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  1. Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk. (2n = 14), a wild diploid wheat relative, has been the source of trait improvement in wheat breeding. Intraspecific genetic variation of Ae. umbellulata, however, has not been well stud...

    Authors: Moeko Okada, Kentaro Yoshida, Ryo Nishijima, Asami Michikawa, Yuka Motoi, Kazuhiro Sato and Shigeo Takumi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:271
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  2. The SWEET (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters) gene family is a recently identified group of sugar transporters that play an indispensable role in sugar efflux, phloem loading, plant-pathogen inte...

    Authors: Weichang Hu, Xiuting Hua, Qing Zhang, Jianping Wang, Qiaochu Shen, Xingtan Zhang, Kai Wang, Qingyi Yu, Yann-Rong Lin, Ray Ming and Jisen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:270
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  3. Sugarcane has recently attracted increased attention for its potential as a source of bioethanol and methane. However, a narrow genetic base has limited germplasm enhancement of sugarcane. Erianthus arundinaceus ...

    Authors: Fan Yu, Yongji Huang, Ling Luo, Xueting Li, Jiayun Wu, Rukai Chen, Muqing Zhang and Zuhu Deng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:269
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  4. Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) are known for their plasticity in sex expression. DNA methylation status determines gene activity but is susceptible to environmental condition changes. Thus, DNA methylation-based epi...

    Authors: Yun-Song Lai, Di Shen, Wei Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Yang Qiu, Haiping Wang, Xinxin Dou, Sigeng Li, Yuanqi Wu, Jiangping Song, Guanyu Ji and Xixiang Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:268
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  5. While the role of ethylene in fruit ripening has been widely studied, the contributions of additional plant hormones are less clear. Here we examined the interactions between the transcription factor MaMADS2-b...

    Authors: Esther Yakir, Fei Zhangjun, Noa Sela, Yimin Xu, Vikram Singh, Anurag Dagar, Janak Raj Joshi, Maren Müller, Sergi Munné-Bosch, James J. Giovannoni, Julia Vrebalov and Haya Friedman
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:267
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  6. Alternative splicing (AS) regulates mRNA at the post-transcriptional level to change gene function in organisms. However, little is known about the AS and its roles in tea plant (Camellia sinensis), widely cultiv...

    Authors: Junyan Zhu, Xuewen Wang, Qingshan Xu, Shiqi Zhao, Yuling Tai and Chaoling Wei
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:266
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  8. Spotted-leaf mutants are important to reveal programmed cell death and defense-related pathways in rice. We previously characterized the phenotype performance of a rice spotted-leaf mutant spl21 and narrowed down...

    Authors: Xia Xu, Zheng Chen, Yong-feng Shi, Hui-mei Wang, Yan He, Lei Shi, Ting Chen, Jian-li Wu and Xiao-bo Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:264
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  9. ‘Zhongshanshan’ is the general designation for the superior interspecific hybrid clones of Taxodium species, which is widely grown for economic and ecological purposes in southern China. Growth is the priority ob...

    Authors: Ying Yang, Lei Xuan, Chaoguang Yu, Ziyang Wang, Jianhua Xu, Wencai Fan, Jinbo Guo and Yunlong Yin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:263
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  10. Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disorder affecting genetically predisposed individuals whose dietary gluten proteins trigger an inflammatory reaction in the small intestine. Gluten is found in the seeds o...

    Authors: Benjamin Dubois, Pierre Bertin, Louis Hautier, Yordan Muhovski, Emmanuelle Escarnot and Dominique Mingeot
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:262
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  11. Plants have evolved excellent ability of flexibly regulating the growth of organs to adapt to changing environment, for example, the modulation of lateral root development in response to environmental stresses...

    Authors: Yuzhu Lu, Zhen Feng, Xuanyu Liu, Liying Bian, Hong Xie, Changlun Zhang, Kirankumar S. Mysore and Jiansheng Liang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:261
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  12. Senescence, despite its destructive character, is a process that is precisely-regulated. The control of senescence is required to achieve remobilization of resources, a principle aspect of senescence. Remobili...

    Authors: Natalia Wojciechowska, Katarzyna Marzec-Schmidt, Ewa M Kalemba, Aleksandra Zarzyńska-Nowak, Andrzej M Jagodziński and Agnieszka Bagniewska-Zadworna
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:260
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  13. Heat stress is a severe environmental stress that affects plant growth and reduces yield. Bax inhibitor-1 (BI-1) is a cytoprotective protein that is involved in the response to biotic and abiotic stresses. The Ar...

