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  1. Comparative analyses of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes have shown that organelle genomes in bryophytes evolve slowly. However, in contrast to seed plants, the organellar genomes are yet poorly explored ...

    Authors: Kamil Myszczyński, Piotr Górski, Monika Ślipiko and Jakub Sawicki
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:321
  2. Abiotic stress severely influences plant growth and development. MYB transcription factors (TFs), which compose one of the largest TF families, play an important role in abiotic stress responses.

    Authors: Yong-Tao Du, Meng-Jie Zhao, Chang-Tao Wang, Yuan Gao, Yan-Xia Wang, Yong-Wei Liu, Ming Chen, Jun Chen, Yong-Bin Zhou, Zhao-Shi Xu and You-Zhi Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:320
  3. High-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) play important roles in the elasticity of dough made from wheat. The HMW-GS null line is useful for studying the contribution of HMW-GS to the end-use quality o...

    Authors: Yingjun Zhang, Mengyun Hu, Qian Liu, Lijing Sun, Xiyong Chen, Liangjie Lv, Yuping Liu, Xu Jia and Hui Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:319
  4. Betanins have become excellent replacers for artificial red-purple food colourants. Red beet (Beta vulgaris L. spp. vulgaris) known as beetroot, is a rich source of betalains, which major forms are betanin (red t...

    Authors: Gregorio Barba-Espin, Stephan Glied-Olsen, Tsaneta Dzhanfezova, Bjarne Joernsgaard, Henrik Lütken and Renate Müller
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:316
  5. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L. P. Beauv) has been considered as a tractable model crop in recent years due to its short growing cycle, lower amount of repetitive DNA, inbreeding nature, small diploid genome, ...

    Authors: Jiaowen Pan, Zhen Li, Qingguo Wang, Anna K. Garrell, Min Liu, Yanan Guan, Wenqing Zhou and Wei Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:315
  6. Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD) promotes genetic diversification in plants. However, whether WGD is accompanied by epigenetic regulation especially DNA methylation remains yet elusive. Methylatio...

    Authors: Hongyu Zhang, Asif Ali, Feixue Hou, Tingkai Wu, Daiming Guo, Xiufeng Zeng, Fangfang Wang, Huixia Zhao, Xiaoqiong Chen, Peizhou Xu and Xianjun Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:314
  7. In vivo haploid induction (HI) based on Stock6-derived inducer lines has been the most prevalent means of producing haploids. Nevertheless, the biological mechanism of HI is not fully understood, the twin-embryo ...

    Authors: Liwei Liu, Wei Li, Chenxu Liu, Baojian Chen, Xiaolong Tian, Chen Chen, Jinlong Li and Shaojiang Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:313
  8. Photosynthesis is able to convert solar energy into chemical energy in the form of biomass, but the efficiency of photosynthetic solar energy conversion is low. Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements are rapid,...

    Authors: Matthew Herritt, Arun Prabhu Dhanapal, Larry C. Purcell and Felix B. Fritschi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:312
  9. Productivity of important crop rice is greatly affected by salinity. The plant hormone jasmonate plays a vital role in salt stress adaptation, but also evokes detrimental side effects if not timely shut down a...

    Authors: Preshobha K. Peethambaran, René Glenz, Sabrina Höninger, S. M. Shahinul Islam, Sabine Hummel, Klaus Harter, Üner Kolukisaoglu, Donaldo Meynard, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Peter Nick and Michael Riemann
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:311
  10. Common rust, caused by Puccinia sorghi, is an important foliar disease of maize that has been associated with up to 50% grain yield loss. Development of resistant maize germplasm is the ideal strategy to combat P...

    Authors: Hongjian Zheng, Jiafa Chen, Chunhua Mu, Dan Makumbi, Yunbi Xu and George Mahuku
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:310
  11. Cold stress is one of the most severe abiotic stresses affecting the banana production. Although some miRNAs have been identified, little is known about the role of miRNAs in response to cold stress in banana,...

    Authors: Weihua Liu, Chunzhen Cheng, Fanglan Chen, Shanshan Ni, Yuling Lin and Zhongxiong Lai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:308
  12. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is an efficient cytogenetic technology to study chromosome structure. Transposable element (TE) is an important component in eukaryotic genomes and can provide insights i...

