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  1. Cotton fiber length is a key determinant of fiber quality for the textile industry. Understanding the molecular basis of fiber elongation would provide a means for improvement of fiber length. Ligon lintless-1 (L...

    Authors: Marina Naoumkina, Gregory N Thyssen and David D Fang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:65
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  2. Wounds caused by fire, herbivorism, rock impacts, etc. cause the direct loss of photosynthetic, storage and/or vascular tissue. In addition, they may entail other damages, such as desiccation of the exposed in...

    Authors: Víctor Chano, Rosana López, Pilar Pita, Carmen Collada and Álvaro Soto
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:64
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  3. microRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in plant development processes and play pivotal roles in plant adaptation to environmental stresses. Salicornia europaea, a salt mash euhalophyte, is a suitable model plant to st...

    Authors: Juanjuan Feng, Jinhui Wang, Pengxiang Fan, Weitao Jia, Lingling Nie, Ping Jiang, Xianyang Chen, Sulian Lv, Lichuan Wan, Sandra Chang, Shizhong Li and Yinxin Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:63
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  4. The ability to increase cellulose content and improve the stem strength of cereals could have beneficial applications in stem lodging and producing crops with higher cellulose content for biofuel feedstocks. H...

    Authors: Hwei-Ting Tan, Neil J Shirley, Rohan R Singh, Marilyn Henderson, Kanwarpal S Dhugga, Gwenda M Mayo, Geoffrey B Fincher and Rachel A Burton
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:62
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  5. The source and sink relationships between insect-induced galls and host plant leaves are interesting. In this research, we collected cup-like galls induced by Bruggmanniella sp. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on host l...

    Authors: Meng-Yuan Huang, Wen-Dar Huang, Hsueh-Mei Chou, Chang-Chang Chen, Pei-Ju Chen, Yung-Ta Chang and Chi-Ming Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:61
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  6. Cyanobacteria, progenitors of plant chloroplasts, provide a suitable model system for plants to study adaptation towards different abiotic stresses. Genome of the filamentous, heterocystous, nitrogen-fixing cy...

    Authors: Manisha Banerjee, Dhiman Chakravarty and Anand Ballal
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:60
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  7. Oilseed rape is the third largest oleaginous crop in the world but requires high levels of N fertilizer of which only 50% is recovered in seeds. This weak N use efficiency is associated with a low foliar N rem...

    Authors: Alexandra Girondé, Philippe Etienne, Jacques Trouverie, Alain Bouchereau, Françoise Le Cahérec, Laurent Leport, Mathilde Orsel, Marie-Françoise Niogret, Nathalie Nesi, Deleu Carole, Fabienne Soulay, Céline Masclaux-Daubresse and Jean-Christophe Avice
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:59
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  8. Piriformospora indica, an endophytic fungus of Sebacinales, colonizes the roots of many plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana. The symbiotic interaction promotes plant performance, growt...

    Authors: Khabat Vahabi, Irena Sherameti, Madhunita Bakshi, Anna Mrozinska, Anatoli Ludwig, Michael Reichelt and Ralf Oelmüller
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:58
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  9. Wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in the human diet, and metabolites are crucial for both plant development and human nutrition. The recent advances in metabolomics provided an opportunity to pe...

    Authors: Zsófia Juhász, Ákos Boldizsár, Tibor Nagy, Gábor Kocsy, Ferenc Marincs, Gábor Galiba and Zsófia Bánfalvi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:57
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  10. While it is kno3wn that complex tissues with specialized functions emerged during land plant evolution, it is not clear how cell wall polymers and their structural variants are associated with specific tissues...

    Authors: Olivier Leroux, Iben Sørensen, Susan E Marcus, Ronnie LL Viane, William GT Willats and J Paul Knox
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:56
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  11. Sec18p/N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) is a conserved eukaryotic ATPase, which primarily functions in vesicle membrane fusion from yeast to human. However, the function of the OsSec18 gene, a homologue of...

    Authors: Yunfang Sun, Tingting Ning, Zhenwei Liu, Jianlei Pang, Daiming Jiang, Zhibin Guo, Gaoyuan Song and Daichang Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:55
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  12. The development of transgenic plants as a production platform for biomass-degrading enzymes is a promising tool for an economically feasible allocation of enzymes processing lignocellulose. Previous research h...

