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  1. 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
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  2. 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
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 3

  3. Rhizobium nitrogen fixation in legumes takes place in specialized organs called root nodules. The initiation of these symbiotic organs has two important components. First, symbiotic rhizobium bacteria are reco...

    Authors: Eva E. Deinum, Wouter Kohlen and René Geurts
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:254
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  4. Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB), which is linked to the bacterial pathogen ‘Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus’ (Las), is the most devastating disease of citrus plants, and longer-term control measures via breeding or genetic...

    Authors: Chika C. Nwugo, Melissa S. Doud, Yong-ping Duan and Hong Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:253
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  5. Climate change is predicted to be a serious threat to agriculture due to the need for crops to be able to tolerate increased heat stress. Desert plants have already adapted to high levels of heat stress so the...

    Authors: Abdullah Y. Obaid, Jamal S. M. Sabir, Ahmed Atef, Xuan Liu, Sherif Edris, Fotouh M. El-Domyati, Mohammed Z. Mutwakil, Nour O. Gadalla, Nahid H. Hajrah, Magdy A. Al-Kordy, Neil Hall, Ahmed Bahieldin and Robert K. Jansen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:252
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  6. The induction of alcohol fermentation in roots is a plant adaptive response to flooding stress and oxygen deprivation. Available transcriptomic data suggest that fermentation-related genes are also frequently ...

    Authors: Antoine Gravot, Gautier Richard, Tanguy Lime, Séverine Lemarié, Mélanie Jubault, Christine Lariagon, Jocelyne Lemoine, Jorge Vicente, Alexandre Robert-Seilaniantz, Michael J. Holdsworth and Maria J. Manzanares-Dauleux
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:251
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  7. Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is a globally important oilseed crop with highly-valued oil. Strong hybrid vigor is frequently observed within this crop, which can be exploited by the means of genic male sterility (G...

    Authors: Hongyan Liu, Mingpu Tan, Haijuan Yu, Liang Li, Fang Zhou, Minmin Yang, Ting Zhou and Yingzhong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:250
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  8. Divergent phenotypes and genotypes are key signals for identifying the targets of natural selection in locally adapted populations. Here, we used a combination of common garden phenotyping for a variety of gro...

    Authors: Edward V. McAssey, Jonathan Corbi and John M. Burke
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:249
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  9. Photosynthetic organs of the cereal spike (ear) provide assimilate for grain filling, but their response to drought is poorly understood. In this study, we characterized the drought response of individual orga...

    Authors: Jordan A. Hein, Mark E. Sherrard, Kirk P. Manfredi and Tilahun Abebe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:248
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  10. Drought is the most important environmental stress that limits crop yield in a global warming world. Despite the compelling evidence of an important role of oxidized and reduced sulfur-containing compounds dur...

    Authors: Nisar Ahmad, Mario Malagoli, Markus Wirtz and Ruediger Hell
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:247
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  11. The coffee species Coffea canephora is commercially identified as “Conilon” when produced in Brazil, or “Robusta” when produced elsewhere in the world. It represents approximately 40 % of coffee production worldw...

    Authors: Andrea Garavito, Christophe Montagnon, Romain Guyot and Benoît Bertrand
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:242
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  12. Grain development in maize is an essential process in the plant’s life cycle and is vital for use of the plant as a crop for animals and humans. However, little is known regarding the protein regulatory networ...

    Authors: Tao Yu, Geng Li, Shuting Dong, Peng Liu, Jiwang Zhang and Bin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:241
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  13. Phenotypic variation is determined by a combination of genotype, environment and their interactions. The realization that allelic diversity can be both genetic and epigenetic allows the environmental component...

    Authors: Jihua Xu, Karen K. Tanino, Kyla N. Horner and Stephen J. Robinson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:240
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  14. Photoperiodism refers to the ability of plants to measure day length to determine the season. This ability enables plants to coordinate internal biological activities with external changes to ensure normal gro...

    Authors: Lixia Ku, Lei Tian, Huihui Su, Cuiling Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Liuji Wu, Yong Shi, Guohui Li, Zhiyong Wang, Huitao Wang, Xiaoheng Song, Dandan Dou, Zhaobin Ren and Yanhui Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:239
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  15. Bacterial wilt (BW) is a widespread plant disease that affects a broad range of dicot and monocot hosts and is particularly harmful for solanaceous plants, such as pepper, tomato, and eggplant. The pathogen re...

