A wish list for synthetic biology in photosynthesis research.

abstract：:Since cysteine is the first committed molecule in plant metabolism containing both sulphur and nitrogen, the regulation of its biosynthesis is critically important. Cysteine itself is required for the production of an abundance of key metabolites in diverse pathways. Plants alter their metabolism to compensate for sul...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Hesse H,Nikiforova V,Gakière B,Hoefgen R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant root system is important for the uptake of water and nutrients and the anchoring of plants in the soil. Lateral roots (LRs) contribute considerably to root system architecture. Their post-embryonic formation is regulated by hormones and environmental cues. The hormone cytokinin influences LR formation and gr...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Chang L,Ramireddy E,Schmülling T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception and subsequent transduction of environmental signals are primary events in the acclimation of living organisms to changes in their environment. Many of the molecular sensors and transducers of environmental stress cannot be identified by traditional and conventional methods. Therefore, the genomic infor...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Murata N,Suzuki I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A jasmonate-inducible lectin called Nicotiana tabacum agglutinin or NICTABA was found in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Samsun) leaves. Since NICTABA expression is also induced after insect herbivory, a role in the defence response of tobacco was suggested. In this report, a detailed analysis was made of the entomotoxi...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Vandenborre G,Groten K,Smagghe G,Lannoo N,Baldwin IT,Van Damme EJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several per cent of net carbon assimilation can be re-released as isoprene emissions to the atmosphere by many tropical plants, much uncertainty remains regarding its biological significance. In a previous study, we detected emissions of isoprene and its oxidation products methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) and methac...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Jardine KJ,Meyers K,Abrell L,Alves EG,Yanez Serrano AM,Kesselmeier J,Karl T,Guenther A,Chambers JQ,Vickers C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene MtPPRD1, encoding a protein of 132 amino acids containing a proline-rich domain (PRD), has been revealed by suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) with two mRNA populations of embryo axes harvested immediately before and after radicle emergence. Although at the protein level MtPPRD1 showed low homology wit...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Bouton S,Viau L,Lelièvre E,Limami AM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kinds of signal may be generated when roots are exposed to an environmental stress. Some, but not all, are conveyed to shoots in the transpiration stream. Principles are summarized that may help establish experimentally the presence or intensity of root signals transported by transpiration. In many dryland spe...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Jackson MB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts and mitochondria are indispensable for plant development. They not only provide energy and carbon sources to cells, but also have evolved to become major players in a variety of processes such as amino acid metabolism, hormone biosynthesis and cellular signalling. As semi-autonomous organelles, they conta...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Van Dingenen J,Blomme J,Gonzalez N,Inzé D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanin production is a characteristic response of flowering plants to unfavourable environmental conditions. The potential roles of flavonoids and anthocyanins in plant growth were investigated by growing Arabidopsis thaliana anthocyanin production mutants (transparent testa) under limiting nitrogen and high ligh...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Misyura M,Colasanti J,Rothstein SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Plant growth research produces a catalogue of complex open questions. We argue that plant growth is a highly mechanical process, and that mathematics gives an underlying framework with which to probe its fundamental unrevealed mechanisms. This review serves to illustrate the biological insights afforded by mathematica...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Smithers ET,Luo J,Dyson RJ

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic nitrogen fixation carried out in legume root nodules requires transition metals. These nutrients are delivered by the host plant to the endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria living within the nodule cells, a process in which vascular transport is essential. As members of the Yellow Stripe-Like (YSL) family ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Castro-Rodríguez R,Abreu I,Reguera M,Novoa-Aponte L,Mijovilovich A,Escudero V,Jiménez-Pastor FJ,Abadía J,Wen J,Mysore KS,Álvarez-Fernández A,Küpper H,Imperial J,González-Guerrero M

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the ddd genes that are involved in the production of the gas dimethyl sulphide from the substrate dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP), an abundant molecule that is a stress protectant in many marine algae and a few genera of angiosperms. What is known of the arrangement of the ddd genes in differen...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Johnston AW,Todd JD,Sun L,Nikolaidou-Katsaridou MN,Curson AR,Rogers R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) to consume RuBP is a major limitation on the rate of net CO(2) assimilation (A) in C(3) and C(4) plants. The pattern of Rubisco limitation differs between the two photosynthetic types, as shown by comparisons of temperature and CO(2) responses o...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Sage RF

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very long chain aliphatic compounds occur in the suberin polymer and associated wax. Up to now only few genes involved in suberin biosynthesis have been identified. This is a report on the isolation of a potato (Solanum tuberosum) 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) gene and the study of its molecular and physiological rele...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Serra O,Soler M,Hohn C,Franke R,Schreiber L,Prat S,Molinas M,Figueras M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise in atmospheric [CO(2)] is associated with increasing air temperature. However, studies on plant responses to interactive effects of [CO(2)] and temperature are limited, particularly for leaf structural attributes. In this study, Eucalyptus saligna plants were grown in sun-lit glasshouses differing in [CO(2)] ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Xu CY,Salih A,Ghannoum O,Tissue DT

