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Effects of Plant Growth Regulators on Somatic Embryo Regeneration of Liriope spicata
Liriope spicata is an important traditional Chinese medicine and is also used as an ornamental groundcover plant. A tissue culture method, such as somatic embryo regeneration, that can generate large numbers of g...
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Integration of the Metabolome and Transcriptome Reveals Diurnal Variability in the Effects of Melatonin on Salt Tolerance in Maize Seedlings
Salt hazard is one of the major environmental stresses that seriously threaten world food security. Although melatonin has been proven to improve stress tolerance in plants, the metabolic changes and gene tran...
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Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel 1H-1,2,4-Triazole Derivatives as Strigolactone Biosynthesis Inhibitors
Strigolactone (SL) biosynthesis inhibitors have shown impressive activity in increasing shoot branching and inhibiting seed germination of the root parasitic plants Striga spp. and Orobanche spp. Herein, novel 1H
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Aminoethoxyvinylglycine Functional Analogues Prolong the Shelf Life of Apple Fruit
Apple is a kind of fruit that can be stored for a relatively long time, but softening, browning, and decay will occur during the long-term storage. Therefore, the research on apple preservation is meaningful. ...
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The first complete mitochondrial genome of Carex (C. breviculmis): a significantly expanded genome with highly structural variations
The first complete mitochondrial genome of Carex (C. breviculmis) was sequenced and assembled, and its genomic signature was analyzed and the possible conformations of its mitochondrial genome were validated.
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Design, Synthesis and Herbicidal Evaluation of Novel Urea Derivatives with Inhibition Activity to Root Growth
In our previous work, compound Y9k, 1-phenethyl-3- (3-(trifluoromethyl) phenyl) urea, displayed significant inhibition activity on root growth of Arabidopsis. To further investigate the application of urea compou...
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Effects of a novel plant growth regulator B2 on stalk quality and grain yield of winter wheat in North China
In this study, a novel plant growth regulator 2,4-dichloroformamide cyclopropane acid (B2) was used to explore its effects on wheat stalk morphology, chemical composition, anatomical structure, crushing streng...
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Fulvic Acid, Brassinolide, and Uniconazole Mediated Regulation of Morphological and Physiological Traits in Maize Seedlings Under Water Stress
Water stress is one of the most important factors limiting sustainable crop production. Therefore, the effects of the plant growth regulators (PGRs) fulvic acid (FA), brassinolide (BR), and uniconazole (Uni) o...
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Exogenous Gamma-aminobutyric Acid Coordinates Active Oxygen and Amino Acid Homeostasis to Enhance Heat Tolerance in Wheat Seedlings
Heat stress has detrimental impacts on wheat growth and yield formation. Conferring heat tolerance through applying plant growth regulators is a feasible strategy to reduce loss. Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)...
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Open AccessMeta-QTL analysis explores the key genes, especially hormone related genes, involved in the regulation of grain water content and grain dehydration rate in maize
Low grain water content (GWC) at harvest of maize (Zea mays L.) is essential for mechanical harvesting, transportation and storage. Grain drying rate (GDR) is a key determinant of GWC. Many quantitative trait loc...
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Design, Synthesis and Gibberellin-Like Activity of Novel 1-Substituted 3-[3-(Trifluoromethyl)phenyl]thiourea Derivatives
It has previously been demonstrated that a thiourea derivative, namely 1-phenethyl-3-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]thiourea (Y21), exhibits high gibberellin-like activity. In this work, the influence of the alkyl ch...
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Open AccessConstruction and application of star polycation nanocarrier-based microRNA delivery system in Arabidopsis and maize
MicroRNA (miRNA) plays vital roles in the regulation of both plant architecture and stress resistance through cleavage or translation inhibition of the target messenger RNAs (mRNAs). However, miRNA-induced gen...
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Coronatine alleviates cold stress by improving growth and modulating antioxidative defense system in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings
Low temperature represents a key environmental stress adversely affects rice growth and productivity worldwide. The application of cold resistance regulators is an effective way to enhance crop cold tolerance ...
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Open AccessTranscriptome dynamic landscape underlying the improvement of maize lodging resistance under coronatine treatment
Lodging is one of the important factors causing maize yield. Plant height is an important factor in determining plant architecture in maize (Zea mays L.), which is closely related to lodging resistance under high...
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Design, synthesis and biological activities of novel urea derivatives with superior plant growth-inhibiting activity
In order to discover novel plant growth regulators and herbicides with new modes of action for crops production management and improvement, a series of new urea derivatives were designed and synthesized. The b...
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Physiological and Transcriptome Profiling Analyses Reveal Important Roles of Coronatine in Improving Drought Tolerance of Tobacco
Coronatine (COR) is a phytotoxin produced by Pseudomonas syringae and is a functional analogue of the bioactive hormone JA-Ile, which is widely involved in plant defence responses. In this study, we explored the ...
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Computational-Aided Discovery of Novel 1,3-Benzodioxole Plant Growth Retardants
Plant growth retardants can enhance the lodging resistance of crops and prevent yield losses. In this study, we used the crystal structure of the gibberellin receptor GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 (GID1) to a...
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Introducing selective agrochemical manipulation of gibberellin metabolism into a cereal crop
Use of growth retardants enables post-planting optimization of vegetative growth, which is particularly important given ongoing climate change. Mepiquat chloride is an economical and safe retardant widely appl...
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Coronatine inhibits mesocotyl elongation by promoting ethylene production in etiolated maize seedlings
Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world. In order to survive, plants must regulate their growth in response to multiple developmental and environmental cues, including modulatin...
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Application of Brassinosteroid Mimetics Improves Growth and Tolerance of Maize to Nicosulfuron Toxicity
Pesticide residues, especially for herbicides, often damage crops, except for weeds, which results in reduced production or even death in agriculture. Brassinosteroids (BRs) can alleviate the injury from pesti...
