Analysis of widely targeted metabolites of the euhalophyte Suaeda salsa under saline conditions provides new insights into salt tolerance and nutritional value in halophytic species.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein synthesis is a highly energy demanding process and is regulated according to cellular energy levels. Light and sugar availability affect mRNA translation in plant cells but the specific roles of these factors remain unclear. In this study, sucrose was applied to Arabidopsis seedlings kept in the ligh...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gamm M,Peviani A,Honsel A,Snel B,Smeekens S,Hanson J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sec18p/N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) is a conserved eukaryotic ATPase, which primarily functions in vesicle membrane fusion from yeast to human. However, the function of the OsSec18 gene, a homologue of NSF in rice, remains unknown. RESULTS:In the present study, we investigated the function of OsS...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun Y,Ning T,Liu Z,Pang J,Jiang D,Guo Z,Song G,Yang D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice is highly sensitive to temperature fluctuations. Recently, the frequent occurrence of high temperature stress has heavily influenced rice production. Proper heading date in specific environmental conditions could ensure high grain yield. Rice heading greatly depends on the accurate measurement of enviro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen JY,Zhang HW,Zhang HL,Ying JZ,Ma LY,Zhuang JY

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and their regulatory functions in anthocyanin, carotenoid, and chlorophyll accumulation have been extensively characterized in many plant species. However, the miRNA regulatory mechanism in betalain biosynthesis remains mostly unknown. RESULTS:In this study, 126 conserved miRNAs and 41 no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen C,Xie F,Hua Q,Zur NT,Zhang L,Zhang Z,Zhang R,Zhao J,Hu G,Qin Y

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on linkage disequilibrium (LD) provide a promising tool for the detection and fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) underlying complex agronomic traits. In this study we explored the genetic basis of variation for the traits heading date, plant height, tho...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pasam RK,Sharma R,Malosetti M,van Eeuwijk FA,Haseneyer G,Kilian B,Graner A

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alfalfa is a high-quality forage cultivated widely in northern China. Recently, the failure of alfalfa plants to survive the winter has caused substantial economic losses. Water management has attracted considerable attention as a method for the potential improvement of winter survival. The aim of this study...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu H,Li Z,Tong Z,He F,Li X

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Characterization of the expression and function of genes regulating embryo development in conifers is interesting from an evolutionary point of view. However, our knowledge about the regulation of embryo development in conifers is limited. During early embryo development in Pinus species the proembyo goes th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Merino I,Abrahamsson M,Sterck L,Craven-Bartle B,Canovas F,von Arnold S

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medicinal plant Artemisia annua is covered with filamentous trichomes and glandular, artemisinin producing trichomes. A high artemisinin supply is needed at a reduced cost for treating malaria. Artemisinin production in bioreactors can be facilitated if a better insight is obtained in the biosynthesis of...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Soetaert SS,Van Neste CM,Vandewoestyne ML,Head SR,Goossens A,Van Nieuwerburgh FC,Deforce DL

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cotton fibre quality traits such as fibre length, strength, and degree of maturation are determined by genotype and environment during the sequential phases of cotton fibre development (cell elongation, transition to secondary cell wall construction and cellulose deposition). The cotton fibre middle lamella ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hernandez-Gomez MC,Runavot JL,Meulewaeter F,Knox JP

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factor HaDREB2 was identified in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as a drought-responsive element-binding factor 2 (DREB2) with unique properties. HaDREB2 and the sunflower Heat Shock Factor A9 (HaHSFA9) co-activated the Hahsp17.6G1 promoter in sunflower embryos. Both factors could be involved ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Almoguera C,Prieto-Dapena P,Díaz-Martín J,Espinosa JM,Carranco R,Jordano J

更新日期：2009-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) involving tandem acceptors that are separated by three nucleotides (NAGNAG) is an evolutionarily widespread class of AS, which is well studied in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse). It has also been shown to be common in the model seed plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryz...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sinha R,Zimmer AD,Bolte K,Lang D,Reski R,Platzer M,Rensing SA,Backofen R

更新日期：2010-04-28 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: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:The thylakoid system in plant chloroplasts is organized into two distinct domains: grana arranged in stacks of appressed membranes and non-appressed membranes consisting of stroma thylakoids and margins of granal stacks. It is argued that the reason for the development of appressed membranes in plants is tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rumak I,Mazur R,Gieczewska K,Kozioł-Lipińska J,Kierdaszuk B,Michalski WP,Shiell BJ,Venema JH,Vredenberg WJ,Mostowska A,Garstka M

