Plant actin-related proteins.

abstract：:Intelligent behaviour, even in humans, is an aspect of complex adaptive behaviour that provides a capacity for problem solving. This article assesses whether plants have a capacity to solve problems and, therefore, could be classified as intelligent organisms. The complex molecular network that is found in every plant...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Trewavas A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomineralization is widespread in the plant kingdom. The most common types of biominerals in plants are calcium oxalate crystals, calcium carbonate, and silica. Functions of biominerals may depend on their shape, size, abundance, placement, and chemical composition. In this review we highlight advances in understandi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： He H,Veneklaas EJ,Kuo J,Lambers H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signaling molecule auxin is a central regulator of plant development, which instructs tissue and organ patterning, and couples environmental stimuli to developmental responses. Here, we discuss the function of PINOID (PID) and the phototropins, members of the plant specific AGCVIII protein kinases, and their role ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Galván-Ampudia CS,Offringa R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormesis is a biphasic dose-response relationship with contrasting effects of low versus high doses of stress. Hormesis is rapidly developing in plant science research and has wide implications for risk assessment, stress biology, and agriculture. Here, we explore selected areas of importance to the concept of hormesi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Agathokleous E,Kitao M,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants employ multiple layers of innate immunity to fight pathogens. For both RNA and DNA viruses, RNA silencing plays a critical role in plant resistance. To escape this antiviral silencing-based immune response, viruses have evolved various counterdefense strategies, the most widespread being production of viral sup...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Incarbone M,Dunoyer P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for plant image analysis tools is established and has led to a steadily expanding literature and set of software tools. This is encouraging, but raises a question: how does a plant scientist with no detailed knowledge or experience of image analysis methods choose the right tool(s) for the task at hand, or sa...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Pridmore TP,French AP,Pound MP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretory pathway encloses functionally interlinked organelles for the synthesis and deposition of most of the building blocks of eukaryotic cells, such as lipids, proteins and sugars. The coat protein complex II (COPII) is a specialized protein complex for the transport between secretory organelles, specifically ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Marti L,Fornaciari S,Renna L,Stefano G,Brandizzi F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple independent origins of plant parasitism suggest that numerous ancestral plant lineages possessed the developmental flexibility to meet the requirements of a parasitic life style, including such adaptations as the ability to recognize host plants, form an invasive haustorium, and regulate the transfer of n...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Westwood JH,Yoder JI,Timko MP,dePamphilis CW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study reports partner manipulation for an interaction that was considered a reward-for-defence mutualism. Secretions of lycaenid caterpillars altered ant locomotion and aggressiveness, likely by manipulating dopaminergic signalling. This study opens the question whether such manipulation is common and whether...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Heil M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breeding new cultivars allowing reduced fertilization and irrigation is a major challenge. International efforts towards this goal focus on noninvasive methodologies, platforms for high-throughput phenotyping of large plant populations, and quantitative description of root traits as predictors of crop performance in e...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rongsawat T,Peltier JB,Boyer JC,Véry AA,Sentenac H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of bio- and nanotechnologies have been developed that could be adapted towards monitoring the presence and expression of transgenes, in real time and in the field, in plants of agronomic and ecological importance. Transgene escape from crop hosts to wild relatives or landraces is one example in which monitorin...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Stewart CN Jr

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algae are (mostly) photosynthetic eukaryotes that occupy multiple branches of the tree of life, and are vital for planet function and health. In this review, we highlight a transformative period in studies of the evolution and functioning of this extraordinary group of organisms and their potential for novel applicati...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Brodie J,Chan CX,De Clerck O,Cock JM,Coelho SM,Gachon C,Grossman AR,Mock T,Raven JA,Smith AG,Yoon HS,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular basis of gene-for-gene interactions between disease-resistance (R) genes and pathogen avirulence (avr) genes has been a Holy Grail of plant pathology for the past decade. Recent studies of the R-avr interaction between RRS1-R and popP2 by Laurent Deslandes et al. provide new insights and s...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lahaye T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of soil biodiversity in agriculture in general is currently increasing rapidly. However, almost all studies have stopped with the quantification of soil biodiversity effects on crops at harvest time, ignoring subsequent processes along the agrifood chain until food arrives on our plates. Here we develop ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rillig MC,Lehmann A,Lehmann J,Camenzind T,Rauh C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of several lesion mimic mutants (LMM) that misregulate cell death constitutes a powerful tool to unravel programmed cell death (PCD) pathways in plants, particularly the hypersensitive response (HR), a form of PCD associated with resistance to pathogens. Recently, the characterization of novel LMM h...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lorrain S,Vailleau F,Balagué C,Roby D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants 'forage' for light in plant canopies using a variety of photosensory systems. Far-red radiation (FR) reflected by neighbours is an early signal of competition that elicits anticipatory shade-avoidance responses. In Arabidopsis and cucumber, perception of reflected FR requires phytochrome B. Horizontal blue (B) ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ballaré CL

