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  1. Following genome sequencing of crop plants, one of the main challenges today is determining the function of all the predicted genes. When gene validation approaches are used for woody species, the main obstacl...

    Authors: Alessandra F Ribas, Eveline Dechamp, Anthony Champion, Benoît Bertrand, Marie-Christine Combes, Jean-Luc Verdeil, Fabienne Lapeyre, Philippe Lashermes and Hervé Etienne
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:92
  2. The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis consists of a mutualistic relationship between soil fungi and roots of most plant species. This association provides the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus with sugars whil...

    Authors: Lidia Campos-Soriano, Jorge Gómez-Ariza, Paola Bonfante and Blanca San Segundo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:90
  3. In order to comprehend the mechanisms of induced plant defense, knowledge of the biosynthesis and signaling pathways mediated by salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylene (ET) is essential. Potentia...

    Authors: Marcel C van Verk, John F Bol and Huub JM Linthorst
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:88
  4. High-throughput technologies have opened new avenues to study biological processes and pathways. The interpretation of the immense amount of data sets generated nowadays needs to be facilitated in order to ena...

    Authors: Mara Schuler, Andreas Keller, Christina Backes, Katrin Philippar, Hans-Peter Lenhof and Petra Bauer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:87
  5. Abiotic stresses, such as water deficit and soil salinity, result in changes in physiology, nutrient use, and vegetative growth in vines, and ultimately, yield and flavor in berries of wine grape, Vitis vinifera ...

    Authors: Richard L Tillett, Ali Ergül, Rebecca L Albion, Karen A Schlauch, Grant R Cramer and John C Cushman
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:86
  6. In higher plants, the inhibition of photosynthetic capacity under drought is attributable to stomatal and non-stomatal (i.e., photochemical and biochemical) effects. In particular, a disruption of photosynthet...

    Authors: Pierre Marraccini, Luciana P Freire, Gabriel SC Alves, Natalia G Vieira, Felipe Vinecky, Sonia Elbelt, Humberto JO Ramos, Christophe Montagnon, Luiz GE Vieira, Thierry Leroy, David Pot, Vânia A Silva, Gustavo C Rodrigues and Alan C Andrade
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:85
  7. Ovule lifespan is an important factor in determining the ability to set fruits and produce seeds. Once ovule senescence is established, fruit set capacity in response to gibberellins (GAs) is lost. We aimed to...

    Authors: Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano, Cristina Urbez, Antonio Granell, Juan Carbonell and Miguel A Perez-Amador
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:84
  8. In plants, nitrate (NO3-) nutrition gives rise to a natural N isotopic signature (δ15N), which correlates with the δ15N of the N source. However, little is known about the relationship between the δ15N of the N s...

    Authors: Idoia Ariz, Cristina Cruz, Jose F Moran, María B González-Moro, Carmen García-Olaverri, Carmen González-Murua, Maria A Martins-Loução and Pedro M Aparicio-Tejo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:83
  9. Large-scale analyses of genomics and transcriptomics data have revealed that alternative splicing (AS) substantially increases the complexity of the transcriptome in higher eukaryotes. However, the extent to w...

    Authors: Edouard I Severing, Aalt DJ van Dijk and Roeland CHJ van Ham
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:82
  10. Allergic reactions to peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) can cause severe symptoms and in some cases can be fatal, but avoidance is difficult due to the prevalence of peanut-derived products in processed foods. One st...

    Authors: Joseph E Knoll, M Laura Ramos, Yajuan Zeng, C Corley Holbrook, Marjorie Chow, Sixue Chen, Soheila Maleki, Anjanabha Bhattacharya and Peggy Ozias-Akins
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:81
  11. Characterisation of plastid genome (or cpDNA) polymorphisms is commonly used for phylogeographic, population genetic and forensic analyses in plants, but detecting cpDNA variation is sometimes challenging, lim...

