Andrade, Diego Covarrubias, Maria Paz Benedetto, Gianfranco Pereira, Eduardo Gusmão Almeida, Andrea Miyasaka
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Source–sink balance is a major determinant of carbon partitioning within plants. Thinning is an agronomic practice that consists of changing the ratio between leaves and fruits, the source and sink plant organs, respectively. Decreasing the fruit load on a peach tree is supposed to lead to an increase in fruit size and sometimes in soluble solid co...
Rodrigues, Angélica L. Bertholdi, Angelo A. S. Mantoan, Luís Paulo B. Vasconcellos, Gabriela M. Almeida, Luiz Fernando R.
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
The success of the ecological restoration depends on the appropriate determination of species for implantation in restoration areas. The use of physiological performance as a criterion may help in the selection of species that are less susceptible to abiotic stress, and consequently experience a lower mortality rate. Species of the same genus can e...
Zhu, Wenjiao Bai, Xiao Li, Gentao Chen, Min Wang, Zhong Yang, Qing
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Cysteine proteinase inhibitor (cystatin) genes belong to one family of proteinase inhibitors and play an important role in the resistance to insect pests. Cystatin (CYS) genes have been studied in different plant–insect interactions, but there are few reports about the importance of potato cystatin genes. In this study, a cystatin gene named SpCYS ...
D’Amico-Damião, Victor dos Santos, Joel Cabral Girotto, Natália Carvalho Carvalho, Rogério Falleiros
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Cryptochromes are photoreceptors that coordinate multiple processes during the plant life cycle through UV-A/blue light. In the present study, we used tomato cry1a mutant to understand how LeCRY1a influences the vegetative and reproductive development during different stages of growth. When compared to the wild type of tomato, the cry1a mutant show...
Zhang, Yao Zhang, Fan Huang, Xiaozhen
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
The Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains many genes that encode proteins with a domain of unknown function (DUF). To improve our understanding of the functions of these DUF family members, a DUF761-containing gene at the At4g16790 locus was isolated and designated DUF761-1. Duf761-1 loss-of-function mutant did not significantly affect plant growth ...
Skubatz, Hanna Calonje, Michael Tang, William
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Temperature of sporophylls from excised male cones of three species from the Zamiaceae family (Ceratozamia miqueliana, Zamia fairchildiana, and Zamia pumila) and from one species from the Cycadaceae family (Cycas siamensis) was recorded over several days in an environmental chamber. Each species exhibited a different temperature profile. C. miqueli...
Souza, Pedro F. N. Garcia-Ruiz, Hernan Carvalho, Fabricio E. L.
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Plant viruses are responsible for losses in worldwide production of numerous economically important food and fuel crops. As obligate cellular parasites with very small genomes, viruses rely on their hosts for replication, assembly, intra- and intercellular movement, and attraction of vectors for dispersal. Chloroplasts are photosynthesis and are th...
Omena-Garcia, Rebeca P. de Ávila Silva, Lucas Vital, Camilo Elber Araújo, Wagner L. Ramos, Humberto J. O. Nunes-Nesi, Adriano
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Metabolomics provide a qualitative and quantitative overview of the metabolites present in organisms, organs, tissues or specific cells. Different metabolomics approaches have been used for phenotyping populations and, together with mapping methods, allowed the identification of DNA sections associated with metabolite levels, defined as metabolic q...
de Toledo, Gabriel R. A. Parise, André G. Simmi, Francine Z. Costa, Adrya V. L. Senko, Luiz G. S. Debono, Marc-Williams Souza, Gustavo M.
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
The sessile lifestyle of plants exposes them to many challenges that must be overcome to ensure their survival. Despite their apparent lack of movement and behaviour, plants are very active organisms that constantly respond to external cues and internal signals, making fine tunings at the metabolic, cellular and tissue levels. To accomplish this, p...
Zanardo, Larissa Goulart de Souza, Gilza Barcelos Alves, Murilo Siqueira
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Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
Posing as one of the major threats for a wide range of plant species, viruses are responsible for huge losses in crop production around the world. The design of new efficient molecular strategies aiming plant resistance requires a holistic view of the complex mechanisms underlying the plant–virus interactions, as well as the discovery of all virus-...
