Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) 11. Molecular cloning and expression of alfalfa isoflavone reductase, a key enzyme of isoflavonoid phytoalexin biosynthesis.

abstract：KEY MESSAGE:Jasmonic acid and RAP2.6L are induced upon wounding but are not involved in cell proliferation during healing in Arabidopsis hypocotyls. Plants produce jasmonic acid in response to wounding, but its role in healing, if any, has not been determined. Previously, the jasmonic acid-induced transcription factor,...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Matsuoka K,Yanagi R,Yumoto E,Yokota T,Yamane H,Satoh S,Asahina M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the cloning of the SsCut gene encoding cutinase from Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. We isolated a 609-bp cDNA encoding a polypeptide of 202 amino acids with a molecular weight of 20.4 kDa. Heterologous expression of SsCut in Escherichia coli (His-SsCut) caused the formation of lesions in tobacco th...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhang H,Wu Q,Cao S,Zhao T,Chen L,Zhuang P,Zhou X,Gao Z

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two soybean ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit (SSU) genes, SRS1 and SRS4, are highly homologous over a region that includes 4 kb of 5' and 1 kb of 3' flanking sequences. The expression of these genes was compared using synthetic oligonucleotide probes. Analysis of a soybean leaf cDNA library indicate...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Shirley BW,Ham DP,Senecoff JF,Berry-Lowe SL,Zurfluh LL,Shah DM,Meagher RB

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellin (GA) 20-oxidase (GA20ox) is a key enzyme that normally catalyzes the penultimate steps in GA biosynthesis. One of the GA20ox genes in rice (Oryza sativa L.), OsGA20ox2 ( SD1 ), is well known as the "Green Revolution gene", and loss-of function mutation in this locus causes semi-dwarfism. Another GA20ox gen...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Oikawa T,Koshioka M,Kojima K,Yoshida H,Kawata M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor-associated glycoprotein 72 (TAG 72) has been shown to be expressed in the majority of human adenocarcinomas. In an effort to develop a technique for the safe and inexpensive production of large quantities of anti-TAG 72 humanized antibody fragments (hzAb) as a future source of clinical-grade proteins, we dev...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Hong SY,Lee TS,Kim J,Jung JH,Choi CW,Kim TG,Kwon TH,Jang YS,Yang MS

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth in the apical elongation zone of plant roots is central to the development of functional root systems. Rates of root segmental elongation change from accelerating to decelerating as cell development proceeds from newly formed to fully elongated status. One of the primary variables regulating these changes in el...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Bassani M,Neumann PM,Gepstein S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and cost-effective conversion of plant biomass to usable forms of energy requires a thorough understanding of cell wall biosynthesis, modification and degradation. To elucidate these processes, we assessed the expression dynamics during enzymatic removal and regeneration of rice cell walls in suspension cell...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Sharma R,Tan F,Jung KH,Sharma MK,Peng Z,Ronald PC

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Rice storage protein glutelin genes are coordinately regulated during seed development. A previous 5' deletion analysis using transgenic tobacco revealed that the minimum 5' region necessary for endosperm specificity was within -245 bp of the transcription start site, and included the AACA and GCN4 motifs that are hig...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Washida H,Wu CY,Suzuki A,Yamanouchi U,Akihama T,Harada K,Takaiwa F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized the genomic clone of maize casein kinase 2 (CK2) alpha subunit using the previously described alphaCK2-1 cDNA clone as a probe. The genomic clone is 7.5 kb long and contains 10 exons, separated by 9 introns of different size, two larger than 1.5 kb and the others around 100-150 bp. T...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Peracchia G,Jensen AB,Culiáñez-Macià FA,Grosset J,Goday A,Issinger OG,Pagès M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the presence in nature of many functional gene families that contain several to many highly similar sequences, the presence of identical DNA sequence repeats is widely thought to predispose transgene inserts to homology dependent gene silencing (HDGS). The induction of transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) by R...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Yang G,Lee YH,Jiang Y,Kumpatla SP,Hall TC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The full-length nucleotide sequence of a barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaf mRNA, found to increase rapidly in amount during infection attempts by the powdery mildew fungus (Erysiphe graminis DC. ex Mérat), is reported. The mRNA encodes a polypeptide of 809 amino acid residues which, by sequence comparison, was identifi...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Walther-Larsen H,Brandt J,Collinge DB,Thordal-Christensen H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY MESSAGE:In response to an ultrasound pulse, several hundred DEGs, including in response to stress, were up- or down-regulated in in vitro potato plantlets. Despite this abiotic stress, plantlets survived. Ultrasound (US) can influence plant growth and development. To better understand the genetic mechanism underlyi...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Dobránszki J,Hidvégi N,Gulyás A,Teixeira da Silva JA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimaeric genes of promoter sequences from the potato gene encoding granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) and the beta-glucoronidase (GUS) reporter gene were used to study GBSS expression and regulation. Analysis of stable transformants revealed that a GBSS promoter sequence of 0.4 kb was sufficient to result in tissue...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： van der Steege G,Nieboer M,Swaving J,Tempelaar MJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The root knot nematode resistance gene Mi in tomato has been mapped in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 6. With the objective of isolating Mi through a map-based cloning approach, we have previously identified and ordered into a high-resolution genetic linkage map a variety of tightly linked molecular markers....

