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  1. Panax ginseng is an important medicinal plant, and ginsenosides are the main bioactive molecules of ginseng. The TCP (TBI, CYC, PCF) family is a group of transcription factors (TFs) that play an important role in...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Tingting Lv, Yanhua Shen, Tao Liu, Mingming Liu, Jian Hu, Sizhang Liu, Yang Jiang, Meiping Zhang, Mingzhu Zhao, Kangyu Wang and Yi Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:47
  2. The GRAS transcription factor family plays a crucial role in various biological processes in different plants, such as tissue development, fruit maturation, and environmental stress. However, the GRAS family in r...

    Authors: Yu Fan, Xianqi Wan, Xin Zhang, Jieyu Zhang, Chunyu Zheng, Qiaohui Yang, Li Yang, Xiaolong Li, Liang Feng, Liang Zou and Dabing Xiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:46
  3. The species composition of tree stands plays an important role in shaping the properties of forest soils. The aim of our research was to determine the influence on soil properties of the root systems of six sp...

    Authors: Karolina Staszel-Szlachta, Jarosław Lasota, Andrzej Szlachta and Ewa Błońska
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:45
  4. Hemerocallis citrina Baroni (Huang hua cai in Chinese) is a perennial herbaceous plant grown for its flower buds that are eaten fresh or dried and is known as the vegetarian three treasures. The nuclear genome o...

    Authors: Minlong Jia, Jie Wang, Dongmei Cao, Congrong Jiang, Wei Li, Luke R. Tembrock, Guoming Xing, Sen Li and Zhiqiang Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:44
  5. The development of the plant in vitro techniques has brought about the variation identified in regenerants known as somaclonal or tissue culture-induced variation (TCIV). S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM), glutath...

    Authors: Renata Orłowska, Janusz Zimny, Jacek Zebrowski, Piotr Androsiuk and Piotr T. Bednarek
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:43
  6. Pseudochlorella pringsheimii (Ppr) is a green unicellular alga rich with chlorophyll, carotenoids, and antioxidants. As a widespread organism, Ppr must face, and adapt to, many environmental stresses and these ar...

    Authors: Mostafa M. S. Ismaiel, Michele D. Piercey-Normore and Christof Rampitsch
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:42
  7. Salinity stress is an environmental constraint that normally develops concurrently under field conditions, resulting in drastic limitation of rice plant growth and grain productivity. The objective of this stu...

    Authors: Guanqiang Zuo, Jingxin Huo, Xiaohui Yang, Wanqi Mei, Rui Zhang, Aaqil Khan, Naijie Feng and Dianfeng Zheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:41
  8. NAC transcription factors are widely distributed in the plant kingdom and play an important role in the response to various abiotic stresses in plant species. Tritipyrum, an octoploid derived from hybridization o...

    Authors: Xiaojuan Liu, Guangyi Zhou, Songshu Chen, Zhenzhen Jia, Suqin Zhang, Fang He and Mingjian Ren
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:40
  9. Quercus aliena is a major montane tree species of subtropical and temperate forests in China, with important ecological and economic value. In order to reveal the species’ population dynamics, genetic diversity, ...

    Authors: Biao Han, Boqiang Tong, Jiliang Zhang, Ziheng Bu, Lijun Zhao, Yang Xian, Dezhu Li and Xiaoman Xie
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:39
  10. Milling quality (MQ) and grain shape (GS) of rice (Oryza sativa L.) are correlated traits, both determine farmers’ final profit. More than one population under multiple environments may provide valuable informati...

    Authors: Mwenda Emelin, Xianjin Qiu, Fangjun Fan, Md. Alamin, Muhiuddin Faruquee, Hui Hu, Junying Xu, Jie Yang, Haiming Xu, Jauhar Ali, Bailong Liu, Yumin Shi, Zhikang Li, Luyan Zhang, Tianqing Zheng and Jianlong Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:38
  11. Predicting the adaptability of forest tree populations under future climates requires a better knowledge of both the adaptive significance and evolvability of measurable key traits. Phenotypic plasticity, stan...

    Authors: Ricardo Alía, Jose Climent, Luis Santos-del-Blanco, Amelia Gonzalez-Arrojo, Isabel Feito, Delphine Grivet and Juan Majada
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:37
  12. Maize cultivated for dry grain covers approximately 197 million hectares globally, securing its position as the second most widely grown crop worldwide after wheat. Although spermidine and biochar individually...

