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  1. In higher plants, inflorescence architecture is an important agronomic trait directly determining seed yield. However, little information is available on the regulatory mechanism of inflorescence development i...

    Authors: Mao-Sheng Chen, Mei-Li Zhao, Gui-Juan Wang, Hui-Ying He, Xue Bai, Bang-Zhen Pan, Qian-Tang Fu, Yan-Bin Tao, Ming-Yong Tang, Jorge Martínez-Herrera and Zeng-Fu Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:468
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  2. Flesh color is one of the most important traits for the commercial value of peach fruit. To unravel the underlying regulatory network in Prunus mira, we performed an integrated analysis of the transcriptome and m...

    Authors: Hong Ying, Jian Shi, Shanshan Zhang, Gesang Pingcuo, Shuo Wang, Fan Zhao, Yongning Cui and Xiuli Zeng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:463
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  4. Transposable elements (TEs) comprise over 80% of the wheat genome and usually possess unique features for specific super-families and families. However, the role of TEs in wheat evolution and reshaping the whe...

    Authors: Katherine Domb, Danielle Keidar-Friedman and Khalil Kashkush
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:461
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  5. Blueberry is of high economic value. Most blueberry varieties selected for the fresh market have an appealing light blue coating or “bloom” on the fruit due to the presence of a visible heavy epicuticular wax ...

    Authors: Xinpeng Qi, Elizabeth L. Ogden, Jose V. Die, Mark K. Ehlenfeldt, James J. Polashock, Omar Darwish, Nadim Alkharouf and L. Jeannine Rowland
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:460
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  6. Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs are a class of functional RNA molecules greater than 200 nucleotides in length, and lncRNAs play important roles in various biological regulatory processes and response to the biotic...

    Authors: Xiaopei Zhang, Jie Dong, Fenni Deng, Wei Wang, Yingying Cheng, Lirong Song, Mengjiao Hu, Jian Shen, Qingjiang Xu and Fafu Shen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:459
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  7. White root rot (WRR) disease caused by Rosellinia necatrix is one of the most important threats affecting avocado orchards in temperate regions. The eradication of WRR is a difficult task and environmentally frie...

    Authors: E. Martínez-Ferri, G. Moreno-Ortega, N. van den Berg and C. Pliego
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:458
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  8. Herbicide tolerance is an important trait that allows effective weed management in wheat crops in dryland farming. Genetic knowledge of metribuzin tolerance in wheat is needed to develop new cultivars for the ...

    Authors: Roopali Bhoite, Ping Si, Hui Liu, Ling Xu, Kadambot H. M. Siddique and Guijun Yan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:457
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  9. Phytyl residues are the common side chains of chlorophyll (Chl) and tocopherols. Geranylgeranyl reductase (GGR), which is encoded by CHLP gene, is responsible for phytyl biosynthesis. The light-harvesting like pr...

    Authors: Chunmei Li, Xin Liu, Jihong Pan, Jia Guo, Qian Wang, Congping Chen, Na Li, Kuan Zhang, Bin Yang, Changhui Sun, Xiaojian Deng and Pingrong Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:456
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  10. The formation of natural colored fibers mainly results from the accumulation of different anthocyanidins and their derivatives in the fibers of Gossypium hirsutum L. Chalcone synthase (CHS) is the first committed...

    Authors: Jianfang Gao, Li Shen, Jingli Yuan, Hongli Zheng, Quansheng Su, Weiguang Yang, Liqing Zhang, Vitalis Ekene Nnaemeka, Jie Sun, Liping Ke and Yuqiang Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:455
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:28

  11. Salicylic acid (SA) is a significant signaling molecule that induces rice resistance against pathogen invasion. Protein phosphorylation carries out an important regulatory function in plant defense responses, ...

    Authors: Ranran Sun, Shiwen Qin, Tong Zhang, Zhenzhong Wang, Huaping Li, Yunfeng Li and Yanfang Nie
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:454
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  12. In the original publication of this article [1], the author pointed out there is an error in Figs. 4 and 5.

    Authors: Ali Anwar, Yansu Li, Chaoxing He and Xianchang Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:453
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    The original article was published in BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:225

  13. In the article [1], in ‘Methods’ section and ‘G x E and heritability’ subsection, there is an error in the formula of heritability (H2).

