Jiang, Liangliang Lu, Yuwen Zheng, Xiyin Yang, Xue Chen, Ying Zhang, Tianhao Zhao, Xing Wang, Shu Zhao, Xia Song, Xijiao
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·In plants, autophagy is involved in responses to viral infection. However, the role of host factors in mediating autophagy to suppress viruses is poorly understood. ·A previously uncharacterized plant protein NbP3IP was shown to interact with p3, an RNA silencing suppressor protein encoded by rice stripe virus (RSV), a negative-strand RNA virus. T...
Wade, Ruth N Seed, Patrick McLaren, Eleanor Wood, Ellie Christin, Pascal-Antoine Thompson, Ken Rees, Mark Osborne, Colin P
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Growth rate represents a fundamental axis of life history variation. Faster growth associated with C4 photosynthesis and annual life history has evolved multiple times, and the resulting diversity in growth is typically explained via resource acquisition and allocation. However, the underlying changes in morphogenesis remain unknown. We conducted a...
Chomicki, Guillaume Schaefer, Hanno Renner, Susanne S
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Some of the World's most valuable crops, including watermelon, honey melon, cucumber, squash, zucchini and pumpkin, belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. We review insights on their domestication from new phylogenies, archaeology and genomic studies. Ancestral state estimation on the most complete Cucurbitaceae phylogeny to date suggests that an annu...
Meinke, David W
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With the emergence of high-throughput methods in plant biology, the importance of long-term projects characterized by incremental advances involving multiple laboratories can sometimes be overlooked. Here, I highlight my 40-year effort to isolate and characterize the most common class of mutants encountered in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana): th...
Pellicer, Jaume Leitch, Ilia J
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Akakpo, Roland Carpentier, Marie-Christine Ie Hsing, Yue Panaud, Olivier
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Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous in plants and are the primary genomic component of the majority of taxa. Knowledge of their impact on the structure, function and evolution of plant genomes is therefore a priority in the field of genomics. Rice, as one of the most prevalent crops for food security worldwide, has been subjected to intense ...
De Souza, Amanda P Wang, Yu Orr, Douglas J Carmo-Silva, Elizabete Long, Stephen P
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Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to see a 55% increase in food demand by 2035, where cassava (Manihot esculenta) is the most widely planted crop and a major calorie source. Yet, cassava yield in this region has not increased significantly for 13 yr. Improvement of genetic yield potential, the basis of the first Green Revolution, could be realized by...
Zhang, Haiyan Zhang, Hui Lin, Jinxing
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Systemin, a peptide plant hormone of 18 amino acids, coordinates local and systemic immune responses. The activation of the canonical systemin-mediated systemic signaling pathway involves systemin release from its precursor prosystemin, systemin binding to its membrane receptor SYSTEMIN RECEPTOR1 (SYR1), and the transport of long-distance signaling...
Lui, Andy C W Lam, Pui Ying Chan, Kwun Ho Wang, Lanxiang Tobimatsu, Yuki Lo, Clive
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Tricin (3',5'-dimethoxylated flavone) is a predominant flavonoid amongst monocots but occurs only in isolated and unrelated dicot lineages. Although tricin biosynthesis has been intensively studied in monocots, it has remained largely elusive in tricin-accumulating dicots. We investigated a subgroup of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 75B subfamily flavonoid ...
Lundgren, Marjorie R
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C2 photosynthesis is a carbon concentrating mechanism that can increase net CO2 assimilation by capturing, concentrating and re-assimilating CO2 released by photorespiration. Empirical and modelling studies indicate that C2 plants assimilate more carbon than C3 plants under high temperature, bright light, and low CO2 conditions. I argue that engine...
