Overexpression of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) induces a hypoxic response in Nicotiana tabacum leaves.

abstract：:In order to investigate the genetic bases of the physiological syndrome mealiness that causes abnormal fruit softening and juice loss in apples, an integrative approach was devised, consisting of sensory, instrumental, biochemical, genetic, and genomic methods. High levels of activity of α-L-arabinofuranosidase (α-AFa...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Nobile PM,Wattebled F,Quecini V,Girardi CL,Lormeau M,Laurens F

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the role of cytosolic antioxidant enzymes in drought stress protection, transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi) plants overexpressing cytosolic Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (cytsod) (EC 1.15.1.1) or ascorbate peroxidase (cytapx) (EC 1.11.1.1) alone, or in combination, were produced and t...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Faize M,Burgos L,Faize L,Piqueras A,Nicolas E,Barba-Espin G,Clemente-Moreno MJ,Alcobendas R,Artlip T,Hernandez JA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant annexins are ubiquitous, soluble proteins capable of Ca(2+)-dependent and Ca(2+)-independent binding to endomembranes and the plasma membrane. Some members of this multigene family are capable of binding to F-actin, hydrolysing ATP and GTP, acting as peroxidases or cation channels. These multifunctional proteins...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Mortimer JC,Laohavisit A,Macpherson N,Webb A,Brownlee C,Battey NH,Davies JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grape hyacinth (Muscari) is an important ornamental bulbous plant with an extraordinary blue colour. Muscari armeniacum, whose flowers can be naturally white, provides an opportunity to unravel the complex metabolic networks underlying certain biochemical traits, especially colour. A blue flower cDNA library of M. arm...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Lou Q,Liu Y,Qi Y,Jiao S,Tian F,Jiang L,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive X-ray computed tomography (XRCT) is increasingly used in rhizosphere research to visualize development of soil-root interfaces in situ. However, exposing living systems to X-rays can potentially impact their processes and metabolites. In order to evaluate these effects, we assessed the responses of rhizos...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ganther M,Yim B,Ibrahim Z,Bienert MD,Lippold E,Maccario L,Sørensen SJ,Bienert GP,Vetterlein D,Heintz-Buschart A,Blagodatskaya E,Smalla K,Tarkka MT

更新日期：2020-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormone ethylene regulates a wide range of plant developmental processes and EBF (EIN3-binding F-box) proteins were shown to negatively regulate the ethylene signalling pathway via mediating the degradation of EIN3/EIL proteins. The present study reports on the identification of two tomato F-box genes, Sl-EBF1 and...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Yang Y,Wu Y,Pirrello J,Regad F,Bouzayen M,Deng W,Li Z

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding regulatory RNAs that play key roles in the process of plant development. To date, extensive studies of miRNAs have been performed in a few model plants, but few efforts have focused on small RNAs (sRNAs) in conifers because of the lack of reference sequences for their enormous ge...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Qiu Z,Li X,Zhao Y,Zhang M,Wan Y,Cao D,Lu S,Lin J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All members of the sulphotransferase (SOT, EC 2.8.2.-) protein family use 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulphate (PAPS) as the sulphuryl donor and transfer the sulphonate group to an appropriate hydroxyl group of several classes of substrates. These enzymes have highly conserved domains and can be found in eubacteria ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Klein M,Papenbrock J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylene production and expression of ethylene biosynthetic genes was investigated in senescing flowers of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) cultivars 'White Candle (WC)' and 'Light Pink Barbara (LPB)', with long and short vase-lives, respectively. Ethylene production from the gynoecium and petals of senescing 'WC'...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Nukui H,Kudo S,Yamashita A,Satoh S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total spikelet number per panicle (TSN) is one of the determinants of grain productivity in rice (Oryza sativa L.). In this study, we attempted to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for TSN in the introgression lines with high TSN, derived from the cross of Indica Group variety IR 64 with new plant type lines. Two ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Sasaki K,Fujita D,Koide Y,Lumanglas PD,Gannaban RB,Tagle AG,Obara M,Fukuta Y,Kobayashi N,Ishimaru T

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Active gibberellin (GA(1)) is an important mediator of thermoperiodic growth in pea. Plants grown under lower day than night temperature (negative DIF) elongate less and have reduced levels of GA(1) compared with plants grown at higher day than night temperature (positive DIF). By comparing the wild type (WT) and the ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Stavang JA,Pettersen RI,Wendell M,Solhaug KA,Junttila O,Moe R,Olsen JE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil-borne fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae infects a wide range of dicotyledonous plants including cotton, tobacco, and Arabidopsis. Among the effector proteins secreted by V. dahliae, the 16 kDa PevD1 induces a hypersensitive response in tobacco. Here we report the high-resolution structure of PevD1 with fol...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Zhou R,Zhu T,Han L,Liu M,Xu M,Liu Y,Han D,Qiu D,Gong Q,Liu X

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal compartmentation of carboxylation processes is a defining feature of crassulacean acid metabolism and involves circadian control of key metabolic and transport steps that regulate the supply and demand for carbon over a 24h cycle. Recent insights on the molecular workings of the circadian clock and its connec...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ceusters J,Borland AM,Taybi T,Frans M,Godts C,De Proft MP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, the OEP16.1 channel pore in the outer envelope membrane of mature pea (Pisum sativum) chloroplasts in vitro has been characterized to be selective for amino acids. Isolation of OEP16.2, a second OEP16 isoform from pea, in the current study allowed membrane localization and gene expression of OEP16 to be fo...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Pudelski B,Schock A,Hoth S,Radchuk R,Weber H,Hofmann J,Sonnewald U,Soll J,Philippar K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants sensitive to ionizing radiation in yeast and mammals include an assortment of DNA repair genes. The majority of these DNA repair genes are involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. In this study a forward genetic screen is used to identify gamma-sensitive mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. The gamma-pl...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Hefner E,Preuss SB,Britt AB

