Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses.

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：:As the speed and accuracy of genome sequencing improves, there are ever-increasing resources available for the design and construction of synthetic DNA parts. These can be used to engineer plant genomes to produce new functions or to elucidate the function of endogenous sequences. Until recently the assembly of amplif...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Patron NJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-coding small endogenous RNAs, of 21-24 nucleotides in length, have recently emerged as important regulators of gene expression in both plants and animals. At least three categories of small RNAs exist in plants: short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) deriving from viruses or transgenes and mediating virus resistance or t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mallory AC,Vaucheret H

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Meristems are centers of cell proliferation with a defined internal structure that is dynamically perpetuated throughout a plant's life although its constituent cells constantly change. When progressing from stem cell state towards differentiation, individual cells adopt developmental programs according to their curre...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Holt AL,van Haperen JM,Groot EP,Laux T

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Plant biomass used for cellulosic biofuel production is primarily from vegetative tissues. Therefore, an increase in the vegetative growth of plants will lead to a higher production of plant biomass. Recent molecular and genetic studies have identified a number of factors that regulate processes such as vegetative mer...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Demura T,Ye ZH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy plays a significant role in the evolution of flowering plants. Understanding the effects of polyploidy on the epigenetic regulation of adaptive traits may resolve questions about the success of polyploids. One such trait, flowering time, has been the subject of several gene expression studies because it has...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mayfield D,Chen ZJ,Pires JC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have acquired the ability for organized multicellular development independent from animals. Because of this, they represent an independent example in nature for the development of coordinated, complex cell polarity from the simple polarity found in unicellular eukaryotes. Plants display a striking array of pola...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Geldner N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, newly synthesized fatty acids are either directly incorporated into glycerolipids in the plastid or exported and assembled into lipids at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). ER-derived glycerolipids serve as building blocks for extraplastidic membranes. Alternatively, they can return to the plastid where their ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Benning C,Xu C,Awai K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among plant-microbe interactions, root nodule symbiosis is one of the most important beneficial interactions providing legume plants with nitrogenous compounds. Over the past years a number of genes required for root nodule symbiosis has been identified but most recently great advances have been made to dissect signal...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Popp C,Ott T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in gene expression during systemic acquired resistance (SAR) require the phenolic signaling molecule salicylic acid (SA) and are modulated by the interaction between the NON EXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES1 (NPR1) protein and members of the TGA family of transcription factors. In the past two years, th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fobert PR,Després C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endosperm is an essential part of the seed that sustains embryo development and reserve storage. Several genes that are involved in endosperm differentiation and that have domains of expression arranged along a conserved antero-posterior axis have been isolated in Arabidopsis and in cereals. Endosperm polarity is ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Berger F

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Recent studies in yeast, animals and plants have provided major breakthroughs in unraveling the molecular mechanism of higher-order gene regulation. In conjunction with the DNA code, proteins that are involved in chromatin remodeling, histone modification and epigenetic imprinting form a large network of interactions ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fransz PF,de Jong JH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of plant metabolic processes in response to environmental and developmental signals is a complex interaction between optimization of enzyme activity and transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Through painstaking efforts over more than 50 years, many metabolic pathways in plants have been charact...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Buckhout TJ,Thimm O

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional medicines in the form of botanical dietary supplements and nutraceuticals have found a place in 21st century healthcare. They nonetheless all contain compounds that are foreign to humans (i.e. xenobiotics) and that are subject to the same pharmacological issues encountered by synthetic therapeutic agents. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Barnes S,Prasain J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terpene synthases are the primary enzymes in the formation of low-molecular-weight terpene metabolites. Rapid progress in the biochemical and molecular analysis of terpene synthases has allowed significant investigations of their evolution, structural and mechanistic properties, and regulation. The organization of ter...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Tholl D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular biological and genetical studies have identified several positive and negative regulators of gibberellin (GA) signalling pathways in higher plants. The DELLA protein functions as a negative regulator of GA signalling; its degradation through the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway is a key event in the regul...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Gomi K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:The pan-tropical wild relatives of rice grow in a wide variety of habitats: forests, savanna, mountainsides, rivers and lakes. The completion of the sequencing of the rice nuclear and cytoplasmic genomes affords an opportunity to widen our understanding of the genomes of the genus Oryza. Research on the Oryza genus ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Vaughan DA,Morishima H,Kadowaki K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydomonas has traditionally been exploited as an organism that is associated with sophisticated physiological, genetic and molecular analyses, all of which have been used to elucidate several biological processes, especially photosynthesis and flagella function and assembly. Recently, the genomics of Chlamydomonas...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Grossman AR,Croft M,Gladyshev VN,Merchant SS,Posewitz MC,Prochnik S,Spalding MH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Cellulose is the world's most abundant biopolymer and a key structural component of the plant cell wall. Cellulose is comprised of hydrogen-bonded beta-1,4-linked glucan chains that are synthesized at the plasma membrane by large cellulose synthase (CESA) complexes. Recent advances in visualization of fluorescently la...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Mutwil M,Debolt S,Persson S

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:To control the abundance of plasma membrane receptors and transporters is crucial for proper perception and response to extracellular signals from surrounding cells and the environment. Posttranslational modification of plasma membrane proteins, especially ubiquitin conjugation or ubiquitylation, is key for the determ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Isono E,Kalinowska K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic mechanism of mitosis is universally conserved in all eucaryotes, but specific solutions to achieve this process have been adapted by different organisms during evolution. Although cytological studies of plant cells have contributed to our understanding of chromatin dynamics during mitosis, many of the molecu...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Criqui MC,Genschik P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling pathways in all organisms consist of series of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events that define directionality and allow different levels of feedback-regulation. Mass spectrometry-based proteomic analyses in recent years have led to a proteome-wide identification of thousands of phosphorylation sites...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schulze WX

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:As current research activities have focused on symbiotic or parasitic plant-microbe interactions, other types of associations between plants and microorganisms are often overlooked. Endophytic bacteria colonize inner host tissues, sometimes in high numbers, without damaging the host or eliciting strong defense respons...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Reinhold-Hurek B,Hurek T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00