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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, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :125
Nucleotide marker diversity is characterised for 270 single-copy polymorphic loci in cotton, which will be useful for manipulation and transfer of novel alleles in breeding programs to improve desirable agronomic and quality traits.
BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :104
Annotation of grapevine Vitis vinifera gene expression data using MapMan ontology to focus on selected metabolic pathways showed that the genes induced by powdery mildew infection encode pathogenesis related proteins and enzymes of flavonoid metabolism.
BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :85
Analysis of the available expressed sequence tags (ESTs) for one cultivated and two wild tomato species highlights sets of genes and polymorphisms with potential significance for the evolution and domestication of this important crop.
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Pollen development in Annona cherimola Mill. (Annonaceae). Implications for the evolution of aggregated pollen Jorge Lora, Pilar S Testillano, Maria C Risueno, Jose I Hormaza, Maria Herrero BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :129 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Computational annotation of genes differentially expressed along olive fruit development Giulio Galla, Gianni Barcaccia, Angelo Ramina, Silvio Collani, Fiammetta Alagna, Luciana Baldoni, Nicolo GM Cultrera, Federico Martinelli, Luca Sebastiani, Pietro Tonutti BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :128 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparative transcriptional survey between laser-microdissected cells from laminar abscission zone and petiolar cortical tissue during ethylene-promoted abscission in citrus leaves Javier Agust BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :127 (23 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Seed storage protein gene promoters contain conserved DNA motifs in Brassicaceae , Fabaceae and Poaceae Fran BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :126 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Sampling nucleotide diversity in cotton Allen Van Deynze, Kevin Stoffel, Mike Lee, Thea A Wilkins, Alexander Kozik, Roy G Cantrell, John Z Yu, Russel J Kohel, David M Stelly BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :125 (20 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phenolic compounds in ectomycorrhizal interaction of lignin modified silver birch Suvi Sutela, Karoliina Niemi, Jaanika Edesi, Tapio Laakso, Pekka Saranp BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :124 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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MoccaDB - an integrative database for functional, comparative and diversity studies in the Rubiaceae family Olga Plechakova, Christine Tranchant-Dubreuil, Fabrice Benedet, Marie Couderc, Alexandra Tinaut, V BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :123 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification of flowering genes in strawberry, a perennial SD plant Katriina Mouhu, Timo Hyt BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :122 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Isolation and functional characterization of cold-regulated promoters, by digitally identifying peach fruit cold-induced genes from a large EST dataset Andr BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :121 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Characterization of WRKY co-regulatory networks in rice and Arabidopsis Stefano Berri, Pamela Abbruscato, Odile Faivre-Rampant, Ana CM Brasileiro, Irene Fumasoni, Kouji Satoh, Shoshi Kikuchi, Luca Mizzi, Piero Morandini, Mario Enrico P BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :120 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Alpine ethnobotany in Italy: traditional knowledge of gastronomic and medicinal plants among the Occitans of the upper Varaita valley, Piedmont Andrea Pieroni, Maria Elena Giusti Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009, 5 :32 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Comparative analysis of plant genomes allows the definition of the Phytolongins: a novel non-SNARE longin domain protein family. Marco Vedovato, Valeria Rossi, Joel B Dacks, Francesco Filippini BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :510 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome-wide analysis reveals rapid and dynamic changes in miRNA and siRNA sequence and expression during ovule and fiber development in allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L) Mingxiong Pang, Andrew W Woodward, Vikram Agarwal, Xueying Guan, Misook Ha, Vanitharani Ramachandran, Xuemei Chen, Barbara A Triplett, David M Stelly, Z Jeffrey Chen Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R122 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Review
Advancing environmental risk assessment for transgenic biofeedstock crops Jeffrey D Wolt Biotechnology for Biofuels 2009, 2 :27 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology
An inbred line of the diploid strawberry Fragaria vesca f. semperflorens for genomic and molecular genetic studies in the Rosaceae Janet P Slovin, Kyle Schmitt, Kevin M Folta Plant Methods 2009, 5 :15 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genetic load and transgenic mitigating genes in transgenic Brassica rapa (field mustard) x Brassica napus (oilseed rape) hybrid populations Christy W Rose, Reginald J Millwood, Hong Seok Moon, Murali R Rao, Matthew D Halfill, Paul L Raymer, Suzanne I Warwick, Hani Al-Ahmad, Jonathan Gressel, C Neal Stewart Jr BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9 :93 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Cell wall biogenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana elongating cells:
transcriptomics complements proteomics Elisabeth Jamet, David Roujol, Helene San Clemente, Muhammad Irshad, Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat, Jean-Pierre Renou, Rafael Pont-Lezica BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :505 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Affinity maturation generates greatly improved xyloglucan-specific carbohydrate binding modules Laura von Schantz, Fredrika Gullfot, Sebastian Scheer, Lada Filonova, Lavinia Cicortas Gunnarsson, James E Flint, Geoffrey Daniel, Eva Nordberg-Karlsson, Harry Brumer, Mats Ohlin BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9 :92 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology
A simple, flexible and efficient PCR-fusion/Gateway cloning procedure for gene fusion, site-directed mutagenesis, short sequence insertion and domain deletions and swaps Ivan I Atanassov, Ilian I Atanassov, J Peter Etchells, Simon R Turner Plant Methods 2009, 5 :14 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ginseng leaf-stem: bioactive constituents and pharmacological functions Hongwei Wang, Dacheng Peng, Jingtian Xie Chinese Medicine 2009, 4 :20 (22 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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