BMC Plant Biology - 11 , 2011 (January - November)

Contents:

Volume 11 (2011) - January 2011 (cont.)

Identification of potential target genes for the tomato fruit-ripening regulator RIN by chromatin immunoprecipitation

Masaki Fujisawa, Toshitsugu Nakano, Yasuhiro Ito



Volume 11 (2011) - February 2011

Genetic modification of alternative respiration in Nicotiana benthamiana affects basal and salicylic acid-induced resistance to potato virus X

Wing-Sham Lee, Shih-Feng Fu, Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz, John P. Carr


Structure, expression differentiation and evolution of duplicated fiber developmental genes in Gossypium barbadense and G. hirsutum

Huayu Zhu, Xiaoyong Han, Junhong Lv, Liang Zhao, Xiaoyang Xu, Tianzhen Zhang, Wangzhen Guo


Prediction of transcriptional regulatory elements for plant hormone responses based on microarray data

Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto, Yohei Yoshioka, Mitsuro Hyakumachi, Kyonoshin Maruyama, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Mutsutomo Tokizawa, Hiroyuki Koyama


Developmental localization and the role of hydroxyproline rich glycoproteins during somatic embryogenesis of banana (Musa spp. AAA)

Chunxiang Xu, Tomáš Takáč, Christian Burbach, Diedrik Menzel, Jozef Šamaj


To be or not to be the odd one out - Allele-specific transcription in pentaploid dogroses (Rosa L. sect. Caninae (DC.) Ser)

Christiane M. Ritz, Ines Köhnen, Marco Groth, Günter Theißen, Volker Wissemann


Macromolecular composition of phloem exudate from white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)

Caren Rodriguez-Medina, Craig A. Atkins, Anthea J. Mann, Megan E. Jordan, Penelope M.C. Smith


The effect of experimental warming on leaf functional traits, leaf structure and leaf biochemistry in Arabidopsis thaliana

Biao Jin, Li Wang, Jing Wang, Ke-Zhen Jiang, Yang Wang, Xiao-Xue Jiang, Cheng-Yang Ni, Yu-Long Wang, Nian-Jun Teng


Proteomic identification of OsCYP2, a rice cyclophilin that confers salt tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings when overexpressed

Song-Lin Ruan, Hua-Sheng Ma, Shi-Heng Wang, Ya-Ping Fu, Ya Xin, Wen-Zhen Liu, Fang Wang, Jian-Xin Tong, Shu-Zhen Wang, Hui-Zhe Chen


Genome-wide analysis of eukaryote thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) with an emphasis on poplar

Benjamin Petre, Ian Major, Nicolas Rouhier, Sébastien Duplessis


Two novel types of hexokinases in the moss Physcomitrella patens

Anders Nilsson, Tina Olsson, Mikael Ulfstedt, Mattias Thelander, Hans Ronne


The salt-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots and nodules via deepSuperSAGE

Carlos Molina, Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Faheema Khan, Nadia Fatnassi, Ralf Horres, Björn Rotter, Diana Steinhauer, Laurie Amenc, Jean-Jacques Drevon, Peter Winter, Günter Kahl


An EST-based analysis identifies new genes and reveals distinctive gene expression features of Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora

Jorge M.C. Mondego, Ramon O. Vidal, Marcelo F. Carazzolle, Eric K. Tokuda, Lucas P. Parizzi, Gustavo G.L. Costa, Luiz F.P. Pereira, Alan C. Andrade, Carlos A. Colombo, Luiz G.E. Vieira, Gonçalo A.G. Pereira, Brazilian Coffee Genome Project Consortium


The elicitation of a systemic resistance by Pseudomonas putida BTP1 in tomato involves the stimulation of two lipoxygenase isoforms

Martin Mariutto, Francéline Duby, Akram Adam, Charlotte Bureau, Marie-Laure Fauconnier, Marc Ongena, Philippe Thonart, Jacques Dommes


BYPASS1: synthesis of the mobile root-derived signal requires active root growth and arrests early leaf development

Jaimie M Van Norman, Caroline Murphy, Leslie E. Sieburth


The development and geometry of shape change in Arabidopsis thaliana cotyledon pavement cells

Chunhua Zhang, Leah E. Halsey, Daniel B. Szymanski



Volume 11 (2011) - March 2011


Dissection of genetic and environmental factors involved in tomato organoleptic quality

Paola Carli, Amalia Barone, Vincenzo Fogliano, Luigi Frusciante, Maria R. Ercolano


Molecular, genetic and transcriptional evidence for a role of VvAGL11 in stenospermocarpic seedlessness in grapevine

Nilo Mejía, Braulio Soto, Marcos Guerrero, Ximena Casanueva, Cléa Houel, María de los Ángeles Miccono, Rodrigo Ramos, Loic Le Cunff, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, Patricio Hinrichsen, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon


Analysis of BAC-end sequences (BESs) and development of BES-SSR markers for genetic mapping and hybrid purity assessment in pigeonpea (Cajanus spp.)

