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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:633D analysis for plant phenomics
A novel 3D mesh based technique developed for temporal high-throughput and high-resolution plant phenomics shows low error rates and fast processing times when assessing vegetative growth in Gossypium hirsutum.
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:62Transcriptome responses to phosphate stress
Genome-wide profiling of the response of Arabidopsis thaliana roots and shoots to phosphate starvation is the most complete study to date on plant nutrient stress and uncovers a much larger, staged response to phosphate-starvation than previously described.
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:48Induced genome instability in rice
The topoisomerase II inhibitor etoposide can induce both transgenerational genome instability and epigenetic changes in DNA methylation in a genotype-dependent manner in rice, demonstrating similar genotoxic stress in plant cells to that previously shown in animals.
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:24Pollen tube growth genes identified
Comparison of tobacco gametophyte and Arabidopsis root-hair trichoblast gene expression allows the differentiation of genes required for cell tip expansion, and those unique for pollen tube growth, enabling future transcriptome-based functional studies of these processes.
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:8Carbohydrate role in light adaptation
Perturbing leaf carbohydrate metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana causes growth retardation and a high chlorophyll fluorescence phenotype when plants are grown in high, but not low, light suggesting a role for carbohydrate metabolism in high light acclimatisation.
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