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  1. Soybean oil is a complex mixture of five fatty acids (palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and linolenic). Soybean oil with a high oleic acid content is desirable because this monounsaturated fatty acid improve...

    Authors: Xiaoyi Liu, Di Qin, Angela Piersanti, Qi Zhang, Cristina Miceli and Piwu Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:399

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  2. Wheat blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum (MoT) pathotype, is a global threat to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production. Few blast resistance (R) genes have been identified to date, therefore assessing ...

    Authors: Rachel Goddard, Andrew Steed, Catherine Chinoy, Jéssica Rosset Ferreira, Pedro Luiz Scheeren, João Leodato Nunes Maciel, Eduardo Caierão, Gisele Abigail Montan Torres, Luciano Consoli, Flavio Martins Santana, José Mauricio Cunha Fernandes, James Simmonds, Cristobal Uauy, James Cockram and Paul Nicholson

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:398

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  3. The model species Tetranychus urticae produces important plant injury and economic losses in the field. The current accepted method for the quantification of the spider mite damage in Arabidopsis whole rosettes i...

    Authors: Dairon Ojeda-Martinez, Manuel Martinez, Isabel Diaz and M. Estrella Santamaria

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:397

    Content type: Methodology article

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  4. Phytolaccaceae species in China are not only ornamental plants but also perennial herbs that are closely related to human health. However, both large-scale full-length cDNA sequencing and reference gene valida...

    Authors: Danfeng Liu, Li Chen, Chao Chen, Xingkui An, Yongjun Zhang, Yi Wang and Qingjun Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:396

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  5. Fiber quality is an important economic trait of cotton, and its improvement is a major goal of cotton breeding. To better understand the genetic mechanisms responsible for fiber quality traits, we conducted a ...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Chengxiang Song, Zhongying Ren, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xiaoyu Pei, Yangai Liu, Kunlun He, Fei Zhang, Junjie Zhao, Jie Zhang, Xingxing Wang, Daigang Yang and Wei Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:395

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  6. Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) are key foods, and their molecular biology and evolution have been well described. Tomato plants originated in the tropics and, thus, are cold sensitive.

    Authors: Xinyong Guo, Juju Li, Li Zhang, Zhanwen Zhang, Ping He, Wenwen Wang, Mei Wang, Aiying Wang and Jianbo Zhu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:394

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  7. Early leaf senescence influences yield and yield quality by affecting plant growth and development. A series of leaf senescence-associated molecular mechanisms have been reported in rice. However, the complex ...

    Authors: Shenglong Yang, Guonan Fang, Anpeng Zhang, Banpu Ruan, Hongzhen Jiang, Shilin Ding, Chaolei Liu, Yu Zhang, Noushin Jaha, Peng Hu, Zhengjin Xu, Zhenyu Gao, Jiayu Wang and Qian Qian

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:393

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  8. Salt and drought are the main abiotic stresses that restrict the yield of crops. Peroxidases (PRXs) are involved in various abiotic stress responses. Furthermore, only few wheat PRXs have been characterized in...

    Authors: Peisen Su, Jun Yan, Wen Li, Liang Wang, Jinxiao Zhao, Xin Ma, Anfei Li, Hongwei Wang and Lingrang Kong

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:392

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  9. Studying population genetic structure and gene flow of plant populations and their influencing factors is of particular significance in the field of conservation biology, especially important for species such ...

    Authors: Jin Cheng, Huixia Kao and Shubin Dong

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:391

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  10. Bud dormancy is a strategic mechanism plants developed as an adaptation to unfavorable environments. The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is one of the most ancient fruit vine species and vines are planted all over the...

    Authors: Lingfei Shangguan, Mengxia Chen, Xiang Fang, Zhenqiang Xie, Peijie Gong, Yuxiang Huang, Zicheng Wang and Jinggui Fang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:390

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  11. Phosphorus (P) -rich soils develop in phosphorite residing areas while P-deficient soils are ubiquitous in subtropical regions. Little has been reported that how metabolites participate in the seed development...

    Authors: Jun Yuan, Ningxiao Sun, Hongmei Du, Shan Yin, Hongzhang Kang, Muhammad Umair and Chunjiang Liu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:389

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  12. Flavonoid biosynthesis is strongly influenced by phytohormones. For example, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) enhances the flavonoid accumulation in pear. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the MeJA-induced fl...

    Authors: Apekshika T. Premathilake, Junbei Ni, Jiaqi Shen, Songling Bai and Yuanwen Teng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:388

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  13. Ginkgo biloba, a typical dioecious plant, is a traditional medicinal plant widely planted. However, it has a long juvenile period, which severely affected the breeding and cultivation of superior ginkgo varieties...

