21 Result(s)

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Rice hybrid mimics have stable yields equivalent to those of the F1 hybrid and suggest a basis for hybrid vigour

We have developed long term stable high yielding rice lines, Hybrid Mimics, from commercial hybrids. The vigour of the Mimic and the hybrid are developmental changes. These Mimics could substitute for hybrid s...

Yao He, You Zhang, Yongxiang Liao, Elizabeth S. Dennis, W. James Peacock… in Planta (2021)

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Arabidopsis Col/Ler and Ws/Ler hybrids and Hybrid Mimics produce seed yield heterosis through increased height, inflorescence branch and silique number

The seed yield increase of the hybrids and their derived Mimics compared to parents is associated with increased plant height and inflorescence branch number which are correlated with decreased expression of FT,

Li Wang, Moe Yamashita, Ian K. Greaves, W. James Peacock, Elizabeth S. Dennis in Planta (2020)

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Cotyledons contribute to plant growth and hybrid vigor in Arabidopsis

In hybrids of Arabidopsis, cotyledons influence the amount and proportion of hybrid vigor in total plant growth.

Li Wang, Pei-Chuan Liu, Li Min Wu, Jiafu Tan, W. James Peacock… in Planta (2019)

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Regions associated with repression of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) VERNALIZATION1 gene are not required for cold induction

Activity of the VERNALIZATION1 (VRN1) gene is required for flowering in temperate cereals such as wheat and barley. In varieties that require prolonged exposure to cold to flower (vernalization), VRN1 is expresse...

Megan N. Hemming, Sarah Fieg, W. James Peacock… in Molecular Genetics and Genomics (2009)

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Expression of the Talaromyces flavus glucose oxidase gene in cotton and tobacco reduces fungal infection, but is also phytotoxic

Glucose oxidase secreted by the fungus Talaromyces flavus generates, in the presence of glucose, hydrogen peroxide that is toxic to phytopathogenic fungi responsible for economically important diseases in many...

Fiona Murray, Danny Llewellyn, Helen McFadden, David Last… in Molecular Breeding (1999)

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Multiple DNA methyltransferase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Methylation of plant DNA occurs at cytosines in any sequence context, and as the Arabidopsis methyltransferase, METI, preferentially methylates cytosines in CG dinucleotides, it is likely that Arabidopsis has ...

Ruth K. Genger, Kathryn A. Kovac, Elizabeth S. Dennis… in Plant Molecular Biology (1999)

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Eucalyptus has a functional equivalent of the Arabidopsis floral meristem identity gene LEAFY

Two genes cloned from Eucalyptus globulus, Eucalyptus LeaFy (ELF1 and ELF2), have sequence homology to the floral meristem identity genes LEAFY from Arabidopsis and FLORICAULA from Antirrhinum. ELF1 is express...

Simon G. Southerton, Steven H. Strauss, Mark R. Olive… in Plant Molecular Biology (1998)

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Characterization of pyruvate decarboxylase genes from rice

The pdc1 gene encoding pyruvate decarboxylase has been isolated and sequenced from an IR54 rice genomic library. In contrast to a previously isolated intron-less rice genomic pdc, pRgpdc3, this gene contains five...

M. Anwar Hossain, Enamul Huq, Anil Grover, Elizabeth S. Dennis… in Plant Molecular Biology (1996)

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The Anaerobic Responsive Element

The response to anaerobic stress such as occurs during flooding, is one of the best-characterised stress responses of plants, at the physiological and biochemical levels. Recent advances in molecular biology h...

Mark R. Olive, John C. Walker, Karambir Singh, Jeff G. Ellis… in Plant Molecular Biology 2 (1991)

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Functional properties of the anaerobic responsive element of the maize Adh1 gene

The functional properties of the anaerobic responsive element (ARE) of the maize Adh1 gene have been analysed using a transient expression assay in electroporated maize protoplasts. The ARE functions in both orie...

Mark R. Olive, John C. Walker, Karambir Singh… in Plant Molecular Biology (1990)

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Drought resistance in rice

ANDREW D. HANSON, W. JAMES PEACOCK, LLOYD T. EVANS, CHARLES J. ARNTZEN… in Nature (1990)

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Expression of a bacterial gene in transgenic tobacco plants confers resistance to the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

Plants resistant to the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) were produced through the genetic engineering of a novel detoxification pathway into the cells of a species normally sensitive to 2,4-D....

Bruce R. Lyon, Danny J. Llewellyn, John L. Huppatz… in Plant Molecular Biology (1989)

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The maize transposable element Ac excises in progeny of transformed tobacco

To assess the potential of the maize transposable element Ac for gene tagging in heterologous plant species we monitored transcription, excision and transposition of the element in transgenic tobacco plants and t...

Brian H. Taylor, E. Jean Finnegan, Elizabeth S. Dennis… in Plant Molecular Biology (1989)

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Organ regulated expression of the Parasponia andersonii haemoglobin gene in transgenic tobacco plants

Plant haemoglobin genes are known to occur in legume and non-legume families and in both nodulating (e.g. Parasponia andersonii) and non-nodulating species (e.g. Trema tomentosa). Their presence in non-nodulating...

Jorg Landsmann, Danny Llewellyn, Elizabeth S. Dennis… in Molecular and General Genetics MGG (1988)

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Transcription of the maize transposable element Ac in maize seedlings and in transgenic tobacco

A combination of cDNA cloning and S1 analyses of RNA isolated from maize seedlings that carry an active Ac element has been used to define the Ac transcript. The primary transcript contains 4 introns that are exc...

E. Jean Finnegan, Brian H. Taylor… in Molecular and General Genetics MGG (1988)

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Functioning haemoglobin genes in non-nodulating plants

Haemoglobin has previously been recorded in plants only in the nitrogen-fixing nodules formed by symbiotic association between Rhizobium or Frankia and legume or non-legume hosts1^1–4. Structural similarities amon...

Didier Bogusz, Cyril A. Appleby, Jörg Landsmann, Elizabeth S. Dennis… in Nature (1988)

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Common evolutionary origin of legume and non-legume plant haemoglobins

The detection of haemoglobins in distantly-related non-legume plant families^1,2 as well as in the legume families raises the question of whether the origin of the plant haemoglobins was single or multiple, We hav...

Jörg Landsmann, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Thomas J. V. Higgins, Cyril A. Appleby… in Nature (1986)