    Authors: Laxman Adhikari, Shiva Om Makaju and Ali M. Missaoui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:452
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    The original article was published in BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:359

  14. Taproot thickening is a complex biological process that is dependent on the coordinated expression of genes controlled by both environmental and developmental factors. Panax notoginseng is an important Chinese me...

    Authors: Xue-Jiao Li, Jian-Li Yang, Bing Hao, Ying-Chun Lu, Zhi-Long Qian, Ying Li, Shuang Ye, Jun-Rong Tang, Mo Chen, Guang-Qiang Long, Yan Zhao, Guang-Hui Zhang, Jun-Wen Chen, Wei Fan and Sheng-Chao Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:451
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  15. Secondary metabolites play an important role in the plant defensive response. They are produced as a defence mechanism against biotic stress by providing plants with antimicrobial and antioxidant weapons. In h...

    Authors: Laura Campos, María Pilar López-Gresa, Diana Fuertes, José María Bellés, Ismael Rodrigo and Purificación Lisón
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:450
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  16. The identification and characterisation of quantitative trait loci (QTL) is an important step towards identifying functional sequences underpinning important crop traits and for developing accurate markers for...

    Authors: Usana Nantawan, Chutchamas Kanchana-udomkan, Ido Bar and Rebecca Ford
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:449
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  17. Organelle genome studies of Fabaceae, an economically and ecologically important plant family, have been biased towards the plastid genome (plastome). Thus far, less than 15 mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) s...

    Authors: In-Su Choi, Erika N. Schwarz, Tracey A. Ruhlman, Mohammad A. Khiyami, Jamal S. M. Sabir, Nahid H. Hajarah, Mernan J. Sabir, Samar O. Rabah and Robert K. Jansen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:448
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  19. Leaf senescence is a complex process, controlled by multiple genetic and environmental variables. In sunflower, leaf senescence is triggered abruptly following anthesis thereby limiting the capacity of plants ...

    Authors: Sebastián Moschen, Johanna Marino, Salvador Nicosia, Janet Higgins, Saleh Alseekh, Francisco Astigueta, Sofia Bengoa Luoni, Máximo Rivarola, Alisdair R. Fernie, Nicolas Blanchet, Nicolas B. Langlade, Norma Paniego, Paula Fernández and Ruth A. Heinz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:446
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  20. Apple is one of the most popular fruit crops world-wide and its skin color is an important quality consideration essential for commercial value. However, the strategy on genetic breeding for red skin apple and...

    Authors: Mo-Xian Chen, Chao Sun, Kai-Lu Zhang, Yu-Chen Song, Yuan Tian, Xi Chen, Ying-Gao Liu, Neng-Hui Ye, Jianhua Zhang, Shenchun Qu and Fu-Yuan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:445
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  21. The plant-specific homeodomain-leucine zipper class IV (HD-ZIP IV) gene family has been involved in the regulation of epidermal development.

    Authors: Hongying Zhang, Xudong Ma, Wenjiao Li, Dexin Niu, Zhaojun Wang, Xiaoxiao Yan, Xinling Yang, Yongfeng Yang and Hong Cui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:444
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  22. Flavonoids have essential roles in flower pigmentation, fibre development and disease resistance in cotton. Previous studies show that accumulation of naringenin in developing cotton fibres significantly affec...

    Authors: Anam Qadir Khan, Zhonghua Li, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed, Pengcheng Wang, Xianlong Zhang and Lili Tu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:443
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  24. Plant-endophyte symbioses often revolve around nitrogen metabolism, and involve varying degrees of intimacy. Although evidence for vertical inheritance of nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacteria is increasing, it ...

    Authors: Michelle Jooste, Francois Roets, Guy F. Midgley, Kenneth C. Oberlander and Léanne L. Dreyer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:441
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  25. In plants, host factors encoded by susceptibility (S) genes are indispensable for viral infection. Resistance is achieved through the impairment or the absence of those susceptibility factors. Many S genes have b...

    Authors: Julia Rubio, Evelyn Sánchez, David Tricon, Christian Montes, Jean-Philippe Eyquard, Aurélie Chague, Carlos Aguirre, Humberto Prieto and Véronique Decroocq
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:440
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  26. The Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor), belonging to the gall midge family (Cecidomyiidae), is a devastating pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum) causing significant yield losses. Despite identification and characte...

