Complexity, cross talk and integration of plant MAP kinase signalling.

abstract：:Quantification of genotype-to-phenotype associations is central to many scientific investigations, yet the ability to obtain consistent results may be thwarted without appropriate statistical analyses. Models for association can consider confounding effects in the materials and complex genetic interactions. Selecting ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lipka AE,Kandianis CB,Hudson ME,Yu J,Drnevich J,Bradbury PJ,Gore MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant hormones regulate physiological responses in plants, including responses to pathogens and beneficial microbes. The last decades have provided a vast amount of evidence about the contribution of different plant hormones to plant immunity, and also of how they cooperate to orchestrate immunity activation, in a pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Shigenaga AM,Berens ML,Tsuda K,Argueso CT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the study of plant peroxisomes are shedding new light on the importance of these organelles for plant development, and are revealing similarities and differences in peroxisome protein import pathways between plants, animals and fungi. For example, the import of matrix proteins that carry the PTS1 an...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Baker A,Sparkes IA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agriculture faces enormous challenges including the need to substantially increase productivity, reduce environmental footprint, and deliver renewable alternatives that are being addressed by developing new oil crops for the future. The efforts include domestication of Lepidium spp. using genomics-aided breeding as a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ortiz R,Geleta M,Gustafsson C,Lager I,Hofvander P,Löfstedt C,Cahoon EB,Minina E,Bozhkov P,Stymne S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of fungal hyphae is guided by a variety of chemical gradients, including nutrients, mating pheromones or host compounds. Over 100 years after chemotropism was first reported in fungus-plant interactions, our knowledge on the host signals, fungal receptors and cellular pathways is still rudimentary. Genetic anal...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Turrà D,Di Pietro A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic size of plant organs is determined by developmental signals, yet the molecular and genetic mechanisms that control organ size are largely unknown. Ongoing functional analysis of Arabidopsis genes is defining important regulators involved in these mechanisms. Key features of this control are the coordinat...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mizukami Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormones gibberellin (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA) play essential and often antagonistic roles in regulating plant growth, development and stress responses. The long-awaited identification of receptors for both GA and ABA has shed light upon the initial events that surround the perception of these two phytohor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Razem FA,Baron K,Hill RD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a symbiosis between most terrestrial plants and fungi of the ancient phylum Glomeromycota. AM improves the uptake of water and mineral nutrients, such as phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N), of the host plant in exchange for photosynthetically fixed carbon. Successful colonization and a f...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bucher M,Wegmüller S,Drissner D

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an essential kingdom of life, responsible via photosynthesis for the majority of global primary production, and directly utilized by humankind for nutrition, animal feed, fuel, clothing, medicine and other purposes. There are an estimated 391 000 species of land plants, in addition...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kersey PJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karrikins are butenolides in smoke and char that stimulate seed germination. Karrikin action in Arabidopsis requires the F-box protein MAX2 and the α/β-hydrolase KAI2, a paralogue of D14 that is required for perception of strigolactones (SL). SL response involves hydrolysis by D14, whereas karrikins bind to KAI2 witho...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Waters MT,Scaffidi A,Flematti GR,Smith SM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in the genetic dissection of plant disease resistance signaling pathways has opened a number of new avenues towards engineering pathogen resistance in crops. Genes controlling race-specific and broad-spectrum resistance responses have been cloned, and novel induced resistance pathways have been identif...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Salmeron JM,Vernooij B

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of a given element is a complex process controlled by a network of gene products critical for uptake, binding, transportation, and sequestration. Many of these genes and physiological processes affect more than one element. Therefore, to understand how elements are regulated, it is necessary to measur...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Baxter I

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins are now generally accepted to be key regulators of wall extension during growth. Several alternative roles for expansins have emerged in which the emphasis of their action is on wall breakdown or softening in processes such as fruit ripening, pollination, germination and abscission. Expansins are commonly en...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Li Y,Jones L,McQueen-Mason S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, the intercellular transport of simple and complex molecules can occur symplastically through plasmodesmata. These are membranous channels embedded in cell walls that connect neighbouring cells. The properties of the cell walls surrounding plasmodesmata determine their transport capacity and permeability. Th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Knox JP,Benitez-Alfonso Y

