abstract：BACKGROUND:Salt stress is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plant growth and productivity. Vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase (H+-PPase) genes play an important role in salt stress tolerance in multiple species. RESULTS:In this study, the promoter from the vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase from Thellungiella halophila (T...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun Q,Gao F,Zhao L,Li K,Zhang J

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two component systems (TCS) are phosphotransfer-based signal transduction pathways first discovered in bacteria, where they perform most of the sensing tasks. They present a highly modular structure, comprising a receptor with histidine kinase activity and a response regulator which regulates gene expression...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Muñiz LM,Royo J,Gómez E,Baudot G,Paul W,Hueros G

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An interesting seed protein family with a role in preventing insect herbivory is the multi-gene, APA family encoding the alpha-amylase inhibitor, phytohemagglutinin and arcelin proteins of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Variability for this gene family exists and has been exploited to breed for insect res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Blair MW,Prieto S,Díaz LM,Buendía HF,Cardona C

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) involving tandem acceptors that are separated by three nucleotides (NAGNAG) is an evolutionarily widespread class of AS, which is well studied in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse). It has also been shown to be common in the model seed plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryz...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sinha R,Zimmer AD,Bolte K,Lang D,Reski R,Platzer M,Rensing SA,Backofen R

更新日期：2010-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytokinin Response Factors (CRFs) are a small subset of AP2/ERF transcription factor genes shown in Arabidopsis to regulate leaf development as part of the cytokinin signal transduction pathway. This study examines the phylogenetic distribution of CRF genes in other plant species, and attempts to identify th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rashotte AM,Goertzen LR

更新日期：2010-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants trigger and tailor defense responses after perception of the oral secretions (OS) of attacking specialist lepidopteran larvae. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates (FACs) in the OS of the Manduca sexta larvae are necessary and sufficient to elicit the herbivory-specific responses in Nicotiana attenuata, a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gilardoni PA,Schuck S,Jüngling R,Rotter B,Baldwin IT,Bonaventure G

更新日期：2010-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive soil salinity is an important problem for agriculture, however, salt tolerance is a complex trait that is not easily bred into plants. Exposure of cultivated tomato to salt stress has been reported to result in increased antioxidant content and activity. Salt tolerance of the related wild species, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Frary A,Göl D,Keleş D,Okmen B,Pinar H,Siğva HO,Yemenicioğlu A,Doğanlar S

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that move along actin filaments, and serve as calcium stores in plant cells. The positioning and dynamics of mitochondria depend on membrane-cytoskeleton interactions, but it is not clear whether microfilament cytoskeleton has a direct effect on mitochondrial function and ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Y,Zhu Y,Ling Y,Zhang H,Liu P,Baluska F,Samaj J,Lin J,Wang Q

更新日期：2010-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normalizing through reference genes, or housekeeping genes, can make more accurate and reliable results from reverse transcription real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Recent studies have shown that no single housekeeping gene is universal for all experiments. Thus, suitable reference gen...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Artico S,Nardeli SM,Brilhante O,Grossi-de-Sa MF,Alves-Ferreira M

更新日期：2010-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DnaJ proteins participate in many metabolic pathways through dynamic interactions with various components of these processes. The role of three small chloroplast-targeted DnaJ proteins, AtJ8 (At1 g80920), AtJ11 (At4 g36040) and AtJ20 (At4 g13830), was investigated here using knock-out mutants of Arabidopsis ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen KM,Holmström M,Raksajit W,Suorsa M,Piippo M,Aro EM

更新日期：2010-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exploring the genetic mechanisms underlying speciation is a hot topic in modern genetics and evolutionary studies. Distortion of marker transmission ratio is frequently ascribed to selection against alleles that cause hybrid incompatibility. The natural introgression between P. massoniana and P. hwangshanens...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li S,Chen Y,Gao H,Yin T

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Botrytis cinerea xylanase Xyn11A has been previously shown to be required for full virulence of this organism despite its poor contribution to the secreted xylanase activity and the low xylan content of B. cinerea hosts. Intriguingly, xylanases from other fungi have been shown to have the property, indep...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Noda J,Brito N,González C

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant biologists have long speculated about the mechanisms that guide pollen tubes to ovules. Although there is now evidence that ovules emit a diffusible attractant, little is known about how this attractant mediates interactions between the pollen tube and the ovules. RESULTS:We employ a semi-in vitro ass...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Stewman SF,Jones-Rhoades M,Bhimalapuram P,Tchernookov M,Preuss D,Dinner AR

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors play the crucial rule of regulating gene expression and influence almost all biological processes. Systematically identifying and annotating transcription factors can greatly aid further understanding their functions and mechanisms. In this article, we present SoyDB, a user friendly dat...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Z,Libault M,Joshi T,Valliyodan B,Nguyen HT,Xu D,Stacey G,Cheng J

