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  1. Mungbean (Vigna radiata [L.] R. Wilczek) is an important legume crop with high nutritional value in South and Southeast Asia. The crop plant is susceptible to a storage pest caused by bruchids (Callosobruchus spp...

    Authors: Mao-Sen Liu, Tony Chien-Yen Kuo, Chia-Yun Ko, Dung-Chi Wu, Kuan-Yi Li, Wu-Jui Lin, Ching-Ping Lin, Yen-Wei Wang, Roland Schafleitner, Hsiao-Feng Lo, Chien-Yu Chen and Long-Fang O. Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:46
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  2. In melting flesh peaches, auxin is necessary for system-2 ethylene synthesis and a cross-talk between ethylene and auxin occurs during the ripening process. To elucidate this interaction at the transition from...

    Authors: Alice Tadiello, Vanina Ziosi, Alfredo Simone Negri, Massimo Noferini, Giovanni Fiori, Nicola Busatto, Luca Espen, Guglielmo Costa and Livio Trainotti
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:44
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  3. Light plays an important role in plant growth and development. In this study, the impact of light on physiology of 20-d-old Arabidopsis leaves was examined through transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic ana...

    Authors: Chao Liang, Shifeng Cheng, Youjun Zhang, Yuzhe Sun, Alisdair R. Fernie, Kang Kang, Gianni Panagiotou, Clive Lo and Boon Leong Lim
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:43
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  4. Plants perceive UV-B through the UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8 (UVR8) photoreceptor and UVR8 activation leads to changes in gene expression such as those associated with UV-B acclimation and stress tolerance. Albeit f...

    Authors: Melanie Binkert, Carlos D. Crocco, Babatunde Ekundayo, Kelvin Lau, Sarah Raffelberg, Kimberley Tilbrook, Ruohe Yin, Richard Chappuis, Thomas Schalch and Roman Ulm
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:42
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  5. Auxin was recognized as a secondary dormancy phytohormone, controlling seed dormancy and germination. However, the exogenous auxin-controlled seed dormancy and germination remain unclear in physiological proce...

    Authors: Zhenhua Li, Jie Zhang, Yiling Liu, Jiehong Zhao, Junjie Fu, Xueliang Ren, Guoying Wang and Jianhua Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:41
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  6. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important regulatory elements of gene expression. Similarly to coding genes, miRNA genes follow a birth and death pattern of evolution likely reflecting functional relevance and divergen...

    Authors: Edna Gicela Ortiz Morea, Eder Marques da Silva, Geraldo Felipe Ferreira e Silva, Guilherme Targino Valente, Carlos Hernan Barrera Rojas, Michel Vincentz and Fabio Tebaldi Silveira Nogueira
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:40
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:153

  7. Eragrostis tef is an allotetraploid (2n = 4 × = 40) annual, C4 grass with an estimated nuclear genome size of 730 Mbp. It is widely grown in Ethiopia, where it provides basic nutrition...

    Authors: Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Edoardo Bertolini, Mario Enrico Pè and Andrea Zuccolo
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:39
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  8. Abscission is a highly coordinated developmental process by which plants control vegetative and reproductive organs load. Aiming at get new insights on flower abscission regulation, changes in the global trans...

    Authors: Sara Domingos, Joana Fino, Vânia Cardoso, Claudia Sánchez, José C. Ramalho, Roberto Larcher, Octávio S. Paulo, Cristina M. Oliveira and Luis F. Goulao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:38
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  9. Due to the climate change of the past few decades, some agricultural areas in the world are now experiencing new climatic extremes. For soybean, high temperatures and drought stress can potentially lead to the...

    Authors: Renake N. Teixeira, Wilco Ligterink, José de B. França-Neto, Henk W.M. Hilhorst and Edvaldo A. A. da Silva
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:37
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  10. Individual fiber strength is an important quality attribute that greatly influences the strength of the yarn spun from cotton fibers. Fiber strength is usually measured from bundles of fibers due to the diffic...

    Authors: Md S. Islam, David D. Fang, Gregory N. Thyssen, Chris D. Delhom, Yongliang Liu and Hee Jin Kim
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:36
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  12. Photosynthesis plays a vital role as an energy source for plant metabolism, and its efficiency may be drastically reduced owing to abiotic stresses. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), is a renewable and versatil...

