abstract：:The interaction between mannan polysaccharides and cellulose microfibrils contributes to cell wall properties in some vascular plants, but the molecular arrangement of mannan in the cell wall and the nature of the molecular bonding between mannan and cellulose remain unknown. Previous studies have shown that mannan is...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Yu L,Lyczakowski JJ,Pereira CS,Kotake T,Yu X,Li A,Mogelsvang S,Skaf MS,Dupree P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodulation is crucial for biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in legumes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying BNF have remained elusive. Here, we cloned a candidate gene underlying a major nodulation quantitative trait locus in soybean (Glycine max), INCREASING NODULE SIZE1 (GmINS1). GmINS1 encodes a cell wall β-ex...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Li X,Zheng J,Yang Y,Liao H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, bZIP (basic leucine zipper) transcription factors regulate diverse processes such as development and stress responses. However, few of these transcription factors have been functionally characterized in maize (Zea mays). In this study, we characterized the bZIP transcription factor gene ZmbZIP4 from maize. ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ma H,Liu C,Li Z,Ran Q,Xie G,Wang B,Fang S,Chu J,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the distribution of elements within plant tissues is important across a range of fields in plant science. In this review, we examine synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM) as an elemental imaging technique in plant sciences, considering both its historical and current uses as well as discu...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kopittke PM,Punshon T,Paterson DJ,Tappero RV,Wang P,Blamey FPC,van der Ent A,Lombi E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correct separation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis I, and sister chromatids during meiosis II, relies on the tight control of the cohesion complex. The phosphorylation and subsequent cleavage of the meiotic recombination protein REC8 (REC8-like family protein [SYN1] in Arabidopsis [Arabidopsis thaliana]),...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Yuan G,Ahootapeh BH,Komaki S,Schnittger A,Lillo C,De Storme N,Geelen D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks drive rhythms with a period near 24 h, but the molecular basis of the regulation of the period of the circadian clockis poorly understood. We previously demonstrated that metabolites affect the free-running period of the circadian oscillator of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), with endogenous sugar...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hearn TJ,Marti Ruiz MC,Abdul-Awal SM,Wimalasekera R,Stanton CR,Haydon MJ,Theodoulou FL,Hannah MA,Webb AAR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) is a key regulatory component of the response to phosphate (Pi) starvation. However, the regulation of PHR1 in this response remains poorly understood. Here, we report that PHR1 is a target of the transcription factors AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR7 (ARF7) and ARF19 and is positively regu...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Huang KL,Ma GJ,Zhang ML,Xiong H,Wu H,Zhao CZ,Liu CS,Jia HX,Chen L,Kjorven JO,Li XB,Ren F

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexins are a multigene family of calcium-dependent membrane-binding proteins that play important roles in plant cell signaling. Annexins are multifunctional proteins, and their function in plants is not comprehensively understood. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) annexins ANN1 and ANN2 are 64% identical in their p...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wang J,Song J,Clark G,Roux SJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving the performance of rice (Oryza sativa) under drought stress has the potential to significantly affect rice productivity. Here, we report that the ERF family transcription factor OsLG3 positively regulates drought tolerance in rice. In our previous work, we found that OsLG3 has a positive effect on rice grain...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Xiong H,Yu J,Miao J,Li J,Zhang H,Wang X,Liu P,Zhao Y,Jiang C,Yin Z,Li Y,Guo Y,Fu B,Wang W,Li Z,Ali J,Li Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen viability depends on dynamic vacuolar changes during pollen development involving increases and decreases of vacuolar volume through water and osmolite accumulation and vacuolar fission. Mutations in FAB1A to FAB1D, the genes encoding phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate [PI(3,5)P2]-converting kinases, are mal...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Zhang WT,Li E,Guo YK,Yu SX,Wan ZY,Ma T,Li S,Hirano T,Sato MH,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast ribosomes, which originated from cyanobacteria, comprise a large subunit (50S) and a small subunit (30S) containing ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and various ribosomal proteins. Genes for many chloroplast ribosomal proteins, as well as proteins with auxiliary roles in ribosome biogenesis or functioning, reside in...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Pulido P,Zagari N,Manavski N,Gawronski P,Matthes A,Scharff LB,Meurer J,Leister D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs), which consist of receptor kinases (RKs) and receptor-like proteins, sense microbe- and host-derived molecular patterns associated with pathogen infection to trigger immune responses in plants. Several kinases of the 46-member Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) receptor-like cytopl...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Rao S,Zhou Z,Miao P,Bi G,Hu M,Wu Y,Feng F,Zhang X,Zhou JM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is a major membrane phospholipid and a precursor for major signaling molecules. Understanding its synthesis is important for improving plant growth, nutritional value, and resistance to stress. PC synthesis is complex, involving several interconnected pathways, one of which proceeds from serin...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chen W,Salari H,Taylor MC,Jost R,Berkowitz O,Barrow R,Qiu D,Branco R,Masle J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants accumulate the lipids phosphatidic acid (PA), diacylglycerol (DAG), and triacylglycerol (TAG) during cold stress, but how plants balance the levels of these lipids to mediate cold responses remains unknown. The enzymes ACYL-COENZYME A:DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE (DGAT) and DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE (DGK) catalyz...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tan WJ,Yang YC,Zhou Y,Huang LP,Xu L,Chen QF,Yu LJ,Xiao S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic circadian clocks utilize the ubiquitin proteasome system to precisely degrade clock proteins. In plants, the F-box-type E3 ubiquitin ligases ZEITLUPE (ZTL), FLAVIN-BINDING, KELCH REPEAT, F-BOX1 (FKF1), and LOV KELCH PROTEIN2 (LKP2) regulate clock period and couple the clock to photoperiodic flowering in res...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Lee CM,Feke A,Li MW,Adamchek C,Webb K,Pruneda-Paz J,Bennett EJ,Kay SA,Gendron JM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root size and architecture are important crop plant traits, as they determine access to water and soil nutrients. The plant hormone cytokinin is a negative regulator of root growth and branching. Here, we generated transgenic barley (Hordeum vulgare) plants with an enlarged root system by enhancing cytokinin degradati...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ramireddy E,Hosseini SA,Eggert K,Gillandt S,Gnad H,von Wirén N,Schmülling T

