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Functional characterization of the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase CYP71AU87 indicates a role in marrubiin biosynthesis in the medicinal plant Marrubium vulgare

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) is a medicinal plant whose signature bioactive compounds, marrubiin and related furanoid diterpenoid lactones, have potential applications for the treatment of cardiovascular disease...

Authors: Prema S. Karunanithi, Puja Dhanota, J. Bennett Addison, Shen Tong, Oliver Fiehn and Philipp Zerbe

Fine-tuning of the flowering time control in winter barley: the importance of HvOS2 and HvVRN2 in non-inductive conditions

In winter barley plants, vernalization and photoperiod cues have to be integrated to promote flowering. Plant development and expression of different flowering promoter (HvVRN1, HvCO2, PPD-H1, HvFT1, HvFT3) and r...

Authors: Arantxa Monteagudo, Ernesto Igartua, Bruno Contreras-Moreira, M. Pilar Gracia, Javier Ramos, Ildikó Karsai and Ana M. Casas

Mal de Río Cuarto virus infection causes hormone imbalance and sugar accumulation in wheat leaves

Mal de Río Cuarto virus (MRCV) infects several monocotyledonous species including maize and wheat. Infected plants show shortened internodes, partial sterility, increased tillering and reduced root length. To ...

Authors: Luis Alejandro de Haro, Sofía Maité Arellano, Ondrej Novák, Regina Feil, Analía Delina Dumón, María Fernanda Mattio, Danuše Tarkowská, Gabriela Llauger, Miroslav Strnad, John Edward Lunn, Stephen Pearce, Carlos María Figueroa and Mariana del Vas

VvmiR160s/VvARFs interaction and their spatio-temporal expression/cleavage products during GA-induced grape parthenocarpy

Grape (Vitis vinifera) is highly sensitive to gibberellin (GA), which effectively induce grape parthenocarpy. Studies showed that miR160s and their target AUXIN RESPONSIVE FACTOR (ARF) responding hormones are ind...

Authors: Wenying Zhang, Mostafa Abdelrahman, Songtao Jiu, Le Guan, Jian Han, Ting Zheng, Haifeng Jia, Changnian Song, Jinggui Fang and Chen Wang

Genome-wide identification and analysis of the EIN3/EIL gene family in allotetraploid Brassica napus reveal its potential advantages during polyploidization

Polyploidization is a common event in the evolutionary history of angiosperms, and there will be some changes in the genomes of plants other than a simple genomic doubling after polyploidization. Allotetraploid B...

Authors: Mengdi Li, Ruihua Wang, Ziwei Liang, Xiaoming Wu and Jianbo Wang

Generation of a new thermo-sensitive genic male sterile rice line by targeted mutagenesis of TMS5 gene through CRISPR/Cas9 system

Two-line hybrid rice with high yield potential is increasingly popular and the photo- and temperature-sensitive male sterile line is one of the basic components for two-line hybrid rice breeding. The developme...

Authors: Hirendra Nath Barman, Zhonghua Sheng, Sajid Fiaz, Min Zhong, Yawen Wu, Yicong Cai, Wei Wang, Guiai Jiao, Shaoqing Tang, Xiangjin Wei and Peisong Hu

Nitric oxide synthase-mediated early nitric oxide burst alleviates water stress-induced oxidative damage in ammonium-supplied rice roots

Nutrition with ammonium (NH₄⁺) can enhance the drought tolerance of rice seedlings in comparison to nutrition with nitrate (NO₃⁻). However, there are still no detailed studies investigating the response of nitric...

Authors: Xiaochuang Cao, Chunquan Zhu, Chu Zhong, Junhua Zhang, Lianghuan Wu, Qianyu Jin and Qingxu Ma

Exogenous 2-(3,4-Dichlorophenoxy) triethylamine ameliorates the soil drought effect on nitrogen metabolism in maize during the pre-female inflorescence emergence stage

Nitrogen (N) metabolism plays an important role in plant drought tolerance. 2-(3,4-Dichlorophenoxy) triethylamine (DCPTA) regulates many aspects of plant development; however, the effects of DCPTA on soil drou...

