Transcription co-activator Arabidopsis ANGUSTIFOLIA3 (AN3) regulates water-use efficiency and drought tolerance by modulating stomatal density and improving root architecture by the transrepression of YODA (YDA).

abstract：:Although much explored, oral tolerance for treatment of autoimmune diseases still awaits the establishment of novel and effective vectors. We investigated whether the tolerogenic CTA1(R7K)-COL-DD fusion protein can be expressed in edible plants, to induce oral tolerance and protect against arthritis. The fusion protei...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hansson C,Schön K,Kalbina I,Strid Å,Andersson S,Bokarewa MI,Lycke NY

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a devastating disease affecting over 350 plant species. A few peanut cultivars were found to possess stable and durable bacterial wilt resistance (BWR). Genomics-assisted breeding can accelerate the process of developing resistant cultivars by using diagnostic marke...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Luo H,Pandey MK,Khan AW,Wu B,Guo J,Ren X,Zhou X,Chen Y,Chen W,Huang L,Liu N,Lei Y,Liao B,Varshney RK,Jiang H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new understanding of leaf starch degradation has emerged in the last 10 years. It has been shown that starch phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are critical components of this process. Glucan, water dikinase (GWD) (and phosphoglucan, water dikinase) adds phosphate to starch, and phosphoglucan phosphatase (SEX4) r...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Weise SE,Aung K,Jarou ZJ,Mehrshahi P,Li Z,Hardy AC,Carr DJ,Sharkey TD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For future food security, it is important that wheat, one of the most widely consumed crops in the world, can survive the threat of abiotic and biotic stresses. New genetic variation is currently being introduced into wheat through introgressions from its wild relatives. For trait discovery, it is necessary that each ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Grewal S,Hubbart-Edwards S,Yang C,Devi U,Baker L,Heath J,Ashling S,Scholefield D,Howells C,Yarde J,Isaac P,King IP,King J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM crops are the most studied crops in history. Approximately 5% of the safety studies on them show adverse effects that are a cause for concern and tend to be featured in media reports. Although these reports are based on just a handful of GM events, they are used to cast doubt on all GM crops. Furthermore, they tend...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sánchez MA,Parrott WA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue fever is a mosquito (Aedes aegypti) -transmitted viral disease that is endemic in more than 125 countries around the world. There are four serotypes of the dengue virus (DENV 1-4) and a safe and effective dengue vaccine must provide protection against all four serotypes. To date, the first vaccine, Dengvaxia (C...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： van Eerde A,Gottschamel J,Bock R,Hansen KEA,Munang'andu HM,Daniell H,Liu Clarke J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific expression of transgenes is essential in plant breeding programmes to avoid the fitness costs caused by constitutive expression of a target gene. However, knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene expression and practicable tissue-specific promoters is limited. In this study, we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Cai M,Wei J,Li X,Xu C,Wang S

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：:Modified fatty acids (mFA) have diverse uses; for example, cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) are feedstocks for producing coatings, lubricants, plastics and cosmetics. The expression of mFA-producing enzymes in crop and model plants generally results in lower levels of mFA accumulation than in their natural-occurring sou...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yu XH,Cahoon RE,Horn PJ,Shi H,Prakash RR,Cai Y,Hearney M,Chapman KD,Cahoon EB,Schwender J,Shanklin J

