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  1. Potassium (K+) is an essential ion for most plants, as it is involved in the regulation of growth and development. K+ homeostasis in plant cells has evolved to facilitate plant adaptation to K+-deficiency stress....

    Authors: Xin Liu, Chunchang Tan, Xin Cheng, Xiaoming Zhao, Tianlai Li and Jing Jiang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:477

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  2. Drought stress is an environmental factor that limits plant growth and reproduction. Little research has been conducted to investigate the MLP gene in tobacco. Here, NtMLP423 was isolated and identified, and its ...

    Authors: Heng Liu, Xiaocen Ma, Shaohua Liu, Bingyang Du, Nini Cheng, Yong Wang and Yuanhu Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:475

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  3. Sarcandra glabra is an evergreen and traditional Chinese herb with anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-tumor effects. Light is one of the most influential factor affecting the growth and qua...

    Authors: Dejin Xie, Lingyan Chen, Chengcheng Zhou, Muhammad Waqqas Khan Tarin, Deming Yang, Ke Ren, Tianyou He, Jundong Rong and Yushan Zheng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:476

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  4. Goji (Lycium spp., 2n = 24) is a fruit bearing woody plant popular as a superfood for extensive medicinal and nutritional advantages. Fruit size associated attributes are important for evaluating small-fruited go...

    Authors: Fazal Rehman, Haiguang Gong, Zhong Li, Shaohua Zeng, Tianshun Yang, Peiyan Ai, Lizhu Pan, Hongwen Huang and Ying Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:474

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  5. Diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs) are signaling enzymes that play pivotal roles in response to abiotic and biotic stresses by phosphorylating diacylglycerol (DAG) to form phosphatidic acid (PA). However, no compre...

    Authors: Fang Tang, Zhongchun Xiao, Fujun Sun, Shulin Shen, Si Chen, Rui Chen, Meichen Zhu, Qianwei Zhang, Hai Du, Kun Lu, Jiana Li and Cunmin Qu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:473

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  6. The whole chloroplast genomes of 3018 rice genotypes were assembled from available sequence data by alignment with a reference rice chloroplast genome sequence, providing high quality chloroplast genomes for a...

    Authors: Ali Mohammad Moner, Agnelo Furtado and Robert J. Henry

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:472

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  7. Crop quality and yield are affected by abiotic and biotic stresses, and heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are considered to play important roles in regulating plant tolerance under various stresses. To inve...

    Authors: Changwei Shen and Jingping Yuan

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:471

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  8. The ability to engineer cereal crops by gene transfer technology is a powerful and informative tool for discovering and studying functions of genes controlling environmental adaptability and nutritional value....

    Authors: Dmitry Miroshnichenko, Anna Klementyeva, Alexander Pushin and Sergey Dolgov

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):442

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 1

  9. Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek, or green gram) is important tropical and sub-tropical legume and a rich source of dietary protein and micronutrients. In this study we employ GWAS to examine the genetic b...

    Authors: Alena Sokolkova, Marina Burlyaeva, Tatjana Valiannikova, Margarita Vishnyakova, Roland Schafleitner, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Chau-Ti Ting, Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair, Sergey Nuzhdin, Maria Samsonova and Eric von Wettberg

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):363

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 1

  10. Globodera rostochiensis belongs to major potato pathogens with a sophisticated mechanism of interaction with roots of the host plants. Resistance of commercial varieties is commonly based on specific R genes intr...

    Authors: Alex V. Kochetov, Anastasiya A. Egorova, Anastasiya Y. Glagoleva, Kseniya V. Strygina, Elena K. Khlestkina, Sophia V. Gerasimova, Natalja V. Shatskaya, Gennady V. Vasilyev, Dmitry A. Afonnikov, Nikolay A. Shmakov, Olga Y. Antonova, Natalia V. Alpatyeva, Alexander Khiutti, Olga S. Afanasenko and Tatjana A. Gavrilenko

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):350

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 1

  11. Threshability, rachis fragility and spike shape are critical traits for the domestication and evolution of wheat, determining the crop yield and efficiency of the harvest. Spelt factor gene Q controls a wide rang...

    Authors: Valeriya Vavilova, Irina Konopatskaia, Alexandr Blinov, Elena Ya. Kondratenko, Yuliya V. Kruchinina and Nikolay P. Goncharov

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):310

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  12. Plant height is an important wheat trait that is regulated by multiple genes, among which Rht is of the utmost value. In wheat, Rht-B1p (=Rht17) is a mutant allele of the Rht gene that encodes for a DELLA-protein...

