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  1. The bamboo Bambusa edulis has a long juvenile phase in situ, but can be induced to flower during in vitro tissue culture, providing a readily available source of material for studies on reproductive biology and f...

    Authors: Ming-Che Shih, Ming-Lun Chou, Jin-Jun Yue, Cheng-Tran Hsu, Wan-Jung Chang, Swee-Suak Ko, De-Chih Liao, Yao-Ting Huang, Jeremy JW Chen, Jin-Ling Yuan, Xiao-Ping Gu and Choun-Sea Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:179
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  2. Plants have evolved light sensing mechanisms to optimally adapt their growth and development to the ambient light environment. The COP1/SPA complex is a key negative regulator of light signaling in the well-st...

    Authors: Aashish Ranjan, Stephen Dickopf, Kristian K Ullrich, Stefan A Rensing and Ute Hoecker
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:178
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  3. Endogenous small (sm) RNAs (primarily si- and miRNAs) are important trans/cis-acting regulators involved in diverse cellular functions. In plants, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RDRs) are essential for smRNA ...

    Authors: Ningning Wang, Di Zhang, Zhenhui Wang, Hongwei Xun, Jian Ma, Hui Wang, Wei Huang, Ying Liu, Xiuyun Lin, Ning Li, Xiufang Ou, Chunyu Zhang, Ming-Bo Wang and Bao Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:177
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  4. Pollen of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is a main cause of allergic diseases in Northern America. The weed has recently become spreading as a neophyte in Europe, while climate change may also affect th...

    Authors: Amr El Kelish, Feng Zhao, Werner Heller, Jörg Durner, J Barbro Winkler, Heidrun Behrendt, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Ralf Horres, Matthias Pfeifer, Ulrike Frank and Dieter Ernst
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:176
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  5. Grana and starch are major functional structures for photosynthesis and energy storage of plant, respectively. Both exhibit highly ordered molecular structures and appear as micrometer-sized granules inside ch...

    Authors: Mei-Yu Chen, Guan-Yu Zhuo, Kuan-Chieh Chen, Pei-Chun Wu, Tsung-Yuan Hsieh, Tzu-Ming Liu and Shi-Wei Chu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:175
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  6. The Medicago truncatula 2HA seed line is highly embryogenic while the parental line Jemalong rarely produces embryos. The 2HA line was developed from one of the rare Jemalong regenerates and this method for obtai...

    Authors: Sergey Kurdyukov, Ulrike Mathesius, Kim E Nolan, Michael B Sheahan, Nicolas Goffard, Bernard J Carroll and Ray J Rose
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:174
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  7. The induction of plant defenses in response to herbivory is well documented. In addition, many plants prime their anti-herbivore defenses following exposure to environmental cues associated with increased risk...

    Authors: Anjel M Helms, Consuelo M De Moraes, Mark C Mescher and John F Tooker
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:173
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  8. Plant GSK-3/Shaggy-like kinases are key players in brassinosteroid (BR) signalling which impact on plant development and participate in response to wounding, pathogens and salt stress. Bikinin was previously i...

    Authors: Wilfried Rozhon, Wuyan Wang, Franz Berthiller, Juliane Mayerhofer, Tingting Chen, Elena Petutschnig, Tobias Sieberer, Brigitte Poppenberger and Claudia Jonak
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:172
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  9. In saffron (Crocus sativus), new corms develop at the base of every shoot developed from the maternal corm, a globular underground storage stem. Since the degree of bud sprouts influences the number and size of n...

    Authors: Angela Rubio-Moraga, Oussama Ahrazem, Rosa M Pérez-Clemente, Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas, Koichi Yoneyama, Juan Antonio López-Ráez, Rosa Victoria Molina and Lourdes Gómez-Gómez
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:171
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  10. Molecular characterization is an essential step of risk/safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) crops. Holistic approaches for molecular characterization using omics platforms can be used to confirm the in...

    Authors: Benyamin Houshyani, Alexander R van der Krol, Raoul J Bino and Harro J Bouwmeester
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:170
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  11. Soybean is one of the most important crops, providing large amounts of dietary proteins and edible oil, and is also an excellent model for studying evolution of duplicated genes. However, relative to the model...

    Authors: Lei Wang, Chenlong Cao, Qibin Ma, Qiaoying Zeng, Haifeng Wang, Zhihao Cheng, Genfeng Zhu, Ji Qi, Hong Ma, Hai Nian and Yingxiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:169
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  12. In flowering plants a number of genes have been identified which control the transition from a vegetative to generative phase of life cycle. In bryophytes representing basal lineage of land plants, there is li...