Abhishek Bohra, Anuja Dubey, Rachit K. Saxena, R. Varma Penmetsa, K.N. Poornima, Naresh Kumar, Andrew D. Farmer, Gudipati Srivani, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Ragini Gothalwal, S. Ramesh, Dhiraj Singh, Kulbhushan Saxena, P.B. Kavi Kishor, Nagendra K. Singh, Christopher D. Town, Gregory D. May, Douglas R. Cook, Rajeev K. Varshney


Ectopic expression of MdSPDS1 in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck) reduces canker susceptibility: involvement of H2O2 production and transcriptional alteration

Xing-Zheng Fu, Chuan-Wu Chen, Yin Wang, Ji-Hong Liu, Takaya Moriguchi


Glutathione synthesis is essential for pollen germination in vitro

Bernd Zechmann, Barbara E. Koffler, Scott D. Russell


Differential miRNA expression in Rehmannia glutinosa plants subjected to continuous cropping

Yanhui Yang, Xinjian Chen, Junying Chen, Haixia Xu, Juan Li, Zhongyi Zhang


Association mapping of common bacterial blight resistance QTL in Ontario bean breeding populations

Chun Shi, Alireza Navabi, Kangfu Yu


Overexpression of the UGT73C6 alters brassinosteroid glucoside formation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Sigrid Husar, Franz Berthiller, Shozo Fujioka, Wilfried Rozhon, Mamoona Khan, Florian Kalaivanan, Luisa Elias, Gillian S Higgins, Yi Li, Rainer Schuhmacher, Rudolf Krska, Hideharu Seto, Fabian E Vaistij, Dianna Bowles, Brigitte Poppenberger


Gene-based SSR markers for common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) derived from root and leaf tissue ESTs: an integration of the BMc series

Matthew W Blair, Natalia Hurtado, Carolina M. Chavarro, Monica C. Munoz-Torres, Martha C Giraldo, Fabio Pedraza, Jeff Tomkins, Rod Wing


Identification of differentially expressed genes associated with semigamy in Pima cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) through comparative microarray analysis

Jessica Curtiss, Laura Rodriguez-Uribe, J McD Stewart, Jinfa Zhang


Seed-specific elevation of non-symbiotic hemoglobin AtHb1: beneficial effects and underlying molecular networks in Arabidopsis thaliana

Johannes Thiel, Hardy Rolletschek, Svetlana Friedel, John E. Lunn, Thuy H. Nguyen, Regina Feil, Henning Tschiersch, Martin Müller, Ljudmilla Borisjuk


Introgression potential between safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) and wild relatives of the genus Carthamus

Marion Mayerhofer, Reinhold Mayerhofer, Deborah Topinka, Jed Christianson, Allen G. Good


Multiple evidence for the role of an Ovate-like gene in determining fruit shape in pepper

Aphrodite Tsaballa, Konstantinos Pasentsis, Nikos Darzentas, Athanasios S. Tsaftaris


Relative expression of genes of terpene metabolism in different tissues of Artemisia annua L

Linda Olofsson, Alexander Engström, Anneli Lundgren, Peter E. Brodelius


Characterisation of the legume SERK-NIK gene superfamily including splice variants: Implications for development and defence

Kim E. Nolan, Sergey Kurdyukov, Ray J. Rose


Transcriptome mining, functional characterization, and phylogeny of a large terpene synthase gene family in spruce (Picea spp.)

Christopher I. Keeling, Sabrina Weisshaar, Steven G. Ralph, Sharon Jancsik, Britta Hamberger, Harpreet K. Dullat, Jörg Bohlmann


Uncharacterized conserved motifs outside the HD-Zip domain in HD-Zip subfamily I transcription factors; a potential source of functional diversity

Agustín L. Arce, Jesica Raineri, Matías Capella, Julieta V. Cabello, Raquel L. Chan



Volume 11 (2011) - April 2011


Gene expression analysis of flax seed development

Prakash Venglat, Daoquan Xiang, Shuqing Qiu, Sandra L. Stone, Chabane Tibiche, Dustin Cram, Michelle Alting-Mees, Jacek Nowak, Sylvie Cloutier, Michael Deyholos, Faouzi Bekkaoui, Andrew Sharpe, Edwin Wang, Gordon Rowland, Gopalan Selvaraj, Raju Datla


Identification and characterization of plant Haspin kinase as a histone H3 threonine kinase

Daisuke Kurihara, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Tomohiro Omura, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Kiichi Fukui


Identification and characterization of flowering genes in kiwifruit: sequence conservation and role in kiwifruit flower development

