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Development and cell biology

Section edited by Gregory Gambetta

This section considers studies in the development and developmental processes of plants and all aspects of the biology of plant cells.

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  1. The steroidal hormones brassinosteroids (BRs) play important roles in plant growth and development. The pathway and genes involved in BR biosynthesis have been identified primarily in model plants like Arabidopsi...

    Authors: Xiaodong Zheng, Yuxiong Xiao, Yike Tian, Shaolan Yang and Caihong Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:109

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  2. Pear fruit exhibit a single sigmoid pattern during development, while peach and strawberry fruits exhibit a double sigmoid pattern. However, little is known about the differences between these two patterns.

    Authors: Mao-Song Pei, Su-Hao Cao, Lei Wu, Guo-Ming Wang, Zhi-Hua Xie, Chao Gu and Shao-Ling Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:108

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  3. Shoot orientation is important for plant architecture formation, and zigzag-shaped shoots are a special trait found in many plants. Zigzag-shaped shoots have been selected and thoroughly studied in Arabidopsis; h...

    Authors: Hongli Cao, Feiquan Wang, Hongzheng Lin, Yijun Ye, Yucheng Zheng, Jiamin Li, Zhilong Hao, Naixing Ye and Chuan Yue

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:98

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  4. Small ROP (also called RAC) GTPases are key factors in polar cell development and in interaction with the environment. ROP-Interactive Partner (RIP) proteins are predicted scaffold or ROP-effector proteins, wh...

    Authors: Caroline Hoefle, Christopher McCollum and Ralph Hückelhoven

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:94

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  5. Floral transition initiates reproductive development of plants and occurs in response to environmental and endogenous signals. In Arabidopsis thaliana, this process is accelerated by several environmental cues, i...

    Authors: Fernando Andrés, Atsuko Kinoshita, Naveen Kalluri, Virginia Fernández, Vítor S. Falavigna, Tiago M. D. Cruz, Seonghoe Jang, Yasutaka Chiba, Mitsunori Seo, Tabea Mettler-Altmann, Bruno Huettel and George Coupland

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:53

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  6. IDA (INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION)-like signaling peptides and the associated HAE (HAESA)-like family of receptor kinases were originally reported in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) to...

    Authors: Daniel Ventimilla, Concha Domingo, Daniel González-Ibeas, Manuel Talon and Francisco R. Tadeo

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:34

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  7. Daylilies are a lucrative crop used for its floral beauty, medicinal proprieties, landscaping, fire prevention, nutritional value, and research. Despite the importance, daylilies remain extremely challenging f...

    Authors: Kanyand Matand, Meordrick Shoemake and Chenxin Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:31

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  8. Maize bsd2 (bundle sheath defective2) is a classical C4 mutant with defective C4 photosynthesis, accompanied with reduced accumulation of Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) and aberrant mature ...

    Authors: Heying Li, Mei Bai, Xingshan Jiang, Rongxin Shen, Huina Wang, Haiyang Wang and Hong Wu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:17

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  9. Efficient organogenesis induction in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is required for multiple in vitro culture applications. In this work, we aimed at developing a universal protocol for efficient in vitro regene...

    Authors: Edgar García-Fortea, Agustín Lluch-Ruiz, Benito José Pineda-Chaza, Ana García-Pérez, Juan Pablo Bracho-Gil, Mariola Plazas, Pietro Gramazio, Santiago Vilanova, Vicente Moreno and Jaime Prohens

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:6

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  10. The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is crucial for cellular energy metabolism and carbon skeleton supply. However, the detailed functions of the maize TCA cycle genes remain unclear.

    Authors: Yongming Liu, Jingtao Qu, Ling Zhang, Xiangyu Xu, Gui Wei, Zhuofan Zhao, Maozhi Ren and Moju Cao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:592

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  11. Legumes can utilize atmospheric nitrogen by hosting nitrogen-fixing bacteria in special lateral root organs, called nodules. Legume nodules have a unique ontology, despite similarities in the gene networks con...

