pOsNAR2.1:OsNAR2.1 expression enhances nitrogen uptake efficiency and grain yield in transgenic rice plants.

abstract：:The importance and urgency of providing humans and animals with quality proteins are reflected in the growing scientific and industrial interest in augmenting the nutritive value of the world's protein sources. Such nutritive value is determined by the protein content in 'essential amino acids', those that cannot be s...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Beauregard M,Hefford MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willows (Salix spp.) are important biomass crops due to their ability to grow rapidly with low fertilizer inputs and ease of cultivation in short-rotation coppice cycles. They are relatively undomesticated and highly diverse, but functional testing to identify useful allelic variation is time-consuming in trees and tr...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Salmon J,Ward SP,Hanley SJ,Leyser O,Karp A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is one of the major crops in the world, corn has poor nutritional quality for human and animal consumption due to its low lysine content. Here, we report a method of simultaneous expression of a deregulated lysine biosynthetic enzyme, CordapA, and reduction of a bifunctional lysine degradation enzyme, lysi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Frizzi A,Huang S,Gilbertson LA,Armstrong TA,Luethy MH,Malvar TM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) approaches have been used in a large proportion of transcriptome analyses published to date. The accuracy of the results obtained by this method strongly depends on accurate transcript normalization using stably expressed genes, known as references. Statistical ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gutierrez L,Mauriat M,Guénin S,Pelloux J,Lefebvre JF,Louvet R,Rusterucci C,Moritz T,Guerineau F,Bellini C,Van Wuytswinkel O

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain size, number and starch content are important determinants of grain yield and quality. One of the most important biological processes that determine these components is the carbon partitioning during the early grain filling, which requires the function of cell wall invertase. Here, we showed the constitutive exp...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Li B,Liu H,Zhang Y,Kang T,Zhang L,Tong J,Xiao L,Zhang H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing-based bulked segregant analysis (BSA) for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) provides an efficient alternative approach to conventional QTL analysis as it significantly reduces the scale and cost of analysis with comparable power to QTL detection using full mapping population. We tested the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Deokar A,Sagi M,Daba K,Tar'an B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) adult plant resistance gene, Lr34/Yr18/Sr57/Pm38/Ltn1, provides broad-spectrum resistance to wheat leaf rust (Lr34), stripe rust (Yr18), stem rust (Sr57) and powdery mildew (Pm38) pathogens, and has remained effective in wheat crops for many decades. The partial resistance provi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Rinaldo A,Gilbert B,Boni R,Krattinger SG,Singh D,Park RF,Lagudah E,Ayliffe M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensification of agriculture and the development of synthetic insecticides enabled worldwide grain production to more than double in the last third of the 20th century. However, the heavy dependence and, in some cases, overuse of insecticides has been responsible for negative environmental and ecological impacts...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Catarino R,Ceddia G,Areal FJ,Park J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food security is a global concern and substantial yield increases in cereal crops are required to feed the growing world population. Wheat is one of the three most important crops for human and livestock feed. However, the complexity of the genome coupled with a decline in genetic diversity within modern elite cultiva...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Allen AM,Barker GL,Berry ST,Coghill JA,Gwilliam R,Kirby S,Robinson P,Brenchley RC,D'Amore R,McKenzie N,Waite D,Hall A,Bevan M,Hall N,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite progress in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, they continue to present a major threat to public health. The frequency of emerging and reemerging infections and the risk of bioterrorism warrant significant efforts towards the development of prophylactic and therapeutic countermeasures. Vaccin...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Streatfield SJ,Kushnir N,Yusibov V

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1980s and 1990s saw a major expansion of biotechnology into new areas of science including genomics and recombinant technologies. This was coupled to the widespread emergence of academics into the commercial sector as they were encouraged to spin out companies or commercialize their intellectual property. There we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Paul MJ,Thangaraj H,Ma JK