    Authors: Guillaume Besnard, Pilar Hernández, Bouchaib Khadari, Gabriel Dorado and Vincent Savolainen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:80
  12. Small RNAs (sRNAs) are 20-24 nucleotide (nt) RNAs and are involved in plant development and response to abiotic stresses. Plants have several sRNA pathways implicated in the transcriptional and post-transcript...

    Authors: Cláudio Capitão, Jorge AP Paiva, Dulce M Santos and Pedro Fevereiro
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:79
  13. In flowering plants, the anther is the site of male gametophyte development. Two major events in the development of the male germline are meiosis and the asymmetric division in the male gametophyte that gives ...

    Authors: Priyanka Deveshwar, William D Bovill, Rita Sharma, Jason A Able and Sanjay Kapoor
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:78
  14. Renewed interest in plant × environment interactions has risen in the post-genomic era. In this context, high-throughput phenotyping platforms have been developed to create reproducible environmental scenarios...

    Authors: Juliette Fabre, Myriam Dauzat, Vincent Nègre, Nathalie Wuyts, Anne Tireau, Emilie Gennari, Pascal Neveu, Sébastien Tisné, Catherine Massonnet, Irène Hummel and Christine Granier
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:77
  15. Leaf trichomes of Nicotiana tabacum are distinguished by their large size, high density, and superior secretion ability. They contribute to plant defense response against biotic and abiotic stress, and also influ...

    Authors: Hong Cui, Song-Tao Zhang, Hui-Juan Yang, Hao Ji and Xiu-Jie Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:76
  16. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, which engage a mutualistic symbiosis with the roots of most plant species, have received much attention for their ability to alleviate heavy metal stress in plants, including...

    Authors: Achref Aloui, Ghislaine Recorbet, Franck Robert, Benoît Schoefs, Martine Bertrand, Céline Henry, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Eliane Dumas-Gaudot and Samira Aschi-Smiti
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:75
  17. Flax, Linum usitatissimum L., is an important crop whose seed oil and stem fiber have multiple industrial applications. Flax seeds are also well-known for their nutritional attributes, viz., omega-3 fatty acids i...

    Authors: Prakash Venglat, Daoquan Xiang, Shuqing Qiu, Sandra L Stone, Chabane Tibiche, Dustin Cram, Michelle Alting-Mees, Jacek Nowak, Sylvie Cloutier, Michael Deyholos, Faouzi Bekkaoui, Andrew Sharpe, Edwin Wang, Gordon Rowland, Gopalan Selvaraj and Raju Datla
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:74
  18. Haspin kinases are mitotic kinases that are well-conserved from yeast to human. Human Haspin is a histone H3 Thr3 kinase that has important roles in chromosome cohesion during mitosis. Moreover, phosphorylatio...

    Authors: Daisuke Kurihara, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Tomohiro Omura, Tetsuya Higashiyama and Kiichi Fukui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:73
  19. Flower development in kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is initiated in the first growing season, when undifferentiated primordia are established in latent shoot buds. These primordia can differentiate into flowers in t...

    Authors: Erika Varkonyi-Gasic, Sarah M Moss, Charlotte Voogd, Rongmei Wu, Robyn H Lough, Yen-Yi Wang and Roger P Hellens
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:72
  20. The wild herb Swertia mussotii is a source of the anti-hepatitis compounds swertiamarin, mangiferin and gentiopicroside. Its over-exploitation has raised the priority of producing these compounds heterologously. ...

    Authors: Junfeng Wang, Cuizhu Zhao, Chang Liu, Guangmin Xia and Fengning Xiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:71
  21. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important grain-legume crop that is mainly grown in rainfed areas, where terminal drought is a major constraint to its productivity. We generated expressed sequence tags (ESTs)...

    Authors: Amit A Deokar, Vishwajith Kondawar, Pradeep K Jain, S Mohan Karuppayil, N L Raju, Vincent Vadez, Rajeev K Varshney and R Srinivasan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:70
  22. Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases form a large superfamily of enzymes that catalyze diverse reactions. The P450 SU1 gene from the soil bacteria Streptomyces griseolus encodes CY...

