abstract：:GALACTINOL SYNTHASE is the first committed enzyme in the raffinose biosynthetic pathway. We have previously characterized the maize (Zea mays) GALACTINOL SYNTHASE2 gene (ZmGOLS2) as abiotic stress induced. To further investigate the regulation of ZmGOLS2 gene expression, individual luciferase expression vectors,in whi...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Gu L,Zhang Y,Zhang M,Li T,Dirk LM,Downie B,Zhao T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenesis related-10 (PR-10) proteins are present as multigene family in most of the higher plants. The role of PR-10 proteins in plant is poorly understood. A sequence analysis revealed that a large number of PR-10 proteins possess conserved motifs found in aldo/keto reductases (AKRs) of yeast and fungi. We took t...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Jain D,Khandal H,Khurana JP,Chattopadhyay D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of auxin glucose conjugate is proposed to be one of the molecular modifications controlling auxin homeostasis. However, the involved mechanisms and relevant physiological significances are largely unknown or poorly understood. In this study, Arabidopsis UGT75D1 was at the first time identified to be an i...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhang GZ,Jin SH,Jiang XY,Dong RR,Li P,Li YJ,Hou BK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the post-genomic era, many useful tools have been developed to accelerate the investigation of gene functions. Fluorescent proteins have been widely used as protein tags for studying the subcellular localization of proteins in plants. Several fluorescent organelle marker lines have been generated in dicot plants; h...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Wu TM,Lin KC,Liau WS,Chao YY,Yang LH,Chen SY,Lu CA,Hong CY

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoglycoside antibiotic hygromycin B (Hyg) inhibits prokaryotic, chloroplast and mitochondrial protein synthesis. Because of the toxic effect of Hyg on plant cells, the HPT gene, encoding hygromycin phosphotransferase, has become one of the most widely used selectable markers in plant transformation. Yet the mec...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Oung HM,Lin KC,Wu TM,Chandrika NN,Hong CY

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The erectoides-m anthocyanin-less 1 (ert-m ant1) double mutants are among the very few examples of induced double mutants in barley. From phenotypic observations of mutant plants it is known that the Ert-m gene product regulates plant architecture whereas the Ant1 gene product is involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis. ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zakhrabekova S,Dockter C,Ahmann K,Braumann I,Gough SP,Wendt T,Lundqvist U,Mascher M,Stein N,Hansson M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we characterized the Arabidopsis ABI1 gene orthologue and Brassica napus gene paralogues encoding protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C, group A), which is known to be a negative regulator of the ABA signaling pathway. Six homologous B. napus sequences were identified and characterized as putative PP2C group A m...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Babula-Skowrońska D,Ludwików A,Cieśla A,Olejnik A,Cegielska-Taras T,Bartkowiak-Broda I,Sadowski J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chrysanthemum is one of popular flowers in the world and a host for several viruses. So far, molecular interaction studies between the chrysanthemum and viruses are limited. In this study, we carried out a transcriptome analysis of chrysanthemum in response to three different viruses including Cucumber mosaic viru...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Choi H,Jo Y,Lian S,Jo KM,Chu H,Yoon JY,Choi SK,Kim KH,Cho WK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast and mammals, prohibitins (PHBs) are considered as structural proteins that form a scaffold-like structure for interacting with a set of proteins involved in various processes occurring in the mitochondria. The role of PHB in plant mitochondria is poorly understood. In the study, the model organism Arabidopsis...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Piechota J,Bereza M,Sokołowska A,Suszyński K,Lech K,Jańska H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent protein kinases are involved in many crucial cellular processes and aspects of plant growth and development, but their precise roles in abiotic stress responses are largely unknown. Here, Arabidopsis thaliana CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE G2 (CDKG2) was shown to act as a negative regulator of the salinity s...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ma X,Qiao Z,Chen D,Yang W,Zhou R,Zhang W,Wang M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectin receptor-like kinases (LecRLKs) are members of RLK family composed of lectin-like extracellular recognition domain, transmembrane domain and cytoplasmic kinase domain. LecRLKs are plasma membrane proteins believed to be involved in signal transduction. However, most of the members of the protein family even in ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Vaid N,Pandey P,Srivastava VK,Tuteja N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast psbB operon includes five genes encoding photosystem II and cytochrome b 6 /f complex components. The psbN gene is located on the opposite strand. PsbN is localized in the thylakoid and is present even in the dark, although its level increases upon illumination and then decreases. However, the translat...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Kuroda H,Sugiura M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is one of the essential nutrient elements for plant development. In this work, BnPht1;4 gene, encoding a phosphate transporter of PHT1 family, was isolated from Brassica napus. BnPht1;4 possesses the major characteristic of PHT1 high-affinity Pi transporters in plants, such as plasma-membrane localizati...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ren F,Zhao CZ,Liu CS,Huang KL,Guo QQ,Chang LL,Xiong H,Li XB

