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  1. Cell separation that occurs during fleshy fruit abscission and dry fruit dehiscence facilitates seed dispersal, the final stage of plant reproductive development. While our understanding of the evolutionary co...

    Authors: Peerapat Roongsattham, Fabienne Morcillo, Chatchawan Jantasuriyarat, Maxime Pizot, Steven Moussu, Dasuni Jayaweera, Myriam Collin, Zinnia H Gonzalez-Carranza, Philippe Amblard, James W Tregear, Somvong Tragoonrung, Jean-Luc Verdeil and Timothy J Tranbarger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:150
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  2. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as important gene regulators in plants. MiRNAs and their targets have been extensively studied in Arabidopsis and rice. However, relatively little is known about the chara...

    Authors: Hong Zhu, Rui Xia, Bingyu Zhao, Yong-qiang An, Chris D Dardick, Ann M Callahan and Zongrang Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:149
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  3. Genetic mapping and QTL detection are powerful methodologies in plant improvement and breeding. Construction of a high-density and high-quality genetic map would be of great benefit in the production of superi...

    Authors: Nian Wang, Linchuan Fang, Haiping Xin, Lijun Wang and Shaohua Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:148
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  4. The analyses of protein synthesis, accumulation and regulation during grain development in wheat are more complex because of its larger genome size compared to model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice. In thi...

    Authors: Guangfang Guo, Dongwen Lv, Xing Yan, Saminathan Subburaj, Pei Ge, Xiaohui Li, Yingkao Hu and Yueming Yan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:147
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  5. Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) play key roles in plant development, growth and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. At least four classes of sRNAs have been well characterized in plants, including repeat-a...

    Authors: Li-Chuan Wan, Feng Wang, Xiangqian Guo, Shanfa Lu, Zongbo Qiu, Yuanyuan Zhao, Haiyan Zhang and Jinxing Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:146
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  6. Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) play an important role in eukaryotic transcription. Eight HATs identified in rice (OsHATs) can be organized into four families, namely the CBP (OsHAC701, OsHAC703, and OsHAC70...

    Authors: Xia Liu, Ming Luo, Wei Zhang, Jinhui Zhao, Jianxia Zhang, Keqiang Wu, Lining Tian and Jun Duan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:145
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  7. As a large family of regulatory proteins, WRKY transcription factors play essential roles in the processes of adaptation to diverse environmental stresses and plant growth and development. Although several stu...

    Authors: Feifei Yu, Yifeng Huaxia, Wenjing Lu, Changai Wu, Xuecheng Cao and Xingqi Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:144
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  8. The establishment of compatibility between plants and pathogens requires compliance with various conditions, such as recognition of the right host, suppression of defence mechanisms, and maintenance of an envi...

    Authors: Georgina Fabro and María Elena Alvarez
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:143
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  9. High-accuracy prediction tools are essential in the post-genomic era to define organellar proteomes in their full complexity. We recently applied a discriminative machine learning approach to predict plant pro...

    Authors: Gopal Chowdhary, Amr RA Kataya, Thomas Lingner and Sigrun Reumann
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:142
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  10. The Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)-based vector has been developed and used for gene silencing in barley and wheat seedlings to assess gene functions in pathogen- or insect-resistance, but conditions for gene ...

    Authors: Meng Ma, Yan Yan, Li Huang, Mingshun Chen and Huixian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:141
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  11. Dehydrins (DHNs) protect plant cells from desiccation damage during environmental stress, and also participate in host resistance to various pathogens. In this study, we aimed to identify and characterize the DHN

    Authors: Yazhou Yang, Mingyang He, Ziguo Zhu, Shuxiu Li, Yan Xu, Chaohong Zhang, Stacy D Singer and Yuejin Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:140
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  12. R genes are a key component of genetic interactions between plants and biotrophic bacteria and are known to regulate resistance against bacterial invasion. The most common R proteins contain a nucleotide-bindi...

    Authors: Yang Jae Kang, Kil Hyun Kim, Sangrea Shim, Min Young Yoon, Suli Sun, Moon Young Kim, Kyujung Van and Suk-Ha Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:139
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  13. Identification of the novel genes relevant to plant cell-wall (PCW) synthesis represents a highly important and challenging problem. Although substantial efforts have been invested into studying this problem, ...