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition to flowering is a major developmental switch in the life cycle of plants. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), chromatin mechanisms play critical roles in flowering-time regulation through the expression control of key flowering-regulatory genes. Various conserved chromatin modifiers, plant-specific f...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： He Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woody plant (WP) declines have multifactorial determinants as well as a biological and economic reality. The vascular system of WPs involved in the transport of carbon, nitrogen, and water from sources to sinks has a seasonal activity, which places it at a central position for mediating plant-environment interactions ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bettenfeld P,Fontaine F,Trouvelot S,Fernandez O,Courty PE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, mitochondrial function is associated with hundreds of metabolic reactions. To facilitate these reactions, charged substrates and cofactors move across the charge-impermeable inner mitochondrial membrane via specialized transporters and must work cooperatively with the electrochemical gradient which is essen...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lee CP,Millar AH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the sequencing of whole genomes of model plants, high-throughput decoding of gene function is a major challenge in modern plant biology. In view of remarkable technical advances in transcriptomics and metabolomics, integrated analysis of these 'omics' by data-mining informatics is an excellent tool for predi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Saito K,Hirai MY,Yonekura-Sakakibara K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture worldwide. This has led to research into salt tolerance with the aim of improving crop plants. However, salt tolerance might have much wider implications because transgenic salt-tolerant plants often also tolerate other stresses including chilling, freezing,...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Zhu JK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of the flowering plants have a sophisticated mechanism for self-pollen rejection, named self-incompatibility (SI). In Brassicaceae, recognition specificity is achieved by the interaction of the stigmatic S-RECEPTOR KINASE (SRK) and its ligand S-LOCUS CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN (SCR). Recent years have seen s...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ivanov R,Fobis-Loisy I,Gaude T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strawberry is a fruit crop species of major horticultural importance, for which fruit quality and the control of flowering (for fruit yield), runnering (for vegetative propagation), and the trade-off between the two are main breeding targets. The octoploid cultivated strawberry has a limited genetic basis. This raises...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gaston A,Osorio S,Denoyes B,Rothan C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar-transport proteins play a crucial role in the cell-to-cell and long-distance distribution of sugars throughout the plant. In the past decade, genes encoding sugar transporters (or carriers) have been identified, functionally expressed in heterologous systems, and studied with respect to their spatial and tempora...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Williams LE,Lemoine R,Sauer N

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green algae are the only known eukaryotes with both oxygenic photosynthesis and a hydrogen metabolism. Recent physiological and genetic discoveries indicate a close connection between these metabolic pathways. The anaerobically inducible hydA genes of algae encode a special type of highly active [Fe]-hydrogenase. Elec...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Happe T,Hemschemeier A,Winkler M,Kaminski A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural genetic variation within plant species is at the core of plant science ranging from agriculture to evolution. Whereas much progress has been made in mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling this natural variation, the elucidation of the underlying molecular mechanisms has remained a bottleneck. Recen...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Hansen BG,Halkier BA,Kliebenstein DJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroProteins (miPs) are short, usually single-domain proteins that, in analogy to miRNAs, heterodimerize with their targets and exert a dominant-negative effect. Recent bioinformatic attempts to identify miPs have resulted in a list of potential miPs, many of which lack the defining characteristics of a miP. In this ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Eguen T,Straub D,Graeff M,Wenkel S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum (Fox) is the causal agent of root rot or wilt diseases in several plant species, including crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), banana (Musa sapientum) and asparagus (Asparagus officinalis). Colonization of plants by Fox leads to the necrosis of the infected tissues...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Berrocal-Lobo M,Molina A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines, such as spermine, spermidine and putrescine, are ubiquitous polycationic compounds that are produced by almost all living organisms, including plants, animals, fungi and bacteria. Polyamines are multifunctional and interact with polyanionic biomolecules such as DNA or protein. However, despite their potent...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Yamasaki H,Cohen MF

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of specialized metabolites enables plants to respond to biotic and abiotic stresses, but requires the sequential action of multiple enzymes. To facilitate swift production and to avoid leakage of potentially toxic and labile intermediates, many of the biosynthetic pathways are thought to organize in mult...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Laursen T,Møller BL,Bassard JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00