abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the function of a particular gene under various stresses is important for engineering plants for broad-spectrum stress tolerance. Although virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been used to characterize genes involved in abiotic stress tolerance, currently available gene silencing and stress ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ramegowda V,Senthil-kumar M,Udayakumar M,Mysore KS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation and histone modifications regulate a wide range of processes in plant development. Cytosine methylation and demethylation exist in a dynamic balance and have been associated with gene silencing or activation, respectively. In Arabidopsis, cytosine demethylation is a...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kapazoglou A,Drosou V,Argiriou A,Tsaftaris AS

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within the Arabidopsis genome, there are 272 cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (P450) genes. However, the biological functions of the majority of these P450s remain unknown. The CYP709B family of P450s includes three gene members, CYP709B1, CYP709B2 and CYP709B3, which have high amino acid sequence similarity an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mao G,Seebeck T,Schrenker D,Yu O

更新日期：2013-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gibberellic Acid (GA) signal is governed by the GAI (Gibberellic Acid Insensitive) repressor, which is characterized by a highly conserved N-terminal DELLA domain. Deletion of the DELLA domain results in constitutive suppression of GA signaling. As the GAI transcript is transportable in phloem elements, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu H,Iwashiro R,Li T,Harada T

更新日期：2013-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an economically important fiber and oil crop that has been grown for thousands of years. The genome has been recently sequenced and transcriptomics are providing information on candidate genes potentially related to agronomically-important traits. In order to accelerate funct...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chantreau M,Grec S,Gutierrez L,Dalmais M,Pineau C,Demailly H,Paysant-Leroux C,Tavernier R,Trouvé JP,Chatterjee M,Guillot X,Brunaud V,Chabbert B,van Wuytswinkel O,Bendahmane A,Thomasset B,Hawkins S

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global warming predictions indicate that temperatures will increase by another 2-6°C by the end of this century. High temperature is a major abiotic stress limiting plant growth and productivity in many areas of the world. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a model herbaceous bioenergy crop, due to its rap...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li YF,Wang Y,Tang Y,Kakani VG,Mahalingam R

更新日期：2013-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leaves are determinate organs; hence, precise control of cell proliferation and post-mitotic cell expansion is essential for their growth. A defect in cell proliferation often triggers enhanced post-mitotic cell expansion in leaves. This phenomenon is referred to as 'compensation'. Several lines of evidence ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kawade K,Horiguchi G,Ishikawa N,Hirai MY,Tsukaya H

更新日期：2013-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitous, non-proteinaceous amino acid GABA (γ-aminobutyrate) accumulates in plants subjected to abiotic stresses such as chilling, O2 deficiency and elevated CO2. Recent evidence indicates that controlled atmosphere storage causes the accumulation of GABA in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) fruit, and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Trobacher CP,Zarei A,Liu J,Clark SM,Bozzo GG,Shelp BJ

更新日期：2013-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rp1 is a complex locus of maize, which carries a set of genes controlling race-specific resistance to the common rust fungus, Puccinia sorghi. The resistance response includes the "Hypersensitive response" (HR), a rapid response triggered by a pathogen recognition event that includes localized cell death at ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Negeri A,Wang GF,Benavente L,Kibiti CM,Chaikam V,Johal G,Balint-Kurti P

更新日期：2013-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although a number of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase-encoding genes (LRR-RLKs) have been identified in plants, a functional role has been determined for only a few. Recent studies have demonstrated that an LRR-RLK, PXY/TDR, is important for the process of secondary vascular development. Other studie...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang J,Kucukoglu M,Zhang L,Chen P,Decker D,Nilsson O,Jones B,Sandberg G,Zheng B

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hordeum chilense, a native South American diploid wild barley, is one of the species of the genus Hordeum with a high potential for cereal breeding purposes, given its high crossability with other members of the Triticeae tribe. Hexaploid tritordeum (×Tritordeum Ascherson et Graebner, 2n=6×=42, AABBH(ch)H(ch...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Castillo A,Ramírez MC,Martín AC,Kilian A,Martín A,Atienza SG

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heavy metal pollution in crop fields is one of the major issues in sustainable agriculture production. To improve crop growth and reduce the toxic effects of metals is an ideal strategy. Understanding the resilience of gibberellins producing endophytic fungi associated with crop plants in metal contaminated ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan AL,Lee IJ

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legumes have the unique capacity to undergo two important root endosymbioses: the root nodule symbiosis and the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Medicago truncatula is widely used to unravel the functions of genes during these root symbioses. Here we describe the development of an artificial microRNA (amiR)...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Devers EA,Teply J,Reinert A,Gaude N,Krajinski F

更新日期：2013-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ANGUSTIFOLIA (AN), one of the CtBP family proteins, plays a major role in microtubule-dependent cell morphogenesis. Microarray analysis of mammalian AN homologs suggests that AN might function as a transcriptional activator and regulator of a wide range of genes. Genetic characterization of AN mutants sugges...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gachomo EW,Jimenez-Lopez JC,Smith SR,Cooksey AB,Oghoghomeh OM,Johnson N,Baba-Moussa L,Kotchoni SO

