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  1. A molecular-level understanding of the loss of CURVY1 (CVY1) gene expression (which encodes a member of the receptor-like protein kinase family) was investigated to gain insights into the mechanisms controlling c...

    Authors: Emma W Gachomo, Lyla Jno Baptiste, Timnit Kefela, William M Saidel and Simeon O Kotchoni
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:221
  2. Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs; MAP3Ks) are important components of MAPK cascades, which are highly conserved signal transduction pathways in animals, yeast and plants, play important...

    Authors: Gang Wang, Arianna Lovato, Annalisa Polverari, Min Wang, Ying-Hai Liang, Yuan-Chun Ma and Zong-Ming Cheng
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:219
  3. The caseinolytic protease (Clp) is crucial for chloroplast biogenesis and proteostasis. The Arabidopsis Clp consists of two heptameric rings (P and R rings) assembled from nine distinct subunits. Hsp100 chaperone...

    Authors: Clara V Colombo, Eduardo A Ceccarelli and Germán L Rosano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:228
  4. In Quercus suber, cork oak, a Mediterranean forest tree of economic and social interest, rapid production of isogenic lines and clonal propagation of elite genotypes have been achieved by developing in vitro embr...

    Authors: Héctor Rodríguez-Sanz, José-Antonio Manzanera, María-Teresa Solís, Aránzazu Gómez-Garay, Beatriz Pintos, María C Risueño and Pilar S Testillano
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:224
  5. Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) derived from Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) belong to the expressed fraction of the genome and are important for gene regulation, recombination, DNA replication, cell cycle and m...

    Authors: Sonali Sachin Ranade, Yao-Cheng Lin, Andrea Zuccolo, Yves Van de Peer and María del Rosario García-Gil
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:220
  6. Brassinosteroid hormones regulate many aspects of plant growth and development. The membrane receptor BRI1 is a central player in the brassinosteroid signaling cascade. Semi-dwarf ‘uzu’ barley carries a mutati...

    Authors: Shahin S Ali, Lokanadha R Gunupuru, G B Sunil Kumar, Mojibur Khan, Steve Scofield, Paul Nicholson and Fiona M Doohan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:227
  7. Characterization of genome-wide patterns of allelic variation and linkage disequilibrium can be used to detect reliable phenotype–genotype associations and signatures of molecular selection. However, the use of S...

    Authors: Linhai Wang, Xuelian Han, Yanxin Zhang, Donghua Li, Xin Wei, Xia Ding and Xiurong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:225
  8. The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyifera) is one of the multifunctional tree species in agroforestry system and is also commonly utilized in traditional medicine in China and other Asian countries. To identify ...

    Authors: Xianjun Peng, Yucheng Wang, Ruiping He, Meiling Zhao and Shihua Shen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:194
  9. The fungus Stagonospora nodorum is a necrotrophic pathogen of wheat. It causes disease by secreting proteinaceous effectors which interact with proteins encoded by dominant susceptibility genes in the host. The o...

    Authors: Britta Winterberg, Lauren A Du Fall, Xiaomin Song, Dana Pascovici, Natasha Care, Mark Molloy, Stephen Ohms and Peter S Solomon
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:215
  10. Plants have developed a variety of mechanisms to counteract aphid attacks. They activate their defences by changing the expression of specific genes. Previously we identified an activation tag mutant of Arabidops...

    Authors: Xi Chen, Zhao Zhang, Richard G G Visser, Ben Vosman and Colette Broekgaarden
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:217
  11. Most of the natural variation in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana can be attributed to allelic variation at the gene FRIGIDA (FRI, AT4G00650), which activates expression of the floral repressor FLOWERING LO...

    Authors: Inga Schmalenbach, Lei Zhang, Malgorzata Ryngajllo and José M Jiménez-Gómez
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:218
  12. Compared with major crops, growth and development of Ricinus communis is still poorly understood. A better understanding of the biochemical and physiological aspects of germination and seedling growth is crucial ...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto Ribeiro, Luzimar Gonzaga Fernandez, Renato Delmondez de Castro, Wilco Ligterink and Henk WM Hilhorst
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:223
  13. Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) is a herbaceous perennial weed and dormancy in both buds and seeds is an important survival mechanism. Bud dormancy in leafy spurge exhibits three well-defined phases of para-, e...

