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  1. DNA methylation is a conserved and important epigenetic modification involved in the regulation of numerous biological processes, including plant development, secondary metabolism, and response to stresses. Ho...

    Authors: Zhenming Yu, Guihua Zhang, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Mingzhi Li, Conghui Zhao, Chunmei He, Can Si, Mingze Zhang and Jun Duan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:21
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  2. Haematococcus lacustris is an ideal source of astaxanthin (AST), which is stored in oil bodies containing esterified AST (EAST) and triacylglycerol (TAG). Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyze the last...

    Authors: Hongli Cui, Chunchao Zhao, Wenxin Xu, Hongjiang Zhang, Wei Hang, Xiaoli Zhu, Chunli Ji, Jinai Xue, Chunhui Zhang and Runzhi Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:20
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  3. Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis is an important carbon fixation pathway especially in arid environments because it leads to higher water-use efficiency compared to C3 and C4 plants. However, ...

    Authors: Yan Shi, Xingtan Zhang, Xiaojun Chang, Maokai Yan, Heming Zhao, Yuan Qin and Haifeng Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:19
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  4. Common buckwheat (2n = 2x = 16) is an outcrossing pseudocereal whose seeds contain abundant nutrients and potential antioxidants. As these beneficial compounds are damaged by preharvest sprouting (PHS) and PHS is...

    Authors: Ryoma Takeshima, Eri Ogiso-Tanaka, Yasuo Yasui and Katsuhiro Matsui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:18
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  5. Carex L. is one of the largest genera in the Cyperaceae family and an important vascular plant in the ecosystem. However, the genetic background of Carex is complex and the classification is not clear. In order t...

    Authors: Lingyun Liu, Xifeng Fan, Penghui Tan, Juying Wu, Hui Zhang, Chao Han, Chao Chen, Lulu Xun, Weier Guo, Zhihui Chang and Ke Teng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:17
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  6. In plants, CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 (COP1) is a key negative regulator in photoperiod response. However, the biological function of COP1-interacting protein 1 (CIP1) and the regulatory mechanism of th...

    Authors: Hui Kang, Ting-Ting Zhang, Lu-Lu Fu, Yu-Xin Yao, Chun-Xiang You, Xiao-Fei Wang and Yu-Jin Hao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:15
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  7. Eucalyptus is the main plantation wood species, mostly grown in aluminized acid soils. To understand the response of Eucalyptus clones to aluminum (Al) toxicity, the Al-tolerant Eucalyptus grandis × E. urophylla ...

    Authors: Wannian Li, Patrick M. Finnegan, Qin Dai, Dongqiang Guo and Mei Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:14
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  8. Aphid attack induces defense responses in plants activating several signaling cascades that led to the production of toxic, repellent or antinutritive compounds and the consequent reorganization of the plant p...

    Authors: Victoria Florencio-Ortiz, Susana Sellés-Marchart and José L. Casas
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:12
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  9. The NAC (NAM, ATAF1/ATAF2, and CUC2) transcription factors belong to a large family of plant-specific transcription factors in monocot and dicot species. These transcription factors regulate the expression of ...

    Authors: Jing Ma, Li-yue Wang, Jia-xi Dai, Ying Wang and Duo Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:11
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  10. Low temperature is a major abiotic stress that seriously limits mangrove productivity and distribution. Kandelia obovata is the most cold-resistance specie in mangrove plants, but little is known about the molecu...

    Authors: Jiao Fei, You-shao Wang, Hao Cheng, Yu-bin Su, Yongjia Zhong and Lei Zheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:10
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  11. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a perennial legume extensively planted throughout the world as a high nutritive value livestock forage. Flowering time is an important agronomic trait that contributes to the produ...

    Authors: Dongmei Ma, Bei Liu, Lingqiao Ge, Yinyin Weng, Xiaohui Cao, Fang Liu, Peisheng Mao and Xiqing Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:8
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  12. Understanding the complexity of the vine plant’s response to water deficit represents a major challenge for sustainable winegrowing. Regulation of water use requires a coordinated action between scions and roo...

    Authors: Massimiliano Trenti, Silvia Lorenzi, Pier Luigi Bianchedi, Daniele Grossi, Osvaldo Failla, Maria Stella Grando and Francesco Emanuelli
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:7
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  13. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil crop world-widely cultivated, and seed oil content (SOC) is one of the most important traits for rapeseed. To increase SOC, many efforts for promoting the function...