    Authors: Xiao-Meng Liu, Shui-Yuan Cheng, Jia-Bao Ye, Ze-Xiong Chen, Yong-Ling Liao, Wei-Wei Zhang, Soo-Un Kim and Feng Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:387

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  14. Fruit skin color play important role in commercial value of cucumber, which is mainly determined by the content and composition of chlorophyll and anthocyanins. Therefore, understanding the related genes and m...

    Authors: Min Wang, Lin Chen, Zhaojun Liang, Xiaoming He, Wenrui Liu, Biao Jiang, Jinqiang Yan, Piaoyun Sun, Zhenqiang Cao, Qingwu Peng and Yu’e Lin

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:386

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  15. Sulfur is a major component of biological molecules and thus an essential element for plants. Deficiency of sulfate, the main source of sulfur in soils, negatively influences plant growth and crop yield. The e...

    Authors: Javier Canales, Felipe Uribe, Carlos Henríquez-Valencia, Carlos Lovazzano, Joaquín Medina and Elena A. Vidal

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:385

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  16. Grape is highly sensitive to gibberellin (GA), which is crucial during seed and berry development (SBD) either by itself or by interacting with other hormones, such as auxin, Abscisic acid (ABA), and Cytokinin...

    Authors: Wenran Wang, Yunhe Bai, Padmalatha Koilkonda, Le Guan, Yaxian Zhuge, Xicheng Wang, Zhongjie Liu, Haifeng Jia, Chen Wang and Jinggui Fang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:384

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  17. Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is involved in regulating physiological processes in plants. We investigated how H2S ameliorates iron (Fe) deficiency in soybean (Glycine max L.) seedlings. Multidisciplinary approaches in...

    Authors: Juan Chen, Ni-Na Zhang, Qing Pan, Xue-Yuan Lin, Zhouping Shangguan, Jian-Hua Zhang and Ge-Hong Wei

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:383

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  19. Chloroplasts play an important role in plant growth and development. The chloroplast genome contains approximately twenty group II introns that are spliced due to proteins encoded by nuclear genes. CAF2 is one...

    Authors: Lan Shen, Qiang Zhang, Zhongwei Wang, Hongling Wen, Guanglian Hu, Deyong Ren, Jiang Hu, Li Zhu, Zhenyu Gao, Guangheng Zhang, Longbiao Guo, Dali Zeng and Qian Qian

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:381

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  20. Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) addition is one of the several post-translational modifications to proteins that increase their affinity for membranes. In eukaryotes, the GPI transamidase complex (GPI-T) ca...

    Authors: Nicholas Desnoyer, Gregory Howard, Emma Jong and Ravishankar Palanivelu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:380

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Among eukaryotic organisms, alternative splicing is an important process that can generate multiple transcripts from one same precursor messenger RNA, which greatly increase transcriptome and proteome diversit...

    Authors: Kai-Lu Zhang, Zhen Feng, Jing-Fang Yang, Feng Yang, Tian Yuan, Di Zhang, Ge-Fei Hao, Yan-Ming Fang, Jianhua Zhang, Caie Wu, Mo-Xian Chen and Fu-Yuan Zhu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:379

    Content type: Research article

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  22. At present, the distinctness, uniformity, and stability (DUS) testing of flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) depends on field morphological identification, which is problematic in that it is labor intensive...

    Authors: Binbin He, Ruimei Geng, Lirui Cheng, Xianbin Yang, Hongmei Ge and Min Ren

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:378

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  23. Cattail (Typha domingensis Pers.) is a perennial emergent plant which is used in Green Floating Filters (GFFs), one of the most innovative systems of wastewater treatment to bioremediate eutrophic waters and prod...

    Authors: Fanny Mabel Carhuancho León, Pedro Luis Aguado Cortijo, María del Carmen Morató Izquierdo and María Teresa Castellanos Moncho

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:377

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  24. Tomato gray leaf spot caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is a serious disease that can severely hinder tomato production. To date, only Sm has been reported to provide resistance against this dise...

    Authors: Huanhuan Yang, Fengyi Shen, Hexuan Wang, Tingting Zhao, He Zhang, Jingbin Jiang, Xiangyang Xu and Jingfu Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:376

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  25. Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.), the dominant native coniferous species in southern China, is commercially important for supplying timber and oleoresin. However, knowledge of the genetic variability of masso...

    Authors: Qinghua Liu, Yini Xie, Bin Liu, HuanhuanYin, Zhichun Zhou, Zhongping Feng and Yadong Chen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:375

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  26. Triterpenoids from birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.) exert antitumor and anti-HIV activities. Due to the complexity of plant secondary metabolic pathways, triterpene compounds in plants is not always determined by ...