    Authors: Pavel Yu. Kroupin, Gennady I. Karlov, Ludmila A. Bespalova, Elena A. Salina, Anastasiya G. Chernook, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Mikhail S. Bazhenov, Vladimir V. Panchenko, Lubov A. Nazarova, Victor Ya. Kovtunenko and Mikhail G. Divashuk

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):304

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  13. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is grown for fiber and seed in many countries. Flax cultivars differ in the oil composition and, depending on the ratio of fatty acids, are used in pharmaceutical, food, or paint ind...

    Authors: Alexey A. Dmitriev, Parfait Kezimana, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Alexander A. Zhuchenko, Liubov V. Povkhova, Elena N. Pushkova, Roman O. Novakovskiy, Martin Pavelek, Gleb N. Vladimirov, Evgeny N. Nikolaev, Oxana A. Kovaleva, Yury I. Kostyukevich, Vitaliy V. Chagovets, Elena V. Romanova, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Anna V. Kudryavtseva…

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):301

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  14. Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.), a short-day plant, is an economically valuable legume crop. Seeds of guar serve as a source of galactomannan polysaccharide, known as guar gum, which is in demand in the...

    Authors: Serafima Arkhimandritova, Alexey Shavarda and Elena Potokina

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):291

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  15. The naked caryopsis character in barley is a domestication-associated trait defined by loss-of-function of the NUD gene. The functional NUD gene encodes an Apetala 2/Ethylene-Response Factor (AP2/ERF) controlling...

    Authors: Sophia V. Gerasimova, Christian Hertig, Anna M. Korotkova, Ekaterina V. Kolosovskaya, Ingrid Otto, Stefan Hiekel, Alex V. Kochetov, Elena K. Khlestkina and Jochen Kumlehn

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):255

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 1

  16. Phenology data collected recently for about 300 accessions of Vigna radiata (mungbean) is an invaluable resource for investigation of impacts of climatic factors on plant development.

    Authors: Konstantin Kozlov, Alena Sokolkova, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Chau-Ti Ting, Roland Schafleitner, Eric Bishop-von Wettberg, Sergey Nuzhdin and Maria Samsonova

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):202

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  17. Triticum kiharae (AtAtGGDD, 2n = 42) is of interest for the improvement of bread wheat as a source of high grain protein and gluten content, as well as resistance to many diseases. The use of T. kiharae for the i...

    Authors: Оlga Orlovskaya, Nadezhda Dubovets, Lylia Solovey and Irina Leonova

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):201

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  18. Chickpea is an important legume and is moderately tolerant to salinity stress during the growing season. However, the level and mechanisms for salinity tolerance can vary among accessions and cultivars. A larg...

    Authors: Crystal Sweetman, Gulmira Khassanova, Troy K. Miller, Nicholas J. Booth, Akhylbek Kurishbayev, Satyvaldy Jatayev, Narendra K. Gupta, Peter Langridge, Colin L.D. Jenkins, Kathleen L. Soole, David A. Day and Yuri Shavrukov

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):183

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  19. Polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2 play important roles in epigenetic gene regulation by posttranslationally modifying specific histone residues. Polycomb repressive complex 2 is responsible for the trimeth...

    Authors: Beáta Strejčková, Radim Čegan, Ales Pecinka, Zbyněk Milec and Jan Šafář

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):175

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  20. A family of genes designated as the Zinc finger A20/AN1 Transcription factors encoding stress-associated proteins (SAP) are well described in Arabidopsis and rice, and include 14 AtSAP and 18 OsSAP genes that are...

    Authors: Akmaral Baidyussen, Maryam Aldammas, Akhylbek Kurishbayev, Malika Myrzabaeva, Askar Zhubatkanov, Grigory Sereda, Raisa Porkhun, Sergey Sereda, Satyvaldy Jatayev, Peter Langridge, Carly Schramm, Colin L. D. Jenkins, Kathleen L. Soole and Yuri Shavrukov

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):156

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  21. Leaf rust (Puccinia triticina Eriks.) is one of the most dangerous diseases of common wheat worldwide. Three approaches: genome-wide association study (GWAS), marker-assisted selection (MAS) and phytopathological...

    Authors: Irina N. Leonova, Ekaterina S. Skolotneva and Elena A. Salina

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20(Suppl 1):135

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  22. Leaf size and shape, which affect light capture, and chlorophyll content are important factors affecting photosynthetic efficiency. Genetic variation of these components significantly affects yield potential a...

    Authors: Kaiye Yu, Jinshe Wang, Chongyuan Sun, Xiaoqian Liu, Huanqing Xu, Yuming Yang, Lidong Dong and Dan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:470

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  23. Ecological environments shape plant architecture and alter the growing season, which provides the basis for wheat genetic improvement. Therefore, understanding the genetic basis of grain yield and yield-relate...

