Overexpression of improved EPSPS gene results in field level glyphosate tolerance and higher grain yield in rice.

abstract：:To infect plants, viruses rely heavily on their host's machinery. Plant genetic resistances based on host factor modifications can be found among existing natural variability and are widely used for some but not all crops. While biotechnology can supply for the lack of natural resistance alleles, new strategies need t...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bastet A,Lederer B,Giovinazzo N,Arnoux X,German-Retana S,Reinbold C,Brault V,Garcia D,Djennane S,Gersch S,Lemaire O,Robaglia C,Gallois JL

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has deleterious impact on the environment. Increase in yield potential at low nitrogen supply is regarded as a cereal breeding goal for future agricultural sustainability. Although natural variations of nitrogen transporters have been investigated, key genes associated with assimi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Yu J,Xuan W,Tian Y,Fan L,Sun J,Tang W,Chen G,Wang B,Liu Y,Wu W,Liu X,Jiang X,Zhou C,Dai Z,Xu D,Wang C,Wan J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the declarations and collective measures taken to eradicate hunger at World Food Summits, food security remains one of the biggest issues that we are faced with. The current scenario could worsen due to the alarming increase in world population, further compounded by adverse climatic conditions, such as increa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Singh J,Pandey P,James D,Chandrasekhar K,Achary VM,Kaul T,Tripathy BC,Reddy MK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, transgenic approaches to biofortify subsistence crops have been rather limited. This is particularly true for the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Cassava has one of the highest rates of CO(2) fixation and sucrose synthesis for any C3 plant, but rarely reaches its yield potentials in the ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ihemere U,Arias-Garzon D,Lawrence S,Sayre R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordination of multiple transgenes is essential for metabolic engineering of biosynthetic pathways. Here, we report the utilization of two bicistronic systems involving the 2A sequence from the foot-and-mouth disease virus and the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) sequence from the crucifer-infecting tobamovirus to...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Ha SH,Liang YS,Jung H,Ahn MJ,Suh SC,Kweon SJ,Kim DH,Kim YM,Kim JK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular plant peptides perform a large variety of functions, including signalling and defence. Intracellular peptides often have physiological functions or may merely be the products of general proteolysis. Plant peptides have been identified and, in part, functionally characterized through biochemical and genet...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Farrokhi N,Whitelegge JP,Brusslan JA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in gene sequences, many of which are single nucleotide polymorphisms, underlie some of the most important traits in plants. With humanity facing significant challenges to increase global agricultural productivity, there is an urgent need to accelerate the development of these traits in plants. oligonucleot...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Sauer NJ,Mozoruk J,Miller RB,Warburg ZJ,Walker KA,Beetham PR,Schöpke CR,Gocal GF

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woody biomass has gained popularity as an environmentally friendly, renewable and sustainable resource for liquid fuel production. Here, we demonstrate biotechnological improvement of the quantity and quality of woody biomass by employing developing xylem (DX)-preferential production of gibberellin (GA), a phytohormon...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jeon HW,Cho JS,Park EJ,Han KH,Choi YI,Ko JH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a devastating disease affecting over 350 plant species. A few peanut cultivars were found to possess stable and durable bacterial wilt resistance (BWR). Genomics-assisted breeding can accelerate the process of developing resistant cultivars by using diagnostic marke...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Luo H,Pandey MK,Khan AW,Wu B,Guo J,Ren X,Zhou X,Chen Y,Chen W,Huang L,Liu N,Lei Y,Liao B,Varshney RK,Jiang H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and adoption of hybrid seed technology have led to dramatic increases in agricultural productivity. However, it has been a challenge to develop a commercially viable platform for the production of hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum) seed due to wheat's strong inbreeding habit. Recently, a novel platform f...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Okada A,Arndell T,Borisjuk N,Sharma N,Watson-Haigh NS,Tucker EJ,Baumann U,Langridge P,Whitford R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early methionine (Em) proteins are members of the late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) group of proteins that have been considered to be embryo specific. The ability of a 646-bp wheat Em promoter to control green fluorescent protein (gfp) expression was investigated in transgenic barley and rice. Seeds of transgenic ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Furtado A,Henry RJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically engineered (GE) rice lines expressing Lepidoptera-active insecticidal cry genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been developed in China. Field surveys indicated that Bt rice harbours fewer rice planthoppers than non-Bt rice although planthoppers are not sensitive to the produced Bt Cry ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wang X,Liu Q,Meissle M,Peng Y,Wu K,Romeis J,Li Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific expression of transgenes is essential in plant breeding programmes to avoid the fitness costs caused by constitutive expression of a target gene. However, knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene expression and practicable tissue-specific promoters is limited. In this study, we...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Cai M,Wei J,Li X,Xu C,Wang S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments of tools for targeted genome modification have led to new concepts in how multiple traits can be combined. Targeted genome modification is based on the use of nucleases with tailor-made specificities to introduce a DNA double-strand break (DSB) at specific target loci. A re-engineered meganuclease ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： D'Halluin K,Vanderstraeten C,Van Hulle J,Rosolowska J,Van Den Brande I,Pennewaert A,D'Hont K,Bossut M,Jantz D,Ruiter R,Broadhvest J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of phospholipase Dα1 (PLDα1) produces lipid messenger phosphatidic acid and promotes stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. To explore the use of the PLDα1-mediated signalling towards decreasing water loss in crop plants, we introduced Arabidopsis PLDα1 under the control of a guard cell-specific promoter AtKa...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Lu S,Bahn SC,Qu G,Qin H,Hong Y,Xu Q,Zhou Y,Hong Y,Wang X

