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  1. Ca2+ ion is a versatile second messenger that operate in a wide ranges of cellular processes that impact nearly every aspect of life. Ca2+ regulates gene expression and biotic and abiotic stress responses in orga...

    Authors: Tapan Kumar Mohanta, Pradeep Kumar and Hanhong Bae
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:38
  2. Flax lignan, commonly known as secoisolariciresinol (SECO) diglucoside (SDG), has recently been reported with health-promoting activities, including its positive impact in metabolic diseases. However, not much...

    Authors: Bourlaye Fofana, Kaushik Ghose, Jason McCallum, Frank M. You and Sylvie Cloutier
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:35
  3. Rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz, TK) is being developed as a domestic source of natural rubber to meet increasing global demand. However, the domestication of TK is complicated by its colocation with two w...

    Authors: Yingxiao Zhang, Brian J. Iaffaldano, Xiaofeng Zhuang, John Cardina and Katrina Cornish
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:34
  4. microRNA166 (miR166) is a highly conserved family of miRNAs implicated in a wide range of cellular and physiological processes in plants. miR166 family generally comprises multiple miR166 members in plants, wh...

    Authors: Xuyan Li, Xin Xie, Ji Li, Yuhai Cui, Yanming Hou, Lulu Zhai, Xiao Wang, Yanli Fu, Ranran Liu and Shaomin Bian
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:32
  5. Skewing root patterns provide key insights into root growth strategies and mechanisms that produce root architectures. Roots exhibit skewing and waving when grown on a tilted, impenetrable surface. The genetic...

    Authors: Eric R. Schultz, Agata K. Zupanska, Natasha J. Sng, Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert J. Ferl
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:31
  6. Members of the amino acid/auxin permease (AAAP) gene family play indispensable roles in various plant metabolism and biosynthesis processes. Comprehensive analysis of AAAP genes has been conducted in Arabidops...

    Authors: Huanlong Liu, Min Wu, Dongyue Zhu, Feng Pan, Yujiao Wang, Yue Wang and Yan Xiang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:29
  7. Oriental melon is one of the most popular crops for its nutritional and flavour quality. Components that determine melon quality, such as sugar, colour, texture, flavour and aroma, among other factors, accumul...

    Authors: Xiaoou Guo, Jingjing Xu, Xiaohui Cui, Hao Chen and Hongyan Qi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:28
  8. Despite the heat-related physiology and heat-shock proteins in maize have been extensively studied, little is known about the transcriptome profiling of how the maize varieties with different genotypes respond...

    Authors: Jiang Shi, Baiyuan Yan, Xuping Lou, Huasheng Ma and Songlin Ruan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:26
  9. The adventitious roots (AR) of plants share the same function as primary and lateral roots (LR), although their development is mainly an adaptive reaction to stress conditions. Regeneration of grafted plants i...

    Authors: Katarzyna Sala, Katarzyna Malarz, Peter W. Barlow and Ewa U. Kurczyńska
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:25
  10. Abiotic stresses due to environmental factors could adversely affect the growth and development of crops. Among the abiotic stresses, drought and heat stress are two critical threats to crop growth and sustain...

    Authors: Rong Zhou, Xiaqing Yu, Carl-Otto Ottosen, Eva Rosenqvist, Liping Zhao, Yinlei Wang, Wengui Yu, Tongmin Zhao and Zhen Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:24
  11. Plants contain a range of aquaporin (AQP) proteins, which act as transporter of water and nutrient molecules through living membranes. AQPs also participate in water uptake through the roots and contribute to ...

    Authors: Md. Abdul Kayum, Jong-In Park, Ujjal Kumar Nath, Manosh Kumar Biswas, Hoy-Taek Kim and Ill-Sup Nou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:23
  12. In northwest of China, mini Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) is highly valued by consumers, and is widely cultivated during winter in solar-greenhouses where low light (LL) fluence (between 85 and 150 Î¼mol m

    Authors: Linli Hu, Weibiao Liao, Mohammed Mujitaba Dawuda, Jihua Yu and Jian Lv
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:22
  13. Polyploid hybrids represent a rich natural resource to study molecular evolution of plant genes and genomes. Here, we applied a combination of karyological and molecular methods to investigate chromosomal stru...

