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BMC Plant Biology, Volume 8

 
Research article
Arabidopsis eIF2 kinase GCN2 is essential for growth in stress conditions and is activated by wounding
Sbastien Lageix, Elodie Lanet, Marie-Nolle Pouch-Plissier, Marie-Claude Espagnol, Christophe Robaglia, Jean-Marc Deragon, Thierry Plissier
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:134 (24December2008)
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Research article
The lipoxygenase gene family: a genomic fossil of shared polyploidy between Glycine max and Medicago truncatula
Jin Hee Shin, Kyujung Van, Dong Hyun Kim, Kyung Do Kim, Young Eun Jang, Beom-Soon Choi, Moon Young Kim, Suk-Ha Lee
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:133 (23December2008)
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Research article
Elicitor-induced transcription factors for metabolic reprogramming of secondary metabolism in Medicago truncatula
Marina A Naoumkina, XianZhi He, Richard A Dixon
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:132 (22December2008)
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Research article
Selection of internal control genes for quantitative real-time RT-PCR studies during tomato development process
Marino Expsito-Rodrguez, Andrs A Borges, Andrs Borges-Prez, Jos A Prez
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:131 (22December2008)
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Research article
A clarified position for solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme in the evolutionary history of tomatoes (solanaceae)
Nicolas Ranc, Stphane Muos, Sylvain Santoni, Mathilde Causse
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:130 (20December2008)
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Research article
Defence reactions in the apoplastic proteome of oilseed rape (Brassica napus var. napus) attenuate Verticillium longisporum growth but not disease symptoms
Saskia Floerl, Christine Druebert, Andrzej Majcherczyk, Petr Karlovsky, Ursula Kes, Andrea Polle
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:129 (18December2008)
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Research article
A SNP transferability survey within the genus Vitis
Silvia Vezzulli, Diego Micheletti, Summaira Riaz, Massimo Pindo, Roberto Viola, Patrice This, M Andrew Walker, Michela Troggio, Riccardo Velasco
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:128 (16December2008)
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Research article
A set of microsatellite markers with long core repeat optimized for grape (Vitis spp.) genotyping
Guido Cipriani, Maria Teresa Marrazzo, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Antonella Pfeiffer, Michele Morgante, Raffaele Testolin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:127 (16December2008)
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Research article
The effects of nitrogen and potassium nutrition on the growth of nonembryogenic and embryogenic tissue of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck)
Randall P Niedz, Terence J Evens
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:126 (16December2008)
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Research article
ESKIMO1 is a key gene involved in water economy as well as cold acclimation and salt tolerance
Oumaya Bouchabke-Coussa, Marie-Luce Quashie, Jose Seoane-Redondo, Marie-Noelle Fortabat, Carine Gery, Agnes Yu, Daphn Linderme, Jacques Trouverie, Fabienne Granier, Evelyne Toul, Mylne Durand-Tardif
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:125 (7December2008)
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Research article
A putative autonomous 20.5 kb-CACTA transposon insertion in an F3'H allele identifies a new CACTA transposon subfamily in Glycine max
Gracia Zabala, Lila Vodkin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:124 (2December2008)
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Research article
Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel miRNAs expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice
Sverine Lacombe, Hiroshi Nagasaki, Carole Santi, David Duval, Benot Pigu, Martine Bangratz, Jean-Christophe Breitler, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Christophe Brugidou, Judith Hirsch, Xiaofeng Cao, Claire Brice, Olivier Panaud, Wojciech M Karlowski, Yutaka Sato, Manuel Echeverria
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:123 (2December2008)
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Research article
Transcript profiles uncover temporal and stress-induced changes of metabolic pathways in germinating sugar beet seeds
Elena Pestsova, Juliane Meinhard, Andreas Menze, Uwe Fischer, Andrea Windhvel, Peter Westhoff
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:122 (1December2008)
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Research article
The MYST histone acetyltransferases are essential for gametophyte development in Arabidopsis
David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed, Yves Henry, Sverine Domenichini, Wanhui Kim, Dao-Xiu Zhou, Marianne Delarue
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:121 (28November2008)
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Research article
Arabidopsis At5g39790 encodes a chloroplast-localized, carbohydrate-binding, coiled-coil domain-containing putative scaffold protein
Elke M Lohmeier-Vogel, David Kerk, Mhairi Nimick, Susan Wrobel, Lori Vickerman, Douglas G Muench, Greg BG Moorhead
