abstract：BACKGROUND:Chrysanthemum, a leading ornamental species, does not tolerate salinity stress, although some of its related species do. The current level of understanding regarding the mechanisms underlying salinity tolerance in this botanical group is still limited. RESULTS:A comparison of the physiological responses to ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gao J,Sun J,Cao P,Ren L,Liu C,Chen S,Chen F,Jiang J

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABA-mediated processes are involved in plant responses to water deficit, especially the control of stomatal opening. However in grapevine it is not known if these processes participate in the phenotypic variation in drought adaptation existing between genotypes. To elucidate this question, the response to sh...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rossdeutsch L,Edwards E,Cookson SJ,Barrieu F,Gambetta GA,Delrot S,Ollat N

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B chromosome causes no obvious phenotype variation, its existence might influence A genome gene expression. Previous studies suggested that B chromosomes are evol...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Huang W,Du Y,Zhao X,Jin W

更新日期：2016-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize grain yield depends mainly on the photosynthetic efficiency of functional leaves, which is controlled by an array of gene networks and other factors, including environmental conditions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules that play important roles in plant developmental regulation. A few senesce...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu X,Ding D,Shi C,Xue Y,Zhang Z,Tang G,Tang J

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels predicted to occur before the end of the century will impact plant metabolism. In addition, nitrate availability will affect metabolism and levels of nitrogen-containing defense compounds, such as glucosinolates (GSLs). We compared Arabidopsis foliar metaboli...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Paudel JR,Amirizian A,Krosse S,Giddings J,Ismail SA,Xia J,Gloer JB,van Dam NM,Bede JC

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccharina japonica is an important commercial brown seaweed, its main product is alginate, which is used in food, textile and by the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. GDP-mannose dehydrogenase (GMD) is the key enzyme involved in the synthesis of alginate. However, little is known about GMD in S. japon...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang P,Shao Z,Jin W,Duan D

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs) constitute the largest subfamily of receptor-like kinases in plant. A number of reports have demonstrated that plant LRR-RLKs play important roles in growth, development, differentiation, and stress responses. However, no comprehensive analysis of this gen...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou F,Guo Y,Qiu LJ

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants perceive UV-B through the UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8 (UVR8) photoreceptor and UVR8 activation leads to changes in gene expression such as those associated with UV-B acclimation and stress tolerance. Albeit functionally unrelated, UVR8 shows some homology with RCC1 (Regulator of Chromatin Condensation 1) pr...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Binkert M,Crocco CD,Ekundayo B,Lau K,Raffelberg S,Tilbrook K,Yin R,Chappuis R,Schalch T,Ulm R

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic manipulation of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis or signaling is a promising strategy to improve crop yield and quality. However, the relationships between the BR-promoted growth and photosynthesis and the exact mechanism of BR-regulated photosynthetic capacity are not clear. Here, we generated tran...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li XJ,Guo X,Zhou YH,Shi K,Zhou J,Yu JQ,Xia XJ

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photosynthesis plays a vital role as an energy source for plant metabolism, and its efficiency may be drastically reduced owing to abiotic stresses. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), is a renewable and versatile resource with significant ecological and economic value, which encounters high light stress wit...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao H,Lou Y,Sun H,Li L,Wang L,Dong L,Gao Z

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most important grain legume cultivated by resource poor farmers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to harness the untapped genetic potential available for chickpea improvement, we re-sequenced 35 chickpea genotypes representing parental lines of 16 mapp...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Thudi M,Khan AW,Kumar V,Gaur PM,Katta K,Garg V,Roorkiwal M,Samineni S,Varshney RK

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pst), which is the pathogen responsible for tobacco wildfire disease, has received considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this study was to clarify the responses of photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) to Pst infection in tobacco leaves. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cheng DD,Zhang ZS,Sun XB,Zhao M,Sun GY,Chow WS

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rye, Secale cereale L., has historically been a crop of major importance and is still a key cereal in many parts of Europe. Single populations of cultivated rye have been shown to capture a large proportion of the genetic diversity present in the species, but the distribution of genetic diversity in subspeci...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hagenblad J,Oliveira HR,Forsberg NE,Leino MW

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum is an important C4 crop which relies on applied Nitrogen fertilizers (N) for optimal yields, of which substantial amounts are lost into the atmosphere. Understanding the genetic variation of sorghum in response to limited nitrogen supply is important for elucidating the underlying genetic mechanisms ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gelli M,Mitchell SE,Liu K,Clemente TE,Weeks DP,Zhang C,Holding DR,Dweikat IM

