Comparative transcriptome analyses of fruit development among pears, peaches, and strawberries provide new insights into single sigmoid patterns.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phased small interfering RNA (phasiRNA) is primarily derived from the 22-nt miRNA targeting loci. GhMYB2, a gene with potential roles in cotton fiber cell fate determination, is a target gene of miR828 and miR858 in the generation of phasiRNAs. RESULTS:In the presented work, through the evaluation of phasin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao T,Tao X,Li M,Gao M,Chen J,Zhou N,Mei G,Fang L,Ding L,Zhou B,Zhang T,Guan X

更新日期：2020-05-15 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:Forest species ranges are confined by environmental limitations such as cold stress. The natural range shifts of pine forests due to climate change and proactive-assisted population migration may each be constrained by the ability of pine species to tolerate low temperatures, especially in northern latitudes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Taïbi K,Del Campo AD,Vilagrosa A,Bellés JM,López-Gresa MP,López-Nicolás JM,Mulet JM

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pst), which is the pathogen responsible for tobacco wildfire disease, has received considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this study was to clarify the responses of photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) to Pst infection in tobacco leaves. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cheng DD,Zhang ZS,Sun XB,Zhao M,Sun GY,Chow WS

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the availability of rice and sorghum genome sequences and ongoing efforts to sequence genomes of other cereal and energy crops, the grass family (Poaceae) has become a model system for comparative genomics and for better understanding gene and genome evolution that underlies phenotypic and ecological di...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Peng Z,Lu T,Li L,Liu X,Gao Z,Hu T,Yang X,Feng Q,Guan J,Weng Q,Fan D,Zhu C,Lu Y,Han B,Jiang Z

更新日期：2010-06-18 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:Perenniality is best understood in quantitative terms, involving the relationship between production vs. turnover of meristems, biomass, or energy reserves. Previous quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies using divergent populations of the perennial rock cress Arabidopsis lyrata have shown that trade-offs in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Remington DL,Figueroa J,Rane M

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oil from seeds of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) has unique drying properties that are industrially important. We found that the extended oil accumulation period was related to the high seed oil content at maturity among tung tree population. In order to understand the molecular mechanism underlying the hig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang L,Wu P,Lu W,Lü S

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant phloem consists of an interdependent cell pair, the sieve element/companion cell complex. Sucrose transporters are localized to enucleate sieve elements (SE), despite being transcribed in companion cells (CC). Due to the high turnover of SUT1, sucrose transporter mRNA or protein must traffic from CC to...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lalonde S,Weise A,Walsh RP,Ward JM,Frommer WB

更新日期：2003-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) technology was recently employed to identify a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for linkage mapping of a North American and Eastern Asian Populus species. However, there is also the need for high-density genetic linkage maps for the Eur...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhigunov AV,Ulianich PS,Lebedeva MV,Chang PL,Nuzhdin SV,Potokina EK

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhododendron molle (Ericaceae) is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, its flower and root have been widely used to treat rheumatism and relieve pain for thousands of years in China. Chemical studies have revealed that R. molle contains abundant secondary metabolites such as terpenoinds, flavonoids and lig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou GL,Zhu P

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:'Fengzao' is an early-ripening bud mutant of 'Kyoho', which matures nearly 30 days earlier than 'Kyoho'. To gain a better understanding of the regulatory role of miRNAs in early-ripening of grape berry, high-throughput sequencing approach and quantitative RT-PCR validation were employed to identify miRNAs at...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Guo DL,Li Q,Lv WQ,Zhang GH,Yu YH

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B chromosome causes no obvious phenotype variation, its existence might influence A genome gene expression. Previous studies suggested that B chromosomes are evol...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang W,Du Y,Zhao X,Jin W

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miR399 and miR827 are both involved in conserved phosphorus (P) deficiency signalling pathways. miR399 targets the PHO2 gene encoding E2 enzyme that negatively regulates phosphate uptake and root-to-shoot allocation, while miR827 targets SPX-domain-containing genes that negatively regulate other P-responsive...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hackenberg M,Shi BJ,Gustafson P,Langridge P

更新日期：2013-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The normal growth of Rehmannia glutinosa, a widely used medicinal plant in China, is severely disturbed by replant disease. The formation of replant disease commonly involves interactions among plants, allelochemicals and microbes; however, these relationships remain largely unclear. As a result, no effectiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Yang Y,Feng F,Zhang B,Chen S,Yang C,Gu L,Wang F,Zhang J,Chen A,Lin W,Chen X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A positive relationship between genome size and intron length is observed across eukaryotes including Angiosperms plants, indicating a co-evolution of genome size and gene structure. Conifers have very large genomes and longer introns on average than most plants, but impacts of their large genome and longer ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stival Sena J,Giguère I,Boyle B,Rigault P,Birol I,Zuccolo A,Ritland K,Ritland C,Bohlmann J,Jones S,Bousquet J,Mackay J