    Authors: Defeng Shen, Olga Kulikova, Kerstin Guhl, Henk Franssen, Wouter Kohlen, Ton Bisseling and René Geurts

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:571

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  12. Pinellia ternata is native to China and has been used as a traditional herb due to its antiemetic, antitussive, analgesic, and anxiolytic effects. When exposed to strong light intensity and high temperature durin...

    Authors: Tao Xue, Han Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Shuqin Wei, Qiujie Chao, Yanfang Zhu, Jingtong Teng, Aimin Zhang, Wei Sheng, Yongbo Duan and Jianping Xue

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:565

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  13. Nectar is a major floral attractant and reward for insects that ensures pollination. Liriodendron, a genus of the Magnoliaceae family, includes only two relict species, L. chinense and L. tulipifera, which are co...

    Authors: Huanhuan Liu, Jikai Ma and Huogen Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:531

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  14. Axillary buds allow the production of either vegetative or reproductive shoots, which display a plastic developmental potential of the plant to suit the prevailing environmental changes. Strawberry represents ...

    Authors: Yuting Qiu, Si Cong Guan, Chenjin Wen, Peng Li, Zhen Gao and Xu Chen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:528

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  15. The homeobox transcription factor has a diversity of functions during plant growth and development process. Previous transcriptome analyses of seed development in grape hybrids suggested that specific homeodom...

    Authors: Yunduan Li, Songlin Zhang, Ruzhuang Dong, Li Wang, Jin Yao, Steve van Nocker and Xiping Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:523

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  16. Ramet propagation in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is the most effective way in production. However, the lack of systematically phenotypic observations and high-throughput methods limits our ability to analyze...

    Authors: Ling Guan, Mizhen Zhao, Yaming Qian, Hongmei Yu, Jin Xia and Ejiao Wu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:505

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  17. The interaction among plants and their pollinators has been a major factor which enriched floral traits known as pollination syndromes and promoted the diversification of flowering plants. One of the bee-polli...

    Authors: Wuxiu Guo, Xue Zhang, Qincheng Peng, Da Luo, Keyuan Jiao and Shihao Su

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:495

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  18. Soil salinization and alkalization are among the major agricultural threats that affect crop productivity worldwide, which are increasing day by day with an alarming rate. In recent years, several halophytes h...

    Authors: Yan Cheng, Pan Yang, Lihua Zhao, S. V. G. N. Priyadarshani, Qiao Zhou, Zeyun Li, Weimin Li, Junjie Xiong, Zhibin Lin, Li Li, Xinyu Huang, Jindian Liu, Mohammad Aslam, Heming Zhao, Gang Li, Jinbiao Ma…

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:473

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  19. Flesh color is one of the most important traits for the commercial value of peach fruit. To unravel the underlying regulatory network in Prunus mira, we performed an integrated analysis of the transcriptome and m...

    Authors: Hong Ying, Jian Shi, Shanshan Zhang, Gesang Pingcuo, Shuo Wang, Fan Zhao, Yongning Cui and Xiuli Zeng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:463

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  20. Taproot thickening is a complex biological process that is dependent on the coordinated expression of genes controlled by both environmental and developmental factors. Panax notoginseng is an important Chinese me...

    Authors: Xue-Jiao Li, Jian-Li Yang, Bing Hao, Ying-Chun Lu, Zhi-Long Qian, Ying Li, Shuang Ye, Jun-Rong Tang, Mo Chen, Guang-Qiang Long, Yan Zhao, Guang-Hui Zhang, Jun-Wen Chen, Wei Fan and Sheng-Chao Yang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:451

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  21. Flavonoids have essential roles in flower pigmentation, fibre development and disease resistance in cotton. Previous studies show that accumulation of naringenin in developing cotton fibres significantly affec...

    Authors: Anam Qadir Khan, Zhonghua Li, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed, Pengcheng Wang, Xianlong Zhang and Lili Tu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:443

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  22. Adventitious root (AR) formation is a critical developmental process in cutting propagation for the horticultural industry. While auxin has been shown to regulate this process, the exact mechanism and details ...

