abstract：:Linalool (3,7-dimethyl-1,6-octadien-3-ol) is a common floral volatile with two distinct enantiomers and related metabolites involved in the full spectrum of plant-pollinator interactions. Recent studies reveal a complex interplay between pollinator attraction and plant defense mediated by linalool and its derivatives,...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Raguso RA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colour change in flowers (with age and/or after pollination) is taxonomically widespread, has evolved repeatedly, and has a range of putative selective benefits linked to modifying pollinator behaviour; however, this phenomenon seems paradoxically uncommon. We explore this paradox by reviewing the empirical evidence a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ruxton GD,Schaefer HM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorespiratory limitations on C3 photosynthesis are substantial in warm, low CO2 conditions. To compensate, certain plants evolved mechanisms to actively concentrate CO2 around Rubisco using ATP-supported CO2 pumps such as C4 photosynthesis. Plants can also passively accumulate CO2 without additional ATP expenditure...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sage RF,Khoshravesh R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-seq, the measurement of steady-state RNA levels by next generation sequencing, has enabled quantitative transcriptome analyses of complex traits in many species without requiring the parallel sequencing of their genomes. The complex trait of C4 photosynthesis, which increases photosynthetic efficiency via a bioche...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schlüter U,Denton AK,Bräutigam A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent activities to improve photosynthetic performance in crop plants has focused mainly on C3 photosynthesis where there are clear identified targets such as improving Rubisco kinetics, installation of a CO2 concentrating mechanism and alleviating limitations in chloroplast electron transport. Here we address strate...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： von Caemmerer S,Furbank RT

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a ubiquitous feature of plant genomes, contributing to variation in both genome size and gene content. Although polyploidy has occurred in all major clades of land plants, it is most frequent in angiosperms. Following a WGD in the common ancestor of all extant angiospe...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Soltis PS,Soltis DE

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization is an important life event for sexually reproductive plants. Part of this process involves precise regulation of a series of complicated cell-cell communications between male and female tissues. Through genetic and omics approaches, many genes and proteins involved in this process have been identified. H...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kanaoka MM,Higashiyama T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parent-of-origin dependent gene expression refers to differential activity of alleles inherited from the egg and sperm. In plants, zygotic genome activation (ZGA) and gene imprinting are two examples of this phenomenon, both of which occur during seed development. As its name implies, ZGA is a genome-wide process that...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： García-Aguilar M,Gillmor CS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant senescence is a natural phenomenon known for the appearance of beautiful autumn colors and the ripening of cereals in the field. Senescence is a controlled process that plants utilize to remobilize nutrients from source leaves to developing tissues. While during the past decades, molecular components underlying ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Schippers JH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) are the most widespread and important symbionts of plants. They cannot be cultured without plants, are apparently asexual, and have multiple nuclei in a common cytoplasm. There is evidence for genetic variation among nuclei, and for segregation of this variation during grow...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Young JP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of fungal hyphae is guided by a variety of chemical gradients, including nutrients, mating pheromones or host compounds. Over 100 years after chemotropism was first reported in fungus-plant interactions, our knowledge on the host signals, fungal receptors and cellular pathways is still rudimentary. Genetic anal...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Turrà D,Di Pietro A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch is one of the major sinks of fixed carbon in photosynthetic tissues of higher plants. Carbon fixation and the synthesis of primary starch occur during the day in the chloroplast stroma, whereas starch degradation typically occurs during the following night to fuel the whole plant with energy and carbon in the a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Santelia D,Trost P,Sparla F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for plants that is available in agricultural soils mainly as macronutrients in the form of nitrate and ammonium. Interplay between high-affinity and low-affinity transporters ensures efficient uptake from the soil even under highly fluctuating N availability. After uptake, N assimi...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Krapp A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of genotype-to-phenotype associations is central to many scientific investigations, yet the ability to obtain consistent results may be thwarted without appropriate statistical analyses. Models for association can consider confounding effects in the materials and complex genetic interactions. Selecting ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lipka AE,Kandianis CB,Hudson ME,Yu J,Drnevich J,Bradbury PJ,Gore MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of plant dynamics under fluctuating natural environments is a challenging goal in plant physiology. Recently, using a computer statistics integrating a series of transcriptome data of field-grown rice leaves during an entire crop season and several corresponding environmental data such as solar radiation a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Izawa T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has enabled the decoding of many crop species genomes, most of the underlying genetic components for economically important crop traits remain to be determined. Network approaches have proven useful for the study of the reference plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and the...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lee T,Kim H,Lee I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific subsets of microbes are capable of assembly into plant-associated communities that influence the fitness of both the host and the microbes. While there is a large spectrum of plant phenotypes cause by microbes, the microbial community members benefit from living in protected and nutrient rich plant-associated...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lebeis SL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and development of plants are driven by the continuous production of new cells at the meristems; hence, it is of pivotal importance for plants to precisely regulate the timing and extent of cell proliferation. Although over the past decades the molecular components underlying cell cycle progression have been th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Polyn S,Willems A,De Veylder L

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell development and growth are determined by the expansion pattern of the cell wall, a matrix of mixed polysaccharide polymers and proteins. To understand the different roles of these polymers in the regulation of the morphogenetic process, their spatial dynamics need to be monitored over time. Recent developme...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Altartouri B,Geitmann A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, the intercellular transport of simple and complex molecules can occur symplastically through plasmodesmata. These are membranous channels embedded in cell walls that connect neighbouring cells. The properties of the cell walls surrounding plasmodesmata determine their transport capacity and permeability. Th...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Knox JP,Benitez-Alfonso Y

