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  1. Identifying the target genes of transcription factors is important for unraveling regulatory networks in all types of organisms. Our interest was precisely to uncover the spectrum of loci regulated by a widesp...

    Authors: Martiniano M Ricardi, Rodrigo M González, Silin Zhong, Pía G Domínguez, Tomas Duffy, Pablo G Turjanski, Juan D Salgado Salter, Karina Alleva, Fernando Carrari, James J Giovannoni, José M Estévez and Norberto D Iusem
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:29
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  2. The elongating maize internode represents a useful system for following development of cell walls in vegetative cells in the Poaceae family. Elongating internodes can be divided into four developmental zones, ...

    Authors: Qisen Zhang, Roshan Cheetamun, Kanwarpal S Dhugga, J Antoni Rafalski, Scott V Tingey, Neil J Shirley, Jillian Taylor, Kevin Hayes, Mary Beatty, Antony Bacic, Rachel A Burton and Geoffrey B Fincher
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:27
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  3. The model grass Brachypodium distachyon is increasingly used to study various aspects of grass biology. A large and genotypically diverse collection of B. distachyon germplasm has been assembled by the research c...

    Authors: Ludmila Tyler, Jonatan U Fangel, Alexandra Dotson Fagerström, Michael A Steinwand, Theodore K Raab, William GT Willats and John P Vogel
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:25
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  4. Reconstruction of the parental origins of cultivated plants from wild relatives, especially after long periods of domestication, is not a trivial task. However, recent advances in molecular phylogenetics, amon...

    Authors: Željana Fredotović, Ivica Šamanić, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss, Juraj Kamenjarin, Tae-Soo Jang and Jasna Puizina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:24
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  5. The diploid (2n = 2x = 14) strawberry model plant Fragaria vesca ssp. vesca ‘Hawaii 4’ was employed for functional analysis of expressed DNA sequences initially identified as being unique to Fragaria and of unkno...

    Authors: Qian Zhang, Kevin M Folta and Thomas M Davis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:23
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  6. Studies in Arabidopsis show that DELLA genes may differentially affect responses to biotrophic and necrophic pathogens. A recent report based on the study of DELLA-producing reduced height (Rht) genes in wheat an...

    Authors: Guangdeng Chen, Wei Yan, Yaxi Liu, Yuming Wei, Meixue Zhou, You-Liang Zheng, John M Manners and Chunji Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:22
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  7. Proline (Pro) dehydrogenase (ProDH) potentiates the oxidative burst and cell death of the plant Hypersensitive Response (HR) by mechanisms not yet elucidated. ProDH converts Pro into ∆1 pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P...

    Authors: Mariela Inés Monteoliva, Yanina Soledad Rizzi, Nicolás Miguel Cecchini, Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei and María Elena Alvarez
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:21
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  8. Wheat seed germination directly affects wheat yield and quality. Although transcriptome and proteome analyses during seed germination have been reported in some crop plant species, dynamic transcriptome charac...

    Authors: Yonglong Yu, Guangfang Guo, Dongwen Lv, Yingkao Hu, Jiarui Li, Xiaohui Li and Yueming Yan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:20
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  9. Besides gene duplication and de novo gene generation, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is another important way of acquiring new genes. HGT may endow the recipients with novel phenotypic traits that are important f...

    Authors: Dale Zhang, Jinfeng Qi, Jipei Yue, Jinling Huang, Ting Sun, Suoping Li, Jian-Fan Wen, Christian Hettenhausen, Jinsong Wu, Lei Wang, Huifu Zhuang, Jianqiang Wu and Guiling Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:19
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  10. Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is essential for plant growth, and phosphorus deficiency is a main limiting factor in plant development. Its acquisition is largely mediated by Pht1 transporters, a family of plasma me...

    Authors: Peng Liu, Sumei Chen, Aiping Song, Shuang Zhao, Weimin Fang, Zhiyong Guan, Yuan Liao, Jiafu Jiang and Fadi Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:18
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  11. Deciphering the genetic structure of Arabidopsis thaliana diversity across its geographic range provides the bases for elucidating the demographic history of this model plant. Despite the unique A. thaliana genom...

    Authors: Adrian C Brennan, Belén Méndez-Vigo, Abdelmajid Haddioui, José M Martínez-Zapater, F Xavier Picó and Carlos Alonso-Blanco
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:17
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  12. In Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana) the WD40 protein TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 (TTG1) controls five traits relevant for the adaptation of plants to environmental changes including the production of proanthocyan...

