a way to conduct p...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Hartman E,Levy C,Kern DM,Johnson MA,Basu A

更新日期：2014-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：: Large-scale genetic screens in Arabidopsis are a powerful approach for molecular dissection of complex signaling networks. However, map-based cloning can be time-consuming or even hampered due to low chromosomal recombination. Current strategies using next generation sequencing for molecular identification of mutatio...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Liu KH,McCormack M,Sheen J

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effects of abiotic and biotic stresses on plant photosynthetic performance lead to fitness and yield decrease. The maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II (F v/F m) is a parameter of chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) classically used to track changes in photosynthetic performance. Despite recent technical...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Bresson J,Vasseur F,Dauzat M,Koch G,Granier C,Vile D

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Lignocellulosic biomass is a complex network of polymers making the cell walls of plants. It represents a feedstock of sustainable resources to be converted into fuels, chemicals and materials. Because of its complex architecture, lignocellulose is a recalcitrant material that necessitates some pretreatments...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Terryn C,Paës G,Spriet C

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leaf rust (LR), caused by Puccinia triticina and is an important disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The most sustainable method for controlling rust diseases is deployment of cultivars incorporating adult plant resistance (APR). However, phenotyping breeding populations or germplasm collections for res...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Riaz A,Periyannan S,Aitken E,Hickey L

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic sequences of many important Triticeae crop species are hard to assemble and analyse due to their large genome sizes, (in part) polyploid genomes and high repeat content. Recently, the draft genomes of barley and bread wheat were reported thanks to cost-efficient and fast NGS technologies. The genome of bar...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Spannagl M,Martis MM,Pfeifer M,Nussbaumer T,Mayer KF

更新日期：2013-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the contexts of genomics, post-genomics and systems biology approaches, data integration presents a major concern. Databases provide crucial solutions: they store, organize and allow information to be queried, they enhance the visibility of newly produced data by comparing them with previously published r...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Dèrozier S,Samson F,Tamby JP,Guichard C,Brunaud V,Grevet P,Gagnot S,Label P,Leplé JC,Lecharny A,Aubourg S

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In eukaryotic cells, the proteasome maintains homeostasis by selectively degrading regulatory and misfolded proteins, and in doing so contributes to the amino acid pool. Inhibition of the proteasome in yeast and human cells decreases de novo protein synthesis. However, it is not know if proteasome inhibition...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Van Hoewyk D

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archegoniates (bryophytes, ferns and gymnosperms), such as the moss Physcomitrella patens, possess freely motile sperm cells (spermatozoids) which reach the egg cell via surface water. Although these motile flagellated sperm cells are a traditional botanical subject, they have not been thoroughly analysed in...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Horst NA,Reski R

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To investigate potential effects of herbicide phytotoxic on crops, a major challenge is a lack of non-destructive and rapid methods to detect plant growth that could allow characterization of herbicide-resistant plants. In such a case, hyperspectral imaging can quickly obtain the spectrum for each pixel in t...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Wang J,Zhang C,Shi Y,Long M,Islam F,Yang C,Yang S,He Y,Zhou W

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simultaneous analysis of multiple functional-related phytohormones and their metabolites will improve our understanding of interactions among different hormones in the same biologic process. RESULTS:A method was developed for simultaneous quantification of multiple phytohormones, abscisic acid, indole-3-ace...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Liu H,Li X,Xiao J,Wang S

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Wheat is one of the most widely grown crop in temperate climates for food and animal feed. In order to meet the demands of the predicted population increase in an ever-changing climate, wheat production needs to dramatically increase. Spike and grain traits are critical determinants of final yield and grain ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Hughes N,Askew K,Scotson CP,Williams K,Sauze C,Corke F,Doonan JH,Nibau C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for fast and reliable plant biomolecular analyses. Conventional methods for the isolation of nucleic acids are time-consuming and require multiple and often non-automatable steps to remove cellular interferences, with consequence that sample preparation is the major bo...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Marengo A,Cagliero C,Sgorbini B,Anderson JL,Emaus MN,Bicchi C,Bertea CM,Rubiolo P

更新日期：2019-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important legume crop is one of the major source of dietary protein. Developing an efficient and reproducible transformation method is imperative to expedite functional genomics studies in this crop. Here, we present an optimized and detailed procedure for Agrobacterium rhiz...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Aggarwal PR,Nag P,Choudhary P,Chakraborty N,Chakraborty S

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pentatricopeptide-repeat proteins (PPRs) characterized by tandem arrays of a degenerate 35-amino-acid repeat (PPR motif) can bind a single strand RNA and regulate organelle gene expression at the post-transcriptional level, including RNA cleavage, splicing, editing and stability etc. PPRs are conserved in al...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Chen J,Zhu H,Huang J,Huang W

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Assessing the impact of the environment on plant performance requires growing plants under controlled environmental conditions. Plant phenotypes are a product of genotype × environment (G × E), and the Enviratron at Iowa State University is a facility for testing under controlled conditions the effects of th...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Bao Y,Zarecor S,Shah D,Tuel T,Campbell DA,Chapman AVE,Imberti D,Kiekhaefer D,Imberti H,Lübberstedt T,Yin Y,Nettleton D,Lawrence-Dill CJ,Whitham SA,Tang L,Howell SH

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kinome profiling aims at the parallel analysis of kinase activities in a cell. Novel developed arrays containing consensus substrates for kinases are used to assess those kinase activities. The arrays described in this paper were already used to determine kinase activities in mammalian systems, but since sub...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Ritsema T,Joore J,van Workum W,Pieterse CM

更新日期：2007-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant breeding and genetics demand fast, exact and reproducible phenotyping. Efficient statistical evaluation of phenotyping data requires standardised data storage ensuring long-term data availability while maintaining intellectual property rights. This is state of the art at phenomics centres, which, howev...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Köhl K,Gremmels J

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Establishment and maintenance of mutualistic plant-microbial interactions in the rhizosphere and within plant roots involve several root cell types. The processes of host-microbe recognition and infection require complex signal exchange and activation of downstream responses. These molecular events coordinat...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Gavrilovic S,Yan Z,Jurkiewicz AM,Stougaard J,Markmann K

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Measurements of rind and culm thickness and stem radius/diameter are important to biomechanical, ecological and physiological plant studies. However, many methods of measuring rind thickness and diameter are labor intensive and induce plant fatality. A novel rind puncture methodology for obtaining measuremen...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Seegmiller WH,Graves J,Robertson DJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Low pollen viability may limit grapevine yield under certain conditions, causing relevant economic losses to grape-growers. It is usually evaluated by the quantification of the number of viable and non-viable pollen grains that are present in a sample after an adequate pollen grain staining procedure. Althou...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Tello J,Montemayor MI,Forneck A,Ibáñez J

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria play critical roles in plant growth, development and stress tolerance. Numerous researchers have carried out studies on the plant mitochondrial genome structure, mitochondrial metabolism and nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. However, classical plant mitochondria extraction methods are time-consu...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Xu Y,Li X,Huang J,Peng L,Luo D,Zhang Q,Dan Z,Xiao H,Yang F,Hu J

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying cis-regulatory elements is critical in understanding the direct and indirect regulatory mechanisms of gene expression. Current approaches include DNase-seq, a technique that combines sensitivity to the nonspecific endonuclease DNase I with high throughput sequencing to identify regions of regulat...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Cumbie JS,Filichkin SA,Megraw M

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00