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of Brassica napus leaf protoplasts induces reactive oxygen species generation and accumulation in the chloroplasts. An activated isoform of NADPH oxidase-like protein was detected in the protoplasts and the protoplast chloroplasts. The purpose of this study is to define the NADH oxidase-like activities i...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tewari RK,Satoh M,Kado S,Mishina K,Anma M,Enami K,Hanaoka M,Watanabe M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an important osmoprotectant, glycine betaine (GB) plays an essential role in resistance to abiotic stress in a variety of organisms, including rice (Oryza sativa L.). However, GB content is too low to be detectable in rice, although rice genome possesses several orthologs coding for betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tang W,Sun J,Liu J,Liu F,Yan J,Gou X,Lu BR,Liu Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing volume of genomic data on the Phaseolus vulgaris species have contributed to its importance as a model genetic species and positively affected the investigation of other legumes of scientific and economic value. To expand and gain a more in-depth knowledge of the common bean genome, the ends of a number...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Müller BS,Sakamoto T,de Menezes IP,Prado GS,Martins WS,Brondani C,de Barros EG,Vianello RP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between a protein and DNA is involved in almost all cellular functions, and is vitally important in cellular processes. Two complementary approaches are used to detect the interactions between a transcription factor (TF) and DNA, i.e. the TF-centered or protein-DNA approach, and the gene-centered or DN...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ji X,Wang L,Nie X,He L,Zang D,Liu Y,Zhang B,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of recent progress of high throughput transcriptome profiling technologies, extensive housekeeping gene mining has been conducted in humans. However, very few studies have been reported in maize (Zea mays L.), an important crop plant, and none were conducted on a genome -wide level. In this study, we surve...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Lin F,Jiang L,Liu Y,Lv Y,Dai H,Zhao H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the cloning of the SsCut gene encoding cutinase from Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. We isolated a 609-bp cDNA encoding a polypeptide of 202 amino acids with a molecular weight of 20.4 kDa. Heterologous expression of SsCut in Escherichia coli (His-SsCut) caused the formation of lesions in tobacco th...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhang H,Wu Q,Cao S,Zhao T,Chen L,Zhuang P,Zhou X,Gao Z

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sesame 2S albumin (2Salb) promoter was evaluated for its capacity to express the reporter gusA gene encoding β-glucuronidase in transgenic tobacco seeds relative to the soybean fad3C gene promoter element. Results revealed increased expression of gusA gene in tobacco seed tissue when driven by sesame 2S albumin pr...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Bhunia RK,Chakraborty A,Kaur R,Gayatri T,Bhattacharyya J,Basu A,Maiti MK,Sen SK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil contamination by hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI) or chromate] due to anthropogenic activities has become an increasingly important environmental problem. To date few studies have been performed to elucidate the signaling networks involved on adaptive responses to (CrVI) toxicity in plants. In this work, we report tha...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Martínez-Trujillo M,Méndez-Bravo A,Ortiz-Castro R,Hernández-Madrigal F,Ibarra-Laclette E,Ruiz-Herrera LF,Long TA,Cervantes C,Herrera-Estrella L,López-Bucio J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycine betaine (betaine) has the highest cellular osmoprotective efficiency which does not accumulate in most glycophytes. The biosynthetic pathway for betaine in higher plants is derived from the oxidation of low-accumulating metabolite choline that limiting the ability of most plants to produce betaine. Halophilic ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Lai SJ,Lai MC,Lee RJ,Chen YH,Yen HE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cells respond to cold stress via a regulatory mechanism leading to enhanced cold acclimation accompanied by growth retardation. The C-repeat binding factor (CBF) signaling pathway is essential for cold response of flowering plants. Our previously study documented a novel CBF-like gene from the cold-tolerant Caps...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhou M,Xu M,Wu L,Shen C,Ma H,Lin J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize, despite being thermophyllic due to its tropical origin, demonstrates high intraspecific diversity in cold-tolerance. To search for molecular mechanisms of this diversity, transcriptomic response to cold was studied in two inbred lines of contrasting cold-tolerance. Microarray analysis was followed by extensive ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Sobkowiak A,Jończyk M,Jarochowska E,Biecek P,Trzcinska-Danielewicz J,Leipner J,Fronk J,Sowiński P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocarp color of sand pear is an important trait for the fruit production and has caused our concern for a long time. Our previous study explored the different expression genes between the two genotypes contrasting for exocarp color, which indicated the different suberin, cutin, wax and lignin biosynthesis between the...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Wang YZ,Zhang S,Dai MS,Shi ZB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel Rab GTPase protein in Arabidopsis thaliana, CPRabA5e (CP = chloroplast localized) is located in chloroplasts and has a role in transport. Transient expression of CPRabA5e:EGFP fusion protein in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) leaves, and immunoblotting using Arabidopsis showed localization of CPRabA5e in chloropla...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Karim S,Alezzawi M,Garcia-Petit C,Solymosi K,Khan NZ,Lindquist E,Dahl P,Hohmann S,Aronsson H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically inducible gene switches can provide precise control over gene expression, enabling more specific analyses of gene function and expanding the plant biotechnology toolkit beyond traditional constitutive expression systems. The alc gene expression system is one of the most promising chemically inducible gene s...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Kinkema M,Geijskes RJ,Shand K,Coleman HD,De Lucca PC,Palupe A,Harrison MD,Jepson I,Dale JL,Sainz MB