    Authors: Hansheng Zhao, Yongfeng Lou, Huayu Sun, Lichao Li, Lili Wang, Lili Dong and Zhimin Gao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:34
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  13. Genetic manipulation of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis or signaling is a promising strategy to improve crop yield and quality. However, the relationships between the BR-promoted growth and photosynthesis an...

    Authors: Xiao-Jing Li, Xie Guo, Yan-Hong Zhou, Kai Shi, Jie Zhou, Jing-Quan Yu and Xiao-Jian Xia
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:33
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  14. Plant defense traits require resources and energy that plants may otherwise use for growth and reproduction. In order to most efficiently protect plant tissues from herbivory, one widely accepted assumption of...

    Authors: Adrienne L. Godschalx, Lauren Stady, Benjamin Watzig and Daniel J. Ballhorn
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:32
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  15. Calcium, as a second messenger, transduces extracellular signals into cellular reactions. A rise in cytosolic calcium concentration is one of the first plant responses after exposure to microbe-associated mole...

    Authors: Fabian Trempel, Hiroyuki Kajiura, Stefanie Ranf, Julia Grimmer, Lore Westphal, Cyril Zipfel, Dierk Scheel, Kazuhito Fujiyama and Justin Lee
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:31
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  16. Nitrogen (N) is the most common limiting factor for crop productivity worldwide. An effective approach to solve N deficiency is to develop low N (LN) tolerant crop cultivars. Tibetan annual wild barley is well...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Quan, Jianbin Zeng, Lingzhen Ye, Guang Chen, Zhigang Han, Jawad Munawar Shah and Guoping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:30
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  17. Barley and bread wheat show large differences in frequencies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) as determined from genome-wide studies. These frequencies have been estimated as 2.4-3 times higher in the e...

    Authors: Yuri Shavrukov
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):11
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  18. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the second most important grain legume cultivated by resource poor farmers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to harness the untapped genetic potential available for c...

    Authors: Mahendar Thudi, Aamir W. Khan, Vinay Kumar, Pooran M. Gaur, Krishnamohan Katta, Vanika Garg, Manish Roorkiwal, Srinivasan Samineni and Rajeev K. Varshney
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):10
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  19. In wheat, the vernalization requirement is mainly controlled by the VRN genes. Different species of hexaploid and tetraploid wheat are widely used as genetic source for new mutant variants and alleles for fundame...

    Authors: Alexandr Muterko, Ruslan Kalendar and Elena Salina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):9
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  20. Variability of heading date may assist in wheat adaptation to local environments. Thereafter, discovery of new heading date determinants is important for cereal improvement. In this study we used common wheat ...

    Authors: Antonina A. Kiseleva, Andrey B. Shcherban, Irina N. Leonova, Zeev Frenkel and Elena A. Salina
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):8
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  21. Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is a widespread agricultural plant forming storage root due to extensive secondary growth which involves cambium proliferation and differentiation of secondary conductive tissues. Clo...

    Authors: Maria S. Gancheva, Irina E. Dodueva, Maria A. Lebedeva, Varvara E. Tvorogova, Alexandr A. Tkachenko and Ludmila A. Lutova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  22. Stem rust (SR) is one of the most economically devastating barley diseases in Kazakhstan, and in some years it causes up to 50 % of yield losses. Routine conventional breeding for resistance to stem rust is al...

    Authors: Yerlan Turuspekov, Danara Ormanbekova, Aralbek Rsaliev and Saule Abugalieva
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):6
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  23. Theauxin efflux carrier PIN1 is a key mediator of polar auxin transport in developing plant tissues. This is why factors that are supposed to be involved in auxin distribution are frequently tested in the regu...

    Authors: N.A. Omelyanchuk, V.V. Kovrizhnykh, E.A. Oshchepkova, T. Pasternak, K. Palme and V.V. Mironova
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16(Suppl 1):5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  24. Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pst), which is the pathogen responsible for tobacco wildfire disease, has received considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this study ...

    Authors: Dan-Dan Cheng, Zi-Shan Zhang, Xing-Bin Sun, Min Zhao, Guang-Yu Sun and Wah Soon Chow
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:29
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  25. Lignin is an important structural component of plant cell wall that confers mechanical strength and tolerance against biotic and abiotic stressors; however it affects the use of biomass such as wheat straw for...