    Authors: Hejun Lu, Xinglei Cui, Zhen Liu, Yuling Liu, Xingxing Wang, Zhongli Zhou, Xiaoyan Cai, Zhenmei Zhang, Xinlei Guo, Jinping Hua, Zhiying Ma, Xiyin Wang, Jinfa Zhang, Hong Zhang, Fang Liu and Kunbo Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:307
  13. The investigation of the genetic basis of local adaptation in non-model species is an interesting focus of evolutionary biologists and molecular ecologists. Identifying these adaptive genetic variabilities on ...

    Authors: Jia-Xin Li, Xiu-Hong Zhu, Yong Li, Ying Liu, Zhi-Hao Qian, Xue-Xia Zhang, Yue Sun and Liu-Yang Ji
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:306
  14. The PII proteins constitute a large superfamily, present in all domains of life. Until now, PII proteins research in Chloroplastida (green algae and land plants) has mainly focused on post-translation regulati...

    Authors: Zhanneta Zalutskaya, Lidiya Kochemasova and Elena Ermilova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:305
  15. Basic helix-loop-helix/helix-loop-helix (bHLH/HLH) transcription factors play important roles in plant development. Many reports have suggested that bHLH/HLH proteins participate in brassinosteroid (BR) hormon...

    Authors: Rui Lu, Jiao Zhang, Dong Liu, Ying-Li Wei, Yao Wang and Xue-Bao Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:304
  16. Neocinnamomum caudatum (Nees) Merr., a biodiesel tree species in the subtropical areas of South China, India and Burma, is distinctive from other species in Lauraceae family and its seed oil is rich in linoleic a...

    Authors: Yi Gan, Yu Song, Yadong Chen, Hongbo Liu, Dongdong Yang, Qianyu Xu and Zhifu Zheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:303
  17. Recently, the CRISPR/Cas9 system has been widely used to precisely edit plant genomes. Due to the difficulty in Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of wheat, the reported applications in CRISPR/Cas9 sys...

    Authors: Shujuan Zhang, Rongzhi Zhang, Guoqi Song, Jie Gao, Wei Li, Xiaodong Han, Mingli Chen, Yulian Li and Genying Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:302
  18. Homologous transformation sterility-1 (HTS-1) is a novel wheat mutant that exhibits pistillody, the transformation of stamens into pistils or pistil-like structures. More extreme phenotypes of this mutation ca...

    Authors: Qian Yang, Zaijun Yang, Haifeng Tang, Yan Yu, Zhenyong Chen, Shuhong Wei, Qinxu Sun and Zhengsong Peng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:301
  19. Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is an important cool-season legume plant, which is the most widely planted forage legume after alfalfa. Although a draft genome sequence was published already, the sequences and...

    Authors: Yuehui Chao, Jianbo Yuan, Sifeng Li, Siqiao Jia, Liebao Han and Lixin Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:300
  20. Dehydrins play positive roles in regulating plant abiotic stress responses. The objective of this study was to characterize two dehydrin genes, CdDHN4-L and CdDHN4-S, generated by alternative splicing of CdDHN4 i...

    Authors: Aimin Lv, Liantai Su, Xingchen Liu, Qiang Xing, Bingru Huang, Yuan An and Peng Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:299
  21. Oleaginous microalgae are promising sources of energy-rich triacylglycerols (TAGs) for direct use for food, feed and industrial applications. Lobosphaera incisa is a fresh water unicellular alga, which in respons...

    Authors: Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Urs Benning, Heike Siegler and Ivo Feussner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:298
  22. Drought stress has a negative effect on both seed yield and seed quality in Brassica napus (oilseed rape, canola). Here we show that while drought impairs the maternal plant performance, it also increases the vig...

    Authors: Sarah V. Hatzig, Jan-Niklas Nuppenau, Rod J. Snowdon and Sarah V. Schießl
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:297
  23. Leaf shape can affect plantlet development and seed yield in sesame. The morphological, histological and genetic analyses of a sesame mutant cl1 (cl) with curly leaf and indehiscent capsule traits were performed ...

    Authors: Haiyang Zhang, Hongmei Miao, Libin Wei, Chun Li, Yinghui Duan, Fangfang Xu, Wenwen Qu, Ruihong Zhao, Ming Ju and Shuxian Chang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:296
  24. Plant cell walls are mainly composed of polysaccharides such as cellulose and callose. Callose exists at a very low level in the cell wall; however, it plays critical roles at different stages of plant develop...

    Authors: Behnaz Saatian, Ryan S. Austin, Gang Tian, Chen Chen, Vi Nguyen, Susanne E. Kohalmi, Danny Geelen and Yuhai Cui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:295
  25. The subject of this research was to investigate the level of expression of genes encoding protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) in cultivars and lines of wheat with different baking value of flour. PDI plays a key...