Erika Varkonyi-Gasic, Sarah M. Moss, Charlotte Voogd, Rongmei Wu, Robyn H. Lough, Yen-Yi Wang, Roger P. Hellens


Introgression of Swertia mussotii gene into Bupleurum scorzonerifolium via somatic hybridization

Junfeng Wang, Cuizhu Zhao, Chang Liu, Guangmin Xia, Fengning Xiang


Comparative analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) between drought-tolerant and -susceptible genotypes of chickpea under terminal drought stress

Amit A. Deokar, Vishwajith Kondawar, Pradeep K. Jain, S. Mohan Karuppayil, N. L. Raju, Vincent Vadez, Rajeev K. Varshney, R. Srinivasan


Molecular and functional analyses of COPT/Ctr-type copper transporter-like gene family in rice

Meng Yuan, Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao, Shiping Wang


HC-Pro silencing suppressor significantly alters the gene expression profile in tobacco leaves and flowers

Arto J. Soitamo, Balaji Jada, Kirsi Lehto


Differential disease resistance response in the barley necrotic mutant nec1

Anete Keisa, Krista Kanberga-Silina, Ilva Nakurte, Laura Kunga, Nils Rostoks


A cytochrome P450 monooxygenase commonly used for negative selection in transgenic plants causes growth anomalies by disrupting brassinosteroid signaling

Kasturi Dasgupta, Savita Ganesan, Sindhu Manivasagam, Brian G. Ayre


High-throughput SNP genotyping in the highly heterozygous genome of Eucalyptus: assay success, polymorphism and transferability across species

Dario Grattapaglia, Orzenil B. Silva-Junior, Matias Kirst, Bruno de Lima, Danielle A. Faria, Georgios J. Pappas


Evolution of the rpoB-psbZ region in fern plastid genomes: notable structural rearrangements and highly variable intergenic spacers

Lei Gao, Yuan Zhou, Zhi-Wei Wang, Ying-Juan Su, Ting Wang


OryzaPG-DB: Rice Proteome Database based on Shotgun Proteogenomics

Mohamed Helmy, Masaru Tomita, Yasushi Ishihama


Reactive oxygen species and transcript analysis upon excess light treatment in wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana vs a photosensitive mutant lacking zeaxanthin and lutein

Alessandro Alboresi, Luca Dall'Osto, Alessio Aprile, Petronia Carillo, Enrica Roncaglia, Luigi Cattivelli, Roberto Bassi


Identification and characterization of wheat long non-protein coding RNAs responsive to powdery mildew infection and heat stress by using microarray analysis and SBS sequencing

Mingming Xin, Yu Wang, Yingyin Yao, Na Song, Zhaorong Hu, Dandan Qin, Chaojie Xie, Huiru Peng, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun



Integration of molecular biology tools for identifying promoters and genes abundantly expressed in flowers of Oncidium Gower Ramsey

Chen-Tran Hsu, De-Chih Liao, Fu-Hui Wu, Nien-Tze Liu, Shu-Chen Shen, Shu-Jen Chou, Shu-Yun Tung, Chang-Hsien Yang, Ming-Tsair Chan, Choun-Sea Lin


Identification and characterisation of seed storage protein transcripts from Lupinus angustifolius

Rhonda C. Foley, Ling-Ling Gao, Andrew Spriggs, Lena Y.C. Soo, Danica E. Goggin, Penelope M.C. Smith, Craig A. Atkins, Karam B.Singh


Volume 11 (2011) - May 2011


Effect of clone selection, nitrogen supply, leaf damage and mycorrhizal fungi on stilbene and emodin production in knotweed

Marcela Kovářová, Tomáš Frantík, Helena Koblihová, Kristýna Bartůňková, Zora Nývltová, Miroslav Vosátka


Characterization and analysis of the cotton cyclopropane fatty acid synthase family and their contribution to cyclopropane fatty acid synthesis

Xiao-Hong Yu, Richa Rawat, John Shanklin


Mutation scanning of peach floral genes

Yihua Chen, H Dayton Wilde


Deficiency of maize starch-branching enzyme i results in altered starch fine structure, decreased digestibility and reduced coleoptile growth during germination

Huan Xia, Marna Yandeau-Nelson, Donald B. Thompson, Mark J. Guiltinan
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Atypical epigenetic mark in an atypical location: cytosine methylation at asymmetric (CNN) sites within the body of a non-repetitive tomato gene

Rodrigo M. González, Martiniano M. Ricardi, Norberto D. Iusem


Apple skin patterning is associated with differential expression of MYB10

Adriana Telias, Kui Lin-Wang, David E. Stevenson, Janine M. Cooney, Roger P. Hellens, Andrew C. Allan, Emily E. Hoover, James M. Bradeen


Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of Coffea arabica (L.) is greatly enhanced by using established embryogenic callus cultures

Alessandra F Ribas, Eveline Dechamp, Anthony Champion, Benoît Bertrand, Marie-Christine Combes, Jean-Luc Verdeil, Fabienne Lapeyre, Philippe Lashermes, Hervé Etienne


Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of maize embryos exposed to camptothecin

Nuria Sánchez-Pons, Sami Irar, Nora García-Muniz, Carlos M Vicient


A rice calcium-dependent protein kinase is expressed in cortical root cells during the presymbiotic phase of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Lidia Campos-Soriano, Jorge Gómez-Ariza, Paola Bonfante, Blanca San Segundo


WRKY Transcription Factors Involved in Activation of SA Biosynthesis Genes

Marcel C. van Verk, John F. Bol, Huub J.M. Linthorst


Prospecting for Genes involved in transcriptional regulation of plant defenses, a bioinformatics approach

Marcel C. van Verk, John F. Bol, Huub J.M. Linthorst


Transcriptome analysis by GeneTrail revealed regulation of functional categories in response to alterations of iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Mara Schuler, Andreas Keller, Christina Backes, Katrin Philippar, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Petra Bauer


Identification of tissue-specific, abiotic stress-responsive gene expression patterns in wine grape (Vitis vinifera L.) based on curation and mining of large-scale EST data sets

Richard L. Tillett, Ali Ergül, Rebecca L. Albion, Karen A. Schlauch, Grant R. Cramer, John C. Cushman


RBCS1 expression in coffee: Coffea orthologs, Coffea arabica homeologs, and expression variability between genotypes and under drought stress

Pierre Marraccini, Luciana P. Freire, Gabriel S.C. Alves, Natalia G. Vieira, Felipe Vinecky, Sonia Elbelt, Humberto J.O. Ramos, Christophe Montagnon, Luiz G.E. Vieira, Thierry Leroy, David Pot, Vânia A. Silva, Gustavo C. Rodrigues, Alan C. Andrade


Ethylene is involved in pistil fate by modulating the onset of ovule senescence and the GA-mediated fruit set in Arabidopsis

Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano, Cristina Urbez, Antonio Granell, Juan Carbonell, Miguel A. Perez-Amador


Depletion of the heaviest stable N isotope is associated with NH4 +/NH3 toxicity in NH4 +-fed plants

Idoia Ariz, Cristina Cruz, Jose F. Moran, María B. González-Moro, Carmen García-Olaverri, Carmen González-Murua, Maria A. Martins-Louçao, Pedro M. Aparicio-Tejo


Assessing the contribution of alternative splicing to proteome diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana using proteomics data

Edouard I. Severing, Aalt D.J. van Dijk, Roeland C.H.J. van Ham


TILLING for allergen reduction and improvement of quality traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Joseph E. Knoll, M. Laura Ramos, Yajuan Zeng, C. Corley Holbrook, Marjorie Chow, Sixue Chen, Soheila Maleki, Anjanabha Bhattacharya, Peggy Ozias-Akins


Genomic profiling of plastid DNA variation in the Mediterranean olive tree

Guillaume Besnard, Pilar Hernández, Bouchaib Khadari, Gabriel Dorado, Vincent Savolainen


In Medicago truncatula, water deficit modulates the transcript accumulation of components of small RNA pathways

Cláudio Capitao, Jorge A.P. Paiva, Dulce M. Santos, Pedro Fevereiro


Analysis of anther transcriptomes to identify genes contributing to meiosis and male gametophyte development in rice

Priyanka Deveshwar, William D. Bovill, Rita Sharma, Jason A. Able, Sanjay Kapoor


PHENOPSIS DB: an Information System for Arabidopsis thaliana phenotypic data in an environmental context

Juliette Fabre, Myriam Dauzat, Vincent Negre, Nathalie Wuyts, Anne Tireau, Emilie Gennari, Pascal Neveu, Sébastien Tisné, Catherine Massonnet, Irene Hummel, Christine Granier


Gene expression profile analysis of tobacco leaf trichomes

Hong Cui, Song-Tao Zhang, Hui-Juan Yang, Hao Ji, Xiu-Jie Wang


Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis elicits shoot proteome changes that are modified during cadmium stress alleviation in Medicago truncatula

Achref Aloui, Ghislaine Recorbet, Franck Robert, Benoît Schoefs, Martine Bertrand, Céline Henry, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Eliane Dumas-Gaudot, Samira Aschi-Smiti


The Arabidopsis translocator protein (AtTSPO) is regulated at multiple levels in response to salt stress and perturbations in tetrapyrrole metabolism

Emilia Balsemao-Pires, Yvon Jaillais, Bradley J.S.C. Olson, Leonardo R. Andrade, James G. Umen, Joanne Chory, Gilberto Sachetto-Martins