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Salinity and drought are major environmental factors limiting the growth and productivity of alfalfa worldwide as this economically important legume forage is sensitive to these kinds of abiotic stress. In this study, transgenic alfalfa lines expressing both tonoplast NXH and H(+)-PPase genes, ZxNHX and ZxVP1-1 from t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bao AK,Du BQ,Touil L,Kang P,Wang QL,Wang SM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs) play major roles in regulating plant growth and development, but their roles in drought stress remain elusive. Here, we cloned and characterized a maize (Zea mays) PIF transcription factor, ZmPIF1. The expression level of ZmPIF1 was significantly induced by independent drought an...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao Y,Wu M,Zhang M,Jiang W,Ren X,Liang E,Zhang D,Zhang C,Xiao N,Li Y,Dai Y,Chen J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) has an ancient cultivation history and has become an emerging profitable fruit crop due to its attractive features such as the bright red appearance and the high abundance of medicinally valuable ellagitannin-based compounds in its peel and aril. However, the limited genomic resources ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yuan Z,Fang Y,Zhang T,Fei Z,Han F,Liu C,Liu M,Xiao W,Zhang W,Wu S,Zhang M,Ju Y,Xu H,Dai H,Liu Y,Chen Y,Wang L,Zhou J,Guan D,Yan M,Xia Y,Huang X,Liu D,Wei H,Zheng H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM crops are the most studied crops in history. Approximately 5% of the safety studies on them show adverse effects that are a cause for concern and tend to be featured in media reports. Although these reports are based on just a handful of GM events, they are used to cast doubt on all GM crops. Furthermore, they tend...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sánchez MA,Parrott WA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the cecropin A gene in rice confers resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. In this study, a polymerase chain reaction-based suppression subtractive hybridization approach was used to generate a cDNA macroarray from the elite japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar 'Senia'. Gene expressi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Campo S,Manrique S,García-Martínez J,San Segundo B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in biotechnological research is to improve the yield of crop plants. Here, we genetically modified simultaneously source and sink capacities in potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Desirée) plants to improve starch yield. Source capacity was increased by mesophyll-specific overexpression of a pyrophosphatas...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jonik C,Sonnewald U,Hajirezaei MR,Flügge UI,Ludewig F

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a physiological role of heat-shock proteins (HSP) in antigen presentation and immune response activation has not been directly demonstrated, their use as vaccine components is under clinical trial. We have previously demonstrated that the structure of plant-derived HSP70 (pHSP70) can be superimposed to the ma...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Buriani G,Mancini C,Benvenuto E,Baschieri S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China is the origin and evolutionary centre of Oriental pears. Pyrus betuleafolia is a wild species native to China and distributed in the northern region, and it is widely used as rootstock. Here, we report the de novo assembly of the genome of P. betuleafolia-Shanxi Duli using an integrated strategy that combines Pa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Dong X,Wang Z,Tian L,Zhang Y,Qi D,Huo H,Xu J,Li Z,Liao R,Shi M,Wahocho SA,Liu C,Zhang S,Tian Z,Cao Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：:Squalene is a linear intermediate to nearly all classes of triterpenes and sterols and is itself highly valued for its use in wide range of industrial applications. Another unique linear triterpene is botryococcene and its methylated derivatives generated by the alga Botryococcus braunii race B, which are progenitors ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jiang Z,Kempinski C,Kumar S,Kinison S,Linscott K,Nybo E,Janze S,Wood C,Chappell J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For future food security, it is important that wheat, one of the most widely consumed crops in the world, can survive the threat of abiotic and biotic stresses. New genetic variation is currently being introduced into wheat through introgressions from its wild relatives. For trait discovery, it is necessary that each ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Grewal S,Hubbart-Edwards S,Yang C,Devi U,Baker L,Heath J,Ashling S,Scholefield D,Howells C,Yarde J,Isaac P,King IP,King J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grain size and plant architecture are critical factors determining crop productivity. Here, we performed gene editing of the MIR396 gene family in rice and found that MIR396e and MIR396f are two important regulators of grain size and plant architecture. mir396ef mutations can increase grain yield by increasing grain s...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Miao C,Wang D,He R,Liu S,Zhu JK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of gene expression can provide important clues about gene function and molecular basis of developmental processes. Here, we have analysed the chickpea transcriptome in vegetative and flower tissues by exploiting the potential of high-throughput sequencing to measure gene expression. We mapped more than 295...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh VK,Garg R,Jain M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic Bt rice expressing the insecticidal proteins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) has been developed since 1989. Their ecological risks towards non-target organisms have been investigated; however, these studies were conducted individually, yielding uncertainty regarding potential agroecologica...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Dang C,Lu Z,Wang L,Chang X,Wang F,Yao H,Peng Y,Stanley D,Ye G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The tissue-specific expression of transgenes is essential in plant breeding programmes to avoid the fitness costs caused by constitutive expression of a target gene. However, knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene expression and practicable tissue-specific promoters is limited. In this study, we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Cai M,Wei J,Li X,Xu C,Wang S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tomato PROCERA gene encodes a DELLA protein, and loss-of-function mutations derepress growth. We used CRISPR/Cas9 and a single guide RNAs (sgRNA) to target mutations to the PROCERA DELLA domain, and recovered several loss-of-function mutations and a dominant dwarf mutation that carries a deletion of one amino acid...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Tomlinson L,Yang Y,Emenecker R,Smoker M,Taylor J,Perkins S,Smith J,MacLean D,Olszewski NE,Jones JDG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00