Showing papers in "Current Plant Biology in 2020"

TL;DR: Current insights into the factors driving the assembly of plant microbial communities are discussed and the literature on the driving factors for the composition and community structuring of plant microbiomes is compiled.

TL;DR: This review focuses on four classes of plant secondary metabolites and the recent advances in generating useful compounds in microbial expression platforms and in plant metabolic engineering.

TL;DR: It is fitting for plant synthetic biologists to establish the CaMV 35S promoter as a quantitative reference standard for transcription activity in plants — all other promoters would have their activity expressed relative to CaMv 35S.

TL;DR: Efficient CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing protocol for banana and plantain using multiple gRNAs targeting phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene is developed demonstrating mutation efficiency of 100 % in both cultivars.

TL;DR: An integrated research framework combining genomics, plant molecular physiology, crop breeding, systems biology and integrated crop-soil-climate modelling will be very effective to cope with climate change.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to summarize the results of the recent molecular genetics studies in relation to rosmarinic acid production in plants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the formation and morphological properties of green iron nanoparticles were investigated through fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a controlled-environment experiment was conducted at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Debrecen, Hungary, where two soybean cultivars, ES Mentor and Pedro, were subjected to four different levels of water deficiency elaborated by different polyethylene glycol (PEG) concentrations; 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 % starting from the post-germination phase.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of four different composts derived from agricultural wastes on soil load of Verticillium dahliae in organic and conventional bell pepper systems found that organic amendments can be effective at controlling some soil-borne pathogens.

TL;DR: There has been a revolution in genome editing technologies with the advent of meganucleases, zinc finger nucleases, ZFNs, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) in relevance to their application in agricultural crop improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the first attempt to biosynthesize a simple, cost-effective and eco-friendly phytochemically capped AgNPs using Psophocarpustetragonolobus (winged bean) leaf extract was confirmed by UV-vis spectrophotometer with surface plasmon resonance at 430 nm.

TL;DR: Findings implicate important roles for MYB transcription factors in coordinated regulation of grass lignin biosynthesis including γ-acylated and tricin-incorporated lign in biosynthesis.

TL;DR: Current knowledge relating to the use of metabolic engineering of plant natural product pathways to influence the production of compounds of interest are reflected and the impact that higher levels of organization, such as metabolon formation, may have on these systems are considered.

TL;DR: Assessment of genotype by environment interaction for alkenyl glucosinolates content in winter oilseed rape cultivars grown in West Poland by the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction model found that the hybrid PN66 × PN21 is recommended for further use in the breeding program due to its low averageAlkenyl glucose content and the best stability across environments.

TL;DR: The results suggest the importance of endophytic fungal metabolites to control the pesticide-resistant insect pests and support the presence of functional groups in accordance with GCMS data as dominating compound.

TL;DR: It is concluded that BIOESP technology could be used as an efficient strategy of high radiation and temperature resilience caused by climate change in the Colombian Caribbean.

TL;DR: An overview of contemporary issues in identification and deployment of marker-trait associations is presented and future avenues of research towards new methods and new sources of data are suggested.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggested that instead of re-circulation of parental lines, hybrid breeding using diverse parents followed by selection should be performed for genetic improvement of cluster bean.

TL;DR: It was confirmed that PIP2; 3 and PIP1;5 gene modulate expression of mRNA to provide tolerance against drought in millet plants to maintain homeostasis.

TL;DR: The high genetic diversity within the populations are encouraging, however the low genetic differentiation raises concerns; the population structure should be improved by planting genetically diverse genotypes in areas of very low diversity to broaden its genetic base.

TL;DR: The present research detected favorable quantitative trait loci’s alleles and typical accessions for fatty acid content associated traits for breeding nutritional rich coconut varieties.

TL;DR: The vessel element diameter, vulnerability index, vessel element distribution and the difference of the hydraulic conductivity between the earlywood and latewood best represented the variability in the samples and were used for PCA analysis.

TL;DR: The compilation of works in this article is expected to highlight the potential application of M. polymorpha as a model plant in understanding the evolutionary mechanisms behind plant-microorganism interactions.

TL;DR: Detailed anatomical and physiological responses of four salinity-tolerant cultivars/experimental lines of warm-season turfgrass species to salinity stress are explored to aid breeders and physiologists in developing a more comprehensive understanding ofwarm- season turfgrass anatomical responses toSalinity stress.

TL;DR: The history and future of loss of function as a powerful mechanism of crop evolution is traced and the reasons gene knockouts might have been particularly important in past crop evolution are reviewed and why they continue to be a “lowest hanging fruit” for directing crop evolution through molecular breeding.

TL;DR: Overall, this study shows that OVW can be used to control weeds or otherwise stimulate their germination so that they can be controlled using other means before planting.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was designed to evaluate the time-dependent short-term growth adjustments of Tabernaemontana divaricata plants to e[CO2] and WS treatment combinations (combinations) at higher than optimal growing temperature.

TL;DR: In this article, the cotton citrate (GhMATE1 [Multidrug and Toxic compound Extrusion]) transporters have been cloned and characterized in Cotton, and several genes were characterized to understand the acid soil tolerance mechanisms of plants.

TL;DR: Comparing the occurrences transcripts related to abiotic stress from the species used, were found GO terms for phosphorolization proteins coding genes expressed, such protein kinase-like activity, and transcriptions factor activities as the most frequent ontology in all moss transcriptomes.

TL;DR: It is shown that class 1 SNPs of the Axiom® Wheat HD genotyping array result in an equidistant coverage of the reference genome, and the possibilities and limitations of such an in silico analysis of genotypesing arrays are discussed.