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  1. Recent advances in ~omics technologies such as transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics along with genotypic profiling have permitted the genetic dissection of complex traits such as quality traits in non-...

    Authors: Animesh Acharjee, Pierre-Yves Chibon, Bjorn Kloosterman, Twan America, Jenny Renaut, Chris Maliepaard and Richard G. F. Visser
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:20
  2. Vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) is a vital protein complex involved in abiotic stress response in plants. The G subunit of Juglans regia (JrVHAG1) was previously identified as a drought tolerance-related gene invol...

    Authors: Zhenggang Xu, Yu Ge, Wan Zhang, Yunlin Zhao and Guiyan Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:19
  3. The roles in photosystem I (PSI) assembly of the nucleus-encoded thylakoid protein Y3IP1 who interacts with the plastid-encoded Ycf3 protein that has been well-characterized in plants. However, its function an...

    Authors: Jian-Qiang Yu, Jia-Hui Wang, Cui-Hui Sun, Quan-Yan Zhang, Da-Gang Hu and Yu-Jin Hao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:18
  4. Plant Architecture Related Traits (PATs) are of great importance for maize breeding, and mainly controlled by minor effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs). However, cloning or even fine-mapping of minor effect ...

    Authors: Baobao Wang, Han Liu, Zhipeng Liu, Xiaomei Dong, Jinjie Guo, Wei Li, Jing Chen, Chi Gao, Yanbin Zhu, Xinmei Zheng, Zongliang Chen, Jian Chen, Weibin Song, Andrew Hauck and Jinsheng Lai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:17
  5. Cucumber downy mildew is among the most important diseases that can disrupt cucumber production. Propamocarb, also known as propyl-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbamate (PM), is a systemic carbamate fungicide pes...

    Authors: Chunhong Liu, Zhiwei Qin, Xiuyan Zhou, Ming Xin, Chunhua Wang, Dong Liu and Shengnan Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:16
  6. Soil salinization is one of the major environmental constraints to plant growth and agricultural production worldwide. Signaling components involving calcium (Ca2+) and the downstream calcium-dependent protein ki...

    Authors: Wei Gao, Fu-Chun Xu, Dan-Dan Guo, Jing-Ruo Zhao, Ji Liu, Ya-Wei Guo, Prashant Kumar Singh, Xiao-Nan Ma, Lu Long, Jose Ramon Botella and Chun-Peng Song
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:15
  7. Availability of well characterized maize regulatory elements for gene expression in a variety of tissues and developmental stages provides effective alternatives for single and multigene transgenic concepts. W...

    Authors: Delkin O. Gonzalez, Jeff B. Church, Andrew Robinson, James P. Connell, Megan Sopko, Boyd Rowland, Kristina Woodall, Cory M. Larsen and John P. Davies
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:14
  8. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the number of genes overlaying the bar graph in Fig. 3A were incorrectly counted and inserted (i.e. including a title tile, and in i...

    Authors: Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze, Anitha Sundararajan, Joann Mudge, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj, Andrew D. Farmer, Minghui Wang, Qi Sun, Jaroslaw Pillardy, Shahryar Kianian, Ernest F. Retzel, Wojciech P. Pawlowski and Changbin Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:12

    The original article was published in BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:118

  9. Photosynthetic systems are known to be sensitive to high temperature stress. To maintain a relatively “normal” level of photosynthetic activities, plants employ a variety of adaptive mechanisms in response to ...

    Authors: Junping Chen, John J. Burke and Zhanguo Xin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:11
  10. Breeding rubber tree seedling with growth heterosis is vital for natural rubber production. It is the prerequisites for effectively utilizing growth heterosis to elucidate its molecular mechanisms, but the mol...

    Authors: Hong Yang, Xuncheng Wang, Yongxuan Wei, Zhi Deng, Hui Liu, Jiangshu Chen, Longjun Dai, Zhihui Xia, Guangming He and Dejun Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:10
  11. Endosperm starch provides prime energy for cereal seedling growth. Cereal endosperm with repression of starch branching enzyme (SBE) has been widely studied for its high resistant starch content and health ben...

    Authors: Ting Pan, Lingshang Lin, Juan Wang, Qiaoquan Liu and Cunxu Wei
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:9
  12. Carrot which contains lots of nutrients has a large demand around the world. The soluble sugar content in fleshy root of carrot directly influences its taste and quality. Sucrose, as an important member of sol...