更新日期：2012-10-01 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 accumulation of the pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins beta-1,3-glucanase and chitinase and structural defence responses were studied in leaves of wheat either resistant or susceptible to the hemibiotrophic pathogen Septoria tritici. Resistance was associated with an early accumulation of beta-1,3-glucanase and ch...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Shetty NP,Jensen JD,Knudsen A,Finnie C,Geshi N,Blennow A,Collinge DB,Jørgensen HJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaphic factors such as salinity, sodicity, and drought adversely affect crop productivity, either alone or in combination. Despite soil sodicity being reported as an increasing problem worldwide, limited efforts have been made to address this issue. In the present study, we aimed to generate rice with tolerance to so...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Joshi R,Sahoo KK,Singh AK,Anwar K,Pundir P,Gautam RK,Krishnamurthy SL,Sopory SK,Pareek A,Singla-Pareek SL

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of bioenergy from grasses has been developing quickly during the last decade, with Miscanthus being among the most important choices for production of bioethanol. However, one of the key barriers to producing bioethanol is the lack of information about cell wall structure. Cell walls are thought to disp...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： De Souza AP,Alvim Kamei CL,Torres AF,Pattathil S,Hahn MG,Trindade LM,Buckeridge MS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) are an important crop of the semi-arid tropics where they are often exposed to maximum temperatures of > 40 degrees C for short periods during the growing season. The objectives of this study were to determine: (i) the effects of short periods of exposure to high temperature on flower ...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Prasad PV,Craufurd PQ,Summerfield RJ,Wheeler TR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collections of specimens held by natural history museums are invaluable material for biodiversity inventory and evolutionary studies, with specimens accumulated over 300 years readily available for sampling. Unfortunately, most museum specimens yield low-quality DNA. Recent advances in sequencing technologies, so call...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Besnard G,Christin PA,Malé PJ,Lhuillier E,Lauzeral C,Coissac E,Vorontsova MS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha4-Fucosylation represents a final step of protein N- glycosylation. alpha4-fucosylated N-glycans are thought to be involved in cell-to-cell communication and recognition in primates and plants. Nevertheless, in the plant life cycle, the function of alpha4-fucosylation remains largely unknown. To gain an insight i...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Joly C,Léonard R,Maftah A,Riou-Khamlichi C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of calcium signaling is a crucial event for perceiving environmental stress. Colonization by Piriformospora indica, a growth-promoting root endosymbiont, activates cytosolic Ca2+ in Arabidopsis roots. In this study, we examined the role and functional relevance of calcium channels responsible for Ca2+ f...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Jogawat A,Meena MK,Kundu A,Varma M,Vadassery J

更新日期：2020-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Small signalling peptides have emerged as important cell to cell messengers in plant development and stress responses. However, only a few of the predicted peptides have been functionally characterized. Here, we present functional characterization of two members of the IDA-LIKE (IDL) peptide family in Arabidopsis thal...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Vie AK,Najafi J,Winge P,Cattan E,Wrzaczek M,Kangasjärvi J,Miller G,Brembu T,Bones AM

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In rice, the class I small heat shock protein (sHSP-CI) genes were found to be selectively induced by L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (AZC) on chromosome 3 but not chromosome 1. Here it is shown that a novel cis-responsive element contributed to the differential regulation. By serial deletion and computational analysis,...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Guan JC,Yeh CH,Lin YP,Ke YT,Chen MT,You JW,Liu YH,Lu CA,Wu SJ,Lin CY

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last two decades, extensive studies have been performed at the molecular level to understand the evolution of carnivorous plants. As fruits, the repertoires of protein components in the digestive fluids of several carnivorous plants have gradually become clear. However, the quantitative aspect of these protei...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Arai N,Ohno Y,Jumyo S,Hamaji Y,Ohyama T

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are agronomically important biopolymers in higher plants composed primarily of catechin and epicatechin units. The biosynthesis of these natural products is regulated by transcription factors including proteins of the R2R3MYB class. To gain insight into the genetic control of the catechin and e...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Paolocci F,Robbins MP,Passeri V,Hauck B,Morris P,Rubini A,Arcioni S,Damiani F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding stilbene synthase (STS) plays a central role in many biochemical and physiological actions, and its metabolite resveratrol possesses broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens, as well as diverse pharmacological properties, notably an anticancer effect. Here, we report the expression analysis of the gene...

journal_title：Journal of experimental botany

authors： Xu W,Yu Y,Zhou Q,Ding J,Dai L,Xie X,Xu Y,Zhang C,Wang Y

更新日期：2011-05-01 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