    Authors: Divykriti Chopra, Heike Wolff, Johannes Span, Swen Schellmann, George Coupland, Maria C Albani, Andrea Schrader and Martin Hülskamp
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:16
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  13. Adverse environmental conditions severely influence various aspects of plant growth and developmental processes, causing worldwide reduction of crop yields. The C-repeat binding factors (CBFs) are critical tra...

    Authors: Jae Yong Ryu, Shin-Young Hong, Sin-Hye Jo, Je-Chang Woo, Sangmin Lee and Chung-Mo Park
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:15
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  14. Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world. Many species in the Thea section of the Camellia genus can be processed for drinking and have been domesticated. However, few investigations have focused on ...

    Authors: Dong-wei Zhao, Jun-bo Yang, Shi-xiong Yang, Kenji Kato and Jian-ping Luo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:14
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  15. Silicon (Si) application has been known to enhance the tolerance of plants against abiotic stresses. However, the protective mechanism of Si under heavy metals contamination is poorly understood. The aim of th...

    Authors: Yoon-Ha Kim, Abdul Latif Khan, Duk-Hwan Kim, Seung-Yeol Lee, Kyung-Min Kim, Muhammad Waqas, Hee-Young Jung, Jae-Ho Shin, Jong-Guk Kim and In-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:13
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  16. Iron (Fe) deficiency symptoms in maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) express as leaf chlorosis, growth retardation, as well as yield reduction and are typically observed when plants grow in calcareous soils at alkaline ...

    Authors: Andreas Benke, Claude Urbany, Johanna Marsian, Rongli Shi, Nicolaus von Wirén and Benjamin Stich
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:12
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  17. Solanum lycopersicum or tomato is extensively studied with respect to the ethylene metabolism during climacteric ripening, focusing almost exclusively on fruit pericarp. In this work the ethylene biosynthesis pat...

    Authors: Bram Van de Poel, Nick Vandenzavel, Cindy Smet, Toon Nicolay, Inge Bulens, Ifigeneia Mellidou, Sandy Vandoninck, Maarten LATM Hertog, Rita Derua, Stijn Spaepen, Jos Vanderleyden, Etienne Waelkens, Maurice P De Proft, Bart M Nicolai and Annemie H Geeraerd
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:11
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  18. Rust diseases are of major importance in wheat production worldwide. With the constant evolution of new rust strains and their adaptation to higher temperatures, consistent and durable disease resistance is a ...

    Authors: Ruth R M Bryant, Graham R D McGrann, Alice R Mitchell, Henk-jan Schoonbeek, Lesley A Boyd, Cristobal Uauy, Steve Dorling and Christopher J Ridout
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:10
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  19. CO and FT orthologs, belonging to the BBX and PEBP family, respectively, have important and conserved roles in the photoperiod regulation of flowering time in plants. Soybean genome experienced at least three rou...

    Authors: Chengming Fan, Ruibo Hu, Xiaomei Zhang, Xu Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Qingzhe Zhang, Jinhua Ma and Yong-Fu Fu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:9
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  20. Canola (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oil-producing crops in China and worldwide. The yield and quality of canola is frequently threatened by environmental stresses including drought, cold and h...

    Authors: Hanfeng Zhang, Bo Yang, Wu-Zhen Liu, Hongwei Li, Lei Wang, Boya Wang, Min Deng, Wanwan Liang, Michael K Deyholos and Yuan-Qing Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:8
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  21. Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is the most important Mediterranean fruit crop, used to produce both wine and spirits as well as table grape and raisins. Wine and table grape cultivars represent two divergent germp...

    Authors: Alex Di Genova, Andrea Miyasaka Almeida, Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza, Paula Vizoso, Dante Travisany, Carol Moraga, Manuel Pinto, Patricio Hinrichsen, Ariel Orellana and Alejandro Maass
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:7
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  22. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ubiquitous components of endogenous plant transcriptome. miRNAs are small, single-stranded and ~21 nt long RNAs which regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and are k...

    Authors: Nisha Lakhotia, Gopal Joshi, Ankur R Bhardwaj, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Manu Agarwal, Arun Jagannath, Shailendra Goel and Amar Kumar
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:6
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  23. Spray cut chrysanthemum is a vital flower with high ornamental value and popularity in the world. However, the excessive quantity of pollen dispersal of most spray cut chrysanthemum is an adverse factor during...

    Authors: Xiao-Guang Wang, Hai-Bin Wang, Fa-Di Chen, Jia-Fu Jiang, Wei-Min Fang, Yuan Liao and Nian-Jun Teng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:5
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  24. Spaceflight environment have been shown to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induce oxidative stress in plants, but little is known about the gene expression of the ROS gene network in plants grown in...