    Authors: Yan-Jun Liu, Guang-Long Wang, Jing Ma, Zhi-Sheng Xu, Feng Wang and Ai-Sheng Xiong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:8
  13. Heterosis is widely used to increase the yield of many crops. However, as wheat is a self-pollinating crop, hybrid breeding is not so successful in this organism. Even though male sterility induced by chemical...

    Authors: Hongzhan Liu, Gaisheng Zhang, Junsheng Wang, Jingjing Li, Yulong Song, Lin Qiao, Na Niu, Junwei Wang, Shoucai Ma and Lili Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:7
  14. Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are highly abundant in plant genomes and require transcriptional activity for their proliferative mode of replication. These sequences exist in plant genomes as dive...

    Authors: Fan Qiu and Mark C. Ungerer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:6
  15. Alternative splicing (AS) is an important post-transcriptional process. It has been suggested that most AS events are subject to tissue-specific regulation. However, the global dynamics of AS in different tiss...

    Authors: Ying Sun, Han Hou, Hongtao Song, Kui Lin, Zhonghua Zhang, Jinglu Hu and Erli Pang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:5
  16. Silicon (Si) has been known to regulate plant growth; however, the underlying mechanisms of short-term exogenous Si application on the regulation of calcium (Ca) and nitrogen (N), endogenous phytohormones, and...

    Authors: Soo-Won Jang, Yoonha Kim, Abdul Latif Khan, Chae-In Na and In-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:4
  17. Along with the rapid development of glycomic tools, the study of lectin–carbohydrate interactions has expanded, opening the way for applications in the fields of analytic, diagnostic, and drug delivery. Chitin...

    Authors: Chang-Shan Chen, Chun-Yi Chen, Divya Malathy Ravinath, Agustina Bungahot, Chi-Ping Cheng and Ren-In You
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:3
  18. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is used as a raw material for biofuels because it accumulates sugars at high levels in the stem. Lodging of sorghum occurs when the soil is wet and very high winds blow across the fie...

    Authors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Shigemitsu Kasuga and Hiroyuki Kawahigashi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:2
  19. Lignin and lignans are both derived from the monolignol pathway. Despite the similarity of their building blocks, they fulfil different functions in planta. Lignin strengthens the tissues of the plant, while lign...

    Authors: Marc Behr, Kjell Sergeant, Céline C. Leclercq, Sébastien Planchon, Cédric Guignard, Audrey Lenouvel, Jenny Renaut, Jean-Francois Hausman, Stanley Lutts and Gea Guerriero
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:1
  20. Tomato gray leaf spot disease caused by Stemphylium lycopersici (S. lycopersici) is considered one of the major diseases of cultivated tomatoes. The only S. lycopersici resistance gene, Sm, was derived from the w...

    Authors: Huanhuan Yang, Tingting Zhao, Jingbin Jiang, Songbo Wang, Aoxue Wang, Jingfu Li and Xiangyang Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:266
  21. MicroRNAs act as molecular regulator of cell signaling, plant growth and development, and regulate various primary and secondary plant metabolic processes. In the present study, deep sequencing of small RNAs w...

    Authors: Monika Kajal and Kashmir Singh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:265
  22. Arabidopsis has 5 paralogs of the S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) gene. Neither their specific role in development nor the role of positive/purifying selection in genetic divergence of this gene family...

    Authors: Rajtilak Majumdar, Lin Shao, Swathi A. Turlapati and Subhash C. Minocha
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:264
  23. As part of nation-wide project to infer the genetic variation of the native flora in Kazakhstan, a study was attempted to assess phylogenetic relationships of endemic and rare Allium species. In total, 20 Allium ...

    Authors: Saule Abugalieva, Lyubov Volkova, Yuliya Genievskaya, Anna Ivaschenko, Yuri Kotukhov, Gulzhahan Sakauova and Yerlan Turuspekov
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):258

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  24. The available data demonstrate that even in universal metabolic pathways, some species-specific regulatory features of structural genes are present. For instance, in the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway (ABP),...

    Authors: Olesya Yu. Shoeva, Anastasiya Yu. Glagoleva and Elena K. Khlestkina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):256

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  25. Ferns are large and underexplored group of vascular plants (~ 11 thousands species). The genomic data available by now include low coverage nuclear genomes sequences and partial sequences of mitochondrial geno...