    Authors: Holger Klose, Markus Günl, Björn Usadel, Rainer Fischer and Ulrich Commandeur
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:54
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  13. The Arabidopsis thaliana F-box protein MORE AXILLARY GROWTH2 (MAX2) has previously been characterized for its role in plant development. MAX2 appears essential for the perception of the newly characterized phytoh...

    Authors: Maria Piisilä, Mehmet A Keceli, Günter Brader, Liina Jakobson, Indrek Jõesaar, Nina Sipari, Hannes Kollist, E Tapio Palva and Tarja Kariola
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:53
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  14. Argentina has a long tradition of sunflower breeding, and its germplasm is a valuable genetic resource worldwide. However, knowledge of the genetic constitution and variability levels of the Argentinean germpl...

    Authors: Carla V Filippi, Natalia Aguirre, Juan G Rivas, Jeremias Zubrzycki, Andrea Puebla, Diego Cordes, Maria V Moreno, Corina M Fusari, Daniel Alvarez, Ruth A Heinz, Horacio E Hopp, Norma B Paniego and Veronica V Lia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:52
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  15. ATP-binding cassette proteins have been recognized as playing a crucial role in the regulation of growth and resistance processes in all kingdoms of life. They have been deeply studied in vertebrates because o...

    Authors: Giuseppe Andolfo, Michelina Ruocco, Antimo Di Donato, Luigi Frusciante, Matteo Lorito, Felice Scala and Maria Raffaella Ercolano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:51
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  16. Protein palmitoylation, which is critical for membrane association and subcellular targeting of many signaling proteins, is catalyzed mainly by protein S-acyl transferases (PATs). Only a few plant proteins hav...

    Authors: Yu-Ling Zhang, En Li, Qiang-Nan Feng, Xin-Ying Zhao, Fu-Rong Ge, Yan Zhang and Sha Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:50
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  17. Rice blast disease is one of the most destructive diseases of rice worldwide. We previously cloned the rice blast resistance gene Pid2, which encodes a transmembrane receptor-like kinase containing an extracellul...

    Authors: Jing Wang, Baoyuan Qu, Shijuan Dou, Liyun Li, Dedong Yin, Zhiqian Pang, Zhuangzhi Zhou, Miaomiao Tian, Guozhen Liu, Qi Xie, Dingzhong Tang, Xuewei Chen and Lihuang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:49
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  19. Metabolite, ion and protein translocation into chloroplasts occurs across two membranes, the inner and the outer envelope. Solute and metabolite channels fulfill very important functions in integrating the org...

    Authors: Tom Alexander Goetze, Manali Patil, Ingrid Jeshen, Bettina Bölter, Sabine Grahl and Jürgen Soll
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:47
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  20. Individual berries in a grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cluster enter the ripening phase at different times leading to an asynchronous cluster in terms of ripening. The factors causing this variable ripening initiation...

    Authors: Satyanarayana Gouthu and Laurent G Deluc
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:46
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  21. Plant α-dioxygenases catalyze the incorporation of molecular oxygen into polyunsaturated fatty acids leading to the formation of oxylipins. In flowering plants, two main groups of α-DOXs have been described. W...

    Authors: Lucina Machado, Alexandra Castro, Mats Hamberg, Gerard Bannenberg, Carina Gaggero, Carmen Castresana and Inés Ponce de León
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:45
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  22. The external colour of fruit is a crucial quality feature, and the external coloration of most citrus fruits is due to the accumulation of carotenoids. The molecular regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis and a...

    Authors: Fei Guo, Huiwen Yu, Qiang Xu and Xiuxin Deng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:44
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  23. Leaf senescence is an important developmental programmed degeneration process that dramatically affects crop quality and yield. The regulation of senescence is highly complex. Although senescence regulatory ge...

    Authors: Min Lin, Chaoyou Pang, Shuli Fan, Meizhen Song, Hengling Wei and Shuxun Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:43
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  24. Histone chaperones modulate chromatin architecture and hence play a pivotal role in epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In contrast to their animal and yeast counterparts, not much is known about plant h...

    Authors: Amit K Tripathi, Khushwant Singh, Ashwani Pareek and Sneh L Singla-Pareek
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:42
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  25. MADS-box genes encode a family of eukaryotic transcription factors distinguished by the presence of a highly-conserved ~58 amino acid DNA-binding and dimerization domain (the MADS-box). The central role played...

