abstract：BACKGROUND:Pumilio RNA-binding proteins are evolutionarily conserved throughout eukaryotes and are involved in RNA decay, transport, and translation repression in the cytoplasm. Although a majority of Pumilio proteins function in the cytoplasm, two nucleolar forms have been reported to have a function in rRNA processin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Park SH,Kim HS,Kalita PJ,Choi SB

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phased small interfering RNA (phasiRNA) is primarily derived from the 22-nt miRNA targeting loci. GhMYB2, a gene with potential roles in cotton fiber cell fate determination, is a target gene of miR828 and miR858 in the generation of phasiRNAs. RESULTS:In the presented work, through the evaluation of phasin...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao T,Tao X,Li M,Gao M,Chen J,Zhou N,Mei G,Fang L,Ding L,Zhou B,Zhang T,Guan X

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies of crop salinity tolerance are conducted under short-term stress condition within one growth stage. Understanding of the mechanisms of crop response to long-term salinity stress (LSS) is valuable for achieving the improvement of crop salinity tolerance. In the current study, we exposed allohexap...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Bhanbhro N,Xiao B,Han L,Lu H,Wang H,Yang C

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscisic acid (ABA) and proline play important roles in rice acclimation to different stress conditions. To study whether cross-talk exists between ABA and proline, their roles in rice acclimation to hypoxia, rice growth, root oxidative damage and endogenous ABA and proline accumulation were investigated in ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cao X,Wu L,Wu M,Zhu C,Jin Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N is an important macronutrient required for plant development and significantly influences axillary bud outgrowth, which affects tillering and grain yield of rice. However, how different N concentrations affect axillary bud growth at the molecular and transcriptional levels remains unclear. RESULTS:In this...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang R,Qian J,Fang Z,Tang J

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have several known functions involving various biological regulatory processes in plant. However, the possible roles of lncRNAs during peanut seed development have not been fully explored. RESULTS:In this study, two peanut recombinant inbred lines (RIL8) that differ in seed siz...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma X,Zhang X,Traore SM,Xin Z,Ning L,Li K,Zhao K,Li Z,He G,Yin D

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought conditions adversely affect soybean growth, resulting in severe yield losses worldwide. Increasing experimental evidence indicates miRNAs are important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. However, the drought-responsive molecular mechanism underlying miRNA-mRNA interactions remains la...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou Y,Liu W,Li X,Sun D,Xu K,Feng C,Kue Foka IC,Ketehouli T,Gao H,Wang N,Dong Y,Wang F,Li H

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lycoris species have great ornamental and medicinal values; however, their low regeneration efficiency seriously restricts their commercial production. Understanding the mechanism of bulblet propagation in this genus, which has remained underexplored to date, could provide a theoretical basis for improving t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu J,Li Q,Yang L,Li X,Wang Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Jasmonates play an important role in plant stress and defence responses and are also involved in the regulation of anthocyanin synthesis in response to sucrose availability. Here we explore the signalling interactions between sucrose and jasmonates in response to cold stress in Arabidopsis. RESULTS:Sucrose ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wingler A,Tijero V,Müller M,Yuan B,Munné-Bosch S

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To maintain sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) growth and yield, sucrose must be transported from the leaves to the roots. Sucrose transporters or carriers (SUTs or SUCs) transport sucrose and are involved in plant growth and response to abiotic stress. However, the mechanisms of SUTs in sweetpotato abio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang D,Liu H,Wang H,Zhang P,Shi C

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overuse of nitrogen fertilizers is often a major practice to ensure sufficient nitrogen demand of high-yielding rice, leading to persistent NH4+ excess in the plant. However, this excessive portion of nitrogen nutrient does not correspond to further increase in grain yields. For finding out the main constrai...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang S,Hao D,Jin M,Li Y,Liu Z,Huang Y,Chen T,Su Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flower development and sufficient fruit set are important parameters with respect to walnut yield. Knowledge about flowering genes of fruit trees can help to conduct better molecular breeding programs. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate the expression pattern of some flowering genes (FT, SO...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hassankhah A,Rahemi M,Ramshini H,Sarikhani S,Vahdati K

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Response and adaptation strategies of plants to the environment have always been the core issues in ecological research. So far, relatively little study exists on its functional traits responses to warming, especially in an urban environment. This information is the key to help understand plant responses and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu J,Zhu H,Cao Y,Li J,Zhu Q,Yao J,Xu C

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes associated with arsenite uptake and transport in rice plants (i.e., OsLsi1, OsLsi2, OsLsi3, OsLsi6 and OsABCC1) have been identified to date. However, their expression over time during the whole growth period of rice under arsenite stress conditions is still poorly understood. In this study, the dynami...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pan D,Yi J,Li F,Li X,Liu C,Wu W,Tao T