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates plant adaptive responses to various environmental stresses, while L-ascorbic acid (AsA) that is also named vitamin C is an important antioxidant and involves in plant stress tolerance and the immune system in domestic animals. Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and stylo [Stylosant...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bao G,Zhuo C,Qian C,Xiao T,Guo Z,Lu S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of a reference genome sequence of bread wheat is challenging due to its specific features such as the genome size of 17 Gbp, polyploid nature and prevalence of repetitive sequences. BAC-by-BAC sequencing based on chromosomal physical maps, adopted by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium as...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Staňková H,Hastie AR,Chan S,Vrána J,Tulpová Z,Kubaláková M,Visendi P,Hayashi S,Luo M,Batley J,Edwards D,Doležel J,Šimková H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad spectrum protection against different insects and pathogens requires multigene engineering. However, such broad spectrum protection against biotic stress is provided by a single protein in some medicinal plants. Therefore, tobacco chloroplasts were transformed with the agglutinin gene from Pinellia ternata (pta)...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jin S,Zhang X,Daniell H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic engineering of plants is important in both basic and applied research. However, the expression of a transgene can dwindle over time as the plant's small (s)RNA-guided silencing pathways shut it down. The silencing pathways have evolved as antiviral defence mechanisms, and viruses have co-evolved viral silen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Naim F,Shrestha P,Singh SP,Waterhouse PM,Wood CC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a physiological role of heat-shock proteins (HSP) in antigen presentation and immune response activation has not been directly demonstrated, their use as vaccine components is under clinical trial. We have previously demonstrated that the structure of plant-derived HSP70 (pHSP70) can be superimposed to the ma...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Buriani G,Mancini C,Benvenuto E,Baschieri S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tomato PROCERA gene encodes a DELLA protein, and loss-of-function mutations derepress growth. We used CRISPR/Cas9 and a single guide RNAs (sgRNA) to target mutations to the PROCERA DELLA domain, and recovered several loss-of-function mutations and a dominant dwarf mutation that carries a deletion of one amino acid...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tomlinson L,Yang Y,Emenecker R,Smoker M,Taylor J,Perkins S,Smith J,MacLean D,Olszewski NE,Jones JDG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of resistance to the insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in insects is the major threat to the continued success of transgenic Bt crops in agriculture. The fitness of Bt-resistant insects on Bt and non-Bt plants is a key parameter that determines the development of Bt resistance in insect ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tetreau G,Wang R,Wang P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-expression of protease inhibitors like the tomato cystatin SlCYS8 is useful to increase recombinant protein production in plants, but key proteases involved in protein proteolysis are still unknown. Here, we performed activity-based protein profiling to identify proteases that are inhibited by SlCYS8 in agroinfiltr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jutras PV,Grosse-Holz F,Kaschani F,Kaiser M,Michaud D,van der Hoorn RAL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic rice expressing soybean glycinin in its endosperm was crossed with two types of low-glutelin mutants to determine how much storage the protein mutants can contribute to increases in glycinin accumulation. The glycinin level (102 microg/100 mg seed) in the parental transgenic line was enhanced to approximate...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tada Y,Utsumi S,Takaiwa F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of gene expression can provide important clues about gene function and molecular basis of developmental processes. Here, we have analysed the chickpea transcriptome in vegetative and flower tissues by exploiting the potential of high-throughput sequencing to measure gene expression. We mapped more than 295...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh VK,Garg R,Jain M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose is an abundant biopolymer and a prominent constituent of plant cell walls. Cellulose is also a central component to plant morphogenesis and contributes the bulk of a plant's biomass. While cellulose synthase (CesA) genes were identified over two decades ago, genetic manipulation of this family to enhance cel...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hu H,Zhang R,Feng S,Wang Y,Wang Y,Fan C,Li Y,Liu Z,Schneider R,Xia T,Ding SY,Persson S,Peng L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering to enhance mercury phytoremediation has been accomplished by expression of the merAB genes that protects the cell by converting Hg[II] into Hg[0] which volatilizes from the cell. A drawback of this approach is that toxic Hg is released back into the environment. A better phytoremediation strategy w...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ruiz ON,Alvarez D,Torres C,Roman L,Daniell H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype specificity is a big problem lagging the development of efficient hexaploid wheat transformation system. Increasingly, the biosecurity of genetically modified organisms is garnering public attention, so the generation of marker-free transgenic plants is very important to the eventual potential commercial rele...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wang K,Liu H,Du L,Ye X

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Menadione sodium bisulphite (MSB) is a water-soluble derivative of vitamin K3, or menadione, and has been previously demonstrated to function as a plant defence activator against several pathogens in several plant species. However, there are no reports of the role of this vitamin in the induction of resistance in the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Borges AA,Dobon A,Expósito-Rodríguez M,Jiménez-Arias D,Borges-Pérez A,Casañas-Sánchez V,Pérez JA,Luis JC,Tornero P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downy mildew (Plasmopara halstedii (Farl.) Berlese et de Toni) is a serious foliar pathogen of cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Genetic resistance is conditioned by several linked downy mildew resistance gene specificities in the HaRGC1 cluster of TIR-NBS-LRR resistance gene candidates (RGCs) on linkage gr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Slabaugh MB,Yu JK,Tang S,Heesacker A,Hu X,Lu G,Bidney D,Han F,Knapp SJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing technologies provide opportunities to understand the genetic basis of phenotypic differences, such as abiotic stress response, even in the closely related cultivars via identification of large number of DNA polymorphisms. We performed whole-genome resequencing of three rice cultivars with co...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jain M,Moharana KC,Shankar R,Kumari R,Garg R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of the microsomal ω6 oleate desaturase during the seed development of soybean (Glycine max) with the 420-bp soybean FAD2-1A intron as RNAi trigger shifts the conventional fatty acid composition of soybean oil from 20% oleic and 60% polyunsaturates to one containing greater than 80% oleic acid and less than...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wagner N,Mroczka A,Roberts PD,Schreckengost W,Voelker T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of novel transgenic floricultural crops with altered petal properties requires transgenes that confer a useful trait and petal-specific promoters. Several promoters have been shown to control transgenes in petals. However, all suffer from inherent drawbacks such as low petal specificity and restricted activ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Azuma M,Morimoto R,Hirose M,Morita Y,Hoshino A,Iida S,Oshima Y,Mitsuda N,Ohme-Takagi M,Shiratake K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00