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch.) the degradation of the pectic compounds of the cell wall is considered to be the principal component responsible for fruit softening. Many genes encoding enzymes acting on the different polymers of the pectic matrix have been shown to be highly expressed during the late phases of s...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Trainotti L,Pavanello A,Zanin D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanins are important plant pigments that fulfil many physiological and ecological functions. Anthocyanin biosynthesis is controlled by numerous regulatory factors at the transcriptional level. Jasmonates (JAs) has been shown to induce anthocyanin accumulation in several plant species, however, the molecular mech...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Shan X,Zhang Y,Peng W,Wang Z,Xie D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for almost one-fifth of the primary production on Earth, the unicellular eukaryotic group of diatoms plays a key ecological and biogeochemical role in our contemporary oceans. Furthermore, as producers of various lipids and pigments, and characterized by their finely ornamented silica cell wall, diatoms hol...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Huysman MJ,Vyverman W,De Veylder L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root phenotyping provides trait information for plant breeding. A shortcoming of high-throughput root phenotyping is the limitation to seedling plants and failure to make inferences on mature root systems. We suggest root system architecture (RSA) models to predict mature root traits and overcome the inference problem...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Zhao J,Bodner G,Rewald B,Leitner D,Nagel KA,Nakhforoosh A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have developed diverse defence mechanisms to ward off herbivorous pests. However, agriculture still faces estimated crop yield losses ranging from 25% to 40% annually. These losses arise not only because of direct feeding damage, but also because many pests serve as vectors of plant viruses. Herbivorous thrips ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Steenbergen M,Abd-El-Haliem A,Bleeker P,Dicke M,Escobar-Bravo R,Cheng G,Haring MA,Kant MR,Kappers I,Klinkhamer PGL,Leiss KA,Legarrea S,Macel M,Mouden S,Pieterse CMJ,Sarde SJ,Schuurink RC,De Vos M,Van Wees SCM,Broekg

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene MtPPRD1, encoding a protein of 132 amino acids containing a proline-rich domain (PRD), has been revealed by suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) with two mRNA populations of embryo axes harvested immediately before and after radicle emergence. Although at the protein level MtPPRD1 showed low homology wit...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Bouton S,Viau L,Lelièvre E,Limami AM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are equipped with a range of defence mechanisms against herbivorous insects. In cruciferous species, jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, and ethylene along with glucosinolates and their hydrolysis products play important roles in plant protection and plant-insect communication. In turn, a number of herbivores have a...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Kusnierczyk A,Winge P,Midelfart H,Armbruster WS,Rossiter JT,Bones AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-parasitic root-knot nematodes induce the formation of giant cells within the plant root, and it has been recognized that auxin accumulates in these feeding sites. Here, we studied the role of the auxin transport system governed by AUX1/LAX3 influx proteins and different PIN efflux proteins during feeding site de...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Kyndt T,Goverse A,Haegeman A,Warmerdam S,Wanjau C,Jahani M,Engler G,de Almeida Engler J,Gheysen G

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved complex mechanisms to balance the efficient use of absorbed light energy in photosynthesis with the capacity to use that energy in assimilation, so avoiding potential damage from excess light. This is particularly important under natural light, which can vary according to weather, solar movement an...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Retkute R,Smith-Unna SE,Smith RW,Burgess AJ,Jensen OE,Johnson GN,Preston SP,Murchie EH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts and mitochondria are indispensable for plant development. They not only provide energy and carbon sources to cells, but also have evolved to become major players in a variety of processes such as amino acid metabolism, hormone biosynthesis and cellular signalling. As semi-autonomous organelles, they conta...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Van Dingenen J,Blomme J,Gonzalez N,Inzé D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing leaf transpiration efficiency (TE) may provide leads for growing rice like dryland cereals such as wheat (Triticum aestivum). To explore avenues for improving TE in rice, variations in stomatal conductance (gs) and mesophyll conductance (gm) and their anatomical determinants were evaluated in two cultivars ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ouyang W,Struik PC,Yin X,Yang J

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We simulated pre-breeding in evolving gene banks - populations of exotic and crop types undergoing optimal contribution selection for long-term genetic gain and management of population genetic diversity. The founder population was based on crosses between elite crop varieties and exotic lines of field pea (Pisum sati...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Cowling WA,Li L,Siddique KHM,Henryon M,Berg P,Banks RG,Kinghorn BP

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Images taken at different spectral bands are increasingly used for characterizing plants and their health status. In contrast to conventional point measurements, imaging detects the distribution and quantity of signals and thus improves the interpretation of fluorescence and reflectance signatures. In multispectral fl...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Lenk S,Chaerle L,Pfündel EE,Langsdorf G,Hagenbeek D,Lichtenthaler HK,Van Der Straeten D,Buschmann C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have revealed the extent of genetic and phenotypic variation between both species and cultivars of tomato. Using a series of tomato lines resulting from crosses between a cherry tomato and three independent large fruit cultivar (Levovil, VilB, and VilD), extensive profiling of both central primary met...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Zanor MI,Rambla JL,Chaïb J,Steppa A,Medina A,Granell A,Fernie AR,Causse M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the most important changes that occur in plants during sexual reproduction involve the transition from a sporophytic to a gametophytic type of development. In this paper, these changes were evaluated for Arabidopsis thaliana. The results obtained clearly show differences in the pattern of distribution of speci...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Coimbra S,Almeida J,Junqueira V,Costa ML,Pereira LG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00