    Authors: Roman A. Volkov, Irina I. Panchuk, Nikolai V. Borisjuk, Marta Hosiawa-Baranska, Jolanta Maluszynska and Vera Hemleben
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:21
  14. Fusarium verticillioides is a common maize pathogen causing ear rot (FER) and contamination of the grains with the fumonisin B1 (FB1) mycotoxin. Resistance to FER and FB1 contamination...

    Authors: Valentina Maschietto, Cinzia Colombi, Raul Pirona, Giorgio Pea, Francesco Strozzi, Adriano Marocco, Laura Rossini and Alessandra Lanubile
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:20
  15. Oligogalacturonides (OGs) are important components of damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) signaling and influence growth regulation in plants. Recent studies have focused on the impact of long OGs (degr...

    Authors: Pär Davidsson, Martin Broberg, Tarja Kariola, Nina Sipari, Minna Pirhonen and E. Tapio Palva
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:19
  16. Bud dormancy is an important biological phenomenon of perennial plants that enables them to survive under harsh environmental circumstances. Grape (Vitis vinifera) is one of the most grown fruit crop worldwide; h...

    Authors: Muhammad Khalil-Ur-Rehman, Long Sun, Chun-Xia Li, Muhammad Faheem, Wu Wang and Jian-Min Tao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:18
  17. Flavonoids constitute a diverse class of secondary metabolites which exhibit potent bioactivities for human health and have been indicated to play an important role in plant development and defense. However, a...

    Authors: Min Jin, Xuehai Zhang, Mingchao Zhao, Min Deng, Yuanhao Du, Yang Zhou, Shouchuang Wang, Takayuki Tohge, Alisdair R. Fernie, Lothar Willmitzer, Yariv Brotman, Jianbing Yan and Weiwei Wen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:17
  18. Seed germination is important to soybean (Glycine max) growth and development, ultimately affecting soybean yield. A lower seed field emergence has been the main hindrance for breeding soybeans low in phytate. Al...

    Authors: Fengjie Yuan, Xiaomin Yu, Dekun Dong, Qinghua Yang, Xujun Fu, Shenlong Zhu and Danhua Zhu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:16
  19. New combinations of divergent genomes can give rise to novel genetic functions in resulting hybrid progeny. Such functions may yield opportunities for ecological divergence, contributing ultimately to reproduc...

    Authors: Yongbin Zhuang and Erin A. Tripp
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:15
  20. The yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), an important crop, is adversely affected by heat stress in many regions of the world. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying thermotolerance are largely unknown.

    Authors: Xinshan Zang, Xiaoli Geng, Fei Wang, Zhenshan Liu, Liyuan Zhang, Yue Zhao, Xuejun Tian, Zhongfu Ni, Yingyin Yao, Mingming Xin, Zhaorong Hu, Qixin Sun and Huiru Peng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:14
  21. Glycemic response, a trait that is tedious to be assayed in cereal staples, has been identified as a factor correlated with alarmingly increasing prevalence of Type II diabetes. Reverse genetics based discover...

    Authors: Ramadoss Bharathi Raja, Somanath Agasimani, Sarita Jaiswal, Venkatesan Thiruvengadam, Robin Sabariappan, Ravindra N. Chibbar and Sundaram Ganesh Ram
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:13
  22. Climate variability due to fluctuation in temperature is a worldwide concern that imperils crop production. The need to understand how the germplasm variation in major crops can be utilized to aid in discoveri...

    Authors: Ratan Chopra, Gloria Burow, John J. Burke, Nicholas Gladman and Zhanguo Xin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:12
  23. The dwarfing gene sdw1 has been widely used throughout the world to develop commercial barley varieties. There are at least four different alleles at the sdw1 locus.

    Authors: Yanhao Xu, Qiaojun Jia, Gaofeng Zhou, Xiao-Qi Zhang, Tefera Angessa, Sue Broughton, George Yan, Wenying Zhang and Chengdao Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:11
  24. Flower phylogenetics and genetically controlled development have been revolutionised during the last two decades. However, some of these evolutionary aspects are still debatable. MADS-box genes are known to pl...