    Authors: Shan Wang, Yanbin Yin, Qin Ma, Xiaojia Tang, Dongyun Hao and Ying Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:138
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  14. Rice is staple food for more than half of the world’s population including two billion Asians, who obtain 60-70% of their energy intake from rice and its derivatives. To meet the growing demand from human popu...

    Authors: Balram Marathi, Smriti Guleria, Trilochan Mohapatra, Rajender Parsad, Nagarajan Mariappan, Vinod Kunnummal Kurungara, Salwandir Singh Atwal, Kumble Vinod Prabhu, Nagendra Kumar Singh and Ashok Kumar Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:137
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  15. Nuña bean is a type of ancient common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) native to the Andean region of South America, whose seeds possess the unusual property of popping. The nutritional features of popped seeds make ...

    Authors: Fernando J Yuste-Lisbona, Marta Santalla, Carmen Capel, Manuel García-Alcázar, María De La Fuente, Juan Capel, Antonio M De Ron and Rafael Lozano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:136
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  16. Cell division and cell fate decisions regulate organ formation and function in plant growth and development. It is still unclear how specific meristematic regulatory networks operate with the cell cycle machin...

    Authors: Yajie Liu, Wei Ye, Beibei Li, Xiaojing Zhou, Yuhai Cui, Mark P Running and Kede Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:135
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  17. Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is an important signaling cascade that operates in stress signal transduction in plants. The biologically active monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIA) produced in Ca...

    Authors: Susheel Kumar Raina, Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede, Monika Jaggi, Pallavi Singh, Siddhi Kashinath Jalmi, Badmi Raghuram, Arsheed Hussain Sheikh and Alok Krishna Sinha
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:134
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  19. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules that play important regulatory roles in plant development and stress responses. Identification of stress-regulated miRNAs is crucial for understanding how plants resp...

    Authors: Blanca E Barrera-Figueroa, Lei Gao, Zhigang Wu, Xuefeng Zhou, Jianhua Zhu, Hailing Jin, Renyi Liu and Jian-Kang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:132
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  20. Thellungiella has been proposed as an extremophile alternative to Arabidopsis to investigate environmental stress tolerance. However, Arabidopsis accessions show large natural variation in their freezing toleranc...

    Authors: Yang Ping Lee, Alexei Babakov, Bert de Boer, Ellen Zuther and Dirk K Hincha
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:131
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  21. Plant stilbenes are a small group of phenylpropanoids, which have been detected in at least 72 unrelated plant species and accumulate in response to biotic and abiotic stresses such as infection, wounding, UV-...

    Authors: Alessandro Vannozzi, Ian B Dry, Marianna Fasoli, Sara Zenoni and Margherita Lucchin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:130
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  22. While there is now a significant body of research correlating apple (Malus x domestica) fruit softening with the cell wall hydrolase ENDO-POLYGALACTURONASE1 (PG1), there is currently little knowledge of its physi...

    Authors: Ross G Atkinson, Paul W Sutherland, Sarah L Johnston, Kularajathevan Gunaseelan, Ian C Hallett, Deepali Mitra, David A Brummell, Roswitha Schröder, Jason W Johnston and Robert J Schaffer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:129
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  23. Jasmonic acid (JA) is a well-characterized signaling molecule in plant defense responses. However, its relationships with other signal molecules in secondary metabolite production induced by endophytic fungus ...

    Authors: Cheng-Gang Ren and Chuan-Chao Dai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:128
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  24. Microspore embryogenesis represents a unique system of single cell reprogramming in plants wherein a highly specialized cell, the microspore, by specific stress treatment, switches its fate towards an embryoge...

    Authors: Deepak Prem, María-Teresa Solís, Ivett Bárány, Héctor Rodríguez-Sanz, María C Risueño and Pilar S Testillano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:127
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  25. In dicotyledonous plant, the first asymmetric zygotic division and subsequent several cell divisions are crucial for proembryo pattern formation and later embryo development. Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) ar...