    Authors: Yang Jae Kang, Yul-Kyun Ahn, Ki-Taek Kim and Tae-Hwan Jun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:235
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  16. Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), the most abundant auxin, is a growth promoter hormone involved in several developmental processes. Auxin homeostasis is very important to its function and this is achieved through t...

    Authors: Nathalie Kühn, Alejandra Serrano, Carlos Abello, Aníbal Arce, Carmen Espinoza, Satyanarayana Gouthu, Laurent Deluc and Patricio Arce-Johnson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:234
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  17. Senescence is a key developmental process occurring during the life cycle of plants that can be induced also by environmental conditions, such as starvation and/or darkness. During senescence, strict control o...

    Authors: Alberto Bertolini, Elisa Petrussa, Sonia Patui, Marco Zancani, Carlo Peresson, Valentino Casolo, Angelo Vianello and Enrico Braidot
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:233
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  18. Multicellular organisms have evolved systems/mechanisms to detect various forms of danger, including attack by microbial pathogens and a variety of pests, as well as tissue and cellular damage. Detection via c...

    Authors: Hyong Woo Choi and Daniel F. Klessig
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:232
    Content type: Review Published on:

  19. Indole alkaloids, which characteristically contain an indole nucleus, have pharmaceutical potential in a diverse range of applications. UV-B can elicit the accumulation of indole alkaloids. The indole alkaloid...

    Authors: Cuixia Gao, Bingxian Yang, Dandan Zhang, Meng Chen and Jingkui Tian
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:231
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  20. 01 The influence of soil salt content on the photosynthetic characteristics of spring wheat with trickle irrigation

    Authors: Lei Pei, Zhenhua Wang, Jinzhu Zhang, Wenhao Li, Adeline S. Y. Ting, Yiing Y. Chow, Sadequr Rahman, Rongchang Wei, Zhang Hu, Sidong Li, Chuyan Li, Zijuan Li, Guoxia Wang, Yuzhen Yang, Gang Chen, Qing Luo…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 2):226
    Content type: Meeting abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 2

  21. The amino acid glutamine (Gln) is a primary transport form of nitrogen in vasculature following root uptake, critical for the location/timing of growth in maize and other cereals. Analytical chemistry methods ...

    Authors: Travis L. Goron and Manish N. Raizada
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:230
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  22. Hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) constitute a plant cell wall protein superfamily that functions in diverse aspects of growth and development. This superfamily contains three members: the highly glyco...

    Authors: Allan M. Showalter, Brian D. Keppler, Xiao Liu, Jens Lichtenberg and Lonnie R. Welch
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:229
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  23. Phytoene synthase 1 (PSY1) is the most important regulatory enzyme in carotenoid biosynthesis, whereas its function is hardly known in common wheat. The aims of the present study were to investigate Psy1 function...

    Authors: Shengnan Zhai, Genying Li, Youwei Sun, Jianmin Song, Jihu Li, Guoqi Song, Yulian Li, Hongqing Ling, Zhonghu He and Xianchun Xia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:228
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  24. Plant digestibility of silage maize (Zea mays L.) has a large influence on nutrition intake for animal feeding. Improving forage quality will enhance the utilization efficiency and feeding value of forage maize. ...

    Authors: Hongwu Wang, Kun Li, Xiaojiao Hu, Zhifang Liu, Yujin Wu and Changling Huang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:227
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  25. The ability to modulate levels of individual fatty acids within soybean oil has potential to increase shelf-life and frying stability and to improve nutritional characteristics. Commodity soybean oil contains ...

    Authors: Zachary L. Demorest, Andrew Coffman, Nicholas J. Baltes, Thomas J. Stoddard, Benjamin M. Clasen, Song Luo, Adam Retterath, Ann Yabandith, Maria Elena Gamo, Jeff Bissen, Luc Mathis, Daniel F. Voytas and Feng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:225
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  26. Predicted climate changes announce an increase of extreme environmental conditions including drought and excessive heat and light in classical viticultural regions. Thus, understanding how grapevine responds t...

    Authors: Margarida Rocheta, João L. Coito, Miguel J. N. Ramos, Luísa Carvalho, Jörg D. Becker, Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano and Sara Amâncio
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:224
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  27. Blueberry is an economically important fruit crop in Ericaceae family. The substantial quantities of flavonoids in blueberry have been implicated in a broad range of health benefits. However, the information r...

