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  1. Several mechanisms regulating gene expression contribute to restore and reestablish cellular homeostasis so that plants can adapt and survive in adverse situations. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play roles important in t...

    Authors: Fernanda Ferreira Salgado, Letícia Rios Vieira, Vivianny Nayse Belo Silva, André Pereira Leão, Priscila Grynberg, Marcos Mota do Carmo Costa, Roberto Coiti Togawa, Carlos Antônio Ferreira de Sousa and Manoel Teixeira Souza Júnior
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:518
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  2. Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) causes substantial global losses in cucurbit crops, especially watermelon. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation in RNA is one of the most important post-transcriptional...

    Authors: Yanjun He, Lili Li, Yixiu Yao, Yulin Li, Huiqing Zhang and Min Fan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:516
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  3. Phalaris species (Poaceae) occupy diverse environments throughout all continents except Antarctica. Phalaris arundinacea is an important forage, ornamental, wetland restoration and biofuel crop grown globally as...

    Authors: Allison L. Graper, Andrzej K. Noyszewski, Neil O. Anderson and Alan G. Smith
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:515
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  4. Coleorhiza hairs, are sheath-like outgrowth organs in the seeds of Poaceae family that look like root hair but develop from the coleorhiza epidermal cells during seed imbibition. The major role of coleorhiza hair...

    Authors: Tao Song, Debatosh Das, Neng-Hui Ye, Guan-Qun Wang, Fu-Yuan Zhu, Mo-Xian Chen, Feng Yang and Jian-Hua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:514
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  5. Drought stress severely limits maize seedling growth and crop yield. Previous studies have elucidated the mechanisms by which maize acquires drought resistance and contends with water deficiency. However, the ...

    Authors: Hongjie Li, Mei Yang, Chengfeng Zhao, Yifan Wang and Renhe Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:513
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  6. Senescence represents the last stage of flower development. Phosphorylation is the key posttranslational modification that regulates protein functions, and kinases may be more required than phosphatases during...

    Authors: Shiwei Zhong, Lina Sang, Zhixia Zhao, Ying Deng, Haitao Liu, Yixun Yu and Juanxu Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:512
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  7. The walnut shell, which is composed of a large number of sclereids originating from the lignified parenchyma of the endocarp, plays an important role in fruit development and during harvesting and storage. The...

    Authors: Pingping Li, Hongxia Wang, Pan Liu, Yaoling Li, Kai Liu, Xiuhong An, Zhihua Zhang and Shugang Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:511
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  8. Flower longevity is closely related to pollen dispersal and reproductive success in all plants, as well as the commercial value of ornamental plants. Mutants that display variation in flower longevity are usef...

    Authors: Yan Du, Shanwei Luo, Jian Zhao, Zhuo Feng, Xia Chen, Weibin Ren, Xiao Liu, Zhuanzi Wang, Lixia Yu, Wenjian Li, Ying Qu, Jie Liu and Libin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:510
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  9. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) belongs to an exceptional group of legume plants, wherein the flowers are produced aerially, but the pods develop under the ground. In such a unique environment, the pod’s outer shell...

    Authors: Kapil Gupta, Shubhra Gupta, Adi Faigenboim-Doron, Abhinandan Surgonda Patil, Yael Levy, Scott Cohen Carrus and Ran Hovav
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:509
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  10. GRAS transcription factors perform indispensable functions in various biological processes, such as plant growth, fruit development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses. The development of whole-genome seq...

    Authors: Yu Fan, Xiaobao Wei, Dili Lai, Hao Yang, Liang Feng, Long Li, Kexin Niu, Long Chen, Dabing Xiang, Jingjun Ruan, Jun Yan and Jianping Cheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:508
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  11. Tuber shape and specific gravity (dry matter) are important agronomic traits in potato processing and impact production costs, quality, and consistency of the final processed food products such as French fries...

    Authors: Jaebum Park, Alicia N. Massa, David Douches, Joseph Coombs, Deniz Akdemir, G. Craig Yencho, Jonathan L. Whitworth and Richard G. Novy
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:507
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  12. Nitrogen (N) fertilizer is commonly considered as one of the most important limiting factors in the agricultural production. As a result, a large amount of N fertilizer is used to improve the yield in modern t...

