VIGS--genomics goes functional.

abstract：:Image analysis has become a powerful technique for most plant scientists. In recent years dozens of image analysis tools have been published in plant science journals. These tools cover the full spectrum of plant scales, from single cells to organs and canopies. However, the field of plant image analysis remains in it...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lobet G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plastid originated 1.5 billion years ago through a primary endosymbiosis involving a heterotrophic eukaryote and an ancient cyanobacterium. Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence suggests that the incipient endosymbiont interacted with an obligate intracellular chlamydial pathogen that housed it in an inclusion. Th...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Cenci U,Bhattacharya D,Weber APM,Colleoni C,Subtil A,Ball SG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food security is an ongoing problem, and current staple foods are not sufficient to overcome challenges such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. We propose here that small millets have the potential to become new staple crops, especially in hunger hotspots. Currently, the absence of intensification of millet farming, la...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Muthamilarasan M,Prasad M

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Although abundant in soils, iron (Fe) is poorly bioavailable for plants. Improving Fe uptake in crops, enabling them to grow in Fe-depleted soils, has become a major focal interest. The secretion of Fe-mobilizing coumarins by plant roots recently emerged as an important factor allowing nongrass species to cope with lo...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Robe K,Izquierdo E,Vignols F,Rouached H,Dubos C

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oomycete plant pathogens, such as Phytophthora, downy mildews and Pythium, have devastating disease effects on numerous crop and ornamental plants. Various types of genetic resistance to oomycetes occur in plants, and can be determined at the subspecific or varietal level (race or cultivar-specific resistance), or at ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Kamoun S,Huitema E,Vleeshouwers VG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins often act in complexes assembled via protein-protein interaction domains. The sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain is one of the most prominent interaction domains in animals and is present in proteins of diverse functions. This domain allows head-to-tail closed oligomerisation or polymer formation resulting in h...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Denay G,Vachon G,Dumas R,Zubieta C,Parcy F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discoveries show that jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) transcriptional repressors are key regulators of jasmonate hormonal response. Jasmonate promotes interaction between JAZ proteins and the SCF(COI1) ubiquitin ligase, leading to JAZ degradation via the 26S proteasome in Arabidopsis thaliana. Elimination of JAZ rep...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Staswick PE

更新日期：2008-02-01 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 Arabidopsis thaliana accession Landsberg erecta contains an induced mutation in the leucine-rich repeat receptor-like Ser/Thr kinase gene ERECTA. Landsberg erecta is commonly used as a genetic background in mutant screens and in natural variation studies. Therefore, the erecta mutation is present in many loss-of-f...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： van Zanten M,Snoek LB,Proveniers MC,Peeters AJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through multifaceted genome-scale research involving phylogenomics, targeted gene surveys, and gene expression analyses in diverse basal lineages of angiosperms, our studies provide insights into the most recent common ancestor of all extant flowering plants. MADS-box gene duplications have played an important role in...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Soltis DE,Ma H,Frohlich MW,Soltis PS,Albert VA,Oppenheimer DG,Altman NS,dePamphilis C,Leebens-Mack J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a son of an engineer who traveled widely during his career, Heribert Hirt began his life in the exotic country of Iran, before receiving his high-school education in Germany and then studying biochemistry at the University of Cape Town and then later at the University of Vienna, from where he received his PhD in 19...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Hirt H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epicuticular waxes serve as a protective layer on plant aerial surfaces. The chemical reactions of wax biosynthesis are well understood, but little is known about the underlying regulatory mechanisms. New data from Yang et al. and Lange et al. argue that RNA degradation and silencing play a key role in regulating the ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Daszkowska-Golec A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The architecture of inflorescences diverged during the evolution of distinct plant families by mechanisms that remain unknown. Using computer modeling, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and colleagues established a single model for the development of distinct inflorescences. Selection restricts inflorescence evolution to high ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Koes R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine (Ser) has a fundamental role in metabolism and signaling in living organisms. In plants, the existence of different pathways of Ser biosynthesis has complicated our understanding of this amino acid homeostasis. The photorespiratory glycolate pathway has been considered to be of major importance, whereas the non...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ros R,Muñoz-Bertomeu J,Krueger S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyllotaxis, the geometry of leaf arrangement around stems, determines plant architecture. Molecular interactions coordinating the formation of phyllotactic patterns have mainly been studied in multicellular shoot apical meristems of flowering plants. Phyllotaxis evolved independently in the major land plant lineages....

