Ionomic and metabolic responses to neutral salt or alkaline salt stresses in maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of transgenic plants as a production platform for biomass-degrading enzymes is a promising tool for an economically feasible allocation of enzymes processing lignocellulose. Previous research has already identified a major limitation of in planta production such as interference with the struc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Klose H,Günl M,Usadel B,Fischer R,Commandeur U

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of largest angiosperm families, orchids have long fascinated evolutionary biologists with their staggering diversity in floral design and display to promote outcrossing. Two of the most intriguing aspects of orchid pollination that promote cross-pollination are pollinarium reconfiguration (PR) and dec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xiaohua J,Dezhu L,Zongxin R,Xiaoguo X

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perenniality is best understood in quantitative terms, involving the relationship between production vs. turnover of meristems, biomass, or energy reserves. Previous quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies using divergent populations of the perennial rock cress Arabidopsis lyrata have shown that trade-offs in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Remington DL,Figueroa J,Rane M

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While floral symmetry has traditionally been assessed qualitatively, recent advances in geometric morphometrics have opened up new avenues to specifically quantify flower shape and size using robust multivariate statistical methods. In this study, we examine, for the first time, the ability of geometric morp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Berger BA,Ricigliano VA,Savriama Y,Lim A,Thompson V,Howarth DG

更新日期：2017-11-17 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell elongation is mainly limited by the extensibility of the cell wall. Dicotyledonous primary (growing) cell walls contain cellulose, xyloglucan, pectin and proteins, but little is known about how each polymer class contributes to the cell wall mechanical properties that control extensibility. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Derbyshire P,McCann MC,Roberts K

更新日期：2007-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors GATAs are involved in plant developmental processes and respond to environmental stresses through binding DNA regulatory regions to regulate their downstream genes. However, little information on the GATA genes in Brassica napus is available. The release of the reference genome of B. na...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu W,Guo Y,Chen Y,Wu D,Jiang L

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation and histone modifications regulate a wide range of processes in plant development. Cytosine methylation and demethylation exist in a dynamic balance and have been associated with gene silencing or activation, respectively. In Arabidopsis, cytosine demethylation is a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kapazoglou A,Drosou V,Argiriou A,Tsaftaris AS

更新日期：2013-10-31 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:Nitrogen application can effectively mitigate the damage to crop growth and yield caused by drought. However, the efficiency of heavy nitrogen application before drought (NBD) and heavy nitrogen application after drought (NAD) to regulate rice response to drought stress remains controversial. In this study, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du J,Shen T,Xiong Q,Zhu C,Peng X,He X,Fu J,Ouyang L,Bian J,Hu L,Sun X,Zhou D,He H,Zhong L,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brassica includes many successfully cultivated crop species of polyploid origin, either by ancestral genome triplication or by hybridization between two diploid progenitors, displaying complex repetitive sequences and transposons. The U's triangle, which consists of three diploids and three amphidiploids, is...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jiang J,Wang Y,Zhu B,Fang T,Fang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of QTL involved in heterosis formation is one approach to unravel the not yet fully understood genetic basis of heterosis - the improved agronomic performance of hybrid F1 plants compared to their inbred parents. The identification of candidate genes underlying a QTL is important both for ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Thiemann A,Fu J,Seifert F,Grant-Downton RT,Schrag TA,Pospisil H,Frisch M,Melchinger AE,Scholten S

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because flavonoids and trichomes play crucial roles in plant defence, their formation requires fine transcriptional control by multiple transcription factor families. However, little is known regarding the mechanism of the R2R3-MYB transcription factors that regulate both flavonoid metabolism and trichome de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang Y,Wu Q,Wang S,Shi J,Dong Q,Yao P,Shi G,Xu S,Deng R,Li C,Chen H,Zhao H

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overuse of nitrogen fertilizers is often a major practice to ensure sufficient nitrogen demand of high-yielding rice, leading to persistent NH4+ excess in the plant. However, this excessive portion of nitrogen nutrient does not correspond to further increase in grain yields. For finding out the main constrai...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang S,Hao D,Jin M,Li Y,Liu Z,Huang Y,Chen T,Su Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Water permeability governed by seed coat is a major facet of seed crops, especially soybean, whose seeds lack physiological dormancy and experience rapid deterioration in seed viability under prolonged storage. Moreover, the physiological and chemical characteristics of soybean seeds are known to vary with s...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ramakrishna G,Kaur P,Nigam D,Chaduvula PK,Yadav S,Talukdar A,Singh NK,Gaikwad K

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with invariant levels of gene expression is a prerequisite for validating transcriptomic changes accompanying development. Ideally expression of these genes should be independent of the morphogenetic process or environmental condition tested as well as the methods used for RNA purific...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mallona I,Lischewski S,Weiss J,Hause B,Egea-Cortines M