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:120 (27November2008)
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Research article
Development and mapping of Simple Sequence Repeat markers for pearl millet from data mining of Expressed Sequence Tags
S Senthilvel, B Jayashree, V Mahalakshmi, P Sathish Kumar, S Nakka, T Nepolean, CT Hash
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:119 (27November2008)
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Database
RICD: A rice indica cDNA database resource for rice functional genomics
Tingting Lu, Xuehui Huang, Chuanrang Zhu, Tao Huang, Qiang Zhao, Kabing Xie, Lizhong Xiong, Qifa Zhang, Bin Han
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:118 (26November2008)
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Research article
Morphological and molecular characterization of a spontaneously tuberizing potato mutant: an insight into the regulatory mechanisms of tuber induction
Lukas Fischer, Helena Lipavska, Jean-Francois Hausman, Zdenek Opatrny
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:117 (21November2008)
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Research article
Assessment of allelic diversity in intron-containing Mal d 1 genes and their association to apple allergenicity
Zhongshan Gao, Eric W van de Weg, Catarina I Matos, Paul Arens, Suzanne THP Bolhaar, Andre C Knulst, Yinghui Li, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Luud JWJ Gilissen
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:116 (13November2008)
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Research article
Large-scale collection and annotation of full-length enriched cDNAs from a model halophyte, Thellungiella halophila
Teruaki Taji, Tetsuya Sakurai, Keiichi Mochida, Atsushi Ishiwata, Atsushi Kurotani, Yasushi Totoki, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Motoaki Seki, Hirokazu Ono, Yoichi Sakata, Shigeo Tanaka, Kazuo Shinozaki
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:115 (12November2008)
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Research article
Transcriptomic profiling of mature embryo from an elite super-hybrid rice LYP9 and its parental lines
Xiaomeng Ge, Weihua Chen, Shuhui Song, Weiwei Wang, Songnian Hu, Jun Yu
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:114 (11November2008)
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Research article
Systemic resistance and lipoxygenase-related defence response induced in tomato by Pseudomonas putida strain BTP1
Adam Akram, Marc Ongena, Francline Duby, Jacques Dommes, Philippe Thonart
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:113 (10November2008)
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Research article
Exploring valid reference genes for gene expression studies in Brachypodium distachyon by real-time PCR
Shin-Young Hong, Pil Joon Seo, Moon-Sik Yang, Fengning Xiang, Chung-Mo Park
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:112 (7November2008)
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Research article
Molecular population genetics and gene expression analysis of duplicated CBF genes of Arabidopsis thaliana
Yen-Heng Lin, Shih-Ying Hwang, Po-Yen Hsu, Yu-Chung Chiang, Chun-Lin Huang, Chun-Neng Wang, Tsan-Piao Lin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:111 (7November2008)
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Research article
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of super-embryogenic Medicago truncatula explant cultures
Nijat Imin, Nicolas Goffard, Mahira Nizamidin, Barry G Rolfe
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:110 (27October2008)
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Research article
Host-plant-mediated effects of Nadefensin on herbivore and pathogen resistance in Nicotiana attenuata
Cbgowda Rayapuram, Ian T Baldwin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:109 (25October2008)
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Research article
RACK1 genes regulate plant development with unequal genetic redundancy in Arabidopsis
Jianjun Guo, Jin-Gui Chen
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:108 (23October2008)
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Research article
A novel screening protocol for the isolation of hydrogen producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strains
Thilo Rhle, Anja Hemschemeier, Anastasios Melis, Thomas Happe
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:107 (17October2008)
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Research article
Genetic structure, diversity, and allelic richness in composite collection and reference set in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Hari D Upadhyaya, Sangam L Dwivedi, Michael Baum, Rajeev K Varshney, Sripada M Udupa, Cholenahalli LL Gowda, David Hoisington, Sube Singh
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:106 (16October2008)
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Research article
Natural variation in CBF gene sequence, gene expression and freezing tolerance in the Versailles core collection of Arabidopsis thaliana
Heather I McKhann, Carine Gery, Aurlie Brard, Sylvie Lvque, Ellen Zuther, Dirk K Hincha, S De Mita, Dominique Brunel, Evelyne Toul
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:105 (15October2008)
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Research article