    Authors: Yuzhen Zhou, Zongda Xu, Xue Yong, Sagheer Ahmad, Weiru Yang, Tangren Cheng, Jia Wang and Qixiang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:10
  25. The complex process of formation of storage roots (SRs) from adventitious roots affects sweetpotato yield. Identifying the genes that are uniquely expressed in the SR forming cultivated species, Ipomoea batatas (

    Authors: Sathish K. Ponniah, Jyothi Thimmapuram, Ketaki Bhide, Venu (Kal) Kalavacharla and Muthusamy Manoharan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:9
  26. Plants respond to abiotic stress on physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. This includes a global change in their cellular proteome achieved by changes in the pattern of their protein synthesis and d...

    Authors: Guy Adler, Zvia Konrad, Lyad Zamir, Amit Kumar Mishra, Dina Raveh and Dudy Bar-Zvi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:8
  27. microRNAs (miRNAs) have been involved in regulation of diverse spectrum of plant development processes in many species. In cotton, few miRNAs have been well characterised in floral organ development. Floral or...

    Authors: Nian Liu, Lili Tu, Lichen Wang, Haiyan Hu, Jiao Xu and Xianlong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:7
  28. The NAC family of transcription factors is one of the largest gene families of transcription factors in plants and the conifer NAC gene family is at least as large, or possibly larger, as in Arabidopsis. These tr...

    Authors: Kerstin Dalman, Julia Johanna Wind, Miguel Nemesio-Gorriz, Almuth Hammerbacher, Karl Lundén, Ines Ezcurra and Malin Elfstrand
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:6
  29. Papain-like Cys Proteases (PLCPs) and Vacuolar Processing Enzymes (VPEs) are amongst the most highly expressed proteases during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. Using activity-based protein profiling (ABPP), a ...

    Authors: Adriana Pružinská, Takayuki Shindo, Sherry Niessen, Farnusch Kaschani, Réka Tóth, A. Harvey Millar and Renier A. L. van der Hoorn
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:4
  30. Polyploidy is well studied from a genetic and genomic perspective, but the morphological, anatomical, and physiological consequences of polyploidy remain relatively uncharacterized. Whether these potential cha...

    Authors: Robert L. Baker, Yulia Yarkhunova, Katherine Vidal, Brent E. Ewers and Cynthia Weinig
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:3
  31. The coordination of pollen tube (PT) growth, guidance and timely growth arrest and rupture mediated by PT-pistil interaction is crucial for the PT to transport sperm cells into ovules for double fertilization....

    Authors: Ning Yang and Tai Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:2
  32. The low seed vigor and poor field emergence are main factors that restricting the extension of sweet corn in China. Spermidine (Spd) plays an important role in plant growth and development, but little is known...

    Authors: Yutao Huang, Cheng Lin, Fei He, Zhan Li, Yajing Guan, Qijuan Hu and Jin Hu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2017 17:1
  33. Sucrose translocation between plant tissues is crucial for growth, development and reproduction of plants. Systemic analysis of these metabolic and underlying regulatory processes allow a detailed understandin...

    Authors: Maksim Zakhartsev, Irina Medvedeva, Yury Orlov, Ilya Akberdin, Olga Krebs and Waltraud X. Schulze
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:262
  34. Naturally growing populations of olive trees are found in the Mediterranean garrigue and maquis in Israel. Here, we used the Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) genetic marker technique to investigate whether these r...

    Authors: Oz Barazani, Alexandra Keren-Keiserman, Erik Westberg, Nir Hanin, Arnon Dag, Giora Ben-Ari, Ori Fragman-Sapir, Yizhar Tugendhaft, Zohar Kerem and Joachim W. Kadereit
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:261
  35. Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies o...

    Authors: Tracy Raines, Ivory C. Blakley, Yu-Chang Tsai, Jennifer M. Worthen, José Manuel Franco-Zorrilla, Roberto Solano, G. Eric Schaller, Ann E. Loraine and Joseph J. Kieber
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:260
  36. Rice (Oryza sativa L.), which is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, is frequently attacked by herbivorous insects, including the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis. C. suppressalis subst...