    Authors: Ling Guan, Reuben Tayengwa, Zongming (Max) Cheng, Wendy Ann Peer, Angus S. Murphy and Mizhen Zhao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:435

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  23. The content of stone cells and lignin is one of the key factors affecting the quality of pear fruit. In a previous study, we determined the developmental regularity of stone cells and lignin in ‘Dangshan Su’ p...

    Authors: Xueqiang Su, Yu Zhao, Han Wang, Guohui Li, Xi Cheng, Qing Jin and Yongping Cai

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:417

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  24. Post-embryonic growth of land plants originates from meristems. Genetic networks in meristems maintain the stem cells and direct acquisition of cell fates. WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) transcription factors ...

    Authors: Christopher E. Youngstrom, Lander F. Geadelmann, Erin E. Irish and Chi-Lien Cheng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:416

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  25. LEAFY COTYLEDON 2 (LEC2) acts throughout embryo morphogenesis and maturation phase to maintain embryogenic identity. Our previous study stated that Arabidopsis thaliana LEC2 (AtLEC2) driven by glucocorticoid rece...

    Authors: Ke Li, Juan Wang, Chuanliang Liu, Changsheng Li, Jingjing Qiu, Chuanzhi Zhao, Han Xia, Changle Ma, Xingjun Wang and Pengcheng Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:314

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  26. In flowering plants, proper seed development is achieved through the constant interplay of fertilization products, embryo and endosperm, and maternal tissues. Communication between these compartments is suppos...

    Authors: Olivier Coen, Jing Lu, Wenjia Xu, Delphine De Vos, Christine Péchoux, Frédéric Domergue, Damaris Grain, Loïc Lepiniec and Enrico Magnani

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:304

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  27. As the major storage protein in rice seeds, glutelins are synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) as proglutelins and transported to protein storage vacuoles (PSVs) called PBIIs (Protein body IIs), where...

    Authors: Jianping Zhu, Yulong Ren, Yunlong Wang, Feng Liu, Xuan Teng, Yuanyan Zhang, Erchao Duan, Mingming Wu, Mingsheng Zhong, Yuanyuan Hao, Xiaopin Zhu, Jie Lei, Yongfei Wang, Yanfang Yu, Tian Pan, Yiqun Bao…

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:295

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  28. Seed germination, a complex, physiological–morphogenetic process, is a critical stage in the life cycle of plants. Biological changes in germinating seeds have not been investigated in poplar, a model woody pl...

    Authors: Chunpu Qu, Zhuang Zuo, Lina Cao, Jiahuan Huang, Xue Sun, Peng Zhang, Chengjun Yang, Lixin Li, Zhiru Xu and Guanjun Liu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:279

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  29. It has been previously shown that oligo-carrageenan (OC) kappa increases growth, photosynthesis and activities of enzymes involved in basal and secondary metabolisms in Eucalyptus globulus. However, it is not kno...

    Authors: Silvia Saucedo, Alberto González, Melissa Gómez, Rodrigo A. Contreras, Daniel Laporte, Claudio A. Sáez, Gustavo Zúñiga and Alejandra Moenne

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:258

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  30. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), a conserved trimeric ring complex, is loaded onto replication fork through a hetero-pentameric AAA+ ATPase complex termed replication factor C (RFC) to maintain genom...

    Authors: Jie Qian, Yueyue Chen, Yaxing Xu, Xiufeng Zhang, Zhuang Kang, Jinxia Jiao and Jie Zhao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:257

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  31. Even though the roles of pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are essential in plant organelles, the function of many chloroplast-targeted PPR proteins remains unknown. Here, we characterized the function o...

    Authors: Kwanuk Lee, Su Jung Park, Ji Hoon Han, Young Jeon, Hyun-Sook Pai and Hunseung Kang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:244

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  32. Auxin conjugates are hydrolyzed to release free auxin to ensure defined cellular auxin levels or gradients within tissues for proper development or response to environmental signals. The auxin concentration in...

