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Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:17
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Characterization and comparative analysis of HMW glutenin 1Ay alleles with differential expressions
High-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs) have been considered as most important seed storage proteins for wheat flour quality. 1Ay subunits are of great interest because they are always silent in comm...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:16 -
Validation of candidate genes putatively associated with resistance to SCMV and MDMV in maize (Zea mays L.) by expression profiling
The potyviruses sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) and maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) are major pathogens of maize worldwide. Two loci, Scmv1 and Scmv2, have ealier been shown to confer complete resistance to SCMV. C...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:15 -
Construction of 12 EST libraries and characterization of a 12,226 EST dataset for chicory (Cichorium intybus) root, leaves and nodules in the context of carbohydrate metabolism investigation
The industrial chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a member of the Asteraceae family that accumulates fructan of the inulin type in its root. Inulin is a low calories sweetener, a texture agent and a health promoting ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:14 -
A consensus genetic map of sorghum that integrates multiple component maps and high-throughput Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers
Sorghum genome mapping based on DNA markers began in the early 1990s and numerous genetic linkage maps of sorghum have been published in the last decade, based initially on RFLP markers with more recent maps i...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:13 -
Improper excess light energy dissipation in Arabidopsis results in a metabolic reprogramming
Plant performance is affected by the level of expression of PsbS, a key photoprotective protein involved in the process of feedback de-excitation (FDE), or the qE component of non-photochemical quenching, NPQ.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:12 -
Expression of genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism in cotton stems and roots
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L) is an important crop worldwide that provides fiber for the textile industry. Cotton is a perennial plant that stores starch in stems and roots to provide carbohydrates for growth in ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:11 -
Medicago truncatula and Glomus intraradices gene expression in cortical cells harboring arbuscules in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Most vascular flowering plants have the capacity to form symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. The symbiosis develops in the roots where AM fungi colonize the root cortex and form arbu...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:10 -
Differential effectiveness of Serratia plymuthica IC1270-induced systemic resistance against hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic leaf pathogens in rice
Induced resistance is a state of enhanced defensive capacity developed by a plant reacting to specific biotic or chemical stimuli. Over the years, several forms of induced resistance have been characterized, i...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:9 -
Evidence for separate translocation pathways in determining cadmium accumulation in grain and aerial plant parts in rice
Cadmium (Cd) translocation and accumulation in the grain and aerial plant parts of rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important aspect of food safety and phytoextraction in areas with contaminated soil. Because control...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:8 -
Effective carbon partitioning driven by exotic phloem-specific regulatory elements fused to the Arabidopsis thaliana AtSUC2 sucrose-proton symporter gene
AtSUC2 (At1g22710) from Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a phloem-localized sucrose/proton symporter required for efficient photoassimilate transport from source tissues to sink tissues. AtSUC2 plays a key role in co...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:7 -
Transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis developing stems: a close-up on cell wall genes
Different strategies (genetics, biochemistry, and proteomics) can be used to study proteins involved in cell biogenesis. The availability of the complete sequences of several plant genomes allowed the developm...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:6 -
In planta localisation patterns of MADS domain proteins during floral development in Arabidopsis thaliana
MADS domain transcription factors play important roles in various developmental processes in flowering plants. Members of this family play a prominent role in the transition to flowering and the specification ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:5 -
Linkage mapping of putative regulator genes of barley grain development characterized by expression profiling
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seed development is a highly regulated process with fine-tuned interaction of various tissues controlling distinct physiological events during prestorage, storage and dessication phase...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:4 -
A multiple-method approach reveals a declining amount of chloroplast DNA during development in Arabidopsis
A decline in chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) during leaf maturity has been reported previously for eight plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana. Recent studies, however, concluded that the amount of cpDNA during l...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:3 -
FORCA, a promoter element that responds to crosstalk between defense and light signaling
Recognition of pathogenic microorganisms triggers in plants comprehensive transcriptional reprogramming. In order to identify transcriptome-level control elements required for plant immune responses we are exa...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:2 -
Transcript and proteomic analysis of developing white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) roots
White lupin (Lupinus albus L.) roots efficiently take up and accumulate (heavy) metals, adapt to phosphate deficiency by forming cluster roots, and secrete antimicrobial prenylated isoflavones during development....