    Authors: Pan-Pan Lu, Wei-Jun Zheng, Chang-Tao Wang, Wen-Yan Shi, Jin-Dong Fu, Ming Chen, Jun Chen, Yong-Bin Zhou, Ya-Jun Xi and Zhao-Shi Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:259
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  14. Bioactive compounds, vitamins, phenolic acids, flavonoids of A. tricolor are the sources of natural antioxidant that had a great importance for the food industry as these detoxify ROS in the human body. These nat...

    Authors: Umakanta Sarker and Shinya Oba
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:258
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  15. WRKY proteins are one of the largest gene families and are well-known for their regulatory roles in many aspects of plant development, including plant response to both biotic and abiotic stresses. Although the...

    Authors: Qing Liu, Xia Li, Shijuan Yan, Ting Yu, Jianyuan Yang, Jingfang Dong, Shaohong Zhang, Junliang Zhao, Tifeng Yang, Xingxue Mao, Xiaoyuan Zhu and Bin Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:257
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  16. Facilitated by the rapid progress of sequencing technology, comparative genomic studies in plants have unveiled recurrent whole genome duplication (i.e. polyploidization) events throughout plant evolution. The...

    Authors: Bei Gao, Moxian Chen, Xiaoshuang Li, Yuqing Liang, Fuyuan Zhu, Tieyuan Liu, Daoyuan Zhang, Andrew J. Wood, Melvin J. Oliver and Jianhua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:256
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  18. Waterlogging (WL) is a key factor hindering soybean crop productivity worldwide. Plants utilize various hormones to avoid various stress conditions, including WL stress; however, the physiological mechanisms a...

    Authors: Yoonha Kim, Chang-Woo Seo, Abdul Latif Khan, Bong-Gyu Mun, Raheem Shahzad, Jeung-Woo Ko, Byung-Wook Yun, Soon-Ki Park and In-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:254
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  19. As central regulators of the gibberellic acid (GA) signaling pathway in plants, DELLA proteins function as growth repressors and affect diverse biological processes. The wheat RHT-B1b and RHT-D1b semi-dwarfing...

    Authors: Youngjun Mo, Stephen Pearce and Jorge Dubcovsky
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:253
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  20. Plant transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens is characterized by integration of commonly low number of T-DNAs at random positions in the genome. When integrated into an active gene region, promoterless repo...

    Authors: Vojtěch Čermák and Lukáš Fischer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:252
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  21. Nitrilases are nitrile-converting enzymes commonly found within the plant kingdom that play diverse roles in nitrile detoxification, nitrogen recycling, and phytohormone biosynthesis. Although nitrilases are p...

    Authors: Jan Günther, Sandra Irmisch, Nathalie D. Lackus, Michael Reichelt, Jonathan Gershenzon and Tobias G. Köllner
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:251
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  22. Sugarcane is an important sugar and energy crop that is widely planted in the world. Among the environmental stresses, the water-deficit stress is the most limiting to plant productivity. Some groups have used...

    Authors: Xihui Liu, Ronghua Zhang, Huiping Ou, Yiyun Gui, Jinju Wei, Hui Zhou, Hongwei Tan and Yangrui Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:250
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  23. Salinity severely limits wheat production in many parts of the world. Development of salt tolerant varieties represents the most practical option for enhancing wheat production from these areas. Application of...

    Authors: Amit Kumar Singh, Shiksha Chaurasia, Sundeep Kumar, Rakesh Singh, Jyoti Kumari, Mahesh C. Yadav, Nidhi Singh, Sonam Gaba and Sherry Rachel Jacob
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:249
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  24. Oil from seeds of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) has unique drying properties that are industrially important. We found that the extended oil accumulation period was related to the high seed oil content at matur...

    Authors: Lingling Zhang, Pan Wu, Wenying Lu and Shiyou Lü
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:248
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  25. Malania oleifera Chun et Lee (Olacaceae), an evergreen broad-leaved woody tree native to southwest China, is an important oilseed tree. Its seed oil has a high level of nervonic acid (cis-tetracos-15-enoic acid, ...

    Authors: Tianquan Yang, Qian Yu, Wei Xu, De-zhu Li, Fu Chen and Aizhong Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:247
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  26. Crop landraces embody a source of beneficial genes potentially providing endurance to environmental stress and other agronomic qualities including yield. Our study included 88 snake melon accessions (Cucumis melo

    Authors: Salam Y. Abu Zaitoun, Rana M. Jamous, Munqez J. Shtaya, Omar B. Mallah, Imad S. Eid and Mohammed S. Ali-Shtayeh
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:246
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  27. Extremely high temperatures are becoming an increasingly severe threat to crop yields. It is well documented that salicylic acid (SA) can enhance the stress tolerance of plants; however, its effect on the repr...