A microarray approach to identify genes involved in seed-pericarp cross-talk and development in peach

Claudio Bonghi, Livio Trainotti, Alessandro Botton, Alice Tadiello, Angela Rasori, Fiorenza Ziliotto, Valerio Zaffalon, Giorgio Casadoro, Angelo Ramina


Extensin network formation in Vitis vinifera callus cells is an essential and causal event in rapid and H2O2-induced reduction in primary cell wall hydration

Cristina Pereira, José M.L. Ribeiro, Ada D. Vatulescu, Kim Findlay, Alistair J. MacDougall, Phil A.P. Jackson


Transcriptional regulatory programs underlying barley germination and regulatory functions of Gibberellin and abscisic acid

Yong-Qiang An, Li Lin


MeRy-B: a web knowledgebase for the storage, visualization, analysis and annotation of plant NMR metabolomic profiles

Hélene Ferry-Dumazet, Laurent Gil, Catherine Deborde, Annick Moing, Stéphane Bernillon, Dominique Rolin, Macha Nikolski, Antoine de Daruvar, Daniel Jacob


Production of viable male unreduced gametes in Brassica interspecific hybrids is genotype specific and stimulated by cold temperatures

Annaliese S. Mason, Matthew N. Nelson, Guijun Yan, Wallace A. Cowling


Do mitochondria play a role in remodelling lace plant leaves during programmed cell death?

Christina E.N. Lord, Jaime N. Wertman, Stephanie Lane, Arunika H..LA.N. Gunawardena


Transcriptomics and molecular evolutionary rate analysis of the bladderwort (Utricularia), a carnivorous plant with a minimal genome

Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Victor A. Albert, Claudia A. Pérez-Torres, Flor Zamudio-Hernández, María de J. Ortega-Estrada, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Luis Herrera-Estrella


Brachypodium distachyon: a new pathosystem to study Fusarium head blight and other Fusarium diseases of wheat

Antoine Peraldi, Giovanni Beccari, Andrew Steed, Paul Nicholson


The impact of Ty3-gypsy group LTR retrotransposons Fatima on B-genome specificity of polyploid wheats

Elena A. Salina, Ekaterina M. Sergeeva, Irina G. Adonina, Andrey B. Shcherban, Harry Belcram, Cecile Huneau, Boulos Chalhoub



Volume 11 (2011) - July 2011



New insight into silica deposition in horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

Chinnoi Law, Christopher Exley


A consensus linkage map for molecular markers and Quantitative Trait Loci associated with economically important traits in melon (Cucumis melo L.)

Aurora Diaz, Mohamed Fergany, Gelsomina Formisano, Peio Ziarsolo, José Blanca, Zhanjun Fei, Jack E. Staub, Juan E. Zalapa, Hugo E. Cuevas, Gayle Dace, Marc Oliver, Nathalie Boissot, Catherine Dogimont, Michel Pitrat, René Hofstede, Paul van Koert, Rotem Harel-Beja, Galil Tzuri, Vitaly Portnoy, Shahar Cohen, Arthur Schaffer, Nurit Katzir, Yong Xu, Haiying Zhang, Nobuko Fukino, Satoru Matsumoto, Jordi Garcia-Mas, Antonio J. Monforte


Transcriptional profiling of Medicago truncatula under salt stress identified a novel CBF transcription factor MtCBF4 that plays an important role in abiotic stress responses

Daofeng Li, Yunqin Zhang, Xiaona Hu, Xiaoye Shen, Lei Ma, Zhen Su, Tao Wang, Jiangli Dong



Volume 11 (2011) - August 2011



Over-expressing the C3 photosynthesis cycle enzyme Sedoheptulose-1-7 Bisphosphatase improves photosynthetic carbon gain and yield under fully open air CO2 fumigation (FACE)

David M. Rosenthal, Anna M. Locke, Mahdi Khozaei, Christine A. Raines, Stephen P. Long, Donald R. Ort


Characterization of a caleosin expressed during olive (Olea europaea L.) pollen ontogeny

Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Agnieszka Zienkiewicz, María Rodríguez-García, Antonio J. Castro


Citramalic acid and salicylic acid in sugar beet root exudates solubilize soil phosphorus

Reza Khorassani, Ursula Hettwer, Astrid Ratzinger, Bernd Steingrobe, Petr Karlovsky, Norbert Claassen


Global transcriptome analysis of two ameiotic1 alleles in maize anthers: defining steps in meiotic entry and progression through prophase I

Guo-Ling Nan, Arnaud Ronceret, Rachel C. Wang, John F. Fernandes, W. Zacheus Cande, Virginia Walbot