    Authors: Jian Yang, Yanjie Zhou, Weiguo Hu, Yu’e Zhang, Yong Zhou, Yongxing Chen, Xicheng Wang, Hong Zhao, Tingjie Cao and Zhiyong Liu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:469

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  24. Desiccation tolerant Selaginella species evolved to survive extreme environmental conditions. Studies to determine the mechanisms involved in the acquisition of desiccation tolerance (DT) have focused on only a f...

    Authors: Gerardo Alejo-Jacuinde, Sandra Isabel González-Morales, Araceli Oropeza-Aburto, June Simpson and Luis Herrera-Estrella

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:468

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  25. This study describes a promising method for understanding how halophytes adapt to extreme saline conditions and to identify populations with greater resistance. Image and colour analyses have the ability to ob...

    Authors: S. Cárdenas-Pérez, A. Piernik, A. Ludwiczak, M. Duszyn, A. Szmidt-Jaworska and J. J. Chanona-Pérez

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:467

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  26. The immobile nature of plants means that they can be frequently confronted by various biotic and abiotic stresses during their lifecycle. Among the various abiotic stresses, water stress, temperature extremiti...

    Authors: Uday Chand Jha, Harsh Nayyar, Rintu Jha, Muhammad Khurshid, Meiliang Zhou, Nitin Mantri and Kadambot H. M. Siddique

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:466

    Content type: Review

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  27. Salt stress is a serious abiotic stress that caused crop growth inhibition and yield decline. Previous studies have reported on the the synthesis of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and its relationship with pla...

    Authors: Xiaolei Wu, Qiuying Jia, Shengxin Ji, Binbin Gong, Jingrui Li, Guiyun Lü and Hongbo Gao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:465

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  28. High-affinity nitrate transporter 2 (NRT2) genes have been implicated in nitrate absorption and remobilization under nitrogen (N) starvation stress in many plant species, yet little is known about this gene famil...

    Authors: Jiafeng Tong, Thomas C. Walk, Peipei Han, Liyu Chen, Xinjie Shen, Yinshui Li, Chiming Gu, Lihua Xie, Xiaojia Hu, Xing Liao and Lu Qin

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:464

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  29. In plants, each ribosomal protein (RP) is encoded by a small gene family but it is largely unknown whether the family members are functionally diversified. There are two RPL23a paralogous genes (RPL23aA and RPL23...

    Authors: Wei Xiong, Xiangze Chen, Chengxin Zhu, Jiancong Zhang, Ting Lan, Lin Liu, Beixin Mo and Xuemei Chen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:463

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  30. Soil salinization and alkalinization are the main factors that affect the agricultural productivity. Evaluating the persistence of the compound material applied in field soils is an important part of the regul...

    Authors: Mengjie An, Xiaoli Wang, Doudou Chang, Shuai Wang, Dashuang Hong, Hua Fan and Kaiyong Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:462

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  31. Soil salinity is a major abiotic constraint to plant growth and development in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. However, the influence of soil salinity on the process of nutrient resorption is not ...

    Authors: Lilong Wang, Xinfang Zhang and Shijian Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:461

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  33. Pomelo is one of the three major species of citrus. The fruit accumulates a variety of abundant secondary metabolites that affect the flavor. UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) are involved in the glycosylation o...

    Authors: Boping Wu, Xiaohong Liu, Kai Xu and Bo Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:459

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  34. Brassica napus L. is one of the most important oil crops in the world. However, climate-change-induced environmental stresses negatively impact on its yield and quality. Cuticular waxes are known to protect plant...

    Authors: Shurong Jin, Shuangjuan Zhang, Yuhua Liu, Youwei Jiang, Yanmei Wang, Jiana Li and Yu Ni

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:458

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  35. Starch in the lotus seed contains a high proportion of amylose, which endows lotus seed a promising property in the development of hypoglycemic and low-glycemic index functional food. Currently, improving star...

    Authors: Heng Sun, Juanjuan Li, Heyun Song, Dong Yang, Xianbao Deng, Juan Liu, Yunmeng Wang, Junyu Ma, Yaqian Xiong, Yanling Liu and Mei Yang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:457

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  36. Although our knowledge about diatom photosynthesis has made huge progress over the last years, many aspects about their photosynthetic apparatus are still enigmatic. According to published data, the spatial or...

    Authors: Marcel Kansy, Daniela Volke, Line Sturm, Christian Wilhelm, Ralf Hoffmann and Reimund Goss

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:456

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  37. With the expanding ash dieback epidemic that has spread across the European continent, an improved functional understanding of the disease development in afflicted hosts is needed. The study investigated wheth...

