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  1. The circadian clock is an endogenous mechanism that coordinates biological processes with daily changes in the environment. In plants, circadian rhythms contribute to both agricultural productivity and evoluti...

    Authors: Chiara Campoli, Munqez Shtaya, Seth J Davis and Maria von Korff
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:97
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  2. Non-host resistance (NHR) confers plant species immunity against the majority of microbial pathogens and represents the most robust and durable form of plant resistance in nature. As one of the main genera of ...

    Authors: Yulin Cheng, Hongchang Zhang, Juanni Yao, Xiaojie Wang, Jinrong Xu, Qingmei Han, Guorong Wei, Lili Huang and Zhensheng Kang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:96
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  3. In plants, the 5 S rRNA genes usually occur as separate tandems (S-type arrangement) or, less commonly, linked to 35 S rDNA units (L-type). The activity of linked genes remains unknown so far. We studied the h...

    Authors: Sònia Garcia, Lucie Crhák Khaitová and Aleš Kovařík
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:95
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  4. The peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an important crop cultivated worldwide for oil production and food sources. Its complex genetic architecture (e.g., the large and tetraploid genome possibly due to unique cross of...

    Authors: Xiaohong Duan, Emily Schmidt, Pei Li, Douglas Lenox, Lin Liu, Changlong Shu, Jie Zhang and Chun Liang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:94
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  5. Sclerotinia Head Rot (SHR) is one of the most damaging diseases of sunflower in Europe, Argentina, and USA, causing average yield reductions of 10 to 20 %, but leading to total production loss under favorable ...

    Authors: Corina M Fusari, Julio A Di Rienzo, Carolina Troglia, Verónica Nishinakamasu, María Valeria Moreno, Carla Maringolo, Facundo Quiroz, Daniel Álvarez, Alberto Escande, Esteban Hopp, Ruth Heinz, Verónica V Lia and Norma B Paniego
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:93
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  7. Hybridization among Louisiana Irises has been well established and the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation is known to affect the potential for and the directionality of introgression between taxa. ...

    Authors: Evangeline S Ballerini, Amanda N Brothers, Shunxue Tang, Steven J Knapp, Amy Bouck, Sunni J Taylor, Michael L Arnold and Noland H Martin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:91
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  8. Cotton is the world’s primary fiber crop and is a major agricultural commodity in over 30 countries. Like many other global commodities, sustainable cotton production is challenged by restricted natural resour...

    Authors: Wonkeun Park, Brian E Scheffler, Philip J Bauer and B Todd Campbell
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:90
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  9. Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for all living organisms. Maize (Zea mays) is an important human food, animal feed and energy crop throughout the world, and enormous quantities of phosphate fertilize...

    Authors: Zhaoxia Li, Changzheng Xu, Kunpeng Li, Shi Yan, Xun Qu and Juren Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:89
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  10. The high level of conservation of genes that regulate DNA replication and repair indicates that they may serve as a source of information on the origin and evolution of the species and makes them a reliable sy...

    Authors: Damian Gruszka, Marek Marzec and Iwona Szarejko
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:88
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  11. Nonhost resistance (NHR) provides immunity to all members of a plant species against all isolates of a microorganism that is pathogenic to other plant species. Three Arabidopsis thaliana PEN (penetration deficien...

    Authors: Rishi Sumit, Binod B Sahu, Min Xu, Devinder Sandhu and Madan K Bhattacharyya
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:87
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  12. The fruit fly Bactrocera oleae is the primary biotic stressor of cultivated olives, causing direct and indirect damages that significantly reduce both the yield and the quality of olive oil. To study the olive-B....

    Authors: Giandomenico Corrado, Fiammetta Alagna, Mariapina Rocco, Giovanni Renzone, Paola Varricchio, Valentina Coppola, Mariangela Coppola, Antonio Garonna, Luciana Baldoni, Andrea Scaloni and Rosa Rao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:86
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  13. In plants, sucrose synthase (Sus) is widely considered as a key enzyme involved in sucrose metabolism. Several paralogous genes encoding different isozymes of Sus have been identified and characterized in mult...

    Authors: Aiqun Chen, Shae He, Feifei Li, Zhao Li, Mingquan Ding, Qingpo Liu and Junkang Rong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:85
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  14. The essential oil of chamomile, one of the oldest and agronomically most important medicinal plant species in Europe, has significant antiphlogistic, spasmolytic and antimicrobial activities. It is rich in cha...

