An automated, cost-effective and scalable, flood-and-drain based root phenotyping system for cereals.

abstract：:Plants are good sources of biologically active compounds with antimicrobial activity, including polypeptides. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent one of the main barriers of plant innate immunity to environmental stress factors and are attracting much research interest. There are some extraction methods for isolat...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Barashkova AS,Rogozhin EA

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Insect herbivory poses a major threat to maize. Benzoxazinoids are important anti-insect secondary metabolites in maize, whose biosynthetic pathway has been extensively studied. However, yet little is known about how benzoxazinoids are regulated in maize, partly due to lack of mutant resources and recalcitra...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Gao L,Shen G,Zhang L,Qi J,Zhang C,Ma C,Li J,Wang L,Malook SU,Wu J

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Herbaria are valuable sources of extensive curated plant material that are now accessible to genetic studies because of advances in high-throughput, next-generation sequencing methods. As an applied assessment of large-scale recovery of plastid and ribosomal genome sequences from herbarium material for plant...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Nevill PG,Zhong X,Tonti-Filippini J,Byrne M,Hislop M,Thiele K,van Leeuwen S,Boykin LM,Small I

更新日期：2020-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Wheat is one of the most widely grown crop in temperate climates for food and animal feed. In order to meet the demands of the predicted population increase in an ever-changing climate, wheat production needs to dramatically increase. Spike and grain traits are critical determinants of final yield and grain ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Hughes N,Askew K,Scotson CP,Williams K,Sauze C,Corke F,Doonan JH,Nibau C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Root is the principal part of plants to absorb water and nutrient, anchor the plant and affect yield and quality. Non-destructive detection of root traits is difficult to perform due to the hidden nature of the root. Therefore, improved methods to measure roots are necessary to support plant breeding, and op...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Lu W,Wang X,Wang F

更新日期：2019-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that preparation of biological (plant and animal) tissues for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) by chemical fixation and critical point drying results in shrinkage of tissues, often by up to 20-30%, depending on the tissue type and fixation protocol used. We sought to identify a protocol th...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Talbot MJ,White RG

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Plastome (plastid genome) sequences provide valuable information for understanding the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of plants. Although the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology has led to an explosion of plastome sequences, annotation remains a significant bottlen...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Qu XJ,Moore MJ,Li DZ,Yi TS

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Functional genomic studies using genetics approaches of conifers are hampered by the complex and enormous genome, long vegetative growth period, and exertion in genetic transformation. Thus, the research carried out on gene function in Pinus tabuliformis is typically performed by heterologous expression base...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Liu S,Ma J,Liu H,Guo Y,Li W,Niu S

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Open tissue culture technique could be simplified by using different bacteriostatic agents. There is a great difference in the bacteriostatic effects of different antimicrobial agents on various explants. However, there is no report about the effective bacteriostatic agent for open tissue culture of Acacia a...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Huang L,Wang H,Shahid MQ,Zeng B

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The inability to genetically transform any fern species has been a major technical barrier to unlocking fern biology. Initial attempts to overcome this limitation were based on transient transformation approaches or achieved very low efficiencies. A highly efficient method of stable transformation was recent...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Plackett AR,Rabbinowitsch EH,Langdale JA

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brassinosteriods (BRs) are a group of important phytohormones that have major effects on plant growth and development. To fully elucidate the function of BRs, a sensitive BR assay is required. However, most of the previously reported methods are tedious and time-consuming due to multiple pretreatment steps. ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Ding J,Wu JH,Liu JF,Yuan BF,Feng YQ

更新日期：2014-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Phytohormones are the key metabolites participating in the regulation of multiple functions of plant organism. Among them, jasmonates, as well as abscisic and salicylic acids are responsible for triggering and modulating plant reactions targeted against pathogens and herbivores, as well as resis...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Balcke GU,Handrick V,Bergau N,Fichtner M,Henning A,Stellmach H,Tissier A,Hause B,Frolov A

更新日期：2012-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nectar reabsorption is a widely known phenomenon, related to the strategy of resource-recovery and also to maintain the nectar homeostasis at the nectary. The method currently performed to demonstrate nectar being reabsorbed involves the use of radioactive tracers applied to the nectary. Although this method...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Cardoso-Gustavson P,Robazzi Bignelli Valente Aguiar JM,Ricardo Pansarin E,de Barros F

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Plant parasitic weeds belonging to the genus Striga are a major threat for food production in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The parasite's life cycle starts with the induction of seed germination by host plant-derived signals, followed by parasite attachment, infection, outgrowth, flowering, reprodu...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Masteling R,Voorhoeve L,IJsselmuiden J,Dini-Andreote F,de Boer W,Raaijmakers JM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Motivation:In 2005, researchers from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, INRAE) started a collaboration with the French farmers' seed network Réseau Semences Paysannes (RSP) on bread wheat par...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： De Oliveira Y,Burlot L,Dawson JC,Goldringer I,Madi D,Rivière P,Steinbach D,van Frank G,Thomas M