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants use robust mechanisms to optimize organ size to prevailing conditions. Modulating the transition from cell division to elongation dramatically affects morphology and size. Although it is well established that auxin, cytokinin and brassinosteroid mediate these transitions, recent works show that the cytoskeleton...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ruan Y,Wasteneys GO

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hormonal and environmental signals regulate common cellular and developmental processes in plants. While the molecular pathways that transduce these signals have each been studied in detail, how these pathways are wired into regulatory networks to provide the coordinated responses has remained an outstanding ques...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang W,Bai MY,Wang ZY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous peptide ligand-receptor systems regulate cell-cell communications in various developmental processes in plants. Recent studies have revealed that the peptide-receptor combinations are not simply one-on-one with single roles. One peptide activates multiple downstream signaling through different receptors, wh...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Endo S,Betsuyaku S,Fukuda H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms play essential roles in almost every environment on earth. For instance, microbes decompose organic material, or establish symbiotic relationships that range from pathogenic to mutualistic. Symbiotic relationships have been particularly well studied for microbial plant pathogens and have emphasized the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Rovenich H,Boshoven JC,Thomma BP

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platforms for the development of synthetic chromosomes in plants have been produced in several species using telomere mediated chromosomal truncation with the simultaneous inclusion of sites that facilitate further additions to the newly generated minichromosome. By utilizing truncated supernumerary or B chromosomes, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Birchler JA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the speed and accuracy of genome sequencing improves, there are ever-increasing resources available for the design and construction of synthetic DNA parts. These can be used to engineer plant genomes to produce new functions or to elucidate the function of endogenous sequences. Until recently the assembly of amplif...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Patron NJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in DNA targeting allow unprecedented control over gene function and expression. Targeting based on TAL effectors is arguably the most promising for systems biology and metabolic engineering. Multiple, orthogonal TAL-effector reagents of different types can be used in the same cell. Furthermore, variati...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bogdanove AJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Acanthaceae, Apocynaceae, Bignoniaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Gentianaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Loasaceae, Loganiaceae, Oleaceae, Plantaginaceae, Rubiaceae, Saxifragaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Valerianaceae, and Verbenaceae plant families are well known to accumulate thousands of bioactive iridoids/secoiridoids...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： De Luca V,Salim V,Thamm A,Masada SA,Yu F

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowers of the lower eudicot Aquilegia (columbine) possess morphological innovations, namely elaborate petal spurs and a fifth distinct organ identity, the staminodium, that are well suited to the investigation of key questions in developmental evolution. The recent evolution of these characteristics combined with a g...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sharma B,Yant L,Hodges SA,Kramer EM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meristems are centers of cell proliferation with a defined internal structure that is dynamically perpetuated throughout a plant's life although its constituent cells constantly change. When progressing from stem cell state towards differentiation, individual cells adopt developmental programs according to their curre...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Holt AL,van Haperen JM,Groot EP,Laux T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the eukaryotic world, kinesins serve as molecular motors for the directional transport of cellular cargo along microtubule tracks. Plants contain a large number of kinesins that have conserved as well as specialized functions. These functions depend on mechanisms that regulate when, where and what kinesins ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ganguly A,Dixit R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that the orientation of the plane of cell division highly depends on cell geometry in plants. However, the related molecular mechanism remains largely unknown. Recent data in animal systems highlight the role of the cytoskeleton response to mechanical stress in this process. Interestingly, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Louveaux M,Hamant O

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karrikins are butenolides in smoke and char that stimulate seed germination. Karrikin action in Arabidopsis requires the F-box protein MAX2 and the α/β-hydrolase KAI2, a paralogue of D14 that is required for perception of strigolactones (SL). SL response involves hydrolysis by D14, whereas karrikins bind to KAI2 witho...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Waters MT,Scaffidi A,Flematti GR,Smith SM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-lined channels called plasmodesmata (PD) connect the cytoplasts of adjacent plant cells across the cell wall, permitting intercellular movement of small molecules, proteins, and RNA. Recent genetic screens for mutants with altered PD transport identified genes suggesting that chloroplasts play crucial roles i...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Brunkard JO,Runkel AM,Zambryski PC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-infecting viruses cause significant crop losses around the world and the majority of emerging threats to crop production have a viral etiology. Significant progress has been made and continues to be made in understanding how viruses induce disease and overcome some forms of resistance-particularly resistance bas...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Palukaitis P,Groen SC,Carr JP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a type of pathogen-induced broad-spectrum resistance in plants. During SAR, primary infection-induced rapid generation and transportation of mobile signal(s) 'prepare' the rest of the plant for subsequent infections. Several, seemingly unrelated, mobile chemical inducers of SAR ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kachroo A,Robin GP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Border cells and border-like cells are released from the root tip as individual cells and small aggregates, or as a group of attached cells. These are viable components of the root system that play a key role in controlling root interaction with living microbes of the rhizosphere. As their separation from root tip pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Driouich A,Follet-Gueye ML,Vicré-Gibouin M,Hawes M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen considerable advances in our understanding of the particular physiological roles of the constituent enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Despite acquiring a fairly comprehensive overview of the functional importance of these proteins relatively little is known concerning how this impor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Nunes-Nesi A,Araújo WL,Obata T,Fernie AR

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both high and low extremes in precipitation increasingly impact agricultural productivity and sustainability as a consequence of global climate change. Elucidation of the genetic basis underlying stress tolerance facilitates development of new rice varieties with enhanced tolerance. Submergence tolerance is conferred ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fukao T,Xiong L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When plants encounter adverse environmental conditions, they often respond by modifying their growth patterns. This growth response tunes morphogenesis with environmental demands and allows plants to prioritize stress response over growth. The underlying molecular mechanism involves an active reprogramming of cell pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Rymen B,Sugimoto K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00