    Authors: Izabela Sierocka, Lukasz P Kozlowski, Janusz M Bujnicki, Artur Jarmolowski and Zofia Szweykowska-Kulinska
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:168
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  13. Leguminous plants are able to form a root nodule symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria called rhizobia. This symbiotic association shows a high level of specificity. Beyond the specificity for the legum...

    Authors: Jinge Liu, Shengming Yang, Qiaolin Zheng and Hongyan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:167
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  14. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are highly conserved signaling modules that mediate the transduction of extracellular stimuli via receptors/sensors into intracellular responses and play key ro...

    Authors: Xiaohui Li, Yafen Zhang, Lei Huang, Zhigang Ouyang, Yongbo Hong, Huijuan Zhang, Dayong Li and Fengming Song
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:166
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  15. The American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) is one of only three widely-cultivated fruit crops native to North America- the other two are blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) and native grape (Vitis spp.). In terms...

    Authors: James Polashock, Ehud Zelzion, Diego Fajardo, Juan Zalapa, Laura Georgi, Debashish Bhattacharya and Nicholi Vorsa
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:165
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  16. Drought is a major constraint that leads to extensive losses to agricultural yield worldwide. The potential yield is largely determined during inflorescence development. However, to date, most investigations o...

    Authors: Xuan Ma, Noor Liyana Sukiran, Hong Ma and Zhao Su
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:164
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  17. Grain chalkiness is a complex trait adversely affecting appearance and milling quality, and therefore has been one of principal targets for rice improvement. Eliminating chalkiness from rice has been a dauntin...

    Authors: Zhaomiao Lin, Xincheng Zhang, Xiaoyu Yang, Ganghua Li, She Tang, Shaohua Wang, Yanfeng Ding and Zhenghui Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:163
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  18. Ca2+, a versatile intracellular second messenger in various signaling pathways, initiates many responses involved in growth, defense and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress. Endogenous and exogenous signals in...

    Authors: Joy Michal Johnson, Michael Reichelt, Jyothilakshmi Vadassery, Jonathan Gershenzon and Ralf Oelmüller
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:162
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  19. The production and accumulation of pathogenesis-related proteins (PR proteins) in plants in response to biotic or abiotic stresses is well known and is considered as a crucial mechanism for plant defense. A pa...

    Authors: Sara Pereira Menezes, Edson Mario de Andrade Silva, Eline Matos Lima, Aurizângela Oliveira de Sousa, Bruno Silva Andrade, Livia Santos Lima Lemos, Karina Peres Gramacho, Abelmon da Silva Gesteira, Carlos Priminho Pirovani and Fabienne Micheli
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:161
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  20. Cultivated rice consists of two important ecotypes, upland and irrigated, that have respectively adapted to either dry land or irrigated cultivation. Upland rice, widely adopted in rainfed upland areas in virt...

    Authors: Jun Lyu, Baoye Li, Weiming He, Shilai Zhang, Zhiheng Gou, Jing Zhang, Liyun Meng, Xin Li, Dayun Tao, Wangqi Huang, Fengyi Hu and Wen Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:160
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  21. A member of the TaHKT2;1 multigene family was previously identified as a Na+ transporter with a possible role in root Na+ uptake. In the present study, the existing full-length cDNA of this member was used as a b...

    Authors: HA Chandima K Ariyarathna, Tanveer Ul-Haq, Timothy D Colmer and Michael G Francki
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:159
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  22. The shape of grass leaves possesses great value in both agronomy and developmental biology research. Leaf rolling is one of the important traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeding. MYB transcription factors are o...

    Authors: Chunhua Yang, Dayong Li, Xue Liu, Chengjun Ji, Lili Hao, Xianfeng Zhao, Xiaobing Li, Caiyan Chen, Zhukuan Cheng and Lihuang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:158
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  23. TCP proteins are plant-specific transcription factors, which are known to have a wide range of functions in different plant species such as in leaf development, flower symmetry, shoot branching, and senescence...

    Authors: Violeta Parapunova, Marco Busscher, Jacqueline Busscher-Lange, Michiel Lammers, Rumyana Karlova, Arnaud G Bovy, Gerco C Angenent and Ruud A de Maagd
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:157
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  24. In the context of global climate change, heat stress is becoming an increasingly important constraint on grapevine growth and berry quality. There is a need to breed new grape cultivars with heat tolerance and...