    Authors: Maria D. Logacheva, Anastasiya A. Krinitsina, Maxim S. Belenikin, Kamil Khafizov, Evgenii A. Konorov, Sergey V. Kuptsov and Anna S. Speranskaya
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):255

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  26. KASP (KBioscience Competitive Allele Specific PCR) and Amplifluor (Amplification with fluorescence) SNP markers are two prominent technologies based upon a shared identical Allele-specific PCR platform.

    Authors: Satyvaldy Jatayev, Akhylbek Kurishbayev, Lyudmila Zotova, Gulmira Khasanova, Dauren Serikbay, Askar Zhubatkanov, Makpal Botayeva, Aibek Zhumalin, Arysgul Turbekova, Kathleen Soole, Peter Langridge and Yuri Shavrukov
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):254

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  27. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is a crop plant used for fiber and oil production. Although potentially high-yielding flax varieties have been developed, environmental stresses markedly decrease flax production. Am...

    Authors: Alexey A. Dmitriev, George S. Krasnov, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Roman O. Novakovskiy, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Maria S. Fedorova, Olga Yu. Yurkevich, Olga V. Muravenko, Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Anna V. Kudryavtseva and Nataliya V. Melnikova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):253

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  28. Inflorescences of wheat species, spikes, are characteristically unbranched and bear one sessile spikelet at a spike rachis node. Development of supernumerary spikelets (SSs) at rachis nodes or on the extended ...

    Authors: Oxana B. Dobrovolskaya, Yumiko Amagai, Karina I. Popova, Alina E. Dresvyannikova, Petr Martinek, Alexander A. Krasnikov and Nobuyoshi Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):252

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  29. The characterization of major resistance genes (R genes) in the potato remains an important task for molecular breeding. However, R genes are rapidly evolving and frequently occur in genomes as clusters with c...

    Authors: Alex V. Kochetov, Anastasiya Y. Glagoleva, Kseniya V. Strygina, Elena K. Khlestkina, Sophia V. Gerasimova, Salmaz M. Ibragimova, Natalja V. Shatskaya, Gennady V. Vasilyev, Dmitry A. Afonnikov, Nikolay A. Shmakov, Olga Y. Antonova, Tatyana A. Gavrilenko, Natalia V. Alpatyeva, Alexander Khiutti and Olga S. Afanasenko
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):251

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  30. Spot blotch, caused by Cochliobolus sativus, is one of the most widespread and harmful diseases in barley. Identification of genetic loci associated with resistance to C. sativus is of importance for future marke...

    Authors: Irina V. Bykova, Nina M. Lashina, Vadim M. Efimov, Olga S. Afanasenko and Elena K. Khlestkina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):250

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  31. Structural component of plant biomass, lignocellulose, is the most abundant renewable resource in nature. Lignin is the most recalcitrant natural aromatic polymer and its degradation presents great challenge. ...

    Authors: Jasmina Ćilerdžić, Milica Galić, Jelena Vukojević, Ilija Brčeski and Mirjana Stajić
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17(Suppl 2):249

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 2

  32. Light and temperatures of germination greatly affect germination of several Cucurbitaceae species. Environmental conditions prevailing at seed maturation time can affect dormancy and germination requirements. Cit...

    Authors: Ali El-Keblawy, Hatem A. Shabana, Teresa Navarro and Sameh Soliman
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:263

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:45

  33. The artificial enlargement of the planting area and ecological amplitude of ornamentals for horticultural and landscape applications are significant. Herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora Pall.) is a world-famous ...

    Authors: Jiaping Zhang, Danqing Li, Xiaohua Shi, Dong Zhang, Shuai Qiu, Jianfen Wei, Jiao Zhang, Jianghua Zhou, Kaiyuan Zhu and Yiping Xia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:262
  34. Modification of nucleosides on transfer RNA (tRNA) is important either for correct mRNA decoding process or for tRNA structural stabilization. Nucleoside methylations catalyzed by MTase (methyltransferase) are...

    Authors: Youmei Wang, Chaoqun Pang, Xukai Li, Zhen Hu, Zhengyi Lv, Bo Zheng and Peng Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:261

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:37

  35. Heterogeneous rates of molecular evolution are universal across the tree of life, posing challenges for phylogenetic inference. The temperate woody bamboos (tribe Arundinarieae, Poaceae) are noted for their ex...