Authors: Tenglong Xie, Wanrong Gu, Mingquan Wang, Liguo Zhang, Congfeng Li, Caifeng Li, Wenhua Li, Lijie Li and Shi Wei

Genome wide analysis of MADS-box gene family in Brassica oleracea reveals conservation and variation in flower development

MADS-box genes play important roles in vegetative growth and reproductive development and are essential for the correct development of plants (particularly inflorescences, flowers, and fruits). However, this g...

Authors: Xiao-Guang Sheng, Zhen-Qing Zhao, Jian-Sheng Wang, Hui-Fang Yu, Yu-Sen Shen, Xiao-Yuan Zeng and Hong-Hui Gu

Non-linear regression models for time to flowering in wild chickpea combine genetic and climatic factors

Accurate prediction of crop flowering time is required for reaching maximal farm efficiency. Several models developed to accomplish this goal are based on deep knowledge of plant phenology, requiring large inv...

Authors: Konstantin Kozlov, Anupam Singh, Jens Berger, Eric Bishop-von Wettberg, Abdullah Kahraman, Abdulkadir Aydogan, Douglas Cook, Sergey Nuzhdin and Maria Samsonova

Two NCA1 isoforms interact with catalase in a mutually exclusive manner to redundantly regulate its activity in rice

NCA1 (NO CATALASE ACTIVITY 1) was recently identified in Arabidopsis as a chaperone protein to regulate catalase (CAT) activity through maintaining the folding of CAT. The gene exists mainly in higher plants; som...

Authors: Jianzhe Liu, Lili Cui, Zongwang Xie, Zhisheng Zhang, Ee Liu and Xinxiang Peng

Ostkpr1 functions in anther cuticle development and pollen wall formation in rice

During pollen wall formation in flowering plants, a conserved metabolon consisting of acyl-CoA synthetase (ACOS), polyketide synthase (PKS) and tetraketide α-pyrone reductase (TKPR), is required for sporopolle...

Authors: Dawei Xu, Shuying Qu, Matthew R. Tucker, Dabing Zhang, Wanqi Liang and Jianxin Shi

A k-mer grammar analysis to uncover maize regulatory architecture

Only a small percentage of the genome sequence is involved in regulation of gene expression, but to biochemically identify this portion is expensive and laborious. In species like maize, with diverse intergeni...

Authors: María Katherine Mejía-Guerra and Edward S. Buckler

Elymus nutans genes for seed shattering and candidate gene-derived EST-SSR markers for germplasm evaluation

Elymus nutans and E. sibiricus are two important forage grasses of the genus Elymus. But they are difficult to grow for commercial seed production due to serious seed shattering. We conducted a comparative transc...

Authors: Yongqiang Zhao, Junchao Zhang, Zongyu Zhang and Wengang Xie

Deficiency of valencene in mandarin hybrids is associated with a deletion in the promoter region of the valencene synthase gene

Valencene is a major sesquiterpene in citrus oil and biosynthesized by valencene synthase (Cstps1; EC: 4.2.3.73) from the 15-carbon substrate farnesyl diphosphate. It is abundant in juice of some mandarins (e.g.

Authors: Qibin Yu, Ming Huang, Hongge Jia, Yuan Yu, Anne Plotto, Elizabeth A. Baldwin, Jinhe Bai, Nian Wang and Frederick G. Gmitter Jr

Identification and analysis of oxygen responsive microRNAs in the root of wild tomato (S. habrochaites)

MicroRNA (miRNA) are key players in regulating expression of target genes at post-transcriptional level. A number of miRNAs are implicated in modulating tolerance to various abiotic stresses. Waterlogging is a...

