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Section edited by Sheila McCormick
This section considers studies in the reproductive biology of plants including meiosis, gamete formation, fertilization and other reproductive processes.
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For most cruciferous plants, which are known as important crops and a number of weeds, hybrid breeding is hampered by the unavailability of a pollination control system. Male sterility induced by a gametocide ...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:95
Published on: 1 June 2017
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Unilateral incompatibility (UI) is an asymmetric reproductive barrier that unidirectionally prevents gene flow between species and/or populations. UI is characterized by a compatible interaction between partne...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:81
Published on: 24 April 2017
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Elymus sibiricus is an important forage grass in semi-arid regions, but it is difficult to grow for commercial seed production due to high seed shattering. To better understand the und...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:78
Published on: 21 April 2017
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Hybrid vigor is highly valued in the agricultural industry. Male sterility is an important trait for crop breeding. Pollen development is under strict control of both gametophytic and sporophytic factors, and ...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:76
Published on: 20 April 2017
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In rice, the pistil is the female reproductive organ, and it consists of two stigmas and an ovary. The stigma is capable of receiving pollen grains and guiding pollen tube growth. The ovary holds the embryo sa...
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:60
Published on: 7 March 2017
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The coordination of pollen tube (PT) growth, guidance and timely growth arrest and rupture mediated by PT-pistil interaction is crucial for the PT to transport sperm cells into ovules for double fertilization....
BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:2
Published on: 5 January 2017
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Sporopollenin is a major component of the pollen exine pattern. In Arabidopsis, acyl-CoA synthetase5 (ACOS5) is involved in sporopollenin precursor biosynthesis. In this study, we identified its orthologue, OsACO...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:256
Published on: 21 November 2016
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Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is a globally important oilseed crop with highly-valued oil. Strong hybrid vigor is frequently observed within this crop, which can be exploited by the means of genic male sterility (G...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:250
Published on: 10 November 2016
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Pectins are one of the main components of plant cell walls. They are secreted to the wall as highly methylesterified forms that can be de-esterified by pectin methylesterases (PMEs). The degree of methylesteri...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:176
Published on: 11 August 2016
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of non-coding small RNAs (sRNAs), regulate various biological processes. Although miRNAs have been identified and characterized in several plant species, miRNAs in Asparagus officinali...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:80
Published on: 12 April 2016
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The ARABIDOPSIS SKP1-LIKE1 (ASK1) protein functions as a subunit of SKP1-CUL1-F-box (SCF) E3 ubiquitin ligases. Previous genetic studies showed that ASK1 plays important roles in Arabidopsis flower development...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:61
Published on: 3 March 2016
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The transition from vegetative to floral state in shoot apical meristems (SAM) is a key event in plant development and is of crucial importance for reproductive success. In perennial plants, this event is recu...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:55
Published on: 29 February 2016
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Oligogalacturonic acids (OGs) are oligomers of alpha-1,4-linked galacturonosyl residues that are released from cell walls by the hydrolysis of polygalacturonic acids upon fruit ripening and under abiotic/bioti...
BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:13
Published on: 9 January 2016
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Fragmentation of habitats by roads, railroads, fields, buildings and other human activities can affect population size, pollination success, sexual and asexual reproduction specially in plants showing pollinat...
BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:222
Published on: 16 September 2015
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Jatropha curcas L. is a potential biofuel plant. Application of exogenous cytokinin (6-benzyladenine, BA) on its inflorescence buds can significantly increase the number of female flowers, thereby improving seed ...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:318
Published on: 30 November 2014
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The identity of flower organs is specified by various MIKC MADS-box transcription factors which act in a combinatorial manner. TM8 is a MADS-box gene that was isolated from the floral meristem of a tomato mutant ...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:319
Published on: 30 November 2014
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In flowering plants, apomixis (asexual reproduction via seeds) is widely believed to result from failure of key regulators of the sexual female reproductive pathway. In the past few years, both differential di...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:297
Published on: 18 November 2014
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The inferior spikelets are defined to be those at portions where the grains receive less photosynthetic products during the seed development. The typical inferior spikelets are physically located on the proxim...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:196
Published on: 23 July 2014
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In flowering plants a number of genes have been identified which control the transition from a vegetative to generative phase of life cycle. In bryophytes representing basal lineage of land plants, there is li...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:168
Published on: 17 June 2014
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The Arabidopsis thaliana LEC2 gene encodes a B3 domain transcription factor, which plays critical roles during both zygotic and somatic embryogenesis. LEC2 exerts significant impacts on determining embryogenic po...
BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:106
Published on: 24 April 2014
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