Cell wall traits as potential resources to improve resistance of durum wheat against Fusarium graminearum.

abstract：BACKGROUND:From field harvest to the consumer's table, fresh citrus fruit spends a considerable amount of time in shipment and storage. During these processes, physiological disorders and pathological diseases are the main causes of fruit loss. Heat treatment (HT) has been widely used to maintain fruit quality during p...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yun Z,Gao H,Liu P,Liu S,Luo T,Jin S,Xu Q,Xu J,Cheng Y,Deng X

更新日期：2013-03-16 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:Assembly of stable light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) in the chloroplast of green algae and plants requires synthesis of chlorophyll (Chl) b, a reaction that involves oxygenation of the 7-methyl group of Chl a to a formyl group. This reaction uses molecular oxygen and is catalyzed by chlorophyllide a oxygenas...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Eggink LL,LoBrutto R,Brune DC,Brusslan J,Yamasato A,Tanaka A,Hoober JK

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genes of plants can be up- or down-regulated during viral infection to influence the replication of viruses. Identification of these differentially expressed genes could shed light on the defense systems employed by plants and the mechanisms involved in the adaption of viruses to plant cells. Differentia...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cheng SF,Huang YP,Wu ZR,Hu CC,Hsu YH,Tsai CH

更新日期：2010-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotiana tabacum is an important economic crop. Topping, a common agricultural practice employed with flue-cured tobacco, is designed to increase leaf nicotine contents by increasing nicotine biosynthesis in roots. Many genes are found to be differentially expressed in response to topping, particularly gene...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin Y,Bai S,Li W,Sun T,Galbraith DW,Yang Z,Zhou Y,Sun G,Wang B

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamine synthetase (GS) acts as a key enzyme in plant nitrogen (N) metabolism. It is important to understand the regulation of GS expression in plant. Promoters can initiate the transcription of its downstream gene. Eichhornia crassipes is a most prominent aquatic invasive plant, which has negative effects...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhong Y,Lu X,Deng Z,Lu Z,Fu M

更新日期：2021-01-29 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:A positive relationship between genome size and intron length is observed across eukaryotes including Angiosperms plants, indicating a co-evolution of genome size and gene structure. Conifers have very large genomes and longer introns on average than most plants, but impacts of their large genome and longer ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stival Sena J,Giguère I,Boyle B,Rigault P,Birol I,Zuccolo A,Ritland K,Ritland C,Bohlmann J,Jones S,Bousquet J,Mackay J

更新日期：2014-04-16 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:Brassinosteroids (BRs) are signaling molecules that play essential roles in the spatial regulation of plant growth and development. In contrast to other plant hormones BRs act locally, close to the sites of their synthesis, and thus homeostatic mechanisms must operate at the cellular level to equilibrate BR ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Husar S,Berthiller F,Fujioka S,Rozhon W,Khan M,Kalaivanan F,Elias L,Higgins GS,Li Y,Schuhmacher R,Krska R,Seto H,Vaistij FE,Bowles D,Poppenberger B

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is the major environmental stress threatening crop-plant productivity worldwide. Identification of new genes and metabolic pathways involved in plant adaptation to progressive drought stress at the reproductive stage is of great interest for agricultural research. RESULTS:We developed a novel Cross-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shaar-Moshe L,Hübner S,Peleg Z

更新日期：2015-05-03 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:The tomato kinase Pto confers resistance to bacterial speck disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in a gene for gene manner. Upon recognition of specific avirulence factors the Pto kinase activates multiple signal transduction pathways culminating in induction of pathogen defense. The soluble cyt...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Herrmann MM,Pinto S,Kluth J,Wienand U,Lorbiecke R

更新日期：2006-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pinus massoniana Lamb. is an important afforestation tree species with high economic, ecological and medicinal values. Aluminum (Al) toxicity driven by soil acidification causes dieback of P. massoniana plantations. Previous studies showed that ectomycorrhizal fungi alleviate Al stress damages in Pinus, but ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu H,Chen H,Ding G,Li K,Ren Q

