Constitutive expression of cell wall invertase genes increases grain yield and starch content in maize.

abstract：:Unintended gene flow from transgenic plants via pollen, seed and vegetative propagation is a regulatory concern because of potential admixture in food and crop systems, as well as hybridization and introgression to wild and weedy relatives. Bioconfinement of transgenic pollen would help address some of these concerns ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Millwood RJ,Moon HS,Poovaiah CR,Muthukumar B,Rice JH,Abercrombie JM,Abercrombie LL,Green WD,Stewart CN Jr

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome modification by homology-directed repair (HDR) is an attractive tool for the controlled genetic manipulation of plants. Here, we report the HDR-mediated gene exchange of expression cassettes in tobacco BY-2 cells using a designed zinc finger nuclease (ZFN). The target contained a 7-kb fragment flanked by two ZF...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Schneider K,Schiermeyer A,Dolls A,Koch N,Herwartz D,Kirchhoff J,Fischer R,Russell SM,Cao Z,Corbin DR,Sastry-Dent L,Ainley WM,Webb SR,Schinkel H,Schillberg S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing of complete genomes has given researchers unprecedented levels of information to study the multifaceted evolutionary changes that have shaped elite plant germplasm. In conjunction with population genetic analytical techniques and detailed online databases, we can more accurately capture the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Campbell BC,Gilding EK,Mace ES,Tai S,Tao Y,Prentis PJ,Thomelin P,Jordan DR,Godwin ID

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant chloroplasts are promising vehicles for recombinant protein production, but the process of protein folding in these organelles is not well understood in comparison with that in prokaryotic systems, such as Escherichia coli. This is particularly true for disulphide bond formation which is crucial for the biologic...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bally J,Paget E,Droux M,Job C,Job D,Dubald M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and Cas9-associated protein systems provide a powerful genetic manipulation tool that can drive plant research forward. Nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) is an enzymatically inactive mutant of Cas9 in which its endonuclease activity is non-functional. The appl...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Moradpour M,Abdulah SNA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has deleterious impact on the environment. Increase in yield potential at low nitrogen supply is regarded as a cereal breeding goal for future agricultural sustainability. Although natural variations of nitrogen transporters have been investigated, key genes associated with assimi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yu J,Xuan W,Tian Y,Fan L,Sun J,Tang W,Chen G,Wang B,Liu Y,Wu W,Liu X,Jiang X,Zhou C,Dai Z,Xu D,Wang C,Wan J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of phospholipase Dα1 (PLDα1) produces lipid messenger phosphatidic acid and promotes stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. To explore the use of the PLDα1-mediated signalling towards decreasing water loss in crop plants, we introduced Arabidopsis PLDα1 under the control of a guard cell-specific promoter AtKa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Lu S,Bahn SC,Qu G,Qin H,Hong Y,Xu Q,Zhou Y,Hong Y,Wang X

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are widely distributed in plants and play important roles in human and animal health and nutrition. Model plants with discernible flavonoid phenotypes, such as Arabidopsis seed patterning lines, are valuable tools that can provide avenues for understanding flavonoid and proanthocyanidin accumulation pattern...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao P,Li X,Cui D,Wu L,Parkin I,Gruber MY

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing-based bulked segregant analysis (BSA) for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) provides an efficient alternative approach to conventional QTL analysis as it significantly reduces the scale and cost of analysis with comparable power to QTL detection using full mapping population. We tested the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Deokar A,Sagi M,Daba K,Tar'an B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woody biomass has gained popularity as an environmentally friendly, renewable and sustainable resource for liquid fuel production. Here, we demonstrate biotechnological improvement of the quantity and quality of woody biomass by employing developing xylem (DX)-preferential production of gibberellin (GA), a phytohormon...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jeon HW,Cho JS,Park EJ,Han KH,Choi YI,Ko JH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP), the volatile compound that provides the 'popcorn-like' aroma in a large variety of cereal and food products, is widely found in nature. Deficiency in amino aldehyde dehydrogenase (AMADH) was previously shown to be the likely cause of 2AP biosynthesis in rice (Oryza sativa L.). In this study...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Arikit S,Yoshihashi T,Wanchana S,Uyen TT,Huong NT,Wongpornchai S,Vanavichit A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid accumulation of defensive transgene products in plants only on pathogen invasion has clear advantages over their constitutive synthesis. In this study, two antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretions of frogs, MsrA2 (N-methionine-dermaseptin B1) and temporin A, were evaluated for engineering pathogen-ind...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yevtushenko DP,Misra S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need to provide effective anti-HIV microbicides to resource-poor areas worldwide. Some of the most promising microbicide candidates are biotherapeutics targeting viral entry. To provide biotherapeutics to poorer areas, it is vital to reduce the cost. Here, we report the production of biologically ac...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： O'Keefe BR,Murad AM,Vianna GR,Ramessar K,Saucedo CJ,Wilson J,Buckheit KW,da Cunha NB,Araújo AC,Lacorte CC,Madeira L,McMahon JB,Rech EL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic Bt rice expressing the insecticidal proteins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) has been developed since 1989. Their ecological risks towards non-target organisms have been investigated; however, these studies were conducted individually, yielding uncertainty regarding potential agroecologica...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Dang C,Lu Z,Wang L,Chang X,Wang F,Yao H,Peng Y,Stanley D,Ye G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sumoylation is a posttranslational regulatory process in higher eukaryotes modifying substrate proteins through conjugation of small ubiquitin-related modifiers (SUMOs). Sumoylation modulates protein stability, subcellular localization and activity; thus, it regulates most cellular functions including response to envi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li Z,Hu Q,Zhou M,Vandenbrink J,Li D,Menchyk N,Reighard S,Norris A,Liu H,Sun D,Luo H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in biotechnological research is to improve the yield of crop plants. Here, we genetically modified simultaneously source and sink capacities in potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Desirée) plants to improve starch yield. Source capacity was increased by mesophyll-specific overexpression of a pyrophosphatas...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jonik C,Sonnewald U,Hajirezaei MR,Flügge UI,Ludewig F

