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Open AccessCorrection: Comprehensive genomic analysis of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus paralicheniformis associated with the pearl millet panicle reveals their antimicrobial potential against important plant pathogens
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Open AccessComprehensive genomic analysis of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus paralicheniformis associated with the pearl millet panicle reveals their antimicrobial potential against important plant pathogens
Plant microbiome confers versatile functional roles to enhance survival fitness as well as productivity. In the present study two pearl millet panicle microbiome member species Bacillus subtilis PBs 12 and Bacill...
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Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies a Medicago truncatula Tnt1 Insertion Mutant in the VTL8 Gene that is Essential for Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
Legumes carry out symbiotic nitrogen (N) fixation by forming N-fixing nodules with rhizobia during N deficiency. In an effort to discover new legume genes essential to nodule function using the Medicago truncatul...
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Tnt1 Insertional Mutagenesis in Medicago truncatula for Gene Function Analysis
Legumes play a key role in the sustainable agriculture to fix atmospheric nitrogen through a mutualistic symbiotic process with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Medicago truncatula is a diploid model legume and has high...
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Open AccessMedicago PHYA promotes flowering, primary stem elongation and expression of flowering time genes in long days
Flowering time is an important trait for productivity in legumes, which include many food and fodder plants. Medicago truncatula (Medicago) is a model temperate legume used to study flowering time pathways. Like
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Open AccessMiR393 and miR390 synergistically regulate lateral root growth in rice under different conditions
Plants have evolved excellent ability of flexibly regulating the growth of organs to adapt to changing environment, for example, the modulation of lateral root development in response to environmental stresses...
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Open AccessAn efficient and improved method for virus-induced gene silencing in sorghum
Although the draft genome of sorghum is available, the understanding of gene function is limited due to the lack of extensive mutant resources. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an alternative to mutant r...
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Open AccessCharacterization of Brachypodium distachyon as a nonhost model against switchgrass rust pathogen Puccinia emaculata
Switchgrass rust, caused by Puccinia emaculata, is an important disease of switchgrass, a potential biofuel crop in the United States. In severe cases, switchgrass rust has the potential to significantly affect b...
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Open AccessA high-throughput virus-induced gene silencing protocol identifies genes involved in multi-stress tolerance
Understanding the function of a particular gene under various stresses is important for engineering plants for broad-spectrum stress tolerance. Although virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been used to cha...
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Open AccessSuppression of plant defense responses by extracellular metabolites from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci in Nicotiana benthamiana
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci (Pstab) is the causal agent of wildfire disease in tobacco plants. Several pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae produce a phytotoxic extracellular metabolite called coronatine (COR). ...
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Functional characterization of Nicotiana benthamiana homologs of peanut water deficit-induced genes by virus-induced gene silencing
Determining the functional role of genes that are differentially regulated during a stress response is challenging. In this study, few water deficit-induced genes from peanut were characterized in Nicotiana benth...