abstract：BACKGROUND:Most plant viruses rely on vectors for their transmission and spread. One of the outstanding biological questions concerning the vector-pathogen-symbiont multi-trophic interactions is the potential involvement of vector symbionts in the virus transmission process. Here, we used a multi-factorial system conta...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shi XB,Yan S,Zhang C,Zheng LM,Zhang ZH,Sun SE,Gao Y,Tan XQ,Zhang DY,Zhou XG

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamine synthetase (GS) acts as a key enzyme in plant nitrogen (N) metabolism. It is important to understand the regulation of GS expression in plant. Promoters can initiate the transcription of its downstream gene. Eichhornia crassipes is a most prominent aquatic invasive plant, which has negative effects...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhong Y,Lu X,Deng Z,Lu Z,Fu M

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shoot architecture is fundamentally crucial to crop growth and productivity. As a key component of shoot architecture, plant height is known to be controlled by both genetic and environmental factors, though specific details remain scarce. RESULTS:In this study, 308 representative soybean lines from a core ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang Q,Lin G,Lv H,Wang C,Yang Y,Liao H

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) is an important fruit crop worldwide. It was particularly sensitive to drought stress because of their fibrous and shallow root systems. Mutant rty of Arabidopsis thaliana ROOTY (RTY) results in increased endogenous auxin levels, more roots, and shoot growth. It is stil...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Yang Y,Raza A,Yin S,Wang H,Zhang Y,Dong J,Wang G,Zhong C,Zhang H,Liu J,Jin W

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Forest trees have important economic and ecological value. As a model tree, poplar has played a significant role in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying tree biology. However, a lack of mutant libraries and time-consuming stable genetic transformation processes severely limit progress into the fun...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zheng L,Yang J,Chen Y,Ding L,Wei J,Wang H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dwarf bunt, which is caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn, is a soilborne and seedborne disease that occurs worldwide and can lead to 70% or even total losses of wheat crops. However, very little information is available about the histological changes that occur in dwarf bunt-resistant and dwarf bunt-suscepti...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu T,Qin D,Muhae Ud Din G,Liu T,Chen W,Gao L

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici), is a major disease that causes huge yield damage. New pathogen races appeared in the last few years and caused a broke down in the resistant genotypes. In Egypt, some of the resistant genotypes began to be susceptible to stripe rust in recent...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Abou-Zeid MA,Mourad AMI

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most widely grown pulse and drought (limiting water) is one of the major constraints leading to about 40-50% yield losses annually. Dehydration responsive element binding proteins (DREBs) are important plant transcription factors that regulate the expression of man...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Das A,Basu PS,Kumar M,Ansari J,Shukla A,Thakur S,Singh P,Datta S,Chaturvedi SK,Sheshshayee MS,Bansal KC,Singh NP

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern agriculture strives to sustainably manage fertilizer for both economic and environmental reasons. The monitoring of any nutritional (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium) deficiency in growing plants is a challenge for precision farming technology. A study was carried out on three species of popular crops,...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Siedliska A,Baranowski P,Pastuszka-Woźniak J,Zubik M,Krzyszczak J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pilea is a genus of perennial herbs from the family Urticaceae, and some species are used as courtyard ornamentals or for medicinal purposes. At present, there is no information about the plastid genome of Pilea, which limits our understanding of this genus. Here, we report 4 plastid genomes of Pilea taxa (P...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li J,Tang J,Zeng S,Han F,Yuan J,Yu J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haematococcus lacustris is an ideal source of astaxanthin (AST), which is stored in oil bodies containing esterified AST (EAST) and triacylglycerol (TAG). Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyze the last step of acyl-CoA-dependent TAG biosynthesis and are also considered as crucial enzymes involved ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cui H,Zhao C,Xu W,Zhang H,Hang W,Zhu X,Ji C,Xue J,Zhang C,Li R

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitrogen application can effectively mitigate the damage to crop growth and yield caused by drought. However, the efficiency of heavy nitrogen application before drought (NBD) and heavy nitrogen application after drought (NAD) to regulate rice response to drought stress remains controversial. In this study, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Du J,Shen T,Xiong Q,Zhu C,Peng X,He X,Fu J,Ouyang L,Bian J,Hu L,Sun X,Zhou D,He H,Zhong L,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under natural conditions, soil nutrients are heterogeneously distributed, and plants have developed adaptation strategies to efficiently forage patchily distributed nutrient. Most previous studies examined either patch strength or patch size separately and focused mainly on root morphological plasticity (inc...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Cai L,Wang Y,Tigabu M,Hou X,Wu P,Zhou C,Ma X