    Authors: Sandra Irmisch, Sandra T Krause, Grit Kunert, Jonathan Gershenzon, Jörg Degenhardt and Tobias G Köllner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:84
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  15. RanBPM (Ran-binding protein in the microtubule-organizing centre) was originally reported as a centrosome-associated protein in human cells. However, RanBPM protein containing highly conserved SPRY, LisH, CTLH...

    Authors: Eva Tomaštíková, Věra Cenklová, Lucie Kohoutová, Beáta Petrovská, Lenka Váchová, Petr Halada, Gabriela Kočárová and Pavla Binarová
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:83
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  16. Breeding programs for the water lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) are hampered by an inability to account for variation in seed set associated with crosses between different cultivars. We studied seed set in two reciproca...

    Authors: Nian-Jun Teng, Yan-Li Wang, Chun-Qing Sun, Wei-Min Fang and Fa-Di Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:82
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  17. The positioning and dynamics of vesicles and organelles, and thus the growth of plant cells, is mediated by the acto-myosin system. In Arabidopsis there are 13 class XI myosins which mediate vesicle and organelle...

    Authors: Eve-Ly Ojangu, Krista Tanner, Pille Pata, Kristel Järve, Carola L Holweg, Erkki Truve and Heiti Paves
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:81
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  18. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an autogamous allotetraploid legume (2n = 4x = 40) that is widely cultivated as a food and oil crop. More than 6,000 DNA markers have been developed in Arachis spp., but high-density ...

    Authors: Kenta Shirasawa, Padmalatha Koilkonda, Koh Aoki, Hideki Hirakawa, Satoshi Tabata, Manabu Watanabe, Makoto Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kiyoshima, Shigeru Suzuki, Chikara Kuwata, Yoshiki Naito, Tsutomu Kuboyama, Akihiro Nakaya, Shigemi Sasamoto, Akiko Watanabe, Midori Kato…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:80
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  19. There are many non-cereal monocots of agronomic, horticultural, and biofuel importance. Successful transformation of these species requires an understanding of factors controlling expression of their genes. In...

    Authors: Kathryn Kamo, Ah-Young Kim, Se Hee Park and Young Hee Joung
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:79
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  20. As the global population continues to expand, increasing yield in bread wheat is of critical importance as 20% of the world’s food supply is sourced from this cereal. Several recent studies of the molecular ba...

    Authors: Jiancheng Song, Lijun Jiang and Paula Elizabeth Jameson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:78
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  21. A balanced composition of amino acids in seed flour is critical because of the demand on essential amino acids for nutrition. However, seed proteins in cereals like maize, the crop with the highest yield, are ...

    Authors: Yongrui Wu, Wenqin Wang and Joachim Messing
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:77
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  22. Carbon isotope data from conifer trees play an important role in research on the boreal forest carbon reservoir in the global carbon cycle. Carbon isotopes are routinely used to study interactions between the ...

    Authors: Victor Voronin, Alexander A Ivlev, Vladimir Oskolkov and Tatjana Boettger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:76
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  23. Protoplast technologies offer unique opportunities for fundamental research and to develop novel germplasm through somatic hybridization, organelle transfer, protoclonal variation, and direct insertion of DNA....

    Authors: A Maxwell P Jones, Abhishek Chattopadhyay, Mukund Shukla, Jerzy Zoń and Praveen K Saxena
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:75
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  24. The development of drought-tolerant, elite varieties of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a challenging task, which might be achieved by introducing transgenic lines into breeding. We previously demonstrated that ...

    Authors: Mihály Kondrák, Ferenc Marincs, Ferenc Antal, Zsófia Juhász and Zsófia Bánfalvi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:74
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  25. High molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs), encoded by the genes at Glu-1 loci in wheat and its related species, are significant in the determination of grain processing quality. However, the diversity and...

    Authors: Qian-Tao Jiang, Jian Ma, Yu-Ming Wei, Ya-Xi Liu, Xiu-Jin Lan, Shou-Fen Dai, Zhen-Xiang Lu, Shan Zhao, Quan-Zhi Zhao and You-Liang Zheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:73
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  26. The thylakoid system in plant chloroplasts is organized into two distinct domains: grana arranged in stacks of appressed membranes and non-appressed membranes consisting of stroma thylakoids and margins of gra...

    Authors: Izabela Rumak, Radosław Mazur, Katarzyna Gieczewska, Joanna Kozioł-Lipińska, Borys Kierdaszuk, Wojtek P Michalski, Brian J Shiell, Jan Henk Venema, Wim J Vredenberg, Agnieszka Mostowska and Maciej Garstka
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:72
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  27. Tocopherols are natural antioxidants with both in vivo (vitamin E) and in vitro activity. Sunflower seeds contain predominantly alpha-tocopherol (>90% of total tocopherols), with maximum vitamin E effect but lowe...