    Authors: Christina E Wells, Elisa Vendramin, Sergio Jimenez Tarodo, Ignazio Verde and Douglas G Bielenberg
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:41
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  26. Plastids originated from cyanobacteria and the majority of the ancestral genes were lost or functionally transferred to the nucleus after endosymbiosis. Comparative genomic investigations have shown that gene ...

    Authors: Seongjun Park, Robert K Jansen and SeonJoo Park
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:40
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  27. Crop plants such as rice, maize and sorghum play economically-important roles as main sources of food, fuel, and animal feed. However, current genome annotations of crop plants still suffer false-positive pred...

    Authors: Trees-Juen Chuang, Min-Yu Yang, Chuang-Chieh Lin, Ping-Hung Hsieh and Li-Yuan Hung
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:39
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  28. Genetic diversity of citrus includes intrageneric hybrids, cultivars arising from cross-pollination and/or somatic mutations with particular biochemical compounds such as sugar, acids and secondary metabolite ...

    Authors: Vicent Arbona, Domingo J Iglesias and Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:38
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  29. Seed of Shismus arabicus, a desert annual, display a seasonal tolerance to dehydration. The occurrence of a metabolic seasonal rhythm and its relation with the fluctuations in seed dehydration tolerance was inves...

    Authors: Bing Bai, David Toubiana, Tanya Gendler, Asfaw Degu, Yitzchak Gutterman and Aaron Fait
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:37
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  30. There are different opinions about the relationship of two disjunctively distributed varieties Adiantum reniforme L. var. sinense Y.X.Lin and Adiantum reniforme L. Adiantum reniforme var. sinense is an endangered...

    Authors: Ai-Hua Wang, Ye Sun, Harald Schneider, Jun-Wen Zhai, Dong-Ming Liu, Jin-Song Zhou, Fu-Wu Xing, Hong-Feng Chen and Fa-Guo Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:36
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  31. Corn borers are the primary maize pest; their feeding on the pith results in stem damage and yield losses. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify SNPs associated with re...

    Authors: Luis Fernando Samayoa, Rosa Ana Malvar, Bode A Olukolu, James B Holland and Ana Butrón
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:35
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  32. Primary roots (radicles) represent the first visible developmental stages of the plant and are crucial for nutrient supply and the integration of environmental signals. Few studies have analyzed primary roots ...

    Authors: Romina Petersen, Haris Djozgic, Benjamin Rieger, Steffen Rapp and Erwin Robert Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:34
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  33. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (approximately 21 nucleotide) non-coding RNAs that are key post-transcriptional gene regulators in eukaryotic organisms. More than 100 cassava miRNAs have been identified in a cons...

    Authors: Xin Chen, Jing Xia, Zhiqiang Xia, Hefang Zhang, Changying Zeng, Cheng Lu, Weixiong Zhang and Wenquan Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:33
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  34. Black rot is a destructive bacterial disease causing large yield and quality losses in Brassica oleracea. To detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for black rot resistance, we performed whole-genome resequencing o...

    Authors: Jonghoon Lee, Nur Kholilatul Izzah, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Sampath Perumal, Ho Jun Joh, Hyeon Ju Lee, Sang-Choon Lee, Jee Young Park, Ki-Woung Yang, Il-Sup Nou, Joodeok Seo, Jaeheung Yoo, Youngdeok Suh, Kyounggu Ahn, Ji Hyun Lee, Gyung Ja Choi…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:32
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  35. Nitrogen (N), a critical macronutrient for plant growth and development, is a major limiting factor in most agricultural systems. Microarray analyses have been conducted to investigate genome-wide gene express...

    Authors: Wenzhu Yang, Jinmi Yoon, Heebak Choi, Yunliu Fan, Rumei Chen and Gynheung An
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:31
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  36. Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is an economically important root vegetable crop, and the taproot-thickening process is the most critical period for the final productivity and quality formation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) a...

    Authors: Rugang Yu, Yan Wang, Liang Xu, Xianwen Zhu, Wei Zhang, Ronghua Wang, Yiqin Gong, Cecilia Limera and Liwang Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:30
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  38. QTLs controlling individual sugars and acids (fructose, glucose, malic acid and tartaric acid) in grape berries have not yet been identified. The present study aimed to construct a high-density, high-quality g...

