microRNA-dependent gene regulatory networks in maize leaf senescence.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scopoletin and its glucoside scopolin are important secondary metabolites synthesized in plants as a defense mechanism against various environmental stresses. They belong to coumarins, a class of phytochemicals with significant biological activities that is widely used in medical application and cosmetics in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Siwinska J,Kadzinski L,Banasiuk R,Gwizdek-Wisniewska A,Olry A,Banecki B,Lojkowska E,Ihnatowicz A

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Botrytis cinerea xylanase Xyn11A has been previously shown to be required for full virulence of this organism despite its poor contribution to the secreted xylanase activity and the low xylan content of B. cinerea hosts. Intriguingly, xylanases from other fungi have been shown to have the property, indep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Noda J,Brito N,González C

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfur is a major component of biological molecules and thus an essential element for plants. Deficiency of sulfate, the main source of sulfur in soils, negatively influences plant growth and crop yield. The effect of sulfate deficiency on plants has been well characterized at the physiological, transcriptom...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Canales J,Uribe F,Henríquez-Valencia C,Lovazzano C,Medina J,Vidal EA

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Roots play a central role in plant response to water stress (WS). They are involved in its perception and signalling to the leaf as well as in allowing the plant to adapt to maintaining an adequate water balance. Only a few studies have investigated the molecular/biochemical responses to WS in roots of peren...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Prinsi B,Negri AS,Failla O,Scienza A,Espen L

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elytrigia lolioides (Kar. et Kir.) Nevski, which is a perennial, cross-pollinating wheatgrass that is distributed in Russia and Kazakhstan, is classified into Elytrigia, Elymus, and Lophopyrum genera by taxonomists on the basis of different taxonomic classification systems. However, the genomic constitution ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang L,Jiang Y,Shi Q,Wang Y,Sha L,Fan X,Kang H,Zhang H,Sun G,Zhang L,Zhou Y

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:APETALA2-like genes encode plant-specific transcription factors, some of which possess one microRNA172 (miR172) binding site. The miR172 and its target euAP2 genes are involved in the process of phase transformation and flower organ development in many plants. However, the roles of miR172 and its target AP2 ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang T,Ping X,Cao Y,Jian H,Gao Y,Wang J,Tan Y,Xu X,Lu K,Li J,Liu L

更新日期：2019-08-01 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:Wheat straw is a rich resource worldwide. Straw return is an effective strategy to alleviate soil-borne diseases on monoculture watermelon. Previous studies focus on soil structure, physical and chemical properties; however, little is known about the molecular responses on host plant. RESULTS:No significant...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tang L,Nie S,Li W,Fan C,Wang S,Wu F,Pan K

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An interesting seed protein family with a role in preventing insect herbivory is the multi-gene, APA family encoding the alpha-amylase inhibitor, phytohemagglutinin and arcelin proteins of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Variability for this gene family exists and has been exploited to breed for insect res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Blair MW,Prieto S,Díaz LM,Buendía HF,Cardona C

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in eukaryotes. In rice, MIR7695 expression is regulated by infection with the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae with subsequent down-regulation of an alternatively spliced transcript of natural res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sánchez-Sanuy F,Peris-Peris C,Tomiyama S,Okada K,Hsing YI,San Segundo B,Campo S

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGPase) is a sugar-metabolizing enzyme (E.C. 2.7.7.9) that catalyzes a reversible reaction of UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate from glucose-1-phosphate and UTP. UDP-glucose is a key intermediate sugar that is channeled to multiple metabolic pathways. The functional role of UGPase ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Payyavula RS,Tschaplinski TJ,Jawdy SS,Sykes RW,Tuskan GA,Kalluri UC

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dehydrins play positive roles in regulating plant abiotic stress responses. The objective of this study was to characterize two dehydrin genes, CdDHN4-L and CdDHN4-S, generated by alternative splicing of CdDHN4 in bermudagrass. RESULTS:Overexpression of CdDHN4-L with φ-segment and CdDHN4-S lacking of φ-segm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lv A,Su L,Liu X,Xing Q,Huang B,An Y,Zhou P

更新日期：2018-11-26 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:Damask roses (Rosa damascena Mill.) are mainly used for essential oil production. Previous studies have indicated that all production material in Bulgaria and Turkey consists of only one genotype. Nine polymorphic microsatellite markers were used to analyze the genetic diversity of 40 accessions of R. damasc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Babaei A,Tabaei-Aghdaei SR,Khosh-Khui M,Omidbaigi R,Naghavi MR,Esselink GD,Smulders MJ

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Forest species ranges are confined by environmental limitations such as cold stress. The natural range shifts of pine forests due to climate change and proactive-assisted population migration may each be constrained by the ability of pine species to tolerate low temperatures, especially in northern latitudes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Taïbi K,Del Campo AD,Vilagrosa A,Bellés JM,López-Gresa MP,López-Nicolás JM,Mulet JM

