Transcriptome analysis provides new insights into the transcriptional regulation of methyl jasmonate-induced flavonoid biosynthesis in pear calli.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is the major environmental stress threatening crop-plant productivity worldwide. Identification of new genes and metabolic pathways involved in plant adaptation to progressive drought stress at the reproductive stage is of great interest for agricultural research. RESULTS:We developed a novel Cross-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shaar-Moshe L,Hübner S,Peleg Z

更新日期：2015-05-03 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soil salinity is an important factor affecting growth, development, and productivity of almost all land plants, including the forage crop alfalfa (Medicago sativa). However, little is known about how alfalfa responds and adapts to salt stress, particularly among different salt-tolerant cultivars. RESULTS:Am...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lei Y,Xu Y,Hettenhausen C,Lu C,Shen G,Zhang C,Li J,Song J,Lin H,Wu J

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unilateral incompatibility (UI) is an asymmetric reproductive barrier that unidirectionally prevents gene flow between species and/or populations. UI is characterized by a compatible interaction between partners in one direction, but in the reciprocal cross fertilization fails, generally due to pollen tube r...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Broz AK,Guerrero RF,Randle AM,Baek YS,Hahn MW,Bedinger PA

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to its biennual life cycle Brassica oleracea is especially exposed to seasonal changes in temperature that could limit its growth and fitness. Thermal stress could limit plant growth, leaf development and photosynthesis. We evaluated the performance of two local populations of B. oleracea: one population...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodríguez VM,Soengas P,Alonso-Villaverde V,Sotelo T,Cartea ME,Velasco P

更新日期：2015-06-16 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: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:The tomato kinase Pto confers resistance to bacterial speck disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in a gene for gene manner. Upon recognition of specific avirulence factors the Pto kinase activates multiple signal transduction pathways culminating in induction of pathogen defense. The soluble cyt...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Herrmann MM,Pinto S,Kluth J,Wienand U,Lorbiecke R

更新日期：2006-10-06 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:Pumilio RNA-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes and are involved in RNA decay, transport, and translation repression in the cytoplasm. Although a majority of Pumilio proteins function in the cytoplasm, two nucleolar forms have been reported to have a function in rRNA processin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park SH,Kim HS,Kalita PJ,Choi SB

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coccinia grandis is a dioecious species of Cucurbitaceae having heteromorphic sex chromosomes. The chromosome constitution of male and female plants is 22 + XY and 22 + XX respectively. Y chromosome of male sex is conspicuously large and plays a decisive role in determining maleness. Sex modification has bee...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ghadge AG,Karmakar K,Devani RS,Banerjee J,Mohanasundaram B,Sinha RK,Sinha S,Banerjee AK

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold stress causes dynamic changes in gene expression that are partially caused by small non-coding RNAs since they regulate protein coding transcripts and act in epigenetic gene silencing pathways. Thus, a detailed analysis of transcriptional changes of small RNAs (sRNAs) belonging to all known sRNA classes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tiwari B,Habermann K,Arif MA,Weil HL,Garcia-Molina A,Kleine T,Mühlhaus T,Frank W

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Constitutive expression of the CBF/DREB1 for increasing freezing tolerance in woody plants is often associated with other phenotypic changes including dwarf plant and delayed flowering. These phenotypic changes have been observed when Arabidopsis DWARF AND DELAYED FLOWERING 1 (DDF1) was overexpressed in A. t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Song GQ,Gao X

更新日期：2017-06-19 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:There are different opinions about the relationship of two disjunctively distributed varieties Adiantum reniforme L. var. sinense Y.X.Lin and Adiantum reniforme L. Adiantum reniforme var. sinense is an endangered fern only distributed in a narrowed region of Chongqing city in China, while Adiantum reniforme ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang AH,Sun Y,Schneider H,Zhai JW,Liu DM,Zhou JS,Xing FW,Chen HF,Wang FG