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2009 9:1 -
ArabidopsiseIF2α kinase GCN2 is essential for growth in stress conditions and is activated by wounding
Phosphorylation of eIF2α provides a key mechanism for down-regulating protein synthesis in response to nutrient starvation or stresses in mammalian and yeast cells. However, this process has not been well char...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:134 -
The lipoxygenase gene family: a genomic fossil of shared polyploidy between Glycine max and Medicago truncatula
Soybean lipoxygenases (Lxs) play important roles in plant resistance and in conferring the distinct bean flavor. Lxs comprise a multi-gene family that includes GmLx1, GmLx2 and GmLx3, and many of these genes have...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:133 -
Elicitor-induced transcription factors for metabolic reprogramming of secondary metabolism in Medicago truncatula
Exposure of Medicago truncatula cell suspension cultures to pathogen or wound signals leads to accumulation of various classes of flavonoid and/or triterpene defense molecules, orchestrated via a complex signalli...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:132 -
Selection of internal control genes for quantitative real-time RT-PCR studies during tomato development process
The elucidation of gene expression patterns leads to a better understanding of biological processes. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR has become the standard method for in-depth studies of gene expression. A biol...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:131 -
A clarified position for solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformein the evolutionary history of tomatoes (solanaceae)
The natural phenotypic variability present in the germplasm of cultivated plants can be linked to molecular polymorphisms using association genetics. However it is necessary to consider the genetic structure o...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:130 -
Defence reactions in the apoplastic proteome of oilseed rape (Brassica napus var. napus) attenuate Verticillium longisporumgrowth but not disease symptoms
Verticillium longisporum is one of the most important pathogens of Brassicaceae that remains strictly in the xylem during most stages of its development. It has been suggested that disease symptoms are associated...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:129 -
A SNP transferability survey within the genus Vitis
Efforts to sequence the genomes of different organisms continue to increase. The DNA sequence is usually decoded for one individual and its application is for the whole species. The recent sequencing of the hi...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:128 -
A set of microsatellite markers with long core repeat optimized for grape (Vitisspp.) genotyping
Individual fingerprinting based on molecular markers has become a popular tool for studies of population genetics and analysis of genetic diversity in germplasm collections, including the solution of synonymy/...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:127 -
The effects of nitrogen and potassium nutrition on the growth of nonembryogenic and embryogenic tissue of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis(L.) Osbeck)
Mineral nutrients are one of the most basic components of plant tissue culture media. Nitrogen in the form of NH4+ and NO3- is the dominant mineral nutrient in most plant tissue culture formulations, with effects...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:126 -
ESKIMO1 is a key gene involved in water economy as well as cold acclimation and salt tolerance
Drought is a major social and economic problem resulting in huge yield reduction in the field. Today's challenge is to develop plants with reduced water requirements and stable yields in fluctuating environmen...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:125 -
A putative autonomous 20.5 kb-CACTA transposon insertion in an F3'H allele identifies a new CACTA transposon subfamily in Glycine max
The molecular organization of very few genetically defined CACTA transposon systems have been characterized thoroughly as those of Spm/En in maize, Tam1 of Antirrhinum majus Candystripe1 (Cs1) from Sorghum bicolo...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:124 -
Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel miRNAs expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice
The plant miRNAs represent an important class of endogenous small RNAs that guide cleavage of an mRNA target or repress its translation to control development and adaptation to stresses. MiRNAs are nuclear-enc...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:123 -
Transcript profiles uncover temporal and stress-induced changes of metabolic pathways in germinating sugar beet seeds
With a cultivation area of 1.75 Mio ha and sugar yield of 16.7 Mio tons in 2006, sugar beet is a crop of great economic importance in Europe. The productivity of sugar beet is determined significantly by seed ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:122 -
The MYST histone acetyltransferases are essential for gametophyte development in Arabidopsis
Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) play critical roles in the regulation of chromatin structure and gene expression. Arabidopsis genome contains 12 HAT genes, but the biological functions of many of them are st...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:121 -
Arabidopsis At5g39790 encodes a chloroplast-localized, carbohydrate-binding, coiled-coil domain-containing putative scaffold protein
Starch accumulation and degradation in chloroplasts is accomplished by a suite of over 30 enzymes. Recent work has emphasized the importance of multi-protein complexes amongst the metabolic enzymes, and the ac...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:120 -
Development and mapping of Simple Sequence Repeat markers for pearl millet from data mining of Expressed Sequence Tags
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a staple food and fodder crop of marginal agricultural lands of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It is also a summer forage crop in the southern USA...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:119 -
RICD: A rice indicacDNA database resource for rice functional genomics