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repetitive DNA is a major fraction of eukaryotic genomes and occurs particularly often in plants. Currently, the sequencing of the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) genome is under way and knowledge of repetitive DNA sequences is critical for the genome annotation. We generated a c0t-1 library, representing highly ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zakrzewski F,Wenke T,Holtgräwe D,Weisshaar B,Schmidt T

更新日期：2010-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with invariant levels of gene expression is a prerequisite for validating transcriptomic changes accompanying development. Ideally expression of these genes should be independent of the morphogenetic process or environmental condition tested as well as the methods used for RNA purific...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mallona I,Lischewski S,Weiss J,Hause B,Egea-Cortines M

更新日期：2010-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrotransposons are heterogeneous sequences, widespread in eukaryotic genomes, which refer to the so-called mobile DNA. They resemble retroviruses, both in their structure and for their ability to transpose within the host genome, of which they make up a considerable portion. Copia- and Gypsy-like retrotran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Vukich M,Giordani T,Natali L,Cavallini A

更新日期：2009-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ornamental crop Calluna vulgaris is of increasing importance to the horticultural industry in the northern hemisphere due to a flower organ mutation: the flowers of the 'bud-flowering' phenotype remain closed i.e. as buds throughout the total flowering period and thereby maintain more colorful flowers fo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Borchert T,Eckardt K,Fuchs J,Krüger K,Hohe A

更新日期：2009-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parthenium argentatum (guayule) is an industrial crop that produces latex, which was recently commercialized as a source of latex rubber safe for people with Type I latex allergy. The complete plastid genome of P. argentatum was sequenced. The sequence provides important information useful for genetic engine...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kumar S,Hahn FM,McMahan CM,Cornish K,Whalen MC

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little information is available on the amelioration of boron (B) on aluminum (Al)-induced photosynthesis inhibition. Sour pummelo (Citrus grandis) seedlings were irrigated for 18 weeks with nutrient solution containing 4 B levels (2.5, 10, 25 and 50 microM H3BO3) x 2 Al levels (0 and 1.2 mM AlCl3.6H2O). The ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jiang HX,Tang N,Zheng JG,Chen LS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone modifications and histone variants are of importance in many biological processes. To understand the biological functions of the global dynamics of histone modifications and histone variants in higher plants, we elucidated the variants and post-translational modifications of histones in soybean, a le...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu T,Yuan T,Tsai SN,Wang C,Sun SM,Lam HM,Ngai SM

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cellulose synthase superfamily has been classified into nine cellulose synthase-like (Csl) families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family. The Csl families have been proposed to be involved in the synthesis of the backbones of hemicelluloses of plant cell walls. With 17 plant and algal genomes fully s...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yin Y,Huang J,Xu Y

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesquiterpene lactones are characteristic metabolites of Asteraceae (or Compositae) which often display potent bioactivities and are sequestered in specialized organs such as laticifers, resin ducts, and trichomes. For characterization of sunflower sesquiterpene synthases we employed a simple method to isola...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Göpfert JC,Macnevin G,Ro DK,Spring O

更新日期：2009-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are conserved proteolytic enzymes found in a wide range of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plant species. Acting on the plant extracellular matrix, they play crucial roles in many aspects of plant physiology including growth, development and the response to stresses ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Schiermeyer A,Hartenstein H,Mandal MK,Otte B,Wahner V,Schillberg S

更新日期：2009-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA ligase enzymes catalyse the joining of adjacent polynucleotides and as such play important roles in DNA replication and repair pathways. Eukaryotes possess multiple DNA ligases with distinct roles in DNA metabolism, with clear differences in the functions of DNA ligase orthologues between animals, yeast ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Waterworth WM,Kozak J,Provost CM,Bray CM,Angelis KJ,West CE

更新日期：2009-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factor HaDREB2 was identified in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as a drought-responsive element-binding factor 2 (DREB2) with unique properties. HaDREB2 and the sunflower Heat Shock Factor A9 (HaHSFA9) co-activated the Hahsp17.6G1 promoter in sunflower embryos. Both factors could be involved ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Almoguera C,Prieto-Dapena P,Díaz-Martín J,Espinosa JM,Carranco R,Jordano J

更新日期：2009-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of genetic variations have been identified in rice. Such variations must in many cases control phenotypic differences in abiotic stress tolerance and other traits. A single feature polymorphism (SFP) is an oligonucleotide array-based polymorphism which can be used for identification of SNPs or...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kim SH,Bhat PR,Cui X,Walia H,Xu J,Wanamaker S,Ismail AM,Wilson C,Close TJ

