abstract：:RCT1 is a TIR-NBS-LRR-type resistance (R) gene in Medicago truncatula that confers resistance to multiple races of Colletotrichum trifolii, a hemi-biotrophic fungal pathogen that causes anthracnose disease in Medicago and other closely related legumes. RCT1 undergoes alternative splicing at both coding and 3'-untransl...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tang F,Yang S,Gao M,Zhu H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought is one of the critical factors limiting reproductive yields of rice and other crops globally. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism underlying reproductive development under drought stress in rice. To explore the potential gene function for improving rice reproductive development under drought...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Guo C,Ge X,Ma H

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-binding cassette transporters are involved in the active transport of a wide variety of metabolites in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. One subfamily, the Pleiotropic Drug Resistance (PDR) transporters, or full-size ABCG transporters, are found only in fungi and plants. NtPDR1 was originally identified in Nicotiana tab...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Crouzet J,Roland J,Peeters E,Trombik T,Ducos E,Nader J,Boutry M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor composed of NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC proteins. In this study, we identified and characterized a gene, GmNFYA3, which encodes the NF-YA subunit of the NF-Y complex in soybeans (Glycine max L.). Real time RT-PCR analysis indicated that GmNFYA3 was induced by...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ni Z,Hu Z,Jiang Q,Zhang H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of the Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) seed coat epidermal cells involves pronounced changes highlighted by the synthesis and secretion of copious amounts of dispensable, pectinaceous mucilage followed by a thick cellulosic secondary cell wall. This cell type, therefore, represents an excellent mole...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Esfandiari E,Jin Z,Abdeen A,Griffiths JS,Western TL,Haughn GW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants perceiving drought activate multiple responses to improve survival, including large-scale alterations in gene expression. This article reports on the roles in the drought response of two Arabidopsis thaliana homeodomain-leucine zipper class I genes; ATHB7 and ATHB12, both strongly induced by water-deficit and a...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Valdés AE,Overnäs E,Johansson H,Rada-Iglesias A,Engström P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) catalyze the oxidation of ortho-diphenols to the corresponding quinones (EC 1.10.3.1). In plants PPOs appear in gene families, and the corresponding isoenzymes are located to the thylakoid lumen of chloroplasts. Although plant PPOs are often discussed with regard to their role in defense rea...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Dirks-Hofmeister ME,Inlow JK,Moerschbacher BM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) act as negative regulators of gene expression by slicing target transcripts or inhibiting translation. A number of miRNAs play important roles in development. In order to investigate the potential function of miRNAs during male gametogenesis in rice, we obtained both gene and small RNA express...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Peng H,Chun J,Ai TB,Tong YA,Zhang R,Zhao MM,Chen F,Wang SH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves develop as flat lateral organs from the indeterminate shoot apical meristem. The establishment of polarity along three-dimensional axes, proximal-distal, medial-lateral, and adaxial-abaxial axes, is crucial for the growth of normal leaves. The mutations of ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) and AS2 of Arabidopsis thalian...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Nakagawa A,Takahashi H,Kojima S,Sato N,Ohga K,Cha BY,Woo JT,Nagai K,Horiguchi G,Tsukaya H,Machida Y,Machida C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodanese-domain proteins (RDPs) are widespread in plants and other organisms, but their biological roles are mostly unknown. Here we report on a novel RDP from Chlamydomonas that has a single rhodanese domain, and a predicted chloroplast transit peptide. The protein was produced in Escherichia coli with a His-tag, bu...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Luo L,Herrin DL