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:From field harvest to the consumer's table, fresh citrus fruit spends a considerable amount of time in shipment and storage. During these processes, physiological disorders and pathological diseases are the main causes of fruit loss. Heat treatment (HT) has been widely used to maintain fruit quality during p...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yun Z,Gao H,Liu P,Liu S,Luo T,Jin S,Xu Q,Xu J,Cheng Y,Deng X

更新日期：2013-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apple is a widely cultivated fruit crop for its quality properties and extended storability. Among the several quality factors, texture is the most important and appreciated, and within the apple variety panorama the cortex texture shows a broad range of variability. Anatomically these variations depend on d...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Longhi S,Hamblin MT,Trainotti L,Peace CP,Velasco R,Costa F

更新日期：2013-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated rice species (Oryza sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud.) are generally considered among the crop species most sensitive to salt stress. A handful of lines are known to be tolerant, and a small number of these have been used extensively as donors in breeding programs. However, these donors use many ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Platten JD,Egdane JA,Ismail AM

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The selective removal of grapevine leaves around berry clusters can improve the quality of ripening fruits by influencing parameters such as the berry sugar and anthocyanin content at harvest. The outcome depends strongly on the timing of defoliation, which influences the source-sink balance and the modified...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Pastore C,Zenoni S,Fasoli M,Pezzotti M,Tornielli GB,Filippetti I

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:TIFY is a large plant-specific transcription factor gene family. A subgroup of TIFY genes named JAZ (Jasmonate-ZIM domain) has been identified as repressors of jasmonate (JA)-regulated transcription in Arabidopsis and other plants. JA signaling is involved in many aspects of plant growth/development and in d...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Aparicio-Fabre R,Guillén G,Loredo M,Arellano J,Valdés-López O,Ramírez M,Iñiguez LP,Panzeri D,Castiglioni B,Cremonesi P,Strozzi F,Stella A,Girard L,Sparvoli F,Hernández G

更新日期：2013-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize is one of the most important crops in the world. With the exponentially increasing population and the need for ever increased food and feed production, an increased yield of maize grain (as well as rice, wheat and other grains) will be critical. Maize grain development is understood from the perspectiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Teoh KT,Requesens DV,Devaiah SP,Johnson D,Huang X,Howard JA,Hood EE

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant cell walls are complex dynamic structures that play a vital role in coordinating the directional growth of plant tissues. The rapid elongation of the inflorescence stem in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is accompanied by radical changes in cell wall structure and chemistry, but analysis of the un...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hall H,Ellis B

更新日期：2013-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternate bearing is a widespread phenomenon among crop plants, defined as the tendency of certain fruit trees to produce a high-yield crop one year ("on-year"), followed by a low-yield or even no crop the following year ("off-year"). Several factors may affect the balance between such developmental phase-tr...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yanik H,Turktas M,Dundar E,Hernandez P,Dorado G,Unver T

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a commercially important crop that produces climacteric fruits with a soft and sweet pulp that contain a wide range of health promoting phytochemicals. Despite its importance, little is known about transcriptional modifications during papaya fruit ripening and their control. In t...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fabi JP,Seymour GB,Graham NS,Broadley MR,May ST,Lajolo FM,Cordenunsi BR,Oliveira do Nascimento JR

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To gain insight into the regulation of fruit ascorbic acid (AsA) pool in tomatoes, a combination of metabolite analyses, non-labelled and radiolabelled substrate feeding experiments, enzyme activity measurements and gene expression studies were carried out in fruits of the 'low-' and 'high-AsA' tomato cultiv...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Mellidou I,Keulemans J,Kanellis AK,Davey MW

更新日期：2012-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDRs) form one of the largest and oldest NAD(P)(H) dependent oxidoreductase families. Despite a conserved 'Rossmann-fold' structure, members of the SDR superfamily exhibit low sequence similarities, which constituted a bottleneck in terms of identification. Recent class...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Moummou H,Kallberg Y,Tonfack LB,Persson B,van der Rest B

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic marks superimposed on the DNA sequence of eukaryote chromosomes provide agility and plasticity in terms of modulating gene expression, ontology, and response to the environment. Modulating the methylation status of cytosine can generate epialleles, which have been detected and characterised at spe...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Amoah S,Kurup S,Rodriguez Lopez CM,Welham SJ,Powers SJ,Hopkins CJ,Wilkinson MJ,King GJ

更新日期：2012-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potassium (K+) is an important nutrient ion in plant cells and plays crucial roles in many plant physiological and developmental processes. In the natural environment, K+ deficiency is a common abiotic stress that inhibits plant growth and reduces crop productivity. Several microarray studies have been condu...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ma TL,Wu WH,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as important gene regulators in plants. MiRNAs and their targets have been extensively studied in Arabidopsis and rice. However, relatively little is known about the characterization of miRNAs and their target genes in peach (Prunus persica), which is a complex crop w...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu H,Xia R,Zhao B,An YQ,Dardick CD,Callahan AM,Liu Z

