FtMYB8 from Tartary buckwheat inhibits both anthocyanin/Proanthocyanidin accumulation and marginal Trichome initiation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant cuticle is the outermost layer covering aerial tissues and is composed of cutin and waxes. The cuticle plays an important role in protection from environmental stresses and glaucousness, the bluish-white colouration of plant surfaces associated with cuticular waxes, has been suggested as a contribu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bi H,Kovalchuk N,Langridge P,Tricker PJ,Lopato S,Borisjuk N

更新日期：2017-05-08 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:Drought is a major abiotic stress factors that reduces agricultural productivity. GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development. However, the functions of a number of GRAS genes identified in rice are unknown, especially the GRAS genes related to rice dro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu K,Chen S,Li T,Ma X,Liang X,Ding X,Liu H,Luo L

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stripe rust (also called yellow rust) is a common and serious fungal disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. The narrow genetic basis of modern wheat cultivars and rapid evolution of the rust pathogen have been responsible for periodic and devastating epidemics ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ye X,Li J,Cheng Y,Yao F,Long L,Yu C,Wang Y,Wu Y,Li J,Wang J,Jiang Q,Li W,Ma J,Wei Y,Zheng Y,Chen G

更新日期：2019-04-16 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:Most plant viruses rely on vectors for their transmission and spread. One of the outstanding biological questions concerning the vector-pathogen-symbiont multi-trophic interactions is the potential involvement of vector symbionts in the virus transmission process. Here, we used a multi-factorial system conta...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shi XB,Yan S,Zhang C,Zheng LM,Zhang ZH,Sun SE,Gao Y,Tan XQ,Zhang DY,Zhou XG

更新日期：2021-01-29 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:microRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in plant development processes and play pivotal roles in plant adaptation to environmental stresses. Salicornia europaea, a salt mash euhalophyte, is a suitable model plant to study salt adaptation mechanisms. S. europaea is also a vegetable, forage, and oilseed that can be ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Feng J,Wang J,Fan P,Jia W,Nie L,Jiang P,Chen X,Lv S,Wan L,Chang S,Li S,Li Y

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among various pests, the brown planthopper (BPH) that damages rice is the major destructive pests. Understanding resistance mechanisms is a critical step toward effective control of BPH. This study investigates the proteomics of BPH interactions with three rice cultivars: the first resistant (PR) to BPH, the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang X,Yin F,Xiao S,Jiang C,Yu T,Chen L,Ke X,Zhong Q,Cheng Z,Li W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The function of 4-coumarate-CoA ligases (4CL) under abiotic stresses has been studied in plants, however, limited is known about the 4CL genes in cotton (G. hirsutum L.) and their roles in response to drought stress. RESULTS:We performed genome-wide identification of the 4CL genes in G. hirsutum and investi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun SC,Xiong XP,Zhang XL,Feng HJ,Zhu QH,Sun J,Li YJ

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitous, non-proteinaceous amino acid GABA (γ-aminobutyrate) accumulates in plants subjected to abiotic stresses such as chilling, O2 deficiency and elevated CO2. Recent evidence indicates that controlled atmosphere storage causes the accumulation of GABA in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) fruit, and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Trobacher CP,Zarei A,Liu J,Clark SM,Bozzo GG,Shelp BJ

更新日期：2013-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Citrus encompasses major cultivated plants such as sweet orange, mandarin, lemon and grapefruit, among the world's most economically important fruit crops. With increasing volumes of transcriptomics data available for these species, Gene Co-expression Network (GCN) analysis is a viable option for p...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wong DC,Sweetman C,Ford CM

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the sixth most important food crop in the world. The formation and development of storage roots in sweet potato is a highly complicated and genetically programmed process. However, the underlying mechanisms of storage root development have not yet been elucidated. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dong T,Zhu M,Yu J,Han R,Tang C,Xu T,Liu J,Li Z

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought conditions adversely affect soybean growth, resulting in severe yield losses worldwide. Increasing experimental evidence indicates miRNAs are important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. However, the drought-responsive molecular mechanism underlying miRNA-mRNA interactions remains la...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou Y,Liu W,Li X,Sun D,Xu K,Feng C,Kue Foka IC,Ketehouli T,Gao H,Wang N,Dong Y,Wang F,Li H