    Authors: Miao Yu and Jie Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:126
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  26. In higher plants, a diverse array of developmental and growth-related processes is regulated by the plant hormone auxin. Recent publications have proposed that besides the well-characterized Auxin Response Fac...

    Authors: Kenneth W Berendzen, Christoph Weiste, Dierk Wanke, Joachim Kilian, Klaus Harter and Wolfgang Dröge-Laser
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:125
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  27. Grapevine downy mildew, caused by Plasmopara viticola, is a very serious disease affecting mainly Vitis vinifera cultivated varieties around the world. Breeding for resistance through the crossing with less susce...

    Authors: Silvia Laura Toffolatti, Giovanni Venturini, Dario Maffi and Annamaria Vercesi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:124
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  28. The two highly similar Arabidopsis apyrases AtAPY1 and AtAPY2 were previously shown to be involved in plant growth and development, evidently by regulating extracellular ATP signals. The subcellular localizati...

    Authors: Madlen Schiller, Carolin Massalski, Thomas Kurth and Iris Steinebrunner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:123
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  29. Soybean (Glycine max L.) is one of the most important oil crops in the world. It is desirable to increase oil yields from soybean, and so this has been a major goal of oilseed engineering. However, it is still un...

    Authors: Huan Chen, Fa-Wei Wang, Yuan-Yuan Dong, Nan Wang, Ye-Peng Sun, Xiao-Yan Li, Liang Liu, Xiu-Duo Fan, Hai-Long Yin, Yuan-Yuan Jing, Xin-Yue Zhang, Yu-Lin Li, Guang Chen and Hai-Yan Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:122
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  30. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is a rich source of natural phytochemicals. We performed massive parallel sequencing of mRNA to identify differentially expressed genes after sorghum BTx623 had been infected w...

    Authors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kawahigashi, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Jun Ogata, Hiroshi Minami, Takeshi Itoh and Takashi Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:121
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  31. During the early stages of seed development many genes are under dynamic regulation to ensure the proper differentiation and establishment of the tissue that will constitute the mature grain. To investigate ho...

    Authors: Julien Curaba, Andrew Spriggs, Jen Taylor, Zhongyi Li and Chris Helliwell
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:120
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  32. Sclareol is a diterpene natural product of high value for the fragrance industry. Its labdane carbon skeleton and its two hydroxyl groups also make it a valued starting material for semisynthesis of numerous c...

    Authors: Anne Caniard, Philipp Zerbe, Sylvain Legrand, Allison Cohade, Nadine Valot, Jean-Louis Magnard, Jörg Bohlmann and Laurent Legendre
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:119
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  33. The eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) promotes formation of the first peptide bond at the onset of protein synthesis. However, the function of eIF5A in plants is not well understood.

    Authors: Liuqiang Wang, Chenxi Xu, Chao Wang and Yucheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:118
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  35. Characterizing root system architecture (RSA) is essential to understanding the development and function of vascular plants. Identifying RSA-associated genes also represents an underexplored opportunity for cr...

    Authors: Taras Galkovskyi, Yuriy Mileyko, Alexander Bucksch, Brad Moore, Olga Symonova, Charles A Price, Christopher N Topp, Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi, Paul R Zurek, Suqin Fang, John Harer, Philip N Benfey and Joshua S Weitz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:116
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  36. Developmentally regulated programmed cell death (PCD) is the controlled death of cells that occurs throughout the life cycle of both plants and animals. The lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) forms perforat...

    Authors: Jaime Wertman, Christina EN Lord, Adrian N Dauphinee and Arunika HLAN Gunawardena
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:115
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  37. Ecotypes of Colobanthus quitensis Kunt Bartl (Cariophyllaceae) from Andes Mountains and Maritime Antarctic grow under contrasting photoinhibitory conditions, reaching differential cold tolerance upon cold acclima...

    Authors: Luisa Bascuñán-Godoy, Carolina Sanhueza, Marely Cuba, Gustavo E Zuñiga, Luis J Corcuera and León A Bravo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:114
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  38. Cowpea is a highly inbred crop. It is part of a crop-weed complex, whose origin and dynamics is unknown, which is distributed across the African continent. This study examined outcrossing rates and genetic str...