    Authors: Manabu Sugimoto, Youko Oono, Oleg Gusev, Takashi Matsumoto, Takayuki Yazawa, Margarita A Levinskikh, Vladimir N Sychev, Gail E Bingham, Raymond Wheeler and Mary Hummerick
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:4
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  25. Genes duplicated by polyploidy (homoeologs) may be differentially expressed in plant tissues. Recent research using DNA microarrays and RNAseq data have described a cacophony of complex expression patterns dur...

    Authors: Aditi Rambani, Justin T Page and Joshua A Udall
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:3
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  26. The perennial species Rhazya stricta (R. stricta) grows in arid zones and carries out typical C3 photosynthesis under daily extremes of heat, light intensity and low humidity. In order to identify processes attri...

    Authors: Steven A Yates, Igor Chernukhin, Ruben Alvarez-Fernandez, Ulrike Bechtold, Mohammed Baeshen, Nabih Baeshen, Mohammad Z Mutwakil, Jamal Sabir, Tracy Lawson and Philip M Mullineaux
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:2
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  28. The Rlnn1 locus, which resides on chromosome 7A of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) confers moderate resistance against the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus neglectus. Prior to this research, the exact linkage...

    Authors: Dimanthi V Jayatilake, Elise J Tucker, Harbans Bariana, Haydn Kuchel, James Edwards, Alan C McKay, Ken Chalmers and Diane E Mather
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:230
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  29. How plants respond to dehydration stress has been extensively researched. However, how plants respond to multiple consecutive stresses is virtually unknown. Pre-exposure to various abiotic stresses (including ...

    Authors: Yong Ding, Ning Liu, Laetitia Virlouvet, Jean-Jack Riethoven, Michael Fromm and Zoya Avramova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:229
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  30. Organelle genomes of Geraniaceae exhibit several unusual evolutionary phenomena compared to other angiosperm families including accelerated nucleotide substitution rates, widespread gene loss, reduced RNA edit...

    Authors: Jin Zhang, Tracey A Ruhlman, Jeffrey P Mower and Robert K Jansen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:228
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  31. Biofortification of staple crops is a cost effective and sustainable approach that can help combat vitamin A and other micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries. PCR -based DNA markers distinguishing ...

    Authors: Girum Azmach, Melaku Gedil, Abebe Menkir and Charles Spillane
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:227
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  32. In plants, a complex cell wall protects cells and defines their shape. Cellulose fibrils form a multilayered network inside the cell-wall matrix that plays a direct role in controlling cell expansion. Resolvin...

    Authors: Johannes Liesche, Iwona Ziomkiewicz and Alexander Schulz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:226
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  33. Although it is known that CLAVATA3 (CLV3) acts as 12- and/or 13-amino acid (AA) secreted peptides to regulate the number of stem cells in shoot apical meristems (SAMs), how functional CLV3 peptides are generat...

    Authors: Ting-Ting Xu, Xiu-Fen Song, Shi-Chao Ren and Chun-Ming Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:225
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  34. Repeated oscillations in intracellular calcium (Ca2+) concentration, known as Ca2+ spiking signals, have been described in plants for a limited number of cellular responses to biotic or abiotic stimuli and most n...

    Authors: Giulia Russo, Salvatore Spinella, Eva Sciacca, Paola Bonfante and Andrea Genre
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:224
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  35. Fragaria vesca, a diploid strawberry species commonly known as the alpine or woodland strawberry, is a versatile experimental plant system and an emerging model for the Rosaceae family. An ancestral F. vesca geno...

    Authors: Omar Darwish, Janet P Slovin, Chunying Kang, Courtney A Hollender, Aviva Geretz, Sam Houston, Zhongchi Liu and Nadim W Alkharouf
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:223
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  36. Fruit development is controlled by plant hormones, but the role of hormone interactions during fruit ripening is poorly understood. Interactions between ethylene and the auxin indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) are li...

    Authors: Christine Böttcher, Crista A Burbidge, Paul K Boss and Christopher Davies
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:222
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  37. Extensive studies on heterosis in plants using transcriptome analysis have identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in F1 hybrids. However, it is not clear why yield in heterozygotes is superior to that o...

    Authors: Gaoyuan Song, Zhibin Guo, Zhenwei Liu, Qin Cheng, Xuefeng Qu, Rong Chen, Daiming Jiang, Chuan Liu, Wei Wang, Yunfang Sun, Liping Zhang, Yingguo Zhu and Daichang Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:221
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  38. The medicinal plant Artemisia annua is covered with filamentous trichomes and glandular, artemisinin producing trichomes. A high artemisinin supply is needed at a reduced cost for treating malaria. Artemisinin pr...