    Authors: Hongguo Xu, Guojie Liu, Guotian Liu, Bofang Yan, Wei Duan, Lijun Wang and Shaohua Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:156
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  27. MMS21 is a SUMO E3 ligase that is conserved in eukaryotes, and has previously been shown to be required for DNA repair and maintenance of chromosome integrity. Loss of the Arabidopsis MMS21 causes defective meris...

    Authors: Ming Liu, Songfeng Shi, Shengchun Zhang, Panglian Xu, Jianbin Lai, Yiyang Liu, Dongke Yuan, Yaqin Wang, Jinju Du and Chengwei Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:153
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  28. Maize (Zea Mays L.) is one of the most important cereal crops worldwide and provides food for billions of people. Stalk lodging can greatly undermine the standability of maize plants and therefore decrease crop y...

    Authors: Kun Li, Jianbing Yan, Jiansheng Li and Xiaohong Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:152
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  29. Recurrent gene duplication and retention played an important role in angiosperm genome evolution. It has been hypothesized that these processes contribute significantly to plant adaptation but so far this hypo...

    Authors: Iris Fischer, Jacques Dainat, Vincent Ranwez, Sylvain Glémin, Jean-François Dufayard and Nathalie Chantret
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:151
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  30. Arabidopsis AtHB7 and AtHB12 transcription factors (TFs) belong to the homeodomain-leucine zipper subfamily I (HD-Zip I) and present 62% amino acid identity. These TFs have been associated with the control of ...

    Authors: Delfina A Ré, Matías Capella, Gustavo Bonaventure and Raquel L Chan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:150
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  31. Plant ALDH10 enzymes are aminoaldehyde dehydrogenases (AMADHs) that oxidize different ω-amino or trimethylammonium aldehydes, but only some of them have betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH) activity and produ...

    Authors: Rosario A Muñoz-Clares, Héctor Riveros-Rosas, Georgina Garza-Ramos, Lilian González-Segura, Carlos Mújica-Jiménez and Adriana Julián-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:149
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  32. Sorghum genotypes used for grain production in temperate regions are photoperiod insensitive and flower early avoiding adverse environments during the reproductive phase. In contrast, energy sorghum hybrids ar...

    Authors: Shanshan Yang, Brock D Weers, Daryl T Morishige and John E Mullet
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:148
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  33. NaTrxh, a thioredoxin type h, shows differential expression between self-incompatible and self-compatible Nicotiana species. NaTrxh interacts in vitro with S-RNase and co-localizes with it in the extracellular ma...

    Authors: Alejandra Ávila-Castañeda, Javier Andrés Juárez-Díaz, Rogelio Rodríguez-Sotres, Carlos E Bravo-Alberto, Claudia Patricia Ibarra-Sánchez, Alejandra Zavala-Castillo, Yuridia Cruz-Zamora, León P Martínez-Castilla, Judith Márquez-Guzmán and Felipe Cruz-García
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:147
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  34. Past clonal propagation of olive trees is intimately linked to grafting. However, evidence on grafting in ancient trees is scarce, and not much is known about the source of plant material used for rootstocks. ...

    Authors: Oz Barazani, Erik Westberg, Nir Hanin, Arnon Dag, Zohar Kerem, Yizhar Tugendhaft, Mohammed Hmidat, Thameen Hijawi and Joachim W Kadereit
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:146
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  35. The whitebacked planthopper (WBPH), Sogatella furcifera Horváth, is a serious rice pest in Asia. Ovicidal resistance is a natural rice defense mechanism against WBPH and is characterized by the formation of water...

    Authors: Yaolong Yang, Jie Xu, Yujia Leng, Guosheng Xiong, Jiang Hu, Guangheng Zhang, Lichao Huang, Lan Wang, Longbiao Guo, Jiayang Li, Feng Chen, Qian Qian and Dali Zeng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:145
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  36. Uncoupling protein one (UCP1) is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein capable of uncoupling the electrochemical gradient from adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) synthesis, dissipating energy as heat. UCP1 plays...

    Authors: Pedro Barreto, Vagner Katsumi Okura, Izabella Agostinho Pena Neshich, Ivan de Godoy Maia and Paulo Arruda
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:144
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  37. Soybean (Glycine max) seeds are the primary source of edible oil in the United States. Despite its widespread utility, soybean oil is oxidatively unstable. Until recently, the majority of soybean oil underwent ch...