    Authors: Kasturi Dasgupta, Savita Ganesan, Sindhu Manivasagam and Brian G Ayre
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:67
  23. Although ion fluxes are considered to be an integral part of signal transduction during responses to pathogens, only a few ion channels are known to participate in the plant response to infection. CNGC4 is a d...

    Authors: Anete Keisa, Krista Kanberga-Silina, Ilva Nakurte, Laura Kunga and Nils Rostoks
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:66
  24. High-throughput SNP genotyping has become an essential requirement for molecular breeding and population genomics studies in plant species. Large scale SNP developments have been reported for several mainstrea...

    Authors: Dario Grattapaglia, Orzenil B Silva-Junior, Matias Kirst, Bruno Marco de Lima, Danielle A Faria and Georgios J Pappas Jr
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:65
  25. The rpoB-psbZ (BZ) region of some fern plastid genomes (plastomes) has been noted to go through considerable genomic changes. Unraveling its evolutionary dynamics across all fern lineages will lead to clarify the...

    Authors: Lei Gao, Yuan Zhou, Zhi-Wei Wang, Ying-Juan Su and Ting Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:64
  26. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are unavoidable by-products of oxygenic photosynthesis, causing progressive oxidative damage and ultimately cell death. Despite their destructive activity they are also signalling...

    Authors: Alessandro Alboresi, Luca Dall'Osto, Alessio Aprile, Petronia Carillo, Enrica Roncaglia, Luigi Cattivelli and Roberto Bassi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:62
  27. Biotic and abiotic stresses, such as powdery mildew infection and high temperature, are important limiting factors for yield and grain quality in wheat production. Emerging evidences suggest that long non-prot...

    Authors: Mingming Xin, Yu Wang, Yingyin Yao, Na Song, Zhaorong Hu, Dandan Qin, Chaojie Xie, Huiru Peng, Zhongfu Ni and Qixin Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:61
  28. Orchids comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants and generate commercially important flowers. However, model plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana do not contain all plant genes, and agronomic and ...

    Authors: Chen-Tran Hsu, De-Chih Liao, Fu-Hui Wu, Nien-Tze Liu, Shu-Chen Shen, Shu-Jen Chou, Shu-Yun Tung, Chang-Hsien Yang, Ming-Tsair Chan and Choun-Sea Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:60
  29. In legumes, seed storage proteins are important for the developing seedling and are an important source of protein for humans and animals. Lupinus angustifolius (L.), also known as narrow-leaf lupin (NLL) is a gr...

    Authors: Rhonda C Foley, Ling-Ling Gao, Andrew Spriggs, Lena YC Soo, Danica E Goggin, Penelope MC Smith, Craig A Atkins and Karam B Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:59
  30. One of the main tomato breeding objectives is to improve fruit organoleptic quality. However, this task is made somewhat challenging by the complex nature of sensory traits and the lack of efficient selection ...

    Authors: Paola Carli, Amalia Barone, Vincenzo Fogliano, Luigi Frusciante and Maria R Ercolano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:58
  31. Stenospermocarpy is a mechanism through which certain genotypes of Vitis vinifera L. such as Sultanina produce berries with seeds reduced in size. Stenospermocarpy has not yet been characterized at the molecular ...

    Authors: Nilo Mejía, Braulio Soto, Marcos Guerrero, Ximena Casanueva, Cléa Houel, María de los Ángeles Miccono, Rodrigo Ramos, Loïc Le Cunff, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, Patricio Hinrichsen and Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:57
  32. Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is an important legume crop of rainfed agriculture. Despite of concerted research efforts directed to pigeonpea improvement, stagnated productivity of pigeonpea during last ...

    Authors: Abhishek Bohra, Anuja Dubey, Rachit K Saxena, R Varma Penmetsa, KN Poornima, Naresh Kumar, Andrew D Farmer, Gudipati Srivani, Hari D Upadhyaya, Ragini Gothalwal, S Ramesh, Dhiraj Singh, Kulbhushan Saxena, PB Kavi Kishor, Nagendra K Singh, Christopher D Town…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:56
  33. Enormous work has shown that polyamines are involved in a variety of physiological processes, but information is scarce on the potential of modifying disease response through genetic transformation of a polyam...

