Stable production of cyanophycinase in Nicotiana benthamiana and its functionality to hydrolyse cyanophycin in the murine intestine.

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

abstract：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and Cas9-associated protein systems provide a powerful genetic manipulation tool that can drive plant research forward. Nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) is an enzymatically inactive mutant of Cas9 in which its endonuclease activity is non-functional. The appl...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Moradpour M,Abdulah SNA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) is the main causative agent associated with a group of diseases collectively known as porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCAD). There is a significant economic strain on the global swine industry due to PCAD and the production of commercial PCV-2 vaccines is expensive. Plant expre...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gunter CJ,Regnard GL,Rybicki EP,Hitzeroth II

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Recent report reviews and funding initiatives in the field of plant genomic research are considered in the context of their translation into practical and economic value via plant breeding. It is concluded that there is a deficit in investment and that a change in working styles towards knowledge sharing and connectiv...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Hughes S

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:To infect plants, viruses rely heavily on their host's machinery. Plant genetic resistances based on host factor modifications can be found among existing natural variability and are widely used for some but not all crops. While biotechnology can supply for the lack of natural resistance alleles, new strategies need t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bastet A,Lederer B,Giovinazzo N,Arnoux X,German-Retana S,Reinbold C,Brault V,Garcia D,Djennane S,Gersch S,Lemaire O,Robaglia C,Gallois JL

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrate (NO3-) transporter has been selected as an important gene maker in the process of environmental adoption in rice cultivars. In this work, we transferred another native OsNAR2.1 promoter with driving OsNAR2.1 gene into rice plants. The transgenic lines with exogenous pOsNAR2.1:OsNAR2.1 constructs showed enh...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Chen J,Fan X,Qian K,Zhang Y,Song M,Liu Y,Xu G,Fan X

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a de novo genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis of short, 64-base tag-level haplotypes in 4657 accessions of cultivated oat, we discovered 164741 tag-level (TL) genetic variants containing 241224 SNPs. From this, the marker density of an oat consensus map was increased by the addition of more than 70000 loci. The...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bekele WA,Wight CP,Chao S,Howarth CJ,Tinker NA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considered responsible for one million deaths in Ireland and widespread famine in the European continent during the 1840s, late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, remains the most devastating disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) with about 15%-30% annual yield loss in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting mainly sm...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ghislain M,Byarugaba AA,Magembe E,Njoroge A,Rivera C,Román ML,Tovar JC,Gamboa S,Forbes GA,Kreuze JF,Barekye A,Kiggundu A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：: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：:Soya bean (Glycine max) and grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) seeds are important sources of dietary proteins; however, they also contain antinutritional metabolite oxalic acid (OA). Excess dietary intake of OA leads to nephrolithiasis due to the formation of calcium oxalate crystals in kidneys. Besides, OA is also a known...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kumar V,Chattopadhyay A,Ghosh S,Irfan M,Chakraborty N,Chakraborty S,Datta A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome to tolerate introgression from related genomes can be exploited for wheat improvement. A resistance to powdery mildew expressed by a derivative of the cross-bread wheat cv. Tähti × T. militinae (Tm) is known to be due to the incorporation of a Tm segment into ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Abrouk M,Balcárková B,Šimková H,Komínkova E,Martis MM,Jakobson I,Timofejeva L,Rey E,Vrána J,Kilian A,Järve K,Doležel J,Valárik M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the declarations and collective measures taken to eradicate hunger at World Food Summits, food security remains one of the biggest issues that we are faced with. The current scenario could worsen due to the alarming increase in world population, further compounded by adverse climatic conditions, such as increa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh J,Pandey P,James D,Chandrasekhar K,Achary VM,Kaul T,Tripathy BC,Reddy MK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lutein and zeaxanthin cannot be synthesized de novo in humans, and although lutein is abundant in fruit and vegetables, good dietary sources of zeaxanthin are scarce. Certain corn varieties provide adequate amounts because the ratio of endosperm β:ε lycopene cyclase activity favours the β-carotene/zeaxanthin branch of...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Naqvi S,Zhu C,Farre G,Sandmann G,Capell T,Christou P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subspecies fastigiata of cultivated groundnut lost fresh seed dormancy (FSD) during domestication and human-made selection. Groundnut varieties lacking FSD experience precocious seed germination during harvest imposing severe losses. Development of easy-to-use genetic markers enables early-generation selection in ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kumar R,Janila P,Vishwakarma MK,Khan AW,Manohar SS,Gangurde SS,Variath MT,Shasidhar Y,Pandey MK,Varshney RK

