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Transcriptome of Moso Bamboo
With the development of biotechnology, transcriptome approach (RNA-Seq) has become an important means in identifying key genes. The next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) feature unprecedented lower cos...
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Characterizations and Functions of Transcription Factor Gene Families
As proteins that play important regulatory roles in vivo, transcription factors (TFs) have been extensively studied in various fields of molecular biology. TFs, such as MYB, MADS, Dof, and NAC, which have prof...
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Recent Advance on Bioactive Compounds from the Edible and Medicinal Fungi in China
Natural products and their derivatives have played a prominent role in the history of drug discovery and remain the most attractive source of potential drugs because of their structural complexity and diversit...
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Sisal/Agave
Agave species have recently emerged as potential bioenergy feedstocks that can be grown on marginal semiarid lands, creating an economic opportunity in regions where there are few agricultural comm...
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Factors Influencing Water Dynamics in Agriculture
The intensification and extension of agriculture have highly contributed to the global food production in the last five decades. However, intensification without due attention to ecosystem services and sustain...
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Studies on the Effects of N and P on the Competition of Flaveria Bidentis (L.) Kunt and Chenopodium Album (L.) Grew
In order to clarify the competition characteristics of Flaveria Bidentis, the effects of N and P on the competition of F. Bidentis were studied with C. Album as competitor. A field experiment, including nine f...
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Photosynthesis in a CO2-Rich Atmosphere
The concentration of CO2 ([CO2]) in the atmosphere is projected to exceed 550 ppm by 2050. C3 plants respond directly to growth at elevated [CO2] by stimulation of photosynthesis and reduced stomatal conductance....
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Conservative and Dynamic Evolution of Mitochondrial Genomes in Early Land Plants
Early land plant mitochondrial genomes (chondromes) might have captured important changes of mitochondrial genome evolution when photosynthetic eukaryotes colonized land in a unprecedented scale, and thus dese...
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Floral Scents and Fruit Aromas Inspired by Nature
Plants use floral and fruit volatiles as chemical cues to interact with their environment by attracting pollinators and seed dispersers, thus ensuring plant reproductive success. These volatiles also have a si...
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Can Increase in Rubisco Specificity Increase Carbon Gain by Whole Canopy? A Modeling Analysis
Genetic modification of Ribulose bis-phosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (Rubisco) to increase the specificity for CO2 relative to O2(τ) would decrease photorespiration and in principle should increase crop productiv...
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Modeling the Temperature Dependence of C3 Photosynthesis
The steady-state C3 model of photosynthesis originally developed by Graham Farquhar et al. (1980) and subsequently modified by others describes responses of leaf carbon assimilation to environmental variation. Th...
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An Increase In Expression Of Pyruvate Pi Dikinase Corresponds To Cold-Tolerant C4 Photosynthesis Of Miscanthus X Giganteus
Miscanthus x giganteus is exceptionalamong C4 plants in its ability to produce leaves and photosynthesize at low temperature. Understanding how this is achieved is critical to adapting other C4 cro...
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Isolation of pollutant (pine needle ash)-responding genes from tissues of the seaweed Ulva pertusa
Genetic responses of the seaweed Ulva pertusa to pine needle ash have been compared using differential display technique. The tissue viability was assessed to evaluate the stress level with triphenyltetrazolium c...
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Breeding for Drought and Salt Tolerant Rice (Oryza Sativa L.): Progress and Perspectives
Water shortage and salinity are the most important factors limiting rice production worldwide. No drought tolerant (DT) or salt tolerance (ST) rice varieties have been commercially released in the past, due la...
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Molecular Phylogeny of Bryophytes and Peculiarities of Their Chloroplast and Mitochondrial DNAs
Molecular sequence data have contributed enormously to our knowledge about the phylogeny of land plants. Bryophytes are of fundamental importance to the full picture of land plant evolution as it is becoming i...
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Origin of new genes: evidence from experimental and computational analyses
Exon shuffling is an essential molecular mechanism for the formation of new genes. Many cases of exon shuffling have been reported in vertebrate genes. These discoveries revealed the importance of exon shuffli...
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The Effect of Plant Age on the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Rice Blast in Arkansas
Field experiments were conducted in 1997 to determine how plant maturity affected the rate and distance of rice blast development from foci. A sulfate non-utilizing (sul) mutant of P.grisea was used as a marked s...
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Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Outer Membrane
Nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins can be roughly divided into two groups. Proteins in the first group are synthesized as higher molecular weight precursors with N-terminal extensions called transit peptides...
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Effects of Chilling on Photosynthesis in the C4 Grass Miscanthus x giganteus
Miscanthus x giganteus is a C4, rhizomatous, grass that is currently being considered by the European Union as a biomass energy crop on account of its high annual productivity. Most C4 plants have evolved in trop...
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Photoautotrophic Micropropagation — A Strategy for Contamination Control?
Photoautotrophic micropropagation is a tissue culture technique whereby a chlorophyllous expiant is placed in environmental conditions that induce it to photosynthesise, grow and multiply. This requires cultiv...