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： van Daelen RA,Gerbens F,van Ruissen F,Aarts J,Hontelez J,Zabel P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strigolactones have recently been identified as the long sought-after signal required to inhibit shoot branching (Gomez-Roldan et al. 2008; Umehara et al. 2008; reviewed in Dun et al. 2009). Here we briefly describe the evidence for strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching and, more extensively, the broader context...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Waldie T,Hayward A,Beveridge CA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabidopsis thaliana encodes four Dicer-like (DCL) proteins and five dsRNA-binding (DRB) proteins. We have previously demonstrated that DCL4 specifically interacts with DRB4 in vitro. Here we describe the interaction between DCL4 and DRB4 in vivo. The phenotype of a mutant with a defect in DCL4 (dcl4-2) was similar to...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Nakazawa Y,Hiraguri A,Moriyama H,Fukuhara T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar is an important resource for energy generation and developmental regulation in plants, and sucrose starvation causes enormous changes in cellular morphology, enzyme activities and gene expression. Genome-wide gene expression profiling provides a comprehensive knowledge of gene expression under nutrient depletion...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Wang HJ,Wan AR,Hsu CM,Lee KW,Yu SM,Jauh GY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the light-harvesting complex protein genes (Lhc) is under the control of a circadian clock. To dissect the molecular regulatory components of the circadian clock a promoter deletion analysis of four tomato Lhc genes was performed in transgenic tobacco plants. The important 5'-upstream promoter regions ar...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Piechulla B,Merforth N,Rudolph B

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly purified RNA polymerase preparation from pea chloroplasts has been shown to specifically transcribe the 16S rRNA gene in vitro using the recombinant pCB2-8 DNA as a template. The RNA polymerase has been found to show maximum activity and specificity with pea supercoiled rDNA as a template. At low concentratio...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Sun E,Shapiro DR,Wu BW,Tewari KK

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence for the Photosystem II gene psbC has been determined for the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803. The gene overlaps the last 50 bases of the psbD gene, and both genes are transcribed in the same direction, but read in different frames. This arrangement is identical to that found in all chloroplas...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Chisholm D,Williams JG

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of two small circular DNA plasmids, pCf1 and pCf2 [22], from the marine diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis. pCf1 is 4273 bp, and pCf2 is 4079 bp in size. In each plasmid, all of the major open reading frames (ORFs) are encoded on the same DNA strand. Two ORFs are similar, compar...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Hildebrand M,Hasegawa P,Ord RW,Thorpe VS,Glass CA,Volcani BE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-DNA tagging is a high throughput strategy for identifying and cloning functional genes in plants. In this study, we screened 4416 lab-created T(1) rice T-DNA tagged lines and identified a mutant, designated dh1 (degenerated hull1), with phenotype of degenerated hull and naked pistils and stamens. Approximately 60% f...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Li A,Zhang Y,Wu X,Tang W,Wu R,Dai Z,Liu G,Zhang H,Wu C,Chen G,Pan X

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY MESSAGE:This study provides the first genetic evidence for the role of PP2A in tuberization, demonstrating that the catalytic subunit StPP2Ac2b positively modulates tuber induction, and that its function is related to the regulation of gibberellic acid metabolism. The results contribute to a better understanding of...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Muñiz García MN,Muro MC,Mazzocchi LC,País SM,Stritzler M,Schlesinger M,Capiati DA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmentally regulated GTP-binding proteins (DRGs) from animals and fungi are highly conserved but have no known function. Here we characterize DRGs from pea (PsDRG) and Arabidopsis (AtDRG). Amino acid sequences of AtDRG and PsDRG were 90% identical to each other and about 65% identical to human DRG. Genomic Southe...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Devitt ML,Maas KJ,Stafstrom JP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant infections with cassava latent virus (CLV) were mediated by the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing either monomeric or dimeric copies of the virus genome. The CLV DNAs caused typical symptoms when they were inoculated in Agrobacterium strains C58, LBA4404 and a virE mutant A1026, but not other Ag...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Morris BA,Richardson KA,Andersen MT,Gardner RC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：KEY MESSAGE:This manuscript describes the functions of an Argonaute protein named AGO17 in rice. AGO17 is required for the development of rice reproductive tissues. Argonaute (AGO) proteins are a well-conserved multigene family of regulators mediating gene silencing across eukaryotes. Monocot plants have additional mem...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Pachamuthu K,Swetha C,Basu D,Das S,Singh I,Sundar VH,Sujith TN,Shivaprasad PV

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and analysed a 2 kb region of the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana (Columbia) showing a high level of nucleotide identity with the mitochondrial (mt) rps14 small-subunit ribosomal protein gene from Oenothera berteriana and Vicia faba, as well as with an open reading frame (ORF) located ups...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Aubert D,Bisanz-Seyer C,Herzog M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length cDNAs encoding the alpha- and beta-subunits and a truncated mutant subunit of the Chlorella sorokiniana NADP-GDH isozymes were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli cells. The kinetic and thermal stability properties of the resultant homohexamers were examined. The electrophoretic mobility of the r...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Lawit SJ,Miller PW,Dunn WI,Mirabile JS,Schmidt RR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA, GLX1, encoding glyoxalase-I was isolated by differential screening of salt-induced genes in tomato. Glyoxalases-I and -II are ubiquitous enzymes whose functions are not clearly understood. They may serve to detoxify methylglyoxal produced from triosephosphates in all cells. The protein encoded by GLX1 shared 4...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Espartero J,Sánchez-Aguayo I,Pardo JM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00