    Authors: Haoyi Wang, Qian Wang, Haksong Pak, Tao Yan, Mingxun Chen, Xiaoyang Chen, Dezhi Wu and Lixi Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:6
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  14. Caffeic acid O-methyltransferases (COMTs) play an important role in the diversification of natural products, especially in the phenylalanine metabolic pathway of plant. The content of COMT genes in blueberry and ...

    Authors: Yushan Liu, Yizhou Wang, Jiabo Pei, Yadong Li and Haiyue Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:5
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  15. Auxin is critical to plant growth and development, as well as stress responses. Small auxin-up RNA (SAUR) is the largest family of early auxin responsive genes in higher plants. However, the function of few SAUR ...

    Authors: Hao Zhang, Zhenjia Yu, Xiaodie Yao, Jingli Chen, Xing Chen, Huiwen Zhou, Yuxia Lou, Feng Ming and Yue Jin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:4
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  16. Giant Juncao is often used as feed for livestock because of its huge biomass. However, drought stress reduces forage production by affecting the normal growth and development of plants. Therefore, investigatin...

    Authors: Jing Zhou, Siqi Chen, Wenjiao Shi, Rakefet David-Schwartz, Sutao Li, Fulin Yang and Zhanxi Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2021 21:2
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  18. Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stress factors that affect crop growth and yield, which seriously restricts the sustainable development of agriculture. Quinoa is considered as one of the most promisi...

    Authors: Pibiao Shi and Minfeng Gu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:568
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  19. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Fabian Bratzel, Sascha Heller, Nadine Cyrannek, Juraj Paule, Elton M. C. Leme, Anna Loreth, Annika Nowotny, Markus Kiefer, Walter Till, Michael H. J. Barfuss, Christian Lexer, Marcus A. Koch and Georg Zizka
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:567
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    The original article was published in BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:111

  20. This article has been retracted. Please see the retraction notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02782-w.

    Authors: Lin Zhang, Zhiqiang Song, Fangfang Li, Xixi Li, Haikun Ji and Shushen Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:566
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    The original article was published in BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:366

  21. Environmental lodging stress, which is a result of numerous factors, is characterized by uncertainty. However, several studies related to lodging in cereal crops have reported that lodging in the Hippeastrum ruti...

    Authors: Zhenjie Shi, Qianjiao Zheng, Xiaoyang Sun, Fuchun Xie, Jian Zhao, Gaoyun Zhang, Wei Zhao, Zhixin Guo, Ariuka Ariunzul, Shah Fahad, Muhammad Adnan, Dong Qin, Shah Saud and Chen Yajun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:565
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  22. Vegetable amaranth is a source of natural phytopigments and functional components of the commercial food industry for sustainable health benefits across the globe. It is guessed that recently identified amaran...

    Authors: Umakanta Sarker and Shinya Oba
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:564
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  23. Bacterial blight, which is caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a devastating rice disease worldwide. Rice introgression line H471, derived from the recurrent parent Huang-Hua-Zhan (HHZ) and the dono...

    Authors: Fan Zhang, Fan Zhang, Liyu Huang, Dan Zeng, Casiana Vera Cruz, Zhikang Li and Yongli Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:563
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  24. Flower development directly affects fruit production in tomato. Despite the framework mediated by ABC genes have been established in Arabidopsis, the spatiotemporal precision of floral development in tomato ha...

    Authors: Liling Yang, Shilian Qi, Arfa Touqeer, Haiyang Li, Xiaolan Zhang, Xiaofeng Liu and Shuang Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:562
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  25. Rice is a typical monocotyledonous plant and an important cereal crop. The structural units of rice flowers are spikelets and florets, and floral organ development and spike germination affect rice reproductio...

    Authors: Dewei Yang, Niqing He, Xianghua Zheng, Yanmei Zhen, Zhenxin Xie, Chaoping Cheng and Fenghuang Huang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:561
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  26. Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is an important commercial fruit tree, with moderate tolerance to salinity. The balance of Cl− and other anions in pomegranate tissues are affected by salinity, however, the accum...

    Authors: Cuiyu Liu, Yujie Zhao, Xueqing Zhao, Jianmei Dong and Zhaohe Yuan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:560
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  27. The 29-member Arabidopsis AHL gene family is classified into three main classes based on nucleotide and protein sequence evolutionary differences. These differences include the presence or absence of introns, typ...