Identification, cloning and characterization of sis7 and sis10 sugar-insensitive mutants of Arabidopsis
Yadong Huang, Chun Yao Li, Kelly D Biddle, Susan I Gibson
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:104 (14October2008)
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Methodology article
Applying genotyping (TILLING) and phenotyping analyses to elucidate gene function in a chemically induced sorghum mutant population
Zhanguo Xin, Ming Li Wang, Noelle A Barkley, Gloria Burow, Cleve Franks, Gary Pederson, John Burke
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:103 (14October2008)
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Research article
Transgenic rice expressing Allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL) exhibits high-level resistance against major sap-sucking pests
Bharathi Yarasi, Vijayakumar Sadumpati, China Pasalu Immanni, Dasavantha Reddy Vudem, Venkateswara Rao Khareedu
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:102 (14October2008)
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Database
Pepper EST database: comprehensive in silico tool for analyzing the chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) transcriptome
Hyun-Jin Kim, Kwang-Hyun Baek, Seung-Won Lee, JungEun Kim, Bong-Woo Lee, Hye-Sun Cho, Woo Taek Kim, Doil Choi, Cheol-Goo Hur
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:101 (9October2008)
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Research article
RNAi-directed downregulation of OsBADH2 results in aroma (2-acetyl-1-pyrroline) production in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Xiangli Niu, Wei Tang, Weizao Huang, Guangjun Ren, Qilin Wang, Di Luo, Yingyong Xiao, Shimei Yang, Feng Wang, Bao-Rong Lu, Fangyuan Gao, Tiegang Lu, Yongsheng Liu
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:100 (8October2008)
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Research article
Regulon organization of Arabidopsis
Wieslawa I Mentzen, Eve Syrkin Wurtele
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:99 (30September2008)
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Research article
Cloning, characterisation and comparative analysis of a starch synthase IV gene in wheat: functional and evolutionary implications
Marina Leterrier, Lynn D Holappa, Karen E Broglie, Diane M Beckles
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:98 (30September2008)
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Research article
Transferability and polymorphism of barley EST-SSR markers used for phylogenetic analysis in Hordeum chilense
Almudena Castillo, Hikmet Budak, Rajeev K Varshney, Gabriel Dorado, Andreas Graner, Pilar Hernandez
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:97 (28September2008)
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Research article
Overlapping functions of the starch synthases SSII and SSIII in amylopectin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis
Xiaoli Zhang, Nicolas Szydlowski, David Delvall, Christophe D'Hulst, Martha G James, Alan M Myers
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:96 (23September2008)
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Research article
A first survey of the rye (Secale cereale) genome composition through BAC end sequencing of the short arm of chromosome 1R
Jan Barto, Etienne Paux, Robert Kofler, Miroslava Havrnkov, David Kopeck, Pavla Suchnkov, Jan af, Hana imkov, Christopher D Town, Tamas Lelley, Catherine Feuillet, Jaroslav Doleel
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:95 (19September2008)
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Research article
A new picture of cell wall protein dynamics in elongating cells of Arabidopsis thaliana: Confirmed actors and newcomers
Muhammad Irshad, Herv Canut, Gisle Borderies, Rafael Pont-Lezica, Elisabeth Jamet
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:94 (16September2008)
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Research article
Small RNA regulation of ovule development in the cotton plant, G. hirsutum L
Ibrokhim Y Abdurakhmonov, Eric J Devor, Zabardast T Buriev, Lingyan Huang, Abdusalom Makamov, Shukhrat E Shermatov, Tohir Bozorov, Fakhriddin N Kushanov, Gafurjon T Mavlonov, Abdusattor Abdukarimov
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:93 (16September2008)
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Research article
Natural variation in DNA methylation in ribosomal RNA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana
Hye Ryun Woo, Eric J Richards
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:92 (10September2008)
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Research article
Transcriptional profiling of pea ABR17 mediated changes in gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Sowmya S Krishnaswamy, Sanjeeva Srivastava, Mohsen Mohammadi, Muhammad H Rahman, Michael K Deyholos, Nat NV Kav
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:91 (10September2008)
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Research article
Survey of extrachromosomal circular DNA derived from plant satellite repeats
Alice Navrtilov, Andrea Koblkov, Ji Macas
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:90 (22August2008)
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Research article
Physiological and molecular characterization of aluminum resistance in Medicago truncatula
Divya Chandran, Natasha Sharopova, Kathryn A VandenBosch, David F Garvin, Deborah A Samac
