Catalytic and structural properties of pheophytinase, the phytol esterase involved in chlorophyll breakdown.

abstract：:Plants as photoautotrophic organisms are able to produce the carbohydrates they require and have developed mechanisms to co-ordinate carbohydrate production and its metabolism. Carbohydrate-derived signals regulate the expression of genes involved in both photosynthesis and metabolism, and control carbohydrate partiti...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Rook F,Bevan MW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and maturation of tomato fruits has received considerable attention because of both the uniqueness of such processes to the biology of plants and the importance of these fruits as a component of the human diet. Molecular and genetic analysis of fruit development, and especially ripening of fleshy fruit...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Carrari F,Fernie AR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H2A.Z histone variant plays a role in the modulation of environmental responses, but the nature of the associated mechanisms remains enigmatic. We investigated global H2A.Z deposition and transcriptomic changes in rice (Oryza sativa) upon exposure to phosphate (Pi) deficiency and in response to RNAi knockdown of O...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Zahraeifard S,Foroozani M,Sepehri A,Oh DH,Wang G,Mangu V,Chen B,Baisakh N,Dassanayake M,Smith AP

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The major source of nitrogen for rice (Oryza sativa L.) is ammonium (NH4(+)). The NH4(+) uptake of roots is mainly governed by membrane transporters, with OsAMT1;1 being a prominent member of the OsAMT1 gene family that is known to be involved in NH4(+) transport in rice plants. However, little is known about its invo...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ranathunge K,El-Kereamy A,Gidda S,Bi YM,Rothstein SJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the Green Revolution, substantial increases in wheat (Triticum aestivum) yields were realized, at least in part, through the introduction of the Reduced height (Rht)-B1b and Rht-D1b semi-dwarfing alleles. In contrast to Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b, the Rht-B1c allele is characterized by extreme dwarfism and exceptional...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Van De Velde K,Chandler PM,Van Der Straeten D,Rohde A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the historical development of cytology and cytogenetics in Arabidopsis, and summarizes recent developments in molecular cytogenetics, with special emphasis on meiotic studies. Despite the small genome and small chromosomes of Arabidopsis, considerable progress has been made in developing appropria...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Armstrong SJ,Jones GH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem (PS) II is the multisubunit complex which uses light energy to split water, providing the reducing equivalents needed for photosynthesis. The complex is susceptible to damage from environmental stresses such as excess excitation energy and high temperature. This research investigated the in vivo photosynth...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Dwyer SA,Chow WS,Yamori W,Evans JR,Kaines S,Badger MR,von Caemmerer S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone (LeCRK1), encoding a novel isoform of calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK), was isolated by screening a tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cDNA library. The protein derived from the full-length sequence indicated that it belongs to the family of CDPK-related kinases (CRKs) and the predicted amino acid se...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Leclercq J,Ranty B,Sanchez-Ballesta MT,Li Z,Jones B,Jauneau A,Pech JC,Latché A,Ranjeva R,Bouzayen M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for almost one-fifth of the primary production on Earth, the unicellular eukaryotic group of diatoms plays a key ecological and biogeochemical role in our contemporary oceans. Furthermore, as producers of various lipids and pigments, and characterized by their finely ornamented silica cell wall, diatoms hol...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Huysman MJ,Vyverman W,De Veylder L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant voltage-gated channels belonging to the Shaker family participate in sustained K+ transport processes at the cell and whole plant levels, such as K+ uptake from the soil solution, long-distance K+ transport in the xylem and phloem, and K+ fluxes in guard cells during stomatal movements. The attention here is foc...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chérel I

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transgenic traits associated with the majority of commercial genetically modified crops are focused on improving herbicide and insecticide management practices. The use of the transgenic technology in these crops and the associated chemistry has been the basis of studies that provide evidence for occasional improv...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Knox OG,Walker RL,Booth EJ,Hall C,Crossan AN,Gupta VV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interface between the atmosphere and leaves and fruits is formed by the lipophilic plant cuticle, which seals the outer epidermal cell walls, thus significantly reducing water loss and uptake of dissolved solutes deposited on the cuticle surface. Different experimental and theoretical approaches for quantifying ba...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Valeska Zeisler-Diehl V,Migdal B,Schreiber L

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unlinked semi-dominant loci, A (NIC1) and B (NIC2), control nicotine and related alkaloid biosynthesis in Burley tobaccos. Mutations in either or both loci (nic1 and nic2) lead to low nicotine phenotypes with altered environmental stress responses. Here we show that the transcripts derived from the pathogenesis-re...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ma H,Wang F,Wang W,Yin G,Zhang D,Ding Y,Timko MP,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that aluminium (Al) induces programmed cell death (PCD) in plants. To investigate possible mechanisms, fluorescence techniques were used to monitor the behaviour of mitochondria in vivo, as well as the activation of caspase-3-like activity during protoplast PCD induced by Al. A quick burs...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Li Z,Xing D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AP2 domain class of transcription factors is a large family of genes with various roles in plant development and adaptation but with very little functional information in plants other than Arabidopsis. Here, the characterization of an EAR motif-containing transcription factor, SlERF36, from tomato that affects sto...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Upadhyay RK,Soni DK,Singh R,Dwivedi UN,Pathre UV,Nath P,Sane AP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål, BPH) resistance gene BPH9 encodes an unusual coiled-coil (CC) nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (LRR) protein with two NBS (Nuceotide binding site) domains. To understand how this CC-NBS-NBS-LRR protein regulates defense signaling and BPH resistance, we dissected ea...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Wang Z,Huang J,Nie L,Hu Y,Zhang N,Guo Q,Guo J,Du B,Zhu L,He G,Chen R