    Authors: Lingli Li, Hehua Zhang, Zhongshuai Liu, Xiaoyue Cui, Tong Zhang, Yanfang Li and Lingyun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:223
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  28. Phosphorus (P) stress is a global problem in maize production. Although macro/microarray technologies have greatly increased our general knowledge of maize responses to P stress, a greater understanding of the...

    Authors: Qingguo Du, Kai Wang, Cheng Xu, Cheng Zou, Chuanxiao Xie, Yunbi Xu and Wen-Xue Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:222
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  29. Environmental stress puts organisms at risk and requires specific stress-tailored responses to maximize survival. Long-term exposure to stress necessitates a global reprogramming of the cellular activities at ...

    Authors: Radoslaw Lukoszek, Peter Feist and Zoya Ignatova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:221
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  30. Carbohydrates, also called glycans, play a crucial but not fully understood role in plant health and development. The non-template driven formation of glycans makes it impossible to image them in vivo with gen...

    Authors: Jorin Hoogenboom, Nathalja Berghuis, Dario Cramer, Rene Geurts, Han Zuilhof and Tom Wennekes
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:220
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  31. Adventitious root (AR) formation in axillary shoot tip cuttings is a crucial physiological process for ornamental propagation that is utilised in global production chains for young plants. In this process, the...

    Authors: Siegfried Zerche, Klaus-Thomas Haensch, Uwe Druege and Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:219
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  32. Gossypium anomalum (BB genome) possesses the desirable characteristics of drought tolerance, resistance to diseases and insect pests, and the potential for high quality fibers. However...

    Authors: Xiaoxiao Wang, Yingying Wang, Chen Wang, Yu Chen, Yu Chen, Shouli Feng, Ting Zhao and Baoliang Zhou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:218
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  33. Starch is a major part of cereal grain. It comprises two glucose polymer fractions, amylose (AM) and amylopectin (AP), that make up about 25 and 75 % of total starch, respectively. The ratio of the two affects...

    Authors: Ankita Mishra, Anuradha Singh, Monica Sharma, Pankaj Kumar and Joy Roy
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:217
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  34. The ultimate goal of this work was to detect the role of transcription factors (TFs) concordantly expressed with genes related to programmed cell death (PCD) during PCD and salt stress. This work was based on ...

    Authors: Ahmed Bahieldin, Ahmed Atef, Sherif Edris, Nour O. Gadalla, Hani M. Ali, Sabah M. Hassan, Magdy A. Al-Kordy, Ahmed M. Ramadan, Rania M. Makki, Abdulrahman S. M. Al-Hajar and Fotouh M. El-Domyati
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:216
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  35. Amino acid-derived aldoximes and nitriles play important roles in plant defence. They are well-known as precursors for constitutive defence compounds such as cyanogenic glucosides and glucosinolates, but are a...

    Authors: Katrin Luck, Jan Jirschitzka, Sandra Irmisch, Meret Huber, Jonathan Gershenzon and Tobias G. Köllner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:215
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  36. Mineral nutrient uptake and utilisation by plants are controlled by many traits relating to root morphology, ion transport, sequestration and translocation. The aims of this study were to determine the phenoty...

    Authors: C. L. Thomas, T. D. Alcock, N. S. Graham, R. Hayden, S. Matterson, L. Wilson, S. D. Young, L. X. Dupuy, P. J. White, J. P. Hammond, J. M. C. Danku, D. E. Salt, A. Sweeney, I. Bancroft and M. R. Broadley
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:214
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  37. A small group of F-box proteins consisting of a conserved F-box domain linked to a domain homologous to the glycan-binding protein has been identified within the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Previously, the so...

    Authors: Karolina Stefanowicz, Nausicaä Lannoo, Yafei Zhao, Lore Eggermont, Jonas Van Hove, Bassam Al Atalah and Els J. M. Van Damme
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:213
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  38. European Flint maize inbred lines are used as a source of adaptation to cold in most breeding programs in Northern Europe. A deep understanding of their adaptation strategy could thus provide valuable clues fo...