    Authors: Jill A. Nemacheck, Brandon J. Schemerhorn, Steven R. Scofield and Subhashree Subramanyam
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:439
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  27. Trifolium ambiguum occurs as a 2x, 4x, 6x polyploid series in W Asia. The 6x form is the most agronomically desirable, having strong rhizomatous spread and drought tolerance. These traits would be potentially ver...

    Authors: Warren M. Williams, Isabelle M. Verry, Helal A. Ansari, S. Wajid Hussain, Ihsan Ullah and Nicholas W. Ellison
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:438
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  28. Multiprotein bridging factor 1 s (MBF1s) are members of the transcriptional co-activator family that have involved in plant growth, development and stress responses. However, little is known about the Solanum lyc...

    Authors: Xu Zhang, Zhixuan Xu, Lichen Chen and Zhonghai Ren
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:437
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  29. Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae), native from Paraguay, accumulates steviol glycosides (SGs) into its leaves. These compounds exhibit acaloric intense sweet taste which answers to consumer demands for reducing dail...

    Authors: Patrick Cosson, Cécile Hastoy, Luis Ernesto Errazzu, Carlos Jorge Budeguer, Philippe Boutié, Dominique Rolin and Valérie Schurdi-Levraud
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:436
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  30. Adventitious root (AR) formation is a critical developmental process in cutting propagation for the horticultural industry. While auxin has been shown to regulate this process, the exact mechanism and details ...

    Authors: Ling Guan, Reuben Tayengwa, Zongming (Max) Cheng, Wendy Ann Peer, Angus S. Murphy and Mizhen Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:435
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  31. Developing Medicago sativa L. (alfalfa) cultivars tolerant to drought is critical for the crop’s sustainable production. miR156 regulates various plant biological functions by silencing SQUAMOSA-PROMOTER BINDING ...

    Authors: Biruk A. Feyissa, Muhammad Arshad, Margaret Y. Gruber, Susanne E. Kohalmi and Abdelali Hannoufa
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:434
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  32. Studies have shown that HSP20 (heat-shock protein 20) genes play important roles in regulating plant growth, development, and stress response. However, the grape HSP20 gene family has not been well studied.

    Authors: Xiao-Ru Ji, Yi-He Yu, Pei-Yi Ni, Guo-Hai Zhang and Da-Long Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:433
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  33. Cotton fiber length and strength are both key traits of fiber quality, and fiber strength (FS) is tightly correlated with secondary cell wall (SCW) biosynthesis. The three-amino-acid-loop-extension (TALE) supe...

    Authors: Qiang Ma, Nuohan Wang, Pengbo Hao, Huiru Sun, Congcong Wang, Liang Ma, Hantao Wang, Xianlong Zhang, Hengling Wei and Shuxun Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:432
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  34. Corn borers constitute an important pest of maize around the world; in particular Sesamia nonagrioides Lefèbvre, named Mediterranean corn borer (MCB), causes important losses in Southern Europe. Methods of select...

    Authors: José Cruz Jiménez-Galindo, Rosa Ana Malvar, Ana Butrón, Rogelio Santiago, Luis Fernando Samayoa, Marlon Caicedo and Bernardo Ordás
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:431
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  35. Simple non-isoprenoid hydrocarbons accumulate in discrete regions of the biosphere, including within bacteria and algae as a carbon and/or energy store, and the cuticles of plants and insects, where they may p...

    Authors: Tesia Dennison, Wenmin Qin, Derek M. Loneman, Samson G. F. Condon, Nick Lauter, Basil J. Nikolau and Marna D. Yandeau-Nelson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:430
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  36. Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is an epigenetic transcriptional repression system, whose catalytic subunit (ENHANCER OF ZESTE HOMOLOG 2, EZH2 in animals) is responsible for trimethylating histone H3 at l...

    Authors: Veronica Ruta, Chiara Longo, Alessandra Boccaccini, Valentina Noemi Madia, Francesco Saccoliti, Valeria Tudino, Roberto Di Santo, Riccardo Lorrai, Raffaele Dello Ioio, Sabrina Sabatini, Roberta Costi, Paolo Costantino and Paola Vittorioso
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:429
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  37. Olive (Olea europaea L.) is an emblematic oil tree crop in the Mediterranean basin. Currently, despite olive features as a moderately thermophilic species, its cultivation is worldwide spreading due to the health...

