Citation Impact
3.497 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.494 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.372 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.485 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
1,810,083 Downloads
1645 Altmetric Mentions
Page 1 of 87
Transcriptomic studies combined with a well annotated genome have laid the foundations for new understanding of molecular processes. Tools which visualise gene expression patterns have further added to these r...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:121
Salinity is an important global problem with destructive impacts on plants leading to different biochemical and metabolic changes in plants through induced oxidative stress that disturbs metabolism, growth, pe...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:120
Rheum tanguticum (Rh. tanguticum) is an important traditional Chinese medicine plant, “Dahuang”, which contains productive metabolites and occupies wide habitats on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Plants occupying wid...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:119
Maize (Zea mays) ear length, which is an important yield component, exhibits strong heterosis. Understanding the potential molecular mechanisms of ear-length heterosis is critical for efficient yield-related bree...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:118
Plant height is an important plant characteristic closely related to yield performance of many crops. Reasonable reduction of plant height of crops is beneficial for improving yield and enhancing lodging resis...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:117
Little information is available on the application of marker-trait association (MTA) analysis for traits related to drought tolerance in smooth bromegrass. The objectives of this study were to identify marker ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:116
Cotton stem trichomes and seed fibers are each single celled structures formed by protrusions of epidermal cells, and were found sharing the overlapping molecular mechanism. Compared with fibers, cotton stem t...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:115
The tomato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli Šulc (Hemiptera: Triozidae), is a pest of solanaceous crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in the U.S. and vectors the disease-causing pathogen ‘Candidatus Lib...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:114
Recent studies indicate that amylase-trypsin inhibitors (ATIs) and certain carbohydrates referred to as FODMAPs (fermentable oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols) play an important role in promoting wheat ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:113
Abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in plant abiotic stress responses, and ABA INSENSITIVE 4 (ABI4) is a pivotal transcription factor in the ABA signaling pathway. In Arabidopsis, ABI4 negatively regulate...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:112
Over the life cycle of perennial trees, the dormant state enables the avoidance of abiotic stress conditions. The growth cycle can be partitioned into induction, maintenance and release and is controlled by co...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:111
The Late Embryogenesis-Abundant (LEA) gene families, which play significant roles in regulation of tolerance to abiotic stresses, widely exist in higher plants. Poplar is a tree species that has important ecol...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:110
Fabaceae plants appear to contain larger numbers of subclade IVa basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors than other plant families, and some members of this subclade have been identified as saponin...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:109
Mango, Mangifera indica L., an important tropical fruit crop, is grown for its sweet and aromatic fruits. Past improvement of this species has predominantly relied on chance seedlings derived from over 1000 culti...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:108
Chromosomal variants play important roles in crop breeding and genetic research. The development of single-stranded oligonucleotide (oligo) probes simplifies the process of fluorescence in situ hybridization (...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:107
Photosystem II (PSII) is a highly conserved integral-membrane multi-subunit pigment-protein complex. The proteins, pigments, lipids, and ions in PSII need to be assembled precisely to ensure a proper PSII biog...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:106
Chrysanthemum morifolium is one of the most popular ornamental crops. The capitulum, which is the main ornamental part of chrysanthemum plants, consists of ligulate marginal ray florets, an attractive corolla (pe...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:105
Taxol is an efficient anticancer drug accumulated in Taxus species. Pseudotaxus chienii is an important member of Taxaceae, however, the level of six taxoids in P. chienii is largely unknown.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:104
The overall genetic distribution and divergence of cloned genes among bread wheat varieties that have occurred during the breeding process over the past few decades in Ningxia Province, China, are poorly under...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:103
Gossypium hirsutum L. (cotton) is one of the most economically important crops in the world due to its significant source of fiber, feed, foodstuff, oil and biofuel products. However, the utilization of cottonsee...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:102
Male sterility (MS) has important applications in hybrid seed production, and the abortion of anthers has been observed in many plant species. While most studies have focused on the genetic factors affecting m...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:101
Methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) proteins play important roles in epigenetic gene regulation, and have diverse molecular, cellular, and biological functions in plants. MBD proteins have been functionally charac...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:100
Nitrogen fertilization is known to increase disease susceptibility, a phenomenon called Nitrogen-Induced Susceptibility (NIS). In rice, this phenomenon has been observed in infections with the blast fungus Magnap...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:99
Plants have remarkable diversity in petal colour through the biosynthesis and accumulation of various pigments. To better understand the mechanisms regulating petal pigmentation in Lonicera japonica, we used mult...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:98