    Authors: Reuben Tayengwa, Pushpa Sharma Koirala, Courtney F. Pierce, Breanna E. Werner and Michael M. Neff
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:559
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  28. Previous studies have shown that ABFs (abscisic acid-responsive transcription factors) are important ABA-signaling components that participate in abiotic stress response. However, little is known about the fun...

    Authors: Fangfang Li, Fangming Mei, Yifang Zhang, Shumin Li, Zhensheng Kang and Hude Mao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:558
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  29. Elucidation of the regulatory mechanism of kiwifruit response to gray mold disease caused by Botrytis cinerea can provide the basis for its molecular breeding to impart resistance against this disease. In this st...

    Authors: Zhe-Xin Li, Jian-Bin Lan, Yi-Qing Liu, Li-Wang Qi and Jian-Min Tang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:557
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  30. Nitrogen application can effectively mitigate the damage to crop growth and yield caused by drought. However, the efficiency of heavy nitrogen application before drought (NBD) and heavy nitrogen application af...

    Authors: Jie Du, Tianhua Shen, Qiangqiang Xiong, Changlan Zhu, Xiaosong Peng, Xiaopeng He, Junru Fu, Linjuan Ouyang, Jianmin Bian, Lifang Hu, Xiaotang Sun, Dahu Zhou, Haohua He, Lei Zhong and Xiaorong Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:556
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  31. The degradation of intracellular proteins plays an essential role in plant responses to stressful environments. ClpS1 and E3 ubiquitin ligase function as adaptors for selecting target substrates in caseinolyti...

    Authors: Qian Yang, Md Ashraful Islam, Kunyan Cai, Shuxin Tian, Yan Liu, Zhensheng Kang and Jun Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:555
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  32. Closely related hybridizing species are ideal systems for identifying genomic regions underlying adaptive divergence. Although gene expression plays a central role in determining ecologically-based phenotypic ...

    Authors: Bárbara Simões Santos Leal, Marcelo Mendes Brandão, Clarisse Palma-Silva and Fabio Pinheiro
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:554
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  33. Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins compose a large protein family whose members are involved in both RNA processing in organelles and plant growth. Previous reports have shown that E-subgroup PPR proteins...

    Authors: Ru Chang Ren, Xu Wei Yan, Ya Jie Zhao, Yi Ming Wei, Xiaoduo Lu, Jie Zang, Jia Wen Wu, Guang Ming Zheng, Xin Hua Ding, Xian Sheng Zhang and Xiang Yu Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:553
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  34. Legumes comprise important crops that offer major agronomic benefits, including the capacity of establishing symbiosis with rhizobia, fixing atmospheric N2. It has been proven that legumes are particularly suscep...

    Authors: Sara Granado-Rodríguez, Luis Bolaños and Maria Reguera
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:552
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  35. Tansy plants (Tanacetum vulgare L.) are known for their high intraspecific chemical variation, especially of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from the terpenoid compound group. These VOCs are closely involved in ...

    Authors: Mary V. Clancy, Georg Haberer, Werner Jud, Bishu Niederbacher, Simon Niederbacher, Matthias Senft, Sharon E. Zytynska, Wolfgang W. Weisser and Jörg-Peter Schnitzler
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:551
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  36. Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in crops affects the yield and quality of crops and harms human health. The application of selenium (Se) can reduce the absorption and transport of Cd in winter wheat.

    Authors: Jiaojiao Zhu, Peng Zhao, Zhaojun Nie, Huazhong Shi, Chang Li, Yi Wang, Shiyu Qin, Xiaoming Qin and Hongen Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:550
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  37. Nitrate plays an important role in grapevines vegetative and reproductive development. However, how grapevines uptake, translocate and utilize nitrate and the molecular mechanism still remains to be investigated.

    Authors: Yani He, Xiaojun Xi, Qian Zha, Yuting Lu and Aili Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:549
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  38. Prolonged mechanical stress (MS) causes thigmomorphogenesis, a stress acclimation response associated with increased disease resistance. What remains unclear is if; 1) plants pre-exposed to a short period of r...

    Authors: Eric Brenya, Zhong-Hua Chen, David Tissue, Alexie Papanicolaou and Christopher Ian Cazzonelli
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:548
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  39. Organ shape and size covariation (allometry) factors are essential concepts for the study of evolution and development. Although ample research has been conducted on organ shape and size, little research has c...