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants require calcium, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and sulfur in relatively large amounts (>0.1% of dry mass) and each of these so-called macronutrients is essential for a plant to complete its life cycle. Normally, these minerals are taken up by plant roots from the soil solution in ionic form with t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Maathuis FJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in DNA targeting allow unprecedented control over gene function and expression. Targeting based on TAL effectors is arguably the most promising for systems biology and metabolic engineering. Multiple, orthogonal TAL-effector reagents of different types can be used in the same cell. Furthermore, variati...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bogdanove AJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental pathways are often simplified as linear cascades of gene activation caused by initial signaling events. Recent data, however, support a more complex view in which non-linear responses to signals are important for pattern formation. First, a positive feedback loop may regulate cellular patterning in the A...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Scheres B

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the genetic dissection of brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signaling have been made during the past few years. Genetic and biochemical data have helped to elucidate the pathways of biosynthesis of brassinolide, the most active brassinosteroid. In addition, several models have been put forward f...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schumacher K,Chory J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in grass architecture profoundly affects light capture, competition, and reproductive success, and is responsive to environmental factors such as crowding and nutrient limitation. Recent work in both model and crop systems has uncovered many aspects of the genetic control of branching, including conservation...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Doust AN

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to express foreign genes using transgenic technologies has opened up options for producing large quantities of commercially important industrial or pharmaceutical products in plants. These technologies have made it possible to use well-developed systems of commercial agriculture that were developed princip...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mascia PN,Flavell RB

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plant innate immunity, the first line of microbial recognition leading to active defence responses relies on the perception of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs). This recognition leads to PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI). Despite the numerous PAMPs recognised by pla...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Zipfel C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of GID1, a soluble receptor for gibberellins (GAs), has revealed new insights into how GA is perceived. X-ray analysis has demonstrated similarities in the tertiary structure of GID1 to hormone sensitive lipase (HSL), and the GA-binding pocket of GID1 corresponds to the active site of HSL. X-ray analysis...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ueguchi-Tanaka M,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) on specific targets mediates the temporal regulation of plant cell cycle transitions. The sequential activity of CDKs and the spatial regulation of cell proliferation during plant development, however, are still poorly understood. Understanding these aspects depends on t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Gutierrez C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a ubiquitous feature of plant genomes, contributing to variation in both genome size and gene content. Although polyploidy has occurred in all major clades of land plants, it is most frequent in angiosperms. Following a WGD in the common ancestor of all extant angiospe...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WRKY proteins comprise a large family of transcription factors. Despite their dramatic diversification in plants, WRKY genes seem to have originated in early eukaryotes. The cognate DNA-binding site of WRKY factors is well defined, but determining the roles of individual family members in regulating specific transcrip...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ulker B,Somssich IE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, molecular genetic studies on the reference plant Arabidopsis have established a largely linear signal transduction pathway for the response to ethylene gas. The biochemical modes of action of many of the signaling components are still unresolved. During the past year, however, progress in sever...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Guo H,Ecker JR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pan-tropical wild relatives of rice grow in a wide variety of habitats: forests, savanna, mountainsides, rivers and lakes. The completion of the sequencing of the rice nuclear and cytoplasmic genomes affords an opportunity to widen our understanding of the genomes of the genus Oryza. Research on the Oryza genus ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Vaughan DA,Morishima H,Kadowaki K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and development of plants are driven by the continuous production of new cells at the meristems; hence, it is of pivotal importance for plants to precisely regulate the timing and extent of cell proliferation. Although over the past decades the molecular components underlying cell cycle progression have been th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Polyn S,Willems A,De Veylder L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stomata are microscopic structures in the epidermis of the aerial parts of flowering plants formed by two specialized guard cells flanking a central pore. The role of stomata is to optimize gas exchange (the uptake of carbon dioxide and the loss of water vapor) to suit the prevailing environmental conditions. To do th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Casson SA,Hetherington AM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorespiration is a Janus-headed metabolic process: it makes oxygenic photosynthesis possible by scavenging its major toxic by-product, 2-phosphoglycolate, but also leads to high losses of freshly assimilated CO(2) from most land plants. Photorespiration has been often classified as a wasteful process but is now inc...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bauwe H,Hagemann M,Kern R,Timm S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00