Banana is a tropical fruit with a high economic impact worldwide. Cold stress greatly affects the development and production of banana.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:97
Assessment and effective utilization of genetic diversity in breeding programs is crucial for sustainable genetic improvement and rapid adaptation to changing breeding objectives. During the past two decades, ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:96
Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is globally used as a fodder plant due its high nutritional value and soil improving qualities. In response to mowing, red clover exhibits specific morphological traits to compensa...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:95
Acyl-CoA-binding proteins (ACBPs) possess a conserved acyl-CoA-binding (ACB) domain that facilitates binding to acyl-CoA esters and trafficking in eukaryotic cells. Although the various functions of ACBP have ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:94
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in essential biological processes. However, our understanding of lncRNAs as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) and their responses to nitrogen stress is still...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:93
Fruit abscission depends on cell separation that occurs within specialized cell layers that constitute an abscission zone (AZ). To determine the mechanisms of fleshy fruit abscission of the monocot oil palm (Elae...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:92
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:91
Monochasma savatieri is a medicinal root hemiparasitic herb that extracts water and nutrients from the host plant via a haustorium. M. savatieri exhibits an enhanced growth after the establishment of parasite-hos...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:90
Dirigent (DIR) proteins mediate regioselectivity and stereoselectivity during lignan biosynthesis and are also involved in lignin, gossypol and pterocarpan biosynthesis. This gene family plays a vital role in ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:89
Fruit abortion is a major limiting factor for fruit production. In flat peach, fruit abortion is present in the whole tree of some accessions during early fruit development. However, the physiological factors ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:88
The nitrogen-containing polysaccharide chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer on earth and is found in the cell walls of diatoms, where it serves as a scaffold for biosilica deposition. Diatom chitin is...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:87
The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors play important roles in many processes in plant growth, metabolism and responses to abiotic stresses. Although, the sequence of Chinese white pear genome...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:86
Rice plants suffer from the rising temperature which is becoming more and more prominent. Mining heat-resistant genes and applying them to rice breeding is a feasible and effective way to solve the problem.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:85
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:84
Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) is an important enzyme functions at the last step in lignin monomer synthesis pathway. Our previous work found that drought induced the expressions of CmCAD genes and promoted...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:83
Fusarium crown rot is major disease in wheat. However, the wheat defense mechanisms against this disease remain poorly understood.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:82
Calcium (Ca2+) plays an important role in plant growth and development, and the maintenance of calcium homeostasis is necessary for the survival of all plant species. Ca2+/H+ exchangers (CAXs) are a subgroup of t...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:81
As important forest tree species, biological stress and soil salinization are important factors that restrict the growth of Populus × euramericana. WRKYs are important transcription factors in plants that can reg...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:80
MADS-box transcription factors (TFs) are the key regulators of multiple developmental processes in plants; among them, a chrysanthemum MADS-box TF CmANR1 has been isolated and described as functioning in root dev...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:79
The Plutella xylostella PxSDF2L1 gene was previously reported to enhance insect resistance to pathogen at high basal transcription rate. PxSDF2L1 shows similitude with the stromal cell-derived factor 2 (SDF2), an...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:78
Gloriosa superba L. (Colchicaceae) is a high-value medicinal plant indigenous to Africa and Southeast Asia. Its therapeutic benefits are well-established in traditional medicines including Ayurveda. It is well kn...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:77
The subfamily Bambusoideae belongs to the grass family Poaceae and has significant roles in culture, economy, and ecology. However, the phylogenetic relationships based on large-scale chloroplast genomes (CpGe...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:76
Saussurea involucrata survives in extreme arctic conditions and is very cold-resistant. This species grows in rocky, mountainous areas with elevations of 2400–4100 m, which are snow-covered year-round and are sub...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:75
Lack of nutritionally appropriate foods is one of the leading causes of obesity in the US and worldwide. Wheat (Triticum aestivum) provides 20% of the calories consumed daily across the globe. The nutrients in th...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:74
Fusarium crown rot (FCR) is a chronic disease in cereal production worldwide. The impact of this disease is highly environmentally dependant and significant yield losses occur mainly in drought-affected crops.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:73
Carpet grass [Axonopus compressus (L.)] is an important warm-season perennial grass around the world and is known for its adaptability to varied environmental conditions. However, Carpet grass lacks enough data i...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:71
Citation Impact
3.497 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.494 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.372 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.485 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
1,810,083 Downloads
1645 Altmetric Mentions
The editors of BMC Plant Biology support initiatives that expedite the peer review process and are happy to consider manuscripts that have been reviewed in Peerage of Science. Please indicate in your cover letter if this applies to your manuscript.