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen germination and pollen tube growth are important physiological processes of sexual reproduction of plants and also are involved in signal transduction. Our previous study reveals that ZmSTK1 and ZmSTK2 are two receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCK) homologs in Zea mays as members of receptor-like protein kina...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Fan M,Zhang C,Shi L,Liu C,Ma W,Chen M,Liu K,Cai F,Wang G,Wei Z,Jiang M,Liu Z,Javeed A,Lin F

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic modification of Zn/Cd accumulation in roots and shoots for biofortification or phytoremediation is a focus of this manuscript. We expressed AtHMA4 (a P(₁B) ATPase involved in Zn and Cd transport), AtHMA4-trunc (lacking the C-terminal region) and AtHMA4-C terminus (the C-terminal region alone) in tobacco under ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Siemianowski O,Mills RF,Williams LE,Antosiewicz DM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants offer fast, flexible and easily scalable alternative platforms for the production of pharmaceutical proteins, but differences between plant and mammalian N-linked glycans, including the presence of β-1,2-xylose and core α-1,3-fucose residues in plants, can affect the activity, potency and immunogenicity of plan...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jansing J,Sack M,Augustine SM,Fischer R,Bortesi L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unintended gene flow from transgenic plants via pollen, seed and vegetative propagation is a regulatory concern because of potential admixture in food and crop systems, as well as hybridization and introgression to wild and weedy relatives. Bioconfinement of transgenic pollen would help address some of these concerns ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Millwood RJ,Moon HS,Poovaiah CR,Muthukumar B,Rice JH,Abercrombie JM,Abercrombie LL,Green WD,Stewart CN Jr

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early methionine (Em) proteins are members of the late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) group of proteins that have been considered to be embryo specific. The ability of a 646-bp wheat Em promoter to control green fluorescent protein (gfp) expression was investigated in transgenic barley and rice. Seeds of transgenic ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Furtado A,Henry RJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal accumulation in the environment poses great risks to flora and fauna. However, monitoring sites prone to accumulation poses scale and economic challenges. In this study, we present and test a method for monitoring these sites using fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) change in response to zinc (Zn...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Adams JP,Adeli A,Hsu CY,Harkess RL,Page GP,Depamphilis CW,Schultz EB,Yuceer C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which factors limit metabolite accumulation in plant cells? Are theories on flux control effective at explaining the results? Many biotechnologists cling to the idea that every pathway has a rate limiting enzyme and target such enzymes first in order to modulate fluxes. This often translates into large effects on meta...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Morandini P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A precursor of miR156 (MsmiR156d) was cloned and overexpressed in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) as a means to enhance alfalfa biomass yield. Of the five predicted SPL genes encoded by the alfalfa genome, three (SPL6, SPL12 and SPL13) contain miR156 cleavage sites and their expression was down-regulated in transgenic al...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Aung B,Gruber MY,Amyot L,Omari K,Bertrand A,Hannoufa A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA recombination reactions (site-specific and homologous) were monitored in the progeny of transgenic maize plants by bringing together two recombination substrates (docking sites and shuttle vectors) in the zygotes. In one combination of transgenic events, the recombination marker gene (yellow fluorescent protein ge...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Djukanovic V,Orczyk W,Gao H,Sun X,Garrett N,Zhen S,Gordon-Kamm W,Barton J,Lyznik LA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus fruit has a unique structure with soft leathery peel and pulp containing vascular bundles and several segments with many juice sacs. The function and morphology of each fruit tissue are different. Therefore, analysis at the organ-wide or mixed-tissue level inevitably obscures many tissue-specific phenomena. Hig...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Feng G,Wu J,Xu Y,Lu L,Yi H

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice root system is important for growth. The crosstalk between auxin and cytokinin mediates root initiation and elongation. However, it remains unclear how the transcriptional network upstream of the auxin and cytokinin signalling pathways determines root development. Here, we observed that the knockdown of OsNAC...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Mao C,He J,Liu L,Deng Q,Yao X,Liu C,Qiao Y,Li P,Ming F

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:To date, transgenic approaches to biofortify subsistence crops have been rather limited. This is particularly true for the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Cassava has one of the highest rates of CO(2) fixation and sucrose synthesis for any C3 plant, but rarely reaches its yield potentials in the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ihemere U,Arias-Garzon D,Lawrence S,Sayre R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00