Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly.

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：: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：:The creation of transgenic plants has brought significant advances to light in plant biotechnology. However, in spite of the fact that transgenic plants are beginning to be grown widely, controlled transgene integration into a pre-determined site remains to be achieved. Here we suggest two alternative approaches for g...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Kumar S,Fladung M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has resulted in the identification of >100 endogenous non-coding small RNA molecules in plants. These micro-RNAs (miRNAs) have the capacity to regulate a range of predicted target mRNAs, many of which are transcription factors involved in the control of meristem identity. Mutants defective in either CARPEL...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jones L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the preferred method for transformation of a wide range of plant species. Commonly, the genes to be transferred are cloned between the left and right T-DNA borders of so-called binary T-DNA vectors that can replicate both in E. coli and Agrobacterium. Because these vectors are generally la...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Karimi M,Inzé D,Depicker A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved a large number of cell surface-resident receptor-like kinases (RLKs) and receptor-like proteins (RLPs), many of which are implicated in sensing extrinsic and intrinsic signals, and govern diverse cellular responses. The signaling pathways mediated by RLKs and RLPs converge at a small group of RLKs,...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ma X,Xu G,He P,Shan L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfur-containing amino acid methionine is a nutritionally important essential amino acid and is the precursor of several metabolites that regulate plant growth and responses to the environment. Methionine production is largely regulated by cystathionine gamma-synthase, the first specific enzyme for its synthesis....

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Amir R,Hacham Y,Galili G

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:During the past decade, much progress has been made toward understanding the mechanisms underlying plant hormone activity, from perception to nuclear events. However, the signaling mechanisms for abscisic acid (ABA) have remained largely obscure. Recent breakthroughs identifying FCA, which is an RNA-binding protein, t...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Hirayama T,Shinozaki K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:January 1974: In the dark of the electron microscope room, Paola Bonfante started up and looked again at the greenish screen; she was indeed looking at a round body very similar to a bacterium. Unexpectedly, this faint body was inside the cytoplasm of a mycorrhizal symbiotic fungus, which was inside the root cells of ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bonfante P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are a diverse group of colourful pigments naturally found in plants, algae, fungi and bacteria. They play essential roles in development, photosynthesis, root-mycorrhizal interactions and the production of phytohormones, such as abscisic acid and strigolactone. Carotenoid biosynthesis is regulated througho...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Cazzonelli CI,Pogson BJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 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 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：:Plants have mechanisms to promote outbreeding and thereby to increase their genetic diversity. In species that are self-incompatible, self-pollen is rejected by the stigma. This mechanism has been the subject of intense study for many years and, in the past two years, significant progress has been made in identifying ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Brugière N,Rothstein SJ,Cui Y

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylloplane, or leaf surface, is an interkingdom crossroads between plants and microorganisms, and secretion of antimicrobial biochemicals to aerial surfaces is thought to be one defensive strategy by which plants deter potential pathogens. Secondary metabolites on leaf surfaces are well documented but antimicrobi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Shepherd RW,Wagner GJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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 relationship between cellular redox imbalances leading to oxidative stress and metal toxicity in plants has been studied intensely over the past decades. This interdependency was often considered to reflect a rather indirect metal effect of cellular disregulation and progressive secondary damage development. By co...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Sharma SS,Dietz KJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts have a dynamic protein environment and, although proteases are presumably major contributors, the identities of these crucial regulatory proteins have only recently been revealed. There are defined proteases within each of the major chloroplast compartments: the ATP-dependent Clp and FtsH proteases in the...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Adam Z,Clarke AK

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial amounts of nutrients are lost from soils via leaching and as gaseous emissions. These losses can be environmentally damaging and expensive in terms of lost agricultural production. Plants have evolved many traits to optimize nutrient acquisition, including the formation of arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM), asso...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Cavagnaro TR,Bender SF,Asghari HR,Heijden MGAV

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts and mitochondria are traditionally considered to be autonomous organelles but they are not as independent as they were once thought to be. Mitochondrial metabolism, particularly the bioenergetic reactions of oxidative electron transport and phosphorylation, continue to be active in the light and are essen...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Raghavendra AS,Padmasree K

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:Genomes Uncoupled 1 (GUN1) plays a critical role in various retrograde signaling pathways. Despite numerous studies, the precise molecular mechanism underlying GUN1-mediated retrograde signaling remains elusive. Recently, MORF2 and cpHSC70 have been identified as GUN1-interacting proteins, linking retrograde signaling...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jia Y,Tian H,Zhang S,Ding Z,Ma C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, RNA silencing plays important roles in antiviral defence, genome integrity and development. This process involves nucleotide sequence-specific interactions that are mediated by small RNA molecules of 21-25 nucleotides. Although the core biochemical reactions of RNA silencing have been well characterized in ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Voinnet O

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) fixes atmospheric CO2 into organic compounds and is composed of eight copies each of a large subunit (RbcL) and a small subunit (RbcS). Recent reports have revealed unusual RbcS, which are expressed in particular tissues and confer higher catalytic rate, lesser...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Pottier M,Gilis D,Boutry M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytochrome family of photoreceptors (there are five phytochromes in Arabidopsis, named phyA to phyE) maximally absorbs red and far-red light and plays important functions throughout the life cycle of plants. Several recent studies have shown that multiple related bHLH (basic helix-loop-helix) class transcription ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Duek PD,Fankhauser C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crop selection process has created a genetic bottleneck ultimately restricting breeding output. Wild relatives of major crops as well as the so-called 'neglected plant' species represent a reservoir of genetic diversity that remains underutilized. These species could be used as a tool to discover new alleles of ag...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jacob P,Avni A,Bendahmane A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00