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant nuclear pore complex has strongly attracted the attention of the scientific community during the past few years, in particular because of its involvement in hormonal and pathogen/symbiotic signalling. In Arabidopsis thaliana, more than 30 nucleoporins have been identified, but only a few of them ha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Boeglin M,Fuglsang AT,Luu DT,Sentenac H,Gaillard I,Chérel I

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought stress in juvenile stages of crop development and premature leaf senescence induced by drought stress have an impact on biomass production and yield formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Therefore, in order to get information of regulatory processes involved in the adaptation to drought stress an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wehner G,Balko C,Humbeck K,Zyprian E,Ordon F

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Jumonji C (JmjC) domain-containing proteins are a group of functionally conserved histone lysine demethylases in Eukaryotes. Growing evidences have shown that JmjCs epigenetically regulate various biological processes in plants. However, their roles in plant biotic stress, especially in rice bacterial blight...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hou Y,Wang L,Wang L,Liu L,Li L,Sun L,Rao Q,Zhang J,Huang S

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs play important roles in the adaptive responses of plants to nutrient deficiencies. Most research, however, has focused on nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), copper (Cu) and iron (Fe) deficiencies, limited data are available on the differential expression of miRNAs and their target genes in r...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Lu YB,Qi YP,Yang LT,Guo P,Li Y,Chen LS

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins belong to a unique group of calcium sensors in plant that decode the Ca(2+) signature by interacting with CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs). Although CBL-CIPK complexes have been shown to play important roles in the responses to various stresses in plants, little is kn...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun T,Wang Y,Wang M,Li T,Zhou Y,Wang X,Wei S,He G,Yang G

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is increasingly appreciated that electrical controls acting at the cellular and supra-cellular levels influence development and initiate rapid responses to environmental cues. An emerging method for non-invasive optical imaging of electrical activity at cell membranes uses genetically-encoded voltage indi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Matzke AJ,Matzke M

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis is characterized by the presence of different symbiotic structures and stages within a root system. Therefore tools allowing the analysis of molecular changes at a cellular level are required to reveal insight into arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis development and fun...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gaude N,Bortfeld S,Erban A,Kopka J,Krajinski F

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perenniality is best understood in quantitative terms, involving the relationship between production vs. turnover of meristems, biomass, or energy reserves. Previous quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies using divergent populations of the perennial rock cress Arabidopsis lyrata have shown that trade-offs in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Remington DL,Figueroa J,Rane M

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, Tectona grandis is one of the most valuable trees in the world and no transcript dataset related to secondary xylem is available. Considering how important the secondary xylem and sapwood transition from young to mature trees is, little is known about the expression differences between those succe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Galeano E,Vasconcelos TS,Vidal M,Mejia-Guerra MK,Carrer H

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanized dry seeded rice can save both labour and water resources. Rice seedling establishment is sensitive to sowing depth while mesocotyl elongation facilitates the emergence of deeply sown seeds. RESULTS:A set of 270 rice accessions, including 170 from the mini-core collection of Chinese rice germplasm...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wu J,Feng F,Lian X,Teng X,Wei H,Yu H,Xie W,Yan M,Fan P,Li Y,Ma X,Liu H,Yu S,Wang G,Zhou F,Luo L,Mei H

更新日期：2015-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agrobacterium infection, which is widely used to generate transgenic plants, is often accompanied by T-DNA-linked mutations and transpositions in flowering plants. It is not known if Agrobacterium infection also affects the rates of point mutations, somatic homologous recombinations (SHR) and frame-shift mut...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shah JM,Ramakrishnan AM,Singh AK,Ramachandran S,Unniyampurath U,Jayshankar A,Balasundaram N,Dhanapal S,Hyde G,Baskar R

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea. L) is one of the most important oil crops in the world. After flowering, the peanut plant forms aboveground pegs (gynophores) that penetrate the soil, giving rise to underground pods. This means of reproduction, referred to as geocarpy, distinguishes peanuts from most oth...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhao C,Zhao S,Hou L,Xia H,Wang J,Li C,Li A,Li T,Zhang X,Wang X

