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OsWRKY67 positively regulates blast and bacteria blight resistance by direct ...
Background 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... -
A combined small RNA and transcriptome sequencing analysis reveal regulatory ...
Background Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in flowering plants is usually caused by incompatibility between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, and can be restored by nuclear... -
Genomic abundance and transcriptional activity of diverse gypsy and copia lon...
Background Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are highly abundant in plant genomes and require transcriptional activity for their proliferative mode of replication.... -
The miR172c-NNC1 module modulates root plastic development in response to sal...
Background Plant roots are highly plastic to high salinity. However, the molecular mechanism by which root developmental plasticity is regulated remains largely unknown.... -
Ethephon induced oxidative stress in the olive leaf abscission zone enables d...
Background Table olives (Olea europaea L.), despite their widespread production, are still harvested manually. The low efficiency of manual harvesting and the rising costs of... -
Over-expression of chrysanthemum CmDREB6 enhanced tolerance of chrysanthemum ...
Background Chrysanthemum is among the top ten traditional flowers in China, and one of the four major cut flowers in the world, but the growth of chrysanthemum is severely... -
Phylogenetics of subtribe Orchidinae s.l. (Orchidaceae; Orchidoideae) based o...
Background Subtribe Orchidinae (Orchidaceae, Orchidoideae) are a nearly cosmopolitan taxon of terrestrial orchids, comprising about 1800 species in 47 to 60 genera. Although... -
Mycophilic or mycophobic? Legislation and guidelines on wild mushroom commerc...
Mycophiles forage for and pick vast quantities of a wide variety of wild mushroom species. As a result, mushroom intoxications are comparatively frequent in such countries with... -
MicroRNA 399 as a potential integrator of photo-response, phosphate homeostas...
Background Photoperiod-sensitivity is a critical endogenous regulatory mechanism for plant growth and development under specific environmental conditions, while phosphate and... -
Plant vigour QTLs co-map with an earlier reported QTL hotspot for drought tol...
Background Terminal drought stress leads to substantial annual yield losses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Adaptation to water limitation is a matter of matching water supply... -
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Is Vastly Under-Documented in Northwestern South Ame...
A main objective of ethnobotany is to document traditional knowledge about plants before it disappears. However, little is known about the coverage of past ethnobotanical... -
The lysin motif-containing proteins, Lyp1, Lyk7 and LysMe3, play important ro...
Background Lysin motif (LysM)-containing proteins are important pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in plants, which function in the perception of microbe-associated molecular... -
Rarity Value and Species Extinction: The Anthropogenic Allee Effect
Standard economic theory predicts that exploitation alone is unlikely to result in species extinction because of the escalating costs of finding the last individuals of a... -
Three members of Medicago truncatula ST family are ubiquitous during developm...
Background ShooT specific/Specific Tissue (ST) belong to a protein family of unknown function characterized by the DUF2775 domain and produced in specific taxonomic plant... -
The pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) nectary: structural and transcriptomic ch...
Background Pennycress [Thlaspi arvense L (Brassicaceae)] is being domesticated as a renewable biodiesel feedstock that also provides crucial ecosystems services, including as a... -
Jasmonate-mediated defence responses, unlike salicylate-mediated responses, a...
Background Bois noir is an important disease of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), caused by phytoplasmas. An interesting, yet elusive aspect of the bois noir disease is “recovery”,... -
Polyamines in the life of Arabidopsis: profiling the expression of S-adenosyl...
Background Arabidopsis has 5 paralogs of the S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) gene. Neither their specific role in development nor the role of positive/purifying... -
Identification of Gossypium hirsutum long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) under sal...
Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a class of riboregulators that either directly act in long form or are processed into shorter microRNAs (miRNAs) and small... -
Chilling-induced DNA Demethylation is associated with the cold tolerance of H...
Background Low temperature influences the development and latex production of rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) when extension to suboptimal high-latitude areas. The successful... -
Chemical hybridizing agent SQ-1-induced male sterility in Triticum aestivum L...
Background Heterosis is widely used to increase the yield of many crops. However, as wheat is a self-pollinating crop, hybrid breeding is not so successful in this organism....
