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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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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.
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.
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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CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES5 functions in cell wall biogenesis and trichome development Ginger Brininstool, Remmy Kasili, L. Alice Simmons, Viktor Kirik, Martin Huelskamp, John C. Larkin BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :58 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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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 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Complementation of a Phycocyanin-Bilin Lyase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a Nucleomorph-Encoded Open Reading Frame from the Cryptophyte Guillardia theta Kathrin Bolte, Oliver Kawach, Julia Prechtl, Nicole Gruenheit, Julius Nyalwidhe, Uwe -G Maier BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :56 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers and their application for diversity assessment in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) Luu M Cuc, Emma S Mace, Jonathan H Crouch, Vu D Quang, Tran D Long, Rajeev K Varshney BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :55 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Control of trichome branching by Chromatin Assembly Factor-1 Vivien Exner, Wilhelm Gruissem, Lars Hennig BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :54 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparative expression profiling in grape (Vitis vinifera) berries derived from frequency analysis of ESTs and MPSS signatures Alberto Iandolino, Kan Nobuta, Francisco Goes da Silva, Douglas R Cook, Blake C Meyers BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :53 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A flax fibre proteome: identification of proteins enriched in bast fibres Naomi SC Hotte, Michael K Deyholos BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :52 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Development of new genomic microsatellite markers from robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner) showing broad cross-species transferability and utility in genetic studies Prasad SURESH Hendre, Regur Phanindranath, V. Annapurna, Albert Lalremruata, Ramesh K. Aggarwal BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :51 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Cupin: A Candidate Molecular Structure for the NEP1-like
Protein Family
Adelmo L. Cechin, Marialva Sinigaglia, Ney Lemke, Sergio Echeverrigaray, Odalys G. Cabrera, Goncalo A. G. Pereira, Jose C. M. Mombach BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :50 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The SNF1-type serine-threonine protein kinase SAPK4 regulates stress-responsive gene expression in rice Calliste J Di BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :49 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ]
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AFLP analysis reveals a lack of phylogenetic structure within Solanum section Petota Mirjam M.J. Jacobs, Ronald G. van den Berg, Vivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, Marcel Visser, Rolf Mank, Marielle Sengers, Roel Hoekstra, Ben Vosman BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :145 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Oldest record of Trimeniaceae from the Early Cretaceous of northern Japan Toshihiro Yamada, Harufumi Nishida, Masayoshi Umebayashi, Kazuhiko Uemura, Masahiro Kato BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :135 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The importance of chemosensory clues in Aguaruna tree classification and identification
Kevin A. Jernigan Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2008, 4 :12 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genetic diversity and silencing suppression effects of Rice yellow mottle virus and the P1 protein Christelle Sire, Martine Bangratz-Reyser, Denis Fargette, Christophe Brugidou Virology Journal 2008, 5 :55 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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High quality metabolomic data for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Do Yup Lee, Oliver Fiehn Plant Methods 2008, 4 :7 (28 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phylogenetic and comparative gene expression analysis of barley (Hordeum vulgare) WRKY transcription factor family reveals putatively retained functions between monocots and dicots Elke Mangelsen, Joachim Kilian, Kenneth W Berendzen, Uener H Kolukisaoglu, Klaus Harter, Christer Jansson, Dierk Wanke BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :194 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Enhanced catharanthine and vindoline production in suspension cultures of Catharanthus roseus by ultraviolet-B light Shilpa Ramani, Chelliah Jayabaskaran Journal of Molecular Signaling 2008, 3 :9 (25 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evidence of a chimeric genome in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids Jeferson Gross, J BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :117 (23 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypium reveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution Lex Flagel, Joshua Udall, Dan Nettleton, Jonathan Wendel BMC Biology 2008, 6 :16 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Novel and nodulation-regulated microRNAs in soybean roots Senthil Subramanian, Yan Fu, Ramanjulu Sunkar, W Brad Barbazuk, Jian-Kang Zhu, Oliver Yu BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :160 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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