Selective defoliation affects plant growth, fruit transcriptional ripening program and flavonoid metabolism in grapevine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because flavonoids and trichomes play crucial roles in plant defence, their formation requires fine transcriptional control by multiple transcription factor families. However, little is known regarding the mechanism of the R2R3-MYB transcription factors that regulate both flavonoid metabolism and trichome de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang Y,Wu Q,Wang S,Shi J,Dong Q,Yao P,Shi G,Xu S,Deng R,Li C,Chen H,Zhao H

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitous signaling molecule melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) (MT) plays vital roles in plant development and stress tolerance. Selenium (Se) may be phytotoxic at high concentrations. Interactions between MT and Se (IV) stress in higher plants are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ulhassan Z,Huang Q,Gill RA,Ali S,Mwamba TM,Ali B,Hina F,Zhou W

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alfalfa is a high-quality forage cultivated widely in northern China. Recently, the failure of alfalfa plants to survive the winter has caused substantial economic losses. Water management has attracted considerable attention as a method for the potential improvement of winter survival. The aim of this study...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu H,Li Z,Tong Z,He F,Li X

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated rice species (Oryza sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud.) are generally considered among the crop species most sensitive to salt stress. A handful of lines are known to be tolerant, and a small number of these have been used extensively as donors in breeding programs. However, these donors use many ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Platten JD,Egdane JA,Ismail AM

更新日期：2013-02-27 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:CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing has become a revolutionary technique for crop improvement as it can facilitate fast and efficient genetic changes without the retention of transgene components in the final plant line. Lack of robust bioinformatics tools to facilitate the design of highly specific functional guide RN...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cram D,Kulkarni M,Buchwaldt M,Rajagopalan N,Bhowmik P,Rozwadowski K,Parkin IAP,Sharpe AG,Kagale S

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit maturation and ripening are genetically regulated processes that involve a complex interplay of plant hormones, growth regulators and multiple biological and environmental factors. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has been used as a model of biological and genetic studies on the regulation of specific rip...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma N,Feng H,Meng X,Li D,Yang D,Wu C,Meng Q

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular genetic maps provide a means to link heritable traits with underlying genome sequence variation. Several genetic maps have been constructed for Brassica species, yet to date, there has been no simple means to compare this information or to associate mapped traits with the genome sequence of the rel...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lim GA,Jewell EG,Li X,Erwin TA,Love C,Batley J,Spangenberg G,Edwards D

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sec18p/N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) is a conserved eukaryotic ATPase, which primarily functions in vesicle membrane fusion from yeast to human. However, the function of the OsSec18 gene, a homologue of NSF in rice, remains unknown. RESULTS:In the present study, we investigated the function of OsS...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun Y,Ning T,Liu Z,Pang J,Jiang D,Guo Z,Song G,Yang D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PsbS is a 22-kDa Photosystem (PS) II protein involved in non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of chlorophyll fluorescence. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) has two PsbS genes, PsbS1 and PsbS2. However, only inactivation of PsbS1, through a knockout (PsbS1-KO) or in RNAi transgenic plants, results in plants deficient in q...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zulfugarov IS,Tovuu A,Eu YJ,Dogsom B,Poudyal RS,Nath K,Hall M,Banerjee M,Yoon UC,Moon YH,An G,Jansson S,Lee CH

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trees of the genus Taxus are highly valuable medicinal plants with multiple pharmacological effects on various cancer treatments. Paclitaxel from Taxus trees is an efficient and widely used anticancer drug, however, the accumulation of taxoids and other active ingredients can vary greatly among Taxus species...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou T,Luo X,Zhang C,Xu X,Yu C,Jiang Z,Zhang L,Yuan H,Zheng B,Pi E,Shen C

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is now a significant body of research correlating apple (Malus x domestica) fruit softening with the cell wall hydrolase ENDO-POLYGALACTURONASE1 (PG1), there is currently little knowledge of its physiological effects in planta. This study examined the effect of down regulation of PG1 expression i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Atkinson RG,Sutherland PW,Johnston SL,Gunaseelan K,Hallett IC,Mitra D,Brummell DA,Schröder R,Johnston JW,Schaffer RJ

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cellulose synthase superfamily has been classified into nine cellulose synthase-like (Csl) families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family. The Csl families have been proposed to be involved in the synthesis of the backbones of hemicelluloses of plant cell walls. With 17 plant and algal genomes fully s...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yin Y,Huang J,Xu Y

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoids have essential roles in flower pigmentation, fibre development and disease resistance in cotton. Previous studies show that accumulation of naringenin in developing cotton fibres significantly affects fibre growth. This study focused on determining the effects of the flavonoids naringenin, dihydro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan AQ,Li Z,Ahmed MM,Wang P,Zhang X,Tu L