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:89 (19August2008)
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Research article
Relationship between homoeologous regulatory and structural genes in allopolyploid genome A case study in bread wheat
Elena K Khlestkina, Marion S Rder, Elena A Salina
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:88 (13August2008)
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Research article
Transcriptional responses of Arabidopsis thaliana plants to As (V) stress
Jason M Abercrombie, Matthew D Halfhill, Priya Ranjan, Murali R Rao, Arnold M Saxton, Joshua S Yuan, C Neal Stewart Jr
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:87 (6August2008)
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Research article
The plant Apolipoprotein D ortholog protects Arabidopsis against oxidative stress
Jean-Benoit F Charron, Francois Ouellet, Mario Houde, Fathey Sarhan
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:86 (31July2008)
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Research article
Plant-like substitutions in the large-subunit carboxy terminus of Chlamydomonas Rubisco increase CO2/O2 Specificity
Sriram Satagopan, Robert J Spreitzer
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:85 (30July2008)
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Research article
Genomic and expression analysis of glycosyl hydrolase family 35 genes from rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Waraporn Tanthanuch, Mallika Chantarangsee, Janjira Maneesan, James Ketudat-Cairns
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:84 (30July2008)
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Research article
Analysis of the grape MYB R2R3 subfamily reveals expanded wine quality-related clades and conserved gene structure organization across Vitis and Arabidopsis genomes
Jos Toms Matus, Felipe Aquea, Patricio Arce-Johnson
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:83 (22July2008)
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Software
LAMINA: a tool for rapid quantification of leaf size and shape parameters
Max Bylesj, Vincent Segura, Raju Y Soolanayakanahally, Anne M Rae, Johan Trygg, Petter Gustafsson, Stefan Jansson, Nathaniel R Street
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:82 (22July2008)
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Research article
Comprehensive analysis of single-repeat R3 MYB proteins in epidermal cell patterning and their transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis
Shucai Wang, Leah Hubbard, Ying Chang, Jianjun Guo, John Schiefelbein, Jin-Gui Chen
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:81 (21July2008)
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Research article
Quantitative analysis of changes in actin microfilament contribution to cell plate development in plant cytokinesis
Takumi Higaki, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Toshio Sano, Seiichiro Hasezawa
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:80 (17July2008)
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Research article
Correlation between amino acid residues converted by RNA editing and functional residues in protein three-dimensional structures in plant organelles
Kei Yura, Mitiko Go
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:79 (16July2008)
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Research article
Variation in DNA methylation patterns of grapevine somaclones (Vitis vinifera L.)
Paul Schellenbaum, Volker Mohler, Gerhard Wenzel, Bernard Walter
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:78 (15July2008)
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Research article
The Arabidopsis thaliana response regulator ARR22 is a putative AHP phospho-histidine phosphatase expressed in the chalaza of developing seeds
Jakub Hork, Christopher Grefen, Kenneth W Berendzen, Achim Hahn, York-Dieter Stierhof, Bettina Stadelhofer, Mark Stahl, Csaba Koncz, Klaus Harter
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:77 (15July2008)
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Research article
Articulation of three core metabolic processes in Arabidopsis: Fatty acid biosynthesis, leucine catabolism and starch metabolism
Wieslawa I Mentzen, Jianling Peng, Nick Ransom, Basil J Nikolau, Eve Syrkin Wurtele
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:76 (11July2008)
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Research article
Vv-AMP1, a ripening induced peptide from Vitis vinifera shows strong antifungal activity
Abr de Beer, Melan A Vivier
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:75 (8July2008)
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Research article
Head-neck domain of Arabidopsis myosin XI, MYA2, fused with GFP produces F-actin patterns that coincide with fast organelle streaming in different plant cells
Nadine Walter, Carola L Holweg
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:74 (3July2008)
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Research article
Transcriptional profiling of the pea shoot apical meristem reveals processes underlying its function and maintenance
Chui E Wong, Prem L Bhalla, Harald Ottenhof, Mohan B Singh
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:73 (30June2008)
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Database
TriMEDB: A database to integrate transcribed markers and facilitate genetic studies of the tribe Triticeae