    Authors: Wun S Chao, Münevver Doğramaci, James V Anderson, Michael E Foley and David P Horvath
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:216
  14. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) productivity is severely impeded by low phosphorus (P) and aluminum (Al) toxic soils in sub-Saharan Africa and especially West Africa (WA). Improving productivity of this stapl...

    Authors: Willmar L Leiser, Henry Frederick W Rattunde, Eva Weltzien, Ndiaga Cisse, Magagi Abdou, Abdoulaye Diallo, Abocar O Tourè, Jurandir V Magalhaes and Bettina IG Haussmann
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:206
  15. Salix caprea is a cold-tolerant pioneer species that is ecologically important in Europe and western and central Asia. However, little data is available on its population genetic structure and molecular ecology. ...

    Authors: Aude C Perdereau, Colin T Kelleher, Gerry C Douglas and Trevor R Hodkinson
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:202
  16. Thorough understanding of seed starch biosynthesis and accumulation mechanisms is of great importance for agriculture and crop improvement strategies. We conducted the first comprehensive study of the dynamic ...

    Authors: Guanxing Chen, Jiantang Zhu, Jianwen Zhou, Saminathan Subburaj, Ming Zhang, Caixia Han, Pengchao Hao, Xiaohui Li and Yueming Yan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:198
  17. Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) is one of the most important fruits world-wide. Because it is a woody plant with a long growth cycle, genetic studies of sweet orange are lagging behind those of other species.

    Authors: Yu-Duan Ding, Ji-Wei Chang, Jing Guo, DiJun Chen, Sen Li, Qiang Xu, Xiu-Xin Deng, Yun-Jiang Cheng and Ling-Ling Chen
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:213
  18. ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso) is a phloem-limited alphaproteobacterium associated with the devastating zebra chip disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum). Like other members of Liberibacter, Lso-ZC1 ...

    Authors: Guixia Hao, Marco Pitino, Fang Ding, Hong Lin, Ed Stover and Yongping Duan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:211
  19. Interaction between TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) and LEAFY(LFY) seem to determine the inflorescence architecture inArabidopsis. In a parallel way, overexpression of VvTFL1A, agrapevine TFL1 homolog, causes delayed fl...

    Authors: Lucie Fernandez, Loïc Le Cunff, Javier Tello, Thierry Lacombe, Jean Michel Boursiquot, Alexandre Fournier-Level, Gema Bravo, Sandrine Lalet, Laurent Torregrosa, Patrice This and José Miguel Martinez-Zapater
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:209
  20. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a tropical root crop, and is therefore, extremely sensitive to low temperature; its antioxidative response is pivotal for its survival under stress. Timely turnover of reacti...

    Authors: Jia Xu, Jun Yang, Xiaoguang Duan, Yueming Jiang and Peng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:208
  21. Stress acclimation is an effective mechanism that plants acquired for adaption to dynamic environment. Even though generally considered to be sensitive to low temperature, Cassava, a major tropical crop, can b...

    Authors: Changying Zeng, Zheng Chen, Jing Xia, Kevin Zhang, Xin Chen, Yufei Zhou, Weiping Bo, Shun Song, Deli Deng, Xin Guo, Bin Wang, Junfei Zhou, Hai Peng, Wenquan Wang, Ming Peng and Weixiong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:207
  22. Plant viral infections disturb defense regulatory networks during tissue invasion. Emerging evidence demonstrates that a significant proportion of these alterations are mediated by hormone imbalances. Although...

    Authors: Maria Cecilia Rodriguez, Gabriela Conti, Diego Zavallo, Carlos Augusto Manacorda and Sebastian Asurmendi
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:210
  23. Ancestral wheat relatives are important sources of genetic diversity for the introduction of novel traits for the improvement of modern bread wheat. In this study the aim was to assess the susceptibility of 34...

    Authors: Vanessa E McMillan, Richard J Gutteridge and Kim E Hammond-Kosack
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:212
  24. Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world’s most versatile, economically important tropical crops. Little is known about the physiological and molecular basis of coconut pulp (endosperm) development and onl...

    Authors: Yuanxue Liang, Yijun Yuan, Tao Liu, Wei Mao, Yusheng Zheng and Dongdong Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:205
  25. Anthropogenic activities cause metal pollution worldwide. Plants can absorb and accumulate these metals through their root system, inducing stress as a result of excess metal concentrations inside the plant. E...

    Authors: Kerim Schellingen, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Filip Vandenbussche, Els Prinsen, Tony Remans, Jaco Vangronsveld and Ann Cuypers
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:214
  26. The Maternally expressed gene (Meg) family is a locally-duplicated gene family of maize which encodes cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs). The founding member of the family, Meg1, is required for normal development of ...

