Effect of temperature stress on the early vegetative development of Brassica oleracea L.

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: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: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:It is known that hexaploid common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has stronger adaptability to many stressful environments than its tetraploid wheat progenitor. However, the physiological basis and evolutionary course to acquire these enhanced adaptabilities by common wheat remain understudied. Here, we aimed t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang C,Yang Z,Zhao L,Sun F,Liu B

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effective functional analysis of male gametophyte development requires new tools enabling the spatially and temporally controlled expression of both marker genes and modified genes of interest. In particular, promoters driving expression at earlier developmental stages including microspores are required....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Honys D,Oh SA,Renák D,Donders M,Solcová B,Johnson JA,Boudová R,Twell D

更新日期：2006-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invertases are ubiquitous enzymes that irreversibly cleave sucrose into fructose and glucose. Plant invertases play important roles in carbohydrate metabolism, plant development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses. In potato (Solanum tuberosum), invertases are involved in 'cold-induced sweetening' of tu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Draffehn AM,Meller S,Li L,Gebhardt C

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auxin-induced genes regulate many aspects of plant growth and development. The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) gene family, one of three major early auxin-responsive families, is ubiquitous in the plant kingdom and its members function as regulators in modulating hormonal homeostasis, and stress adaptations. Specific...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yu D,Qanmber G,Lu L,Wang L,Li J,Yang Z,Liu Z,Li Y,Chen Q,Mendu V,Li F,Yang Z

更新日期：2018-12-12 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:The R2R3-MYB genes comprise one of the largest transcription factor gene families in plants, playing regulatory roles in plant-specific developmental processes, metabolite accumulation and defense responses. Although genome-wide analysis of this gene family has been carried out in some species, the R2R3-MYB ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stracke R,Holtgräwe D,Schneider J,Pucker B,Sörensen TR,Weisshaar B

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：CORRECTION:Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the number of genes overlaying the bar graph in Fig. 3A were incorrectly counted and inserted (i.e. including a title tile, and in inverse order). The corrected numbers are below and match with the listed genes supplied in Additiona...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dukowic-Schulze S,Sundararajan A,Mudge J,Ramaraj T,Farmer AD,Wang M,Sun Q,Pillardy J,Kianian S,Retzel EF,Pawlowski WP,Chen C

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In nature, orchid plants depend completely on symbiotic fungi for their nutrition at the germination and the subsequent seedling (protocorm) stages. However, only limited quantitative methods for evaluating the orchid-fungus interactions at the protocorm stage are currently available, which greatly constrain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yamamoto T,Miura C,Fuji M,Nagata S,Otani Y,Yagame T,Yamato M,Kaminaka H

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame (Sesame indicum L.) is well-known as a versatile industrial crop having various usages and contains 50-55% oil, 20% protein, 14-20% carbohydrate and 2-3% fiber. Several environmental factors are known to adversely affect yield and productivity of sesame. Our overall aim was to improve the growth, yiel...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nosheen A,Bano A,Naz R,Yasmin H,Hussain I,Ullah F,Keyani R,Hassan MN,Tahir AT

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant breeding has been proposed as one of the most effective and environmentally safe methods to control fungal infection and to reduce fumonisin accumulation. However, conventional breeding can be hampered by the complex genetic architecture of resistance to fumonisin accumulation and marker-assisted selec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Samayoa LF,Cao A,Santiago R,Malvar RA,Butrón A

更新日期：2019-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone modifications and histone variants are of importance in many biological processes. To understand the biological functions of the global dynamics of histone modifications and histone variants in higher plants, we elucidated the variants and post-translational modifications of histones in soybean, a le...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu T,Yuan T,Tsai SN,Wang C,Sun SM,Lam HM,Ngai SM

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as important gene regulators in plants. MiRNAs and their targets have been extensively studied in Arabidopsis and rice. However, relatively little is known about the characterization of miRNAs and their target genes in peach (Prunus persica), which is a complex crop w...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu H,Xia R,Zhao B,An YQ,Dardick CD,Callahan AM,Liu Z

