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  1. The future productivity of wheat (T. aestivum L.) as the most grown crop worldwide is of utmost importance for global food security. Thousand kernel weight (TKW) in wheat is closely associated with grain architec...

    Authors: Matías Schierenbeck, Ahmad M. Alqudah, Ulrike Lohwasser, Rasha A. Tarawneh, María Rosa Simón and Andreas Börner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:417
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:440

  2. Leaf color variation is a common trait in plants and widely distributed in many plants. In this study, a leaf color mutation in Camellia japonica (cultivar named as Maguxianzi, M) was used as material, and the me...

    Authors: Mingyue Fu, Zhongcheng Zhou, Xu Yang, Zhongbing Liu, Jiarui Zheng, Xinru Huang, Ling Wang, Jiabao Ye, Weiwei Zhang, Yongling Liao and Feng Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:416
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  3. Conservation of plant genetic resources, including the wild relatives of crops, plays an important and well recognised role in addressing some of the key challenges faced by humanity and the planet including e...

    Authors: Simon Kallow, Bart Panis, Dang Toan Vu, Tuong Dang Vu, Janet Paofa, Arne Mertens, Rony Swennen and Steven B. Janssens
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:415
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  4. Adventitious root formation is considered a major developmental step during the propagation of difficult to root plants, especially in horticultural crops. Recently, adventitious roots induced through plant ti...

    Authors: Jyoti Devi, Ekjot Kaur, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Vishal Acharya and Shashi Bhushan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:414
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  5. In plants, basic leucine zipper transcription factors (TFs) play important roles in multiple biological processes such as anthesis, fruit growth & development and stress responses. However, systematic investig...

    Authors: Muhammad Aamir Manzoor, Muhammad Mudassar Manzoor, Guohui Li, Muhammad Abdullah, Wang Han, Han Wenlong, Awais Shakoor, Muhammad Waheed Riaz, Shamsur Rehman and Yongping Cai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:413
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  6. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) is a compendium of pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungal strains. Pathogenic strains may cause vascular wilt disease and produce considerable losses in commercial tomato...

    Authors: Walter Ricardo López, Dora Janeth Garcia-Jaramillo, Nelson Ceballos-Aguirre, Jairo Castaño-Zapata, Ricardo Acuña-Zornosa and Juan Jovel
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:412
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  7. The phytohormone ethylene controls many processes in plant development and acts as a key signaling molecule in response to biotic and abiotic stresses: it is rapidly induced by flooding, wounding, drought, and...

    Authors: Niels J. Nieuwenhuizen, Xiuyin Chen, Mickaël Pellan, Lei Zhang, Lindy Guo, William A. Laing, Robert J. Schaffer, Ross G. Atkinson and Andrew C. Allan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:411
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  8. Water deficit is an abiotic stress that retards plant growth and destabilizes crop production. Long non coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of non-coding endogenous RNAs that participate in diverse cellular proc...

    Authors: Jiajia Chen, Yuqing Zhong and Xin Qi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:410
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  9. The periderm is a protective barrier crucial for land plant survival, but little is known about genetic factors involved in its development and regulation. Using a transcriptomic approach in the cork oak (Q. sube...

    Authors: Pau Boher, Marçal Soler, Sandra Fernández-Piñán, Xènia Torrent, Sebastian Y. Müller, Krystyna A. Kelly, Olga Serra and Mercè Figueras
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:409
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2022 22:608

  10. Mung bean (Vigna radiata) is a warm-season legume crop and belongs to the papilionoid subfamily of the Fabaceae family. China is the leading producer of mung bean in the world. Mung bean has significant economic ...

    Authors: Lili Yin, Meiling Zhang, Ruigang Wu, Xiaoliang Chen, Fei Liu and Baolong Xing
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:408
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  11. TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) belongs to the phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) family, which is involved in inflorescence meristem development and represses flowering in several plant species. In the pre...

    Authors: Yi-Han Wang, Xin-Hua He, Hai-Xia Yu, Xiao Mo, Yan Fan, Zhi-Yi Fan, Xiao-Jie Xie, Yuan Liu and Cong Luo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:407
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  12. Plant mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) family members play important roles in development and stress tolerance through regulation of organellar gene expression. However, their molecular f...

