Shengxiong Huang, Yongfeng Gao, Ji‐Kai Liu, Xiaoli Peng et al.
The WRKY transcription factors have been implicated in multiple biological processes in plants, especially in regulating defense against biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little information is available about the WRKYs in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). The recent release of the whole-genome sequ...
Aida Shomali, Susmita Das, Namira Arif, Mohammad Sarraf et al.
Flavonoids are characterized as the low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds universally distributed in planta. They are a chemically varied group of secondary metabolites with a broad range of biological activity. The increasing amount of evidence has demonstrated the various physiological funct...
Shahanara Begum, Satoshi Nakaba, Yusuke Yamagishi, Yuichiro Oribe et al.
The timing of cambial reactivation plays an important role in determination of the amount and quality of wood and the environmental adaptivity of trees. Environmental factors, such as temperature, influence the growth and development of trees. Temperatures from late winter to early spring affect the...
Lijun Wang, Wanxiang Lu, Lingyu Ran, Liwen Dou et al.
The secondary cell wall is an important carbon sink in higher plants and its biosynthesis requires coordination of metabolic fluxes in the phenylpropanoid pathway. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), MYB75 and the KNOX transcription factor KNAT7 form functional complexes to regulate secondary cel...
Han Zheng, Xueqing Fu, Jin Shao, Yueli Tang et al.
High-value active ingredients in medicinal plants have attracted research attention because of their benefits for human health, such as the antimalarial artemisinin, anticardiovascular disease tanshinones, and anticancer Taxol and vinblastine. Here, we review how hormones and environmental factors p...
Lijun Wang, Lingyu Ran, Yisu Hou, Qiaoyan Tian et al.
Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are major defense phenolic compounds in the leaves of poplar (Populus spp.) in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Transcriptional regulation of PA biosynthetic genes by the MYB-basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-WD40 complexes in poplar is not still fully understood. Here, a...
Emrul Kayesh, Lingfei Shangguan, Nicholas Kibet Korir, Xin Sun et al.
Jie Xu, Yibing Yuan, Yunbi Xu, Gengyun Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Drought stress is one of the major limiting factors for maize production. With the availability of maize B73 reference genome and whole-genome resequencing of 15 maize inbreds, common variants (CV) and clustering analyses were applied to identify non-synonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) and correspo...
Abul Kalam Azad, Takayuki Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Sawa, Hajime Shibata
Programmed cell death (PCD) in petals provides a model system to study the molecular aspects of organ senescence. In this study, the very early triggering signal for PCD during the senescence process from young green buds to 14-d-old petals of Tulipa gesneriana was determined. The opening and closin...
Philippe Jeandet, Alessandro Vannozzi, Eduardo Sobarzo‐Sánchez, Md. Sahab Uddin et al.
Covering: 1976 to 2020. Although constituting a limited chemical family, phytostilbenes represent an emblematic group of molecules among natural compounds. Ever since their discovery as antifungal compounds in plants and their ascribed role in human health and disease, phytostilbenes have never ceas...
Daniel M. Vernon, Mitchell C. Tarczynski, Richard G. Jensen, Hans J. Bohnert
High levels of cyclic sugar alcohols (cyclitols) correlate with tolerance to osmotic stress in a number of plant species. A gene encoding a cyclitol biosynthesis enzyme from a halophyte, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum has been introduced into tobacco. The gene, lmt1 , encodes a myo ‐inositol O ‐methy...
Mi-Young Chung, Ujjal Kumar Nath, Julia Vrebalov, Nigel E. Gapper et al.
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that can influence gene expression via diverse mechanisms. Tomato is a fruit widely consumed for its flavor, culinary attributes, and high nutritional quality. Tomato fruit are climacteric and fleshy, and their ripening is regulated by endogen...
Md. Mominur Rahman, Kyung Eun Lee, Eun Sun Lee, Mohammad Nurul Matin et al.
Kien Huu Nguyen, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Yasuko Watanabe, Cuong Duy Tran et al.
Glutathione (GSH)-dependent detoxification mechanisms are crucial for protecting plants from the adverse effects of abiotic stresses, including drought. Plant tolerance to drought is regulated by a set of transcription factors that are considered as an integral part of signaling networks in plants. ...
Shifei Qin, Chunfen Fan, Xiaohong Li, Yi Li et al.
BACKGROUND: The recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass provided technical and economic challenges in the current biomass conversion processes. Lignin is considered as a crucial recalcitrance component in biomass utilization. An in-depth understanding of lignin biosynthesis can provide clues to ove...