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The Plasmodesmal Protein OsGER4 is Involved in Auxin Mediated Crown Root Development in Rice
In rice (Oryza sativa L.), the root system plays different essential roles, from water and nutrient uptake to responding to environmental signals. The mechanisms underlying root development are complex and involv...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a Temperate Climate-Adapted indica Multi-stress Tolerant Rice Variety by Pyramiding Quantitative Trait Loci
Successful cultivation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in many Asian countries requires submergence stress tolerance at the germination and early establishment stages. Two quantitative trait loci, Sub1 (conferring subm...
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Influence of Climate Change on Flowering Time
Global warming affects various environmental factors, including temperature, precipitation, drought, and flooding. Temperature rise is mainly due to increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), which was increased b...
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Open AccessProteomics and Metabolomics Studies on the Biotic Stress Responses of Rice: an Update
Biotic stresses represent a serious threat to rice production to meet global food demand and thus pose a major challenge for scientists, who need to understand the intricate defense mechanisms. Proteomics and ...
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Genome-wide Identification, Expression Profiling and Promoter Analysis of Trehalose-6-Phosphate Phosphatase Gene Family in Rice
Trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP) plays a key role in trehalose metabolism in plants. Here, we performed comprehensive in silico analyses and identified 12 OsTPPs (Oryza sativa TPPs) utilizing various bioin...
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Genome-wide Analysis of Root Hair Preferred RBOH Genes Suggests that Three RBOH Genes are Associated with Auxin-mediated Root Hair Development in Rice
Plant homologs of mammalian NADPH oxidase, respiratory burst oxidase homologs (RBOH), mainly oxidize NADPH to NADP+ and transfer electrons to water. The membrane residing RBOHs thus produce reactive oxygen specie...
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Erratum to: Defense Response to Pathogens Through Epigenetic Regulation in Rice
In the original publication, a statement of equal contribution was not included. The text should read as: Trung Viet Hoang and Kieu Thi Xuan Vo contributed equally to this work.
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Roles of Sugars in Controlling Flowering Time
Flowering time is influenced by environmental factors such as photosynthesis, temperature, nutrition, and water. The main products of photosynthesis are sugars that are mobilized to sink tissues to support pla...
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Defense Response to Pathogens Through Epigenetic Regulation in Rice
Epigenetic factors have recently emerged as key regulators of the defense response to pathogens in plants. The epigenetic mechanisms underlying defense regulation have been investigated mostly in Arabidopsis, ...
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Construction and application of functional gene modules to regulatory pathways in rice
Signal transduction and transcriptional regulation pathways are key elements in the control of diverse physiological responses and agronomic traits in plants. The regulatory roles of more than 1,000 known gene...
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Enhanced resistance of PsbS-deficient rice (Oryza sativa L.) to fungal and bacterial pathogens
The 22-kDa PsbS protein of Photosystem II is involved in nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) of chlorophyll fluorescence. Genome-wide analysis of the expression pattern in PsbS knockout (KO) rice plants showed that ...
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Genetic complementation analysis of rice sucrose transporter genes in Arabidopsis SUC2 mutant atsuc2
Sucrose transporters (SUTs) play a critical role on the phloem plasma membrane in loading sucrose into the phloem of source leaves for long-distance transport to sink organs. Rice has a small gene family of fi...
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Molecular insights into the function of ankyrin proteins in plants
Ankyrin (ANK) repeat domain-containing proteins comprise one of the largest known protein superfamilies in all species including plants. Recently, several genomeanalysis studies have provided valuable informat...
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Proteomic analysis of the rice endosperm starch-deficient mutants osagps2 and osagpl2
ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) catalyzes the first committed step of starch biosynthesis in higher plants. We previously isolated two rice mutants, osagps2 and osagpl2, which have starch-deficient endosperms...
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Open AccessTranscriptome analysis of leaf and root of rice seedling to acute dehydration
Water deficiency is one of the most serious worldwide problems for agriculture. Recently, it has become more serious and outspread, which urgently requires the production of drought-tolerant plants. Microarray...
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Establishment and application of the yeast two-hybrid (Y2H)-based plant interactome for investigation of gene functions
A large amount of genomic information is currently being generated in the biological sciences; however, the postgenome era needs biological connectors to bridge between genome data and gene functions. Interact...
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OsWRKY30 is a transcription activator that enhances rice resistance to the Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae
The WRKY family proteins are transcription factors involved in the regulation of plant defense response pathways. In our present study, we characterized a rice WRKY gene, OsWRKY30 that had been previously isolate...
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Iron homeostasis and fortification in rice
Iron (Fe) is an important micronutrient used by all living organisms for proper development. A deficiency in that element causes a metabolic imbalance that is deleterious to plant growth, making it a significa...
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Genetic Variation and Evolution of the Pi9 Blast Resistance Locus in the AA Genome Oryza Species
The rice nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR)-encoding resistance (R) gene Pi9 confers broad-spectrum resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae. The Pi9 locus comprises many NBS-LRR-li...
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Web Tools for Rice Transcriptome Analyses
Gene expression databases provide profiling data for the expression of thousands of genes to researchers worldwide. Oligonucleotide microarray technology is a useful tool that has been employed to produce gene...