    Authors: Zheng-He Lin, Chang-Song Chen, Qiu-Sheng Zhong, Qi-Chun Ruan, Zhi-Hui Chen, Xiao-Mei You, Rui-Yang Shan and Xin-Lei Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:506
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  13. The proper identification of feather grasses in nature is often limited due to phenotypic variability and high morphological similarity between many species. Among plausible factors influencing this issue are ...

    Authors: Evgenii Baiakhmetov, Daria Ryzhakova, Polina D. Gudkova and Marcin Nobis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:505
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2022 22:22

  14. Bletilla striata is one of the important species belonging to the Bletilla genus of Orchidaceae. Since its extracts have an astringent effect on human tissues, B. striata is widely used for hemostasis and healin...

    Authors: Xiaoxia Ma, Kehua Tang, Zhonghai Tang, Aiwen Dong, Yijun Meng and Pu Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:504
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  15. In angiosperms, phenotypic variation of floral organs is often considered as the traditional basis for the evolutionary relationship of different taxonomic groups above the species level. However, little is kn...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Kun Ning, Wangxiang Zhang, Hong Chen, Xiaoqing Lu, Donglin Zhang, Yousry A. El-Kassaby and Jian Bian
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:503
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  16. Proline can promote growth of plants by increasing photosynthetic activity under both non-stress and abiotic stress conditions. However, its role in non-stressed conditions is least studied. An experiment was ...

    Authors: Sarah Ambreen, Habib-ur-Rehman Athar, Ameer Khan, Zafar Ullah Zafar, Ahsan Ayyaz and Hazem M. Kalaji
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:502
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  17. GDSL esterases/lipases are a large protein subfamily defined by the distinct GDSL motif, and play important roles in plant development and stress responses. However, few studies have reported on the role of GD...

    Authors: Jing Lv, Chang-Bo Dai, Wei-Feng Wang and Yu-He Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:501
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  19. Papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs), a large group of cysteine proteases, are structurally related to papain. The members belonging to PLCPs family contribute to plant immunity, senescence, and defense resp...

    Authors: Jun Kang, Peijie Gong, Mengqing Ge, Ehsan Sadeghnezhad, Zhongjie Liu, Mengwei Zhang, Lingfei Shangguan and Jinggui Fang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:499
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:548

  20. Effects on maize were assessed of dual inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dark septate endophytes (DSE) isolated from other plant species.

    Authors: Linlin Xie, Yinli Bi, Shaopeng Ma, Jianxuan Shang, Qincheng Hu and Peter Christie
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:498
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  21. Seed flooding stress is one of the threatening environmental stressors that adversely limits soybean at the germination stage across the globe. The knowledge on the genetic basis underlying seed-flooding toler...

    Authors: Ripa Akter Sharmin, Benjamin Karikari, Fangguo Chang, G.M. Al Amin, Mashiur Rahman Bhuiyan, Aiman Hina, Wenhuan Lv, Zhang Chunting, Naheeda Begum and Tuanjie Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:497
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  23. Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum is a member of Orchidaceae family that is famous for its ornamental value around the globe, it is vulnerable due to over-exploitation and was listed in Appendix I of the Convention on...

    Authors: Xiuling Li, Jizheng Fan, Shuming Luo, Ling Yin, Hongying Liao, Xueqiang Cui, Jingzhou He, Yanhua Zeng, Junjie Qu and Zhaoyang Bu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:495
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  24. Abiotic and biotic stresses induce oxidative processes in plant cells that this process starts with the production of ROSs which cause damage to the proteins. Therefore, plants have increased their antioxidant...

    Authors: Mehdi Rahimi, Mojtaba Kordrostami, Fereshteh Mohamadhasani and Sanam Safaei Chaeikar
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:494
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  25. Monilinia blight caused by Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi (Reade) Honey (M.vc) is a major disease of wild blueberry that can result in severe crop losses in the absence of an integrated disease management programme...

    Authors: Sherin Jose, Joel Abbey, Laura Jaakola and David Percival
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:493
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  26. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the most important economic crops and is susceptible to various abiotic stresses. The valine-glutamine (VQ) motif-containing proteins are plant-specific proteins with a con...

    Authors: Nan Shan, Zijin Xiang, Jingyu Sun, Qianglong Zhu, Yao Xiao, Putao Wang, Xin Chen, Qinghong Zhou and Zengyu Gan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:492
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  27. Salicornia europaea is a halophyte that has a very pronounced salt tolerance. As a cell wall manipulating enzyme, xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase (XTH) plays an important role in plant resistance to ab...

