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Sugarcane rhizosphere microbiota: exploring diversity across varied topographies and growth environments
The global agricultural importance of sugarcane highlights the crucial need to understand the dynamics of rhizosphere microbiota for maximizing yields. Guangxi, a crucial sugarcane production region in China, ...
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Open AccessAnalysis of metabolome and microbiome revealed the resistance mechanisms in sugarcane cultivars with high resistance to pokkah boeng disease
Endophytes are reported to play a role in resistance against plant pathogens. Understanding the metabolite-mediated endophytic microbiota composition in plants provides insights to improve plant stress resista...
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Open AccessPyramiding of Low Chalkiness QTLs Is an Effective Way to Reduce Rice Chalkiness
Rice chalkiness is a key limiting factor of high-quality rice. The breeding of low chalkiness varieties has always been a challenging task due to the complexity of chalkiness and its susceptibility to environm...
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Open AccessIdentification and characterization of circular RNAs involved in the fertility stability of cotton CMS-D2 restorer line under heat stress
As a vital type of noncoding RNAs, circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in plant growth and development and stress response. However, little is known about the biological roles of circRNAs in regulati...
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Open AccessWhy different sugarcane cultivars show different resistant abilities to smut?
To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the resistance to smut of different sugarcane cultivars, endophytic bacterial and fungal compositions, functions and metabolites in the stems of the sugarcane cultivars w...
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Plant sexual variation modulates rhizospheric nutrient processes through the soil microbiome response to drought and rewetting in Populus cathayana
Drought affects the physiological environment of the soil microbiome and plants. However, the ability of drought and rewetting to regulate sex-specific soil nutrient availability with respect to bacterial- and...
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CmHY5 functions in apigenin biosynthesis by regulating flavone synthase II expression in chrysanthemum flowers
The predominant flavones in the ray florets of chrysanthemum flowers are apigenin and its derivatives. CmHY5 participates in apigenin biosynthesis by directly regulating the expression of FNSII-1 in chrysanthe...
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Open AccessComparative performance of hybrid generations reveals the potential application of F2 hybrids in upland cotton
The utilization of heterosis has greatly improved the productivity of cotton worldwide. However, a major constraint for the large-scale promotion of F1 hybrid cotton is artificial emasculation and pollination. Th...
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Deciphering the distinct mechanisms sha** the broomcorn millet rhizosphere bacterial and fungal communities in a typical agricultural ecosystem of Northern China
Microbes play an essential role in agricultural ecosystems; however, the processes that drive the microbial biogeographic and co-occurrence patterns have rarely been assessed simultaneously, especially in the ...
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Improved Crop Management Achieved High Wheat Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Approaches to meet increasing demand for cereals while improving agricultural resource use efficiency have been extensively studied. However, the dominant intensive agricultural paradigm still considers high y...
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Open AccessEthylene-mediated improvement in sucrose accumulation in ripening sugarcane involves increased sink strength
Sugarcane is a major crop producing about 80% of sugar globally. Increasing sugar content is a top priority for sugarcane breeding programs worldwide, however, the progress is extremely slow. Owing to its comm...
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Linkage of plant and abiotic properties to the abundance and activity of N-cycling microbial communities in Tibetan permafrost-affected regions
Ammonia oxidation and denitrification are crucial for nitrogen (N) availability and nitrous oxide production in N-limited permafrost soils. However, it remains unclear about the relative roles of abiotic and b...
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Open AccessIdentification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genoty** and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays)
Plant Architecture Related Traits (PATs) are of great importance for maize breeding, and mainly controlled by minor effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs). However, cloning or even fine-map** of minor effect ...
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Genome size estimations in Chrysanthemum and correlations with molecular phylogenies
A wide range of ploidy variation exists among native Chinese Chrysanthemum germplasm. This study examined the evolution of genome size, Cx value, and chromosome number in Chinese Chrysanthemum within a phylogenet...
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Relative importance of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (Rhizophagus intraradices) and root hairs in plant drought tolerance
Both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and root hairs play important roles in plant uptake of water and mineral nutrients. To reveal the relative importance of mycorrhiza and root hairs in plant water relation...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect seedling recruitment: a potential mechanism by which N deposition favors the dominance of grasses over forbs
Nitrogen (N) deposition usually alters plant community structure and reduces plant biodiversity in grasslands. Seedling recruitment is essential for maintaining species richness and determines plant community ...
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Allelic variation for a candidate gene for GS7, responsible for grain shape in rice
Grain shape is an important component of end-use quality in rice. The genomic location of the grain shape QTL GS7 was narrowed to lie within a 4.8-kb segment on chromosome 7. The homologous region in cv. Nipponba...
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Extracellular Calmodulin stimulates RbcS-GUS expression of etiolated transgenic tobacco plants in full darkness
We constructed a plant transformation intermediate vector pBZ3, which contains the RbcS-GUS chimeric gene and this was transferred into tobacco NC89 leaf discs. The RbcS promoter maintained photospecificity si...
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The effects of 2ip and 2,4-D on rice calli differentiation
The role of isopentenyl adenine (2ip) in cereal tissue and plant regeneration was analyzed by addition of this compound into various cultural media. Preculture of rice calli in the presence of certain levels o...
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Elevated endogenous isopentenyl adenine content is correlated with an extremely shooty rice phenotype
The shooty rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant produced on average 192 buds from a single shoot within one month. Numerous shoots carrying the same phenotype were easily regenerated from a small piece of any growing bu...