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isoprene is a five-carbon chemical that is an important starting material for the synthesis of rubber, elastomers, and medicines. Although many plants produce huge amounts of isoprene, it is very difficult to obtain isoprene directly from plants because of its high volatility and increasing environmental reg...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yeom SJ,Kim M,Kim SK,Lee DH,Kwon KK,Lee H,Kim H,Kim DM,Lee SG

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromatin dynamics and stability are both required to control normal development of multicellular organisms. Chromatin assembly factor CAF-1 is a histone chaperone that facilitates chromatin formation and the maintenance of specific chromatin states. In plants and animals CAF-1 is essential for normal develo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Exner V,Gruissem W,Hennig L

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residual heterozygosity (RH) in advanced inbred lines of plants benefits quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping studies. However, knowledge of factors affecting the genome-wide distribution of RH remains limited. RESULTS:A set of 2196 heterogeneous inbred family (HIF) maize lines derived from 12 recombinant...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu N,Liu J,Li W,Pan Q,Liu J,Yang X,Yan J,Xiao Y

更新日期：2018-04-19 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:Jasmonates play an important role in plant stress and defence responses and are also involved in the regulation of anthocyanin synthesis in response to sucrose availability. Here we explore the signalling interactions between sucrose and jasmonates in response to cold stress in Arabidopsis. RESULTS:Sucrose ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wingler A,Tijero V,Müller M,Yuan B,Munné-Bosch S

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arachis contains 80 species that carry many beneficial genes that can be utilized in the genetic improvement of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. 2n = 4x = 40, genome AABB). Chromosome engineering is a powerful technique by which these genes can be transferred and utilized in cultivated peanut. However, their smal...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du P,Li L,Liu H,Fu L,Qin L,Zhang Z,Cui C,Sun Z,Han S,Xu J,Dai X,Huang B,Dong W,Tang F,Zhuang L,Han Y,Qi Z,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phalaenopsis orchids are popular floral crops, and development of new cultivars is economically important to floricultural industries worldwide. Analysis of orchid genes could facilitate orchid improvement. Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end sequences (BESs) can provide the first glimpses into the seq...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hsu CC,Chung YL,Chen TC,Lee YL,Kuo YT,Tsai WC,Hsiao YY,Chen YW,Wu WL,Chen HH

更新日期：2011-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overuse of nitrogen fertilizers is often a major practice to ensure sufficient nitrogen demand of high-yielding rice, leading to persistent NH4+ excess in the plant. However, this excessive portion of nitrogen nutrient does not correspond to further increase in grain yields. For finding out the main constrai...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang S,Hao D,Jin M,Li Y,Liu Z,Huang Y,Chen T,Su Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent development of novel repeat-fruiting types of blackberry (Rubus L.) cultivars, combined with a long history of morphological marker-assisted selection for thornlessness by blackberry breeders, has given rise to increased interest in using molecular markers to facilitate blackberry breeding. Yet no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lewers KS,Saski CA,Cuthbertson BJ,Henry DC,Staton ME,Main DS,Dhanaraj AL,Rowland LJ,Tomkins JP

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Verticillium spp. are major pathogens of dicotyledonous plants such as cotton, tomato, olive or oilseed rape. Verticillium symptoms are often ambiguous and influenced by development and environment. The aim of the present study was to define disease and resistance traits of the complex Verticillium longispor...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Häffner E,Karlovsky P,Diederichsen E

更新日期：2010-11-02 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:Calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins belong to a unique group of calcium sensors in plant that decode the Ca(2+) signature by interacting with CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs). Although CBL-CIPK complexes have been shown to play important roles in the responses to various stresses in plants, little is kn...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun T,Wang Y,Wang M,Li T,Zhou Y,Wang X,Wei S,He G,Yang G

更新日期：2015-11-04 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:Tomato gray leaf spot caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is a serious disease that can severely hinder tomato production. To date, only Sm has been reported to provide resistance against this disease, and the molecular mechanism underlying resistance to this disease in tomato remains unclear....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang H,Shen F,Wang H,Zhao T,Zhang H,Jiang J,Xu X,Li J

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00