    Authors: Jing Yin, Lu Sun, Ying Li, Jialei Xiao, Siyao Wang, Jie Yang, Ziyue Qu and Yaguang Zhan

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:374

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  27. Taproot is the main edible organ and ultimately determines radish yield and quality. However, the precise molecular mechanism underlying taproot thickening awaits further investigation in radish. Here, RNA-seq...

    Authors: Yang Xie, Jiali Ying, Liang Xu, Yan Wang, Junhui Dong, Yinglong Chen, Mingjia Tang, Cui Li, Everlyne M’mbone Muleke and Liwang Liu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:373

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  28. DELLAs play key roles in plant gibberellin signaling pathways and are generally important in plant development and growth. However, DELLAs in many plant taxa have not yet been systematically analyzed.

    Authors: Pengfei Wang, Qianqian Zhang, Yingchun Chen, Yanxia Zhao, Fengshan Ren, Hongmei Shi and Xinying Wu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:372

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  29. Low temperature is a limiting factor of rice productivity and geographical distribution. Wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) is an important germplasm resource for rice improvement. It has superior tolerance to ma...

    Authors: Yinghua Pan, Haifu Liang, Lijun Gao, Gaoxing Dai, Weiwei Chen, Xinghai Yang, Dongjin Qing, Ju Gao, Hao Wu, Juan Huang, Weiyong Zhou, Chengcui Huang, Yuntao Liang and Guofu Deng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:371

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  30. The blue pigmentation of Japanese gentian flowers is due to a polyacylated anthocyanin, gentiodelphin, and all associated biosynthesis genes and several regulatory genes have been cloned and characterized. How...

    Authors: Keisuke Tasaki, Momo Yoshida, Minori Nakajima, Atsumi Higuchi, Aiko Watanabe and Masahiro Nishihara

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:370

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  31. Tillering is an important agronomic trait underlying the yields and reproduction of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata), an important perennial forage grass. Although some genes affecting tiller initiation have bee...

    Authors: Xiaoheng Xu, Guangyan Feng, Yueyang Liang, Yang Shuai, Qiuxu Liu, Gang Nie, Zhongfu Yang, Linkai Hang and Xinquan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:369

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  32. Phosphorus (P) deficiency limits crop production worldwide. Crops differ in their ability to acquire and utilise the P available. The aim of this study was to determine root traits (root exudates, root system ...

    Authors: Paula Pongrac, Hiram Castillo-Michel, Juan Reyes-Herrera, Robert D. Hancock, Sina Fischer, Mitja Kelemen, Jacqueline A. Thompson, Gladys Wright, Matevž Likar, Martin R. Broadley, Primož Vavpetič, Primož Pelicon and Philip J. White

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:368

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  33. Grafting is widely used in horticulture and rootstocks are known to modify scion growth and adaptation to soil conditions. However, the role of scion genotype in regulating rootstock development and functionin...

    Authors: Antoine T. Gautier, Noé Cochetel, Isabelle Merlin, Cyril Hevin, Virginie Lauvergeat, Philippe Vivin, Alain Mollier, Nathalie Ollat and Sarah J. Cookson

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:367

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  34. As a cool-season grass species, tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) is challenged by increasing temperatures. Heat acclimation or activation of leaf senescence, are two main strategies when tall fescue is exposed t...

    Authors: Yiguang Qian, Liwen Cao, Qiang Zhang, Maurice Amee, Ke Chen and Liang Chen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:366

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  35. Berry size is considered as one of the main selection criteria in table grapes breeding programs, due to the consumer preferences. However, berry size is a complex quantitive trait under polygenic control, and...

    Authors: Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza, Alex Di Genova, Alicia Sánchez, José Correa, Alonso Espinoza, Claudio Meneses, Alejandro Maass, Ariel Orellana and Patricio Hinrichsen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:365

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  36. Heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are present in majority of plants and play central roles in thermotolerance, transgenerational thermomemory, and many other stress responses. Our previous paper identified ...

    Authors: Xiu-lin Guo, Sai-nan Yuan, Hua-ning Zhang, Yuan-yuan Zhang, Yu-jie Zhang, Gui-yan Wang, Ya-qing Li and Guo-liang Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:364

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  37. Low temperature limits the growth and development and geographical distribution of plants. Poa pratensis is a cool-season turfgrass mainly grown in urban areas. However, low winter temperature or cold events in s...