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactomannans are hemicellulosic polysaccharides composed of a (1 → 4)-linked β-D-mannan backbone substituted with single-unit (1 → 6)-α-linked D-galactosyl residues. Developing fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) seeds are known to accumulate large quantities of galactomannans in the endosperm, and were thus used ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Wang Y,Alonso AP,Wilkerson CG,Keegstra K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darjeeling teas are the highest grown teas in the world and preferred for its flavour, aroma and quality. Apart from the genetic makeup of the plant, earlier reports suggest that insect infestation, particularly jassids and thrips triggers the aroma and flavour formation in Darjeeling tea. The present work encompasses...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Gohain B,Borchetia S,Bhorali P,Agarwal N,Bhuyan LP,Rahman A,Sakata K,Mizutani M,Shimizu B,Gurusubramaniam G,Ravindranath R,Kalita MC,Hazarika M,Das S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-conglycinin, a major seed protein in soybean, is composed of α, α', and β subunits sharing a high homology among them. Despite its many health benefits, β-conglycinin has a lower amino acid score and lower functional gelling properties compared to glycinin, another major soybean seed protein. In addition, the α, α',...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Tsubokura Y,Hajika M,Kanamori H,Xia Z,Watanabe S,Kaga A,Katayose Y,Ishimoto M,Harada K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During flower development, pluripotent stem cells within the floral meristem give rise to proliferative precursor cells whose progeny eventually acquire specialized functions within each floral organ. The regulatory mechanisms by which plant cells transition from a proliferating state to a differentiated state are not...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Krizek BA,Eaddy M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator-like effectors (TALEs) are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria when they infect plants. TALEs contain a modular DNA binding domain that can be easily engineered to bind any sequence of interest, and have been used to provide user-selected DNA-binding modules to generate chimeric nucleas...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Mahfouz MM,Li L,Piatek M,Fang X,Mansour H,Bangarusamy DK,Zhu JK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.) is an economically important tree for its nut crop and timber. To gain insight into the structure and evolution of the walnut genome, we constructed two bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries, containing a total of 129,024 clones, from in vitro-grown shoots of J. regia cv. Ch...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Wu J,Gu YQ,Hu Y,You FM,Dandekar AM,Leslie CA,Aradhya M,Dvorak J,Luo MC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gametophytic apomictic plants form non-reduced embryo sacs that generate clonal embryos by parthenogenesis, in the absence of both meiosis and egg-cell fertilization. Here we report the sequence and expression analysis of a lorelei-like Paspalum notatum gene, n20gap-1, which encodes a GPI-anchored protein previously a...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Felitti SA,Seijo JG,González AM,Podio M,Laspina NV,Siena L,Ortiz JP,Pessino SC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere homeostasis is regulated at multiple levels, including the local chromatin structure of telomeres and subtelomeres. Recent reports demonstrated that a decrease in repressive chromatin marks, such as levels of cytosine methylation in subtelomeric regions, results in telomere elongation in mouse cells. Here we ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Majerová E,Fojtová M,Mozgová I,Bittová M,Fajkus J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and cost-effective conversion of plant biomass to usable forms of energy requires a thorough understanding of cell wall biosynthesis, modification and degradation. To elucidate these processes, we assessed the expression dynamics during enzymatic removal and regeneration of rice cell walls in suspension cell...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Sharma R,Tan F,Jung KH,Sharma MK,Peng Z,Ronald PC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hevea brasiliensis, being the only source of commercial natural rubber, is an extremely economically important crop. In an effort to facilitate biological, biochemical and molecular research in rubber biosynthesis, here we report the use of next-generation massively parallel sequencing technologies and de novo transcr...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Xia Z,Xu H,Zhai J,Li D,Luo H,He C,Huang X

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the transcriptional responses to flooding stress in roots including hypocotyl of soybean seedlings, genome-wide changes in gene expression were analyzed using a soybean microarray chip containing 42,034 60-mer oligonucleotide probes. More than 6,000 of flooding-responsive genes in the roots including hyp...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Nanjo Y,Maruyama K,Yasue H,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K,Komatsu S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, attempt has been made to produce a selected cultivar of tea with low-caffeine content using RNAi technology. The caffeine biosynthetic pathway in tea has been proposed to involve three N-methyltransferases such as xanthosine methyltransferase, 7-N-methylxanthine methyltransferase and 3, 7-dimethylxanthi...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Mohanpuria P,Kumar V,Ahuja PS,Yadav SK

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the chloroplast electron shuttle ferredoxin is induced by light through mechanisms that partially depend on sequences lying in the coding region of the gene, complicating its manipulation by promoter engineering. Ferredoxin expression is also down-regulated under virtually all stress situations, and it i...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ceccoli RD,Blanco NE,Medina M,Carrillo N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS), including superoxide anions, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals are generated through normal biochemical processes, but their production is increased by abiotic stresses. The prospects for enhancing ROS scavenging, and hence stress tolerance, by direct gene expression in a vulnerabl...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Poage M,Le Martret B,Jansen MA,Nugent GD,Dix PJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The constituents of plasma membrane proteins, particularly the integral membrane proteins, are closely associated with the differentiation of plant cells. Secondary vascular differentiation, which gives rise to the increase in plant stem diameter, is the key process by which the volume of the plant body grows. However...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Song D,Xi W,Shen J,Bi T,Li L

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live imaging during floral development revealed that expression of the DORNRÖSCHEN-LIKE (DRNL) gene encoding an AP2-like transcription factor, marks all organ founder cells. Transcription precedes the perception of auxin response maxima as measured by the DR5 reporter and is unaffected in early organogenesis, by mutat...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Chandler JW,Jacobs B,Cole M,Comelli P,Werr W

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate differentially expressed genes during the juvenile-to-adult phase transition of an early-flowering trifoliate orange mutant (precocious trifoliate orange, Poncirus trifoliata), suppression subtractive hybridization was performed. In total, 463 cDNA clones chosen by differential screening of 1,920 clones wer...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhang JZ,Ai XY,Sun LM,Zhang DL,Guo WW,Deng XX,Hu CG