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that salinization (high-pH) has been considered as a major environmental threat to agricultural systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between salt stress and alkali stress in metabolic profiles and nutrient accumulation of wheat; these parameters were also evaluat...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Guo R,Yang Z,Li F,Yan C,Zhong X,Liu Q,Xia X,Li H,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to its biennual life cycle Brassica oleracea is especially exposed to seasonal changes in temperature that could limit its growth and fitness. Thermal stress could limit plant growth, leaf development and photosynthesis. We evaluated the performance of two local populations of B. oleracea: one population...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rodríguez VM,Soengas P,Alonso-Villaverde V,Sotelo T,Cartea ME,Velasco P

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a major abiotic stress factors that reduces agricultural productivity. GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development. However, the functions of a number of GRAS genes identified in rice are unknown, especially the GRAS genes related to rice dro...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu K,Chen S,Li T,Ma X,Liang X,Ding X,Liu H,Luo L

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An optimal seedling development of Brassica napus plants leads to a higher yield stability even under suboptimal growing conditions and has therefore a high importance for plant breeders. The objectives of our study were to (i) examine the expression levels of candidate genes in seedling leaves of B. napus a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Körber N,Bus A,Li J,Higgins J,Bancroft I,Higgins EE,Parkin IA,Salazar-Colqui B,Snowdon RJ,Stich B

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is the major environmental stress threatening crop-plant productivity worldwide. Identification of new genes and metabolic pathways involved in plant adaptation to progressive drought stress at the reproductive stage is of great interest for agricultural research. RESULTS:We developed a novel Cross-...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shaar-Moshe L,Hübner S,Peleg Z

更新日期：2015-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat seeds provide a staple food and an important protein source for the world's population. Seed germination is vital to wheat growth and development and directly affects grain yield and quality. In this study, we performed the first comparative proteomic analysis of wheat embryo and endosperm during seed ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： He M,Zhu C,Dong K,Zhang T,Cheng Z,Li J,Yan Y

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Grape production in continental climatic regions suffers from the combination of drought and cold stresses during winter. Developing a reliable system to simulate combined drought-cold stress and to determine physiological responses and regulatory mechanisms is important. Evaluating tolerance to combined str...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Su L,Dai Z,Li S,Xin H

更新日期：2015-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:microRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in plant development processes and play pivotal roles in plant adaptation to environmental stresses. Salicornia europaea, a salt mash euhalophyte, is a suitable model plant to study salt adaptation mechanisms. S. europaea is also a vegetable, forage, and oilseed that can be ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Feng J,Wang J,Fan P,Jia W,Nie L,Jiang P,Chen X,Lv S,Wan L,Chang S,Li S,Li Y

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sec18p/N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) is a conserved eukaryotic ATPase, which primarily functions in vesicle membrane fusion from yeast to human. However, the function of the OsSec18 gene, a homologue of NSF in rice, remains unknown. RESULTS:In the present study, we investigated the function of OsS...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun Y,Ning T,Liu Z,Pang J,Jiang D,Guo Z,Song G,Yang D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of transgenic plants as a production platform for biomass-degrading enzymes is a promising tool for an economically feasible allocation of enzymes processing lignocellulose. Previous research has already identified a major limitation of in planta production such as interference with the struc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Klose H,Günl M,Usadel B,Fischer R,Commandeur U

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are different opinions about the relationship of two disjunctively distributed varieties Adiantum reniforme L. var. sinense Y.X.Lin and Adiantum reniforme L. Adiantum reniforme var. sinense is an endangered fern only distributed in a narrowed region of Chongqing city in China, while Adiantum reniforme ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang AH,Sun Y,Schneider H,Zhai JW,Liu DM,Zhou JS,Xing FW,Chen HF,Wang FG

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brassica includes many successfully cultivated crop species of polyploid origin, either by ancestral genome triplication or by hybridization between two diploid progenitors, displaying complex repetitive sequences and transposons. The U's triangle, which consists of three diploids and three amphidiploids, is...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jiang J,Wang Y,Zhu B,Fang T,Fang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nucleosome positioning regulates the gene expression and many other DNA-related processes in eukaryotes. Genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positions and correlation of genome-wide nucleosomal remodeling with the changes in the gene expression can help us understanding gene regulation on genome level. RE...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Singh M,Bag SK,Bhardwaj A,Ranjan A,Mantri S,Nigam D,Sharma YK,Sawant SV

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The production of heather (Calluna vulgaris) in Germany is highly dependent on cultivars with mutated flower morphology, the so-called diplocalyx bud bloomers. So far, this unique flower type of C. vulgaris has not been reported in any other plant species. The flowers are characterised by an extremely extend...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Behrend A,Borchert T,Hohe A

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00