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NADP-malic enzyme (NAPD-ME), and pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK) are important enzymes that participate in C4 photosynthesis. However, the evolutionary history and forces driving evolution of these genes in C4 plants are not completely understood. RESULTS:We identified 162 NADP-ME and 35 PPDK genes ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shi W,Yue L,Guo J,Wang J,Yuan X,Dong S,Guo J,Guo P

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The function of 4-coumarate-CoA ligases (4CL) under abiotic stresses has been studied in plants, however, limited is known about the 4CL genes in cotton (G. hirsutum L.) and their roles in response to drought stress. RESULTS:We performed genome-wide identification of the 4CL genes in G. hirsutum and investi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun SC,Xiong XP,Zhang XL,Feng HJ,Zhu QH,Sun J,Li YJ

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fenclorim (Fen) can effectively protect rice from pretilachlor (Pre) injury, but its effects on rice have not been formally evaluated; thus, the Fen mode of action for alleviating the phytotoxicity caused by Pre in rice is not clear. This study aimed to examine the biochemical and physiological effects of Fe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hu L,Yao Y,Cai R,Pan L,Liu K,Bai L

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pear fruit exhibit a single sigmoid pattern during development, while peach and strawberry fruits exhibit a double sigmoid pattern. However, little is known about the differences between these two patterns. RESULTS:In this study, fruit weights were measured and paraffin sections were made from fruitlet to m...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pei MS,Cao SH,Wu L,Wang GM,Xie ZH,Gu C,Zhang SL

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold stress is one of the primary environmental factors that affect plant growth and productivity, especially for crops like Brassica napus that live through cold seasons. Till recently, although a number of genes and pathways involved in B. napus cold response have been revealed by independent studies, a ge...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ke L,Lei W,Yang W,Wang J,Gao J,Cheng J,Sun Y,Fan Z,Yu D

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydrogen gas (H2) is hypothesised to play a role in plants that are coping with stresses by regulating signal transduction and gene expression. Although the beneficial role of H2 in plant tolerance to cadmium (Cd) has been investigated previously, the corresponding mechanism has not been elucidated. In this ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui W,Yao P,Pan J,Dai C,Cao H,Chen Z,Zhang S,Xu S,Shen W

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat grain avenin-like proteins (ALPs) belong to a recently discovered class of wheat grain storage protein. ALPs in wheat grains not only have beneficial effects on dough quality but also display antifungal activities, which is a novel observation for wheat storage proteins. Previous studies have shown tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang Y,Hu X,Juhasz A,Islam S,Yu Z,Zhao Y,Li G,Ding W,Ma W

更新日期：2020-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotiana tabacum is an important economic crop. Topping, a common agricultural practice employed with flue-cured tobacco, is designed to increase leaf nicotine contents by increasing nicotine biosynthesis in roots. Many genes are found to be differentially expressed in response to topping, particularly gene...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin Y,Bai S,Li W,Sun T,Galbraith DW,Yang Z,Zhou Y,Sun G,Wang B

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize bsd2 (bundle sheath defective2) is a classical C4 mutant with defective C4 photosynthesis, accompanied with reduced accumulation of Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) and aberrant mature chloroplast morphology in the bundle sheath (BS) cells. However, as a hypothetical chloroplast ch...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li H,Bai M,Jiang X,Shen R,Wang H,Wang H,Wu H

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alfalfa is a high-quality forage cultivated widely in northern China. Recently, the failure of alfalfa plants to survive the winter has caused substantial economic losses. Water management has attracted considerable attention as a method for the potential improvement of winter survival. The aim of this study...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu H,Li Z,Tong Z,He F,Li X

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sesame (Sesamum indicum L., 2n = 2x = 26) is an important oilseed crop with high oil content but small seed size. To reveal the genetic loci of the quantitative seed-related traits, we constructed a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) linkage map of an F2 population by using specific length amp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du H,Zhang H,Wei L,Li C,Duan Y,Wang H

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is known that resistant rootstocks facilitate management of fire blight disease, incited by Erwinia amylovora, the role of rootstock root traits in providing systemic defense against E. amylovora is unclear. In this study, the hypothesis that rootstocks of higher root vigor provide higher toleran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Singh J,Fabrizio J,Desnoues E,Silva JP,Busch W,Khan A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gynodioecious species exist in two sexes - male-sterile females and hermaphrodites. Male sterility in higher plants often results from mitonuclear interaction between the CMS (cytoplasmic male sterility) gene(s) encoded by mitochondrial genome and by nuclear-encoded restorer genes. Mitochondrial and nuclear-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Krüger M,Abeyawardana OAJ,Juříček M,Krüger C,Štorchová H

