The Arabidopsis CURVY1 (CVY1) gene encoding a novel receptor-like protein kinase regulates cell morphogenesis, flowering time and seed production.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acid component of grape berries, originating in the metabolism of malate and tartrate, the latter being less well-known than the former, is a key factor at play in the microbiological stability of wines destined for distillation. Grape acidity is increasingly affected by climate changes. The ability to c...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cholet C,Claverol S,Claisse O,Rabot A,Osowsky A,Dumot V,Ferrari G,Gény L

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agrobacterium infection, which is widely used to generate transgenic plants, is often accompanied by T-DNA-linked mutations and transpositions in flowering plants. It is not known if Agrobacterium infection also affects the rates of point mutations, somatic homologous recombinations (SHR) and frame-shift mut...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shah JM,Ramakrishnan AM,Singh AK,Ramachandran S,Unniyampurath U,Jayshankar A,Balasundaram N,Dhanapal S,Hyde G,Baskar R

更新日期：2015-08-26 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:Forest trees have important economic and ecological value. As a model tree, poplar has played a significant role in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying tree biology. However, a lack of mutant libraries and time-consuming stable genetic transformation processes severely limit progress into the fun...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zheng L,Yang J,Chen Y,Ding L,Wei J,Wang H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, non-coding RNAs that play an important role in development and environmental responses. Hundreds of plant miRNAs have been identified to date, mainly from the model species for which there are available genome sequences. The current challenge is to characterise ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Varkonyi-Gasic E,Gould N,Sandanayaka M,Sutherland P,MacDiarmid RM

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants, HIR (Hypersensitive Induced Reaction) proteins, members of the PID (Proliferation, Ion and Death) superfamily, have been shown to play a part in the development of spontaneous hypersensitive response lesions in leaves, in reaction to pathogen attacks. The levels of HIR proteins were shown to corre...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou L,Cheung MY,Li MW,Fu Y,Sun Z,Sun SM,Lam HM

更新日期：2010-12-30 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:The hypersensitive necrosis response (HR) of resistant plants to avirulent pathogens is a form of programmed cell death in which the plant sacrifices a few cells under attack, restricting pathogen growth into adjacent healthy tissues. In spite of the importance of this defense response, relatively little is ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Vorwerk S,Schiff C,Santamaria M,Koh S,Nishimura M,Vogel J,Somerville C,Somerville S

更新日期：2007-07-06 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:In Quercus suber, cork oak, a Mediterranean forest tree of economic and social interest, rapid production of isogenic lines and clonal propagation of elite genotypes have been achieved by developing in vitro embryogenesis from microspores and zygotic embryos respectively. Despite its high potential in tree b...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodríguez-Sanz H,Manzanera JA,Solís MT,Gómez-Garay A,Pintos B,Risueño MC,Testillano PS

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize landraces from South America have traditionally been assigned to two main categories: Andean and Tropical Lowland germplasm. However, the genetic structure and affiliations of the lowland gene pools have been difficult to assess due to limited sampling and the lack of comparative analysis. Here, we exa...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bracco M,Cascales J,Hernández JC,Poggio L,Gottlieb AM,Lia VV

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sucrosylgalactoside oligosaccharide raffinose (Raf, Suc-Gal1) accumulates in Arabidopsis leaves in response to a myriad of abiotic stresses. Whilst galactinol synthases (GolS), the first committed enzyme in Raf biosynthesis are well characterised in Arabidopsis, little is known of the second biosynthetic...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Egert A,Keller F,Peters S

更新日期：2013-12-20 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:Plant-mediated RNAi (PMRi) silencing of insect genes has enormous potential for crop protection, but whether it works robustly under field conditions, particularly with lepidopteran pests, remains controversial. Wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata and cultivated tobacco (N. tabacum) (Solanaceae) is attacked by ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Poreddy S,Li J,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.) contains triterpenoids with anti-HIV and anti-tumor pharmacological activities. However, the natural abundance of these triterpenoids is low, and their chemical synthesis is costly. Transcription factors have the ability to regulate the metabolite pathways of triterpenoids via...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yin J,Li X,Zhan Y,Li Y,Qu Z,Sun L,Wang S,Yang J,Xiao J

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genetic diversity in heat tolerance and associated traits is of great importance for improving heat tolerance in cool-season grass species. The objectives of this study were to determine genetic variations in heat tolerance associated with phenotypic and physiological traits and to identify...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang J,Li H,Jiang Y,Li H,Zhang Z,Xu Z,Xu B,Huang B