    Authors: Yuqing Xiong, Wenbin Mei, Eun-Deok Kim, Krishanu Mukherjee, Hatem Hassanein, William Brad Barbazuk, Sibum Sung, Bryan Kolaczkowski and Byung-Ho Kang
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:204
  27. Current views on the control of cell development are anchored on the notion that phenotypes are defined by networks of transcriptional activity. The large amounts of information brought about by transcriptomic...

    Authors: Jörg D Becker, Seiji Takeda, Filipe Borges, Liam Dolan and José A Feijó
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:197
  28. Numerous rye accessions are stored in ex situ genebanks worldwide. Little is known about the extent of genetic diversity contained in any of them and its relation to contemporary varieties, since to date rye gene...

    Authors: Hanna Bolibok-Brągoszewska, Małgorzata Targońska, Leszek Bolibok, Andrzej Kilian and Monika Rakoczy-Trojanowska
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:184
  29. The transcription factor DOF AFFECTING GERMINATION1 (DAG1) is a repressor of seed germination acting downstream of the master repressor PHYTOCROME INTERACTING FACTOR3-LIKE 5 (PIL5). Among others, PIL5 induces ...

    Authors: Alessandra Boccaccini, Silvia Santopolo, Davide Capauto, Riccardo Lorrai, Emanuele Minutello, Katia Belcram, Jean-Cristophe Palauqui, Paolo Costantino and Paola Vittorioso
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:200
  30. The understanding of sugarcane genetics has lagged behind that of other members of the Poaceae family such as wheat, rice, barley and sorghum mainly due to the complexity, size and polyploidization of the geno...

    Authors: Karen S Aitken, Meredith D McNeil, Paul J Berkman, Scott Hermann, Andrzej Kilian, Peter C Bundock and Jingchuan Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:190
  31. Grapevine berries undergo complex biochemical changes during fruit maturation, many of which are dependent upon the variety and its environment. In order to elucidate the varietal dependent developmental regul...

    Authors: Asfaw Degu, Uri Hochberg, Noga Sikron, Luca Venturini, Genny Buson, Ryan Ghan, Inbar Plaschkes, Albert Batushansky, Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Fulvio Mattivi, Massimo Delledonne, Mario Pezzotti, Shimon Rachmilevitch, Grant R Cramer and Aaron Fait
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:188
  32. Taxodium is renowned for its strong tolerance to waterlogging stress, thus it has great ecological and economic potential. However, the scant genomic resources in genus Taxodium have greatly hindered further expl...

    Authors: Baiyan Qi, Ying Yang, Yunlong Yin, Meng Xu and Huogen Li
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:201
  33. In angiosperms, the endosperm plays a crucial placenta-like role in that not only is it necessary for nurturing the embryo, but also regulating embryogenesis through complicated genetic and epigenetic interact...

    Authors: Mingming Xin, Ruolin Yang, Yingyin Yao, Chuang Ma, Huiru Peng, Qixin Sun, Xiangfeng Wang and Zhongfu Ni
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:192
  34. Legumes have the unique capability to undergo root nodule and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Both types of root endosymbiosis are regulated by NSP2, which is a target of microRNA171h (miR171h). Although, recen...

    Authors: Vinzenz Hofferek, Amelie Mendrinna, Nicole Gaude, Franziska Krajinski and Emanuel A Devers
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:199
  35. The inferior spikelets are defined to be those at portions where the grains receive less photosynthetic products during the seed development. The typical inferior spikelets are physically located on the proxim...

    Authors: Ting Peng, Hongzheng Sun, Mengmeng Qiao, Yafan Zhao, Yanxiu Du, Jing Zhang, Junzhou Li, Guiliang Tang and Quanzhi Zhao
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:196
  36. The sepals, petals and stamens of Arabidopsis flowers detach via abscission zones formed at their boundaries with the underlying receptacle. The ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) MYB transcription factor plays a critical ...

    Authors: Catherine M Gubert, Megan E Christy, Denise L Ward, William D Groner and Sarah J Liljegren
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:195
  37. Fruit quality features resulting from ripening processes need to be preserved throughout storage for economical reasons. However, during this period several physiological disorders can occur, of which superfic...