    Authors: Baohua Feng, Caixia Zhang, Tingting Chen, Xiufu Zhang, Longxing Tao and Guanfu Fu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:245
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  28. Asymmetric somatic hybridization is an efficient crop breeding approach by introducing several exogenous chromatin fragments, which leads to genomic shock and therefore induces genome-wide genetic variation. H...

    Authors: Mengcheng Wang, Yujie Ji, Shiting Feng, Chun Liu, Zhen Xiao, Xiaoping Wang, Yanxia Wang and Guangmin Xia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:244
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  29. WRKY transcription factors, so named because of the WRKYGQK heptapeptide at the N-terminal end, are widely distributed in plants and play an important role in physiological changes and response to biotic and a...

    Authors: Hui Song, Weihong Sun, Guofeng Yang and Juan Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:243
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  30. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in flowering plants is usually caused by incompatibility between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, and can be restored by nuclear genes known as restorer-of-fertility (Rf). Altho...

    Authors: Bingbing Zhang, Xuexian Zhang, Guoyuan Liu, Liping Guo, Tingxiang Qi, Meng Zhang, Xue Li, Hailin Wang, Huini Tang, Xiuqin Qiao, Wenfeng Pei, Kashif Shahzad, Chaozhu Xing, Jinfa Zhang and Jianyong Wu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:242
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  31. Phosphate (Pi) and Nitrogen (N) are essential macronutrients required for plant growth and development. In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), the transcription factor PHR1 acts as a Pi central regulator. PHL1 is...

    Authors: Yafei Sun, Wenzhen Luo, Ajay Jain, Lu Liu, Hao Ai, Xiuli Liu, Bing Feng, Liang Zhang, Zhantian Zhang, Xu Guohua and Shubin Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:241
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  32. Arachis contains 80 species that carry many beneficial genes that can be utilized in the genetic improvement of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. 2n = 4x = 40, genome AABB). Chromosome engineering is a powerful techniq...

    Authors: Pei Du, Lina Li, Hua Liu, Liuyang Fu, Li Qin, Zhongxin Zhang, Caihong Cui, Ziqi Sun, Suoyi Han, Jing Xu, Xiaodong Dai, Bingyan Huang, Wenzhao Dong, Fengshou Tang, Lifang Zhuang, Yonghua Han…
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:240
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  33. Plant architecture is a critical factor that affects planting density and, consequently, grain yield in maize. The genes or loci that determine organ size are the key regulators of plant architecture. Thus, un...

    Authors: Weiya Li, Zhixing Yang, Jieyuan Yao, Jiansheng Li, Weibin Song and Xiaohong Yang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:239
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  34. Among cereals, durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) accumulates cadmium (Cd) at higher concentration if grown in Cd-polluted soils. Since cadmium accumulation is a risk for human health, the internatio...

    Authors: Alessio Aprile, Erika Sabella, Marzia Vergine, Alessandra Genga, Maria Siciliano, Eliana Nutricati, Patrizia Rampino, Mariarosaria De Pascali, Andrea Luvisi, Antonio Miceli, Carmine Negro and Luigi De Bellis
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:238
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  35. Small non-coding RNA (sRNA) short sequences regulate various biological processes in all organisms, including bacteria that are animal or plant pathogens. Virulent or pathogenicity-associated sRNAs have been i...

    Authors: Yiqun Hu, Liyuan Zhang, Xuan Wang, Fengli Sun, Xiangxin Kong, Hansong Dong and Heng Xu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:237
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  36. Forest species ranges are confined by environmental limitations such as cold stress. The natural range shifts of pine forests due to climate change and proactive-assisted population migration may each be const...

    Authors: Khaled Taïbi, Antonio D. Del Campo, Alberto Vilagrosa, José María Bellés, M.P. López-Gresa, José M. López-Nicolás and José M. Mulet
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:236
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  37. In plants, the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors play key roles in diverse biological processes. Genome-wide comprehensive and systematic analyses of bHLH proteins have been well conducted in Ar...

    Authors: Tingting Zhang, Wei Lv, Haisen Zhang, Lin Ma, Pinghua Li, Lei Ge and Gang Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:235
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  38. Even though bicarbonate alkaline stress is a serious threat to crop growth and yields, it attracts much fewer researches than high salinity stress. The basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors have be...

    Authors: Shengyang Wu, Pinghui Zhu, Bowei Jia, Junkai Yang, Yang Shen, Xiaoxi Cai, Xiaoli Sun, Yanming Zhu and Mingzhe Sun
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:234
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  39. Tea is the most popular nonalcoholic beverage worldwide for its pleasant characteristics and healthful properties. Catechins, theanine and caffeine are the major natural products in tea buds and leaves that de...