    Authors: Wenke Dong, Xiang Ma, Hanyu Jiang, Chunxu Zhao and Huiling Ma

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:362

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  39. Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) are a large family of antioxidant enzymes that respond to biotic and abiotic stress by decomposing reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, the stress tolerance function of the Th2CysPr...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Wang, Zhongyuan Liu, Peilong Wang, Bo Jiang, Xiaojin Lei, Jing Wu, Wenfang Dong and Caiqiu Gao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:360

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  40. C2H2-type zinc finger protein (ZFPs) form a relatively large family of transcriptional regulators in plants, and play many roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. However, the comprehensive an...

    Authors: Junliang Yin, Lixin Wang, Jiao Zhao, Yiting Li, Rong Huang, Xinchen Jiang, Xiaokang Zhou, Xiongmeng Zhu, Yang He, Yiqin He, Yiqing Liu and Yongxing Zhu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:359

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  41. Understanding the genetic diversity in endangered species that occur inforest remnants is necessary to establish efficient strategies for the species conservation, restoration and management. Panax vietnamensis H...

    Authors: Dinh Duy Vu, Syed Noor Muhammad Shah, Mai Phuong Pham, Van Thang Bui, Minh Tam Nguyen and Thi Phuong Trang Nguyen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:358

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  42. The glyoxylate reductase (GR) multigene family has been described in various plant species, their isoforms show different biochemical features in plants. However, few studies have addressed the biological role...

    Authors: Zhisheng Zhang, Xiu Liang, Lei Lu, Zheng Xu, Jiayu Huang, Han He and Xinxiang Peng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:357

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  43. Molecular breeding has opened new avenues for crop improvement with the potential for faster progress. As oil palm is the major producer of vegetable oil in the world, its improvement, such as developing compa...

    Authors: Zulkifli Yaakub, Katialisa Kamaruddin, Rajinder Singh, Suzana Mustafa, Marhalil Marjuni, Ngoot-Chin Ting, Mohd Din Amiruddin, Low Eng-Ti Leslie, Ooi Leslie Cheng-Li, Kandha Sritharan, Rajanaidu Nookiah, Johannes Jansen and Meilina Ong Abdullah

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:356

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  44. Infection of plants by viruses interferes with expression and subcellular localization of plant proteins. Potyviruses comprise the largest and most economically damaging group of plant-infecting RNA viruses. I...

    Authors: Minna-Liisa Rajamäki, Sidona Sikorskaite-Gudziuniene, Nandita Sarmah, Markku Varjosalo and Jari P. T. Valkonen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:355

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  45. The non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs), carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) are important energy source or nutrients for all plant growth and metabolism. To persist in shaded understory, saplings hav...

    Authors: Qingqing Liu, Zhijun Huang, Zhengning Wang, Yanfang Chen, Zhumei Wen, Bo Liu and Mulualem Tigabu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:354

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  46. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is an important cash crop, of which the dried tube flower is not only an important raw material for dyes and cosmetics but also an important herb widely used in traditional Chi...

    Authors: Jiang Chen, Jie Wang, Rui Wang, Bin Xian, Chaoxiang Ren, Qianqian Liu, Qinghua Wu and Jin Pei

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:353

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  47. Although the effect of cold stratification on seed dormancy release has been extensively studied for many species, knowledge of the role of stratifying temperature, soil moisture content and duration of strati...

    Authors: Da Li Chen, Xin Ping Luo, Zhen Yuan, Meng Jie Bai and Xiao Wen Hu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:352

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  48. The objectives of this study were to reveal the anthocyanin biosynthesis metabolic pathway in white and purple flowers of Salvia miltiorrhiza using metabolomics and transcriptomics, to identify different anthocya...

    Authors: Tao Jiang, Meidi Zhang, Chunxiu Wen, Xiaoliang Xie, Wei Tian, Saiqun Wen, Ruike Lu and Lingdi Liu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:349

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  49. Soil salinity restricts plant growth and productivity. 2-(3,4-dichlorophenoxy) triethylamine (DCPTA) can alleviate salinity stress in plants. However, the mechanism of DCPTA-mediated salinity tolerance has not...

    Authors: Lijie Li, Wanrong Gu, Liguo Zhang, Congfeng Li, Xichang Chen, Chunrong Qian, Zhenhua Wang, Wenhua Li, Shiyu Zuo and Shi Wei

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:348

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  50. Drought is projected to become more frequent and severe in a changing climate, which requires deep sowing of crop seeds to reach soil moisture. Coleoptile length is a key agronomic trait in cereal crops such a...

    Authors: Hao Luo, Camilla Beate Hill, Gaofeng Zhou, Xiao-Qi Zhang and Chengdao Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:346

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