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BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:67Soybeans resist nematode attack
Expression of Arabidopsis PAD4 (PHYTOALEXIN-DEFICIENT4) in soybean roots confers resistance to two different genera of nematodes, highlighting a potential role for defense signaling genes in quantitative disease resistance in this economically important crop.
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BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:39Genetics through the grapevine
Evaluating the genetic diversity and population structure among wild, domesticated, and hybrid grape cultivars using microsatellite and SNP markers in a large germplasm collection reveals consistent inter- and intraspecific levels of germplasm stratification with four ancestral subpopulations.
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BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:29Uncovering a mosaic species
Leaves displaying marked variation in herbivore defence from a single phenotypically mosaic Eucalyptus tree reveal many genes that are differentially expressed between the two chemotypes, and evidence of a genetic ‘master switch’ controlling these traits.
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:245Systems biology resources for maize
The OPTIMAS Data Warehouse (OPTIMAS-DW) is a comprehensive collection of data for maize, integrating data from different domains such as transcriptomics, metabolomics, ionomics, proteomics and phenomics, and particularly supports systems biological research
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BMC Plant Biology 2012, 12:232Root growth in zero gravity
Arabidopsis plants grown in the absence of gravity exhibit the same root growth morphology as controls grown on earth, indicating that their characteristic skewing and waving patterns are a gravity independent phenomenon.
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