The glutamine synthetase gene family in Populus

Vanessa Castro-Rodríguez, Angel García-Gutiérrez, Javier Canales, Concepción Avila, Edward G. Kirby, Francisco M. Cánovas


The ACR11 encodes a novel type of chloroplastic ACT domain repeat protein that is coordinately expressed with GLN2 in Arabidopsis

Tzu-Ying Sung, Tsui-Yun Chung, Chih-Ping Hsu, Ming-Hsiun Hsieh


A single amino acid change within the R2 domain of the VvMYB5b transcription factor modulates affinity for protein partners and target promoters selectivity

Imene Hichri, Laurent Deluc, François Barrieu, Jochen Bogs, Ali Mahjoub, Farid Regad, Bernard Gallois, Thierry Granier, Claudine Trossat-Magnin, Eric Gomes, Virginie Lauvergeat


Resistance to Plasmopara viticola in a grapevine segregating population is associated with stilbenoid accumulation and with specific host transcriptional responses

Giulia Malacarne, Urska Vrhovsek, Luca Zulini, Alessandro Cestaro, Marco Stefanini, Fulvio Mattivi, Massimo Delledonne, Riccardo Velasco, Claudio Moser


Identification of imprinted genes subject to parent-of-origin specific expression in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds

Peter C. McKeown, Sylvia Laouielle-Duprat, Pjotr Prins, Philip Wolff, Marc W. Schmid, Mark T.A. Donoghue, Antoine Fort, Dorota Duszynska, Aurélie Comte, Nga Lao, Trevor J Wennblom, Geert Smant, Claudia Köhler, Ueli Grossniklaus, Charles Spillane



Volume 11 (2011) - September 2011



Tic20 forms a channel independent of Tic110 in chloroplasts

Erika Kovács-Bogdán, J. Philipp Benz, Jürgen Soll, Bettina Bölter


Mapping QTLs for oil traits and eQTLs for oleosin genes in jatropha

Peng Liu, Chun Wang, Lei Li, Fei Sun, Peng Liu, Gen Yue


From RNA-seq to large-scale genotyping - genomics resources for rye (Secale cereale L.)

Grit Haseneyer, Thomas Schmutzer, Michael Seidel, Ruonan Zhou, Martin Mascher, Chris-Carolin Schön, Stefan Taudien, Uwe Scholz, Nils Stein, Klaus F.X. Mayer, Eva Bauer


Role of TRIPTYCHON in trichome patterning in Arabidopsis

Martina Pesch, Martin Hülskamp


The NAC domain-containing protein, GmNAC6, is a downstream component of the ER stress- and osmotic stress-induced NRP-mediated cell-death signaling pathway

Jerusa A.Q.A. Faria, Pedro A.B. Reis, Marco T.B. Reis, Gustavo L. Rosado, Guilherme L. Pinheiro, Giselle C. Mendes, Elizabeth P.B. Fontes


Transcriptional analysis of cell growth and morphogenesis in the unicellular green alga Micrasterias (Streptophyta), with emphasis on the role of expansin

Katrijn Vannerum, Marie J.J. Huysman, Riet De Rycke, Marnik Vuylsteke, Frederik Leliaert, Jacob Pollier, Ursula Lütz-Meindl, Jeroen Gillard, Lieven De Veylder, Alain Goossens, Dirk Inzé, Wim Vyverman


Identification and comparative analysis of drought-associated microRNAs in two cowpea genotypes

Blanca E. Barrera-Figueroa, Lei Gao, Ndeye N. Diop, Zhigang Wu, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Philip A. Roberts, Timothy J. Close, Jian-Kang Zhu, Renyi Liu


Dynamic distribution patterns of ribosomal DNA and chromosomal evolution in Paphiopedilum, a lady's slipper orchid

Tianying Lan, Victor A. Albert


Localization of DIR1 at the tissue, cellular and subcellular levels during Systemic Acquired Resistance in Arabidopsis using DIR1:GUS and DIR1:EGFP reporters

Marc J. Champigny, Heather Shearer, Asif Mohammad, Karen Haines, Melody Neumann, Roger Thilmony, Sheng He, Pierre Fobert, Nancy Dengler, Robin K. Cameron B


Fatty acid profiles and their distribution patterns in microalgae: a comprehensive analysis of more than 2000 strains from the SAG culture collection

Imke Lang, Ladislav Hodac, Thomas Friedl, Ivo Feussner



Volume 11 (2011) - October 2011



Multiallelic epistatic model for an out-bred cross and mapping algorithm of interactive quantitative trait loci

Chunfa Tong, Bo Zhang, Zhong Wang, Meng Xu, Xiaoming Pang, Jingna Si, Minren Huang, Rongling Wu


Identification, utilisation and mapping of novel transcriptome-based markers from blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)

