Protein farnesylation in plants--conserved mechanisms but different targets.

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) link information transfer from external stimuli-activated sensors to cellular responses. The completed Arabidopsis genome sequence revealed an extraordinary complexity in MAPK-signalling components in plants. Information obtained from Arabidopsis provides a framework for a uni...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Jonak C,Okrész L,Bögre L,Hirt H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of plant cells is determined by genetic, structural and physical factors as well as by internal and external signals. Our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of these controls is still rudimentary. Recent studies indicate that ploidy level exerts an important control on cell size. By increasing ploidy, endo...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kondorosi E,Roudier F,Gendreau E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to animals, gametes in plants form a separate haploid generation, the gametophyte. The female gametophyte of flowering plants consists of just four different cell types that play distinct roles in the reproductive process. Differentiation of the distinct cell fates is tightly controlled and appears to foll...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kägi C,Gross-Hardt R

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins are among the most numerous and widely distributed pigments in land plants. Given that these pigments are the valuable compounds, as stress protectants and health-promoting components because of their potent antioxidant activity, several metabolic engineering approaches focusing on t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Saigo T,Wang T,Watanabe M,Tohge T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormones salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), and ethylene (ET) are major players in the regulation of signaling networks that are involved in induced defense responses against pathogens and insects. During the past two years, significant progress has been made in understanding the function of NON-EXPRES...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Pieterse CM,Van Loon LC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To control the abundance of plasma membrane receptors and transporters is crucial for proper perception and response to extracellular signals from surrounding cells and the environment. Posttranslational modification of plasma membrane proteins, especially ubiquitin conjugation or ubiquitylation, is key for the determ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Isono E,Kalinowska K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant biomass used for cellulosic biofuel production is primarily from vegetative tissues. Therefore, an increase in the vegetative growth of plants will lead to a higher production of plant biomass. Recent molecular and genetic studies have identified a number of factors that regulate processes such as vegetative mer...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Demura T,Ye ZH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since plants are sessile they must be able to sense and rapidly respond to changes in ambient temperature. Key aspects of plant development, including the transition to flowering and the circadian clock, have important inputs from ambient temperature. In the model system Arabidopsis thaliana, molecular candidates for ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Samach A,Wigge PA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL)-mediated quorum sensing by bacteria regulates traits that are involved in symbiotic, pathogenic and surface-associated relationships between microbial populations and their plant hosts. Recent advances demonstrate deviations from the classic LuxR/LuxI paradigm, which was first developed...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Loh J,Pierson EA,Pierson LS 3rd,Stacey G,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemistry assigns phosphate (Pi) dominant roles in metabolism; however, it also renders the macronutrient a genuinely limiting factor of plant productivity. Pi bioavailability is restricted by low Pi mobility in soil and antagonized by metallic toxicities, which force roots to actively seek and selectively acquire the...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Abel S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key signal transduction role in cells. They are involved in the regulation of growth, development, responses to environmental stimuli and cell death. The level of ROS in cells is determined by interplay between ROS producing pathways and ROS scavenging mechanisms, part of the ROS g...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Suzuki N,Miller G,Morales J,Shulaev V,Torres MA,Mittler R

更新日期：2011-12-01 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

abstract：:Membrane specialization through lateral compartmentalization is pivotal to the development of organisms and their response to environmental signals. The membrane raft hypothesis is lively discussed as a concept for domain formation. In recent years plant scientists have begun to critically assess the membrane raft hyp...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Zappel NF,Panstruga R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linalool (3,7-dimethyl-1,6-octadien-3-ol) is a common floral volatile with two distinct enantiomers and related metabolites involved in the full spectrum of plant-pollinator interactions. Recent studies reveal a complex interplay between pollinator attraction and plant defense mediated by linalool and its derivatives,...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Raguso RA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have acquired the ability for organized multicellular development independent from animals. Because of this, they represent an independent example in nature for the development of coordinated, complex cell polarity from the simple polarity found in unicellular eukaryotes. Plants display a striking array of pola...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Geldner N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramutation describes both the process and results of trans-sensing between chromosomes that causes specific heritable changes in gene regulation. RNA molecules are implicated in mediating similar events in maize, mouse, and Drosophila. Changes in both small RNA profiles and cytosine methylation patterns in Arabidops...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hollick JB

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:In the last two decades, work on auxin signaling has helped to understand many aspects of the fundamental process underlying the specification of tissue types in the plant embryo. However, the immediate steps after fertilization including the polarization of the zygote and the initial body axis formation remained poor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang K,Chen H,Miao Y,Bayer M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, newly synthesized fatty acids are either directly incorporated into glycerolipids in the plastid or exported and assembled into lipids at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). ER-derived glycerolipids serve as building blocks for extraplastidic membranes. Alternatively, they can return to the plastid where their ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Benning C,Xu C,Awai K

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Avirulence genes are originally defined by their negative impact on the ability of a pathogen to infect their host plant. Many avirulence genes are now known to represent a subset of virulence factors involved in the mediation of the host-pathogen interaction. Characterization of avirulence genes has revealed that the...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： White FF,Yang B,Johnson LB

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Cellulose is the world's most abundant biopolymer and a key structural component of the plant cell wall. Cellulose is comprised of hydrogen-bonded beta-1,4-linked glucan chains that are synthesized at the plasma membrane by large cellulose synthase (CESA) complexes. Recent advances in visualization of fluorescently la...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mutwil M,Debolt S,Persson S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flooding is one of the most hazardous natural disasters, and there are several levels of flooding. Recently, research on flood-tolerant rice plants revealed that some rice varieties have evolved to overcome two different flood types, 'flash flood' and 'deepwater flood', using two different mechanisms, and their molecu...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hattori Y,Nagai K,Ashikari M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are the two most essential nutrients ensuring food production and security. The ever growing population demands more N and P-based fertilizers. Even though the N provision to the agricultural system is virtually infinite (Haber and Bosch process) it triggers pollution when it is not use...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Krouk G,Kiba T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, a host's responses to an attempted infection include activation of various secondary metabolite pathways, some of which are specific for particular plant phylogenetic clades. Phytochemicals that represent respective end products in plant immunity have been stereotypically linked to antimicrobial properties....

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bednarek P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic mechanism of mitosis is universally conserved in all eucaryotes, but specific solutions to achieve this process have been adapted by different organisms during evolution. Although cytological studies of plant cells have contributed to our understanding of chromatin dynamics during mitosis, many of the molecu...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Criqui MC,Genschik P

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Elucidation of plant dynamics under fluctuating natural environments is a challenging goal in plant physiology. Recently, using a computer statistics integrating a series of transcriptome data of field-grown rice leaves during an entire crop season and several corresponding environmental data such as solar radiation a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Izawa T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00