    Authors: Shadi Eshghi Sahraei, Michelle Cleary, Jan Stenlid, Mikael Brandström Durling and Malin Elfstrand

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:455

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  38. Peanut is one of the most important oil crop species worldwide. NAC transcription factor (TF) genes play important roles in the salt and drought stress responses of plants by activating or repressing target ge...

    Authors: Cuiling Yuan, Chunjuan Li, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaobo Zhao, Caixia Yan, Juan Wang, Quanxi Sun and Shihua Shan

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:454

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  39. Plants have adapted to survive under adverse conditions or exploit favorable conditions in response to their environment as sessile creatures. In a way of plant adaptation, plant hormones have been evolved to ...

    Authors: Dong U Woo, Ho Hwi Jeon, Halim Park, Jin Hwa Park, Yejin Lee and Yang Jae Kang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:453

    Content type: Database

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  40. Salinity, as one of the main abiotic stresses, critically threatens growth and fertility of main food crops including rice in the world. To get insight into the molecular mechanisms by which tolerant genotypes...

    Authors: Raheleh Mirdar Mansuri, Zahra-Sadat Shobbar, Nadali Babaeian Jelodar, Mohammadreza Ghaffari, Seyed Mahdi Mohammadi and Parisa Daryani

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:452

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  41. The HD-Zip transcription factors are unique to plants and play an essential role in plant growth, development and stress responses. The HD-Zip transcription factor family consists of a highly conserved homeodo...

    Authors: Jiashuo Zhang, Jinzhang Wu, Mingliang Guo, Mohammad Aslam, Qi Wang, Huayan Ma, Shubin Li, Xingtan Zhang and Shijiang Cao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:451

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  42. Before studying gene expression of different organisms, it is important to determine the best reference gene. At present, the most accurate method of detecting gene expression is quantitative real-time PCR (RT...

    Authors: Huiyun Song, Wenmai Mao, Zhihao Duan, Qingmin Que, Wei Zhou, Xiaoyang Chen and Pei Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:450

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  43. DNA-free, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein (Cas) ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based genome editing is a simple, convincing, and promising tool for precision crop...

    Authors: Hyeran Kim, Jisun Choi and Kang-Hee Won

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:449

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  44. Agricultural yield is closely associated with nitrogen application. Thus, reducing the application of nitrogen without affecting agricultural production remains a challenging task. To understand the metabolic,...

    Authors: Xin Liu, Chengmiao Yin, Li Xiang, Weitao Jiang, Shaozhuo Xu and Zhiquan Mao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:448

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  45. To explore the molecular regulatory mechanisms of early stem and leaf development, proteomic analysis was performed on leaves and stems of F genotype alfalfa, with thin stems and small leaves, and M genotype a...

    Authors: Hao Sun, Jie Yu, Fan Zhang, Junmei Kang, Mingna Li, Zhen Wang, Wenwen Liu, Jiaju Zhang, Qingchuan Yang and Ruicai Long

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:447

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  46. Petals are the colorful region of many ornamental plants. Quality traits of petal color directly affect the value of ornamental plants. Although the regulatory mechanism of flower color has been widely studied...

    Authors: Xiaojuan Yin, Xinyue Lin, Yuxuan Liu, Muhammad Irfan, Lijing Chen and Li Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:446

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  47. Gastrodia elata Bl. f. glauca S. Chow is a medicinal plant. G. elata f. glauca is unavoidably infected by pathogens in their growth process. In previous work, we have successfully isolated and identified Penicill...

    Authors: Yanhua Wang, Yugang Gao, Pu Zang and Yue Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:445

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  48. Leaf senescence comprises numerous cooperative events, integrates environmental signals with age-dependent developmental cues, and coordinates the multifaceted deterioration and source-to-sink allocation of nu...

    Authors: Ming-Ming Zhao, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Yong-Wei Liu, Ke Li, Qi Tan, Shuo Zhou, Geng Wang and Chun-Jiang Zhou

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:444

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  49. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an economically important vegetable crop species. However, it is susceptible to various abiotic and biotic stresses. WRKY transcription factors play important roles in plant growt...

    Authors: Chunhua Chen, Xueqian Chen, Jing Han, Wenli Lu and Zhonghai Ren

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:443

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  50. Rice is an important human staple food vulnerable to heavy metal contamination leading to serious concerns. High yield with low heavy metal contamination is a common but highly challenging goal for rice breede...

    Authors: Shuai Liu, Hua Zhong, Xiaoxi Meng, Tong Sun, Yangsheng Li, Shannon R. M. Pinson, Sam K. C. Chang and Zhaohua Peng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:441

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