BMC Plant Biology

What makes for sound science?

The inclusive threshold policy for publication in BMC journals including BMC Plant Biology means that editorial decisions are largely based on the soundness of the research presented rather than the novelty or potential impact of the work. Here our Section Editors discuss what is required to ensure that research meets the requirement of scientific soundness.

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| 19 April 2018

Intraspecific variation of residual heterozygosity and its utility for quantitative genetic studies in maize

Authors: Nannan Liu, Jianxiao Liu, Wenqiang Li, Qingchun Pan, Jie Liu, Xiaohong Yang, Jianbing Yan and Yingjie Xiao
Content type: Research article
| 19 April 2018

Genome-wide analysis of family-1 UDP glycosyltransferases (UGT) and identification of UGT genes for FHB resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Authors: Yi He, Dawood Ahmad, Xu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Lei Wu, Peng Jiang and Hongxiang Ma
Content type: Research article
| 17 April 2018

Mapping a male-fertility restoration locus for the A₄ cytoplasmic-genic male-sterility system in pearl millet using a genotyping-by-sequencing-based linkage map

Authors: Anna Pucher, C. Tom Hash, Jason G. Wallace, Sen Han, Willmar L. Leiser and Bettina I. G. Haussmann
Content type: Research article
| 16 April 2018

The biochemical composition and transcriptome of cotyledons from Brassica napus lines expressing the AtGL3 transcription factor and exhibiting reduced flea beetle feeding

Authors: Margaret Gruber, Ushan Alahakoon, Ali Taheri, Nayidu Nagubushana, Rong Zhou, Banyar Aung, Andrew Sharpe, Abdelali Hannoufa, Peta Bonham-Smith and Dwayne D. Hegedus D
Content type: Research article
| 13 April 2018

Genetic evidence suggests that GIS functions downstream of TCL1 to regulate trichome formation in Arabidopsis

Authors: Na Zhang, Li Yang, Sha Luo, Xutong Wang, Wei Wang, Yuxin Cheng, Hainan Tian, Kaijie Zheng, Ling Cai and Shucai Wang

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| 10 December 2014

Genome-wide identification of mitogen-activated protein kinase gene family in Gossypium raimondii and the function of their corresponding orthologs in tetraploid cultivated cotton

Authors: Xueying Zhang, Liman Wang, Xiaoyang Xu, Caiping Cai and Wangzhen Guo
Content type: Methodology article
| 29 November 2014

A CRISPR/Cas9 toolkit for multiplex genome editing in plants

Authors: Hui-Li Xing, Li Dong, Zhi-Ping Wang, Hai-Yan Zhang, Chun-Yan Han, Bing Liu, Xue-Chen Wang and Qi-Jun Chen
Content type: Research article
| 17 March 2014

Large-scale microsatellite development in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), an orphan legume of the arid areas

Authors: Tao Yang, Junye Jiang, Marina Burlyaeva, Jinguo Hu, Clarice J Coyne, Shiv Kumar, Robert Redden, Xuelian Sun, Fang Wang, Jianwu Chang, Xiaopeng Hao, Jianping Guan and Xuxiao Zong
Content type: Research article
| 13 June 2015

OsGRAS23, a rice GRAS transcription factor gene, is involved in drought stress response through regulating expression of stress-responsive genes

Authors: Kai Xu, Shoujun Chen, Tianfei Li, Xiaosong Ma, Xiaohua Liang, Xuefeng Ding, Hongyan Liu and Lijun Luo
Content type: Review
| 17 November 2011

Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective

Authors: Grant R Cramer, Kaoru Urano, Serge Delrot, Mario Pezzotti and Kazuo Shinozaki

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Aims and scope

BMC Plant Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of plant biology, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research.

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Ying Lou, BioMed Central

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Z. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin
Fabrizio Costa, Fondazione Edmund Mach
Grant Cramer, University of Nevada, Reno
Elizabeth Jean Finnegan, CSIRO
Pradeep Kachroo, University of Kentucky
Jim Leebens-Mack, University of Georgia
Chris Makaroff, Miami University
Kay Schneitz, Technische Universität München
Paul Boss, CSIRO

Jean Finnegan, Section Editor

Jean Finnegan is an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO, Agriculture and Food, and has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 2014. She is currently working on characterizing epialleles in wheat. Research interests include: Epigenetic regulation, control of flowering, imprinting and vernalization.

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Intraspecific variation of residual heterozygosity and its utility for quantitative genetic studies in maize

Genome-wide analysis of family-1 UDP glycosyltransferases (UGT) and identification of UGT genes for FHB resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Mapping a male-fertility restoration locus for the A₄ cytoplasmic-genic male-sterility system in pearl millet using a genotyping-by-sequencing-based linkage map

The biochemical composition and transcriptome of cotyledons from Brassica napus lines expressing the AtGL3 transcription factor and exhibiting reduced flea beetle feeding

Genetic evidence suggests that GIS functions downstream of TCL1 to regulate trichome formation in Arabidopsis

Genome-wide identification of mitogen-activated protein kinase gene family in Gossypium raimondii and the function of their corresponding orthologs in tetraploid cultivated cotton

A CRISPR/Cas9 toolkit for multiplex genome editing in plants

Large-scale microsatellite development in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), an orphan legume of the arid areas

OsGRAS23, a rice GRAS transcription factor gene, is involved in drought stress response through regulating expression of stress-responsive genes

Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective

Featured video: Changing environmental conditions causes physical and molecular changes in tomatoes

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Jean Finnegan, Section Editor

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Attention to metabolic energy disturbance is needed to treat relapse of heroin

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