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Salinity tolerance, Na⁺ exclusion and allele mining of HKT1;5 in Oryza sativa and O. glaberrima: many sources, many genes, one mechanism?

John Damien Platten, James A Egdane, Abdelbagi M Ismail BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:32 (27 February 2013)

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Thiamine modulates metabolism of the phenylpropanoid pathway leading to enhanced resistance to Plasmopara viticola in grapevine

Hatem Boubakri, Anne Poutaraud, Mohamed Ali Wahab, Celine Clayeux, Raymonde Baltenweck-Guyot, Damien Steyer, Christophe Marcic, Ahmed Mliki, Isabelle Soustre-Gacougnolle BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:31 (26 February 2013)

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Selective defoliation affects plant growth, fruit transcriptional ripening program and flavonoid metabolism in grapevine

Chiara Pastore, Sara Zenoni, Marianna Fasoli, Mario Pezzotti, Giovanni Battista Tornielli, Ilaria Filippetti BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:30 (22 February 2013)

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Differences in gene expression within a striking phenotypic mosaic Eucalyptus tree that varies in susceptibility to herbivory

Amanda Padovan, Andras Keszei, William J Foley, Carsten Külheim BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:29 (20 February 2013)

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Simon Harold BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:17 (19 February 2013)

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The differentially regulated genes TvQR1 and TvPirin of the parasitic plant Triphysaria exhibit distinctive natural allelic diversity

Quy A Ngo, Huguette Albrecht, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Ueli Grossniklaus BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:28 (18 February 2013)

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Ginger and turmeric expressed sequence tags identify signature genes for rhizome identity and development and the biosynthesis of curcuminoids, gingerols and terpenoids

Hyun Jo Koo, Eric T McDowell, Xiaoqiang Ma, Kevin A Greer, Jeremy Kapteyn, Zhengzhi Xie, Anne Descour, HyeRan Kim, Yeisoo Yu, David Kudrna, Rod A Wing, Carol A Soderlund, David R Gang BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:27 (15 February 2013)

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Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) PvTIFY orchestrates global changes in transcript profile response to jasmonate and phosphorus deficiency

Rosaura Aparicio-Fabre, Gabriel Guillén, Montserrat Loredo, Jesús Arellano, Oswaldo Valdés-López, Mario Ramírez, Luis P Íñiguez, Dario Panzeri, Bianca Castiglioni, Paola Cremonesi, Francesco Strozzi, Alessandra Stella, Lourdes Girard, Francesca Sparvoli, Georgina Hernández BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:26 (13 February 2013)

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Genetic structure in cultivated grapevines is linked to geography and human selection

Roberto Bacilieri, Thierry Lacombe, Loïc Le Cunff, Manuel Di Vecchi-Staraz, Valérie Laucou, Blaise Genna, Jean-Pierre Péros, Patrice This, Jean-Michel Boursiquot BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:25 (8 February 2013)

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Large-scale proteomic analysis of the grapevine leaf apoplastic fluid reveals mainly stress-related proteins and cell wall modifying enzymes

Bertrand Delaunois, Thomas Colby, Nicolas Belloy, Alexandra Conreux, Anne Harzen, Fabienne Baillieul, Christophe Clément, Jürgen Schmidt, Philippe Jeandet, Sylvain Cordelier BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:24 (8 February 2013)

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Sulphur limitation provokes physiological and leaf proteome changes in oilseed rape that lead to perturbation of sulphur, carbon and oxidative metabolisms

Philippe D’Hooghe, Sacha Escamez, Jacques Trouverie, Jean-Christophe Avice BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:23 (7 February 2013)

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Plant breeding can be made more efficient by having fewer, better crosses

John R Witcombe, Sanjaya Gyawali, Madhu Subedi, Daljit S Virk, Krishna D Joshi BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:22 (7 February 2013)

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GmGBP1, a homolog of human ski interacting protein in soybean, regulates flowering and stress tolerance in Arabidopsis

Yanwei Zhang, Lin Zhao, Haiyan Li, Yang Gao, Yongguang Li, Xiaoxia Wu, Weili Teng, Yingpeng Han, Xue Zhao, Wenbin Li BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:21 (6 February 2013)

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Methodology article  

Single-cell-based system to monitor carrier driven cellular auxin homeostasis

Elke Barbez, Martina Laňková, Markéta Pařezová, Alexis Maizel, Eva Zažímalová, Jan Petrášek, Jiří Friml, Jürgen Kleine-Vehn BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:20 (4 February 2013)

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Transcriptome analysis of embryo maturation in maize

Keat Thomas Teoh, Deborah Vicuna Requesens, Shivakumar P Devaiah, Daniel Johnson, Xiuzhen Huang, John A Howard, Elizabeth E Hood BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:19 (4 February 2013)

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Cloning and characterization of two Argonaute genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Fanrong Meng, Haiying Jia, Na Ling, Yinlei Xue, Hao Liu, Ketao Wang, Jun Yin, Yongchun Li BMC Plant Biology 2013, 13:18 (4 February 2013)

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