BMC Plant Biology - 12 (March) , 2012

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Perturbation of cytokinin and ethylene-signalling pathways explain the strong rooting phenotype exhibited by Arabidopsis expressing the Schizosaccharomyces pombe mitotic inducer, cdc25

Natasha D. Spadafora, David Parfitt, Angela Marchbank, Sherong Li, Leonardo Bruno, Rhys Vaughan, Jeroen Nieuwland, Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Robert J. Herbert, Maria Bitonti, John Doonan, Diego Albani, Els Prinsen, Dennis Francis, Hilary J. Rogers


The arbuscular mycorrhizal status has an impact on the transcriptome profile and amino acid composition of tomato fruit

Alessandra Salvioli, Ines Zouari, Michel Chalot, Paola Bonfante


Crop to wild introgression in lettuce: following the fate of crop genome segments in backcross populations

Brigitte Uwimana, Marinus J.M. Smulders, Danny A.P. Hooftman, Yorike Hartman, Peter H. van Tienderen, Johannes Jansen, Leah K McHale, Richard W Michelmore, Richard GF Visser, Clemens C.M. van de Wiel


Identification of expressed resistance gene-like sequences by data mining in 454-derived transcriptomic sequences of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Zhanji Liu, Mollee Crampton, Antonette Todd, Venu Kalavacharla


Expression of the central growth regulator BIG BROTHER is regulated by multiple cis-elements

Holger Breuninger, Michael Lenhard


The mitochondrial alternative oxidase pathway protects the photosynthetic apparatus against photodamage in Rumex K-1 leaves

Li-Tao Zhang, Zi-Shan Zhang, Hui-Yuan Gao, Xiang-Long Meng, Cheng Yang, Jian-Guo Liu, Qing-Wei Meng


Differential effects of environment on potato phenylpropanoid and carotenoid expression

Raja S. Payyavula, Duroy A. Navarre, Joseph C. Kuhl, Alberto Pantoja, Syamkumar S. Pillai


Chestnut resistance to the blight disease: insights from transcriptome analysis

Abdelali Barakat, Meg Staton, Chun-Huai Cheng, Joseph Park, Norzawani Yassin, Stephen Ficklin, Chia-Chun Yeh, Fred Hebard, Kathleen Baier, William Powell, Stephan C Schuster, Nicholas Wheeler, Albert Abbott, John E Carlson, Ronald Sederoff


Functional interconnections of HY1 with MYC2 and HY5 in Arabidopsis seedling development

Babu Rajendra V. Prasad, Selva V. Kumar, Ashis Nandi, Sudip Chattopadhyay


Proteomic characterisation of endoplasmic reticulum-derived protein bodies in tobacco leaves

Minu Joseph, M. Dolors Ludevid, Margarita Torrent, Valérie Rofidal, Marc Tauzin, Michel Rossignol, Jean-Benoit Peltier


Transcriptional profile analysis of E3 ligase and hormone-related genes expressed during wheat grain development

Delphine Capron, Said Mouzeyar, Aurélia Boulaflous, Christine Girousse, Camille Rustenholz, Christel Laugier, Etienne Paux, Mohamed Bouzidi


Betalain production is possible in anthocyanin-producing plant species given the presence of DOPA-dioxygenase and L-DOPA

Nilangani N. Harris, John Javellana, Kevin M. Davies, David H. Lewis, Paula E. Jameson, Simon C. Deroles, Kate E. Calcott, Kevin S. Gould, Kathy E. Schwinn


Transgenic expression of lactoferrin imparts enhanced resistance to head blight of wheat caused by Fusarium graminearum

Jigang Han, Dilip K Lakshman, Leny C Galvez, Sharmila Mitra, Peter Baenziger, Amitava Mitra


Association analysis of photoperiodic flowering time genes in west and central African sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]

Sankalp U. Bhosale, Benjamin Stich, H. Frederick W. Rattunde, Eva Weltzien, Bettina I.G. Haussmann, C. Thomas Hash, Punna Ramu, Hugo E. Cuevas, Andrew H. Paterson, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Heiko K. Parzies


Coffee cysteine proteinases and related inhibitors with high expression during grain maturation and germination

Maud Lepelley, Mohamed Amor, Nelly Martineau, Gerald Cheminade, Victoria Caillet, James McCarthy

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