    Authors: Shoucheng Huang, Ping Huang, Sajid Masood, Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal, Tayyaba Naz, Subhan Danish, Mohammad Javed Ansari and Saleh H. Salmen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:36
  13. Salinity stress is a prominent environmental factor that presents obstacles to the growth and development of plants. When the soil contains high salt concentrations, the roots face difficulties in absorbing wa...

    Authors: Sara Zafar, Zuhair Hasnain, Subhan Danish, Martin Leonardo Battaglia, Shah Fahad, Mohammad Javed Ansari and Sulaiman Ali Alharbi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:35
  14. Drought stress can substantially restrict maize growth and productivity, and global warming and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events are likely to result in more yield losses in the future. Theref...

    Authors: Yipu Li, Zhijun Su, Yanan Lin, Zhenghan Xu, Haizhu Bao, Fugui Wang, Jian Liu, Shuping Hu, Zhigang Wang, Xiaofang Yu and Julin Gao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:34
  15. The possibility to stimulate the production of some nutraceutical properties of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) sprouts by non-thermal plasma (NTP) processing of the seeds in different conditions was stu...

    Authors: Iuliana Motrescu, Constantin Lungoci, Mihai Alexandru Ciolan and Gerard Jităreanu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:33
  16. As a vital type of noncoding RNAs, circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in plant growth and development and stress response. However, little is known about the biological roles of circRNAs in regulati...

    Authors: Ruijie Wang, Meng Zhang, Hui Wang, Liangliang Chen, Xuexian Zhang, Liping Guo, Tingxiang Qi, Huini Tang, Kashif Shahzad, Hailin Wang, Xiuqin Qiao, Jianyong Wu and Chaozhu Xing
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:32
  17. The orchids of the subtribe Coelogyninae are among the most morphologically diverse and economically important groups within the subfamily Epidendroideae. Previous molecular studies have revealed that Coelogyn...

    Authors: Lin Li, Qiuping Wu, Junwen Zhai, Kunlin Wu, Lin Fang, Mingzhi Li, Songjun Zeng and Shijin Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:31
  18. Potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is the most devastating disease on potato. Dissecting critical immune components in potato will be supportive for engineering P. infestans resistance. Upon pa...

    Authors: Congcong Sun, Yuanyuan Li, Tingting Zhao, Weishuai Bi, Yingying Song, Xiangxiu Liang, Xiaodan Wang, Daolong Dou and Guangyuan Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:30
  19. Fusarium crown rot (FCR) is one of the most significant diseases limiting crop production in the Huanghuai wheat-growing region of China. Prothioconazole, a triazole sterol 14α-demethylation inhibitor (DMI) fu...

    Authors: Feng Zhou, Yan Jiao, Aohui Han, Xiaoli Zhou, Jiamei Kong, Haiyan Hu, Runqiang Liu and Chengwei Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:29
  20. Canopy architecture is critical in determining the fruit-zone microclimate and, ultimately, in determining an orchard’s success in terms of the quality and quantity of the fruit produced. However, few studies ...

    Authors: Zheng Liu, Xie-Yu Li, Li Yang, Yin-Sheng Cheng, Xian-Shuang Nie and Tao Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:28
  21. Wheat, a crucial food crop in China, is highly vulnerable to drought stress throughout its growth and development. WRKY transcription factors (TFs), being one of the largest families of TFs, play a vital role ...

    Authors: Miaomiao Ge, Yan Tang, Yijun Guan, Meicheng Lv, Chunjv Zhou, Huiling Ma and Jinyin Lv
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:27
  22. To investigate the relationship between stem puncture mechanical characteristics and NK stress diagnosis, the microstructure, surface morphology, cellulose and lignin content, puncture mechanical characteristi...

    Authors: Yong Liu, Yafei Wang, Bin Wang, Qiang Shi and Hanping Mao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:26
  23. Maize kernel colour is an important index for evaluating maize quality and value and mainly entails two natural pigments, carotenoids and anthocyanins. To analyse the genetic mechanism of maize kernel colour a...

    Authors: Weiwei Chen, Fangqing Cui, Hang Zhu, Xiangbo Zhang, Siqi Lu, Chuanli Lu, Hailong Chang, Lina Fan, Huanzhang Lin, Junteng Fang, Yuxing An, Xuhui Li and Yongwen Qi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:25
  24. Spiraea L. is a genus comprising approximately 90 species that are distributed throughout the northern temperate regions. China is recognized as the center of species diversity for this genus, hosting more than 7...