    Authors: Eric B Kouam, Remy S Pasquet, Pascal Campagne, Jean-Baptiste Tignegre, Kevin Thoen, Remi Gaudin, Jeremy T Ouedraogo, Abdulai B Salifu, Geoffrey M Muluvi and Paul Gepts
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:113
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  39. The plant hormone cytokinin regulates growth and development of roots and shoots in opposite ways. In shoots it is a positive growth regulator whereas it inhibits growth in roots. It may be assumed that organ-...

    Authors: Wolfram G Brenner and Thomas Schmülling
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:112
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  40. Zinc (Zn) deficiency is one of the most widespread mineral nutritional problems that affect normal development in plants. Because Zn cannot passively diffuse across cell membranes, it must be transported into ...

    Authors: Felipe Gainza-Cortés, Ricardo Pérez-Dïaz, Ramón Pérez-Castro, Jaime Tapia, José A Casaretto, Sebastián González, Hugo Peña-Cortés, Simón Ruiz-Lara and Enrique González
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:111
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  41. Somatic embryogenesis (SE), by which somatic cells of higher plants can dedifferentiate and reorganize into new plants, is a notable illustration of cell totipotency. However, the precise molecular mechanisms ...

    Authors: Xiyan Yang, Xianlong Zhang, Daojun Yuan, Fangyan Jin, Yunchao Zhang and Jiao Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:110
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  42. Doubled haploid production is a key technology in triticale research and breeding. A critical component of this method depends on chromosome doubling, which is traditionally achieved by in vivo treatment of seedl...

    Authors: Tobias Würschum, Matthew R Tucker, Jochen C Reif and Hans Peter Maurer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:109
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  44. Metallothioneins (MT) are low molecular weight, cysteine rich metal binding proteins, found across genera and species, but their function(s) in abiotic stress tolerance are not well documented.

    Authors: Gautam Kumar, Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha, Vaishali Panjabi-Sabharwal, Sumita Kumari, Rohit Joshi, Ratna Karan, Shweta Mittal, Sneh L Singla Pareek and Ashwani Pareek
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:107
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  45. The MYB superfamily constitutes one of the most abundant groups of transcription factors described in plants. Nevertheless, their functions appear to be highly diverse and remain rather unclear. To date, no ge...

    Authors: Hai Du, Si-Si Yang, Zhe Liang, Bo-Run Feng, Lei Liu, Yu-Bi Huang and Yi-Xiong Tang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:106
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  46. NB-LRR resistance proteins are involved in recognizing pathogens and other exogenous stressors in plants. Resistance proteins are the first step in induced defence responses and a better understanding of their...

    Authors: Carl Gunnar Fossdal, Nadeem Yaqoob, Paal Krokene, Harald Kvaalen, Halvor Solheim and Igor A Yakovlev
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:105
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  47. Homologous recombination, together with selection, laid the foundation for traditional plant breeding. The recombination process that takes place during meiotic cell division is crucial for the creation of nov...

    Authors: Junhua Li, Andrew D Farmer, Ingrid E Lindquist, Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze, Joann Mudge, Tao Li, Ernest F Retzel and Changbin Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:104
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  48. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is an evolutionarily ancient mechanism of signal transduction found in eukaryotic cells. In plants, MAPK cascades are associated with responses to various ab...

    Authors: Masayoshi Hashimoto, Ken Komatsu, Kensaku Maejima, Yukari Okano, Takuya Shiraishi, Kazuya Ishikawa, Yusuke Takinami, Yasuyuki Yamaji and Shigetou Namba
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:103
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  49. Transcription of plastid-encoded genes requires two different DNA-dependent RNA polymerases, a nuclear-encoded polymerase (NEP) and plastid-encoded polymerase (PEP). Recent studies identified two related pfkB-...

    Authors: Jonathan Gilkerson, Juan Manuel Perez-Ruiz, Joanne Chory and Judy Callis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:102
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  50. Cowpea aphid (CPA; Aphis craccivora) is the most important insect pest of cowpea and also causes significant yield losses in other legume crops including alfalfa, beans, chickpea, lentils, lupins and peanuts. In ...

    Authors: Lars G Kamphuis, Lingling Gao and Karam B Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:101
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