Developmental features of cotton fibre middle lamellae in relation to cell adhesion and cell detachment in cultivars with distinct fibre qualities.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic markers and linkage mapping are basic prerequisites for marker-assisted selection and map-based cloning. In the case of the key grassland species Lolium spp., numerous mapping populations have been developed and characterised for various traits. Although some genetic linkage maps of these populations...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Studer B,Kölliker R,Muylle H,Asp T,Frei U,Roldán-Ruiz I,Barre P,Tomaszewski C,Meally H,Barth S,Skøt L,Armstead IP,Dolstra O,Lübberstedt T

更新日期：2010-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants use water 20-80% more efficiently by shifting stomata opening and primary CO2 uptake and fixation to the nighttime. Protein kinases (PKs) play pivotal roles in this biological process. However, few PKs have been functionally analyzed precisely due to their abundance ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu K,Liu H,Chen X,Cheng Q,Cheng ZM

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant-endophyte symbioses often revolve around nitrogen metabolism, and involve varying degrees of intimacy. Although evidence for vertical inheritance of nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacteria is increasing, it is confined mostly to crop plants, and to date no such system has been reported for geophytes. METH...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jooste M,Roets F,Midgley GF,Oberlander KC,Dreyer LL

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor), belonging to the gall midge family (Cecidomyiidae), is a devastating pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum) causing significant yield losses. Despite identification and characterization of numerous Hessian fly-responsive genes and associated biological pathways involved in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nemacheck JA,Schemerhorn BJ,Scofield SR,Subramanyam S

更新日期：2019-10-22 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:The ubiquitous signaling molecule melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) (MT) plays vital roles in plant development and stress tolerance. Selenium (Se) may be phytotoxic at high concentrations. Interactions between MT and Se (IV) stress in higher plants are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ulhassan Z,Huang Q,Gill RA,Ali S,Mwamba TM,Ali B,Hina F,Zhou W

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae), native from Paraguay, accumulates steviol glycosides (SGs) into its leaves. These compounds exhibit acaloric intense sweet taste which answers to consumer demands for reducing daily sugar intake. Despite the developpement of S. rebaudiana cultivation all over the world, the de...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cosson P,Hastoy C,Errazzu LE,Budeguer CJ,Boutié P,Rolin D,Schurdi-Levraud V

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant defensins are small (45-54 amino acids), basic, cysteine-rich proteins that have a major role in innate immunity in plants. Many defensins are potent antifungal molecules and are being evaluated for their potential to create crop plants with sustainable disease resistance. Defensins are produced as pre...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lay FT,Poon S,McKenna JA,Connelly AA,Barbeta BL,McGinness BS,Fox JL,Daly NL,Craik DJ,Heath RL,Anderson MA

更新日期：2014-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of chilling and freezing injury symptoms in plants is known to frequently coincide with peroxidation of free fatty acids. Mitochondria are one of the major sources of reactive oxygen species during cold stress. Recently it has been suggested that uncoupling of oxidation and phosphorylation in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kolesnichenko AV,Zykova VV,Grabelnych OI,Koroleva NA,Pobezhimova TP,Konstantinov YM,Voinikov VK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is an asexual propagation pathway requiring a somatic-to-embryonic transition of differentiated somatic cells toward embryogenic cells capable of producing embryos in a process resembling zygotic embryogenesis. In chicory, genetic variability with respect to the formation of somati...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Legrand S,Hendriks T,Hilbert JL,Quillet MC

更新日期：2007-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoids have essential roles in flower pigmentation, fibre development and disease resistance in cotton. Previous studies show that accumulation of naringenin in developing cotton fibres significantly affects fibre growth. This study focused on determining the effects of the flavonoids naringenin, dihydro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan AQ,Li Z,Ahmed MM,Wang P,Zhang X,Tu L

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Callose (beta-1,3 glucan) separates developing pollen grains, preventing their underlying walls (exine) from fusing. The pollen tubes that transport sperm to female gametes also contain callose, both in their walls as well as in the plugs that segment growing tubes. Mutations in CalS5, one of several Arabido...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nishikawa S,Zinkl GM,Swanson RJ,Maruyama D,Preuss D

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miR399 and miR827 are both involved in conserved phosphorus (P) deficiency signalling pathways. miR399 targets the PHO2 gene encoding E2 enzyme that negatively regulates phosphate uptake and root-to-shoot allocation, while miR827 targets SPX-domain-containing genes that negatively regulate other P-responsive...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hackenberg M,Shi BJ,Gustafson P,Langridge P

更新日期：2013-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Quercus suber, cork oak, a Mediterranean forest tree of economic and social interest, rapid production of isogenic lines and clonal propagation of elite genotypes have been achieved by developing in vitro embryogenesis from microspores and zygotic embryos respectively. Despite its high potential in tree b...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodríguez-Sanz H,Manzanera JA,Solís MT,Gómez-Garay A,Pintos B,Risueño MC,Testillano PS