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Véron E,Vernoux T,Coudert Y

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) family of transcriptional regulators controls a diversity of processes in a variety of plant tissues and organs and at different stages of plant development. Several recent reports describe the genetic characterization of IDD family members, including those that are likely to regulate C4...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Coelho CP,Huang P,Lee DY,Brutnell TP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonize the root systems of most land plants and modulate plant growth by enhancing the availability of nutrients, mainly phosphorus, for plant nutrition. Recently identified genes encoding mycorrhiza-specific plant phosphate transporters have enabled fundamental problems in arbuscular my...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Karandashov V,Bucher M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that ancient sickle harvesting led to tough rachises, but the other seed dispersal properties in crop progenitors are rarely discussed. The first steps toward domestication are evolutionary responses for the recruitment of humans as dispersers. Seed dispersal-based mutualism evolved from heavy hu...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Spengler RN 3rd

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) as gene regulators has led to a paradigm shift in the understanding of post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants and animals. miRNAs have emerged as master regulators of plant growth and development. Evidence suggesting that miRNAs play a role in plant stress responses arises f...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Sunkar R,Li YF,Jagadeeswaran G

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution patterns and finely-tuned concentration gradients of plant hormones govern plant growth and development. Gibberellin (GA) is a plant hormone regulating key processes in plants; many of them are of significant agricultural importance, such as seed germination, root and shoot elongation, flowering, and frui...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Binenbaum J,Weinstain R,Shani E

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consistent with their bacterial origin, chloroplasts and primitive mitochondria retain a FtsZ ring for division. However, chloroplasts and mitochondria have lost most of the proteins required for bacterial division other than FtsZ and certain homologues of the Min proteins, but they do contain plastid and mitochondrio...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Miyagishima SY,Nishida K,Kuroiwa T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of over 30 plant disease-resistance genes revealed that most genes encode putatively cytoplasmic proteins with a nucleotide-binding site (NBS) and a leucine-rich repeat (LRR). However, the recent isolation of the Arabidopsis RRS1-R gene has uncovered a novel NBS-LRR subtype that harbors a C-terminal exte...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lahaye T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimensionless numbers are ubiquitous in the physical sciences because they provide insight into physical processes, organize large quantities of data, facilitate 'scale analysis' and establish 'similarity'. Here I explore the use of dimensionless numbers in plant biology, focusing on the expansive growth rate of plant...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ortega JKE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological, signaling, metabolic, and chemical processes in plant-microorganism systems and in plant-derived material may link the use of chlorinated pesticides in the environment with plant chloromethane emission. This neglected factor should be taken into account to assess global planetary budgets of chloromethane a...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bringel F,Couée I

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells are the precursors of differentiated cells and are, thus, indispensable for growth and development in plants and animals. Stem cells from both types of organisms share the fundamental features of a capacity for self-renewal and an ability to generate differentiated cells. The maintenance of stem cells in bo...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Singh MB,Bhalla PL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance genes allow plants to recognize specific pathogens. Recognition results in the activation of a variety of defence responses, including localized programmed cell death (the hypersensitive response), synthesis of pathogenesis-related proteins and induction of systemic acquired resistance. These responses are ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Murphy AM,Chivasa S,Singh DP,Carr JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin has diverse functions in plant development and stress tolerance, with recent evidence showing a beneficial role in plant biotic stress tolerance. It has been hypothesized that pathogenic invasion causes the immediate generation of melatonin, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and reactive nitrogen species (RNS),...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Zhao D,Wang H,Chen S,Yu D,Reiter RJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 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