Secondary xylem-specific expression of caffeoyl-coenzyme A 3-O-methyltransferase plays an important role in the methylation pathway associated with lignin biosynthesis in loblolly pine.

abstract：:Culm mechanical strength is an important agronomic trait in crop breeding. To understand the molecular mechanisms that control culm mechanical strength, we identified a flexible culm1 (fc1) mutant by screening a rice T-DNA insertion mutant library. This mutant exhibited an abnormal development phenotype, including lat...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Li X,Yang Y,Yao J,Chen G,Li X,Zhang Q,Wu C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional homologues of vertebrate natriuretic peptides (NPs), the plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs), are a novel class of peptidic hormones that signal via guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) and systemically affect plant salt and water balance and responses to biotrophic plant pathogens. Although there ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Turek I,Gehring C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cab-1 is a complex genetic locus in tomato consisting of four clustered genes encoding chlorophyll a/b-binding polypeptide. Southern blot analysis of total tomato DNA with genomic clones corresponding to the Cab-1 locus has revealed the presence of a repetitive element in the 3 kb spacer regions between two of these g...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Bernatzky R,Pichersky E,Malik VS,Tanksley SD

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green cybrids with a new nucleus-chloroplast combination cannot be selected after protoplast fusion in the intersubfamilial Nicotiana-Solanum combination. As an approach to overcome the supposed plastomegenome incompatibility, a partial plastome transfer by genetic recombination has been considered. After fusions of p...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Thanh ND,Medgyesy P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of chloroplast genes during cotton embryogenesis was followed by measuring hybridization of cloned chloroplast genomic fragments to total RNA immobilzed on membrane filters. RNA was extracted from the cotyledons of cotton embryos at different stages of development ranging from very small embryos (5 mg) ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Borroto KE,Dure L 3rd

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is emerging that the E2F family of transcription factors plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression at the G1/S transition in plants. Here, we show that in the tobacco proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), whose transcript is specifically expressed at G1/S phase, the two E2F binding sit...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Uemukai K,Iwakawa H,Kosugi S,de Uemukai S,Kato K,Kondorosi E,Murray JA,Ito M,Shinmyo A,Sekine M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase (RPI) catalyses the interconversion of ribose-5-phosphate and ribulose-5-phosphate in the reductive and oxidative pentose phosphate pathways in plants. RPI from spinach chloroplasts was purified and microsequenced. Via PCR with degenerate primers designed against microsequenced peptides, a...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Martin W,Henze K,Kellerman J,Flechner A,Schnarrenberger C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandemly arrayed genes (TAGs) account for about one-third of the duplicated genes in eukaryotic genomes. They provide raw genetic material for biological evolution, and play important roles in genome evolution. The 22-kDa prolamin genes in cereal genomes represent typical TAG organization, and provide the good materia...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhou L,Huang B,Meng X,Wang G,Wang F,Xu Z,Song R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative amounts of some chloroplast polypeptides were followed during greening of leaves from three different plant families. Oat, bean and spinach were the representatives of the Gramineae, Leguminosae and Chenopodiaceae, respectively. By using specific antibodies against subunits of the chloroplast protein comp...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Nechushtai R,Nelson N

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGA1a is a well-characterized transcription factor that may mediate the root-specific and auxin-responsive expression of some plant genes. In tobacco, Southern blot and genomic cloning analyses have shown that TGA1a consists of at least four closely related genes. Since TGA1a belongs to the bZIP class of transcription...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Miao ZH,Liu X,Lam E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial and animal coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthesis, pantothenate kinase (PANK) activity is critical in regulating intracellular CoA levels. Less is known about the role of PANK in plants, although a single plant isozyme from Arabidopsis, AtPANK1, was previously cloned and analyzed in vitro. We report here the chara...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tilton GB,Wedemeyer WJ,Browse J,Ohlrogge J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiosperm genomes show tremendous variability in genome size and chromosome number. Nevertheless, comparative genetic mapping has revealed genome collinearity of closely related species. Sequence-based comparisons were used to assess the conservation of gene arrangements. Numerous small rearrangements, insertions/del...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Schmidt R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cultivars of Perilla frutescens, red and green formas are known to differ in anthocyanin accumulation in leaves and stems. cDNA clones encoding the enzymes involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis, chalcone synthase (CHS), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), and UDP glucose: flavonoid 3-O...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Gong Z,Yamazaki M,Sugiyama M,Tanaka Y,Saito K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements were first discovered in plants because they can have tremendous effects on genome structure and gene function. Although only a few or no elements may be active within a genome at any time in any individual, the genomic alterations they cause can have major outcomes for a species. All major eleme...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive DNA sequences were detected directly on somatic metaphase chromosome spreads from soybean root tips using fluorescent in situ hybridization. Methods to spread the forty small metaphase chromosomes substantially free of cellular material were developed using protoplasts. The specific DNA probe was a 1.05 kb ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Griffor MC,Vodkin LO,Singh RJ,Hymowitz T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (cab) of pine (Pinus thumbergii) was isolated and sequenced. The gene (cab-6) contains an intron at a position equivalent to the type II cab genes of angiosperms. Transcript mapping analyses show that the amount of the mRNA in the dark is about half of that in the light. The ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Kojima K,Yamamoto N,Sasaki S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotropic effects are one of the main concerns regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This includes unintended side effects of the transgene or its genome insertion site on the regulation of other endogenous genes, which could potentially cause the accumulation of different secondary metabolites that may h...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ioset JR,Urbaniak B,Ndjoko-Ioset K,Wirth J,Martin F,Gruissem W,Hostettmann K,Sautter C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GSK3/Shaggy family of serine/threonine protein kinases is involved in a series of biological processes in animals, plants and yeast [Charrier et al. (2002) Plant Physiol 130:577-590; Jope and Johnson (2004) Trends Biochem Sci 29:95-102; Li and Nam (2002) Science 295:1299-1301; Piao et al. (2001) Plant J 27:305-314...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Claisse G,Charrier B,Kreis M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erectoides-m anthocyanin-less 1 (ert-m ant1) double mutants are among the very few examples of induced double mutants in barley. From phenotypic observations of mutant plants it is known that the Ert-m gene product regulates plant architecture whereas the Ant1 gene product is involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis. ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zakhrabekova S,Dockter C,Ahmann K,Braumann I,Gough SP,Wendt T,Lundqvist U,Mascher M,Stein N,Hansson M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a fruit-specific cDNA as a probe we isolated and sequenced the two corresponding homologous genes (Sn-1 and Sn-2) of the bell pepper (Capsicum annuum) genome. Both genes have a single intron and numerous unusual long inverted repeat sequences. The introns share 87% homology and Sn-2 contains one 450 bp additiona...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Pozueta-Romero J,Klein M,Houlné G,Schantz ML,Meyer B,Schantz R