    Authors: Qingsong Liu, Xingyun Wang, Vered Tzin, Jörg Romeis, Yufa Peng and Yunhe Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:259
  37. During the photosynthesis, two isoforms of the fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), the chloroplastidial (cFBP1) and the cytosolic (cyFBP), catalyse the first irreversible step during the conversion of triose...

    Authors: Mauricio Soto-Suárez, Antonio J. Serrato, José A. Rojas-González, Rocío Bautista and Mariam Sahrawy
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:258
  38. RNA editing is a posttranscriptional modification process that alters the RNA sequence so that it deviates from the genomic DNA sequence. RNA editing mainly occurs in chloroplasts and mitochondrial genomes, an...

    Authors: Peng He, Sheng Huang, Guanghui Xiao, Yuzhou Zhang and Jianing Yu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:257
  39. Sporopollenin is a major component of the pollen exine pattern. In Arabidopsis, acyl-CoA synthetase5 (ACOS5) is involved in sporopollenin precursor biosynthesis. In this study, we identified its orthologue, OsACO...

    Authors: Yueling Li, Dandan Li, Zongli Guo, Qiangsheng Shi, Shuangxi Xiong, Cheng Zhang, Jun Zhu and Zhongnan Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:256
  40. Characterization of the expression and function of genes regulating embryo development in conifers is interesting from an evolutionary point of view. However, our knowledge about the regulation of embryo devel...

    Authors: Irene Merino, Malin Abrahamsson, Lieven Sterck, Blanca Craven-Bartle, Francisco Canovas and Sara von Arnold
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:255
  41. The apoplast plays an important role in plant defense against pathogens. Some extracellular PR-4 proteins possess ribonuclease activity and may directly inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi. It is likely tha...

    Authors: Teppei Sugawara, Ekaterina A. Trifonova, Alex V. Kochetov and Yoshinori Kanayama
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):246

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  42. Albinism in plants is characterized by lack of chlorophyll and results in photosynthesis impairment, abnormal plant development and premature death. These abnormalities are frequently encountered in interspeci...

    Authors: Nickolay A. Shmakov, Gennadiy V. Vasiliev, Natalya V. Shatskaya, Alexey V. Doroshkov, Elena I. Gordeeva, Dmitry A. Afonnikov and Elena K. Khlestkina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):245

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  43. Vernalization genes VRN1 play a major role in the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth in wheat. In di-, tetra- and hexaploid wheats the presence of a dominant allele of at least one VRN1 gene homolo...

    Authors: Irina Konopatskaia, Valeriya Vavilova, Elena Ya. Kondratenko, Alexandr Blinov and Nikolay P. Goncharov
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):244

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  44. Chloroplasts of most plants are responsible for photosynthesis and contain a conserved set of about 110 genes that encode components of housekeeping gene expression machinery and photosynthesis-related functio...

    Authors: Nikolai V. Ravin, Eugeny V. Gruzdev, Alexey V. Beletsky, Alexander M. Mazur, Egor B. Prokhortchouk, Mikhail A. Filyushin, Elena Z. Kochieva, Vitaly V. Kadnikov, Andrey V. Mardanov and Konstantin G. Skryabin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):238

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  45. Cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is widely used for production of textile, food, chemical and pharmaceutical products. However, various stresses decrease flax production. Search for genes, which are invol...

    Authors: Alexey A. Dmitriev, Anna V. Kudryavtseva, George S. Krasnov, Nadezhda V. Koroban, Anna S. Speranskaya, Anastasia A. Krinitsina, Maxim S. Belenikin, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Asiya F. Sadritdinova, Natalya V. Kishlyan, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Olga Yu. Yurkevich, Olga V. Muravenko, Nadezhda L. Bolsheva and Nataliya V. Melnikova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):237

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  46. Triticum araraticum and Triticum timopheevii are tetraploid species of the Timopheevi group. The former includes both winter and spring forms with a predominance of winter forms, where...

    Authors: Andrey Borisovich Shcherban, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Schichkina and Elena Artemovna Salina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 3):236

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

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