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Castor seeds are a major source for ricinoleate, an important industrial raw material. Genomics studies of castor plant will provide critical information for understanding seed metabolism, for effectively engineering ricinoleate production in transgenic oilseeds, or for genetically improving castor plants by...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lu C,Wallis JG,Browse J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trees belonging to the Casuarinaceae and Betulaceae families play an important ecological role and are useful tools in forestry for degraded land rehabilitation and reforestation. These functions are linked to their capacity to establish symbiotic relationships with a nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium of the ge...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Diédhiou I,Tromas A,Cissoko M,Gray K,Parizot B,Crabos A,Alloisio N,Fournier P,Carro L,Svistoonoff S,Gherbi H,Hocher V,Diouf D,Laplaze L,Champion A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is known that resistant rootstocks facilitate management of fire blight disease, incited by Erwinia amylovora, the role of rootstock root traits in providing systemic defense against E. amylovora is unclear. In this study, the hypothesis that rootstocks of higher root vigor provide higher toleran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Singh J,Fabrizio J,Desnoues E,Silva JP,Busch W,Khan A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Good establishment is important for rapid leaf area development in wheat crops. Poor establishment results in fewer, later-emerging plants, reduced leaf area and tiller number. In addition, poorly established crops suffer from increased soil moisture loss through evaporation and greater competition from weed...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bovill WD,Hyles J,Zwart AB,Ford BA,Perera G,Phongkham T,Brooks BJ,Rebetzke GJ,Hayden MJ,Hunt JR,Spielmeyer W

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ornamental crop Calluna vulgaris is of increasing importance to the horticultural industry in the northern hemisphere due to a flower organ mutation: the flowers of the 'bud-flowering' phenotype remain closed i.e. as buds throughout the total flowering period and thereby maintain more colorful flowers fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Borchert T,Eckardt K,Fuchs J,Krüger K,Hohe A

更新日期：2009-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant cuticle is the outermost layer covering aerial tissues and is composed of cutin and waxes. The cuticle plays an important role in protection from environmental stresses and glaucousness, the bluish-white colouration of plant surfaces associated with cuticular waxes, has been suggested as a contribu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bi H,Kovalchuk N,Langridge P,Tricker PJ,Lopato S,Borisjuk N

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding of gravity sensing and response is critical to long-term human habitation in space and can provide new advantages for terrestrial agriculture. To this end, the altered gene expression profile induced by microgravity has been repeatedly queried by microarray and RNA-seq experiments to understand...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kruse CPS,Meyers AD,Basu P,Hutchinson S,Luesse DR,Wyatt SE

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pilea is a genus of perennial herbs from the family Urticaceae, and some species are used as courtyard ornamentals or for medicinal purposes. At present, there is no information about the plastid genome of Pilea, which limits our understanding of this genus. Here, we report 4 plastid genomes of Pilea taxa (P...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li J,Tang J,Zeng S,Han F,Yuan J,Yu J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plastome mutants are ideal resources for elucidating the functions of plastid genes. Numerous studies have been conducted for the function of plastid genes in barley and tobacco; however, related information is limited in Chinese cabbage. RESULTS:A chlorophyll-deficient mutant of Chinese cabbage that was de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tang X,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Huang S,Liu Z,Fei D,Feng H

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distant hybridization is an important way to create interspecific genetic variation and breed new varieties in rice. A lot of backcross introgression lines (BILs) had been constructed for the scientific issues in rice. However, studies on the critical regulatory factor lncRNA in cultivated rice, wild rice an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Cao A,Wang R,Li Z,Li S,Wang J

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hordeum chilense, a native South American diploid wild barley, is one of the species of the genus Hordeum with a high potential for cereal breeding purposes, given its high crossability with other members of the Triticeae tribe. Hexaploid tritordeum (×Tritordeum Ascherson et Graebner, 2n=6×=42, AABBH(ch)H(ch...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castillo A,Ramírez MC,Martín AC,Kilian A,Martín A,Atienza SG

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sucrose synthase (SUS) is widely considered a key enzyme participating in sucrose metabolism in higher plants and regarded as a biochemical marker for sink strength in crops. However, despite significant progress in characterizing the physiological functions of the SUS gene family, knowledge of the trajector...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu X,Yang Y,Liu C,Sun Y,Zhang T,Hou M,Huang S,Yuan H

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The molecular mechanisms of genome reprogramming during transcriptional responses to stress are associated with specific chromatin modifications. Available data, however, describe histone modifications only at individual plant genes induced by stress. We have no knowledge of chromatin modifications taking pl...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： van Dijk K,Ding Y,Malkaram S,Riethoven JJ,Liu R,Yang J,Laczko P,Chen H,Xia Y,Ladunga I,Avramova Z,Fromm M

更新日期：2010-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat seeds provide a staple food and an important protein source for the world's population. Seed germination is vital to wheat growth and development and directly affects grain yield and quality. In this study, we performed the first comparative proteomic analysis of wheat embryo and endosperm during seed ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： He M,Zhu C,Dong K,Zhang T,Cheng Z,Li J,Yan Y

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haematococcus lacustris is an ideal source of astaxanthin (AST), which is stored in oil bodies containing esterified AST (EAST) and triacylglycerol (TAG). Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyze the last step of acyl-CoA-dependent TAG biosynthesis and are also considered as crucial enzymes involved ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui H,Zhao C,Xu W,Zhang H,Hang W,Zhu X,Ji C,Xue J,Zhang C,Li R

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00