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Starch is the most important source of calories for human nutrition and the majority of it is produced by cereal farming. Starch is also used as a renewable raw material in a range of industrial sectors. It can be chemically modified to introduce new physicochemical properties. In this way starch is adapted ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Carciofi M,Blennow A,Nielsen MM,Holm PB,Hebelstrup KH

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kinome profiling aims at the parallel analysis of kinase activities in a cell. Novel developed arrays containing consensus substrates for kinases are used to assess those kinase activities. The arrays described in this paper were already used to determine kinase activities in mammalian systems, but since sub...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Ritsema T,Joore J,van Workum W,Pieterse CM

更新日期：2007-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leaf rust (LR), caused by Puccinia triticina and is an important disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The most sustainable method for controlling rust diseases is deployment of cultivars incorporating adult plant resistance (APR). However, phenotyping breeding populations or germplasm collections for res...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Riaz A,Periyannan S,Aitken E,Hickey L

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Assessing the impact of the environment on plant performance requires growing plants under controlled environmental conditions. Plant phenotypes are a product of genotype × environment (G × E), and the Enviratron at Iowa State University is a facility for testing under controlled conditions the effects of th...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Bao Y,Zarecor S,Shah D,Tuel T,Campbell DA,Chapman AVE,Imberti D,Kiekhaefer D,Imberti H,Lübberstedt T,Yin Y,Nettleton D,Lawrence-Dill CJ,Whitham SA,Tang L,Howell SH

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Many agronomic traits have been bred into modern wheat varieties, but wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) continues to be vulnerable to heat stress, with high night-time temperature (HNT) stress shown to have large negative impact on yield and quality. Global mean temperature during the day is consistently warming ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Hein NT,Wagner D,Bheemanahalli R,Šebela D,Bustamante C,Chiluwal A,Neilsen ML,Jagadish SVK

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Primer design is a critical step in the application of PCR-based technologies in gene expression and genetic diversity analysis. As more plant genomes have been sequenced in recent years, the emphasis of primer design strategy has shifted to genome-wide and high-throughput direction. This paper summarizes recent advan...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Yang X,Scheffler BE,Weston LA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Deep rooting is one of the most promising plant traits for improving crop yield under water-limited conditions. Most root phenotyping methods are designed for laboratory-grown plants, typically measuring very young plants not grown in soil and not allowing full development of the root system. Results:This s...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Chen S,Svane SF,Thorup-Kristensen K

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pentatricopeptide-repeat proteins (PPRs) characterized by tandem arrays of a degenerate 35-amino-acid repeat (PPR motif) can bind a single strand RNA and regulate organelle gene expression at the post-transcriptional level, including RNA cleavage, splicing, editing and stability etc. PPRs are conserved in al...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Chen J,Zhu H,Huang J,Huang W

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 10 years, high-density SNP arrays and DNA re-sequencing have illuminated the majority of the genotypic space for a number of organisms, including humans, maize, rice and Arabidopsis. For any researcher willing to define and score a phenotype across many individuals, Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Korte A,Farlow A

更新日期：2013-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods of in-house plant phenotyping are providing a powerful new tool for plant biology studies. The self-constructed and commercial platforms established in the last few years, employ non-destructive methods and measurements on a large and high-throughput scale. The platforms offer to certain extent, automa...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Humplík JF,Lazár D,Husičková A,Spíchal L

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The demand for effective use of water resources has increased because of ongoing global climate transformations in the agriculture science sector. Cost-effective and timely distributions of the appropriate amount of water are vital not only to maintain a healthy status of plants leaves but to drive the produ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Zahid A,Abbas HT,Ren A,Zoha A,Heidari H,Shah SA,Imran MA,Alomainy A,Abbasi QH

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Monitoring the timing of seedling emergence and early development via high-throughput phenotyping with computer vision is a challenging topic of high interest in plant science. While most studies focus on the measurements of leaf area index or detection of specific events such as emergence, little attention ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Samiei S,Rasti P,Ly Vu J,Buitink J,Rousseau D

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archegoniates (bryophytes, ferns and gymnosperms), such as the moss Physcomitrella patens, possess freely motile sperm cells (spermatozoids) which reach the egg cell via surface water. Although these motile flagellated sperm cells are a traditional botanical subject, they have not been thoroughly analysed in...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Horst NA,Reski R

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:The powdery mildew disease represents a valuable patho-system to study the interaction between plant hosts and obligate biotrophic fungal pathogens. Numerous discoveries have been made on the basis of the quantitative evaluation of plant-powdery mildew interactions, especially in the context of ...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Weßling R,Panstruga R

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A multitude of different imaging systems are already available to image genetically altered RNA species; however, only a few of these techniques are actually suitable to visualize endogenous RNA. One possibility is to use fluorescently-labelled and hybridization-sensitive probes. In order to yield more infor...

journal_title：Plant methods

authors： Göhring J,Fulcher N,Schilcher K,Barta A,Jacak J

更新日期：2014-05-31 00:00:00