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscisic acid (ABA) and proline play important roles in rice acclimation to different stress conditions. To study whether cross-talk exists between ABA and proline, their roles in rice acclimation to hypoxia, rice growth, root oxidative damage and endogenous ABA and proline accumulation were investigated in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cao X,Wu L,Wu M,Zhu C,Jin Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:StWhy1, a member of the plant-specific Whirly single-stranded DNA-binding protein family, was first characterized as a transcription factor involved in the activation of the nuclear PR-10a gene following defense-related stress in potato. In Arabidopsis thaliana, Whirlies have recently been shown to be primar...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Sabar M,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Abou-Rached C,Brisson N

更新日期：2008-04-18 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: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:Lycoris species have great ornamental and medicinal values; however, their low regeneration efficiency seriously restricts their commercial production. Understanding the mechanism of bulblet propagation in this genus, which has remained underexplored to date, could provide a theoretical basis for improving t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu J,Li Q,Yang L,Li X,Wang Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice is a chilling-sensitive crop that would suffer serious damage from low temperatures. Overexpression of the Lsi1 gene (Lsi1-OX) in rice enhances its chilling tolerance. This study revealed that a serine hydroxymethyltransferase (OsSHMT) mainly localised in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is involved in in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fang C,Zhang P,Li L,Yang L,Mu D,Yan X,Li Z,Lin W

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modifications of DNA and histones in various combinations are correlated with many cellular processes. In this study, we investigated the possible relationship between histone H4 tetraacetylation, DNA methylation and histone H3 dimethylation at lysine 9 during mitosis in maize root meristems. RESULTS:Treatm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang F,Zhang L,Li J,Huang J,Wen R,Ma L,Zhou D,Li L

更新日期：2010-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscisic acid (ABA) and sucrose act as molecular signals in response to abiotic stress. However, how their synergy regulates the source-sink relationship has rarely been studied. This study aimed to reveal the mechanism underlying the synergy between ABA and sucrose on assimilates allocation to improve grain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen T,Li G,Islam MR,Fu W,Feng B,Tao L,Fu G

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS), encoded by Glu-3 complex loci in hexaploid wheat, play important roles in the processing quality of wheat flour. To date, the molecular characteristics and effects on dough quality of individual Glu-3 alleles and their encoding proteins have been poorly studie...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhen S,Han C,Ma C,Gu A,Zhang M,Shen X,Li X,Yan Y

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell elongation is mainly limited by the extensibility of the cell wall. Dicotyledonous primary (growing) cell walls contain cellulose, xyloglucan, pectin and proteins, but little is known about how each polymer class contributes to the cell wall mechanical properties that control extensibility. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Derbyshire P,McCann MC,Roberts K

更新日期：2007-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legumes have the unique capacity to undergo two important root endosymbioses: the root nodule symbiosis and the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Medicago truncatula is widely used to unravel the functions of genes during these root symbioses. Here we describe the development of an artificial microRNA (amiR)...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Devers EA,Teply J,Reinert A,Gaude N,Krajinski F

更新日期：2013-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In nature, orchid plants depend completely on symbiotic fungi for their nutrition at the germination and the subsequent seedling (protocorm) stages. However, only limited quantitative methods for evaluating the orchid-fungus interactions at the protocorm stage are currently available, which greatly constrain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yamamoto T,Miura C,Fuji M,Nagata S,Otani Y,Yagame T,Yamato M,Kaminaka H

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In plants, HIR (Hypersensitive Induced Reaction) proteins, members of the PID (Proliferation, Ion and Death) superfamily, have been shown to play a part in the development of spontaneous hypersensitive response lesions in leaves, in reaction to pathogen attacks. The levels of HIR proteins were shown to corre...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou L,Cheung MY,Li MW,Fu Y,Sun Z,Sun SM,Lam HM

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calophyllum brasiliense is highlighted as an important resource of calanolides, which are dipyranocoumarins that inhibit the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1 RT). Despite having great medicinal importance, enzymes involved in calanolide, biosynthesis and the pathway itself,...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gómez-Robledo HB,Cruz-Sosa F,Bernabé-Antonio A,Guerrero-Analco A,Olivares-Romero JL,Alonso-Sánchez A,Villafán E,Ibarra-Laclette E

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoids are secondary metabolites that play important roles in the entire tea plant life cycle and have potential health-promoting properties. MYB transcription factors (TFs) are considered potentially important regulators of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. However, the molecular mechanisms by which MYB...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang WL,Wang YX,Li H,Liu ZW,Cui X,Zhuang J

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis is characterized by the presence of different symbiotic structures and stages within a root system. Therefore tools allowing the analysis of molecular changes at a cellular level are required to reveal insight into arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis development and fun...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gaude N,Bortfeld S,Erban A,Kopka J,Krajinski F

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00