Towards understanding how molecular networks evolve in plants.

abstract：:Phytochrome is a soluble protein that regulates various responses of plants to light. Not all but most of the phytochrome responses are accompanied by changes in the pattern of gene expression. Upon light activation, phytochrome is imported into the nucleus by the nuclear localization activity of the carboxy-terminal ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Nagatani A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for plants that is available in agricultural soils mainly as macronutrients in the form of nitrate and ammonium. Interplay between high-affinity and low-affinity transporters ensures efficient uptake from the soil even under highly fluctuating N availability. After uptake, N assimi...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Krapp A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful penetration of living plant tissue by fungal pathogens is preceded by an exchange of signals between both organisms. Recent mutational approaches revealed the importance of cAMP-dependent signalling pathways for fungal development and virulence on their hosts. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Knogge W

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Developing new genotypes of plants is one of the key options for adaptation of agriculture to climate change. Plants may be required to provide resilience in changed climates or support the migration of agriculture to new regions. Very different genotypes may be required to perform in the modified environments of prot...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Henry RJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen considerable advances in our understanding of the particular physiological roles of the constituent enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Despite acquiring a fairly comprehensive overview of the functional importance of these proteins relatively little is known concerning how this impor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Nunes-Nesi A,Araújo WL,Obata T,Fernie AR

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein farnesylation has an important role in the regulation of plant development and signal transduction, but the exact function of this modification is not well understood. The identification of protein farnesyltransferase substrates, together with the genetic analysis of mutants that are deficient in protein farne...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Galichet A,Gruissem W

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Expansins are now generally accepted to be key regulators of wall extension during growth. Several alternative roles for expansins have emerged in which the emphasis of their action is on wall breakdown or softening in processes such as fruit ripening, pollination, germination and abscission. Expansins are commonly en...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Li Y,Jones L,McQueen-Mason S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant vascular system plays a pivotal role in the delivery of nutrients to distantly located organs. Recent discoveries have provided new insight into a novel role for plasmodesmata and the phloem in terms of the transport and delivery of information macromolecules (i.e. proteins and ribonucleoprotein complexes). ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ruiz-Medrano R,Xoconostle-Cázares B,Lucas WJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable interest in lignin biosynthesis has been fueled by the many roles that lignin plays in development and in resistance to biotic and abiotic stress, as well as its importance to industry and agriculture. Although the pathway leading to the lignin polymer has been studied for decades, new insights into the e...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Humphreys JM,Chapple C

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:Although concerted efforts to understand selected botanical models have been made, the resulting basic knowledge varies in its applicability to other diverse species including the major crops. Recent advances in high-throughput genomics are offering new avenues through which to exploit model systems for the study of b...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Osterlund MT,Paterson AH

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:The ability to express foreign genes using transgenic technologies has opened up options for producing large quantities of commercially important industrial or pharmaceutical products in plants. These technologies have made it possible to use well-developed systems of commercial agriculture that were developed princip...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mascia PN,Flavell RB

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Many hormonal and environmental signals regulate common cellular and developmental processes in plants. While the molecular pathways that transduce these signals have each been studied in detail, how these pathways are wired into regulatory networks to provide the coordinated responses has remained an outstanding ques...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang W,Bai MY,Wang ZY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant hormones regulate physiological responses in plants, including responses to pathogens and beneficial microbes. The last decades have provided a vast amount of evidence about the contribution of different plant hormones to plant immunity, and also of how they cooperate to orchestrate immunity activation, in a pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Shigenaga AM,Berens ML,Tsuda K,Argueso CT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karrikins are butenolides in smoke and char that stimulate seed germination. Karrikin action in Arabidopsis requires the F-box protein MAX2 and the α/β-hydrolase KAI2, a paralogue of D14 that is required for perception of strigolactones (SL). SL response involves hydrolysis by D14, whereas karrikins bind to KAI2 witho...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Waters MT,Scaffidi A,Flematti GR,Smith SM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research indicates that several sulfate transporters - exhibiting different tissue specificities and modes of expression - may play distinct roles in sulfate uptake within specific tissues and in long-distance sulfate translocation. The transcription levels of particular genes and feedback inhibition of serine ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Saito K

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：: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：:Nonhost resistance confers robust protection against pathogenic invaders, and has many similarities to host resistance. Through the different steps of pathogen development, plants make use of diverse defence strategies to present obstacles to the invader. These include preformed barriers, innate immunity in response t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Thordal-Christensen H

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Barley geneticists are currently using association genetics to identify and fine map traits directly in elite plant breeding material. This has been made possible by the development of a highly parallel SNP assay platform that provides sufficient marker density for genome-wide scans and linkage disequilibrium-led gene...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Waugh R,Jannink JL,Muehlbauer GJ,Ramsay L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cell death in animals is regulated by cysteine proteinases called caspases. Recently, vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) was identified as a plant caspase. VPE deficiency prevents cell death during hypersensitive response and cell death of limited cell layers at the early stage of embryogenesis. Because plants...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hara-Nishimura I,Hatsugai N,Nakaune S,Kuroyanagi M,Nishimura M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific subsets of microbes are capable of assembly into plant-associated communities that influence the fitness of both the host and the microbes. While there is a large spectrum of plant phenotypes cause by microbes, the microbial community members benefit from living in protected and nutrient rich plant-associated...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lebeis SL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch is one of the major sinks of fixed carbon in photosynthetic tissues of higher plants. Carbon fixation and the synthesis of primary starch occur during the day in the chloroplast stroma, whereas starch degradation typically occurs during the following night to fuel the whole plant with energy and carbon in the a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Santelia D,Trost P,Sparla F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent activities to improve photosynthetic performance in crop plants has focused mainly on C3 photosynthesis where there are clear identified targets such as improving Rubisco kinetics, installation of a CO2 concentrating mechanism and alleviating limitations in chloroplast electron transport. Here we address strate...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： von Caemmerer S,Furbank RT

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00