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors GATAs are involved in plant developmental processes and respond to environmental stresses through binding DNA regulatory regions to regulate their downstream genes. However, little information on the GATA genes in Brassica napus is available. The release of the reference genome of B. na...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhu W,Guo Y,Chen Y,Wu D,Jiang L

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genetic diversity in heat tolerance and associated traits is of great importance for improving heat tolerance in cool-season grass species. The objectives of this study were to determine genetic variations in heat tolerance associated with phenotypic and physiological traits and to identify...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang J,Li H,Jiang Y,Li H,Zhang Z,Xu Z,Xu B,Huang B

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pinus massoniana Lamb. is an important afforestation tree species with high economic, ecological and medicinal values. Aluminum (Al) toxicity driven by soil acidification causes dieback of P. massoniana plantations. Previous studies showed that ectomycorrhizal fungi alleviate Al stress damages in Pinus, but ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu H,Chen H,Ding G,Li K,Ren Q

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Ligusticum consists of approximately 60 species distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. It is one of the most taxonomically difficult taxa within Apiaceae, largely due to the varied morphological characteristics. To investigate the plastome evolution and phylogenetic relationships of Ligusticum, we...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Ren T,Li ZX,Xie DF,Gui LJ,Peng C,Wen J,He XJ

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China has diverse wheat varieties that adapt to very different environments divided into ten agro-ecological zones. A better understanding of genomic differences and patterns of selection among agro-ecological zones could provide useful information in selection of specific adaptive traits in breeding. RESUL...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Guo J,Li C,Zhao J,Guo J,Shi W,Cheng S,Zhou M,Hao C

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crop quality and yield are affected by abiotic and biotic stresses, and heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are considered to play important roles in regulating plant tolerance under various stresses. To investigate the response of Cucurbita moschata to abiotic stress, we analyzed the genome of C. moscha...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Shen C,Yuan J

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and their regulatory functions in anthocyanin, carotenoid, and chlorophyll accumulation have been extensively characterized in many plant species. However, the miRNA regulatory mechanism in betalain biosynthesis remains mostly unknown. RESULTS:In this study, 126 conserved miRNAs and 41 no...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Chen C,Xie F,Hua Q,Zur NT,Zhang L,Zhang Z,Zhang R,Zhao J,Hu G,Qin Y

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bread wheat is one of the most important crops for the human diet, but the increasing soil salinization is causing yield reductions worldwide. Improving salt stress tolerance in wheat requires the elucidation of the mechanistic basis of plant response to this abiotic stress factor. Although several studies h...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Duarte-Delgado D,Dadshani S,Schoof H,Oyiga BC,Schneider M,Mathew B,Léon J,Ballvora A

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-temperature stress (HTS) is one of the main environmental stresses that limit plant growth and crop production in agricultural systems. Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is an important high-altitude herbaceous plant adapted to a wide range of environmental stimuli such as cold, strong wind and UV-B exposure. How...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Wang ZQ,Zhao QM,Zhong X,Xiao L,Ma LX,Wu CF,Zhang Z,Zhang LQ,Tian Y,Fan W

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhododendron molle (Ericaceae) is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, its flower and root have been widely used to treat rheumatism and relieve pain for thousands of years in China. Chemical studies have revealed that R. molle contains abundant secondary metabolites such as terpenoinds, flavonoids and lig...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhou GL,Zhu P

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phytolaccaceae species in China are not only ornamental plants but also perennial herbs that are closely related to human health. However, both large-scale full-length cDNA sequencing and reference gene validation of Phytolaccaceae members are still lacking. Therefore, single-molecule real-time sequencing te...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Liu D,Chen L,Chen C,An X,Zhang Y,Wang Y,Li Q

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flavonoid biosynthesis is strongly influenced by phytohormones. For example, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) enhances the flavonoid accumulation in pear. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the MeJA-induced flavonoid biosynthesis in pear is largely uncharacterized. Therefore, the transcriptome of pear calli ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Premathilake AT,Ni J,Shen J,Bai S,Teng Y

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfur is a major component of biological molecules and thus an essential element for plants. Deficiency of sulfate, the main source of sulfur in soils, negatively influences plant growth and crop yield. The effect of sulfate deficiency on plants has been well characterized at the physiological, transcriptom...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Canales J,Uribe F,Henríquez-Valencia C,Lovazzano C,Medina J,Vidal EA

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among eukaryotic organisms, alternative splicing is an important process that can generate multiple transcripts from one same precursor messenger RNA, which greatly increase transcriptome and proteome diversity. This process is carried out by a super-protein complex defined as the spliceosome. Specifically, ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zhang KL,Feng Z,Yang JF,Yang F,Yuan T,Zhang D,Hao GF,Fang YM,Zhang J,Wu C,Chen MX,Zhu FY

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cattail (Typha domingensis Pers.) is a perennial emergent plant which is used in Green Floating Filters (GFFs), one of the most innovative systems of wastewater treatment to bioremediate eutrophic waters and produce biomass as biofuel feedstocks. The establishment of cattails in GFFs depends on the seed germ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Carhuancho León FM,Aguado Cortijo PL,Morató Izquierdo MDC,Castellanos Moncho MT

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tomato gray leaf spot caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is a serious disease that can severely hinder tomato production. To date, only Sm has been reported to provide resistance against this disease, and the molecular mechanism underlying resistance to this disease in tomato remains unclear....