    Authors: Katarzyna Demska, Ewa Filip and Lidia Skuza
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:294
  26. Molecular analysis of meiosis has been hindered by difficulties in isolating high purity subpopulations of sporogenous cells representing the succeeding stages of meiosis. Isolation of purified male meiocytes ...

    Authors: Arun S. K. Shunmugam, Venkatesh Bollina, Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze, Pankaj K. Bhowmik, Chris Ambrose, James D. Higgins, Curtis Pozniak, Andrew G. Sharpe, Kevin Rozwadowski and Sateesh Kagale
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:293

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:178

  27. Below-ground linkage between plant and fungal communities is one of the major drivers of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. However, we still have limited knowledge of how such plant–fungus associations vary in t...

    Authors: Hirokazu Toju, Hirotoshi Sato, Satoshi Yamamoto and Akifumi S. Tanabe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:292
  28. Omega-5 gliadins are a group of highly repetitive gluten proteins in wheat flour encoded on the 1B chromosome of hexaploid wheat. These proteins are the major sensitizing allergens in a severe form of food all...

    Authors: Susan B. Altenbach, Han-Chang Chang, Annamaria Simon-Buss, You-Ran Jang, Sandra Denery-Papini, Florence Pineau, Yong Q. Gu, Naxin Huo, Sun-Hyung Lim, Chon-Sik Kang and Jong-Yeol Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:291
  29. Photoperiod-sensitivity is a critical endogenous regulatory mechanism for plant growth and development under specific environmental conditions, while phosphate and sucrose signaling processes play key roles in...

    Authors: Lei Tian, Haiping Liu, Ligang Ren, Lixia Ku, Liuji Wu, Mingna Li, Shunxi Wang, Jinlong Zhou, Xiaoheng Song, Jun Zhang, Dandan Dou, Huafeng Liu, Guiliang Tang and Yanhui Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:290
  30. Flavonoids are secondary metabolites that play important roles in the entire tea plant life cycle and have potential health-promoting properties. MYB transcription factors (TFs) are considered potentially impo...

    Authors: Wen-Li Wang, Yong-Xin Wang, Hui Li, Zhi-Wei Liu, Xin Cui and Jing Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:288

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:36

  31. The ureides allantoin and allantoate are major metabolic intermediates of purine catabolism with high nitrogen-to-carbon ratios. Ureides play a key role in nitrogen utilization in ureide-type legumes, but thei...

    Authors: Hiroshi Takagi, Shunsuke Watanabe, Shoma Tanaka, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C. Mori, Takashi Hirayama, Hiroshi Shimada and Atsushi Sakamoto
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:287
  32. Plant architecture and the vegetative-reproductive transition have major impacts on the agronomic success of crop plants, but genetic mechanisms underlying these traits in cotton (Gossypium spp.) have not been id...

    Authors: Dexin Liu, Zhonghua Teng, Jie Kong, Xueying Liu, Wenwen Wang, Xiao Zhang, Tengfei Zhai, Xianping Deng, Jinxia Wang, Jianyan Zeng, Yuehua Xiao, Kai Guo, Jian Zhang, Dajun Liu, Weiran Wang and Zhengsheng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:286
  33. ‘Fengzao’ is an early-ripening bud mutant of ‘Kyoho’, which matures nearly 30 days earlier than ‘Kyoho’. To gain a better understanding of the regulatory role of miRNAs in early-ripening of grape berry, high-t...

    Authors: Da-Long Guo, Qiong Li, Wen-Qing Lv, Guo-Hai Zhang and Yi-He Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:285
  34. Small RNAs (sRNAs), especially miRNAs, act as crucial regulators of plant growth and development. Two other sRNA groups, trans-acting short-interfering RNAs (tasiRNAs) or phased siRNAs (phasiRNAs), are also em...

    Authors: Kirtikumar Ramesh Kondhare, Nilam Namdeo Malankar, Ravi Suresh Devani and Anjan Kumar Banerjee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:284
  35. Lead (Pb) and mercury (Hg) are persistent hazardous metals in industrially polluted soils which can be toxic in low quantities. Metal toxicity can cause changes at cellular and molecular level which should be ...

    Authors: Mohd Affan Baig, Javed Ahmad, Rita Bagheri, Arlene Asthana Ali, Asma Abdulkareem Al-Huqail, Mohamed Mohamed Ibrahim and Mohammad Irfan Qureshi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:283
  36. Yield improvement is an important issue for rice breeding. Panicle architecture is one of the key components of rice yield and exhibits a large diversity. To identify the morphological and genetic determinants...