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:microRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in plant development processes and play pivotal roles in plant adaptation to environmental stresses. Salicornia europaea, a salt mash euhalophyte, is a suitable model plant to study salt adaptation mechanisms. S. europaea is also a vegetable, forage, and oilseed that can be ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Feng J,Wang J,Fan P,Jia W,Nie L,Jiang P,Chen X,Lv S,Wan L,Chang S,Li S,Li Y

更新日期：2015-02-26 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：: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:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) is a critical enzyme catalyzing the β-carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to oxaloacetate, a tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediate. PEPC typically exists as a Class-1 PEPC homotetramer composed of plant-type PEPC (PTPC) polypeptides, and two of the subunits...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Igawa T,Fujiwara M,Tanaka I,Fukao Y,Yanagawa Y

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Association studies are of great interest to identify genes explaining trait variation since they deal with more than just a few alleles like classical QTL analyses. They are usually performed using collections representing a wide range of variability but which could present a genetic substructure. The aim o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Auzanneau J,Huyghe C,Escobar-Gutiérrez AJ,Julier B,Gastal F,Barre P

更新日期：2011-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is increasingly appreciated that electrical controls acting at the cellular and supra-cellular levels influence development and initiate rapid responses to environmental cues. An emerging method for non-invasive optical imaging of electrical activity at cell membranes uses genetically-encoded voltage indi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Matzke AJ,Matzke M

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Real-time RT-PCR has become a powerful technique to monitor low-abundance mRNA expression and is a useful tool when examining bacterial gene expression inside infected host tissues. However, correct evaluation of data requires accurate and reliable normalisation against internal standards. Thus, the identifi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Takle GW,Toth IK,Brurberg MB

更新日期：2007-09-21 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:Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) represent a ubiquitous gene family encoding detoxification enzymes able to recognize reactive electrophilic xenobiotic molecules as well as compounds of endogenous origin. Anthocyanin pigments require GSTs for their transport into the vacuole since their cytoplasmic retentio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Licciardello C,D'Agostino N,Traini A,Recupero GR,Frusciante L,Chiusano ML

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) involving tandem acceptors that are separated by three nucleotides (NAGNAG) is an evolutionarily widespread class of AS, which is well studied in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse). It has also been shown to be common in the model seed plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryz...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sinha R,Zimmer AD,Bolte K,Lang D,Reski R,Platzer M,Rensing SA,Backofen R

更新日期：2010-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crop quality and yield are affected by abiotic and biotic stresses, and heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are considered to play important roles in regulating plant tolerance under various stresses. To investigate the response of Cucurbita moschata to abiotic stress, we analyzed the genome of C. moscha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shen C,Yuan J

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A molecular-level understanding of the loss of CURVY1 (CVY1) gene expression (which encodes a member of the receptor-like protein kinase family) was investigated to gain insights into the mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis and development in Arabidopsis thaliana. RESULTS:Using a reverse genetic and c...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gachomo EW,Jno Baptiste L,Kefela T,Saidel WM,Kotchoni SO

更新日期：2014-08-27 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:Two component systems (TCS) are phosphotransfer-based signal transduction pathways first discovered in bacteria, where they perform most of the sensing tasks. They present a highly modular structure, comprising a receptor with histidine kinase activity and a response regulator which regulates gene expression...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Muñiz LM,Royo J,Gómez E,Baudot G,Paul W,Hueros G

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants, nitrate (NO3-) nutrition gives rise to a natural N isotopic signature (δ15N), which correlates with the δ15N of the N source. However, little is known about the relationship between the δ15N of the N source and the 14N/15N fractionation in plants under ammonium (NH4+) nutrition. When NH4+ is the m...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ariz I,Cruz C,Moran JF,González-Moro MB,García-Olaverri C,González-Murua C,Martins-Loução MA,Aparicio-Tejo PM

更新日期：2011-05-16 00:00:00