Cellulose synthesis: a complex complex.

abstract：:The combination of mutational and molecular studies has shed light on the role of reactive oxygen intermediates and programmed cell death in cereal disease resistance mechanisms. Rice Rac1 and barley Rar1 represent conserved disease resistance signalling genes, which may have related functions in animals. The analysis...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Piffanelli P,Devoto A,Schulze-Lefert P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatiles from attacked plants, microbes and herbivores can enhance plant defenses. However, the absence of volatiles rather than their presence has sometimes been associated with enhanced defense, suggesting that volatiles may also act as defense suppressors. Recent work provides a potential mechanistic explanation f...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Erb M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

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：:As sessile organisms, plants need to continuously adjust their responses to external stimuli to cope with changing growth conditions. Since the seed dispersal range is often rather limited, exposure of progeny to the growth conditions of parents is very probable. The plasticity of plant phenotypes cannot be simply exp...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Boyko A,Kovalchuk I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens have co-evolved with their hosts in their ongoing quest for advantage in the resulting interaction. These intimate associations have resulted in remarkable adaptations of prokaryotic virulence proteins and their eukaryotic molecular targets. An important strategy used by microbial pathogens of anim...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Desveaux D,Singer AU,Dangl JL

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Gravitropism is the directional control of plant organ growth in response to gravity. Specialized gravity-sensing cells contain amyloplasts that can change their position according to the direction of gravity. Gravity signaling, which is elicited by the relocation of amyloplasts, is a key process that redirects auxin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Nakamura M,Nishimura T,Morita MT

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:During the past year, significant advances have been made in our understanding of stomatal development and its response to climate change, and in our knowledge of how guard cell Ca(2+) oscillations encode environmental signals. Recent studies on (de)phosphorylation mechanisms have provided new information on how guard...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Assmann SM,Wang XQ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular and genomic studies have shown that several genes with various functions are induced by drought and cold stresses, and that various transcription factors are involved in the regulation of stress-inducible genes. The products of stress-inducible genes function not only in stress tolerance but also in stress r...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Shinozaki K,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Seki M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants use robust mechanisms to optimize organ size to prevailing conditions. Modulating the transition from cell division to elongation dramatically affects morphology and size. Although it is well established that auxin, cytokinin and brassinosteroid mediate these transitions, recent works show that the cytoskeleton...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ruan Y,Wasteneys GO

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral molecules, including gases, across cell membranes of most of the living organisms. Integrative studies have stressed the role of aquaporins in maintaining the whole plant water and nutrient status. Cellular aspects of plant aquapo...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Maurel C,Santoni V,Luu DT,Wudick MM,Verdoucq L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA (mRNA) can move through the vascular system in plants. Until recently the transport of mRNA had been demonstrated only for a few well-documented cases, leading to the suggestion that transport was selective and specific. The extent of this long-distance transport has now been shown to be on the genomic s...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Morris RJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect herbivores have highly diverse life cycles and feeding behaviors. They establish close interactions with their plant hosts and suppress plant defenses. Chewing herbivores evoke characteristic defense responses distinguishable from general mechanical damage. In addition, piercing-sucking hemipteran insects displ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hogenhout SA,Bos JI

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that, in a manner similar to classical plant hormones, sugars can act as signaling molecules that control gene expression and developmental processes in plants. Crucial evidence includes uncoupling glucose signaling from its metabolism, identification of glucose sensors, and isolation and chara...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sheen J,Zhou L,Jang JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant cell wall provides form and integrity to the cell as well as a dynamic interface between a cell and its environment. Therefore mechanisms capable of policing changes in the cell wall, signaling cellular responses including those that would feedback regulate cell wall properties are expected to play important...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Cheung AY,Wu HM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

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 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：: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：:RNA-seq, the measurement of steady-state RNA levels by next generation sequencing, has enabled quantitative transcriptome analyses of complex traits in many species without requiring the parallel sequencing of their genomes. The complex trait of C4 photosynthesis, which increases photosynthetic efficiency via a bioche...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schlüter U,Denton AK,Bräutigam A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that the orientation of the plane of cell division highly depends on cell geometry in plants. However, the related molecular mechanism remains largely unknown. Recent data in animal systems highlight the role of the cytoskeleton response to mechanical stress in this process. Interestingly, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Louveaux M,Hamant O

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohormone gibberellins (GA) are a large family of tetracyclic diterpenoids and play the important roles in modulation of plant growth and development throughout the plant life cycle. GA depresses its signaling by the GA-promoted destabilization of the DELLA protein growth repressors via 26S proteasome pathway. Rece...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Jiang C,Fu X

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:Unveiling of hormone perception is central to comprehending hormone action. It is generally recognized that an active hormone molecule binds its receptor to initiate hormone signaling, subsequently dissociates from its receptor without being changed, and then initiates the next round of hormone perception. However, re...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Yao R,Chen L,Xie D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both high and low extremes in precipitation increasingly impact agricultural productivity and sustainability as a consequence of global climate change. Elucidation of the genetic basis underlying stress tolerance facilitates development of new rice varieties with enhanced tolerance. Submergence tolerance is conferred ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fukao T,Xiong L

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Transcriptional reprogramming in response to developmental changes or environmental inputs is regulated by a wide variety of transcription factors and cofactors. In plants, the stability of many transcriptional regulators is mediated by the ubiquitin-mediated proteasome. Recent reports suggest that additional post-tra...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Skelly MJ,Frungillo L,Spoel SH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-infecting viruses cause significant crop losses around the world and the majority of emerging threats to crop production have a viral etiology. Significant progress has been made and continues to be made in understanding how viruses induce disease and overcome some forms of resistance-particularly resistance bas...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Palukaitis P,Groen SC,Carr JP

更新日期：2013-08-01 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