    Authors: Richard John Tiika, Jia Wei, Guangxin Cui, Yanjun Ma, Hongshan Yang and Huirong Duan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:491
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  28. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a high-value grain known for its excellent nutritional balance. It is an allotetraploid species (AABB, 2n = 4x = 36) formed by the hybridization between AA and BB genome diploid (2n...

    Authors: Madhav Subedi, Erin Neff and Thomas M. Davis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:490
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  29. Soil salinization is causing ecosystem degradation and crop yield reduction worldwide, and elucidation of the mechanism of salt-tolerant plants to improve crop yield is highly significant. Podocarpus macrophyllus

    Authors: Lijuan Zou, Taotao Li, Bingbing Li, Jing He, Chunli Liao, Lianzhe Wang, Shouyu Xue, Tao Sun, Xuan Ma and Qinggui Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:489
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  30. Salt stress is one of the main constraints determining crop productivity, and therefore one of the main limitations for food production. The aim of this study was to characterize the salt stress response at th...

    Authors: Sergio Chevilly, Laura Dolz-Edo, Luna Morcillo, Alberto Vilagrosa, José Manuel López-Nicolás, Lynne Yenush and José M. Mulet
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:488
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  31. Alternative splicing (AS) produces transcript variants playing potential roles in proteome diversification and gene expression regulation. AS modulation is thus essential to respond to developmental and enviro...

    Authors: Pascale Maillot, Amandine Velt, Camille Rustenholz, Gisèle Butterlin, Didier Merdinoglu and Eric Duchêne
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:487
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  32. The 26S proteasome, canonically composed of multi-subunit 19S regulatory (RP) and 20S core (CP) particles, is crucial for cellular proteostasis. Proteasomes are re-modeled, activated, or re-localized and this ...

    Authors: Diana Bonea, Jenan Noureddine, Sonia Gazzarrini and Rongmin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:486
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  33. GROWTH-REGULATING FACTORs (GRFs), a type of plant-specific transcription factors, play important roles in regulating plant growth and development. Although GRF gene family has been identified in various plant spe...

    Authors: Bin Zhang, Yanan Tong, Kangsheng Luo, Zhaodong Zhai, Xue Liu, Zhenying Shi, Dechun Zhang and Dayong Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:485
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  34. Asian cultivars were predominantly represented in global rice panel selected for sequencing and to identify novel alleles for drought tolerance. Diverse genetic resources adapted to Indian subcontinent were no...

    Authors: Radha Beena, Silvas Kirubakaran, Narayanan Nithya, Alagu Manickavelu, Rameshwar Prasad Sah, Puthenpeedikal Salim Abida, Janardanan Sreekumar, Poolakkal Muhammed Jaslam, Rajendrakumar Rejeth, Vijayalayam Gengamma Jayalekshmy, Stephen Roy, Ramakrishnan Vimala Manju, Mariasoosai Mary Viji and Kadambot H. M. Siddique
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:484
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  35. Light quality significantly affects plant growth and development, photosynthesis, and carbon and nitrogen metabolism. Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is a widely cultivated and economically important fruit crop wo...

    Authors: Zhiqiang Li, Qiaojing Chen, Youyan Xin, Zhuoxin Mei, Aiyun Gao, Wenjun Liu, Lei Yu, Xuesen Chen, Zijing Chen and Nan Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:483
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  36. Intercropping, especially with legumes, as a productive and sustainable system, can promote plants growth and improves the soil quality than the sole crop, is an essential cultivation pattern in modern agricul...

    Authors: Yu Duan, Xiaowen Shang, Guodong Liu, Zhongwei Zou, Xujun Zhu, Yuanchun Ma, Fang Li and Wanping Fang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:482
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  37. Opportunity and challenges of the agriculture scenario of the next decades will face increasing demand for secure food through approaches able to minimize the input to cultivations. Large panels of tomato vari...

    Authors: Pasquale Tripodi, Salvador Soler, Gabriele Campanelli, María José Díez, Salvatore Esposito, Sara Sestili, Maria R. Figàs, Fabrizio Leteo, Cristina Casanova, Cristiano Platani, Elena Soler, Aldo Bertone, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Daniela Palma, Resurrección Burguet, Andrea Pepe…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:481
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  38. Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient that significantly affects turf quality. Commercial cultivars of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.) require large amounts of nitrogenous fertilizer. Wild bermuda...