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dehydrins (DHNs) protect plant cells from desiccation damage during environmental stress, and also participate in host resistance to various pathogens. In this study, we aimed to identify and characterize the DHN gene families from Vitis vinifera and wild V. yeshanensis, which is tolerant to both drought and...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang Y,He M,Zhu Z,Li S,Xu Y,Zhang C,Singer SD,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant stilbenes are a small group of phenylpropanoids, which have been detected in at least 72 unrelated plant species and accumulate in response to biotic and abiotic stresses such as infection, wounding, UV-C exposure and treatment with chemicals. Stilbenes are formed via the phenylalanine/polymalonate-rou...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Vannozzi A,Dry IB,Fasoli M,Zenoni S,Lucchin M

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is now a significant body of research correlating apple (Malus x domestica) fruit softening with the cell wall hydrolase ENDO-POLYGALACTURONASE1 (PG1), there is currently little knowledge of its physiological effects in planta. This study examined the effect of down regulation of PG1 expression i...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Atkinson RG,Sutherland PW,Johnston SL,Gunaseelan K,Hallett IC,Mitra D,Brummell DA,Schröder R,Johnston JW,Schaffer RJ

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc (Zn) deficiency is one of the most widespread mineral nutritional problems that affect normal development in plants. Because Zn cannot passively diffuse across cell membranes, it must be transported into intracellular compartments for all biological processes where Zn is required. Several members of the...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Gainza-Cortés F,Pérez-Dïaz R,Pérez-Castro R,Tapia J,Casaretto JA,González S,Peña-Cortés H,Ruiz-Lara S,González E

更新日期：2012-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is an evolutionarily ancient mechanism of signal transduction found in eukaryotic cells. In plants, MAPK cascades are associated with responses to various abiotic and biotic stresses such as plant pathogens. MAPK cascades function through sequential phospho...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Hashimoto M,Komatsu K,Maejima K,Okano Y,Shiraishi T,Ishikawa K,Takinami Y,Yamaji Y,Namba S

更新日期：2012-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of largest angiosperm families, orchids have long fascinated evolutionary biologists with their staggering diversity in floral design and display to promote outcrossing. Two of the most intriguing aspects of orchid pollination that promote cross-pollination are pollinarium reconfiguration (PR) and dec...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xiaohua J,Dezhu L,Zongxin R,Xiaoguo X

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an important crop cultivated worldwide for oil production and food sources. Its complex genetic architecture (e.g., the large and tetraploid genome possibly due to unique cross of wild diploid relatives and subsequent chromosome duplication: 2n = 4x = 40, AABB, 2800 Mb) prese...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Duan X,Schmidt E,Li P,Lenox D,Liu L,Shu C,Zhang J,Liang C

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protoplast technologies offer unique opportunities for fundamental research and to develop novel germplasm through somatic hybridization, organelle transfer, protoclonal variation, and direct insertion of DNA. Applying protoplast technologies to develop Dutch elm disease resistant American elms (Ulmus americ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Jones AM,Chattopadhyay A,Shukla M,Zoń J,Saxena PK

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The thylakoid system in plant chloroplasts is organized into two distinct domains: grana arranged in stacks of appressed membranes and non-appressed membranes consisting of stroma thylakoids and margins of granal stacks. It is argued that the reason for the development of appressed membranes in plants is tha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Rumak I,Mazur R,Gieczewska K,Kozioł-Lipińska J,Kierdaszuk B,Michalski WP,Shiell BJ,Venema JH,Vredenberg WJ,Mostowska A,Garstka M

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tocopherols are natural antioxidants with both in vivo (vitamin E) and in vitro activity. Sunflower seeds contain predominantly alpha-tocopherol (>90% of total tocopherols), with maximum vitamin E effect but lower in vitro antioxidant action than other tocopherol forms such as gamma-tocopherol. Sunflower ger...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： García-Moreno MJ,Fernández-Martínez JM,Velasco L,Pérez-Vich B

更新日期：2012-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most widespread association between plant roots and fungi in natural and agricultural ecosystems. This work investigated the influence of mycorrhization on the economically relevant part of the tomato plant, by analyzing its impact on the physiology of the fruit. ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Salvioli A,Zouari I,Chalot M,Bonfante P

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A century ago, Chestnut Blight Disease (CBD) devastated the American chestnut. Backcross breeding has been underway to introgress resistance from Chinese chestnut into surviving American chestnut genotypes. Development of genomic resources for the family Fagaceae, has focused in this project on Castanea moll...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Barakat A,Staton M,Cheng CH,Park J,Yassin NB,Ficklin S,Yeh CC,Hebard F,Baier K,Powell W,Schuster SC,Wheeler N,Abbott A,Carlson JE,Sederoff R

更新日期：2012-03-19 00:00:00