    Authors: María J García-Moreno, José M Fernández-Martínez, Leonardo Velasco and Begoña Pérez-Vich
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:71
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  28. In the last decade, the moss Physcomitrella patens has emerged as a powerful plant model system, amenable for genetic manipulations not possible in any other plant. This moss is particularly well suited for plant...

    Authors: Fabienne Furt, Kyle Lemoi, Erkan Tüzel and Luis Vidali
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:70
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  29. Wheat (Triticum spp.) is an important source of food worldwide and the focus of considerable efforts to identify new combinations of genetic diversity for crop improvement. In particular, wheat starch composition...

    Authors: Ann J Slade, Cate McGuire, Dayna Loeffler, Jessica Mullenberg, Wayne Skinner, Gia Fazio, Aaron Holm, Kali M Brandt, Michael N Steine, John F Goodstal and Vic C Knauf
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:69
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  30. Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have been revealed to play important roles in developmental control, hormone secretion, cell differentiation and proliferation, and response to environmental stresses. However, our kno...

    Authors: Hui Liu, Ting Jin, Ruiqi Liao, Linxia Wan, Bin Xu, Shuigeng Zhou and Jihong Guan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:68
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  31. The mechanisms by which nitrate is transported into the roots have been characterized both at physiological and molecular levels. It has been demonstrated that nitrate is taken up in an energy-dependent way by...

    Authors: Miroslav Nikolic, Stefano Cesco, Rossella Monte, Nicola Tomasi, Stefano Gottardi, Anita Zamboni, Roberto Pinton and Zeno Varanini
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:66
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  32. Little is known about the potential of Brachypodium distachyon as a model for low temperature stress responses in Pooideae. The ice recrystallization inhibition protein (IRIP) genes, fructosyltransferase (FST) ge...

    Authors: Chuan Li, Heidi Rudi, Eric J Stockinger, Hongmei Cheng, Moju Cao, Samuel E Fox, Todd C Mockler, Bjørge Westereng, Siri Fjellheim, Odd Arne Rognli and Simen R Sandve
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:65
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  33. Bread wheat, one of the world’s staple food crops, has the largest, highly repetitive and polyploid genome among the cereal crops. The wheat genome holds the key to crop genetic improvement against challenges ...

    Authors: Sunish K Sehgal, Wanlong Li, Pablo D Rabinowicz, Agnes Chan, Hana Šimková, Jaroslav Doležel and Bikram S Gill
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:64
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  34. In recent years, imaging based, automated, non-invasive, and non-destructive high-throughput plant phenotyping platforms have become popular tools for plant biology, underpinning the field of plant phenomics. ...

    Authors: Anthony Paproki, Xavier Sirault, Scott Berry, Robert Furbank and Jurgen Fripp
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:63
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  35. Over application of phosphate fertilizers in modern agriculture contaminates waterways and disrupts natural ecosystems. Nevertheless, this is a common practice among farmers, especially in developing countries...

    Authors: Jongchan Woo, Cameron Ross MacPherson, Jun Liu, Huan Wang, Takatoshi Kiba, Matthew A Hannah, Xiu-Jie Wang, Vladimir B Bajic and Nam-Hai Chua
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:62
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  36. Sequence analysis of organelle genomes has revealed important aspects of plant cell evolution. The scope of this study was to develop an approach for de novo assembly of the carrot mitochondrial genome using next...

    Authors: Massimo Iorizzo, Douglas Senalik, Marek Szklarczyk, Dariusz Grzebelus, David Spooner and Philipp Simon
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:61
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  37. The N. attenuata HD20 gene belongs to the homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) type I family of transcription factors and it has been previously associated with the regulation of ABA accumulation in leaves and the...

    Authors: Delfina A Ré, Brenda Raud, Raquel L Chan, Ian T Baldwin and Gustavo Bonaventure
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:60
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  38. The pollination drop (PD) is a characteristic feature of many wind-pollinated gymnosperms. Although accumulating evidence shows that the PD plays a critical role in the pollination process, the mechanism of PD...

    Authors: Biao Jin, Lei Zhang, Yan Lu, Di Wang, Xiao X Jiang, Min Zhang and Li Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:59
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  39. Incarvillea sinensis is widely distributed from Southwest China to Northeast China and in the Russian Far East. The distribution of this species was thought to be influenced by the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Pla...