Joanne R. Russell, Micha Bayer, Clare Booth, Linda Cardle, Christine A. Hackett, Pete E. Hedley, Linzi Jorgensen, Jenny A. Morris, Rex M. Brennan


Association analysis of frost tolerance in rye using candidate genes and phenotypic data from controlled, semi-controlled, and field phenotyping platforms

Yongle Li, Andreas Böck, Grit Haseneyer, Viktor Korzun, Peer Wilde, Chris-Carolin Schön, Donna P. Ankerst, Eva Bauer


Transcript profiling reveals expression differences in wild-type and glabrous soybean lines

Matt Hunt, Navneet Kaur, Martina Stromvik, Lila Vodkin


Identification and characterization of the Non-race specific Disease Resistance 1 (NDR1) orthologous protein in coffee

Jean-Luc Cacas, Anne-Sophie Petitot, Louis Bernier, Joan Estevan, Genevieve Conejero, Sébastien Mongrand, Diana Fernandez


Parthenocarpic potential in Capsicum annuum L. is enhanced by carpelloid structures and controlled by a single recessive gene

Aparna Tiwari, Adam Vivian-Smith, Roeland E. Voorrips, Myckel E.J. Habets, Lin B. Xue, Remko Offringa, Ep Heuvelink


The grapevine guard cell-related VvMYB60 transcription factor is involved in the regulation of stomatal activity and is differentially expressed in response to ABA and osmotic stress

Massimo Galbiati, José Matus, Priscilla Francia, Fabio Rusconi, Paola Canón, Consuelo Medina, Lucio Conti, Eleonora Cominelli, Chiara Tonelli, Patricio Arce-Johnson


Identification of novel maize miRNAs by measuring the precision of precursor processing

Yinping Jiao, Weibin Song, Mei Zhang, Jinsheng Lai


Localization of QTLs for in vitro plant regeneration in tomato

Carlos Trujillo-Moya, Carmina Gisbert, Santiago Vilanova, Fernando Nuez


Characterization and development of EST-derived SSR markers in cultivated sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas)

Zhangying Wang, Jun Li, Zhongxia Luo, Lifei Huang, Xinliang Chen, Boping Fang, Yujun Li, Jingyi Chen, Xiongjian Zhang


Transcriptomics of shading-induced and NAA-induced abscission in apple (Malus domestica) reveals a shared pathway involving reduced photosynthesis, alterations in carbohydrate transport and signaling and hormone crosstalk

Hong Zhu, Chris D. Dardick, Eric P. Beers, Ann M. Callanhan, Rui Xia, Rongcai Yuan


Is the basal area of maize internodes involved in borer resistance?

Rogelio Santiago, Ana Butrón, Pedro Revilla, Rosa Malvar


BRAD, the genetics and genomics database for Brassica plants

Feng Cheng, Shengyi Liu, Jian Wu, Lu Fang, Silong Sun, Bo Liu, Pingxia Li, Wei Hua, Xiaowu Wang


Identification and analysis of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) transcriptomes by massively parallel pyrosequencing

Venu Kalavacharla, Zhanji Liu, Blake C. Meyers, Jyothi Thimmapuram, Kalpalatha Melmaiee


Nodulin 41, a novel late nodulin of common bean with peptidase activity

Juan Olivares, Claudia Díaz-Camino, Georgina Estrada-Navarrete, Xochitl Alvarado-Affantranger, Margarita Rodríguez-Kessler, Fernando Z. Zamudio, Timoteo Olamendi-Portugal, Yamile Márquez, Luis Servín, Federico Sánchez



Volume 11 (2011) - November 2011



Real-time imaging and analysis of differences in cadmium dynamics in rice cultivars (Oryza sativa) using positron-emitting 107Cd tracer

Satoru Ishikawa, Nobuo Suzui, Sayuri Ito-Tanabata, Satomi Ishii, Masato Igura, Tadashi Abe, Masato Kuramata, Naoki Kawachi, Shu Fujimaki


Construction and EST sequencing of full-length, drought stress cDNA libraries for common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Matthew W. Blair, Andrea C. Fernandez, Manabu Ishitani, Danilo Moreta, Motoaki Seki, Sarah Ayling, Kazuo Shinozaki


Characterization of the stress associated microRNAs in Glycine max by deep sequencing

Haiyan Li, Yuanyuan Dong, Hailong Yin, Nan Wang, Jing Yang, Xiuming Liu, Yanfang Wang, Jinyu Wu, Xiaokun Li


Transcriptome analysis of ectopic chloroplast development in green curd cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis)

Xiangjun Zhou, Zhangjun Fei, Theodore W Thannhauser, Li Li


Characterization of Sucrose transporter alleles and their association with seed yield-related traits in Brassica napus L.