    Authors: Linlin Liu, Yingying Li, Guangbiao She, Xianchen Zhang, Brian Jordan, Qi Chen, Jian Zhao and Xiaochun Wan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:233
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  40. In Arabidopsis, a long day flowering plant, CONSTANS (CO) acts as a transcriptional activator of flowering under long day (LD) condition. In rice, a short day flowering plant, Hd1, the ortholog of CO, plays dual ...

    Authors: Guohui Xiao, Bingjuan Li, Hongjun Chen, Wei Chen, Zhengyi Wang, Bizeng Mao, Renyi Gui and Xiaoqin Guo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:232
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  41. Outbreaks of spruce budworm (SBW, Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) cause major recurrent damage in boreal conifers such as white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) and large losses of forest biomass in North Amer...

    Authors: Mebarek Lamara, Geneviève J. Parent, Isabelle Giguère, Jean Beaulieu, Jean Bousquet and John J. MacKay
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:231
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  42. Neem tree serves as a cornucopia for triterpenoids called limonoids that are of profound interest to humans due to their diverse biological activities. However, the biosynthetic pathway that plant employs for ...

    Authors: Thiagarayaselvam Aarthy, Fayaj A. Mulani, Avinash Pandreka, Ashish Kumar, Sharvani S. Nandikol, Saikat Haldar and Hirekodathakallu V. Thulasiram
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:230
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  43. Exposing imbibed seeds to high temperatures may lead to either thermo-inhibition of germination or thermo-dormancy responses. In thermo-inhibition, seed germination is inhibited but quickly resumed when temper...

    Authors: Nafiseh Geshnizjani, Farshid Ghaderi-Far, Leo A J Willems, Henk W M Hilhorst and Wilco Ligterink
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:229
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  44. Vacuolar invertases (VINs) have been reported to regulate plant growth and development and respond to abiotic stresses such as drought and cold. With our best knowledge, the functions of VIN genes little have ...

    Authors: Wenjun Qian, Bin Xiao, Lu Wang, Xinyuan Hao, Chuan Yue, Hongli Cao, Yuchun Wang, Nana Li, Youben Yu, Jianming Zeng, Yajun Yang and Xinchao Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:228
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  45. Hydrogen gas (H2) is the most abundant element in the universe, and has been reported to act as a novel beneficial gaseous molecule in plant adaptive responses. Radish sprouts are popular because they contain sub...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Zhang, Nana Su, Li Jia, Jiyuan Tian, Han Li, Lisha Huang, Zhenguo Shen and Jin Cui
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:227
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  46. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) function as key epigenetic factors in repressing the expression of genes in multiple aspects of plant growth, development and plant response to abiotic or biotic stresses. To date,...

    Authors: Chao Yang, Wenjin Shen, Hongfeng Chen, Liutian Chu, Yingchao Xu, Xiaochen Zhou, Chuanliang Liu, Chunmiao Chen, Jiahui Zeng, Jin Liu, Qianfeng Li, Caiji Gao, Jean-Benoit Charron and Ming Luo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:226
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  47. Water chickweed (Myosoton aquaticum (L.)) is a dicot broadleaf weed that is widespread in winter fields in China, and has evolved serious resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibiting herbicides.

    Authors: Weitang Liu, Shuang Bai, Ning Zhao, Sisi Jia, Wei Li, Lele Zhang and Jinxin Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:225
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  48. Meiosis is a specialized cell division critical for gamete production in the sexual reproduction of eukaryotes. It ensures genome integrity and generates genetic variability as well. The Rec8-like cohesin is a...

    Authors: Guojia Ma, Wei Zhang, Liwang Liu, Wun S. Chao, Yong Qiang Gu, Lili Qi, Steven S. Xu and Xiwen Cai
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:224
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  49. Rubber tree is cultivated in mainly Southeast Asia and is by far the most significant source of natural rubber production worldwide. However, the genetic architecture underlying the primary agronomic traits of...

    Authors: João Ricardo Bachega Feijó Rosa, Camila Campos Mantello, Dominique Garcia, Lívia Moura de Souza, Carla Cristina da Silva, Rodrigo Gazaffi, Cícero Casimiro da Silva, Guilherme Toledo-Silva, Philippe Cubry, Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia, Anete Pereira de Souza and Vincent Le Guen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:223
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  50. Branch canker caused by Macrophoma theicola is a major stem disease of tea plants (Camellia spp.). In tea plantations, this disease causes crop loss and it is one of the major limiting factor for yield stagnation...

    Authors: Mareeswaran Jeyaraman and Premkumar Samuel Asir Robert
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2018 18:222
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