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endopolyploidy occurs when DNA replication takes place without subsequent mitotic nuclear division, resulting in cell-specific ploidy levels within tissues. In plants, endopolyploidy plays an important role in sustaining growth and development, but only a few studies have demonstrated a role in abiotic stress response...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Barkla BJ,Rhodes T,Tran KT,Wijesinghege C,Larkin JC,Dassanayake M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are the largest family of proteins in plants and are responsible for perceiving the vast majority of extracellular stimuli. Thus, RLKs function in diverse processes, including sensing pathogen attacks, regulating symbiotic interactions, transducing hormone and peptide signals, and monitori...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hurst CH,Turnbull D,Myles SM,Leslie K,Keinath NF,Hemsley PA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and histone methylation coregulate heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in animals and plants. To identify factors involved in maintaining gene silencing, we conducted a forward genetic screen for mutants that release the silenced transgene Pro35S::NEOMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE II in the transgenic Arabidops...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Meng J,Wang L,Wang J,Zhao X,Cheng J,Yu W,Jin D,Li Q,Gong Z

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OsMADS6, an ancient AGAMOUS-LIKE6 (AGL6)-like gene, has essential functions in specifying floral organ and meristem identity in rice (Oryza sativa). However, how AGL6 genes control flower development remains largely unknown. In this study, we report that OsMADS6 directly targets FACTOR OF DNA METHYLATION LIKE 1 (OsFDM...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tao J,Liang W,An G,Zhang D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have long endeavored to produce modified fatty acids in easily managed crop plants where they are not natively found. An important step toward this goal has been the biosynthesis of these valuable products in model oilseeds. The successful production of such fatty acids has revealed barriers to the broad a...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Lunn D,Smith GA,Wallis JG,Browse J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft x-ray microscopy (SXM) is a minimally invasive technique for single-cell high-resolution imaging as well as the visualization of intracellular distributions of light elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. We used SXM to observe photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaen...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Teramoto T,Azai C,Terauchi K,Yoshimura M,Ohta T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient, and P deficiency limits plant productivity. Recent work showed that P deficiency affects electron transport to photosystem I (PSI), but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here, we present a comprehensive biological model describing how P deficiency disrupts the photosy...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Carstensen A,Herdean A,Schmidt SB,Sharma A,Spetea C,Pribil M,Husted S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) is an essential mineral nutrient and an important factor for the composition of natural plant communities. Low Fe availability in aerated soils with neutral or alkaline pH has led to the evolution of elaborate mechanisms that extract Fe from the soil solution. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), Fe is acq...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tsai HH,Rodríguez-Celma J,Lan P,Wu YC,Vélez-Bermúdez IC,Schmidt W

