The study of a barley epigenetic regulator, HvDME, in seed development and under drought.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), is important for many cellular functions in mammals and bacteria, such as steroid biosynthesis, cellular respiration, cell proliferation, apoptosis, immunomodulation, transport of porphyrins and ani...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Balsemão-Pires E,Jaillais Y,Olson BJ,Andrade LR,Umen JG,Chory J,Sachetto-Martins G

更新日期：2011-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calophyllum brasiliense is highlighted as an important resource of calanolides, which are dipyranocoumarins that inhibit the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1 RT). Despite having great medicinal importance, enzymes involved in calanolide, biosynthesis and the pathway itself,...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gómez-Robledo HB,Cruz-Sosa F,Bernabé-Antonio A,Guerrero-Analco A,Olivares-Romero JL,Alonso-Sánchez A,Villafán E,Ibarra-Laclette E

更新日期：2016-08-15 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:Phalaenopsis orchids are popular floral crops, and development of new cultivars is economically important to floricultural industries worldwide. Analysis of orchid genes could facilitate orchid improvement. Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end sequences (BESs) can provide the first glimpses into the seq...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hsu CC,Chung YL,Chen TC,Lee YL,Kuo YT,Tsai WC,Hsiao YY,Chen YW,Wu WL,Chen HH

更新日期：2011-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The production of heather (Calluna vulgaris) in Germany is highly dependent on cultivars with mutated flower morphology, the so-called diplocalyx bud bloomers. So far, this unique flower type of C. vulgaris has not been reported in any other plant species. The flowers are characterised by an extremely extend...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Behrend A,Borchert T,Hohe A

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many flowering plants produce bicellular pollen. The two cells of the pollen grain are destined for separate fates in the male gametophyte, which provides a unique opportunity to study genetic interactions that govern guided single-cell polar expansion of the growing pollen tube and the coordinated control o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hafidh S,Breznenová K,Růžička P,Feciková J,Capková V,Honys D

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are highly abundant in plant genomes and require transcriptional activity for their proliferative mode of replication. These sequences exist in plant genomes as diverse sublineages within the main element superfamilies (i.e., gypsy and copia). While transcriptional...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qiu F,Ungerer MC

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitrate (NO3-) is the major source of nitrogen (N) for higher plants aside from its function in transducing the N signaling. Improving N use efficiency of crops has been an effective strategy for promotion of the sustainable agriculture worldwide. The regulatory pathways associating with N uptake and the cor...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu Z,Zhao Y,Wang X,Yang M,Guo C,Xiao K

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dehydrins (DHNs) protect plant cells from desiccation damage during environmental stress, and also participate in host resistance to various pathogens. In this study, we aimed to identify and characterize the DHN gene families from Vitis vinifera and wild V. yeshanensis, which is tolerant to both drought and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang Y,He M,Zhu Z,Li S,Xu Y,Zhang C,Singer SD,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a major abiotic stress factors that reduces agricultural productivity. GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development. However, the functions of a number of GRAS genes identified in rice are unknown, especially the GRAS genes related to rice dro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu K,Chen S,Li T,Ma X,Liang X,Ding X,Liu H,Luo L

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oil from seeds of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) has unique drying properties that are industrially important. We found that the extended oil accumulation period was related to the high seed oil content at maturity among tung tree population. In order to understand the molecular mechanism underlying the hig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang L,Wu P,Lu W,Lü S

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The inclusive threshold policy for publication in BMC journals including BMC Plant Biology means that editorial decisions are largely based on the soundness of the research presented rather than the novelty or potential impact of the work. Here we discuss what is required to ensure that research meets the requirement ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Costa F,Cramer G,Finnegan EJ

更新日期：2017-11-10 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: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:To maintain sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) growth and yield, sucrose must be transported from the leaves to the roots. Sucrose transporters or carriers (SUTs or SUCs) transport sucrose and are involved in plant growth and response to abiotic stress. However, the mechanisms of SUTs in sweetpotato abio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang D,Liu H,Wang H,Zhang P,Shi C

更新日期：2020-04-15 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:Arachis contains 80 species that carry many beneficial genes that can be utilized in the genetic improvement of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. 2n = 4x = 40, genome AABB). Chromosome engineering is a powerful technique by which these genes can be transferred and utilized in cultivated peanut. However, their smal...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du P,Li L,Liu H,Fu L,Qin L,Zhang Z,Cui C,Sun Z,Han S,Xu J,Dai X,Huang B,Dong W,Tang F,Zhuang L,Han Y,Qi Z,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) are economically the most important fruit crop worldwide. However, the complexity of molecular and biochemical events that lead to the onset of ripening of nonclimacteric fruits is not fully understood which is further complicated in grapes due to seasonal and cultivar specific var...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fortes AM,Agudelo-Romero P,Silva MS,Ali K,Sousa L,Maltese F,Choi YH,Grimplet J,Martinez-Zapater JM,Verpoorte R,Pais MS