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dual-marker plasmid containing the selectable marker gene, manA, and the reporter gene, sgfp, was used to transform immature sorghum embryos by employing an Agrobacterium-mediated system. Both genes were under the control of the ubi1 promoter in a binary vector pPZP201. The Escherichia coli phosphomannose isomerase ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao Z,Xie X,Ling Y,Muthukrishnan S,Liang GH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is one of the major crops in the world, corn has poor nutritional quality for human and animal consumption due to its low lysine content. Here, we report a method of simultaneous expression of a deregulated lysine biosynthetic enzyme, CordapA, and reduction of a bifunctional lysine degradation enzyme, lysi...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Frizzi A,Huang S,Gilbertson LA,Armstrong TA,Luethy MH,Malvar TM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an increasing number of genome sequences become available for a wide range of species, there is a growing understanding that the genome of a single individual is insufficient to represent the gene diversity within a whole species. Many studies examine the sequence diversity within genes, and this allelic variation ...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Golicz AA,Batley J,Edwards D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a de novo genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis of short, 64-base tag-level haplotypes in 4657 accessions of cultivated oat, we discovered 164741 tag-level (TL) genetic variants containing 241224 SNPs. From this, the marker density of an oat consensus map was increased by the addition of more than 70000 loci. The...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Bekele WA,Wight CP,Chao S,Howarth CJ,Tinker NA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate target genes through mRNA cleavage or translational inhibition. miRNA is known to play an important role in the root development and environmental responses in both the Arabidopsis and rice. However, little information is available to f...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kong X,Zhang M,Xu X,Li X,Li C,Ding Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, wheat is the most widely grown crop and one of the three most important crops for human and livestock feed. However, the complex nature of the wheat genome has, until recently, resulted in a lack of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based molecular markers of practical use to wheat breeders. Recently, lar...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Allen AM,Barker GL,Wilkinson P,Burridge A,Winfield M,Coghill J,Uauy C,Griffiths S,Jack P,Berry S,Werner P,Melichar JP,McDougall J,Gwilliam R,Robinson P,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The root system is fundamental for plant development, is crucial for overall plant growth and is recently being recognized as the key for future crop productivity improvement. A major determinant of root system architecture is the initiation of lateral roots. While knowledge of the genetic and molecular mechanisms reg...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Jansen L,Hollunder J,Roberts I,Forestan C,Fonteyne P,Van Quickenborne C,Zhen RG,McKersie B,Parizot B,Beeckman T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic rice accumulating the modified major Japanese cedar pollen allergens, Cryptomeria japonica 1 (Cry j 1) and Cryptomeria japonica 2 (Cry j 2), which were deconstructed by fragmentation and shuffling, respectively, in the edible part of the seed was generated by transformation of a good-tasting rice variety, '...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Wakasa Y,Takagi H,Hirose S,Yang L,Saeki M,Nishimura T,Kaminuma O,Hiroi T,Takaiwa F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) synthetase is the key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of SAM, which serves as a common precursor for polyamines (PAs) and ethylene. A SAM synthetase cDNA (SlSAMS1) was introduced into the tomato genome using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation method. Transgenic plants overex...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gong B,Li X,VandenLangenberg KM,Wen D,Sun S,Wei M,Li Y,Yang F,Shi Q,Wang X

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-chain variable fragments (scFvs), as well as other recombinant antibodies, have become powerful tools for therapy and analysis in both human and veterinary medicine. Transgenic plants have been developed as an efficient production system for these recombinant proteins, achieving high yields at moderate cost. Se...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Scheller J,Leps M,Conrad U

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins has proven to be a successful strategy for obtaining insect resistance in transgenic plants. Drawbacks of expression of a single resistance gene are the limited target spectrum and the potential for rapid adaptation of the pest. Hybrid toxins with a wider target sp...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Naimov S,Dukiandjiev S,de Maagd RA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 3.5 million expressed sequence tags from the major cereal taxa were used to electronically mine over 176,000 putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The density, distribution and degree of linkage between these SNPs were compared among the different taxa. The frequency of sequence polymorphism was lowest...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Barker GL,Edwards KJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs) play major roles in regulating plant growth and development, but their roles in drought stress remain elusive. Here, we cloned and characterized a maize (Zea mays) PIF transcription factor, ZmPIF1. The expression level of ZmPIF1 was significantly induced by independent drought an...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Gao Y,Wu M,Zhang M,Jiang W,Ren X,Liang E,Zhang D,Zhang C,Xiao N,Li Y,Dai Y,Chen J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the genetic transformation of cereals have improved the prospects of using biotechnology for plant improvement, and a toolbox of promoters with defined specificities would be a valuable resource in controlling the expression of transgenes in desired tissues for both plant improvement and molecular farming....

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Furtado A,Henry RJ,Pellegrineschi A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steviol glycosides (SGs) are extracted from Stevia leaves for use as a natural sweetener. Among SGs, stevioside is most abundant in leaf extracts followed by rebaudioside A (Reb A). However, Reb A is of particular interest because of its sweeter and more pleasant taste compared to stevioside. Therefore, the developmen...

journal_title：Plant biotechnology journal

authors： Kim MJ,Zheng J,Liao MH,Jang IC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00