Matsumoto, Ryo Ishikawa, Haruki Asfaw, Asrat Asiedu, Robert
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Yam ( Dioscorea spp.) is a major food security crop for millions of resource-poor farmers, particularly in West Africa. Soil mineral deficiency is the main challenge in yam production, especially with the dwindling of fallow lands for the indigenous nutrient supply. Cultivars tolerant to available low soil nutrients and responsive to added nutrient...
Ornelas-Ayala, Diego Garay-Arroyo, Adriana García-Ponce, Berenice R. Álvarez-Buylla, Elena Sanchez, María de la Paz
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ULTRAPETALA1 (ULT1) is a versatile plant-exclusive protein, initially described as a trithorax group (TrxG) factor that regulates transcriptional activation and counteracts polycomb group (PcG) repressor function. As part of TrxG, ULT1 interacts with ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX1 (ATX1) to regulate H3K4me3 activation mark deposition. However, our recent s...
Zhou, Lian Vejlupkova, Zuzana Warman, Cedar Fowler, John E.
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Members of the La-related protein family (LARPs) contain a conserved La module, which has been associated with RNA-binding activity. Expression of the maize gene GRMZM2G323499/Zm00001d018613, a member of the LARP family, is highly specific to pollen, based on both transcriptomic and proteomic assays. This suggests a pollen-specific RNA regulatory f...
Zhao, Qingsong Shi, Xiaolei Yan, Long Yang, Chunyan Liu, Cong Feng, Yan Zhang, Mengchen Yang, Yongqing Liao, Hong
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Developing high yielding cultivars with outstanding quality traits are perpetual objectives throughout crop breeding operations. Confoundingly, both of these breeding objectives typically involve working with complex quantitative traits that can be affected by genetic and environmental factors. Establishing correlations of these complex traits with...
Biswas, Partha S. Swamy, B. P. Mallikarjuna Kader, Md. Abdul Hossain, Md. Alamgir Boncodin, Raul Samia, Mercy Hassan, Md. Lutful Wazuddin, M. MacKenzie, Donald Reinke, Russell
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Vitamin A deficiency remains a common public health problem among the rice-dependent poor people in the developing countries of Asia. Conventional milled rice does not contain provitamin A (β-carotene) in is edible part (endosperm) and is also deficient in essential minerals, such as iron and zinc. Transgenic Golden Rice event GR2E, which produces ...
Zhu, Jiahong Zhao, Wan Li, Rongshuang Guo, Dong Li, Huiliang Wang, Ying Mei, Wenli Peng, Shiqing
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Dragon’s blood is a traditional medicine in which flavonoids are the main bioactive compounds; however, the underlying formation mechanism of dragon’s blood remains largely poorly understood. Chalcone isomerase (CHI) is the key enzyme in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway. However, CHI family genes are not well understood in Dracaena cambodiana Pie...
Zhou, Dan Shen, Weifeng Cui, Yuchao Liu, Yuqin Zheng, Xijun Li, Yan Wu, Minliang Fang, Shanru Liu, Chunhong Tang, Ming
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Panicle degradation causes severe yield reduction in rice. There are two main types of panicle degradation: apical spikelet abortion and basal degeneration. In this study, we isolated and characterized the apical panicle abortion mutant apical spikelet abortion ( asa ), which exhibits degeneration and defects in the apical spikelets. This mutant ha...
Guo, Shaogui Sun, Honghe Tian, Jiaxing Zhang, Guoyu Gong, Guoyi Ren, Yi Zhang, Jie Li, Maoying Zhang, Haiying Li, Haizhen
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Grafting cultivation is implemented worldwide mainly to resist abiotic and biotic stresses and is an effective method to improve watermelon production. However, grafting may affect fruit development and quality. In our experiment, pumpkin-grafted (PG) watermelon fruits developed slower and the ripening period was extended compared to self-grafted (...
Ren, Yi Song, Yue Zhang, Lipeng Guo, Dinghan He, Juan Wang, Lei Song, Shiren Xu, Wenping Zhang, Caixi Lers, Amnon
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Peptides composed of a short chain of amino acids can play significant roles in plant growth, development, and stress responses. Most of these functional peptides are derived by either processing precursor proteins or direct translation of small open reading frames present in the genome and sometimes located in the untranslated region sequence of a...
Cai, Giampiero Fernández-González, Delia Del Duca, Stefano
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