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Life Sciences
Plant Genetics and Genomics
**fu Fu
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Cultivar-Dependent Cadmium Uptake and Translocation of Water Spinach and Its Stability
There exists great difference in Cd accumulation among different species and even cultivars within the same species. This makes it possible to select and breed low-Cd cultivars in order to reduce Cd intake by ...
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A Decisive Role of Roots on Shoot Cd Accumulation of Water Spinach
People are more concerned about shoot Cd concentrations as it is closely related to food safety and human health (Yu et al. 2006; Zhu et al. 2007; Liu et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2009; **n et al. 2010). However, ...
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Subcellular and Chemical Mechanisms Affecting the Cultivar-Dependent Cd Accumulation of Water Spinach
In recent years, lots of studies have proved that Cd pollution can cause damage to plant growth and physiological metabolism (Shahid et al. 2017). Toxic effect of Cd is related to its accumulation from plant r...
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Differences of Cd-Induced Gene Expressions Between Low- and High-Cd Accumulating Cultivars of Water Spinach: A Case Using Suppression Subtractive Hybridization (SSH) Method
Two Cd-PSCs of water spinach were selected in order to reduce Cd content entering into food chain. The mechanisms of the cultivar-dependent Cd accumulation are worth studying. Various methods, such as differen...
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Perspectives on the Marker-Assisted Breeding of the Cd-PSCs
Crop breeding aims to obtain the novel crop cultivars with specific quality and quantity characteristics to meet the economic and safety production requirements. The breeding methods gradually evolved from the...
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Breeding of New Cultivar of Water Spinach with Low Shoot Cd and Pb Accumulations
Selection and breeding of pollution-safe cultivar (PSC) has been considered as a practical method for minimizing the concentrations of heavy metals in crops. Six generations of P1, F1, P2, B1, B2 and F2 from Q...
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Comparative Transcriptome and MicroRNAs Analyses Between Low- and High-Cd Accumulating Cultivars of Water Spinach
In this chapter, the transcriptome and microRNAs analyses between low Cd cultivar (QLQ) and the high Cd cultivar (T308) of .water spinach were focused under 5 mg/L Cd treatment. Higher levels of cell wall bios...
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Genetic Transformation and Transgenics of Jatropha curcas, a Biofuel Plant
Jatropha curcas is considered as a potential biodiesel feedstock plant. To date, however, it remains a semi-wild species. Transgenic modification is one of the most effective and rapid approaches to accelerate i...
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A Molecular View of Flax Gene Pool
Understanding a crop gene pool is essential for plant breeding, germplasm conservation, and evolutionary research. Currently, more than 40,000 flax accessions representing 54 Linum species are conserved in 81 gen...
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Fatty Acid Biosynthesis and Triacylglycerol Accumulation in the Biofuel Plant Jatropha curcas
Jatropha curcas L. is recognized as one of the most promising biofuel plants because of the high oil content and the good oil composition in its seeds. Previous studies have established our understanding of the ...
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Epigenetic Reprogramming During Plant Reproduction
Epigenetics is the study of heritable change in gene expression state that is independent of DNA sequence variation. Such change can occur through DNA methylation or posttranscriptional modifications of histon...
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Genetic Erosion Under Modern Plant Breeding: Case Studies in Canadian Crop Gene Pools
There is long-standing concern that modern plant breeding reduces crop genetic diversity. Such reduction may have consequences both for the vulnerability of crops to biotic and abiotic stress. To understand th...
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) refers to the physical process of the spin splitting of nucleus with nonzero magnetic moment under the applied magnetic field and the resonant absorption of radiofrequency (RF)...
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Plant Immunophilins: A Protein Family with Diverse Functions Beyond Protein Folding Activity
Immunophilins were discovered as cellular receptors for immunosuppressive drugs: cyclosporine A and FK506. Cyclophilins (CYPs, receptors for cyclosporine A) and FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs, receptors for FK5...
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Signaling to the Cytoskeleton in Diffuse Cell Growth
Non-mobile plant cells must expand to achieve its final shape. Polarized diffuse growth is a common mode of cell expansion adopted by most plant cells, in which cell membrane expansion occurs throughout the en...
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Perspective on Phytoremediation for Improving Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils
Heavy metal pollution of soil is a significant environmental problem and has its negative potential impact on human health and agriculture. Phytoremediation strategies with appropriate heavy metal-adapted rhiz...
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Studies on Autophagy Machinery in Magnaporthe oryzae
The pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, has emerged as a model system for dissecting fungal-plant interactions. Considerable progress has been made in identifying genes necessary for the regulation of pre- and...
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Genomic Imprinting in Arabidopsis thaliana and Zea mays
Genomic imprinting is the differential expression of paternal and maternal alleles. In plants, gene imprinting occurs in the endosperm and has not been found in the embryo or adult plants. Imprinting can ...
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Poster Summaries
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Activation of Homocitrate Ligand of Femo-Cofactor as Mimicked by the Coordination of Homocitrato and its Homologues