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resistant cultivars are key elements for pathogen control and pesticide reduction, but their repeated use may lead to the emergence of virulent pathogen populations, able to overcome the resistance. Increased research efforts, mainly based on theoretical studies, explore spatio-temporal deployment strategies...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Djian-Caporalino C,Palloix A,Fazari A,Marteu N,Barbary A,Abad P,Sage-Palloix AM,Mateille T,Risso S,Lanza R,Taussig C,Castagnone-Sereno P

更新日期：2014-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invertases are ubiquitous enzymes that irreversibly cleave sucrose into fructose and glucose. Plant invertases play important roles in carbohydrate metabolism, plant development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses. In potato (Solanum tuberosum), invertases are involved in 'cold-induced sweetening' of tu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Draffehn AM,Meller S,Li L,Gebhardt C

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms of grapevine leafroll disease (GLRD) in red-fruited wine grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars consist of green veins and red and reddish-purple discoloration of inter-veinal areas of leaves. The reddish-purple color of symptomatic leaves may be due to the accumulation of anthocyanins and could reflec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gutha LR,Casassa LF,Harbertson JF,Naidu RA

更新日期：2010-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among secondary metabolites, flavonoids are particularly crucial for plant growth, development, and reproduction, as well as beneficial for maintenance of human health. As a flowering plant, safflower has synthesized a striking variety of flavonoids with various pharmacologic properties. However, far less re...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tu Y,Liu F,Guo D,Fan L,Zhu Z,Xue Y,Gao Y,Guo M

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B chromosome causes no obvious phenotype variation, its existence might influence A genome gene expression. Previous studies suggested that B chromosomes are evol...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang W,Du Y,Zhao X,Jin W

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soil salinity is an important factor affecting growth, development, and productivity of almost all land plants, including the forage crop alfalfa (Medicago sativa). However, little is known about how alfalfa responds and adapts to salt stress, particularly among different salt-tolerant cultivars. RESULTS:Am...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lei Y,Xu Y,Hettenhausen C,Lu C,Shen G,Zhang C,Li J,Song J,Lin H,Wu J

更新日期：2018-02-15 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:Hydrogen gas (H2) is hypothesised to play a role in plants that are coping with stresses by regulating signal transduction and gene expression. Although the beneficial role of H2 in plant tolerance to cadmium (Cd) has been investigated previously, the corresponding mechanism has not been elucidated. In this ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui W,Yao P,Pan J,Dai C,Cao H,Chen Z,Zhang S,Xu S,Shen W

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When plant tissue is passaged through in vitro culture, many regenerated plants appear to be no longer clonal copies of their donor genotype. Among the factors that affect this so-called tissue culture induced variation are explant genotype, explant tissue origin, medium composition, and the length of time i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bednarek PT,Orłowska R,Koebner RM,Zimny J

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypersensitive necrosis response (HR) of resistant plants to avirulent pathogens is a form of programmed cell death in which the plant sacrifices a few cells under attack, restricting pathogen growth into adjacent healthy tissues. In spite of the importance of this defense response, relatively little is ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Vorwerk S,Schiff C,Santamaria M,Koh S,Nishimura M,Vogel J,Somerville C,Somerville S

更新日期：2007-07-06 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:High-temperature stress (HTS) is one of the main environmental stresses that limit plant growth and crop production in agricultural systems. Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is an important high-altitude herbaceous plant adapted to a wide range of environmental stimuli such as cold, strong wind and UV-B exposure. How...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang ZQ,Zhao QM,Zhong X,Xiao L,Ma LX,Wu CF,Zhang Z,Zhang LQ,Tian Y,Fan W

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Local infection with necrotizing pathogens induces whole plant immunity to secondary challenge. Pathogenesis-related genes are induced in parallel with this systemic acquired resistance response and thought to be co-regulated. The hypothesis of co-regulation has been challenged by induction of Arabidopsis PR...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang C,Shapiro AD

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many flowering plants produce bicellular pollen. The two cells of the pollen grain are destined for separate fates in the male gametophyte, which provides a unique opportunity to study genetic interactions that govern guided single-cell polar expansion of the growing pollen tube and the coordinated control o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hafidh S,Breznenová K,Růžička P,Feciková J,Capková V,Honys D

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of genetic variations have been identified in rice. Such variations must in many cases control phenotypic differences in abiotic stress tolerance and other traits. A single feature polymorphism (SFP) is an oligonucleotide array-based polymorphism which can be used for identification of SNPs or...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kim SH,Bhat PR,Cui X,Walia H,Xu J,Wanamaker S,Ismail AM,Wilson C,Close TJ

更新日期：2009-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To maintain sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) growth and yield, sucrose must be transported from the leaves to the roots. Sucrose transporters or carriers (SUTs or SUCs) transport sucrose and are involved in plant growth and response to abiotic stress. However, the mechanisms of SUTs in sweetpotato abio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang D,Liu H,Wang H,Zhang P,Shi C

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00