更新日期：2009-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arabidopsis ovules comprise four morphologically distinct parts: the nucellus, which contains the embryo sac, two integuments that become the seed coat, and the funiculus that anchors the ovule within the carpel. Analysis of developmental mutants has shown that ovule morphogenesis relies on tightly regulated...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Skinner DJ,Gasser CS

更新日期：2009-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With a cultivation area of 1.75 Mio ha and sugar yield of 16.7 Mio tons in 2006, sugar beet is a crop of great economic importance in Europe. The productivity of sugar beet is determined significantly by seed vigour and field emergence potential; however, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underl...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pestsova E,Meinhard J,Menze A,Fischer U,Windhövel A,Westhoff P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mal d 1 is a major apple allergen causing food allergic symptoms of the oral allergy syndrome (OAS) in birch-pollen sensitised patients. The Mal d 1 gene family is known to have at least 7 intron-containing and 11 intronless members that have been mapped in clusters on three linkage groups. In this study, th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gao Z,van de Weg EW,Matos CI,Arens P,Bolhaar ST,Knulst AC,Li Y,Hoffmann-Sommergruber K,Gilissen LJ

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aromatic rice is popular worldwide because of its characteristic fragrance. Genetic studies and physical fine mapping reveal that a candidate gene (fgr/OsBADH2) homologous to betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase is responsible for aroma metabolism in fragrant rice varieties, but the direct evidence demonstrating t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Niu X,Tang W,Huang W,Ren G,Wang Q,Luo D,Xiao Y,Yang S,Wang F,Lu BR,Gao F,Lu T,Liu Y

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent development of novel repeat-fruiting types of blackberry (Rubus L.) cultivars, combined with a long history of morphological marker-assisted selection for thornlessness by blackberry breeders, has given rise to increased interest in using molecular markers to facilitate blackberry breeding. Yet no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lewers KS,Saski CA,Cuthbertson BJ,Henry DC,Staton ME,Main DS,Dhanaraj AL,Rowland LJ,Tomkins JP

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-genome physical maps facilitate genome sequencing, sequence assembly, mapping of candidate genes, and the design of targeted genetic markers. An automated protocol was used to construct a Vitis vinifera 'Cabernet Sauvignon' physical map. The quality of the result was addressed with regard to the effect...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Moroldo M,Paillard S,Marconi R,Fabrice L,Canaguier A,Cruaud C,De Berardinis V,Guichard C,Brunaud V,Le Clainche I,Scalabrin S,Testolin R,Di Gaspero G,Morgante M,Adam-Blondon AF

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is the fourth most important oilseed crop in the world, grown mainly in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates. Due to its origin through a single and recent polyploidization event, followed by successive selection during breeding efforts, culti...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cuc LM,Mace ES,Crouch JH,Quang VD,Long TD,Varshney RK

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromatin dynamics and stability are both required to control normal development of multicellular organisms. Chromatin assembly factor CAF-1 is a histone chaperone that facilitates chromatin formation and the maintenance of specific chromatin states. In plants and animals CAF-1 is essential for normal develo...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Exner V,Gruissem W,Hennig L

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bast fibres from the phloem tissues of flax are scientifically interesting and economically useful due in part to a dynamic system of secondary cell wall deposition. To better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the process of cell wall development in flax, we extracted proteins from individually ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hotte NS,Deyholos MK

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:StWhy1, a member of the plant-specific Whirly single-stranded DNA-binding protein family, was first characterized as a transcription factor involved in the activation of the nuclear PR-10a gene following defense-related stress in potato. In Arabidopsis thaliana, Whirlies have recently been shown to be primar...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Sabar M,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Abou-Rached C,Brisson N

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Until recently, only a small number of low- and mid-throughput methods have been used for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery and genotyping in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.). However, following completion of the sequence of the highly heterozygous genome of Pinot Noir, it has been possible to iden...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pindo M,Vezzulli S,Coppola G,Cartwright DA,Zharkikh A,Velasco R,Troggio M

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants encode a large number of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases. Legumes encode several LRR-RLK linked to the process of root nodule formation, the ligands of which are unknown. To identify ligands for these receptors, we used a combination of profile hidden Markov models and position-specific iter...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Oelkers K,Goffard N,Weiller GF,Gresshoff PM,Mathesius U,Frickey T

更新日期：2008-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome pairing, recombination and DNA repair are essential processes during meiosis in sexually reproducing organisms. Investigating the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Ph2 (Pairing homoeologous) locus has identified numerous candidate genes that may have a role in controlling such processes, includin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lloyd AH,Milligan AS,Langridge P,Able JA

更新日期：2007-12-20 00:00:00