    Authors: Shaotian Chen, Yaowu Xing, Tao Su, Zhekun Zhou, Emeritus David L Dilcher and Douglas E Soltis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:58
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  40. Clp/Hsp100 chaperones are involved in protein quality control. They act as independent units or in conjunction with a proteolytic core to degrade irreversibly damaged proteins. Clp chaperones from plant chloro...

    Authors: Eduardo M Bruch, Germán L Rosano and Eduardo A Ceccarelli
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:57
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  41. Setosphaeria turcica is a fungal pathogen that causes northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) which is a serious foliar disease in maize. In order to unravel the genetic architecture of the resistance against this disea...

    Authors: Delphine Van Inghelandt, Albrecht E Melchinger, Jean-Pierre Martinant and Benjamin Stich
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:56
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  42. White clover (Trifolium repens) is a ubiquitous weed of the temperate world that through use of improved cultivars has also become the most important legume of grazed pastures world-wide. It has long been suspect...

    Authors: Warren M Williams, Nicholas W Ellison, Helal A Ansari, Isabelle M Verry and S Wajid Hussain
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:55
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  43. Arabidopsis DMP1 was discovered in a genome-wide screen for senescence-associated membrane proteins. DMP1 is a member of a novel plant-specific membrane protein family of unknown function. In rosette leaves DMP1 ...

    Authors: Alexis Kasaras, Michael Melzer and Reinhard Kunze
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:54
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  44. Tumourous stem mustard (Brassica juncea var. tumida Tsen et Lee) is an economically and nutritionally important vegetable crop of the Cruciferae family that also provides the raw material for Fuling mustard. The ...

    Authors: Quan Sun, Guanfan Zhou, Yingfan Cai, Yonghong Fan, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yihua Liu, Xiaohong He, Jinjuan Shen, Huaizhong Jiang, Daiwen Hu, Zheng Pan, Liuxin Xiang, Guanghua He, Daiwen Dong and Jianping Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:53
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2013 13:90

  45. The Deg/HtrA family of ATP-independent serine endopeptidases is present in nearly all organisms from bacteria to human and vascular plants. In recent years, multiple deg/htrA protease genes were identified in ...

    Authors: Holger Schuhmann, Pitter F Huesgen and Iwona Adamska
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:52
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  46. In plants, transposons and non-protein-coding repeats are epigenetically silenced by CG and non-CG methylation. This pattern of methylation is mediated in part by small RNAs and two specialized RNA polymerases...

    Authors: Wanhui You, Agata Tyczewska, Matthew Spencer, Lucia Daxinger, Marc W Schmid, Ueli Grossniklaus, Stacey A Simon, Blake C Meyers, Antonius JM Matzke and Marjori Matzke
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:51
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  47. Xanthophylls are oxygenated carotenoids playing an essential role as structural components of the photosynthetic apparatus. Xanthophylls contribute to the assembly and stability of light-harvesting complex, to...

    Authors: Alessia Fiore, Luca Dall'Osto, Stefano Cazzaniga, Gianfranco Diretto, Giovanni Giuliano and Roberto Bassi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:50
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  48. Domestication generally implies a loss of diversity in crop species relative to their wild ancestors because of genetic drift through bottleneck effects. Compared to native Mediterranean fruit species like oli...

    Authors: Hedia Bourguiba, Jean-Marc Audergon, Lamia Krichen, Neila Trifi-Farah, Ali Mamouni, Samia Trabelsi, Claudio D’Onofrio, Bayram M Asma, Sylvain Santoni and Bouchaib Khadari
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:49
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  49. Etoposide (epipodophyllotoxin) is a chemical commonly used as an anti-cancer drug which inhibits DNA synthesis by blocking topoisomerase II activity. Previous studies in animal cells have demonstrated that eto...

    Authors: Xuejiao Yang, Yingjie Yu, Lily Jiang, Xiuyun Lin, Chunyu Zhang, Xiufang Ou, Kenji Osabe and Bao Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:48
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  50. The genetic control of important adaptive traits, such as bud set, is still poorly understood in most forest trees species. Poplar is an ideal model tree to study bud set because of its indeterminate shoot gro...

    Authors: Francesco Fabbrini, Muriel Gaudet, Catherine Bastien, Giusi Zaina, Antoine Harfouche, Isacco Beritognolo, Nicolas Marron, Michele Morgante, Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza and Maurizio Sabatti
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2012 12:47
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