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PLATZ proteins are a novel class of plant-specific zinc-dependent DNA-binding proteins that are classified as transcription factors (TFs). However, their common biochemical features and functions are poorly understood. RESULT:Here, we identified and cloned 17 PLATZ genes in the maize (Zea mays) genome. All ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang J,Ji C,Li Q,Zhou Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Botrytis cinerea, a necrotrophic pathogenic fungus, attacks many crops including potato and tomato. Major genes for complete resistance to B. cinerea are not known in plants, but a few quantitative trait loci have been described in tomato. Loss of function of particular susceptibility (S) genes appears to pr...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun K,van Tuinen A,van Kan JAL,Wolters AA,Jacobsen E,Visser RGF,Bai Y

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invertases are ubiquitous enzymes that irreversibly cleave sucrose into fructose and glucose. Plant invertases play important roles in carbohydrate metabolism, plant development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses. In potato (Solanum tuberosum), invertases are involved in 'cold-induced sweetening' of tu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Draffehn AM,Meller S,Li L,Gebhardt C

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent genome sequencing enables mega-base scale comparisons between related genomes. Comparisons between animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria demonstrate extensive synteny tempered by rearrangements. Within the legume plant family, glimpses of synteny have also been observed. Characterizing syntenic relatio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mudge J,Cannon SB,Kalo P,Oldroyd GE,Roe BA,Town CD,Young ND

更新日期：2005-08-15 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:Tocopherols are natural antioxidants with both in vivo (vitamin E) and in vitro activity. Sunflower seeds contain predominantly alpha-tocopherol (>90% of total tocopherols), with maximum vitamin E effect but lower in vitro antioxidant action than other tocopherol forms such as gamma-tocopherol. Sunflower ger...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： García-Moreno MJ,Fernández-Martínez JM,Velasco L,Pérez-Vich B

更新日期：2012-05-18 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:Exploring the genetic mechanisms underlying speciation is a hot topic in modern genetics and evolutionary studies. Distortion of marker transmission ratio is frequently ascribed to selection against alleles that cause hybrid incompatibility. The natural introgression between P. massoniana and P. hwangshanens...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li S,Chen Y,Gao H,Yin T

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Jumonji C (JmjC) domain-containing proteins are a group of functionally conserved histone lysine demethylases in Eukaryotes. Growing evidences have shown that JmjCs epigenetically regulate various biological processes in plants. However, their roles in plant biotic stress, especially in rice bacterial blight...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hou Y,Wang L,Wang L,Liu L,Li L,Sun L,Rao Q,Zhang J,Huang S

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

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: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:Extremely high temperatures are becoming an increasingly severe threat to crop yields. It is well documented that salicylic acid (SA) can enhance the stress tolerance of plants; however, its effect on the reproductive organs of rice plants has not been described before. To investigate the mechanism underlyin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Feng B,Zhang C,Chen T,Zhang X,Tao L,Fu G

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In mammals, nucleostemin (NS), a nucleolar GTPase, is involved in stem cell proliferation, embryogenesis and ribosome biogenesis. Arabidopsis NUCLEOSTEMIN-LIKE 1 (NSN1) has previously been shown to be essential for plant growth and development. However, the role of NSN1 in cell proliferation is largely unkno...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Z,Wang X,Xie B,Hong Z,Yang Q

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, Tectona grandis is one of the most valuable trees in the world and no transcript dataset related to secondary xylem is available. Considering how important the secondary xylem and sapwood transition from young to mature trees is, little is known about the expression differences between those succe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Galeano E,Vasconcelos TS,Vidal M,Mejia-Guerra MK,Carrer H

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last two years, considerable advances have been made in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genomics, especially with the completion of the genome sequence and the availability of RNAseq data. However, as common bean is recalcitrant to stable genetic transformation, much work remains to be done for ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pflieger S,Blanchet S,Meziadi C,Richard MM,Thareau V,Mary F,Mazoyer C,Geffroy V

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00