Peptide signaling in pollen tube guidance.

abstract：:Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins are among the most numerous and widely distributed pigments in land plants. Given that these pigments are the valuable compounds, as stress protectants and health-promoting components because of their potent antioxidant activity, several metabolic engineering approaches focusing on t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Saigo T,Wang T,Watanabe M,Tohge T

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Avirulence genes are originally defined by their negative impact on the ability of a pathogen to infect their host plant. Many avirulence genes are now known to represent a subset of virulence factors involved in the mediation of the host-pathogen interaction. Characterization of avirulence genes has revealed that the...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： White FF,Yang B,Johnson LB

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramutation describes both the process and results of trans-sensing between chromosomes that causes specific heritable changes in gene regulation. RNA molecules are implicated in mediating similar events in maize, mouse, and Drosophila. Changes in both small RNA profiles and cytosine methylation patterns in Arabidops...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hollick JB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, the behavior of cells in tissues is coordinated along specific orientations or directions by coordinating the polar localization of components in those cells. The coordination of such cell polarity is perhaps nowhere more spectacular than in developing leaves, where the polarity of hundreds of cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Linh NM,Verna C,Scarpella E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forest trees in general are out-crossing, long-lived, and at early stages of domestication. Molecular evolution at neutral sites is very slow because of the long generation times. Transferring information between closely related conifer species is facilitated by high sequence similarity. At the nucleotide level, trees...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Savolainen O,Pyhäjärvi T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants release volatiles after herbivore attack in a highly regulated fashion. These compounds attract natural enemies and function as indirect defenses. Whether neighboring plants 'eavesdrop' on these volatile signals and tailor their defenses accordingly remains controversial. Recent laboratory studies have identifi...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Baldwin IT,Kessler A,Halitschke R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an essential kingdom of life, responsible via photosynthesis for the majority of global primary production, and directly utilized by humankind for nutrition, animal feed, fuel, clothing, medicine and other purposes. There are an estimated 391 000 species of land plants, in addition...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kersey PJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key signal transduction role in cells. They are involved in the regulation of growth, development, responses to environmental stimuli and cell death. The level of ROS in cells is determined by interplay between ROS producing pathways and ROS scavenging mechanisms, part of the ROS g...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Suzuki N,Miller G,Morales J,Shulaev V,Torres MA,Mittler R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in the genetic dissection of brassinosteroid biosynthesis and signaling have been made during the past few years. Genetic and biochemical data have helped to elucidate the pathways of biosynthesis of brassinolide, the most active brassinosteroid. In addition, several models have been put forward f...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schumacher K,Chory J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic size of plant organs is determined by developmental signals, yet the molecular and genetic mechanisms that control organ size are largely unknown. Ongoing functional analysis of Arabidopsis genes is defining important regulators involved in these mechanisms. Key features of this control are the coordinat...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mizukami Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:The interaction of microbes with "signature" plants is largely governed by secreted effector proteins, which serve to dampen plant defense responses and modulate host cell processes. Secreted effectors can function either in the apoplast or within plant cell compartments. How oomycetes and fungi translocate their effe...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lo Presti L,Kahmann R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental plasticity is a defining feature of plants allowing them to colonize a wide range of different ecosystems by promoting environmental adaptation. Their postembryonic development requires life-long maintenance of stem cells, which are embedded into specialized tissues, called meristems. The shoot apical me...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Pfeiffer A,Wenzl C,Lohmann JU

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells exist in specific locations called niches, where extracellular signals maintain stem cell division and prevent differentiation. In plants, the best characterised niches are within the shoot and root meristems. Networks of regulatory genes and intercellular signals maintain meristem structure in spite of con...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sablowski R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is an essential micronutrient. Genes responsible for zinc uptake have now been identified from yeast and plants. These genes belong to an extended family of cation transporters called the ZIP gene family. Zinc efflux genes that belong to another transporter family, the CDF family, have also been identified in yea...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Guerinot ML,Eide D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell development and growth are determined by the expansion pattern of the cell wall, a matrix of mixed polysaccharide polymers and proteins. To understand the different roles of these polymers in the regulation of the morphogenetic process, their spatial dynamics need to be monitored over time. Recent developme...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Altartouri B,Geitmann A

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:During endosymbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi or rhizobial bacteria, the microbial symbionts are housed within membrane-bound compartments in root cortex or nodule cells respectively. Their development involves polarized deposition of membrane around the symbionts as they enter the cells and the membranes sho...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Harrison MJ,Ivanov S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades, work on auxin signaling has helped to understand many aspects of the fundamental process underlying the specification of tissue types in the plant embryo. However, the immediate steps after fertilization including the polarization of the zygote and the initial body axis formation remained poor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang K,Chen H,Miao Y,Bayer M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowers of the lower eudicot Aquilegia (columbine) possess morphological innovations, namely elaborate petal spurs and a fifth distinct organ identity, the staminodium, that are well suited to the investigation of key questions in developmental evolution. The recent evolution of these characteristics combined with a g...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sharma B,Yant L,Hodges SA,Kramer EM

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Membrane-lined channels called plasmodesmata (PD) connect the cytoplasts of adjacent plant cells across the cell wall, permitting intercellular movement of small molecules, proteins, and RNA. Recent genetic screens for mutants with altered PD transport identified genes suggesting that chloroplasts play crucial roles i...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Brunkard JO,Runkel AM,Zambryski PC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platforms for the development of synthetic chromosomes in plants have been produced in several species using telomere mediated chromosomal truncation with the simultaneous inclusion of sites that facilitate further additions to the newly generated minichromosome. By utilizing truncated supernumerary or B chromosomes, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Birchler JA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a type of pathogen-induced broad-spectrum resistance in plants. During SAR, primary infection-induced rapid generation and transportation of mobile signal(s) 'prepare' the rest of the plant for subsequent infections. Several, seemingly unrelated, mobile chemical inducers of SAR ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kachroo A,Robin GP

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Leaves are made in an iterative pattern by the shoot apical meristem. The mechanism of this pattern formation has fascinated biologists, mathematicians and poets for centuries. Over the past year, fundamental insights into the molecular basis of this process have been gained. Patterns of auxin polar transport dictate ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fleming AJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway of starch synthesis in the cereal endosperm is unique, and requires enzyme isoforms that are not present in other cereal tissues or non-cereal plants. Recent information on the functions of individual enzyme isoforms has provided insight into how the linear chains and branch linkages in cereal starch are s...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： James MG,Denyer K,Myers AM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00