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MYB transcription factors are a large family of proteins involved in the regulation of secondary metabolism and cell shape, the enhancement of disease resistance and the response to different stresses. In this study, the role of TaMYB4 in wheat against biotic and abiotic stresses was investigated. TaMYB4 was cloned fr...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Al-Attala MN,Wang X,Abou-Attia MA,Duan X,Kang Z

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) resistance gene N induces a hypersensitive response upon TMV infection and protects tobacco against systemic spread of the virus. It has been proposed to change disease resistance specificity by reprogramming the expression of resistance genes or their corresponding avirulence g...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Niemeyer J,Ruhe J,Machens F,Stahl DJ,Hehl R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine biosynthesis in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is highly regulated by jasmonic acid (JA). Two nuclear loci, A and B (renamed NIC1 and NIC2) have been identified that mediate JA-inducible nicotine formation and total alkaloid accumulation. NIC2 was recently shown to be a cluster of seven genes encoding Apetala...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Sears MT,Zhang H,Rushton PJ,Wu M,Han S,Spano AJ,Timko MP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bZIP transcription factor (TF) family plays an important role in the abscisic acid (ABA) signaling pathway of abiotic stress in plants. We here report the cloning and characterization of OsbZIP71, which encodes a rice bZIP TF. Functional analysis showed that OsbZIP71 is a nuclear-localized protein that specificall...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Liu C,Mao B,Ou S,Wang W,Liu L,Wu Y,Chu C,Wang X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice has developed several morphological and physiological strategies to adapt to phosphate starvation in the soil. In order to elucidate the molecular basis of response to phosphate starvation, we performed mRNA sequencing of 4 rice cultivars with variation in growth response to Pi starvation as indicated by the shoo...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Oono Y,Kawahara Y,Yazawa T,Kanamori H,Kuramata M,Yamagata H,Hosokawa S,Minami H,Ishikawa S,Wu J,Antonio B,Handa H,Itoh T,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant responses to abiotic stresses are coordinated by arrays of growth and developmental programs. Phytohormones such as abscisic acid (ABA) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) play critical roles in developmental progresses and environmental responses through complex signalling networks. However, crosstalk between the tw...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Du H,Wu N,Chang Y,Li X,Xiao J,Xiong L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon (Si) confers several benefits to many plant species when absorbed as silicic acid through nodulin 26-like intrinsic proteins (NIPs). The NIPs belong to major intrinsic protein (MIP) family, members of which form channels with high selectivity to control transport of water and different solutes. Here, comparati...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Deshmukh RK,Vivancos J,Guérin V,Sonah H,Labbé C,Belzile F,Bélanger RR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous study showed that the magnesium-protoporphyrin IX chelatase H subunit (CHLH/ABAR) positively regulates abscisic acid (ABA) signaling. Here, we investigated the functions of a CHLH/ABAR interaction protein, the chloroplast co-chaperonin 20 (CPN20) in ABA signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. We showed that down-e...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhang XF,Jiang T,Wu Z,Du SY,Yu YT,Jiang SC,Lu K,Feng XJ,Wang XF,Zhang DP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean is an important crop not only for human consumption but also for its addition of nitrogen to the soil during crop rotation. China has the largest collection of cultivated soybeans (Glycine max) and wild soybeans (Glycine soja) all over the world. The platform of soybean core, mini core and integrated applied c...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Qiu LJ,Xing LL,Guo Y,Wang J,Jackson SA,Chang RZ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant senescence syndrome resembles, in many molecular and phenotypic aspects, plant responses to abiotic stresses. Both processes have an enormous negative global agro-economic impact and endanger food security worldwide. Premature plant senescence is the main cause of losses in grain filling and biomass yield du...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Gepstein S,Glick BR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing is one of the post-transcriptional processes that commonly occur in plant plastids and mitochondria. In Arabidopsis, 34 C-to-U RNA editing events, affecting transcripts of 18 plastid genes, have been identified. Here, we examined the editing and expression of these transcripts in different organs, and in g...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tseng CC,Lee CJ,Chung YT,Sung TY,Hsieh MH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WRKY transcription factors are involved in various biological processes, such as development, metabolism and responses to stress. However, their exact roles in abiotic stress tolerance are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrated a working model for the function of a WRKY gene (ThWRKY4) from Tamarix hispida in the stres...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zheng L,Liu G,Meng X,Liu Y,Ji X,Li Y,Nie X,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) regulates the rate of fatty acid synthesis. This enzyme is composed of biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP), biotin carboxylase (BC), and carboxyltransferase (CT), which consists of α and β subunits. Among these components, CTβ is encoded by the plastidic genome. In Arabidop...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Fukuda N,Ikawa Y,Aoyagi T,Kozaki A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00