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brassica vegetables contain a class of secondary metabolites, the glucosinolates (GS), whose specific degradation products determine the characteristic flavor and smell. While some of the respective degradation products of particular GS are recognized as health promoting substances for humans, recent studies...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wiesner M,Schreiner M,Zrenner R

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heavy metal pollution in crop fields is one of the major issues in sustainable agriculture production. To improve crop growth and reduce the toxic effects of metals is an ideal strategy. Understanding the resilience of gibberellins producing endophytic fungi associated with crop plants in metal contaminated ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan AL,Lee IJ

更新日期：2013-05-31 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:Drought is the most important environmental stress that limits crop yield in a global warming world. Despite the compelling evidence of an important role of oxidized and reduced sulfur-containing compounds during the response of plants to drought stress (e.g. sulfate for stomata closure or glutathione for sc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ahmad N,Malagoli M,Wirtz M,Hell R

更新日期：2016-11-09 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: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:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most widely grown pulse and drought (limiting water) is one of the major constraints leading to about 40-50% yield losses annually. Dehydration responsive element binding proteins (DREBs) are important plant transcription factors that regulate the expression of man...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Das A,Basu PS,Kumar M,Ansari J,Shukla A,Thakur S,Singh P,Datta S,Chaturvedi SK,Sheshshayee MS,Bansal KC,Singh NP

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell elongation is mainly limited by the extensibility of the cell wall. Dicotyledonous primary (growing) cell walls contain cellulose, xyloglucan, pectin and proteins, but little is known about how each polymer class contributes to the cell wall mechanical properties that control extensibility. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Derbyshire P,McCann MC,Roberts K

更新日期：2007-06-17 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:Alternate bearing is a widespread phenomenon among crop plants, defined as the tendency of certain fruit trees to produce a high-yield crop one year ("on-year"), followed by a low-yield or even no crop the following year ("off-year"). Several factors may affect the balance between such developmental phase-tr...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yanik H,Turktas M,Dundar E,Hernandez P,Dorado G,Unver T

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor), belonging to the gall midge family (Cecidomyiidae), is a devastating pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum) causing significant yield losses. Despite identification and characterization of numerous Hessian fly-responsive genes and associated biological pathways involved in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nemacheck JA,Schemerhorn BJ,Scofield SR,Subramanyam S

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NAC gene family is notable due to its large size, as well as its relevance in crop cultivation - particularly in terms of enhancing stress tolerance of plants. These plant-specific proteins contain NAC domain(s) that are named after Petunia NAM and Arabidopsis ATAF1/2 and CUC2 transcription factors based...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hussain RM,Ali M,Feng X,Li X

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coccinia grandis is a dioecious species of Cucurbitaceae having heteromorphic sex chromosomes. The chromosome constitution of male and female plants is 22 + XY and 22 + XX respectively. Y chromosome of male sex is conspicuously large and plays a decisive role in determining maleness. Sex modification has bee...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ghadge AG,Karmakar K,Devani RS,Banerjee J,Mohanasundaram B,Sinha RK,Sinha S,Banerjee AK

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of largest angiosperm families, orchids have long fascinated evolutionary biologists with their staggering diversity in floral design and display to promote outcrossing. Two of the most intriguing aspects of orchid pollination that promote cross-pollination are pollinarium reconfiguration (PR) and dec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xiaohua J,Dezhu L,Zongxin R,Xiaoguo X

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Herbivory imposes an important selective pressure on plants. In Arabidopsis thaliana leaf trichomes provide a key defense against insect herbivory; however, trichome production incurs a fitness cost in the absence of herbivory. Previous work on A. thaliana has shown an increase in trichome density in respons...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bloomer RH,Lloyd AM,Symonds VV

更新日期：2014-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cereal crops such as wheat, an optimal timing of developmental transitions is required to maximize grain yield. Many of these developmental changes are precisely regulated by changes in the duration, intensity or quality of light. Phytochromes are dimeric photoreceptors that absorb light maximally in the ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pearce S,Kippes N,Chen A,Debernardi JM,Dubcovsky J

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00