    Authors: Laëtitia Riva-Roveda, Brigitte Escale, Catherine Giauffret and Claire Périlleux
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:212
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  39. FIT (FER-LIKE IRON DEFICIENCY-INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR) is the central regulator of iron uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. We performed transcriptome analyses of six day-old seedlings and roots of six wee...

    Authors: Hans-Jörg Mai, Stéphanie Pateyron and Petra Bauer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:211
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  40. Phosphorus (P), an essential macronutrient, is often limiting in soils and affects plant growth and development. In Arabidopsis thaliana, Low Phosphate Root1 (LPR1) and its close paralog LPR2 encode multicopper o...

    Authors: Yue Cao, Hao Ai, Ajay Jain, Xueneng Wu, Liang Zhang, Wenxia Pei, Aiqun Chen, Guohua Xu and Shubin Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:210
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  41. Modulation of protein activity by phosphorylation through kinases and subsequent de-phosphorylation by phosphatases is one of the most prominent cellular control mechanisms. Thus, identification of kinase subs...

    Authors: Hirofumi Harashima, Nico Dissmeyer, Philippe Hammann, Yuko Nomura, Katharina Kramer, Hirofumi Nakagami and Arp Schnittger
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:209
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  42. Resistance and growth are opposing characteristics in plants. SA INSENSITIVITY OF npr1-5 (SSI2) encodes a stearoyl-ACP desaturase (S-ACP DES) that has previously been reported to simultaneously enhance resistance...

    Authors: Wei Yang, Ran Dong, Li Liu, Zhubing Hu, Jing Li, Yong Wang, Xinhua Ding and Zhaohui Chu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:208
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  43. Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporter proteins are present in all organisms. Although the functions of some MATE gene family members have been studied in plants, few studies have investigat...

    Authors: Lihui Wang, Xiujuan Bei, Jiansheng Gao, Yaxuan Li, Yueming Yan and Yingkao Hu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:207
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  44. Phosphorus (P) is a major plant nutrient. It is transported into and allocated inside plants by four families of phosphate transporters (PHT1 to PHT4) with high or low affinity to phosphate. Here, we studied w...

    Authors: Mareike Kavka and Andrea Polle
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:206
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  45. Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) is a commercially important fruit crop worldwide. A major limitation to production is the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi, which causes root rot leading to branch-dieback and tree...

    Authors: B. J. Reeksting, N. A. Olivier and N. van den Berg
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:205
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  46. Protein kinases are important components of signalling pathways, and kinomes have remarkably expanded in plants. Yet, our knowledge of kinase substrates in plants is scarce, partly because tools to analyse pro...

    Authors: Magdalena Dory, Zoltán Doleschall, Szilvia K. Nagy, Helga Ambrus, Tamás Mészáros, Beáta Barnabás and Róbert Dóczi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:204
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  47. The NAC (NAM, ATAF and CUC) transcriptional factors constitute a large family with more than 150 members in rice and some of them have been demonstrated to play crucial roles in plant abiotic stress response. ...

    Authors: Lei Huang, Yongbo Hong, Huijuan Zhang, Dayong Li and Fengming Song
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:203
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  48. Hydrogen cyanamide (HC) and pruning (P) have frequently been used to break dormancy in grapevine floral buds. However, the exact underlying mechanism remains elusive. This study aimed to address the early mode...

    Authors: Boonyawat Sudawan, Chih-Sheng Chang, Hsiu-fung Chao, Maurice S. B. Ku and Yung-fu Yen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:202
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  49. Fruit quality depends on a series of biochemical events that modify appearance, flavour and texture throughout fruit development and ripening. Cell wall polysaccharide remodelling largely contributes to the el...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Dheilly, Sophie Le Gall, Marie-Charlotte Guillou, Jean-Pierre Renou, Estelle Bonnin, Mathilde Orsel and Marc Lahaye
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:201
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  50. Polyploidy has pivotal influences on rice (Oryza sativa L.) morphology and physiology, and is very important for understanding rice domestication and improving agricultural traits. Diploid (DP) and triploid (TP) ...

    Authors: Shuzhen Wang, Wenyue Chen, Changdeng Yang, Jian Yao, Wenfei Xiao, Ya Xin, Jieren Qiu, Weimin Hu, Haigen Yao, Wu Ying, Yaping Fu, Jianxin Tong, Zhongzhong Chen, Songlin Ruan and Huasheng Ma
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:199
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