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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of Plant Stress Response Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Kernel Ridge Regression
The optical signature of a plant is an essential tool in predicting vegetation water content for quantitative assessment of plant status under drought stress. Plant responses to water stress may involve optica...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Transcriptional and Metabolic Profiling to Unravel Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Plants
Plants exhibit an overwhelming metabolic capacity and the quest to discover all secondary metabolites has barely begun. Only a fraction of the 500,000 plant species estimated to exist has been formally describ...
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Improvements of the Molecular Toolbox for Cell Cycle Studies in Tobacco BY-2 Cells
The cell cycle is a highly ordered process consisting of four consecutive phases, G1, S (DNA replication), G2, and M (mitosis) that lead to the formation of two daughter cells. During G1 phase, the cell monito...
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Secondary Metabolites in the Post-Genomic Era
Many important pharmaceutical compounds are still isolated from plants. Due to their complex structures the chemical synthesis of these secondary metabolites is usually not applied. Plant cell cultures would o...
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Regulation of cyclin-dependent kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana
In plants, different families of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and cyclins have been identified, indicating that also in plants the progression through the cell cycle is regulated by CDKs. In all eukaryotes,...
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CDK-related protein kinases in plants
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) form a conserved superfamily of eukaryotic serine-threonine protein kinases, which require binding to a cyclin protein for activity. CDK are involved in different aspects of cell...
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Regulation of cell division in plants: An Arabidopsis perspective
Considerable progress has been achieved in the identification and molecular characterisation of genes and/or cDNAs coding for cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) as well as cyclins in diverse plant species including A...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Transgenic Plants
The recent successes of gene engineering in plants demonstrate the high potential of expressing transgenes in agronomically important crops. These approaches require that the introduced gene is stably expresse...
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Control of cell proliferation during plant development
Knowledge of the control of cell division in eukaryotes has increased tremendously in recent years. The isolation and characterization of the major players from a number of systems and the study of their inter...
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Oxidative Stress in Plants
A consequence of aerobic life is the formation of reactive forms of oxygen such as Superoxide radicals (O2•), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and hydroxyl radicals (OH•). In particular, hydroxyl radicals are one of the...