    Authors: Tran-Nguyen Nguyen, SeungHyun Son, Mark C. Jordan, David B. Levin and Belay T. Ayele
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:28
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  26. Powdery mildew, caused by Blumeria graminearum f.sp. tritici (Bgt), is one of the most severe fungal diseases of wheat. The exploration and utilization of new gene resources is the most effective approach for the...

    Authors: Tingting Chen, Jin Xiao, Jun Xu, Wentao Wan, Bi Qin, Aizhong Cao, Wei Chen, Liping Xing, Chen Du, Xiquan Gao, Shouzhong Zhang, Ruiqi Zhang, Wenbiao Shen, Haiyan Wang and Xiue Wang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:27
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  27. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oilseed crop throughout the world, serving as source for edible oil and renewable energy. Development of nested association mapping (NAM) population and methods is of ...

    Authors: Jinquan Li, Anja Bus, Viola Spamer and Benjamin Stich
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:26
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  28. Aphids are serious pest on crops. By probing with their stylets, they interact with the plant, they vector viruses and when they reach the phloem they start a continuous ingestion. Many plant resistances to ap...

    Authors: Nathalie Boissot, Sophie Thomas, Véronique Chovelon and Hervé Lecoq
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:25
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  30. Rye, Secale cereale L., has historically been a crop of major importance and is still a key cereal in many parts of Europe. Single populations of cultivated rye have been shown to capture a large proportion of th...

    Authors: Jenny Hagenblad, Hugo R. Oliveira, Nils E. G. Forsberg and Matti W. Leino
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:23
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  31. Na+ exclusion from leaf blades is one of the key mechanisms for glycophytes to cope with salinity stress. Certain class I transporters of the high-affinity K+ transporter (HKT) family have been demonstrated to me...

    Authors: Kei Suzuki, Naoki Yamaji, Alex Costa, Eiji Okuma, Natsuko I. Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko Kashiwagi, Maki Katsuhara, Cun Wang, Keitaro Tanoi, Yoshiyuki Murata, Julian I. Schroeder, Jian Feng Ma and Tomoaki Horie
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:22
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  32. Although the HKT transporter genes ascertain some of the key determinants of crop salt tolerance mechanisms, the diversity and functional role of group II HKT genes are not clearly understood in bread wheat. The ...

    Authors: H. A. Chandima K. Ariyarathna, Klaus H. Oldach and Michael G. Francki
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:21
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  33. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of flowering and maturity is important for improving the adaptability and yield of seed crops in different environments. In soybean, a facultative short-day plant, geneti...

    Authors: Chen Zhao, Ryoma Takeshima, Jianghui Zhu, Meilan Xu, Masako Sato, Satoshi Watanabe, Akira Kanazawa, Baohui Liu, Fanjiang Kong, Tetsuya Yamada and Jun Abe
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:20
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  34. Distinct expression domains of WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) gene family members are involved in patterning and morphogenesis of the early embryo in Arabidopsis. However, the role of WOX genes in other taxa, inc...

    Authors: Tianqing Zhu, Panagiotis N. Moschou, José M. Alvarez, Joel J. Sohlberg and Sara von Arnold
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:19
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  36. Receptor-like kinases are well-known to play key roles in disease resistance. Among them, the Wall-associated kinases (WAKs) have been shown to be positive regulators of fungal disease resistance in several pl...

    Authors: Amandine Delteil, Enrico Gobbato, Bastien Cayrol, Joan Estevan, Corinne Michel-Romiti, Anne Dievart, Thomas Kroj and J.-B. Morel
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:17
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  37. Sorghum is an important C4 crop which relies on applied Nitrogen fertilizers (N) for optimal yields, of which substantial amounts are lost into the atmosphere. Understanding the genetic variation of sorghum in re...

    Authors: Malleswari Gelli, Sharon E. Mitchell, Kan Liu, Thomas E. Clemente, Donald P. Weeks, Chi Zhang, David R. Holding and Ismail M. Dweikat
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:16
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  38. Host RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RDRs) 1 and 6 contribute to antiviral RNA silencing in plants. RDR6 is constitutively expressed and was previously shown to limit invasion of Nicotiana benthamiana meristem tis...

    Authors: Wing-Sham Lee, Shih-Feng Fu, Zheng Li, Alex M. Murphy, Elizabeth A. Dobson, Laura Garland, Srinivasa Rao Chaluvadi, Mathew G. Lewsey, Richard S. Nelson and John P. Carr
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:15
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  39. Sugarcane has been used as the main crop for ethanol production for more than 40 years in Brazil. Recently, the production of bioethanol from bagasse and straw, also called second generation (2G) ethanol, beca...