    Authors: Man Wang, Feng Zhou, Hong Mei Wang, De Xing Xue, Yao-Guang Liu and Qun Yu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:406
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  13. Clones provide a sensitive method for evaluating genotypic stability and detecting genotype-environment (G × E) interactions because of non-additive genetic effects among clones and there being no genetic effe...

    Authors: Jian Wu, Qing Zhou, Yaru Sang, Xiangyang Kang and Pingdong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:405
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  14. Brassica carinata (A) Braun has recently gained increased attention across the world as a sustainable biofuel crop. B. carinata is grown as a summer crop in many regions where high temperature is a significant st...

    Authors: Zolian Zoong Lwe, Saroj Sah, Leelawatti Persaud, Jiaxu Li, Wei Gao, K. Raja Reddy and Sruthi Narayanan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:404
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:449

  15. Winter freezing temperature impacts alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) persistence and seasonal yield and can lead to the death of the plant. Understanding the genetic mechanisms of alfalfa freezing tolerance (FT) usin...

    Authors: Laxman Adhikari, Shiva O. Makaju, Orville M. Lindstrom and Ali M. Missaoui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:403
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  16. Plant-parasitic nematodes and herbivorous insects have a significant negative impact on global crop production. A successful approach to protect crops from these pests is the in planta expression of nematotoxic o...

    Authors: Aboubakr Moradi, Tina Austerlitz, Paul Dahlin, Christelle AM Robert, Corina Maurer, Katja Steinauer, Cong van Doan, Paul Anton Himmighofen, Krzysztof Wieczorek, Markus Künzler and Felix Mauch
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:402
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  18. Pomegranate is an excellent tree species with nutritional, medicinal, ornamental and ecological values. Studies have confirmed that SPL factors play an important role in floral transition and flower development.

    Authors: Bianbian Li, Yujie Zhao, Sha Wang, Xinhui Zhang, Yongwei Wang, Yu Shen and Zhaohe Yuan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:400
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  21. Mandarin ‘Shatangju’ is susceptible to Huanglongbing (HLB) and the HLB-infected fruits are small, off-flavor, and stay-green at the maturity period. To understand the relationship between pericarp color and HL...

    Authors: Feiyan Wang, Yunli Wu, Wen Wu, Yongjing Huang, Congyi Zhu, Ruimin Zhang, Jiezhong Chen and Jiwu Zeng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:397
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  22. Bagging can improve the appearance of fruits and increase the food safety and commodification, it also has effects on intrinsic quality of the fruits, which was commonly reported negative changes. Fig can be r...

    Authors: Ziran Wang, Miaoyu Song, Zhe Wang, Shangwu Chen and Huiqin Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:396
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  23. The identification and functional analysis of genes that improve tolerance to low potassium stress in S. spontaneum is crucial for breeding sugarcane cultivars with efficient potassium utilization. Calcineurin B-...

    Authors: Xiaomin Feng, Yongjun Wang, Nannan Zhang, Shuai Gao, Jiayun Wu, Rui Liu, Yonghong Huang, Jisen Zhang and Yongwen Qi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:395
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  24. To understand the mechanism of glucosinolates (GSs) accumulation in the specific organs, combined analysis of physiological change and transcriptome sequencing were applied in the current study. Taking Chinese...

    Authors: Yijiao Zhao, Zeyuan Chen, Jiaxuan Chen, Bingxing Chen, Weiling Tang, Xiaodong Chen, Zhongxiong Lai and Rongfang Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:394
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  25. Mycotoxins are among the environmental stressors whose oxidative action is currently widely studied. The aim of this paper was to investigate the response of seedling leaves to zearalenone (ZEA) applied to the...

    Authors: Sieprawska Apolonia, Łabanowska Maria, Kurdziel Magdalena, Filek Maria, Skórka Magdalena and Barbasz Anna
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:393
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  26. Sorghum yields in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are greatly reduced by parasitic plants of the genus Striga (witchweed). Vast global sorghum genetic diversity collections, as well as the availability of modern sequenc...

    Authors: Jacinta Kavuluko, Magdaline Kibe, Irine Sugut, Willy Kibet, Joel Masanga, Sylvia Mutinda, Mark Wamalwa, Titus Magomere, Damaris Odeny and Steven Runo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:392
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  27. As effects of global climate change intensify, the interaction of biotic and abiotic stresses increasingly threatens current agricultural practices. The secondary cell wall is a vanguard of resistance to these...