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of QTL involved in heterosis formation is one approach to unravel the not yet fully understood genetic basis of heterosis - the improved agronomic performance of hybrid F1 plants compared to their inbred parents. The identification of candidate genes underlying a QTL is important both for ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Thiemann A,Fu J,Seifert F,Grant-Downton RT,Schrag TA,Pospisil H,Frisch M,Melchinger AE,Scholten S

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple hybridization events gave rise to pentaploid dogroses which can reproduce sexually despite their uneven ploidy level by the unique canina meiosis. Two homologous chromosome sets are involved in bivalent formation and are transmitted by the haploid pollen grains and the tetraploid egg cells. In addit...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ritz CM,Köhnen I,Groth M,Theissen G,Wissemann V

更新日期：2011-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with invariant levels of gene expression is a prerequisite for validating transcriptomic changes accompanying development. Ideally expression of these genes should be independent of the morphogenetic process or environmental condition tested as well as the methods used for RNA purific...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mallona I,Lischewski S,Weiss J,Hause B,Egea-Cortines M

更新日期：2010-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eukaryotic cilia are complex, highly conserved microtubule-based organelles with a broad phylogenetic distribution. Cilia were present in the last eukaryotic common ancestor and many proteins involved in cilia function have been conserved through eukaryotic diversification. However, cilia have also been lost...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hodges ME,Wickstead B,Gull K,Langdale JA

更新日期：2011-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae), native from Paraguay, accumulates steviol glycosides (SGs) into its leaves. These compounds exhibit acaloric intense sweet taste which answers to consumer demands for reducing daily sugar intake. Despite the developpement of S. rebaudiana cultivation all over the world, the de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cosson P,Hastoy C,Errazzu LE,Budeguer CJ,Boutié P,Rolin D,Schurdi-Levraud V

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies of crop salinity tolerance are conducted under short-term stress condition within one growth stage. Understanding of the mechanisms of crop response to long-term salinity stress (LSS) is valuable for achieving the improvement of crop salinity tolerance. In the current study, we exposed allohexap...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bhanbhro N,Xiao B,Han L,Lu H,Wang H,Yang C

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes associated with arsenite uptake and transport in rice plants (i.e., OsLsi1, OsLsi2, OsLsi3, OsLsi6 and OsABCC1) have been identified to date. However, their expression over time during the whole growth period of rice under arsenite stress conditions is still poorly understood. In this study, the dynami...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pan D,Yi J,Li F,Li X,Liu C,Wu W,Tao T

更新日期：2020-03-31 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:Salt stress is a major challenge for growth and development of plants. The mangrove tree Avicennia officinalis has evolved salt tolerance mechanisms such as salt secretion through specialized glands on its leaves. Although a number of structural studies on salt glands have been done, the molecular mechanism ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jyothi-Prakash PA,Mohanty B,Wijaya E,Lim TM,Lin Q,Loh CS,Kumar PP

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under natural conditions, soil nutrients are heterogeneously distributed, and plants have developed adaptation strategies to efficiently forage patchily distributed nutrient. Most previous studies examined either patch strength or patch size separately and focused mainly on root morphological plasticity (inc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cai L,Wang Y,Tigabu M,Hou X,Wu P,Zhou C,Ma X

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) technology was recently employed to identify a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for linkage mapping of a North American and Eastern Asian Populus species. However, there is also the need for high-density genetic linkage maps for the Eur...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhigunov AV,Ulianich PS,Lebedeva MV,Chang PL,Nuzhdin SV,Potokina EK

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the function of a particular gene under various stresses is important for engineering plants for broad-spectrum stress tolerance. Although virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been used to characterize genes involved in abiotic stress tolerance, currently available gene silencing and stress ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ramegowda V,Senthil-kumar M,Udayakumar M,Mysore KS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize is one of the most important crops in the world. With the exponentially increasing population and the need for ever increased food and feed production, an increased yield of maize grain (as well as rice, wheat and other grains) will be critical. Maize grain development is understood from the perspectiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Teoh KT,Requesens DV,Devaiah SP,Johnson D,Huang X,Howard JA,Hood EE

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most widespread association between plant roots and fungi in natural and agricultural ecosystems. This work investigated the influence of mycorrhization on the economically relevant part of the tomato plant, by analyzing its impact on the physiology of the fruit. ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Salvioli A,Zouari I,Chalot M,Bonfante P

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00