Zheng, Beibei Liu, Jingjing Gao, Anqi Chen, Xiaomei Gao, Lingling Liao, Liao Luo, Binwen Ogutu, Collins Otieno Han, Yuepeng
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Plant tissues are capable of developing unorganized cell masses termed calluses in response to the appropriate combination of auxin and cytokinin. Revealing the potential epigenetic mechanisms involved in callus development can improve our understanding of the regeneration process of plant cells, which will be beneficial for overcoming regeneration...
Li, Xiaojie Cao, Linjiao Jiao, Bangbang Yang, Haifeng Ma, Changsheng Liang, Yi
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Onion bulb color is a key breeding trait. The red bulb color is caused by the presence of anthocyanins, which are products of the flavonoid synthesis pathway. Research on flavonoid regulation in onion is lagging compared with that in other crops. AcB2 encodes a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, and its transcription is positively ...
Duduit, James R Kosentka, Pawel Z Miller, Morgan A Blanco-Ulate, Barbara Lenucci, Marcello S Panthee, Dilip R Perkins-Veazie, Penelope Liu, Wusheng
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Lycopene content in tomato fruit is largely under genetic control and varies greatly among genotypes. Continued improvement of lycopene content in elite varieties with conventional breeding has become challenging, in part because little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms in high-lycopene tomatoes (HLYs). We collected 42 HLYs with di...
Guan, Pingyin Schmidt, Florian Fischer, Jochen Riemann, Michael Thines, Eckhard Nick, Peter
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Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) affect grape production and reduce vineyard longevity worldwide. Since the causative fungi also occur in asymptomatic trunks, we address disease outbreak in terms of altered chemical communication between host and endophyte. Here, we identified four chemically similar secondary metabolites secreted by the GTD-associa...
Li, Junke Chen, Jun Liu, Luxian Chen, Nan Li, Xian Cameron, Kenneth M Fu, Chengxin Li, Pan
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Zurn, Jason D Hummer, Kim E Bassil, Nahla V
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The cultivated strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa ) arose through a hybridization of two wild American octoploid strawberry species in a French garden in the 1750s. Since then, breeders have developed improved cultivars adapted to different growing regions. Diverse germplasm is crucial to meet the challenges strawberry breeders will continue to addre...
Park, Jee-Soo Kang, Min-Young Shim, Eun-Jo Oh, JongHee Seo, Kyoung-In Kim, Kyung Seok Sim, Sung-Chur Chung, Sang-Min Park, Younghoon Lee, Gung Pyo
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Lettuce is one of the economically important leaf vegetables and is cultivated mainly in temperate climate areas. Cultivar identification based on the distinctness, uniformity, and stability (DUS) test is a prerequisite for new cultivar registration. However, DUS testing based on morphological features is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly...
de Tomás, Carlos Bardil, Amélie Castanera, Raúl Casacuberta, Josep M Vicient, Carlos M
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Hybridization has been widely used in breeding of cultivated species showing low genetic variability, such as peach ( Prunus persica ). The merging of two different genomes in a hybrid often triggers a so-called “genomic shock” with changes in DNA methylation and in the induction of transposable element expression and mobilization. Here, we analyse...
Xu, Huimin Wang, Chunhua Shao, Guirong Wu, Shasha Liu, Peng Cao, Ping Jiang, Peng Wang, Shubin Zhu, Hong Lin, Xiao
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Brassica rapa includes various vegetables with high economic value. Among them, green petiole type pakchoi (B. rapa ssp. chinensis) is one of the major vegetables grown in southern China. Compared with other B. rapa varieties, green petiole type pakchoi shows a higher level of heat resistance, which is partially derived from the rich epicuticular w...
Jiang, Lijuan Shen, Wenyun Liu, Chen Tahir, Muhammad Mobeen Li, Xuewei Zhou, Shuangxi Ma, Fengwang Guan, Qingmei
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Drought poses a major threat to apple fruit production and quality. Because of the apple’s long juvenile phase, developing varieties with improved drought tolerance using biotechnology approaches is needed. Here, we used the RNAi approach to knock down six GH3 genes in the apple. Under prolonged drought stress, the MdGH3 RNAi plants performed bette...