    Authors: Maria Juliana Calderan-Rodrigues, Elisabeth Jamet, Thibaut Douché, Maria Beatriz Rodrigues Bonassi, Thaís Regiani Cataldi, Juliana Guimarães Fonseca, Hélène San Clemente, Rafael Pont-Lezica and Carlos Alberto Labate
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:14
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  40. Oligogalacturonic acids (OGs) are oligomers of alpha-1,4-linked galacturonosyl residues that are released from cell walls by the hydrolysis of polygalacturonic acids upon fruit ripening and under abiotic/bioti...

    Authors: Yingxuan Ma, Leilei Zhou, Zhichao Wang, Jianting Chen and Guiqin Qu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:13
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  41. Through evolution, some plants have developed natural resistance to insects by having hairs (trichomes) on leaves and other tissues. The hairy trait has been neglected in Brassica breeding programs, which main...

    Authors: Ushan I. Alahakoon, Ali Taheri, Naghabushana K. Nayidu, Delwin Epp, Min Yu, Isobel Parkin, Dwayne Hegedus, Peta Bonham-Smith and Margaret Y. Gruber
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:12
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  42. Euglena gracilis, a unicellular phytoflagellate within Euglenida, has attracted much attention as a potential feedstock for renewable energy production. In outdoor open-pond cultivatio...

    Authors: Shota Kato, Shinichi Takaichi, Takahiro Ishikawa, Masashi Asahina, Senji Takahashi and Tomoko Shinomura
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:4
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  43. Drought stress in juvenile stages of crop development and premature leaf senescence induced by drought stress have an impact on biomass production and yield formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Therefore, in...

    Authors: Gwendolin Wehner, Christiane Balko, Klaus Humbeck, Eva Zyprian and Frank Ordon
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:3
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  44. The plant nuclear pore complex has strongly attracted the attention of the scientific community during the past few years, in particular because of its involvement in hormonal and pathogen/symbiotic signalling...

    Authors: Martin Boeglin, Anja Thoe Fuglsang, Doan-Trung Luu, Hervé Sentenac, Isabelle Gaillard and Isabelle Chérel
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:2
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  45. The in vivo determination of the cell-specific chromosome number provides a valuable tool in several aspects of plant research. However, current techniques to determine the endosystemic ploidy level do not all...

    Authors: Nico De Storme, Burcu Nur Keçeli, Linda Zamariola, Geert Angenon and Danny Geelen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2016 16:1
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  46. Arabidopsis root growth is stimulated by Piriformospora indica, phosphate limitation and inactivation of the WRKY6 transcription factor. Combinations of these factors induce unexpected alterations in root and sho...

    Authors: Madhunita Bakshi, Khabat Vahabi, Samik Bhattacharya, Irena Sherameti, Ajit Varma, Kai-Wun Yeh, Ian Baldwin, Atul Kumar Johri and Ralf Oelmüller
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:305
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  48. Ripening in tomato is predominantly controlled by ethylene, whilst in fruit such as grape, it is predominantly controlled by other hormones. The ripening response of many kiwifruit (Actinidia) species is atypical...

    Authors: Peter A. McAtee, Annette C. Richardson, Niels J. Nieuwenhuizen, Kularajathevan Gunaseelan, Ling Hoong, Xiuyin Chen, Ross G. Atkinson, Jeremy N. Burdon, Karine M. David and Robert J. Schaffer
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:304
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  49. Although miRNAs are reportedly involved in the salt stress tolerance of plants, miRNA profiling in plants has largely remained restricted to glycophytes, including certain crop species that do not exhibit any ...

    Authors: Sachin Ashruba Gharat and Birendra Prasad Shaw
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:301
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  50. Sugarcane is one of the major crops worldwide. It is cultivated in over 100 countries on 22 million ha. The complex genetic architecture and the lack of a complete genomic sequence in sugarcane hamper the adop...

    Authors: Lucia Mattiello, Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Marina Camara Mattos Martins, Larissa Prado da Cruz, Denis Bassi, Paulo Eduardo Ribeiro Marchiori, Rafael Vasconcelos Ribeiro, Mônica T. Veneziano Labate, Carlos Alberto Labate and Marcelo Menossi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2015 15:300
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