BMC Plant Biology - 12 (June), 2012

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Reprogramming of gene expression during compression wood formation in pine: Coordinated modulation of S-adenosylmethionine, lignin and lignan related genes

David P. Villalobos, Sara M. Díaz-Moreno, El-Sayed S Said, Rafael A. Canas, Daniel Osuna, Sonia H. E. Van Kerckhoven, Rocío Bautista, Manuel Claros, Francisco M. Cánovas, Francisco R. Cantón


Role of adventitious roots in water relations of tamarack (Larix laricina) seedlings exposed to flooding

Mónica Calvo-Polanco, Jorge Senorans, Janusz J. Zwiazek


The AINTEGUMENTA genes, MdANT1 and MdANT2, are associated with the regulation of cell production during fruit growth in apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.)

Madhumita Dash, Anish Malladi 


Expression conservation within the circadian clock of a monocot: natural variation at barley Ppd-H1 affects circadian expression of flowering time genes, but not clock orthologs

Chiara Campoli, Munqez Shtaya, Seth J. Davis, Maria von Korff 


Characterization of non-host resistance in broad bean to the wheat stripe rust pathogen

Yulin Cheng, Hongchang Zhang, Juanni Yao, Xiaojie Wang, Jinrong Xu, Qingmei Han, Guorong Wei, Lili Huang, Zhensheng Kang 


Expression of 5 S rRNA genes linked to 35 S rDNA in plants, their epigenetic modification and regulatory element divergence

Sonia Garcia, Lucie Crhák Khaitová, Aleš Kovařík 


PeanutDB: an integrated bioinformatics web portal for Arachis hypogaea transcriptomics

Xiaohong Duan, Emily Schmidt, Pei Li, Douglas Lenox, Lin Liu, Changlong Shu, Jie Zhang, Chun Liang


Association mapping in sunflower for sclerotinia head rot resistance

Corina M. Fusari, Julio A. Di Rienzo, Carolina Troglia, Verónica Nishinakamasu, María Moreno, Carla Maringolo, Facundo Quiroz, Daniel Álvarez, Alberto Escande, Esteban Hopp, Ruth Heinz, Verónica V. Lia, Norma B. Paniego


Analysis of the P1 promoter in response to UV-B radiation in allelic variants of high-altitude maize

Sebastian Rius, Erich Grotewold, Paula Casati


QTL mapping reveals the genetic architecture of loci affecting pre- and post-zygotic isolating barriers in Louisiana Iris

Evangeline S. Ballerini, Amanda N. Brothers, Shunxue Tang, Steven J. Knapp, Amy Bouck, Sunni J. Taylor, Michael L. Arnold, Noland H. Martin


Genome-wide identification of differentially expressed genes under water deficit stress in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

Wonkeun Park, Brian E. Scheffler, Philip J. Bauer, B. Campbell


Phosphate Starvation of Maize Inhibits Lateral Root Formation and Alters Gene Expression in the Lateral Root Primordium Zone

Zhaoxia Li, Changzheng Xu, Kunpeng Li, Shi Yan, Xun Qu, Juren Zhang


The barley EST DNA Replication and Repair Database (bEST-DRRD) as a tool for the identification of the genes involved in DNA replication and repair

Damian Gruszka, Marek Marzec, Iwona Szarejko


Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene PSS1 confers immunity against an oomycete and a fungal pathogen but not a bacterial pathogen that cause diseases in soybean

Rishi Sumit, Binod B. Sahu, Min Xu, Devinder Sandhu, Madan K. Bhattacharyya


Molecular interactions between the olive and the fruit fly Bactrocera oleave

Giandomenico Corrado, Fiammetta Alagna, Mariapina Rocco, Giovanni Renzone, Paola Varricchio, Valentina Coppola, Mariangela Coppola, Antonio Garanna, Luciana Baldoni, Andrea Scaloni, Rosa Rao


Analyses of the sucrose synthase gene family in cotton: structure, phylogeny and expression patterns

Aiqun Chen, Shae He, Feifei Li, Zhao Li, Mingquan Ding, Qingpo Liu, Junkang Rong


The organ-specific expression of terpene synthase genes contributes to the terpene hydrocarbon composition of chamomile essential oils

Sandra Irmisch, Sandra T. Krause, Grit Kunert, Jonathan Gershenzon, Jörg Degenhardt, Tobias G. Köllner


Interactions of an Arabidopsis RanBPM homologue with LisH-CTLH domain proteins revealed high conservation of CTLH complexes in eukaryotes

Eva Tomaštíková, Věra Cenklová, Lucie Kohoutová, Beáta Petrovská, Lenka Váchová, Petr Halada, Gabriela Kočárová, Pavla Binarová


Factors influencing fecundity in experimental crosses of water lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) cultivars

Nian-Jun Teng, Yan-Li Wang, Chun-Qing Sun, Wei-Min Fang, Fa-Di Chen


Myosins XI-K, XI-1, and XI-2 are required for development of pavement cells, trichomes, and stigmatic papillae in Arabidopsis

Eve-Ly Ojangu, Krista Tanner, Pille Pata, Kristel Järve, Carola L. Holweg, Erkki Truve, Heiti Paves


In silico polymorphism analysis for the development of simple sequence repeat and transposon markers and construction of linkage map in cultivated peanut

Kenta Shirasawa, Padmalatha Koilkonda, Koh Aoki, Hideki Hirakawa, Satoshi Tabata, Manabu Watanabe, Makoto Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kiyoshima, Shigeru Suzuki, Chikara Kuwata, Yoshiki Naito, Tsutomu Kuboyama, Akihiro Nakaya, Shigemi Sasamoto, Akiko Watanabe, Midori Kato, Kumiko Kawashima, Yoshie Kishida, Mitsuyo Kohara, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Chika Takahashi, Hisano Tsuruoka, Tsuyuko Wada, Sachiko Isobe


The 5'UTR-intron of the Gladiolus polyubiquitin promoter GUBQ1 enhances translation efficiency in Gladiolus and Arabidopsis

Kathryn Kamo, Ah-Young Kim, Se Park, Young Joung


Co-ordinate regulation of cytokinin gene family members during flag leaf and reproductive development in wheat

Jiancheng Song, Lijun Jiang, Paula Jameson