    Authors: Jie Chen, Nian Wang, Lin-Chuan Fang, Zhen-Chang Liang, Shao-Hua Li and Ben-Hong Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:28
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  39. Carotenoids are indispensable plant secondary metabolites that are involved in photosynthesis, antioxidation, and phytohormone biosynthesis. Carotenoids are likely involved in other biological functions that h...

    Authors: Hongbo Cao, Jiangbo Wang, Xintian Dong, Yan Han, Qiaoli Ma, Yuduan Ding, Fei Zhao, Jiancheng Zhang, Haijiang Chen, Qiang Xu, Juan Xu and Xiuxin Deng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:27
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  40. Among abiotic stresses, drought is the most common reducer of crop yields. The slow-wilting soybean genotype PI 416937 is somewhat robust to water deficit and has been used previously to map the trait in a bi-...

    Authors: Jin Hee Shin, Justin N Vaughn, Hussein Abdel-Haleem, Carolina Chavarro, Brian Abernathy, Kyung Do Kim, Scott A Jackson and Zenglu Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:26
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  41. Crocus sativus is a triploid sterile plant with long red stigmas which form commercial saffron. Saffron is the site for synthesis and accumulation of apocarotenoids like crocin, picrocrin and s...

    Authors: Nasheeman Ashraf, Deepti Jain and Ram A Vishwakarma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:25
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  42. Fusarium head blight (FHB), a scab principally caused by Fusarium graminearum Schw., is a serious disease of wheat. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of combining synchrotron based phase cont...

    Authors: Rachid Lahlali, Chithra Karunakaran, Lipu Wang, Ian Willick, Marina Schmidt, Xia Liu, Ferenc Borondics, Lily Forseille, Pierre R Fobert, Karen Tanino, Gary Peng and Emil Hallin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:24
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  44. Brassica includes many successfully cultivated crop species of polyploid origin, either by ancestral genome triplication or by hybridization between two diploid progenitors, displaying complex ...

    Authors: Jinjin Jiang, Yue Wang, Bao Zhu, Tingting Fang, Yujie Fang and Youping Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:22
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  45. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in the processes of plant growth and development, but little is known of their functions during dehydration stress in wheat. Moreover, the mechanisms by which miRNAs conf...

    Authors: Xingli Ma, Zeyu Xin, Zhiqiang Wang, Qinghua Yang, Shulei Guo, Xiaoyang Guo, Liru Cao and Tongbao Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:21
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  46. Glutamine synthetase (GS; EC: 6.3.1.2, L-glutamate: ammonia ligase ADP-forming) is a key enzyme in ammonium assimilation and metabolism in higher plants. In poplar, the GS family is organized in 4 groups of du...

    Authors: Vanessa Castro-Rodríguez, Angel García-Gutiérrez, Rafael A Cañas, Ma Belén Pascual, Concepción Avila and Francisco M Cánovas
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:20
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  47. Oil crop seeds are important sources of fatty acids (FAs) for human and animal nutrition. Despite their importance, there is a lack of an essential bioinformatics resource on gene transcription of oil crops fr...

    Authors: Tao Ke, Jingyin Yu, Caihua Dong, Han Mao, Wei Hua and Shengyi Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:19
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  48. Similar to common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) shows a high level of aluminum (Al) tolerance and accumulation. However, the molecular mechanisms for Al detoxification ...

    Authors: Haifeng Zhu, Hua Wang, Yifang Zhu, Jianwen Zou, Fang-Jie Zhao and Chao-Feng Huang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:16
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  49. The nucleosome positioning regulates the gene expression and many other DNA-related processes in eukaryotes. Genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positions and correlation of genome-wide nucleosomal remodeling wi...

    Authors: Mala Singh, Sumit Kumar Bag, Archana Bhardwaj, Amol Ranjan, Shrikant Mantri, Deepti Nigam, Yogesh Kumar Sharma and Samir Vishwanath Sawant
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:13
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  50. Heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs), which act as important transcriptional regulatory proteins in eukaryotes, play a central role in controlling the expression of heat-responsive genes. At present, the ge...

    Authors: Xin Qiao, Meng Li, Leiting Li, Hao Yin, Juyou Wu and Shaoling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:12
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