    Authors: Peng-Fei Ma, Maria S. Vorontsova, Olinirina Prisca Nanjarisoa, Jacqueline Razanatsoa, Zhen-Hua Guo, Thomas Haevermans and De-Zhu Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:260
  36. Strigolactones (SLs) play important roles in controlling root growth, shoot branching, and plant-symbionts interaction. Despite the importance, the components of SL biosynthesis and signaling have not been une...

    Authors: Basir UI Haq, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ahmad, Naveed ur Rehman, Junjie Wang, Penghui Li, Dongqin Li and Jian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:259
  37. Among wheat gluten proteins, the α-type gliadins are the major responsible for celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects about 1% of the world population. In fact, these proteins contain several toxi...

    Authors: Francesco Camerlengo, Francesco Sestili, Marco Silvestri, Giuseppe Colaprico, Benedetta Margiotta, Roberto Ruggeri, Roberta Lupi, Stefania Masci and Domenico Lafiandra
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:248
  38. The trehalose (Tre) pathway has strong effects on growth and development in plants through regulation of carbon metabolism. Altering either Tre or trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) can improve growth and productivit...

    Authors: Yingchao Lin, Jie Zhang, Weichang Gao, Yi Chen, Hongxun Li, David W. Lawlor, Matthew J. Paul and Wenjie Pan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:247
  39. Water deficit severely reduces apple growth and production, is detrimental to fruit quality and size. This problem is exacerbated as global warming is implicated in producing more severe drought stress. Thus w...

    Authors: Lin Wang, Qing-Tian Li, Qiong Lei, Chao Feng, Xiaodong Zheng, Fangfang Zhou, Lingzi Li, Xuan Liu, Zhi Wang and Jin Kong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:246
  40. During asexual reproduction the embryogenic callus can differentiate into a new plantlet, offering great potential for fostering in vitro culture efficiency in plants. The immature embryos (IMEs) of wheat (Tritic...

    Authors: Zongli Chu, Junying Chen, Junyan Sun, Zhongdong Dong, Xia Yang, Ying Wang, Haixia Xu, Xiaoke Zhang, Feng Chen and Dangqun Cui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:244
  41. In Arabidopsis, the tapetum and microsporocytes are critical for pollen formation. Previous studies have shown that ARF17 is expressed in microsporocytes and tetrads and directly regulates tetrad wall synthesis f...

    Authors: Bo Wang, Jing-Shi Xue, Ya-Hui Yu, Si-Qi Liu, Jia-Xin Zhang, Xiao-Zhen Yao, Zhi-Xue Liu, Xiao-Feng Xu and Zhong-Nan Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:243
  42. Understanding how intensification of abiotic stress due to global climate change affects crop yields is important for continued agricultural productivity. Coupling genomic technologies with physiological crop ...

    Authors: Courtney P. Leisner, Craig R. Yendrek and Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:242
  43. Coccinia grandis (ivy gourd), is a dioecious member of Cucurbitaceae having heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Chromosome constitution of male and female plants of C. grandis is 22A + XY a...

    Authors: Ravi Suresh Devani, Sangram Sinha, Jayeeta Banerjee, Rabindra Kumar Sinha, Abdelhafid Bendahmane and Anjan Kumar Banerjee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:241
  44. Most studies of photosynthesis in chlorenchymas under potassium (K) deficiency focus exclusively on leaves; however, little information is available on the physiological role of K on reproductive structures, w...

    Authors: Zhifeng Lu, Yonghui Pan, Wenshi Hu, Rihuan Cong, Tao Ren, Shiwei Guo and Jianwei Lu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:240
  45. Dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) is the key enzyme committed to anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway. DFR proteins can catalyse mainly the three substrates (dihy...

    Authors: Kenjiro Katsu, Rintaro Suzuki, Wataru Tsuchiya, Noritoshi Inagaki, Toshimasa Yamazaki, Tomomi Hisano, Yasuo Yasui, Toshiyuki Komori, Motoyuki Koshio, Seiji Kubota, Amanda R. Walker, Kiyoshi Furukawa and Katsuhiro Matsui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:239
  46. Microtubules, polymerized from alpha and beta-tubulin monomers, play a fundamental role in plant morphogenesis, determining the cell division plane, the direction of cell expansion and the deposition of cell w...

    Authors: Floriana Gavazzi, Gaia Pigna, Luca Braglia, Silvia Gianì, Diego Breviario and Laura Morello
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:237

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