    Authors: Dandan Li, Jianxiu Liu, Junqin Zong, Hailin Guo, Jianjian Li, Jingjing Wang, Haoran Wang, Ling Li and Jingbo Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:480
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  40. Catechins are crucial in determining the flavour and health benefits of tea, but it remains unclear that how the light intensity regulates catechins biosynthesis. Therefore, we cultivated tea plants in a phyto...

    Authors: Ping Xiang, Qiufang Zhu, Marat Tukhvatshin, Bosi Cheng, Meng Tan, Jianghong Liu, Xingjian Wang, Jiaxin Huang, Shuilian Gao, Dongyi Lin, Yue Zhang, Liangyu Wu and Jinke Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:478
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  41. Both underground rhizomes/buds and above-ground Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla) shoots/culms/branches are connected together into a close inter-connecting system in which nutrients are transported and sha...

    Authors: Jiajia Zhang, Ruixiang Ma, Xingcui Ding, Manchang Huang, Kai Shen, Siqi Zhao, Zizhang Xiao and Chengming Xiu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:477
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  42. Bacterial canker of tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) caused by the Gram-positive bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is an economically important disease. To understand the host defense re...

    Authors: Naoki Yokotani, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Masaru Sato, Hideki Hirakawa, Yusuke Kouzai, Yoko Nishizawa, Eiji Yamamoto, Yoshiki Naito and Sachiko Isobe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:476
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  43. Carrot (Daucus carota L.), an important root vegetable, is very popular among consumers as its taproot is rich in various nutrients. Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salt, and low temperature, are the main fact...

    Authors: Tong Li, Jie-Xia Liu, Yuan-Jie Deng, Zhi-Sheng Xu and Ai-Sheng Xiong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:475
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  44. Plant annexins are calcium- and lipid-binding proteins that have multiple functions, and a significant amount of research on plant annexins has been reported in recent years. However, the functions of annexins...

    Authors: Qian Zhang, Tao Song, Can Guan, Yingjie Gao, Jianchao Ma, Xiangyang Gu, Zhiguang Qi, Xiaoji Wang and Zhengge Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:474
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  45. Phosphorylation modification, one of the most common post-translational modifications of proteins, widely participates in the regulation of plant growth and development. Fibers extracted from the stem bark of ...

    Authors: Zheng Zeng, Fu Li, Renyan Huang, Yanzhou Wang and Touming Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:473
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  46. Rose is one of most popular ornamental plants worldwide and is of high economic value and great cultural importance. However, cold damage restricts its planting application in cold areas. To elucidate the meta...

    Authors: Defeng Zhuang, Ce Ma, Li Xue, Zhen Li, Cheng Wang, Jiajun Lei and Xingfu Yuan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:472
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:606

  47. Heterotrimeric G-proteins, composed of Gα, Gβ and Gγ subunits, are important signal transmitters, mediating the cellular response to multiple stimuli in animals and plants. The Gγ subunit is an essential compo...

    Authors: Guodong Chen, Yang Li, Xin Qiao, Weike Duan, Cong Jin, Rui Cheng and Jizhong Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:471
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  48. The high susceptibility of European grapevine cultivars (Vitis vinifera) to downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) leads to the intensive use of fungicides in viticulture. To reduce this input, breeding programs have...

    Authors: Chantal Wingerter, Birgit Eisenmann, Patricia Weber, Ian Dry and Jochen Bogs
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:470
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  49. The fragrant flower plant Osmanthus fragrans has an extremely rare androdioecious breeding system displaying the occurrence of males and hermaphrodites in a single population, which occupies a crucial intermediat...

    Authors: Yi-Fan Duan, Cheng Zhang, Min Zhang, Yu Ye, Kai-Lu Zhang, Mo-Xian Chen, Lin Chen, Xian-Rong Wang and Fu-Yuan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:468
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  50. Lilium is an important ornamental bulb, possesses medicinal properties, and is also edible. Species within the Lilium genus share very similar morphology and macroscopic characteristics, thus they cannot be easi...

    Authors: Yixin Liu, Mingfang Zhang, Xuqing Chen, Xi Chen, Yue Hu, Junlian Gao, Wenqiang Pan, Yin Xin, Jian Wu, Yunpeng Du and Xiuhai Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:465
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