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved highly complex sensory mechanisms to monitor their surroundings and adapt their growth and development to the prevailing environmental conditions. The integration of information from multiple environmental cues enables the co-ordination of development with favourable seasonal conditions and, ultima...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Franklin KA,Whitelam GC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanistic inter-relationships in sinks between sucrose compartmentation/metabolism and phloem unloading/translocation are poorly understood. Developing grain legume seeds provide tractable experimental systems to explore this question. Metabolic demand by cotyledons is communicated to phloem unloading and ultimately...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Zhou Y,Chan K,Wang TL,Hedley CL,Offler CE,Patrick JW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active gibberellin (GA(1)) is an important mediator of thermoperiodic growth in pea. Plants grown under lower day than night temperature (negative DIF) elongate less and have reduced levels of GA(1) compared with plants grown at higher day than night temperature (positive DIF). By comparing the wild type (WT) and the ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Stavang JA,Pettersen RI,Wendell M,Solhaug KA,Junttila O,Moe R,Olsen JE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytopathogen infection leads to changes in secondary metabolism based on the induction of defence programmes as well as to changes in primary metabolism which affect growth and development of the plant. Therefore, pathogen attack causes crop yield losses even in interactions which do not end up with disease or death ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Berger S,Sinha AK,Roitsch T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructans are water-soluble fructose oligomers and polymers that are based on sucrose, and have been implicated in protecting plants against water stress. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is highly sensitive to chilling temperatures, and is not able to synthesize fructans. Two wheat fructan-synthesizing enzymes, sucrose:sucrose ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Kawakami A,Sato Y,Yoshida M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant genomes encode numerous small secretory peptides (SSPs) whose functions have yet to be explored. Based on structural features that characterize SSP families known to take part in postembryonic development, this comparative genome analysis resulted in the identification of genes coding for oligopeptides potential...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Ghorbani S,Lin YC,Parizot B,Fernandez A,Njo MF,Van de Peer Y,Beeckman T,Hilson P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing potato tubers or freshly harvested mature tubers have a dormant apical bud. Normally, this dormancy is spontaneously broken after a period of maturation of the tuber, resulting in the growth of a new sprout. Here it is shown that in in vitro-cultured growing and maturing tubers, ethanol can rapidly break this ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Claassens MM,Verhees J,van der Plas LH,van der Krol AR,Vreugdenhil D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenal increase in agricultural yields that we have witnessed in the last century has slowed down as we approach the limits of selective breeding and optimization of cultivation techniques. To support the yield increase required to feed an ever-growing population, we will have to identify new ways to boost the...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Kubis A,Bar-Even A

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Teosinte branched1/cycloidea/proliferating (TCP) transcription factors play a broad role in plant growth and development, but their involvement in the regulation of anthocyanin biosynthesis is currently unclear. In this study, anthocyanin biosynthesis induced by different light intensities in apple (Malus domestica) w...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： An JP,Liu YJ,Zhang XW,Bi SQ,Wang XF,You CX,Hao YJ

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of leaf vein recovery from cavitation-induced embolism was studied in plants of sunflower cv. Margot, together with the impact of vein embolism on the overall leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf). During the air-dehydration of leaves to leaf water potentials (Psi L) of -1.25 MPa, Kleaf was found to decrease...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Trifilò P,Gascó A,Raimondo F,Nardini A,Salleo S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In planta, a vital regulatory complex, MYB-basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-WD40 (MBW), is involved in trichome development and synthesis of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin in Arabidopsis. Usually, WD40 proteins provide a scaffold for protein-protein interaction between MYB and bHLH proteins. Members of subgroup 9 of the ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Tian Y,Du J,Wu H,Guan X,Chen W,Hu Y,Fang L,Ding L,Li M,Yang D,Yang Q,Zhang T

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-shock protein 90 (HSP90) is a highly conserved molecular chaperone that is involved in modulating a multitude of cellular processes under both physiological and stress conditions. In Arabidopsis, there are seven HSP90 isoforms (HSP90.1-HSP90.7) that are localized in the cytoplasm/nucleus, mitochondrion, chloropla...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chong LP,Wang Y,Gad N,Anderson N,Shah B,Zhao R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is implicated in pollen tube growth, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms that it mediates are largely unknown. Here, it is shown that exogenous GABA modulates putative Ca(2+)-permeable channels on the plasma membranes of tobacco pollen grains and pollen tubes. Whole-cell voltage-clamp ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Yu GH,Zou J,Feng J,Peng XB,Wu JY,Wu YL,Palanivelu R,Sun MX

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant family Cactaceae is considered among the most threatened groups of organisms on the planet. The threatened status of the cacti family has created a renewed interest in the highly evolved physiological and morphological traits that underpin their persistence in some of the harshest subtropical environments in...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Hultine KR,Dettman DL,English NB,Williams DG

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00