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of loci for grain yield (GY) and related traits, and dissection of the genetic architecture are important for yield improvement through marker-assisted selection (MAS). Two genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods were used on a diverse panel of 166 elite wheat varieties from the Yellow an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li F,Wen W,Liu J,Zhang Y,Cao S,He Z,Rasheed A,Jin H,Zhang C,Yan J,Zhang P,Wan Y,Xia X

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mal d 1 is a major apple allergen causing food allergic symptoms of the oral allergy syndrome (OAS) in birch-pollen sensitised patients. The Mal d 1 gene family is known to have at least 7 intron-containing and 11 intronless members that have been mapped in clusters on three linkage groups. In this study, th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gao Z,van de Weg EW,Matos CI,Arens P,Bolhaar ST,Knulst AC,Li Y,Hoffmann-Sommergruber K,Gilissen LJ

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent genome sequencing enables mega-base scale comparisons between related genomes. Comparisons between animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria demonstrate extensive synteny tempered by rearrangements. Within the legume plant family, glimpses of synteny have also been observed. Characterizing syntenic relatio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mudge J,Cannon SB,Kalo P,Oldroyd GE,Roe BA,Town CD,Young ND

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein synthesis is a highly energy demanding process and is regulated according to cellular energy levels. Light and sugar availability affect mRNA translation in plant cells but the specific roles of these factors remain unclear. In this study, sucrose was applied to Arabidopsis seedlings kept in the ligh...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gamm M,Peviani A,Honsel A,Snel B,Smeekens S,Hanson J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum is an important C4 crop which relies on applied Nitrogen fertilizers (N) for optimal yields, of which substantial amounts are lost into the atmosphere. Understanding the genetic variation of sorghum in response to limited nitrogen supply is important for elucidating the underlying genetic mechanisms ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gelli M,Mitchell SE,Liu K,Clemente TE,Weeks DP,Zhang C,Holding DR,Dweikat IM

更新日期：2016-01-13 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:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and their regulatory functions in anthocyanin, carotenoid, and chlorophyll accumulation have been extensively characterized in many plant species. However, the miRNA regulatory mechanism in betalain biosynthesis remains mostly unknown. RESULTS:In this study, 126 conserved miRNAs and 41 no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen C,Xie F,Hua Q,Zur NT,Zhang L,Zhang Z,Zhang R,Zhao J,Hu G,Qin Y

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though the catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine) have been detected in plants their role is poorly documented. Correlations between norepinephrine, soluble sugars and starch concentration have been recently reported for potato plants over-expressing tyrosine decarboxylase, the enzyme...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Skirycz A,Swiedrych A,Szopa J

更新日期：2005-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are different opinions about the relationship of two disjunctively distributed varieties Adiantum reniforme L. var. sinense Y.X.Lin and Adiantum reniforme L. Adiantum reniforme var. sinense is an endangered fern only distributed in a narrowed region of Chongqing city in China, while Adiantum reniforme ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang AH,Sun Y,Schneider H,Zhai JW,Liu DM,Zhou JS,Xing FW,Chen HF,Wang FG

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pst), which is the pathogen responsible for tobacco wildfire disease, has received considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this study was to clarify the responses of photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) to Pst infection in tobacco leaves. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cheng DD,Zhang ZS,Sun XB,Zhao M,Sun GY,Chow WS

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant-endophyte symbioses often revolve around nitrogen metabolism, and involve varying degrees of intimacy. Although evidence for vertical inheritance of nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacteria is increasing, it is confined mostly to crop plants, and to date no such system has been reported for geophytes. METH...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jooste M,Roets F,Midgley GF,Oberlander KC,Dreyer LL

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Callose (beta-1,3 glucan) separates developing pollen grains, preventing their underlying walls (exine) from fusing. The pollen tubes that transport sperm to female gametes also contain callose, both in their walls as well as in the plugs that segment growing tubes. Mutations in CalS5, one of several Arabido...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nishikawa S,Zinkl GM,Swanson RJ,Maruyama D,Preuss D

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00