Fupeng Li, Chaozhi Ma, Xia Wang, Changbin Gao, Jianfeng Zhang, Yuanyuan Wang, Na Cong, Xinghua Li, Jing Wen, Bin Yi, Jinxiong Shen, Jinxing Tu, Tingdong Fu


EST sequencing and gene expression profiling of defence-related genes from Persea americana infected with Phytophthora cinnamomi

Waheed Mahomed, Noëlani van den Berg


Differential expression of cysteine desulfurases in soybean

Marta D. Heis, Elisabeth M. Ditmer, Luisa A. de Oliveira, Ana Paula G. Frazzon, Rogério Margis, Jeverson Frazzon


Transcriptional analysis of late ripening stages of grapevine berry

Sabine Guillaumie, Romain Fouquet, Christian Kappel, Céline Camps, Nancy Terrier, Dominique Moncomble, Jake D. Dunlevy, Christopher Davies, Paul K. Boss, Serge Delrot


Adaptation of barley to mild winters: A role for PPDH2

M. Cristina Casao, Ildiko Karsai, Ernesto Igartua, M. Pilar Gracia, Otto Veisz, Ana M. Casas


Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective.

Grant R. Cramer, Kaoru Urano, Serge Delrot, Mario Pezzotti, Kazuo Shinozaki


DOF-binding sites additively contribute to guard cell-specificity of AtMYB60 promoter

Eleonora Cominelli, Massimo Galbiati, Alessandra Albertini, Fabio Fornara, Lucio Conti, George Coupland, Chiara Tonelli


Characterization of highly efficient heavy-ion mutagenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yusuke Kazama, Tomonari Hirano, Hiroyuki Saito, Yang Liu, Sumie Ohbu, Yoriko Hayashi, Tomoko Abe


A pair of orthologs of a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase-like disease resistance gene family regulates rice response to raised temperature

Haitao Zhang, Yinglong Cao, Jing Zhao, Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao, Shiping Wang


Fortunella margarita Transcriptional Reprogramming Triggered by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri

Abeer A. Khalaf, Frederick G. Gmitter, Ana Conesa, Joaquin Dopazo, Gloria A. Moore


Identification and analysis of phosphorylation status of proteins in dormant terminal buds of poplar

Chang-Cai Liu, Chang-Fu Liu, Hong-Xia Wang, Zhi-Ying Shen, Chuan-Ping Yang, Zhi-Gang Wei


Conservation and Loss of Ribosomal RNA Gene Sites in Diploid and Polyploid Fragaria (Rosaceae)

Bo Liu, Thomas M. Davis


High resolution melting analysis for the detection of EMS induced mutations in wheat SbeIIa genes

Ermelinda Botticella, Francesco Sestili, Antonio Hernandez-Lopez, Andrew Phillips, Domenico Lafiandra


Loss-of-function mutations affecting a specific Glycine max R2R3 MYB transcription factor result in brown hilum and brown seed coats

Jason D. Gillman, Ashley Tetlow, Jeong-Deong Lee, J. Shannon, Kristin Bilyeu


Chemical and transcriptional responses of Norway spruce genotypes with different susceptibility to Heterobasidion spp. infection.

Marie Danielsson, Karl Lunden, Malin Elfstrand, Jiang Hu, Tao Zhao, Jenny Arnerup, Katarina Ihrmark, Gunilla Swedjemark, Anna-Karin Borg-Karlson, Jan Stenlid


A 48 SNP set for grapevine cultivar identification

José A. Cabezas, Javier Ibánez, Diego Lijavetzky, Dolores Vélez, Gema Bravo, Virginia Rodríguez, Iván Carreno, Angelica M. Jermakow, Juan Carreno, Leonor Ruiz-García, Mark R. Thomas, José M.Martinez-Zapater


Genetic variation of ?-tocopherol methyltransferase gene contributes to elevated ?-tocopherol content in soybean seeds

Maria S. Dwiyanti, Tetsuya Yamada, Masako Sato, Jun Abe, Keisuke Kitamura


A highly conserved NB-LRR encoding gene cluster effective against Setosphaeria turcica in sorghum

Tom Martin, Moses Biruma, Ingela Fridborg, Patrick Okori, Christina Dixelius


Whole-Organ analysis of calcium behaviour in the developing pistil of olive (Olea europaea L.) as a tool for the determination of key events in sexual plant reproduction

Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Juan D. Rejón, Cynthia Suárez, Antonio J. Castro, Juan de Dios Alché, María Rodríguez García


Transcript and metabolite analysis in Trincadeira cultivar reveals novel information regarding the dynamics of grape ripening

Ana M. Fortes, Patricia Agudelo-Romero, Marta S. Silva, Kashif Ali, Lisete Sousa, Federica Maltese, Young H. Choi, Jerome Grimplet, José M. Martinez- Zapater, Robert Verpoorte, Maria S. Pais

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