    Authors: Sandra SA Soetaert, Christophe MF Van Neste, Mado L Vandewoestyne, Steven R Head, Alain Goossens, Filip CW Van Nieuwerburgh and Dieter LD Deforce
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:220
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  39. Homosporous ferns are distinctive amongst the land plant lineages for their high chromosome numbers and enigmatic genomes. Genome size measurements are an under exploited tool in homosporous ferns and show gre...

    Authors: Robert J Dyer, Jaume Pellicer, Vincent Savolainen, Ilia J Leitch and Harald Schneider
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:219
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  40. The sucrosylgalactoside oligosaccharide raffinose (Raf, Suc-Gal1) accumulates in Arabidopsis leaves in response to a myriad of abiotic stresses. Whilst galactinol synthases (GolS), the first committed enzyme in R...

    Authors: Aurélie Egert, Felix Keller and Shaun Peters
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:218
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  41. In grapevine, as in other fruit crops, fruit size and seed content are key components of yield and quality; however, very few Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for berry weight and seed content (number, weight, a...

    Authors: Agnès Doligez, Yves Bertrand, Marc Farnos, Michel Grolier, Charles Romieu, Florence Esnault, Sonia Dias, Gilles Berger, Pierre François, Thierry Pons, Patrick Ortigosa, Catherine Roux, Cléa Houel, Valérie Laucou, Roberto Bacilieri, Jean-Pierre Péros…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:217
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  42. Because the floral induction occurs in many plants when specific environmental conditions are satisfied, most plants bloom and bear fruit during the same season each year. In fig, by contrast, the time interva...

    Authors: Hidetoshi Ikegami, Hitoshi Nogata, Yoshiaki Inoue, Shuichi Himeno, Hiroshi Yakushiji, Chiharu Hirata, Keita Hirashima, Masashi Mori, Mitsuo Awamura and Takao Nakahara
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:216
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  43. The aerial parts of land plants are covered with cuticular waxes that limit non-stomatal water loss and gaseous exchange, and protect plants from ultraviolet radiation and pathogen attack. This is the first re...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Pu, Jie Gao, Yanli Guo, Tingting Liu, Lixia Zhu, Ping Xu, Bin Yi, Jing Wen, Jinxing Tu, Chaozhi Ma, Tingdong Fu, Jitao Zou and Jinxiong Shen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:215
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  44. miR399 and miR827 are both involved in conserved phosphorus (P) deficiency signalling pathways. miR399 targets the PHO2 gene encoding E2 enzyme that negatively regulates phosphate uptake and root-to-shoot allocat...

    Authors: Michael Hackenberg, Bu-Jun Shi, Perry Gustafson and Peter Langridge
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:214
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  45. Improving nutrient homeostasis is a major challenge of a sustainable maize cultivation, and cornerstone to ensure food supply for a growing world population. Although, iron constitutes an important nutrient, i...

    Authors: Claude Urbany, Andreas Benke, Johanna Marsian, Bruno Huettel, Richard Reinhardt and Benjamin Stich
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:213
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  47. DAYSLEEPER is a domesticated transposase that is essential for development in Arabidopsis thaliana [Nature, 436:282–284, 2005]. It is derived from a hAT-superfamily transposon and contains many of the features fo...

    Authors: Marijn Knip, Steven Hiemstra, Afke Sietsma, Marina Castelein, Sylvia de Pater and Paul Hooykaas
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:211
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  48. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short, endogenous non-coding small RNAs that have ability to base pair with their target mRNAs to induce their degradation in plants. miR394a/b are conserved small RNAs and it...

    Authors: Jian Bo Song, Shuai Gao, Di Sun, Hua Li, Xia Xia Shu and Zhi Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:210
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  49. Certain temperate species require prolonged exposure to low temperature to initiate transition from vegetative growth to flowering, a process known as vernalization. In wheat, winter cultivars require vernaliz...

    Authors: Abdul Rehman Khan, Jérôme Enjalbert, Anne-Charlotte Marsollier, Agnès Rousselet, Isabelle Goldringer and Clémentine Vitte
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:209
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  50. Brassica rapa includes several important leaf vegetable crops whose production is often damaged by high temperature. Cis-natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) and cis-NATs-derived small interfering RNAs (nat-s...

    Authors: Xiang Yu, Jun Yang, Xiaorong Li, Xuxin Liu, Chuanbao Sun, Feijie Wu and Yuke He
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:208
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