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leaf undergoes determinate growth from a primordium on flank of the shoot apical meristem. Several intrinsic pathways restrict meristematic activity in the leaf of Arabidopsis; however, other factors remain to be defined. We report here that the overexpression of MINI ZINC FINGER1 (MIF1) or MIF3 disrupted the leaf d...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Hu W,Feng B,Ma H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) deficiency, a worldwide agricultural problem on calcareous soil with low Fe availability, is also a major human nutritional deficit. Plants induce Fe acquisition systems under conditions of low Fe availability. Previously, we reported that an Fe-deficiency-inducible basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcriptio...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Ogo Y,Itai RN,Kobayashi T,Aung MS,Nakanishi H,Nishizawa NK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality control system that identifies and eliminates transcripts having a premature translation termination codon (PTC). NMD is also involved in the control of several wild-type mRNAs. The NMD core machinery consists of three highly conserved NMD factors (UPF1, UPF2 ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Benkovics AH,Nyikó T,Mérai Z,Silhavy D,Bisztray GD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DORNRÖSCHEN (DRN) and DORNRÖSCHEN-LIKE (DRNL) encode AP2-domain transcription factors, which act redundantly in cotyledon organogenesis. A more detailed genetic study now integrates DRN and DRNL into the CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON (CUC) regulatory network and places DRN and DRNL differentially within the auxin signalling ne...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Chandler JW,Cole M,Jacobs B,Comelli P,Werr W

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidization has repeatedly occurred during plant evolution. Although autopolyploidy is the best model to characterize the polyploidization effects in a highly controlled manner, there are limited studies on autopolyploids compared to allopolyploids. To improve our understanding of autopolyploidy effects in maize,...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Yao H,Kato A,Mooney B,Birchler JA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APETALA2 (AP2) transcription factors (TFs) play very important roles in plant growth and development and in defense response. Here, we report functional characterization of four AP2 TF family genes [(RAP2.6 (At1g43160), RAP2.6L (At5g13330), DREB 26 (At1g21910) and DREB19 (At2g38340)] that were identified among NaCl in...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Krishnaswamy S,Verma S,Rahman MH,Kav NN

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tree crops have a long juvenile period which is a serious constraint for genetic improvement and experimental research. For example, apple remains in a juvenile phase for more than five years after seed germination. Here, we report about induction of rapid flowering in apple seedlings using the Apple latent spherical ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Yamagishi N,Sasaki S,Yamagata K,Komori S,Nagase M,Wada M,Yamamoto T,Yoshikawa N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library was constructed from the root tissues of cassava variety Huanan 124 at the root bulking stage. A total of 9,600 cDNA clones from the library were sequenced with single-pass from the 5'-terminus to establish a catalogue of expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Assembly of the resulting EST sequences resulted i...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Li YZ,Pan YH,Sun CB,Dong HT,Luo XL,Wang ZQ,Tang JL,Chen B

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandemly arrayed genes (TAGs) account for about one-third of the duplicated genes in eukaryotic genomes. They provide raw genetic material for biological evolution, and play important roles in genome evolution. The 22-kDa prolamin genes in cereal genomes represent typical TAG organization, and provide the good materia...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Zhou L,Huang B,Meng X,Wang G,Wang F,Xu Z,Song R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three genes that encode MAP65-1 family proteins have been identified in the Nicotiana tabacum genome. In this study, NtMAP65-1c fusion protein was shown to bind and bundle microtubules (MTs). Further in vitro investigations demonstrated that NtMAP65-1c not only alters MT assembly and nucleation, but also exhibits high...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Meng Q,Du J,Li J,Lü X,Zeng X,Yuan M,Mao T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A MADS-box gene was isolated using the suppressive subtractive hybridization library between early-flowering mutant and wild-type trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata L. Raf.). This gene is highly homologous with Arabidopsis SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP). Based on real-time PCR and in situ hybridization during bud di...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Li ZM,Zhang JZ,Mei L,Deng XX,Hu CG,Yao JL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methoxypyrazines (MPs) are volatile, grape-derived aroma compounds that contribute to the distinct herbaceous characters of some wines. Although the full pathway leading to MP production has not been elucidated, there is strong evidence that the final step involves the methylation of non-volatile hydroxypyrazine (HP) ...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Dunlevy JD,Soole KL,Perkins MV,Dennis EG,Keyzers RA,Kalua CM,Boss PK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many eukaryotic genomes have experienced ancient whole-genome duplication (WGD) followed by massive gene loss. These eliminations were not random since some gene families were preferentially retained as duplicates. The gene balance hypothesis suggests that those genes with dosage reduction can imbalance their interact...

journal_title：Plant molecular biology

authors： Creff A,Sormani R,Desnos T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00