    Authors: Xin Fu, Zihang Shi, Yun Jiang, Lingling Jiang, Mingfang Qi, Tao Xu and Tianlai Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:233

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  33. Color directly affects fruit quality and consumer preference. In fig syconia, the female flower tissue is contained in a receptacle. Anthocyanin pigmentation of this tissue and the peel differs temporally and ...

    Authors: Ziran Wang, Miaoyu Song, Yunze Li, Shangwu Chen and Huiqin Ma

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:217

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  34. Sea buckthorn is a woody oil crop in which palmitoleic acid (C16:1n7, an omega-7 fatty acid (FA)) contributes approximately 40% of the total FA content in berry pulp (non-seed tissue). However, the molecular m...

    Authors: Jian Ding, Chengjiang Ruan, Wei Du and Ying Guan

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:207

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  35. Brassica napus is of substantial economic value for vegetable oil, biofuel, and animal fodder production. The breeding of yellow-seeded B. napus to improve seed quality with higher oil content, improved oil and m...

    Authors: Jinjin Jiang, Shuang Zhu, Yi Yuan, Yue Wang, Lei Zeng, Jacqueline Batley and You-Ping Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:203

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  36. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food crop worldwide. Its yield and quality are affected by its tillering pattern and spikelet development. Although many genes involved in the vegetative and reproductive develo...

    Authors: Qigui Jiang, Yindi Zeng, Baiyang Yu, Weijian Cen, Siyuan Lu, Peilong Jia, Xuan Wang, Baoxiang Qin, Zhongquan Cai and Jijing Luo

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:200

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  37. Fraxinus hupehensis is an endangered tree species that is endemic to in China; the species has very high commercial value because of its intricate shape and potential to improve and protect the environment. Its s...

    Authors: Qiling Song, Shuiyuan Cheng, Zexiong Chen, Gongping Nie, Feng Xu, Jian Zhang, Mingqin Zhou, Weiwei Zhang, Yongling Liao and Jiabao Ye

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:199

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  38. Lonicera japonica Thunb. flower has been used for the treatment of various diseases for a long time and attracted many studies on its potential effects. Transcription factors (TFs) regulate extensive biological p...

    Authors: Tantan Wang, Bingxian Yang, Qijie Guan, Xi Chen, Zhuoheng Zhong, Wei Huang, Wei Zhu and Jingkui Tian

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:198

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  39. The functional characteristics of SLAC/SLAH family members isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, poplar, barley and rice have been comprehensively investigated. However, there are no reports regarding SLAC/SLAH fam...

    Authors: Guodong Chen, Li Wang, Qian Chen, Kaijie Qi, Hao Yin, Peng Cao, Chao Tang, Xiao Wu, Shaoling Zhang, Peng Wang and Juyou Wu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:190

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  40. During sexual reproduction, pollen grains land on the stigma, rehydrate and produce pollen tubes that grow through the female transmitting-tract tissue allowing the delivery of the two sperm cells to the ovule...

    Authors: Ferdousse Laggoun, Flavien Dardelle, Jérémy Dehors, Denis Falconet, Azeddine Driouich, Christophe Rochais, Patrick Dallemagne, Arnaud Lehner and Jean-Claude Mollet

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:152

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  42. Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the sixth most important food crop in the world. The formation and development of storage roots in sweet potato is a highly complicated and genetically programmed process. How...

    Authors: Tingting Dong, Mingku Zhu, Jiawen Yu, Rongpeng Han, Cheng Tang, Tao Xu, Jingran Liu and Zongyun Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:136

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  44. The transmitting tissue of the style is the pathway for pollen tube growth to the ovules and has components that function in recognizing and discriminating appropriate pollen genotypes. In Nicotiana tabacum, the ...

    Authors: Camila M. L. Alves, Andrzej K. Noyszewski and Alan G. Smith

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:118

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  45. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:97

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  46. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:93

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  47. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:92

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  48. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:91

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  49. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:83

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  50. 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

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:81

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