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BMC Plant Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional and developmental aspects of plants. BMC Plant Biology (ISSN 1471-2229) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.



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Credit: USDA
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:20
A new online tool identifies candidate cis-regulatory elements associated with the promoter regions of user specified rice genes by finding statistically overrepresented and conserved regulatory sequences.
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:10
Variation in pollen allergenicity between different olive cultivars is linked to sequence polymorphisms in the pollen gene Ole e 1, suggesting that varietal origin of olive pollen is a major factor driving diversity in this gene.
Credit: Engelmann et al.
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:4
Multiple cis-regulatory elements in the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) promoter of Flaveria trinervia enhance mesophyll-specific PEPC expression in leaves and provides an insight into the molecular changes responsible for this PEPC expression pattern, characteristic of C4 plants.


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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:58 (16May2008)
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Insight into the early steps of root hair formation revealed by the procuste1 cellulose synthase mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana
Sunil K Singh, Urs Fischer, Manoj Kumar, Markus Grebe, Alan Marchant
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:57 (16May2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:56 (16May2008)
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Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers and their application for diversity assessment in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:55 (15May2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:54 (13May2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:53 (12May2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:51 (30April2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:50 (30April2008)
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:49 (28April2008)
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