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work, a 33 kDa cysteine proteinase was found in callus initiated from maize (Zea mays L.) resistant to fall armyworm feeding. A callus cDNA library from the maize inbred Mp708 was screened with oligonucleotides derived from the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the 33 kDa proteinase and several cDNA clones...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Pechan T,Jiang B,Steckler D,Ye L,Lin L,Luthe DS,Williams WP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize and tomato cDNA clones have been hybridized in Southern blotting experiments to plant genomic DNA prepared from different lines to detect restriction fragment polymorphisms (RFPs). In maize we have found that a high degree of genetic variability is present, even among domestic inbred lines. Most randomly chosen ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Helentjaris T,King G,Slocum M,Siedenstrang C,Wegman S

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf senescence is one of the key stages of plant leaf development. It is a highly complex but ordered process involving expression of large scale senescence associated genes, and its molecular mechanisms still remain unclear. By using suppression subtractive hybridization, 815 ESTs that are up-regulated at the onset ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Liu L,Zhou Y,Zhou G,Ye R,Zhao L,Li X,Lin Y

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cold-regulated gene (cor tmc-ap3) coding for a putative chloroplastic amino acid selective channel protein was isolated from cold-treated barley leaves combining the differential display and the 5'-RACE techniques. Cor tmc-ap3 is expressed at low level under normal growing temperature, and its expression is strongly...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Baldi P,Grossi M,Pecchioni N,Valè G,Cattivelli L

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY MESSAGE:In this manuscript, we disclosed the influence of light on the accumulation of storage reserves in B. napus embryos.1.Light induced the gene expression in the developing embryos of B. napus.2.Light promoted the starch synthesis in chloroplasts of B. napus embryos.3.Light enhanced the metabolic activity of s...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tan H,Qi X,Li Y,Wang X,Zhou J,Liu X,Shi X,Ye W,Xiang X

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the expression of the oat globulin gene asglo5 in developing transgenic tobacco seeds. The asglo5 gene promoter directed transcription in the endosperm as well as in the provascular tissue, the presumptive root tip and the shoot apical meristem of the embryo as revealed by GUS reporter gene constructs and i...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Schubert R,Panitz R,Manteuffel R,Nagy I,Wobus U,Bäumlein H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a rice cDNA encoding nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK, EC 2.7.4.6). The deduced amino acid sequence of the rice NDK shows highest homology to spinach NDK-I. The rice NDK gene exhibits a strong codon bias (73.8% GC) in the third position of the codon. DNA blot analysis indicated that at least single NDK g...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Yano A,Shimazaki T,Kato A,Umeda M,Uchimiya H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When subjected to salt stress or drought, some vascular plants such as barley respond with an increased accumulation of the osmoprotectant glycine betaine (betaine), being the last step of betaine synthesis catalyzed by betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH). We report here cloning and characterization of BADH cDNA fro...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ishitani M,Nakamura T,Han SY,Takabe T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel rice genomic sequence encoding coding segments homologous to other metallothionein-like genes was isolated from Oryza sativa genomic library. This sequence, hereby designated as rgMT (rice genomic metallothionein-like gene), consists of two exons and one intron. From the coding sequence, it is predicted that r...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Hsieh HM,Liu WK,Huang PC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of A/T-rich sequences and a CATGCAT/A sequence are contained in the 5'-upstream regions of the genes encoding concanavalin A (Con A) and canavalin, two major seed storage proteins of Canavalia gladiata D.C. To study the role of these sequences in the seed-specific gene expression, we constructed 5'-deletion m...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Yamamoto S,Nishihara M,Morikawa H,Yamauchi D,Minamikawa T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00