Geometric morphometrics reveals shifts in flower shape symmetry and size following gene knockdown of CYCLOIDEA and ANTHOCYANIDIN SYNTHASE.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ornamental crop Calluna vulgaris is of increasing importance to the horticultural industry in the northern hemisphere due to a flower organ mutation: the flowers of the 'bud-flowering' phenotype remain closed i.e. as buds throughout the total flowering period and thereby maintain more colorful flowers fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Borchert T,Eckardt K,Fuchs J,Krüger K,Hohe A

更新日期：2009-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought stress in juvenile stages of crop development and premature leaf senescence induced by drought stress have an impact on biomass production and yield formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Therefore, in order to get information of regulatory processes involved in the adaptation to drought stress an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wehner G,Balko C,Humbeck K,Zyprian E,Ordon F

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pumilio RNA-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes and are involved in RNA decay, transport, and translation repression in the cytoplasm. Although a majority of Pumilio proteins function in the cytoplasm, two nucleolar forms have been reported to have a function in rRNA processin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park SH,Kim HS,Kalita PJ,Choi SB

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive soil salinity is an important problem for agriculture, however, salt tolerance is a complex trait that is not easily bred into plants. Exposure of cultivated tomato to salt stress has been reported to result in increased antioxidant content and activity. Salt tolerance of the related wild species, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Frary A,Göl D,Keleş D,Okmen B,Pinar H,Siğva HO,Yemenicioğlu A,Doğanlar S

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.) contains triterpenoids with anti-HIV and anti-tumor pharmacological activities. However, the natural abundance of these triterpenoids is low, and their chemical synthesis is costly. Transcription factors have the ability to regulate the metabolite pathways of triterpenoids via...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yin J,Li X,Zhan Y,Li Y,Qu Z,Sun L,Wang S,Yang J,Xiao J

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NAC gene family is notable due to its large size, as well as its relevance in crop cultivation - particularly in terms of enhancing stress tolerance of plants. These plant-specific proteins contain NAC domain(s) that are named after Petunia NAM and Arabidopsis ATAF1/2 and CUC2 transcription factors based...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hussain RM,Ali M,Feng X,Li X

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most important grain legume cultivated by resource poor farmers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to harness the untapped genetic potential available for chickpea improvement, we re-sequenced 35 chickpea genotypes representing parental lines of 16 mapp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Thudi M,Khan AW,Kumar V,Gaur PM,Katta K,Garg V,Roorkiwal M,Samineni S,Varshney RK

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gynodioecious species exist in two sexes - male-sterile females and hermaphrodites. Male sterility in higher plants often results from mitonuclear interaction between the CMS (cytoplasmic male sterility) gene(s) encoded by mitochondrial genome and by nuclear-encoded restorer genes. Mitochondrial and nuclear-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Krüger M,Abeyawardana OAJ,Juříček M,Krüger C,Štorchová H

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotiana tabacum is an important economic crop. Topping, a common agricultural practice employed with flue-cured tobacco, is designed to increase leaf nicotine contents by increasing nicotine biosynthesis in roots. Many genes are found to be differentially expressed in response to topping, particularly gene...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin Y,Bai S,Li W,Sun T,Galbraith DW,Yang Z,Zhou Y,Sun G,Wang B

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protoplast technologies offer unique opportunities for fundamental research and to develop novel germplasm through somatic hybridization, organelle transfer, protoclonal variation, and direct insertion of DNA. Applying protoplast technologies to develop Dutch elm disease resistant American elms (Ulmus americ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jones AM,Chattopadhyay A,Shukla M,Zoń J,Saxena PK

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Powdery mildew of barley is a wind-borne and obligate biotrophic pathogen, which ranks among the most widespread barley pathogens worldwide. However, purposeful research towards studying the structure of the barley powdery mildew populations, of their virulence and of effectiveness of certain resistance gene...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rsaliyev A,Pahratdinova Z,Rsaliyev S

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cereal crops such as wheat, an optimal timing of developmental transitions is required to maximize grain yield. Many of these developmental changes are precisely regulated by changes in the duration, intensity or quality of light. Phytochromes are dimeric photoreceptors that absorb light maximally in the ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pearce S,Kippes N,Chen A,Debernardi JM,Dubcovsky J

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cellulose synthase superfamily has been classified into nine cellulose synthase-like (Csl) families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family. The Csl families have been proposed to be involved in the synthesis of the backbones of hemicelluloses of plant cell walls. With 17 plant and algal genomes fully s...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yin Y,Huang J,Xu Y

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phytolaccaceae species in China are not only ornamental plants but also perennial herbs that are closely related to human health. However, both large-scale full-length cDNA sequencing and reference gene validation of Phytolaccaceae members are still lacking. Therefore, single-molecule real-time sequencing te...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu D,Chen L,Chen C,An X,Zhang Y,Wang Y,Li Q

