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BMC Plant Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of plant biology, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research.
BMC Plant Biology (ISSN 1471-2229) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Agricola, FSTA, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :9
Tracking the transcriptome as a wheat cultivar fights off infection by rust fungus, and comparing to a similar study in which the same cultivar succombs to a different fungal pathotype, identifies candidate disease resistance genes upregulated only during incompatible interactions.
BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :148
The economically important bud-flowering variety of Calluna vulgaris has two whorls of colored sepals instead of petals, and an absence of stamens which cannot be explained by modified spatial expression of known organ identity genes.
BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :135
Tvr1, a gene that confers resistance to the disease dieback in iceberg lettuces, has a closely linked EST marker with SNP polymorphisms that define 3 resistant and 1 susceptible haplotype, paving the way for developing other resistant cultivars.
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Identification of genes associated with growth cessation and bud dormancy entrance using a dormancy-incapable tree mutant Sergio Jimenez, Zhigang Li, Gregory L Reighard, Douglas G Bielenberg BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :25 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Analysis of gene expression in response to water deficit of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties differing in drought tolerance Deepti Jain, Debasis Chattopadhyay BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :24 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Can differences in phosphorus uptake kinetics explain the distribution of cattail and sawgrass in the Florida Everglades? Hans Brix, Bent Lorenzen, Irving A Mendelssohn, Karen L McKee, ShiLi Miao BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :23 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The origin of populations of Arabidopsis thaliana in China, based on the chloroplast DNA sequences Ping Yin, Juqing Kang, Fei He, Li-Jia Qu, Hongya Gu BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :22 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Identification and characterisation of CYP75A31, a new flavonoid 3'5'-hydroxylase, isolated from Solanum lycopersicum. Kristine M Olsen, Alain Hehn, Helene Jugde, Rune Slimestad, Romain Larbat, Frederic Bourgaud, Cathrine Lillo BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :21 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The Arabidopsis pop2-1 mutant reveals the involvement of GABA transaminase in salt stress tolerance Hugues Renault, Valerie Roussel, Abdelhak El Amrani, Matthieu Arzel, David Renault, Alain Bouchereau, Carole Deleu BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :20 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Factors influencing the production of stilbenes by the knotweed, Reynoutria xbohemica Marcela Kovarova, Kristyna Bartunkova, Tomas Frantik, Helena Koblihova, Katerina Prchalova, Miroslav Vosatka BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :19 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification and functional characterisation of the promoter of the calcium sensor gene CBL1 from the xerophyte Ammopiptanthus mongolicus Lili Guo, Yanhua Yu, XinLi Xia, Weilun Yin BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :18 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A SSR-based composite genetic linkage map for the cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) genome Yanbin Hong, Xiaoping Chen, Xuanqiang Liang, Haiyan Liu, Guiyuan Zhou, Shaoxiong Li, Shijie Wen, C Corley Holbrook, Baozhu Guo BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :17 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transcriptional regulatory network triggered by oxidative signals configures the early response mechanisms of japonica rice to chilling stress Kil-Young Yun, Myoung Ryoul Park, Bijayalaxmi Mohanty, Venura Herath, Fuyu Xu, Ramil Mauleon, Edward Wijaya, Vladimir B Bajic, Richard Bruskiewich, Benildo G de los Reyes BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :16 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Proteomic analysis of the metabolic adaptation of the biocontrol agent Pseudozyma flocculosa leading to glycolipid production Walid Hammami, Florian Chain, Dominique Michaud, Richard R Belanger Proteome Science 2010, 8 :7 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Stone formation in peach fruit exhibits spatial coordination of the lignin and flavonoid pathways and similarity to Arabidopsis dehiscence Chris D Dardick, Ann M Callahan, Remo Chiozzotto, Robert J Schaffer, M Claudia Piagnani, Ralph Scorza BMC Biology 2010, 8 :13 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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An effective approach for identification of in vivo protein-DNA binding sites from paired-end ChIP-Seq data Congmao Wang, Jie Xu, Dasheng Zhang, Zoe A Wilson, Dabing Zhang BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11 :81 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Genome-wide analysis of rice ClpB/HSP100, ClpC and ClpD genes Amanjot Singh, Upasana Singh, Dheeraj Mittal, Anil Grover BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :95 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Development of a EST dataset and characterization of EST-SSRs in a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, Epimedium sagittatum (Sieb. Et Zucc.) Maxim Shaohua Zeng, Gong Xiao, Juan Guo, Zhangjun Fei, Yanqin Xu, Bruce A Roe, Ying Wang BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :94 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparative transcriptome analysis coupled to X-ray CT reveals sucrose supply and growth velocity as major determinants of potato tuber starch biosynthesis Stephanus J Ferreira, Melanie Senning, Sophia Sonnewald, Petra-Maria KeSZling, Ralf Goldstein, Uwe Sonnewald BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :93 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Low level of polymorphism in two putative NPR1 homologs in the Vitaceae family Karine Bergeault, Christophe Bertsch, Didier Merdinoglu, Bernard Walter Biology Direct 2010, 5 :9 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Dealing with the problem of non-specific in situ mRNA hybridization signals associated with plant tissues undergoing programmed cell death Jaana Vuosku, Suvi Sutela, Mira Saaskilahti, Johanna Kestila, Anne Jokela, Tytti Sarjala, Hely Haggman Plant Methods 2010, 6 :7 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Genomic and small RNA sequencing of Miscanthus x giganteus shows the utility of sorghum as a reference genome sequence for Andropogoneae grasses Kankshita Swaminathan, Magdy Alabady, Kranthi Varala, Emanuele De Paoli, Isaac Ho, Dan S Rokhsar, Aru K Arumuganathan, Ray Ming, Pamela J Green, Blake C Meyers, Stephen P Moose, Matthew E Hudson Genome Biology 2010, 11 :R12 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Inhibition of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) using whey proteins Ashraf M Abdelbacki, Soad H Taha, Mahmoud I Sitohy, Abdelgawad Z Abou Dawood, Mahmoud M Abd-El Hamid, Adel A Rezk Virology Journal 2010, 7 :26 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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