    Authors: Shu-Yan Zhang, Hai-Fei Yan, Lei Wei, Tong-Jian Liu, Lin Chen, Gang Hao, Xing Wu and Qiao-Ling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:23
  25. Floral patterns are crucial for insect pollination and plant reproduction. Generally, once these patterns are established, they exhibit minimal changes under natural circumstances. However, the Clematis cultivar’...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Yue Pan, Lei Peng and Jin Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:22
  26. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) with short or no dormancy period are easy to germinate before harvest (pre-harvest sprouting, PHS). PHS has seriously decreased seed weight and oil content in B. napus. Short-chain de...

    Authors: Fugui Zhang, Tianhua Chen, Nian Liu, Xinzhe Hou, Ling Wang, Qingao Cai, Rui Li, Xingzhi Qian, Hong Xu, Zonghe Zhu, Wenyin Zheng, Yan Yu and Kejin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:21
  27. Excess salinity can affect the growth and development of all plants. Salinization jeopardizes agroecosystems, induces oxidative reactions in most cultivated plants and reduces biomass which affects crop yield....

    Authors: Muhammad Tanees Chaudhary, Sajid Majeed, Iqrar Ahmad Rana, Zulfiqar Ali, Yinhua Jia, Xiongming Du, Lori Hinze and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:20
  28. Camellia olelfera petals are colorful, and have high ornamental value. However, the color formation mechanism of C. olelfera petals with different color is still unclear. In our study, WGCNA method was applied to...

    Authors: Hai-Tao Zeng, Tao Zheng, Qi Tang, Hao Xu and Mengjiao Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:19
  29. Camellia reticulata Lindl., also known as Yunnan Camellia, is an important ornamental plant in China, especially for its large and stunning flowers. A comprehensive understanding of their coloration mechanisms ca...

    Authors: Yan Qu, Zhi Ou, Qing Qing Yong, Xiang Yao and Jun Luo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:18
  30. Adventitious root formation is a key step in vegetative propagation via cuttings. It is crucial for establishing birch plantations and preserve birch varieties. Although previous studies have highlighted role of

    Authors: Kun Chen, Xiaoyue Zhang, Zhenglun Li, Wei Wang, Guanbin Lv, Qibin Yu, Guifeng Liu, Chuanping Yang and Jing Jiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:17
  31. Kernel dehydration is an important factor for the mechanized harvest in maize. Kernel moisture content (KMC) and kernel dehydration rate (KDR) are important indicators for kernel dehydration. Although quantita...

    Authors: Hao Zhang, Xiaonan Gou, Liangchuan Ma, Xiaojun Zhang, Jianzhou Qu, Xiaoyue Wang, Wenjie Huang, Shijuan Yan, Xinghua Zhang, Jiquan Xue and Shutu Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:15
  32. Hybridization is considered as an important model of speciation, but the evolutionary process of natural hybridization is still poorly characterized in Lycoris. To reveal the phylogenetic relationship of two new ...

    Authors: Miaohua Quan, Xianghui Jiang, Longqian Xiao, Jianglin Li, Juan Liang and Guanghua Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:14
  33. The ability of a data fusion system composed of a computer vision system (CVS) and an electronic nose (e-nose) was evaluated to predict key physiochemical attributes and distinguish red-fleshed kiwifruit produ...

    Authors: Mojdeh Asadi, Mahmood Ghasemnezhad, Adel Bakhshipour, Jamal-Ali Olfati and Mohammad Hossein Mirjalili
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:13
  34. ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter proteins are one of the most extensive protein families known to date and are ubiquitously found in animals, plants, and microorganisms. ABCs have a variety of functions, su...

    Authors: Dongdong Zhang, Zhenfan Yu, Bin Zeng and Xingyue Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:12
  35. Corybas taliensis is an endemic species of sky islands in China. Its habitat is fragile and unstable, and it is likely that the species is threatened. However, it is difficult to determine the conservation priori...

    Authors: Yuhang Liu, Huichun Wang, Jing Yang, Zhiling Dao and Weibang Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:11
  36. Understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying gray leaf spot (GLS) resistance in maize is crucial for breeding GLS-resistant inbred lines and commercial hybrids. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and ge...

    Authors: Can Hu, Tianhui Kuang, Ranjan K. Shaw, Yudong Zhang, Jun Fan, Yaqi Bi, Fuyan Jiang, Ruijia Guo and Xingming Fan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:10
  37. Essential micronutrient Boron (B) plays crucial roles in plant survival and reproduction but becomes toxic in higher quantities. Although plant cells have different B transport systems, B homeostasis is mainly...