    Authors: Nicola Busatto, Brian Farneti, Alice Tadiello, Urska Vrhovsek, Luca Cappellin, Franco Biasioli, Riccardo Velasco, Guglielmo Costa and Fabrizio Costa
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:193
  38. Grain yield in wheat is a polygenic trait that is influenced by environmental and genetic interactions at all stages of the plant’s growth. Yield is usually broken down into three components; number of spikes ...

    Authors: James Simmonds, Peter Scott, Michelle Leverington-Waite, Adrian S Turner, Jemima Brinton, Viktor Korzun, John Snape and Cristobal Uauy
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:191
  39. Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) are leucine-rich repeat (LRR) plant cell wall glycoproteins involved in plant immunity. They are typically encoded by gene families with a small number of gene cop...

    Authors: Raviraj M Kalunke, Alberto Cenci, Chiara Volpi, Donal M O’Sullivan, Luca Sella, Francesco Favaron, Felice Cervone, Giulia De Lorenzo and Renato D’Ovidio
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:189
  40. Theobroma cacao L. is a tropical fruit tree, the seeds of which are used to create chocolate. In vitro somatic embryogenesis (SE) of cacao is a propagation system useful for rapid mass-multiplication to accelerat...

    Authors: Siela N Maximova, Sergio Florez, Xiangling Shen, Nicolas Niemenak, Yufan Zhang, Wayne Curtis and Mark J Guiltinan
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:185
  41. The genus Citrus encompasses major cultivated plants such as sweet orange, mandarin, lemon and grapefruit, among the world’s most economically important fruit crops. With increasing volumes of transcriptomics dat...

    Authors: Darren CJ Wong, Crystal Sweetman and Christopher M Ford
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:186
  42. Cycas simplicipinna (T. Smitinand) K. Hill. (Cycadaceae) is an endangered species in China. There were seven populations and 118 individuals that we could collect were genotyped in this study. Here, we assessed t...

    Authors: Xiuyan Feng, Yuehua Wang and Xun Gong
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:187
  43. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation modulates secondary metabolism in the skin of Vitis vinifera L. berries, which affects the final composition of both grapes and wines. The expression of several phenylpropanoid biosynth...

    Authors: Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano, Maria-Paz Diago, Javier Martínez-Abaigar, José M Martínez-Zapater, Javier Tardáguila and Encarnación Núñez-Olivera
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:183
  44. Individual plants adapt to their immediate environment using a combination of biochemical, morphological and life cycle strategies. Because woody plants are long-lived perennials, they cannot rely on annual li...

    Authors: Carole Leavel Bassett, Angela M Baldo, Jacob T Moore, Ryan M Jenkins, Doug S Soffe, Michael E Wisniewski, John L Norelli and Robert E Farrell Jr
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:182
  45. Under saline conditions, plant growth is depressed via osmotic stress and salt can accumulate in leaves leading to further depression of growth due to reduced photosynthesis and gas exchange. Aquaporins are pr...

    Authors: Lian Zhou, Chuang Wang, Ruifang Liu, Qiang Han, Rebecca K Vandeleur, Juan Du, Steven Tyerman and Huixia Shou
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:181
  46. The bamboo Bambusa edulis has a long juvenile phase in situ, but can be induced to flower during in vitro tissue culture, providing a readily available source of material for studies on reproductive biology and f...

    Authors: Ming-Che Shih, Ming-Lun Chou, Jin-Jun Yue, Cheng-Tran Hsu, Wan-Jung Chang, Swee-Suak Ko, De-Chih Liao, Yao-Ting Huang, Jeremy JW Chen, Jin-Ling Yuan, Xiao-Ping Gu and Choun-Sea Lin
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:179
  47. Plants have evolved light sensing mechanisms to optimally adapt their growth and development to the ambient light environment. The COP1/SPA complex is a key negative regulator of light signaling in the well-st...

    Authors: Aashish Ranjan, Stephen Dickopf, Kristian K Ullrich, Stefan A Rensing and Ute Hoecker
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:178
  48. Endogenous small (sm) RNAs (primarily si- and miRNAs) are important trans/cis-acting regulators involved in diverse cellular functions. In plants, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RDRs) are essential for smRNA ...

    Authors: Ningning Wang, Di Zhang, Zhenhui Wang, Hongwei Xun, Jian Ma, Hui Wang, Wei Huang, Ying Liu, Xiuyun Lin, Ning Li, Xiufang Ou, Chunyu Zhang, Ming-Bo Wang and Bao Liu
    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2014 14:177

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