    Authors: Maya Khasin, Lois F. Bernhardson, Patrick M. O’Neill, Nathan A. Palmer, Erin D. Scully, Scott E. Sattler and Deanna L. Funnell-Harris
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:391
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  28. Panicle is a harvesting organ of rice, and its morphology and development are closely associated with grain yield. The current study was carried on a mutant screened through an EMS (ethyl-methane sulphonate) m...

    Authors: Tingkai Wu, Asif Ali, Jinhao Wang, Jiahe Song, Yongqiong Fang, Tingting Zhou, Yi Luo, Hongyu Zhang, Xiaoqiong Chen, Yongxiang Liao, Yutong Liu, Peizhou Xu and Xianjun Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:390
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  29. Blueberry (Vaccinium ssp.) is a perennial shrub belonging to the family Ericaceae, which is highly tolerant of acid soils and heavy metal pollution. In the present study, blueberry was subjected to cadmium (Cd) s...

    Authors: Shaopeng Chen, QianQian Zhuang, XiaoLei Chu, ZhiXin Ju, Tao Dong and Yuan Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:389
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  30. Soybean is a globally important legume crop that provides a primary source of high-quality vegetable protein and oil. Seed protein content (SPC) is a valuable quality trait controlled by multiple genes in soyb...

    Authors: Jia Wang, Lin Mao, Zhaoqiong Zeng, Xiaobo Yu, Jianqiu Lian, Jun Feng, Wenying Yang, Jiangang An, Haiying Wu, Mingrong Zhang and Liezhao Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:388
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  31. The plant body in duckweed species has undergone reduction and simplification from the ancient Spirodela species towards more derived Wolffia species. Among the five duckweed genera, Wolffia members are rootless ...

    Authors: Jingjing Yang, Xuyao Zhao, Gaojie Li, Shiqi Hu and Hongwei Hou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:387
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  32. The abiotic stress such as soil salinization and heavy metal toxicity has posed a major threat to sustainable crop production worldwide. Previous studies revealed that halophytes were supposed to tolerate othe...

    Authors: Qinqin Wang, Xuke Lu, Xiugui Chen, Lanjie Zhao, Mingge Han, Shuai Wang, Yuexin Zhang, Yapeng Fan and Wuwei Ye
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:386
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  33. Research in the past decade has demonstrated that a single reference genome is not representative of a species’ diversity. MaizeGDB introduces a pan-genomic approach to hosting genomic data, leveraging the lar...

    Authors: Margaret R. Woodhouse, Ethalinda K. Cannon, John L. Portwood II, Lisa C. Harper, Jack M. Gardiner, Mary L. Schaeffer and Carson M. Andorf
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:385
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  34. C. sinensis is an important economic crop with fluoride over-accumulation in its leaves, which poses a serious threat to human health due to its leaf consumption as tea. Recently, our study has indicated that cel...

    Authors: Yanli Liu, Linlong Ma, Dan Cao, Ziming Gong, Jing Fan, Hongju Hu and Xiaofang Jin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:384
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  35. One of the major trends in angiosperm evolution was the shift from woody to herbaceous habit. However, reversals known as derived woodiness have also been reported in numerous, distantly related clades. Among ...

    Authors: Kamil E. Frankiewicz, Łukasz Banasiak, Alexei A. Oskolski, Anthony R. Magee, Mohammad Alsarraf, Paulina Trzeciak and Krzysztof Spalik
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:383
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  36. Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases (CRKs) represent a large subfamily of receptor-like kinases and play vital roles in diverse physiological processes in regulating plant growth and development.

    Authors: Shaoliang Mou, Qianqian Meng, Feng Gao, Tingting Zhang, Weihong He, Deyi Guan and Shuilin He
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:382
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  37. Phosphate (Pi) deficiency severely affects crop growth and productivity, including wheat, therefore it is necessary to develop cultivars with enhanced Pi-deficiency tolerance. However, the underlying mechanism...

    Authors: Lu Zheng, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Yin-Gang Hu, Renfang Shen and Ping Lan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:381
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  38. The C2H2-type zinc finger proteins (C2H2-ZFPs) are one of major classes of transcription factors that play important roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. Limit information about the C2H2-ZF ge...

    Authors: Yongliang Li, Aolong Sun, Qun Wu, Xiaoxiao Zou, Fenglin Chen, Ruqiong Cai, Hai Xie, Meng Zhang and Xinhong Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:380
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  39. The decrease in Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) production on continuously planted soil is an essential problem. In this study, two-year-old seedlings of two cultivars (a normal cultivar, NC, and a super cultivar...