    Authors: Kim Nhung TA, Ngan Giang KHONG, Thi Loan HA, Dieu Thu NGUYEN, Duc Chung MAI, Thi Giang HOANG, Thi Phuong Nhung PHUNG, Isabelle BOURRIE, Brigitte COURTOIS, Thi Thu Hoai TRAN, Bach Yen DINH, Tuan Nghia LA, Nang Vinh DO, Michel LEBRUN, Pascal GANTET and Stefan JOUANNIC
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:282
  37. Common bunt (caused by Tilletia caries and T. foetida) has been considered as a major disease in wheat (Triticum aestivum) following rust (Puccinia spp.) in the Near East and is economically important in the Grea...

    Authors: Amira M. I. Mourad, Ahmed Sallam, Vikas Belamkar, Ezzat Mahdy, Bahy Bakheit, Atif Abo El-Wafaa and P. Stephen Baenziger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:280
  38. Leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-containing genes are involved in responses to various diseases. Recently, RNA-seq data from A. duranensis after nematode (Meloidogyne arenaria) infection were released. However, the numb...

    Authors: Hui Song, Zhonglong Guo, Tao Chen, Juan Sun and Guofeng Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:279
  39. The phenylpropanoid pathway is responsible for the synthesis of numerous compounds important for plant growth and responses to the environment. In the first committed step of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, the ...

    Authors: Jasmina Kurepa, Timothy E. Shull, Sumudu S. Karunadasa and Jan A. Smalle
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:278
  40. Temperature is one of the most important abiotic factors limiting plant growth and productivity. Many plants exhibit cold acclimation to prepare for the likelihood of freezing as temperatures decrease towards ...

    Authors: Matthew P. Davey, Ben G. Palmer, Emily Armitage, Philippine Vergeer, William E. Kunin, F. Ian Woodward and W. Paul Quick
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:277
  41. The macaúba palm is a novel feedstock for oil production suitable for multiple uses, including as biodiesel and in the food and cosmetic industries. As an efficient alternative, the macaúba palm has limited ge...

    Authors: Bárbara Regina Bazzo, Lucas Miguel de Carvalho, Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira and Carlos Augusto Colombo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:276
  42. Cannabis possesses a rich spectrum of phytochemicals i.e. cannabinoids, terpenes and phenolic compounds of industrial and medicinal interests. Most of these high-value plant products are synthesised in the disk c...

    Authors: Paul Ebersbach, Felix Stehle, Oliver Kayser and Erik Freier
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:275
  43. Most ABC transporters are engaged in transport of various compounds, but its subfamily F lacks transmembrane domain essential for chemical transportation. Thus the function of subfamily F remains further elusive.

    Authors: Tong-Tong Han, Wen-Cheng Liu and Ying-Tang Lu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:274
  44. The flag leaf of rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important determinant of plant type characteristics and grain yield. Identification of flag leaf mutants of rice is crucial to elucidate the molecular mechanism of fl...

    Authors: Peilong He, Xiaowen Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, Yudong Jiang, Weijiang Tian, Xiaoqiong Zhang, Yangyang Li, Ying Sun, Jia Xie, Jile Ni, Guanghua He and Xianchun Sang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:273
  45. Isodon amethystoides (Ben-th) Cy Wu et Hsuan is an important traditional medicinal plant endowed with pharmacological properties effective in the treatment of various diseases, including pulmonary tuberculosis. T...

    Authors: Fenglan Zhao, Mengchu Sun, Wanjun Zhang, Chunli Jiang, Jingtong Teng, Wei Sheng, Mingzhi Li, Aimin Zhang, Yongbo Duan and Jianping Xue
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:272
  46. Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk. (2n = 14), a wild diploid wheat relative, has been the source of trait improvement in wheat breeding. Intraspecific genetic variation of Ae. umbellulata, however, has not been well stud...

    Authors: Moeko Okada, Kentaro Yoshida, Ryo Nishijima, Asami Michikawa, Yuka Motoi, Kazuhiro Sato and Shigeo Takumi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:271
  47. The SWEET (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters) gene family is a recently identified group of sugar transporters that play an indispensable role in sugar efflux, phloem loading, plant-pathogen inte...

    Authors: Weichang Hu, Xiuting Hua, Qing Zhang, Jianping Wang, Qiaochu Shen, Xingtan Zhang, Kai Wang, Qingyi Yu, Yann-Rong Lin, Ray Ming and Jisen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:270

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