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Yang H,Shen F,Wang H,Zhao T,Zhang H,Jiang J,Xu X,Li J

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is widely perceived that mechanical or thigmomorphogenic stimuli, such as rubbing and bending by passing animals, wind, raindrop, and flooding, broadly influence plant growth and developmental patterning. In particular, wind-driven mechanical stimulation is known to induce the incidence of radial expansio...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Nam BE,Park YJ,Gil KE,Kim JH,Kim JG,Park CM

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heading time is one of the most important agronomic traits in wheat, as it largely affects both adaptation to different agro-ecological conditions and yield potential. Identification of genes underlying the regulation of wheat heading and the development of diagnostic markers could facilitate our understandi...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li Y,Xiong H,Guo H,Zhou C,Xie Y,Zhao L,Gu J,Zhao S,Ding Y,Liu L

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial blight of rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a devastating rice disease in Southeast Asia and West Africa. OsSWEET14, encoding a sugar transporter, is known to be a major susceptible gene of bacterial blight targeted by four different transcription activator-like (TAL) effector...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Zeng X,Luo Y,Vu NTQ,Shen S,Xia K,Zhang M

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distant hybridization is an important way to create interspecific genetic variation and breed new varieties in rice. A lot of backcross introgression lines (BILs) had been constructed for the scientific issues in rice. However, studies on the critical regulatory factor lncRNA in cultivated rice, wild rice an...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Li M,Cao A,Wang R,Li Z,Li S,Wang J

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold stress causes dynamic changes in gene expression that are partially caused by small non-coding RNAs since they regulate protein coding transcripts and act in epigenetic gene silencing pathways. Thus, a detailed analysis of transcriptional changes of small RNAs (sRNAs) belonging to all known sRNA classes...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Tiwari B,Habermann K,Arif MA,Weil HL,Garcia-Molina A,Kleine T,Mühlhaus T,Frank W

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is the most widespread RNA modification that plays roles in the regulation of genes and genome stability. YT521-B homology (YTH) domain-containing RNA-binding proteins are important RNA binding proteins that affect the fate of m6A-containing RNA by binding m6A. Little is known about ...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Sun J,Bie XM,Wang N,Zhang XS,Gao XQ

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABC1K (Activity of BC1 complex Kinase) is an evolutionarily primitive atypical kinase family widely distributed among prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The ABC1K protein kinases in Arabidopsis are predicted to localize either to the mitochondria or chloroplasts, in which plastid-located ABC1K proteins are involved...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Qin X,Duan Z,Zheng Y,Liu WC,Guo S,Botella JR,Song CP

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cunninghamia lanceolata (C. lanceolata) is the main fast-growing timber species in southern China. As an alternative to conventional lighting systems, LED has been demonstrated to be an artificial flexible lighting source for commercial micropropagation. The application of LED can provide rapid propagation o...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Xu Y,Yang M,Cheng F,Liu S,Liang Y

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abiotic stresses (e.g., heat or limited water and nutrient availability) limit crop production worldwide. With the progression of climate change, the severity and variation of these stresses are expected to increase. Exogenous silicon (Si) has shown beneficial effects on plant growth; however, its role in co...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Khan A,Khan AL,Imran M,Asaf S,Kim YH,Bilal S,Numan M,Al-Harrasi A,Al-Rawahi A,Lee IJ

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding of gravity sensing and response is critical to long-term human habitation in space and can provide new advantages for terrestrial agriculture. To this end, the altered gene expression profile induced by microgravity has been repeatedly queried by microarray and RNA-seq experiments to understand...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Kruse CPS,Meyers AD,Basu P,Hutchinson S,Luesse DR,Wyatt SE

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice is a chilling-sensitive crop that would suffer serious damage from low temperatures. Overexpression of the Lsi1 gene (Lsi1-OX) in rice enhances its chilling tolerance. This study revealed that a serine hydroxymethyltransferase (OsSHMT) mainly localised in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is involved in in...

journal_title：BMC plant biology

authors： Fang C,Zhang P,Li L,Yang L,Mu D,Yan X,Li Z,Lin W

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00