Bruznican, Silvia De Clercq, Herve Eeckhaut, Tom Van Huylenbroeck, Johan Geelen, Danny
Cultivated for the crispy petioles and round, fleshy, and flavored hypocotyl celery and celeriac have over two centuries of breeding history in Europe. In this review paper we summarized the most recent advances touching when necessary the historical context of celery and celeriac breeding. In the post genomic era of research, the genome sequence o...
Prudente, Debora de Oliveira; Paiva, Renato; Domiciano, Debora; de Souza, Lucas Batista; Carpentier, Sebastien; 35432; Swennen, Rony; 15509; Silva, Luciano Coutinho; Nery, Fernanda Carlota; Flausino Maximo, Wesley Pires; Panis, Bart; 16587;
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Cryopreservation is a process whereby biological structures are preserved in liquid nitrogen (-196 °C) without losing their viability. Many cryopreservation techniques use the Plant Vitrification Solution 2 (PVS2) for cryoprotection. This study will therefore evaluate the influence of different exposure times to the cryoprotectant PVS2 and discuss ...
Rodrigues, Joana Inzé, Dirk Nelissen, Hilde Saibo, Nelson J M
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Trends in plant science
To meet the food demands of an increasing world population, it is necessary to improve crop production; a task that is made more challenging by the changing climate. Several recent reports show that increasing the capacity of plants to assimilate carbon (source strength), or to tap into the internal carbon reservoir (sink strength), has the potenti...
Wang, Shusheng Leus, Leen Van Labeke, Marie-Christine Van Huylenbroeck, Johan
Rhododendrons are typically known to be calcifuges that cannot grow well in lime soils. Data on lime tolerance of different taxa in Rhododendron are scarce. Habitats of naturally distributed specimens of genus Rhododendron were compiled as Chinese text-based locations from the Chinese Virtual Herbarium. The locations were then geocoded into latitud...
Arce, Alejandra De Haan, Stef Burra, Dharani Ccanto, Raul
The purpose of the research was to understand the fine-grained dynamics underlying potato seed networks in a center of crop origin and biodiversity, the central Andes of Peru, by differentiating between seasons with and without acute stress (i.e. frost, late blight), cultivar groups, and farmer types. Cultivar groups were classified into (i) bred v...
Vu, Lam Dai Zhu, Tingting Verstraeten, Inge Van De Cotte, Brigitte Gevaert, Kris De Smet, Ive
Wheat (Triticum ssp.) is one of the most important human food sources. However, this crop is very sensitive to temperature changes. Specifically, processes during wheat leaf, flower, and seed development and photosynthesis, which all contribute to the yield of this crop, are affected by high temperature. While this has to some extent been investiga...
Hurtado-Salazar, Alejandro Pereira da Silva, Danielle Fabíola Ceballos-Aguirre, Nelson Ocampo, John Bruckner, Claudio Horst
Passiflora tarminiana es una glicofita trepadora, nativa de la región andina que tiene tolerancia a la salinidad y estrés hídrico moderado. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la capacidad para la excreción de sodio como una posible estrategia de esta especie para la tolerancia a la salinidad y a la sequía. La excreción de sal y las concentraci...
Zinta, Gaurav; AbdElgawad, Hamada; Peshev, Darin; Weedon, James T; Van den Ende, Wim; 6486; Nijs, Ivan; Janssens, Ivan; Beemster, Gerrit TS; Asard, Han;
As a consequence of global change processes, plants will increasingly be challenged by extreme climatic events, against a background of elevated atmospheric CO2. We analysed responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to periods of a combination of elevated heat and water deficit at ambient and elevated CO2 in order to gain mechanistic insights regarding cha...
Litthauer, Suzanne Chan, Kai Xun Jones, Matthew Alan
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Plant physiology
The circadian system optimizes cellular responses to stress, but the signaling pathways that convey the metabolic consequences of stress into this molecular timekeeping mechanism remain unclear. Redox regulation of the SAL1 phosphatase during abiotic stress initiates a signaling pathway from chloroplast to nucleus by regulating the accumulation of ...
Fonteyne, Simon Muylle, Hilde Lootens, Peter Kerchev, Pavel Van den Ende, Wim Staelens, Ariane Reheul, Dirk Roldán-Ruiz, Isabel
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Annals of botany
The high productivity of Miscanthus × giganteus has been at least partly ascribed to its high chilling tolerance compared with related C4 crops, allowing for a longer productive growing season in temperate climates. However, the chilling tolerance of M. × giganteus has been predominantly studied under controlled environmental conditions. The unders...