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the declarations and collective measures taken to eradicate hunger at World Food Summits, food security remains one of the biggest issues that we are faced with. The current scenario could worsen due to the alarming increase in world population, further compounded by adverse climatic conditions, such as increa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh J,Pandey P,James D,Chandrasekhar K,Achary VM,Kaul T,Tripathy BC,Reddy MK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought tolerance of the wheat cultivar Bobwhite was previously enhanced by transformation with a construct containing the wheat DREB3 gene driven by the stress-inducible maize Rab17 promoter. Progeny of a single T2 transgenic line were used as pollinators in crosses with four elite bread wheat cultivars from Western ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Shavrukov Y,Baho M,Lopato S,Langridge P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit ripening is regulated co-operatively by the action of ethylene and a hierarchy of transcription factors, including RIPENING INHIBITOR (RIN) and NON-RIPENING (NOR). Mutations in these two genes have been adopted commercially to delay ripening, and accompanying textural deterioration,...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Osorio S,Carneiro RT,Lytovchenko A,McQuinn R,Sørensen I,Vallarino JG,Giovannoni JJ,Fernie AR,Rose JKC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanobodies® (VHHs) provide powerful tools in therapeutic and biotechnological applications. Nevertheless, for some applications, bivalent antibodies perform much better, and for this, an Fc chain can be fused to the VHH domain, resulting in a bivalent homodimeric VHH-Fc complex. However, the production of bivalent ant...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： De Buck S,Nolf J,De Meyer T,Virdi V,De Wilde K,Van Lerberge E,Van Droogenbroeck B,Depicker A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) is a widespread soil contaminant threatening human health. As an ideal energy plant, sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) has great potential in phytoremediation of Cd-polluted soils, although the molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. In this study, key factors responsible for differential Cd a...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Feng J,Jia W,Lv S,Bao H,Miao F,Zhang X,Wang J,Li J,Li D,Zhu C,Li S,Li Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The root system is fundamental for plant development, is crucial for overall plant growth and is recently being recognized as the key for future crop productivity improvement. A major determinant of root system architecture is the initiation of lateral roots. While knowledge of the genetic and molecular mechanisms reg...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jansen L,Hollunder J,Roberts I,Forestan C,Fonteyne P,Van Quickenborne C,Zhen RG,McKersie B,Parizot B,Beeckman T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 3.5 million expressed sequence tags from the major cereal taxa were used to electronically mine over 176,000 putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The density, distribution and degree of linkage between these SNPs were compared among the different taxa. The frequency of sequence polymorphism was lowest...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Barker GL,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which factors limit metabolite accumulation in plant cells? Are theories on flux control effective at explaining the results? Many biotechnologists cling to the idea that every pathway has a rate limiting enzyme and target such enzymes first in order to modulate fluxes. This often translates into large effects on meta...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Morandini P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid-proline-rich protein encoding gene (CcHyPRP) has been isolated and characterized, for the first time, from the subtracted cDNA library of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) plants subjected to drought stress. Functionality of CcHyPRP has been validated for abiotic stress tolerance using the heterologous yeast and A...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Priyanka B,Sekhar K,Reddy VD,Rao KV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willows (Salix spp.) are important biomass crops due to their ability to grow rapidly with low fertilizer inputs and ease of cultivation in short-rotation coppice cycles. They are relatively undomesticated and highly diverse, but functional testing to identify useful allelic variation is time-consuming in trees and tr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Salmon J,Ward SP,Hanley SJ,Leyser O,Karp A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen germination and pollen tube growth are important physiological processes of sexual reproduction of plants and also are involved in signal transduction. Our previous study reveals that ZmSTK1 and ZmSTK2 are two receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCK) homologs in Zea mays as members of receptor-like protein kina...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Fan M,Zhang C,Shi L,Liu C,Ma W,Chen M,Liu K,Cai F,Wang G,Wei Z,Jiang M,Liu Z,Javeed A,Lin F

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High temperature impairs rice (Oryza sativa) grain filling by inhibiting the deposition of storage materials such as starch, resulting in mature grains with a chalky appearance, currently a major problem for rice farming in Asian countries. Such deterioration of grain quality is accompanied by the altered expression o...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hakata M,Kuroda M,Miyashita T,Yamaguchi T,Kojima M,Sakakibara H,Mitsui T,Yamakawa H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowerless trait is highly desirable for poplar because it can prevent pollen- and seed-mediated transgene flow. We have isolated the second intron of PTAG2, an AGAMOUS (AG) orthologue from Populus trichocarpa. By fusing this intron sequence to a minimal 35S promoter sequence, we created two artificial promoters, fPTA...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li W,Hu W,Fang C,Chen L,Zhuang W,Katin-Grazzini L,McAvoy RJ,Guillard K,Li Y

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely recognized that biofuel production from lignocellulosic materials is limited by inadequate technology to efficiently and economically release fermentable sugars from the complex multi-polymeric raw materials. Therefore, endoglucanases, exoglucanase, pectate lyases, cutinase, swollenin, xylanase, acetyl xy...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Verma D,Kanagaraj A,Jin S,Singh ND,Kolattukudy PE,Daniell H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00