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among various pests, the brown planthopper (BPH) that damages rice is the major destructive pests. Understanding resistance mechanisms is a critical step toward effective control of BPH. This study investigates the proteomics of BPH interactions with three rice cultivars: the first resistant (PR) to BPH, the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang X,Yin F,Xiao S,Jiang C,Yu T,Chen L,Ke X,Zhong Q,Cheng Z,Li W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effective functional analysis of male gametophyte development requires new tools enabling the spatially and temporally controlled expression of both marker genes and modified genes of interest. In particular, promoters driving expression at earlier developmental stages including microspores are required....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Honys D,Oh SA,Renák D,Donders M,Solcová B,Johnson JA,Boudová R,Twell D

更新日期：2006-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins belong to a unique group of calcium sensors in plant that decode the Ca(2+) signature by interacting with CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs). Although CBL-CIPK complexes have been shown to play important roles in the responses to various stresses in plants, little is kn...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun T,Wang Y,Wang M,Li T,Zhou Y,Wang X,Wei S,He G,Yang G

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent development of novel repeat-fruiting types of blackberry (Rubus L.) cultivars, combined with a long history of morphological marker-assisted selection for thornlessness by blackberry breeders, has given rise to increased interest in using molecular markers to facilitate blackberry breeding. Yet no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lewers KS,Saski CA,Cuthbertson BJ,Henry DC,Staton ME,Main DS,Dhanaraj AL,Rowland LJ,Tomkins JP

更新日期：2008-06-20 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:DnaJ proteins participate in many metabolic pathways through dynamic interactions with various components of these processes. The role of three small chloroplast-targeted DnaJ proteins, AtJ8 (At1 g80920), AtJ11 (At4 g36040) and AtJ20 (At4 g13830), was investigated here using knock-out mutants of Arabidopsis ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen KM,Holmström M,Raksajit W,Suorsa M,Piippo M,Aro EM

更新日期：2010-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individual plants adapt to their immediate environment using a combination of biochemical, morphological and life cycle strategies. Because woody plants are long-lived perennials, they cannot rely on annual life cycle strategies alone to survive abiotic stresses. In this study we used suppression subtractive...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bassett CL,Baldo AM,Moore JT,Jenkins RM,Soffe DS,Wisniewski ME,Norelli JL,Farrell RE Jr

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS), encoded by Glu-3 complex loci in hexaploid wheat, play important roles in the processing quality of wheat flour. To date, the molecular characteristics and effects on dough quality of individual Glu-3 alleles and their encoding proteins have been poorly studie...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhen S,Han C,Ma C,Gu A,Zhang M,Shen X,Li X,Yan Y

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In nature, orchid plants depend completely on symbiotic fungi for their nutrition at the germination and the subsequent seedling (protocorm) stages. However, only limited quantitative methods for evaluating the orchid-fungus interactions at the protocorm stage are currently available, which greatly constrain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yamamoto T,Miura C,Fuji M,Nagata S,Otani Y,Yagame T,Yamato M,Kaminaka H

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an economically important fiber and oil crop that has been grown for thousands of years. The genome has been recently sequenced and transcriptomics are providing information on candidate genes potentially related to agronomically-important traits. In order to accelerate funct...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chantreau M,Grec S,Gutierrez L,Dalmais M,Pineau C,Demailly H,Paysant-Leroux C,Tavernier R,Trouvé JP,Chatterjee M,Guillot X,Brunaud V,Chabbert B,van Wuytswinkel O,Bendahmane A,Thomasset B,Hawkins S

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitous, non-proteinaceous amino acid GABA (γ-aminobutyrate) accumulates in plants subjected to abiotic stresses such as chilling, O2 deficiency and elevated CO2. Recent evidence indicates that controlled atmosphere storage causes the accumulation of GABA in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) fruit, and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Trobacher CP,Zarei A,Liu J,Clark SM,Bozzo GG,Shelp BJ

更新日期：2013-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub, is a member of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) family and is economically the most important of the four species in the genus. The endosperm of guar seed is a rich source of mucilage or gum, which forms a viscous gel in cold water, and is used as an emulsifier, thickener a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Naoumkina M,Torres-Jerez I,Allen S,He J,Zhao PX,Dixon RA,May GD

更新日期：2007-11-23 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

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:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most important grain legume cultivated by resource poor farmers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to harness the untapped genetic potential available for chickpea improvement, we re-sequenced 35 chickpea genotypes representing parental lines of 16 mapp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Thudi M,Khan AW,Kumar V,Gaur PM,Katta K,Garg V,Roorkiwal M,Samineni S,Varshney RK

更新日期：2016-01-27 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