    Authors: Jing Wang, Junbin Wei, Dongliang Guo, Xinmin Lv, Boyun Wang, Yiyun Wang and Jianguang Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:9
  38. Patchoulol, a valuable compound belonging to the sesquiterpenoid family, is the primary component of patchouli oil produced by Pogostemon cablin (P. cablin). It has a variety of pharmacological and biological act...

    Authors: Jian Li, Huan-Chao Huang, Yue-Qiu Zuo, Ming-Yong Zhang, Meng-Ling He and Kuai-Fei Xia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:8
  39. Heavy metal cadmium (Cd) naturally occurs in soil and is a hazardous trace contaminant for humans, animals, and plants. The main sources of Cd pollution in soil include overuse of phosphatic fertilizers, manur...

    Authors: Sundas Sana, Musarrat Ramzan, Samina Ejaz, Subhan Danish, Saleh H. Salmen and Mohammad Javed Ansari
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:7
  40. Unpredictable rainfall frequently results in excess moisture, which is detrimental to the landscape because it interferes with the genetic, morphological, and physiological processes of plants, even though the...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Feng Song, Xiaolei Xu, Tiantian Xia, Xu Zhang, Li Dong and Dejie Yin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:6
  41. Yellow Camellia (Camellia sect. chrysantha) is a rare ornamental plant and an important germplasm resource globally. Camellia nitidissima thrives in normal acidic soils, while Camellia limonia can adapt to the ca...

    Authors: Lisha Zhong, Yuxing Shi, Shaolei Xu, Sisi Xie, Xinhui Huang, Yujie Li, Chaofan Qu, Jianxiu Liu, Jialin Liao, Yang Huang and Yu Liang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:5
  42. Understanding how plants and pathogens regulate each other's gene expression during their interactions is key to revealing the mechanisms of disease resistance and controlling the development of pathogens. Des...

    Authors: Meng Wang, Zhouwen Wang, Yi Ding, Shaoling Kang, Senrong Jiang, Zhuangjia Yang, Zhan Xie, Jialin Wang, Shuangshuang Wei, Jiaquan Huang, Dongdong Li, Xingyu Jiang and Hua Tang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:4
  43. Yellow Stripe-Like (YSL) proteins are involved in the uptake and transport of metal ions. They play important roles in maintaining the zinc and iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis, rice (Oryza sativa), and barley (Ho...

    Authors: Zizhao Song, Suzhen Li, Yu Li, Xiaojin Zhou, Xiaoqing Liu, Wenzhu Yang and Rumei Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:3
  44. The 70 kD heat shock proteins (HSP70s) represent a class of molecular chaperones that are widely distributed in all kingdoms of life, which play important biological roles in plant growth, development, and str...

    Authors: Xiaoxue Pan, Yang Zheng, Kairong Lei, Weilin Tao and Na Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:2
  45. Wheat is one of the main grain crops in the world, and the tiller number is a key factor affecting the yield of wheat. Phosphorus is an essential element for tiller development in wheat. However, due to decrea...

    Authors: Xue-zheng Li, Xiao-tong Zhang, Xiao-min Bie, Jing Zhang, Deng-ji Jiang, Heng Tang and Fang Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2024 24:1
  46. Drought is one of the important abiotic stresses that can significantly reduce crop yields. In India, about 24% of Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) cultivation is taken up under rainfed conditions, leading to low...

    Authors: Omkar Maharudra Limbalkar, Prashant Vasisth, Guman Singh, Priyanka Jain, Mohit Sharma, Rajendra Singh, Gokulan Dhanasekaran, Manish Kumar, Mohan Lal Meena, Mir Asif Iquebal, Sarika Jaiswal, Mahesh Rao, Anshul Watts, Ramcharan Bhattacharya, Kunwar Harendra Singh, Dinesh Kumar…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2023 23:664
  47. Plant HSP20s are not only synthesized in response to heat stress but are also involved in plant biotic and abiotic stress resistance, normal metabolism, development, differentiation, survival, ripening, and de...

    Authors: Chunhua Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Ziwen Su, Zhijun Shen, Hongfeng Song, Zhixiang Cai, Jianlan Xu, Lei Guo, Yuanyuan Zhang, Shaolei Guo, Meng Sun, Shenge Li and Mingliang Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2023 23:663

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