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Section edited by Z Jeffrey Chen
This section considers studies in the evolution of plants as well as comparative genomics in relation to plant biology.
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The mechanism of winter survival for perennials involves multiple levels of gene regulation, especially cold resistance. Agropyron mongolicum is one important perennial grass species, but there is little informat...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:138
Published on: 10 August 2017
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The advent of big data in biology offers opportunities while poses challenges to derive biological insights. For maize, a large amount of publicly available transcriptome datasets have been generated but a com...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:131
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Among CESA-like gene superfamily, the cellulose synthase-like D (CSLD) genes are most similar to cellulose synthase genes and have been reported to be involved in tip-growing cell and stem development. However, t...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:119
Published on: 10 July 2017
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WUSCHEL-related homeobox (WOX) family members play significant roles in plant growth and development, such as in embryo patterning, stem-cell maintenance, and lateral organ formation. The recently published co...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:113
Published on: 6 July 2017
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Genomic prediction is a genomics assisted breeding methodology that can increase genetic gains by accelerating the breeding cycle and potentially improving the accuracy of breeding values. In this study, we us...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:110
Published on: 29 June 2017
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Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism and are here revealed to be involved in responses to environmental stress in plants. To date, individual members of the invertase gene family and...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:109
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important fiber and oil crop in the world. With the emergence of huge -omics data sets, it is essential to have an integrated functional genomics database that allows worldwide...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:101
Published on: 8 June 2017
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A complete and hardened endocarp is a typical trait of drupe fruits. However, the ‘Liehe’ (LE) apricot cultivar has a thin, soft, cleavable endocarp that represents 60.39% and 63.76% of the thickness and ligni...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:72
Published on: 11 April 2017
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The environment has a profound influence on the organoleptic quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit, the extent of which depends on a well-regulated and dynamic interplay among genes, metabolites and sens...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:66
Published on: 28 March 2017
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Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is a class of non-coding RNA with important regulatory roles in biological process of organisms. The systematic comparison of lncRNAs with protein coding mRNAs in population expres...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:42
Published on: 13 February 2017
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Ca2+ ion is a versatile second messenger that operate in a wide ranges of cellular processes that impact nearly every aspect of life. Ca2+ regulates gene expression and biotic and abiotic stress responses in orga...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:38
Published on: 3 February 2017
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Rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz, TK) is being developed as a domestic source of natural rubber to meet increasing global demand. However, the domestication of TK is complicated by its colocation with two w...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:34
Published on: 2 February 2017
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microRNA166 (miR166) is a highly conserved family of miRNAs implicated in a wide range of cellular and physiological processes in plants. miR166 family generally comprises multiple miR166 members in plants, wh...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:32
Published on: 1 February 2017
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Members of the amino acid/auxin permease (AAAP) gene family play indispensable roles in various plant metabolism and biosynthesis processes. Comprehensive analysis of AAAP genes has been conducted in Arabidops...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:29
Published on: 31 January 2017
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Polyploid hybrids represent a rich natural resource to study molecular evolution of plant genes and genomes. Here, we applied a combination of karyological and molecular methods to investigate chromosomal stru...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:21
Published on: 23 January 2017
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The complex process of formation of storage roots (SRs) from adventitious roots affects sweetpotato yield. Identifying the genes that are uniquely expressed in the SR forming cultivated species, Ipomoea batatas (
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:9
Published on: 13 January 2017
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Polyploidy is well studied from a genetic and genomic perspective, but the morphological, anatomical, and physiological consequences of polyploidy remain relatively uncharacterized. Whether these potential cha...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:3
Published on: 5 January 2017
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Naturally growing populations of olive trees are found in the Mediterranean garrigue and maquis in Israel. Here, we used the Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) genetic marker technique to investigate whether these r...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:261
Published on: 13 December 2016
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Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies o...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:260
Published on: 8 December 2016
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RNA editing is a posttranscriptional modification process that alters the RNA sequence so that it deviates from the genomic DNA sequence. RNA editing mainly occurs in chloroplasts and mitochondrial genomes, an...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:257
Published on: 1 December 2016
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