Authors: Yabing Hou, Fangling Jiang, Xiaolan Zheng and Zhen Wu

Comprehensive analysis of dynamic gene expression and investigation of the roles of hydrogen peroxide during adventitious rooting in poplar

Adventitious roots (ARs) are roots that are generated from nonrooting tissues. ARs are usually produced both during normal development and in response to stress conditions, such as flooding, nutrient deprivati...

Authors: Yan Zhang, Zheng’ang Xiao, Chang Zhan, Meifeng Liu, Wenxiu Xia and Nian Wang

Confirmation of Fusarium root rot resistance QTL Fsp-Ps 2.1 of pea under controlled conditions

Dry pea production has increased substantially in North America over the last few decades. With this expansion, significant yield losses have been attributed to an escalation in Fusarium root rots in pea field...

Authors: Clarice J. Coyne, Lyndon D. Porter, Gilles Boutet, Yu Ma, Rebecca J. McGee, Angélique Lesné, Alain Baranger and Marie-Laure Pilet-Nayel

Endoplasmic reticulum–localized UBC34 interaction with lignin repressors MYB221 and MYB156 regulates the transactivity of the transcription factors in Populus tomentosa

Regulation of lignin biosynthesis is known to occur at the level of transcription factors (TFs), of which R2R3-MYB family members have been proposed to play a central role via the AC cis-elements. Despite the imp...

Authors: Lin Zheng, Yajuan Chen, Dong Ding, Ying Zhou, Liping Ding, Jianhua Wei and Hongzhi Wang

Bayesian modeling of plant drought resistance pathway

Plants are sessile organisms and are unable to relocate to favorable locations under extreme environmental conditions. Hence they have no choice but to acclimate and eventually adapt to the severe conditions t...

Authors: Aditya Lahiri, Priyadharshini S. Venkatasubramani and Aniruddha Datta

A tiered approach to genome-wide association analysis for the adherence of hulls to the caryopsis of barley seeds reveals footprints of selection

Seeds of domesticated barley are grouped into two distinct types, which differ in morphology. Caryopses covered by adaxial (palea) and abaxial (lemma) hulls that tightly adhere to the pericarp at maturity give ri...

Authors: Celestine Wabila, Kerstin Neumann, Benjamin Kilian, Volodymyr Radchuk and Andreas Graner

Transcriptomic analysis reveals the regulatory module of apple (Malus × domestica) floral transition in response to 6-BA

Insufficient production of flower buds is an intractable problem in ‘Fuji’ apple orchards. Although cytokinin (CK) promotes flower bud formation in apple trees, little is known about the mechanisms regulating ...

Authors: Youmei Li, Dong Zhang, Na An, Sheng Fan, Xiya Zuo, Xin Zhang, Lizhi Zhang, Cai Gao, Mingyu Han and Libo Xing

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals significant differences in the regulation of gene expression between hydrogen cyanide- and ethylene-treated Arabidopsis thaliana

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a small gaseous molecule that is predominantly produced as an equimolar co-product of ethylene (ET) biosynthesis in plants. The function of ET is of great concern and is well studied;...

Authors: Lulu Yu, Yang Liu and Fei Xu

Transcriptomic profiling identifies differentially expressed genes associated with programmed cell death of nucellar cells in Ginkgo biloba L.

Previously, we demonstrated that pollen chamber formation (PCF) in G. biloba ovules was a process of programmed cell death (PCD) within the nucellar cells at the micropylar end. However, the signal triggering the...

Authors: Dahui Li, Di Wu, Shizhou Li, Ning Guo, Junshan Gao, Xu Sun and Yongping Cai

The role of protein-protein interactions mediated by the PB1 domain of NLP transcription factors in nitrate-inducible gene expression

NIN-LIKE PROTEIN (NLP) transcription factors are master regulators of nitrate-inducible gene expression in higher plants. NLP transcription factors contain a nitrate signal-responsive domain in the amino-termi...