    Authors: Jason D Gillman, Minviluz G Stacey, Yaya Cui, Howard R Berg and Gary Stacey
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:143
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  38. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs playing essential roles in plant growth, development, and stress responses. Sequencing of small RNAs is a starting point for understanding their number, diversity,...

    Authors: Fenglong Sun, Guanghui Guo, Jinkun Du, Weiwei Guo, Huiru Peng, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun and Yingyin Yao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:142
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  39. Pre-exposing plants to diverse abiotic stresses may alter their physiological and transcriptional responses to a subsequent stress, suggesting a form of “stress memory”. Arabidopsis thaliana plants that have e...

    Authors: Yong Ding, Laetitia Virlouvet, Ning Liu, Jean-Jack Riethoven, Michael Fromm and Zoya Avramova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:141
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  40. Plant induced defense against herbivory are generally associated with metabolic costs that result in the allocation of photosynthates from growth and reproduction to the synthesis of defense compounds. Therefo...

    Authors: Simon Zebelo, Jill Piorkowski, Joseph Disi and Henry Fadamiro
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:140
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  41. Red coralline algae are critical components of tropical reef systems, and their success and development is, at least in part, dependent on photosynthesis. However, natural variability in the photosynthetic cha...

    Authors: Heidi L Burdett, Victoria Keddie, Nicola MacArthur, Laurin McDowall, Jennifer McLeish, Eva Spielvogel, Angela D Hatton and Nicholas A Kamenos
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:139
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  42. The pepper fruit is the second most consumed vegetable worldwide. However, low temperature affects the vegetative development and reproduction of the pepper, resulting in economic losses. To identify cold-rela...

    Authors: Wei-Li Guo, Ru-Gang Chen, Xiao-Hua Du, Zhen Zhang, Yan-Xu Yin, Zhen-Hui Gong and Guang-Yin Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:138
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  43. The improvement of fruit aroma is currently one of the most sought-after objectives in peach breeding programs. To better characterize and assess the genetic potential for increasing aroma quality by breeding,...

    Authors: Gerardo Sánchez, José Martínez, José Romeu, Jesús García, Antonio J Monforte, María L Badenes and Antonio Granell
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:137
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  44. The circadian clock enables living organisms to anticipate recurring daily and seasonal fluctuations in their growth habitats and synchronize their biology to the environmental cycle. The plant circadian clock...

    Authors: Young-Ju Kwon, Mi-Jeong Park, Sang-Gyu Kim, Ian T Baldwin and Chung-Mo Park
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:136
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  45. R2R3 MYB proteins constitute one of the largest plant transcription factor clades and regulate diverse plant-specific processes. Several R2R3 MYB proteins act as regulators of secondary cell wall (SCW) biosynt...

    Authors: Kangmei Zhao and Laura E Bartley
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:135
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  46. Miscanthus is a promising biomass crop for temperate regions. Despite the increasing interest in this plant, limited sequence information has constrained research into its biology, physiology, and breeding. The w...

    Authors: Changsoo Kim, Tae-Ho Lee, Hui Guo, Sung Jin Chung, Andrew H Paterson, Do-Soon Kim and Geung-Joo Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:134
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  47. In plants, calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) are involved in tolerance to abiotic stresses and in plant seed development. However, the functions of only a few rice CDPKs have been clarified. At present...

    Authors: Shuya Wei, Wei Hu, Xiaomin Deng, Yingying Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Xudong Zhao, Qingchen Luo, Zhengyi Jin, Yin Li, Shiyi Zhou, Tao Sun, Lianzhe Wang, Guangxiao Yang and Guangyuan He
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:133
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  48. Cadmium (Cd) exposure and sulfate limitation induce root sulfate uptake to meet the metabolic demand for reduced sulfur. Although these responses are well studied, some aspects are still an object of debate, s...

    Authors: Clarissa Lancilli, Barbara Giacomini, Giorgio Lucchini, Jean-Claude Davidian, Maurizio Cocucci, Gian Attilio Sacchi and Fabio Francesco Nocito
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:132
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  50. The natural interactions between plant roots and their rhizospheric microbiome are vital to plant fitness, modulating both growth promotion and disease suppression. In rice (Oryza sativa), a globally important fo...

    Authors: Carla Spence, Emily Alff, Cameron Johnson, Cassandra Ramos, Nicole Donofrio, Venkatesan Sundaresan and Harsh Bais
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:130
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