    Authors: Xin Li, Yaohua Zhang, Suxin Yang, Chunxia Wu, Qun Shao and Xianzhong Feng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:547
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  40. Brassica napus is an important oilseed crop cultivated worldwide. During domestication and breeding of B. napus, flowering time has been a target of selection because of its substantial impact on yield. Here we u...

    Authors: Armin Scheben, Anita A. Severn-Ellis, Dhwani Patel, Aneeta Pradhan, Stephen J. Rae, Jacqueline Batley and David Edwards
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:546
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  41. Under natural conditions, soil nutrients are heterogeneously distributed, and plants have developed adaptation strategies to efficiently forage patchily distributed nutrient. Most previous studies examined eit...

    Authors: Liping Cai, Yuzhen Wang, Mulualem Tigabu, Xiaolong Hou, Pengfei Wu, Chuifan Zhou and Xiangqing Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:545
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  42. Grape buds and leaves are directly associated with the physiology and metabolic activities of the plant, which is monitored by epigenetic modifications induced by environment and endogenous factors. Methylatio...

    Authors: Haoran Jia, Zibo Zhang, Ehsan Sadeghnezhad, Qianqian Pang, Shangyun Li, Tariq Pervaiz, Ziwen Su, Tianyu Dong, Jinggui Fang and Haifeng Jia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:544
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  43. Transcription factors GATAs are involved in plant developmental processes and respond to environmental stresses through binding DNA regulatory regions to regulate their downstream genes. However, little informati...

    Authors: Weizhuo Zhu, Yiyi Guo, Yeke Chen, Dezhi Wu and Lixi Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:543
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  44. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins, a large transcription factors family, are involved in plant growth and development, and defensive response to various environmental stresses. The resurrection plant Myr...

    Authors: Jia-Rui Qiu, Zhuo Huang, Xiang-Ying Xiang, Wen-Xin Xu, Jia-Tong Wang, Jia Chen, Li Song, Yao Xiao, Xi Li, Jun Ma, Shi-Zhen Cai, Ling-Xia Sun and Cai-Zhong Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:542
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  45. Zhengdan 958 (Zheng 58 × Chang 7–2), a commercial hybrid that is produced in a large area in China, is the result of the successful use of the heterotic pattern of Reid × Tang-SPT. The jointing stage of maize ...

    Authors: Gege Hou, Yahui Dong, Fangfang Zhu, Qiannan Zhao, Tianyi Li, Dandan Dou, Xingli Ma, Liancheng Wu, Lixia Ku and Yanhui Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:541
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  46. Apple (Malus ssp.), one of the most important temperate fruit crops, has a long cultivation history and is economically important. To identify the genetic relationships among the apple germplasm accessions, whole...

    Authors: Xuan Wang, Fei Shen, Yuan Gao, Kun Wang, Ruiting Chen, Jun Luo, Lili Yang, Xi Zhang, Changpeng Qiu, Wei Li, Ting Wu, Xuefeng Xu, Yi Wang, Peihua Cong, Zhenhai Han and Xinzhong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:540
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  47. RNA sequencing has been widely used to profile genome-wide gene expression and identify candidate genes controlling disease resistance and other important traits in plants. Gerbera daisy is one of the most imp...

    Authors: Krishna Bhattarai, Ana Conesa, Shunyuan Xiao, Natalia A. Peres, David G. Clark, Saroj Parajuli and Zhanao Deng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:539
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  48. Pistil development is a complicated process in plants, and female sterile mutants are ideal material for screening and cloning pistil development-related genes. Using the female sterile mutant (fsm1), BraA04g0097...

    Authors: Shengnan Huang, Wenjie Liu, Junjie Xu, Zhiyong Liu, Chengyu Li and Hui Feng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:538
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  49. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) undergoes winter dormancy by sensing photoperiod and temperature changes. It transitions to winter dormancy in early fall following at the end of reproduction and exits dormancy in ...

    Authors: Rasyidah M. Razar and Ali Missaoui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:537
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  50. Melatonin (MT) is important for plant growth and development; however, it is not known whether MT is involved in apple adventitious root (AR) development. In this study, we treated Malus prunifolia (MP) at four d...

    Authors: Jiangping Mao, Chundong Niu, Ke Li, Shiyue Chen, Muhammad Mobeen Tahir, Mingyu Han and Dong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:536
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