The Oryza sativa L. indica subspecies is the most widely cultivated rice. During the last few years, we have collected over 20,000 putative full-length cDNAs and over 40,000 ESTs isolated from various cDNA librar...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:118 -
Morphological and molecular characterization of a spontaneously tuberizing potato mutant: an insight into the regulatory mechanisms of tuber induction
Tuberization in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) represents a morphogenetic transition of stolon growth to tuber formation, which is under complex environmental and endogenous regulation. In the present work, we stu...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:117 -
Assessment of allelic diversity in intron-containing Mal d 1 genes and their association to apple allergenicity
Mal d 1 is a major apple allergen causing food allergic symptoms of the oral allergy syndrome (OAS) in birch-pollen sensitised patients. The Mal d 1 gene family is known to have at least 7 intron-containing and 1...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:116 -
Large-scale collection and annotation of full-length enriched cDNAs from a model halophyte, Thellungiella halophila
Thellungiella halophila (also known as Thellungiella salsuginea) is a model halophyte with a small plant size, short life cycle, and small genome. It easily undergoes genetic transformation by the floral dipping ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:115 -
Transcriptomic profiling of mature embryo from an elite super-hybrid rice LYP9 and its parental lines
The mature embryo of rice (Oryza sativa, L.) is a synchronized and integrated tissue mass laying the foundation at molecular level for its growth, development, and differentiation toward a developing and ultimate...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:114 -
Systemic resistance and lipoxygenase-related defence response induced in tomato by Pseudomonas putidastrain BTP1
Previous studies showed the ability of Pseudomonas putida strain BTP1 to promote induced systemic resistance (ISR) in different host plants. Since ISR is long-lasting and not conducive for development of resistan...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:113 -
Exploring valid reference genes for gene expression studies in Brachypodium distachyonby real-time PCR
The wild grass species Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium hereafter) is emerging as a new model system for grass crop genomics research and biofuel grass biology. A draft nuclear genome sequence is expected to...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:112 -
Molecular population genetics and gene expression analysis of duplicated CBF genes of Arabidopsis thaliana
CBF/DREB duplicate genes are widely distributed in higher plants and encode transcriptional factors, or CBFs, which bind a DNA regulatory element and impart responsiveness to low temperatures and dehydration.
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:111 -
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of super-embryogenic Medicago truncatulaexplant cultures
The Medicago truncatula (M. truncatula) line 2HA has a 500-fold greater capacity to regenerate plants in culture by somatic embryogenesis than its wild type progenitor Jemalong. To understand the molecular basis ...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:110 -
Host-plant-mediated effects of Nadefensin on herbivore and pathogen resistance in Nicotiana attenuata
The adage from Shakespeare, "troubles, not as single spies, but in battalions come," holds true for Nicotiana attenuata, which is commonly attacked by both pathogens (Pseudomonas spp.) and herbivores (Manduca sex...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:109 -
RACK1 genes regulate plant development with unequal genetic redundancy in Arabidopsis
RACK1 is a versatile scaffold protein in mammals, regulating diverse developmental processes. Unlike in non-plant organisms where RACK1 is encoded by a single gene, Arabidopsis genome contains three RACK1 homolog...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:108 -
A novel screening protocol for the isolation of hydrogen producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtiistrains
Sealed Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cultures evolve significant amounts of hydrogen gas under conditions of sulfur depletion. However, the eukaryotic green alga goes through drastic metabolic changes during this nut...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:107 -
Genetic structure, diversity, and allelic richness in composite collection and reference set in chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.)
Plant genetic resources (PGR) are the basic raw materials for future genetic progress and an insurance against unforeseen threats to agricultural production. An extensive characterization of PGR provides an op...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:106 -
Natural variation in CBF gene sequence, gene expression and freezing tolerance in the Versailles core collection of Arabidopsis thaliana
Plants from temperate regions are able to withstand freezing temperatures due to a process known as cold acclimation, which is a prior exposure to low, but non-freezing temperatures. During acclimation, a larg...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:105 -
Identification, cloning and characterization of sis7 and sis10 sugar-insensitive mutants of Arabidopsis
The levels of soluble sugars, such as glucose and sucrose, help regulate many plant metabolic, physiological and developmental processes. Genetic screens are helping identify some of the loci involved in plant...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:104 -
Applying genotyping (TILLING) and phenotyping analyses to elucidate gene function in a chemically induced sorghum mutant population
Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is ranked as the fifth most important grain crop and serves as a major food staple and fodder resource for much of the world, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. The re...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:103 -
Transgenic rice expressing Allium sativumleaf agglutinin (ASAL) exhibits high-level resistance against major sap-sucking pests
Rice (Oryza sativa) productivity is adversely impacted by numerous biotic and abiotic factors. An approximate 52% of the global production of rice is lost annually owing to the damage caused by biotic factors, of...
Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2008 8:102
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