    Authors: Xing-Zheng Fu, Chuan-Wu Chen, Yin Wang, Ji-Hong Liu and Takaya Moriguchi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:55
  34. The antioxidant glutathione fulfills many important roles during plant development, growth and defense in the sporophyte, however the role of this important molecule in the gametophyte generation is largely un...

    Authors: Bernd Zechmann, Barbara E Koffler and Scott D Russell
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:54
  35. The productivity of the medicinally significant perennial herb Rehmannia glutinosa is severely affected after the first year of cropping. While there is some information available describing the physiological and...

    Authors: Yanhui Yang, Xinjian Chen, Junying Chen, Haixia Xu, Juan Li and Zhongyi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:53
  36. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are signaling molecules that play essential roles in the spatial regulation of plant growth and development. In contrast to other plant hormones BRs act locally, close to the sites of th...

    Authors: Sigrid Husar, Franz Berthiller, Shozo Fujioka, Wilfried Rozhon, Mamoona Khan, Florian Kalaivanan, Luisa Elias, Gillian S Higgins, Yi Li, Rainer Schuhmacher, Rudolf Krska, Hideharu Seto, Fabian E Vaistij, Dianna Bowles and Brigitte Poppenberger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:51
  37. Sequencing of cDNA libraries for the development of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) as well as for the discovery of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) has been a common method of developing microsatellites or SSR-b...

    Authors: Matthew W Blair, Natalia Hurtado, Carolina M Chavarro, Monica C Muñoz-Torres, Martha C Giraldo, Fabio Pedraza, Jeff Tomkins and Rod Wing
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:50
  38. Semigamy in cotton is a type of facultative apomixis controlled by an incompletely dominant autosomal gene (Se). During semigamy, the sperm and egg cells undergo cellular fusion, but the sperm and egg nucleus ...

    Authors: Jessica Curtiss, Laura Rodriguez-Uribe, J McD Stewart and Jinfa Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:49
  39. Seed metabolism is dynamically adjusted to oxygen availability. Processes underlying this auto-regulatory mechanism control the metabolic efficiency under changing environmental conditions/stress and thus, are...

    Authors: Johannes Thiel, Hardy Rolletschek, Svetlana Friedel, John E Lunn, Thuy H Nguyen, Regina Feil, Henning Tschiersch, Martin Müller and Ljudmilla Borisjuk
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:48
  40. Safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, is a thistle that is grown commercially for the production of oil and birdseed and recently, as a host for the production of transgenic pharmaceutical proteins. C. tinctorius can ...

    Authors: Marion Mayerhofer, Reinhold Mayerhofer, Deborah Topinka, Jed Christianson and Allen G Good
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:47
  41. Grafting is a widely used technique contributing to sustainable and ecological production of many vegetables, but important fruit quality characters such as taste, aroma, texture and shape are known for years ...

    Authors: Aphrodite Tsaballa, Konstantinos Pasentsis, Nikos Darzentas and Athanasios S Tsaftaris
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:46
  42. Recently, Artemisia annua L. (annual or sweet wormwood) has received increasing attention due to the fact that the plant produces the sesquiterpenoid endoperoxide artemisinin, which today is widely used for treat...

    Authors: Linda Olofsson, Alexander Engström, Anneli Lundgren and Peter E Brodelius
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:45
  43. SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE (SERK) genes are part of the regulation of diverse signalling events in plants. Current evidence shows SERK proteins function both in developmental and defence signallin...

    Authors: Kim E Nolan, Sergey Kurdyukov and Ray J Rose
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:44
  44. In conifers, terpene synthases (TPSs) of the gymnosperm-specific TPS-d subfamily form a diverse array of mono-, sesqui-, and diterpenoid compounds, which are components of the oleoresin secretions and volatile...

    Authors: Christopher I Keeling, Sabrina Weisshaar, Steven G Ralph, Sharon Jancsik, Britta Hamberger, Harpreet K Dullat and Jörg Bohlmann
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:43

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