Authors: Mineko Konishi and Shuichi Yanagisawa

A repeat region from the Brassica juncea HMA4 gene BjHMA4R is specifically involved in Cd²⁺ binding in the cytosol under low heavy metal concentrations

HMA4 transporters are involved in the transport and binding of divalent heavy metals (Cd, Zn, Pb [lead] and Co [cobalt]). In general, as efflux pumps, HMA4 transporters can increase the heavy metal tolerance o...

Authors: Jianwu Wang, Shuang Liang, Weiwei Xiang, Huiping Dai, Yizhong Duan, Furen Kang and Tuanyao Chai

Transcriptome analysis reveals regulatory framework for salt and osmotic tolerance in a succulent xerophyte

Zygophyllum xanthoxylum is a succulent xerophyte with remarkable tolerance to diverse abiotic stresses. Previous studies have revealed important physiological mechanisms and identified functional genes associated...

Authors: Hongju Yin, Mengzhan Li, Dingding Li, Sardar-Ali Khan, Shelley R. Hepworth and Suo-Min Wang

The genetic architecture of phosphorus efficiency in sorghum involves pleiotropic QTL for root morphology and grain yield under low phosphorus availability in the soil

Phosphorus (P) fixation on aluminum (Al) and iron (Fe) oxides in soil clays restricts P availability for crops cultivated on highly weathered tropical soils, which are common in developing countries. Hence, P ...

Authors: Karine C. Bernardino, Maria Marta Pastina, Cícero B. Menezes, Sylvia M. de Sousa, Laiane S. Maciel, Geraldo Carvalho Jr, Claudia T. Guimarães, Beatriz A. Barros, Luciano da Costa e Silva, Pedro C. S. Carneiro, Robert E. Schaffert, Leon V. Kochian and Jurandir V. Magalhaes

GmBZL3 acts as a major BR signaling regulator through crosstalk with multiple pathways in Glycine max

Brassinosteroids (BRs) play a crucial role in plant vegetative growth and reproductive development. The transcription factors BZR1 and BES1/BZR2 are well characterized as downstream regulators of the BR signal...

Authors: Li Song, Wei Chen, Biao Wang, Qiu-Ming Yao, Babu Valliyodan, Ming-Yi Bai, Ming-Zhe Zhao, Heng Ye, Zhi-Yong Wang and Henry T. Nguyen

The MYB transcription factor PbMYB12b positively regulates flavonol biosynthesis in pear fruit

As a class of natural antioxidants in plants, fruit flavonol metabolites are beneficial to human health. However, the regulatory networks for flavonol biosynthesis in most fruits are largely unknown. Previousl...

Authors: Rui Zhai, Yingxiao Zhao, Meng Wu, Jie Yang, Xieyu Li, Hanting Liu, Ting Wu, Fangfang Liang, Chengquan Yang, Zhigang Wang, Fengwang Ma and Lingfei Xu

Genome-wide investigation of the AP2/ERF gene family in tartary buckwheat (Fagopyum Tataricum)

AP2/ERF transcription factors perform indispensable functions in various biological processes, such as plant growth, development, biotic and abiotic stresses responses. The AP2/ERF transcription factor family has...

Authors: Moyang Liu, Wenjun Sun, Zhaotang Ma, Tianrun Zheng, Li Huang, Qi Wu, Gang Zhao, Zizhong Tang, Tongliang Bu, Chenglei Li and Hui Chen

Root enhancement in cytokinin-deficient oilseed rape causes leaf mineral enrichment, increases the chlorophyll concentration under nutrient limitation and enhances the phytoremediation capacity

Cytokinin is a negative regulator of root growth, and a reduction of the cytokinin content or signalling causes the formation a larger root system in model plants, improves their growth under drought and nutri...