    Authors: Fangyuan Bian, Yukui Wang, Baoli Duan, Zhizhuang Wu, Yuanbing Zhang, Yufang Bi, Anke Wang, Hao Zhong and Xuhua Du
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:379
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  40. Understanding mechanisms of sugar accumulation and composition is essential to determining fruit quality and maintaining a desirable balance of sugars in plant storage organs. The major sugars in mature Rosace...

    Authors: Sogo Nishio, Takeshi Hayashi, Kenta Shirasawa, Toshihiro Saito, Shingo Terakami, Norio Takada, Yukie Takeuchi, Shigeki Moriya and Akihiko Itai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:378
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  41. C. panzhihuaensis is more tolerant to freezing than C. bifida but the mechanisms underlying the different freezing tolerance are unclear. Photosynthesis is one of the most temperature-sensitive processes. Lipids ...

    Authors: Yanling Zheng, Yongqiong Yang, Meng Wang, Shijun Hu, Jianrong Wu and Zhixiang Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:377
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  42. Glycolytic pathway is common in all plant organs, especially in oxygen-deficient tissues. Phosphofructokinase (PFK) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the glycolytic pathway and catalyses the phosphorylation of fruc...

    Authors: Haiyan Wang, Pingjuan Zhao, Xu Shen, Zhiqiang Xia, Xincheng Zhou, Xin Chen, Cheng Lu and WenquanWang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:376
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  43. The lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) is an aquatic monocot that develops leaves with uniquely formed perforations through the use of a developmentally regulated process called programmed cell death (PCD)....

    Authors: Nathan M. Rowarth, Bruce A. Curtis, Anthony L. Einfeldt, John M. Archibald, Christian R. Lacroix and Arunika H. L. A. N. Gunawardena
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:375
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  44. Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that is harmful to the environment and human health. Cd pollution threatens the cultivation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in many countries. Improving rice performance under Cd str...

    Authors: Jianping Yu, Chaolei Liu, Hai Lin, Bin Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Qiaoling Yuan, Tianjiao Liu, Huiying He, Zhaoran Wei, Shilin Ding, Chao Zhang, Hongsheng Gao, Longbiao Guo, Quan Wang, Qian Qian and Lianguang Shang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:374
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  45. Flowering is an important inflection point in the transformation from vegetative to reproductive growth, and premature bolting severely decreases crop yield and quality.

    Authors: Chong Tan, Jie Ren, Lin Wang, Xueling Ye, Wei Fu, Jiamei Zhang, Meng Qi, Hui Feng and Zhiyong Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:373
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  46. Oilseed rape (B. napus L.) has great potential for phytoremediation of cadmium (Cd)-polluted soils due to its large plant biomass production and strong metal accumulation. Soil properties and the presence of othe...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Cai-peng Yue, Tian-yu Zhang, Ying Liu, Jin-yong Huang and Ying-peng Hua
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:372
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  47. The Orchid family is the largest families of the monocotyledons and an economically important ornamental plant worldwide. Given the pivotal role of this plant to humans, botanical researchers and breeding comm...

    Authors: Yu-Yun Hsiao, Chih-Hsiung Fu, Sau-Yee Ho, Chung-I Li, You-Yi Chen, Wan-Lin Wu, Jeen-Shing Wang, Di-Yang Zhang, Wen-Qi Hu, Xia Yu, Wei-Hong Sun, Zhuang Zhou, Ke-Wei Liu, Laiqiang Huang, Si-Ren Lan, Hong-Hwa Chen…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:371
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  48. To adapt seasonal climate changes under natural environments, Polygonatum sibiricum seeds have a long period of epicotyl morphophysiological dormancy, which limits their wide-utilization in the large-scale plant ...

    Authors: Dengqun Liao, Ruipeng An, Jianhe Wei, Dongmei Wang, Xianen Li and Jianjun Qi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:370
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  50. Melatonin is considered a potential plant growth regulator to enhance the growth of plants and increase tolerance to various abiotic stresses. Nevertheless, melatonin’s role in mediating stress response in dif...

    Authors: Shakeel Ahmad, Ihsan Muhammad, Guo Yun Wang, Muhammad Zeeshan, Li Yang, Izhar Ali and Xun Bo Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:368
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