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gibberellic Acid (GA) signal is governed by the GAI (Gibberellic Acid Insensitive) repressor, which is characterized by a highly conserved N-terminal DELLA domain. Deletion of the DELLA domain results in constitutive suppression of GA signaling. As the GAI transcript is transportable in phloem elements, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu H,Iwashiro R,Li T,Harada T

更新日期：2013-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flower development and sufficient fruit set are important parameters with respect to walnut yield. Knowledge about flowering genes of fruit trees can help to conduct better molecular breeding programs. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate the expression pattern of some flowering genes (FT, SO...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hassankhah A,Rahemi M,Ramshini H,Sarikhani S,Vahdati K

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ripening of grape berry is generally regulated by abscisic acid (ABA), and has no relationship with ethylene function. However, functional interaction and synergism between ABA and ethylene during the beginning of grape berry ripening (véraison) has been found recently. RESULTS:The expressions of VvNCED...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun L,Zhang M,Ren J,Qi J,Zhang G,Leng P

更新日期：2010-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genetic diversity in heat tolerance and associated traits is of great importance for improving heat tolerance in cool-season grass species. The objectives of this study were to determine genetic variations in heat tolerance associated with phenotypic and physiological traits and to identify...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang J,Li H,Jiang Y,Li H,Zhang Z,Xu Z,Xu B,Huang B

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agrobacterium infection, which is widely used to generate transgenic plants, is often accompanied by T-DNA-linked mutations and transpositions in flowering plants. It is not known if Agrobacterium infection also affects the rates of point mutations, somatic homologous recombinations (SHR) and frame-shift mut...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shah JM,Ramakrishnan AM,Singh AK,Ramachandran S,Unniyampurath U,Jayshankar A,Balasundaram N,Dhanapal S,Hyde G,Baskar R

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize grain yield depends mainly on the photosynthetic efficiency of functional leaves, which is controlled by an array of gene networks and other factors, including environmental conditions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules that play important roles in plant developmental regulation. A few senesce...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu X,Ding D,Shi C,Xue Y,Zhang Z,Tang G,Tang J

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repetitive DNA is a major fraction of eukaryotic genomes and occurs particularly often in plants. Currently, the sequencing of the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) genome is under way and knowledge of repetitive DNA sequences is critical for the genome annotation. We generated a c0t-1 library, representing highly ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zakrzewski F,Wenke T,Holtgräwe D,Weisshaar B,Schmidt T

更新日期：2010-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distant hybridization is an important way to create interspecific genetic variation and breed new varieties in rice. A lot of backcross introgression lines (BILs) had been constructed for the scientific issues in rice. However, studies on the critical regulatory factor lncRNA in cultivated rice, wild rice an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Cao A,Wang R,Li Z,Li S,Wang J

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD) is a key enzyme that catalyses the conversion of stearoyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) to oleoyl-ACP, a precursor for the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids. ZmSAD1 (GenBank: KU949326) is a major QTL for stearic acid content in maize seeds. To investigate...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du H,Huang M,Hu J,Li J

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is the fourth most important oilseed crop in the world, grown mainly in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates. Due to its origin through a single and recent polyploidization event, followed by successive selection during breeding efforts, culti...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cuc LM,Mace ES,Crouch JH,Quang VD,Long TD,Varshney RK

更新日期：2008-05-15 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:Alternate bearing is a widespread phenomenon among crop plants, defined as the tendency of certain fruit trees to produce a high-yield crop one year ("on-year"), followed by a low-yield or even no crop the following year ("off-year"). Several factors may affect the balance between such developmental phase-tr...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yanik H,Turktas M,Dundar E,Hernandez P,Dorado G,Unver T

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant nuclear pore complex has strongly attracted the attention of the scientific community during the past few years, in particular because of its involvement in hormonal and pathogen/symbiotic signalling. In Arabidopsis thaliana, more than 30 nucleoporins have been identified, but only a few of them ha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Boeglin M,Fuglsang AT,Luu DT,Sentenac H,Gaillard I,Chérel I

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize bsd2 (bundle sheath defective2) is a classical C4 mutant with defective C4 photosynthesis, accompanied with reduced accumulation of Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) and aberrant mature chloroplast morphology in the bundle sheath (BS) cells. However, as a hypothetical chloroplast ch...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li H,Bai M,Jiang X,Shen R,Wang H,Wang H,Wu H

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGPase) is a sugar-metabolizing enzyme (E.C. 2.7.7.9) that catalyzes a reversible reaction of UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate from glucose-1-phosphate and UTP. UDP-glucose is a key intermediate sugar that is channeled to multiple metabolic pathways. The functional role of UGPase ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Payyavula RS,Tschaplinski TJ,Jawdy SS,Sykes RW,Tuskan GA,Kalluri UC

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants encode a large number of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases. Legumes encode several LRR-RLK linked to the process of root nodule formation, the ligands of which are unknown. To identify ligands for these receptors, we used a combination of profile hidden Markov models and position-specific iter...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Oelkers K,Goffard N,Weiller GF,Gresshoff PM,Mathesius U,Frickey T

更新日期：2008-01-03 00:00:00