Authors: Erika Nehnevajova, Eswarayya Ramireddy, Andrea Stolz, Maria Gerdemann-Knörck, Ondřej Novák, Miroslav Strnad and Thomas Schmülling

Comparative transcriptome analyses on terpenoids metabolism in field- and mountain-cultivated ginseng roots

There exist differences in morphological traits and phytochemical compositions between field- and mountain-cultivated Panax ginseng (FCG and MCG), which might be attributed to variations of terpenoids metabolism ...

Authors: Hang Fan, Ke Li, Fan Yao, Liwei Sun and Yujun Liu

Developmental changes in collenchyma cell-wall polysaccharides in celery (Apium graveolens L.) petioles

Collenchyma cells occur widely in eudicotyledons and provide mechanical support for growing organs. At maturity, the cells are elongated and have thick, non-lignified walls, which in celery contain cellulose a...

Authors: Da Chen, Laurence D. Melton, Zoran Zujovic and Philip J. Harris

RNA-Seq reveals new DELLA targets and regulation in transgenic GA-insensitive grapevines

Gibberellins (GAs) and their regulator DELLA are involved in many aspects of plant growth and development and most of our current knowledge in the DELLA-facilitated GA signaling was obtained from the studies o...

Authors: Jie Arro, Yingzhen Yang, Guo-Qing Song and Gan-Yuan Zhong

High-resolution DNA methylome reveals that demethylation enhances adaptability to continuous cropping comprehensive stress in soybean

Continuous cropping stress involves such factors as biological barriers, allelopathic autotoxicity, deterioration of soil physicochemical properties, and soil fertility imbalance and is regarded as a kind of c...

Authors: Xilong Liang, Xue Hou, Jianying Li, Yiqiang Han, Yuxian Zhang, Naijie Feng, Jidao Du, Wenhui Zhang, Dianfeng Zheng and Shumei Fang

Inferring the regulatory network of the miRNA-mediated response to biotic and abiotic stress in melon

MiRNAs have emerged as key regulators of stress response in plants, suggesting their potential as candidates for knock-in/out to improve stress tolerance in agricultural crops. Although diverse assays have bee...

Authors: Alejandro Sanz-Carbonell, María Carmen Marques, Antonio Bustamante, Mario A. Fares, Guillermo Rodrigo and Gustavo Gomez

Molecular cytogenetic analysis of genome-specific repetitive elements in Citrus clementina Hort. Ex Tan. and its taxonomic implications

Clementine mandarin (Citrus clementina Hort. ex Tan.) is one of the most famous and widely grown citrus cultivars worldwide. Variations in relation to the composition and distribution of repetitive DNA sequences ...

Authors: Honghong Deng, Suqiong Xiang, Qigao Guo, Weiwei Jin, Zexi Cai and Guolu Liang

Responses of reactive oxygen species and methylglyoxal metabolisms to magnesium-deficiency differ greatly among the roots, upper and lower leaves of Citrus sinensis

Magnesium (Mg)-deficiency is one of the most prevalent physiological disorders causing a reduction in Citrus yield and quality. ‘Xuegan’ (Citrus sinensis) seedlings were irrigated for 16 weeks with nutrient solut...

Authors: Yan-Tong Cai, Han Zhang, Yi-Ping Qi, Xin Ye, Zeng-Rong Huang, Jiu-Xin Guo, Li-Song Chen and Lin-Tong Yang

Isolation and functional validation of the CmLOX08 promoter associated with signalling molecule and abiotic stress responses in oriental melon, Cucumis melo var. makuwa Makino

Lipoxygenases (LOXs) play significant roles in abiotic stress responses, and identification of LOX gene promoter function can make an important contribution to elucidating resistance mechanisms. Here, we cloned t...

Authors: Chenghui Wang, Ge Gao, Songxiao Cao, Qunjie Xie and Hongyan Qi

Plant biology research at BGRS-2018

Authors: Yuriy L. Orlov, Elena A. Salina, Gilda Eslami and Alex V. Kochetov

Characterization of a dominant mutation for the liguleless trait: Aegilops tauschii liguleless (Lg^t)

Leaves of Poaceae have a unique morphological feature: they consist of a proximal sheath and a distal blade separated by a ligular region. The sheath provides structural support and protects young developing l...

