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The use of μPEACH 1.0 to investigate the role of ethylene in the initiation of peach fruit ripening
The use of natural or transgenic mutants is one of the ways to investigate specific physiological pathways in model plants such as Arabidopsis and tomato. In peach, a natural mutant (named slow ripening, slr), or...
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Role of cell wall hydrolases on ethylene-induced abscission of Dendrobium inflorescences
Abscission is preceded by the production of an abscission zone or layer at the base of organ. Abscission zone cells are not greatly different anatomically from the surrounding cells, but typically they are sma...
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Xenogenomics: Bioprospecting for Genetic Determinants of Cold and Freezing Stress Tolerance in the Cryophilic Antarctic Hair Grass Deschampsia antarctica E. Desv
The world’s plant based agriculture is based on a very small proportion of the total number of vascular plant species. Some non-domesticated species inhabit extreme environments and are uniquely adapted to a r...
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RNA-Mediated Resistance to Cassava Geminiviruses in Transgenic Cassava
Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) is one of the major problems encountered in cassava fields in Africa where the disease can trigger overall yield losses up to 25%. CMD is caused by whitefly-transmitted geminivirus...
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Auxin, ethylene and brassinosteroids: cross talk in the Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl
Apical hook establishment and maintenance is an important developmental process driven by multiple hormonal cross talk. The importance of ethylene and asymmetric auxin-distribution, the requirement of gibberel...
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Ethylene controls the development, germination, in the progamic phase of fertilization and growth of petunia male gametophytes in the progamic phase of fertilization
In flowering plants, double fertilization involves a complex series of interactions between essentially three plants – male gametophyte, female gametophyte, and sporophyte – culminating in the fusion of sexual...
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Breeding for Improved and Novel Starch Characteristics in Potato
Starch is the major form in which carbohydrates are stored and is present in almost all plant organs at one or another time during development. Storage starch is formed in amyloplasts as dense granules ranging...
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Pre-harvest application of proprietary elicitor delays fruit senescence
The proprietary elicitor, YEA!, is an organic patented material derived from exoskeletons of crustaceans. YEA! appears to be responsible for actually reducing ethylene biosynthesis. This was tested using tripl...
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Molecular Basis of Colorado Potato Beetle Adaptation to Potato Defence Mechanisms
Pathogen infection or herbivore attack, the phenomena named plant defence mechanism. The proteins induced after herbivore or insect attack can be classified into several groups including protease inhibitors, d...
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Regulation of the Rice NADPH Oxidase by Binding of Small GTPase Rac and Ca2+ to Its N-terminal Extension
In this study, using yeast two-hybrid and in vitro binding assays, we found that the CA-OsRac1, but not the dominant negative form, interacted with the N-terminus of OsrbohB. The N-terminus contained two Ca2+-bin...
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Changes in ethylene sensitivity by regulated expression of the tomato ethylene receptor family
It has been well established that plants are able to fine tune phytohormone responses by control of synthesis and/or perception. Ethylene biosynthesis has been widely studied in a number of species but none mo...
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Unravelling ethylene biosynthesis and its role during tracheary element formation in Zinnia elegans
Xylem is the plant vascular tissue responsible for raw sap conduction. It comprises two main types of cells that are derived from differentiating cambium: tracheary elements (TEs) and fibres that have conducti...
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Evaluation of GM Poplars Expressing Relevant Traits for Herbicide Tolerance, Disease Resistance and Production of Pharmaceutics:Biochemical, Molecular and Microbiological Studies on Plants and Detection of Transgene Sequences in Soil
There is a global need for the sustainable production of food, fuel and fibre, due to the expanding earth population on limited and degrading land resources. The gene transfer technology offers the potential t...
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Development of Subclonal Variants from Interspecific Hybrids of Sugarcane
Plant tissue culture has been useful in improving sugarcane by creation of variations and applying appropriate selection procedures for commercialization (Krishnamurthi and Tlaskal, 1974; Krishnamurthi, 1989)....
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Control of pistillate flower abortion in ‘Serr’ walnuts in Chile by inhibiting ethylene biosynthesis with AVG
Pistillate flower abortion (PFA), induced by excessive pollen load on female flowers and leading eventually to their abscission, affects severely fruit set and potential fruit yield in ‘Serr’ walnut variety. S...
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A massive approach to identify genes involved in ethylene induced abscission of apple fruitlets
Abscission was studied in immature apple fruits (cv Golden Delicious) during the physiological drop. Fruitlet shedding is preceded by a stimulation of ethylene biosynthesis and a gain in sensitivity to the hor...
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Phloem Feeding Regulates the Plant Defense Pathways Responding to Both Aphid Infestation and Pathogen Infection
Molecular basis of plant defense response to diseases has already been explored in great detail, but little is known about the molecular mechanisms controlling host defense against insect attack. Our research ...
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Synergistic effect of kinetin and benzyl adenine improves the regeneration of cotyledon explants of bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) on ethylene production
In this study, we show the capacity of de novo shoot organogenesis from cotyledon explants of bottle gourd in vitro in relation to ethylene, ethylene inhibitor, phytohormones and growth supplements. The physio...
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A Highly Efficient Protocol for Micropropagation of North American Ginseng
North American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) is a native herb of Canada and the United States and is cultivated for its highly valued root used for medicinal purposes. It has a long production cycle as seeds a...
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Introgression Breeding Program in Lolium/Festuca Complex Using Androgenesis
The genus Festuca L. and it is the closely allied genus Lolium L. have long fascinated agronomists, evolutionists and plant breeders. Intergeneric hybrids between closely related Lolium and Festuca species are be...
