Liu, Jiayue Lu, Shuaizhi Liu, Changcheng Hou, Dongjie
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BMC Plant Biology
Background Decline in height and aboveground biomass of the plant community are critical indicators of grassland ecosystem degradation. Nutrient reallocation induced by grazing occurs among different organs, which balances the trade-off between growth and defense. However, it is not yet clear how nutrient reallocation strategies affect plant commun...
Liu, Huamin Xiao, Shiqi Sui, Shunzhao Huang, Renwei Wang, Xia Wu, Huafeng Liu, Xia
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BMC Plant Biology
Background CCCH-type zinc finger proteins play important roles in plant development and biotic/abiotic stress responses. Wintersweet ( Chimonanthus praecox ) is a popular ornamental plant with strong resistance to various stresses, which is a good material for exploring gene resource for stress response. In this study, we isolated a CCCH type zinc ...
Fu, Pengcheng Favre, Adrien Wang, Rui Huang, Yizhuo Sun, Shanshan
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BMC Plant Biology
Background Mountains of the world host a significant portion of all terrestrial biodiversity, and the region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) stands as one of the most remarkable mountain regions on Earth. Because many explosive radiations occurred there, the QTP is a natural laboratory which is ideal to investigate patterns and processes linked...
Chen, Jun-fan Liu, Ying Zhang, Tian-yu Zhou, Zheng-fu Huang, Jin-yong Zhou, Ting Hua, Ying-peng
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BMC Plant Biology
Background Soil salinization has become a global problem restricting the seed yield and quality of crops, including wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.). Salinity significantly alters plant morphology and severely disrupts physiological homeostasis. Salt tolerance of wheat has been widely studied whereas core ion transporters responsive to salt stress rem...
Zhang, Bing Chen, Zhuoting Sun, Qixue Liu, Jianxiu
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BMC Plant Biology
Background Bermudagrass ( Cynodon dactylon L.) is an important warm-season turfgrass species with well-developed stolons, which lay the foundation for the fast propagation of bermudagrass plants through asexual clonal growth. However, the growth and development of bermudagrass stolons are still poorly understood at the molecular level. Results In t...
Sreekumar, Sweda Divya, Kattupalli Joy, Nisha Soniya, E V
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BMC plant biology
Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is rich in bioactive compounds that make it an imperative constituent in traditional medicines. Although the unripe fruits have long been used in different Ayurvedic formulations, the mechanism of gene regulation resulting in the production of the bioactive compounds in black pepper is not much investigated. Exploring...
Guo, Zhenhua Ma, Wendong Cai, Lijun Guo, Tao Liu, Hao Wang, Linan Liu, Junliang Ma, Bo Feng, Yanjiang Liu, Chuanxue
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BMC plant biology
Rice is one of the most important cereal crops in the world but is susceptible to cold stress (CS). In this study, we carried out parallel transcriptomic analysis at the reproductive stage on the anthers of two Japonica rice varieties with contrasting CS resistance: cold susceptible Longjing11 (LJ11) and cold resistant Longjing25 (LJ25). According ...
Zhu, Huanhuan Shi, Yan Zhang, Junwei Bao, Manzhu Zhang, Jie
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BMC plant biology
Prunus mume is an early spring flower of Rosaceae, which owns high application value in gardens. Being an excellent ornamental trait, the double flower trait has always been one of the important breeding goals of plant breeders. However, the key regulatory genes of double flower traits of P. mume are still unclear at present. The floral organs' mor...
Fallah, Nyumah Pang, Ziqin Dong, Fei Zhou, Yongmei Lin, Wenxiong Fabrice, Kabore Manegdebwaoga Arthur Hu, Chaohua Yuan, Zhaonian
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BMC Plant Biology
Background As one of the vital crops globally, sugarcane ( Saccharum officinarum L . ) has been one of model crops for conducting metabolome research. Although many studies have focused on understanding bioactive components in specific sugarcane tissues, crucial questions have been left unanswered about the response of metabolites to niche differen...
Yangyang, Yan Qin, Liu Kun, Yan Xiaoyi, Wang Pei, Xu
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BMC Plant Biology
1. Comparisons between leaves on girdled and non-girdled branches of red maple showed that leaf color change is a coevolutionary phenomenon of maple in response to abiotic stress. 2. C108619.graph_c0 of Pkinase family regulates the color change of A. rubrum leaf by participating in the synthesis of anthocyanins, which has the high homology with c45...