更新日期：2010-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cunninghamia lanceolata (C. lanceolata) is the main fast-growing timber species in southern China. As an alternative to conventional lighting systems, LED has been demonstrated to be an artificial flexible lighting source for commercial micropropagation. The application of LED can provide rapid propagation o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu Y,Yang M,Cheng F,Liu S,Liang Y

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xylogen, a chimeric arabinogalactan protein containing a non-specific lipid transfer protein domain, can promote xylem cell differentiation. No comprehensive study has been carried out on the XYLP gene family in rice. As a first step in research on this gene family and as a useful strategy in general, a geno...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma T,Ma H,Zhao H,Qi H,Zhao J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the photosynthesis, two isoforms of the fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), the chloroplastidial (cFBP1) and the cytosolic (cyFBP), catalyse the first irreversible step during the conversion of triose phosphates (TP) to starch or sucrose, respectively. Deficiency in cyFBP and cFBP1 isoforms provokes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Soto-Suárez M,Serrato AJ,Rojas-González JA,Bautista R,Sahrawy M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vacuolar type H+-ATPases play a critical role in the maintenance of vacuolar homeostasis in plant cells. V-ATPases are also involved in plants' defense against environmental stress. This research examined the expression and regulation of the catalytic subunit of the vacuolar type H+-ATPase in Arabidopsis tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Magnotta SM,Gogarten JP

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bread wheat is one of the most important crops for the human diet, but the increasing soil salinization is causing yield reductions worldwide. Improving salt stress tolerance in wheat requires the elucidation of the mechanistic basis of plant response to this abiotic stress factor. Although several studies h...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Duarte-Delgado D,Dadshani S,Schoof H,Oyiga BC,Schneider M,Mathew B,Léon J,Ballvora A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent gene duplication and retention played an important role in angiosperm genome evolution. It has been hypothesized that these processes contribute significantly to plant adaptation but so far this hypothesis has not been tested at the genome scale. RESULTS:We studied available sequenced angiosperm g...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fischer I,Dainat J,Ranwez V,Glémin S,Dufayard JF,Chantret N

更新日期：2014-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and their regulatory functions in anthocyanin, carotenoid, and chlorophyll accumulation have been extensively characterized in many plant species. However, the miRNA regulatory mechanism in betalain biosynthesis remains mostly unknown. RESULTS:In this study, 126 conserved miRNAs and 41 no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen C,Xie F,Hua Q,Zur NT,Zhang L,Zhang Z,Zhang R,Zhao J,Hu G,Qin Y

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:StWhy1, a member of the plant-specific Whirly single-stranded DNA-binding protein family, was first characterized as a transcription factor involved in the activation of the nuclear PR-10a gene following defense-related stress in potato. In Arabidopsis thaliana, Whirlies have recently been shown to be primar...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Sabar M,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Abou-Rached C,Brisson N

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We present a new methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) approach for the evaluation of relative quantitative characteristics such as demethylation, de novo methylation, and preservation of methylation status of CCGG sequences, which are recognized by the isoschizomers HpaII and MspI. We applied ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bednarek PT,Orłowska R,Niedziela A

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici), is a major disease that causes huge yield damage. New pathogen races appeared in the last few years and caused a broke down in the resistant genotypes. In Egypt, some of the resistant genotypes began to be susceptible to stripe rust in recent...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Abou-Zeid MA,Mourad AMI

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auxin response factors (ARFs) in auxin signaling pathway are an important component that can regulate the transcription of auxin-responsive genes involved in almost all aspects of plant growth and development. To our knowledge, the comprehensive and systematic characterization of ARF genes has never been rep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Niu J,Bi Q,Deng S,Chen H,Yu H,Wang L,Lin S

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit coloration of red-skinned grapevines is mainly due to anthocyanin pigments. We analysed a panel of nine cultivars that included extreme phenotypes for berry colour, ranging from green (absence of anthocyanins) to red, purple, violet and blue. Expression of six genes of the anthocyanin pathway coding fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castellarin SD,Di Gaspero G

更新日期：2007-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potassium (K+) is an important nutrient ion in plant cells and plays crucial roles in many plant physiological and developmental processes. In the natural environment, K+ deficiency is a common abiotic stress that inhibits plant growth and reduces crop productivity. Several microarray studies have been condu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma TL,Wu WH,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ANGUSTIFOLIA (AN), one of the CtBP family proteins, plays a major role in microtubule-dependent cell morphogenesis. Microarray analysis of mammalian AN homologs suggests that AN might function as a transcriptional activator and regulator of a wide range of genes. Genetic characterization of AN mutants sugges...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gachomo EW,Jimenez-Lopez JC,Smith SR,Cooksey AB,Oghoghomeh OM,Johnson N,Baba-Moussa L,Kotchoni SO

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00