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For most cruciferous plants, which are known as important crops and a number of weeds, hybrid breeding is hampered by the unavailability of a pollination control system. Male sterility induced by a gametocide can be useful for the utilization of plant heterosis. RESULTS:The gametocidal effect of sulfonylure...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yu CY,Dong JG,Hu SW,Xu AX

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels predicted to occur before the end of the century will impact plant metabolism. In addition, nitrate availability will affect metabolism and levels of nitrogen-containing defense compounds, such as glucosinolates (GSLs). We compared Arabidopsis foliar metaboli...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Paudel JR,Amirizian A,Krosse S,Giddings J,Ismail SA,Xia J,Gloer JB,van Dam NM,Bede JC

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to grow, plants rely on soil nutrients which can vary both spatially and temporally depending on the environment, the soil type or the microbial activity. An essential nutrient is nitrogen, which is mainly accessible as nitrate and ammonium. Many studies have investigated transport genes for these i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Dechorgnat J,Francis KL,Dhugga KS,Rafalski JA,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trees of the genus Taxus are highly valuable medicinal plants with multiple pharmacological effects on various cancer treatments. Paclitaxel from Taxus trees is an efficient and widely used anticancer drug, however, the accumulation of taxoids and other active ingredients can vary greatly among Taxus species...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou T,Luo X,Zhang C,Xu X,Yu C,Jiang Z,Zhang L,Yuan H,Zheng B,Pi E,Shen C

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dwarf bunt, which is caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn, is a soilborne and seedborne disease that occurs worldwide and can lead to 70% or even total losses of wheat crops. However, very little information is available about the histological changes that occur in dwarf bunt-resistant and dwarf bunt-suscepti...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu T,Qin D,Muhae Ud Din G,Liu T,Chen W,Gao L

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydroxyproline rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) are implicated to have a role in many aspects of plant growth and development but there is limited knowledge about their localization and function during somatic embryogenesis of higher plants. In this study, the localization and function of hydroxyproline rich glyco...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu C,Takáč T,Burbach C,Menzel D,Samaj J

更新日期：2011-02-24 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:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in eukaryotes. In rice, MIR7695 expression is regulated by infection with the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae with subsequent down-regulation of an alternatively spliced transcript of natural res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sánchez-Sanuy F,Peris-Peris C,Tomiyama S,Okada K,Hsing YI,San Segundo B,Campo S

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soil salinity and alkalinity present a serious threat to global agriculture. However, most of the studies have focused on neutral salt stress, and the information on the metabolic responses of plants to alkaline salt stress is limited. This investigation aimed at determining the influence of neutral salt and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Guo R,Shi L,Yan C,Zhong X,Gu F,Liu Q,Xia X,Li H

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a beneficial element for higher plants and essential for mammals. To study the effect of the foliar application of sodium selenate on fragrant rice performance, a pot experiment was conducted in Guangdong, China. At the initial heading stage, one-time foliar application of sodium selenate wi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Luo H,Du B,He L,Zheng A,Pan S,Tang X

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) represent a ubiquitous gene family encoding detoxification enzymes able to recognize reactive electrophilic xenobiotic molecules as well as compounds of endogenous origin. Anthocyanin pigments require GSTs for their transport into the vacuole since their cytoplasmic retentio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Licciardello C,D'Agostino N,Traini A,Recupero GR,Frusciante L,Chiusano ML

更新日期：2014-02-03 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

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:Dehydrins play positive roles in regulating plant abiotic stress responses. The objective of this study was to characterize two dehydrin genes, CdDHN4-L and CdDHN4-S, generated by alternative splicing of CdDHN4 in bermudagrass. RESULTS:Overexpression of CdDHN4-L with φ-segment and CdDHN4-S lacking of φ-segm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lv A,Su L,Liu X,Xing Q,Huang B,An Y,Zhou P

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of loci for grain yield (GY) and related traits, and dissection of the genetic architecture are important for yield improvement through marker-assisted selection (MAS). Two genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods were used on a diverse panel of 166 elite wheat varieties from the Yellow an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li F,Wen W,Liu J,Zhang Y,Cao S,He Z,Rasheed A,Jin H,Zhang C,Yan J,Zhang P,Wan Y,Xia X

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dissecting the genetic basis and regulatory mechanisms for the biosynthesis and accumulation of nutrients in maize could lead to the improved nutritional quality of this crop. Gene expression is regulated at the genomic, transcriptional, and post-transcriptional levels, all of which can produce diversity amo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu X,Wang M,Li L,Che R,Li P,Pei L,Li H

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00