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses between plants and mycorrhizal fungi are ubiquitous in ecosystems and strengthen the plants' defense against aboveground herbivores. Here, we studied the underlying regulatory networks and biochemical mechanisms in leaves induced by ectomycorrhizae that modify herbivore interactions. Feeding damage and ovipo...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kaling M,Schmidt A,Moritz F,Rosenkranz M,Witting M,Kasper K,Janz D,Schmitt-Kopplin P,Schnitzler JP,Polle A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant regeneration is fundamental to basic research and agricultural applications. The regeneration capacity of plants varies largely in different genotypes, but the reason for this variation remains elusive. Here, we identified a novel thioredoxin DCC1 in determining the capacity of shoot regeneration among Arabidops...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhang TT,Liu H,Shi Y,Wang M,Bie XM,Li XG,Zhang XS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant acclimation to growth light environment has been studied extensively; however, the majority of these studies have focused on light intensity and photo-acclimation, with few studies exploring the impact of dynamic growth light on stomatal acclimation and behavior. To assess the impact of growth light regime on st...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Matthews JSA,Vialet-Chabrand S,Lawson T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cortical microtubule reorganization is essential for plant cell survival under high salinity conditions. In response to salt stress, microtubules undergo rapid depolymerization followed by reassembly to form a new microtubule network that promotes cell survival; however, the upstream regulatory mechanism...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Dou L,He K,Higaki T,Wang X,Mao T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and electrophysiological studies on plant vacuolar transporters became feasible in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when methods to isolate large quantities of intact vacuoles and purified vacuolar membrane vesicles were established. However, with the exception of the H+-ATPase and H+-PPase, which could be ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Martinoia E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are prevalent in plant genomes. The identification of LTR-RTs is critical for achieving high-quality gene annotation. Based on the well-conserved structure, multiple programs were developed for the de novo identification of LTR-RTs; however, these programs are associated...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ou S,Jiang N

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ambient light environment controls many aspects of plant development throughout a plant's life cycle. Such complex control is achieved because a key repressor of light signaling, the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase causes the degradation of multiple regulators of endogenous developm...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ordoñez-Herrera N,Trimborn L,Menje M,Henschel M,Robers L,Kaufholdt D,Hänsch R,Adrian J,Ponnu J,Hoecker U

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, is a pest that threatens rice (Oryza sativa) production worldwide. While feeding on rice plants, planthoppers secrete saliva, which plays crucial roles in nutrient ingestion and modulating plant defense responses, although the specific functions of salivary proteins remain la...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Shangguan X,Zhang J,Liu B,Zhao Y,Wang H,Wang Z,Guo J,Rao W,Jing S,Guan W,Ma Y,Wu Y,Hu L,Chen R,Du B,Zhu L,Yu D,He G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic improvement of plant architecture is one of the strategies for increasing the yield potential of rice (Oryza sativa). Although great progress has been made in the understanding of plant architecture regulation, the precise mechanism is still an urgent need to be revealed. Here, we report that over-expression o...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tang Y,Liu H,Guo S,Wang B,Li Z,Chong K,Xu Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polar nuclear migration is crucial during the development of diverse eukaryotes. In plants, root hair growth requires polar nuclear migration into the outgrowing hair. However, knowledge about the dynamics and the regulatory mechanisms underlying nuclear movements in root epidermal cells remains limited. Here, we show...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Nakamura M,Claes AR,Grebe T,Hermkes R,Viotti C,Ikeda Y,Grebe M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhost resistance is defined as the immunity of a plant species to all nonadapted pathogen species. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) ecotype Columbia-0 is nonhost to the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora sojae and the fungal plant pathogen Fusarium virguliforme that are pathogenic to soybean (Glycine max). Previ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wang B,Sumit R,Sahu BB,Ngaki MN,Srivastava SK,Yang Y,Swaminathan S,Bhattacharyya MK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As regulators of gene expression in multicellular organisms, microRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial for growth and development. Although a plethora of factors involved in their biogenesis and action in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) has been described, these processes and their fine-tuning are not fully understood. Here, ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Lang PLM,Christie MD,Dogan ES,Schwab R,Hagmann J,van de Weyer AL,Scacchi E,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototrophic organisms exhibit a highly dynamic proteome, adapting their biomass composition in response to diurnal light/dark cycles and nutrient availability. Here, we used experimentally determined biomass compositions over the course of growth to determine and constrain the biomass objective function (BOF) in a ge...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Zuñiga C,Levering J,Antoniewicz MR,Guarnieri MT,Betenbaugh MJ,Zengler K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts are multifunctional organelles whose morphology is affected by environmental stresses. Although the three-dimensional (3D) architecture of thylakoid membranes has been reported previously, a 3D visualization of chloroplast under stress has not been explored. In this work, we used a positive-strand RNA ((+...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Jin X,Jiang Z,Zhang K,Wang P,Cao X,Yue N,Wang X,Zhang X,Li Y,Li D,Kang BH,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are small organelles that house many oxidative reactions. Peroxisome proliferation is induced under multiple stress conditions, including salt stress; however, factors regulating this process are not well defined. We have identified a role for Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) MAP KINASE17 (MPK17) in affe...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Frick EM,Strader LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is used extensively for gene function studies in plants. VIGS is inexpensive and rapid compared with silencing conducted through stable transformation, but many virus-silencing vectors, especially in grasses, induce only transient silencing phenotypes. A major reason for transient p...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ding XS,Mannas SW,Bishop BA,Rao X,Lecoultre M,Kwon S,Nelson RS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00