Authors: Alina E. Dresvyannikova, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Alexander F. Muterko, Alexander A. Krasnikov, Nikolay P. Goncharov and Oxana B. Dobrovolskaya

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) response to non-optimal soil acidity and zinc deficiency

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is grown for fiber and seed production. Unfavorable environments, such as nutrient deficiency and non-optimal soil acidity, decrease the quantity and quality of yield. Cultivation of...

Authors: Alexey A. Dmitriev, George S. Krasnov, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Alexander V. Zyablitsin, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Maria S. Fedorova, Elena N. Pushkova, Parfait Kezimana, Roman O. Novakovskiy, Liubov V. Povkhova, Marina I. Smirnova, Olga V. Muravenko, Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Anna V. Kudryavtseva and Nataliya V. Melnikova

The evolution of gene regulatory networks controlling Arabidopsis thaliana L. trichome development

The variation in structure and function of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) participating in organisms development is a key for understanding species-specific evolutionary strategies. Even the tiniest modificat...

Authors: Alexey V. Doroshkov, Dmitrii K. Konstantinov, Dmitrij A. Afonnikov and Konstantin V. Gunbin

Purple-grained barley (Hordeum vulgare L.): marker-assisted development of NILs for investigating peculiarities of the anthocyanin biosynthesis regulatory network

Anthocyanins are plants secondary metabolites important for plant adaptation to severe environments and potentially beneficial to human health. Purple colour of barley grain is caused by the pigments synthesiz...

Authors: Elena I. Gordeeva, Anastasiya Yu. Glagoleva, Tatjana V. Kukoeva, Elena K. Khlestkina and Olesya Yu. Shoeva

Characterization of the mitochondrial genome of the MAX1 type of cytoplasmic male-sterile sunflower

More than 70 cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) types have been identified in Helianthus, but only for less than half of them, research of mitochondrial organization has been conducted. Moreover, complete mitochond...

Authors: Maksim S. Makarenko, Alexander V. Usatov, Tatiana V. Tatarinova, Kirill V. Azarin, Maria D. Logacheva, Vera A. Gavrilova and Renate Horn

Myc-like transcriptional factors in wheat: structural and functional organization of the subfamily I members

Myc-like regulatory factors carrying the basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) domain belong to a large superfamily of transcriptional factors (TFs) present in all eukaryotic kingdoms. In plants, the representatives o...

Authors: Ksenia V. Strygina and Elena K. Khlestkina

An update to database TraVA: organ-specific cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana

Transcriptome map is a powerful tool for a variety of biological studies; transcriptome maps that include different organs, tissues, cells and stages of development are currently available for at least 30 plan...

Authors: Anna V. Klepikova, Ivan V. Kulakovskiy, Artem S. Kasianov, Maria D. Logacheva and Aleksey A. Penin

Co-expression of SpSOS1 and SpAHA1 in transgenic Arabidopsis plants improves salinity tolerance

Na⁺ extrusion from cells is important for plant growth in high saline environments. SOS1 (salt overly sensitive 1), an Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter located in the plasma membrane (PM), functions in toxic Na⁺ extrusion from ...

Authors: Yafei Fan, Xiaochang Yin, Qing Xie, Youquan Xia, Zhenyu Wang, Jie Song, Yang Zhou and Xingyu Jiang

Identification and expression analysis of strigolactone biosynthetic and signaling genes reveal strigolactones are involved in fruit development of the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

The development and ripening of fresh fruits is an important trait for agricultural production and fundamental research. Almost all plant hormones participate in this process. Strigolactones (SLs) are a new cl...

Authors: Han Wu, Huihui Li, Hong Chen, Qi Qi, Qiangqiang Ding, Juan Xue, Jing Ding, Xiangning Jiang, Xilin Hou and Yi Li