Aregawi, Kiflom Shen, Jianqiang Pierroz, Grady Sharma, Manoj K Dahlberg, Jeffery Owiti, Judith Lemaux, Peggy G
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Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, the fifth most important cereal worldwide, is a multi-use crop for feed, food, forage and fuel. To enhance the sorghum and other important crop plants, establishing gene function is essential for their improvement. For sorghum, identifying genes associated with its notable abiotic stress tolerances requires a detailed m...
Huang, Xuebing Cao, Liwen Fan, Jibiao Ma, Guangjing Chen, Liang
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Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) is one of the most widely cultivated warm-season turfgrass species around the world. Cold stress has been a key environmental factor that adversely affects the growth, development, and geographical distribution of bermudagrass; however, the underlying mechanism of bermudagrass responsive to cold stress remains largel...
Casale, Federico Van Inghelandt, Delphine Weisweiler, Marius Li, Jinquan Stich, Benjamin
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Meiotic recombination is not only fundamental to the adaptation of sexually reproducing eukaryotes in nature but increased recombination rates facilitate the combination of favourable alleles into a single haplotype in breeding programmes. The main objectives of this study were to (i) assess the extent and distribution of the recombination rate var...
Bang, Seung Woon Choi, Seowon Jin, Xuanjun Jung, Se Eun Choi, Joon Weon Seo, Jun Sung Kim, Ju-Kon
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Drought is a common abiotic stress for terrestrial plants and often affects crop development and yield. Recent studies have suggested that lignin plays a crucial role in plant drought tolerance; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms are still largely unknown. Here, we report that the rice (Oryza sativa) gene CINNAMOYL-CoA REDUCTASE 10 (OsCCR...
Liu, Tingli Chen, Tianzi Kan, Jialiang Yao, Yao Guo, Dongshu Yang, Yuwen Ling, Xitie Wang, Jinyan Zhang, Baolong
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Drought and Verticillium wilt disease are two main factors that limit cotton production, which necessitates the identification of key molecular switch to simultaneously improve cotton resistance to Verticillium dahliae and tolerance to drought stress. R2R3-type MYB proteins could play such a role because of their conserved functions in plant develo...
Cavanagh, Amanda P South, Paul F Bernacchi, Carl J Ort, Donald R
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Adapting crops to warmer growing season temperatures is a major challenge in mitigating the impacts of climate change on crop production. Warming temperatures drive greater evaporative demand and can directly interfere with both reproductive and vegetative physiological processes. Most of the world's crop species have C3 photosynthetic metabolism f...
Lu, Rui-Sen Chen, Yang Zhang, Xin-Yi Feng, Yu Comes, Hans Peter Li, Zheng Zheng, Zhai-Sheng Yuan, Ye Wang, Ling-Yun Huang, Zi-Jian
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Humans have domesticated diverse species from across the plant kingdom; however, our current understanding of plant domestication is largely founded on major cereal crops. Here, we examine the evolutionary processes and genetic basis underlying the domestication of water caltrop (Trapa spp., Lythraceae), a traditional, yet presently underutilized n...
Li, Yan Li, Ting-Ting He, Xiao-Rong Zhu, Yong Feng, Qin Yang, Xue-Mei Zhou, Xin-Hui Li, Guo-Bang Ji, Yun-Peng Zhao, Jing-Hao
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play vital roles in plant development and defence responses against various stresses. Here, we show that blocking miR1871 improves rice resistance against Magnaporthe oryzae and enhances grain yield simultaneously. The transgenic lines overexpressing miR1871 (OX1871) exhibit compromised resistance, suppressed defence responses an...
Zhao, Nan Wang, Weiran Grover, Corrinne E Jiang, Kaiyun Pan, Zhuanxia Guo, Baosheng Zhu, Jiahui Su, Ying Wang, Meng Nie, Hushuai
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Sea Island cotton (Gossypium barbadense) is the source of the world's finest fibre quality cotton, yet relatively little is understood about genetic variations among diverse germplasms, genes underlying important traits and the effects of pedigree selection. Here, we resequenced 336 G. barbadense accessions and identified 16 million SNPs. Phylogene...
Yang, Yanlin Fan, Pan Liu, Jingxia Xie, Wenjun Liu, Na Niu, Zubiao Li, Quanquan Song, Jing Tian, Qiuju Bao, Yinguang
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The biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt) is a crucial factor causing reduction in global wheat production. Wild wheat relatives, for example Thinopyrum intermedium, is one of the wild-used parents in wheat disease-resistant breeding. From T. intermedium line, we identified the aspartic protease gene, TiAP1, which is inv...