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level in eukaryotes. In rice, MIR7695 expression is regulated by infection with the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae with subsequent down-regulation of an alternatively spliced transcript of natural res...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sánchez-Sanuy F,Peris-Peris C,Tomiyama S,Okada K,Hsing YI,San Segundo B,Campo S

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sucrose synthase (SUS) is widely considered a key enzyme participating in sucrose metabolism in higher plants and regarded as a biochemical marker for sink strength in crops. However, despite significant progress in characterizing the physiological functions of the SUS gene family, knowledge of the trajector...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu X,Yang Y,Liu C,Sun Y,Zhang T,Hou M,Huang S,Yuan H

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat straw is a rich resource worldwide. Straw return is an effective strategy to alleviate soil-borne diseases on monoculture watermelon. Previous studies focus on soil structure, physical and chemical properties; however, little is known about the molecular responses on host plant. RESULTS:No significant...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tang L,Nie S,Li W,Fan C,Wang S,Wu F,Pan K

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As a common accompanying dispersal structure, specialized seed appendages play a critical role in the successful germination and dispersal of many plants, and are regarded as an adaptation character for plants survival in diverse environments. However, little is known about how the appendages modulate the li...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhao Y,Zhang Y,Zhao B,Yang Z,Dong L

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nectar is a major floral attractant and reward for insects that ensures pollination. Liriodendron, a genus of the Magnoliaceae family, includes only two relict species, L. chinense and L. tulipifera, which are considered "basal angiosperms" according to plant evolutionary history. The flowers of Liriodendron...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu H,Ma J,Li H

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trees of the genus Taxus are highly valuable medicinal plants with multiple pharmacological effects on various cancer treatments. Paclitaxel from Taxus trees is an efficient and widely used anticancer drug, however, the accumulation of taxoids and other active ingredients can vary greatly among Taxus species...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou T,Luo X,Zhang C,Xu X,Yu C,Jiang Z,Zhang L,Yuan H,Zheng B,Pi E,Shen C

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscisic acid (ABA) and sucrose act as molecular signals in response to abiotic stress. However, how their synergy regulates the source-sink relationship has rarely been studied. This study aimed to reveal the mechanism underlying the synergy between ABA and sucrose on assimilates allocation to improve grain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen T,Li G,Islam MR,Fu W,Feng B,Tao L,Fu G

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dendrobium moniliforme (Linnaeus) Swartz is a well-known plant used in traditional Chinese medicine due to bioactive constituents. Polysaccharides are the main medicinal ingredients, yet no studies have been published on polysaccharide biosynthesis in D. moniliforme. To comprehensively investigate the polysa...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yuan Y,Zhang J,Kallman J,Liu X,Meng M,Lin J

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitous signaling molecule melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) (MT) plays vital roles in plant development and stress tolerance. Selenium (Se) may be phytotoxic at high concentrations. Interactions between MT and Se (IV) stress in higher plants are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ulhassan Z,Huang Q,Gill RA,Ali S,Mwamba TM,Ali B,Hina F,Zhou W

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a beneficial element for higher plants and essential for mammals. To study the effect of the foliar application of sodium selenate on fragrant rice performance, a pot experiment was conducted in Guangdong, China. At the initial heading stage, one-time foliar application of sodium selenate wi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Luo H,Du B,He L,Zheng A,Pan S,Tang X

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celery is a widely cultivated vegetable abundant in ascorbate (AsA), a natural plant antioxidant capable of scavenging free radicals generated by abiotic stress in plants. Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) is a plant antioxidant enzyme that is important in the synthesis of AsA and scavenging of excess hydrogen pero...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu JX,Feng K,Duan AQ,Li H,Yang QQ,Xu ZS,Xiong AS

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat is a momentous crop and feeds billions of people in the world. The improvement of wheat yield is very important to ensure world food security. Normal development of grain is the essential guarantee for wheat yield formation. The genetic study of grain phenotype and identification of key genes for grain...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fu C,Du J,Tian X,He Z,Fu L,Wang Y,Xu D,Xu X,Xia X,Zhang Y,Cao S

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meiosis of newly formed allopolyploids frequently encounter perturbations induced by the merging of divergent and hybridizable genomes. However, to date, the meiotic properties of allopolyploids with dysploid parental karyotypes have not been studied in detail. The allotetraploid Cucumis ×hytivus (HHCC, 2n =...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao Q,Wang Y,Bi Y,Zhai Y,Yu X,Cheng C,Wang P,Li J,Lou Q,Chen J

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00