Keiichi Mochida, Daisuke Saisho, Takuhiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Sakurai, Kazuo Shinozaki
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:72 (30June2008)
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Research article
Expression of cell wall related genes in basal and ear internodes of silking brown-midrib-3, caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) down-regulated, and normal maize plants
Sabine Guillaumie, Deborah Goffner, Odile Barbier, Jean-Pierre Martinant, Magalie Pichon, Yves Barrire
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:71 (26June2008)
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Research article
Complete nucleotide sequence of the Cryptomeria japonica D. Don. chloroplast genome and comparative chloroplast genomics: diversified genomic structure of coniferous species
Tomonori Hirao, Atsushi Watanabe, Manabu Kurita, Teiji Kondo, Katsuhiko Takata
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:70 (23June2008)
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Research article
A blackberry (Rubus L.) expressed sequence tag library for the development of simple sequence repeat markers
Kim S Lewers, Chris A Saski, Brandon J Cuthbertson, David C Henry, Meg E Staton, Dorrie S Main, Anik L Dhanaraj, Lisa J Rowland, Jeff P Tomkins
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:69 (20June2008)
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Research article
Roles of Arabidopsis WRKY3 and WRKY4 Transcription Factors in Plant Responses to Pathogens
Zhibing Lai, KM Vinod, Zuyu Zheng, Baofang Fan, Zhixiang Chen
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:68 (20June2008)
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Research article
Synteny conservation between two distantly-related Rosaceae genomes: Prunus (the stone fruits) and Fragaria (the strawberry)
Santiago Vilanova, Daniel J Sargent, Pere Ars, Amparo Monfort
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:67 (18June2008)
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Research article
A physical map of the heterozygous grapevine 'Cabernet Sauvignon' allows mapping candidate genes for disease resistance
Marco Moroldo, Sophie Paillard, Raffaella Marconi, Legeai Fabrice, Aurelie Canaguier, Corinne Cruaud, Veronique De Berardinis, Cecile Guichard, Veronique Brunaud, Isabelle Le Clainche, Simone Scalabrin, Raffaele Testolin, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Michele Morgante, Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:66 (13June2008)
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Research article
The effects of enhanced methionine synthesis on amino acid and anthocyanin content of potato tubers
Gbor Dancs, Mihly Kondrk, Zsfia Bnfalvi
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:65 (12June2008)
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Research article
Loss of the N-terminal domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase induces photodamage during greening of Arabidopsis seedlings
Akihiro Yamasato, Ryouichi Tanaka, Ayumi Tanaka
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:64 (12June2008)
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Research article
Rapid and dynamic subcellular reorganization following mechanical stimulation of Arabidopsis epidermal cells mimics responses to fungal and oomycete attack
Adrienne R Hardham, Daigo Takemoto, Rosemary G White
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:63 (2June2008)
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Research article
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) tissue culture ESTs: Identifying genes associated with callogenesis and embryogenesis
Eng-Ti L Low, Halimah Alias, Soo-Heong Boon, Elyana M Shariff, Chi-Yee A Tan, Leslie CL Ooi, Suan-Choo Cheah, Abdul-Rahim Raha, Kiew-Lian Wan, Rajinder Singh
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:62 (29May2008)
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Research article
Global expression profiling in leaves of free-growing aspen
Andreas Sjdin, Kirsten Wissel, Max Bylesj, Johan Trygg, Stefan Jansson
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:61 (23May2008)
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Research article
Pectic homogalacturonan masks abundant sets of xyloglucan epitopes in plant cell walls
Susan E Marcus, Yves Verhertbruggen, Ccile Herv, Jos J Ordaz-Ortiz, Vladimir Farkas, Henriette L Pedersen, William GT Willats, J Paul Knox
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:60 (22May2008)
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Research article
Comparative chloroplast genomics and phylogenetics of Fagopyrum esculentum ssp. ancestrale A wild ancestor of cultivated buckwheat
Maria D Logacheva, Tahir H Samigullin, Amit Dhingra, Aleksey A Penin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:59 (20May2008)
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Research article
Constitutive Expressor of Pathogenesis-Related Genes5 affects cell wall biogenesis and trichome development
Ginger Brininstool, Remmy Kasili, L Alice Simmons, Viktor Kirik, Martin Hlskamp, John C Larkin
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:58 (16May2008)
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Research article
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 Singh, Markus Grebe, Alan Marchant
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:57 (16May2008)
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