    Authors: Leonardo Bruno, Ernesto Picardi, Marianna Pacenza, Adriana Chiappetta, Antonella Muto, Olimpia Gagliardi, Innocenzo Muzzalupo, Graziano Pesole and Maria Beatrice Bitonti
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:428
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  38. Salicornia europaea, a succulent obligatory halophyte is the most salt-tolerant plant species in the world. It survives salt concentrations of more than 1 M. Therefore, it is a suitable model plant to identify ge...

    Authors: Bliss Ursula Furtado, Istvan Nagy, Torben Asp, Jarosław Tyburski, Monika Skorupa, Marcin Gołębiewski, Piotr Hulisz and Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:427
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  39. Chemically inducible systems that provide both spatial and temporal control of gene expression are essential tools, with many applications in plant biology, yet they have not been extensively tested in monocot...

    Authors: Daniela Vlad, Basel Abu-Jamous, Peng Wang and Jane A. Langdale
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:426
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  40. Nitrogen (N) nutrition significantly affected metabolism and accumulation of quality-related compounds in tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.). Little is known about the physiological and molecular mechanisms underly...

    Authors: Mei-Ya Liu, Dandan Tang, Yuanzhi Shi, Lifeng Ma, Yan Li, Qunfeng Zhang and Jianyun Ruan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:425
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  41. Pine wilt disease (PWD), which is caused by the pine wood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is currently the greatest threat to pine forests in Europe and East Asian countries including Japan. Constructi...

    Authors: Tomonori Hirao, Koji Matsunaga, Hideki Hirakawa, Kenta Shirasawa, Keiya Isoda, Kentaro Mishima, Miho Tamura and Atsushi Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:424
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  42. Pink-flowered strawberry is a promising new ornamental flower derived from intergeneric hybridization (Fragaria × Potentilla) with bright color, a prolonged flowering period and edible fruits. Its flower color ra...

    Authors: Li Xue, Jian Wang, Jun Zhao, Yang Zheng, Hai-Feng Wang, Xue Wu, Cheng Xian, Jia-Jun Lei, Chuan-Fei Zhong and Yun-Tao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:423
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  43. Synonymous mutations do not change amino acids but do sometimes change the tRNAs (anticodons) that decode a particular codon. An isoaccepting codon is a synonymous codon that shares the same tRNA. If a mutated...

    Authors: Duan Chu and Lai Wei
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:422
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  44. Precise regulation of gene expression is indispensable for the proper functioning of organisms in both optimal and challenging conditions. The most commonly known regulative mechanisms include the modulation o...

    Authors: Jagna Chmielowska-Bąk, Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek and Joanna Deckert
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:421
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. Soybean is subjected to genetic manipulation by breeding, mutation, and transgenic approaches to produce value-added quality traits. Among those genetic approaches, mutagenesis through fast neutrons radiation ...

    Authors: Nazrul Islam, Robert M. Stupar, Song Qijian, Devanand L. Luthria, Wesley Garrett, Adrian O. Stec, Jeff Roessler and Savithiry S. Natarajan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:420
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  46. Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa is one of the Cruciferae species most tolerant to drought stress. In our previous study some extremely drought-tolerant/sensitive Eruca lines were obtained. However little is known a...

    Authors: Bang-Lian Huang, Xuan Li, Pei Liu, Lan Ma, Wenhua Wu, Xuekun Zhang, Zaiyun Li and Bangquan Huang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:419
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  48. The content of stone cells and lignin is one of the key factors affecting the quality of pear fruit. In a previous study, we determined the developmental regularity of stone cells and lignin in ‘Dangshan Su’ p...

    Authors: Xueqiang Su, Yu Zhao, Han Wang, Guohui Li, Xi Cheng, Qing Jin and Yongping Cai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:417
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  49. Post-embryonic growth of land plants originates from meristems. Genetic networks in meristems maintain the stem cells and direct acquisition of cell fates. WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) transcription factors ...

    Authors: Christopher E. Youngstrom, Lander F. Geadelmann, Erin E. Irish and Chi-Lien Cheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:416
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  50. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful tool for identifying quantitative trait loci (QTL) and causal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)/genes associated with various important traits in crop...

    Authors: Abiskar Gyawali, Vivek Shrestha, Katherine E. Guill, Sherry Flint-Garcia and Timothy M. Beissinger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:412
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