Showing papers in "Molecular Plant in 2018"

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of various types of plastids on carotenoid biosynthesis and accumulation, and discusses recent advances in the understanding of the regulatory control ofCarotenogenesis and metabolic engineering ofcarotenoids in light ofplastid types in plants.

TL;DR: The detected WGDs supported a model of exponential gene loss during evolution with an estimated half-life of approximately 21.6 million years, and were correlated with both the emergence of lineages with high degrees of diversification and periods of global climate changes.

TL;DR: The recently developed base editing approach has enabled irreversible conversion of cytidine (C) to thymidine (T) (or guanine [G] to adenine [A]) at target loci without requiring DSB formation and HDR.

TL;DR: Genetic analysis and genetic analysis unravels the antagonistic actions of several molecular components of the ABA and cytokinin signaling pathways in mediates drought stress response, providing significant insights into how plants coordinate growth and drought Stress response by integrating multiple hormone pathways.

TL;DR: In this article, a new major quantitative trait locus (QTL), qTGW3, that controls grain size and weight in rice was reported, which is a member of the GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3/SHAGGY-like family.

TL;DR: A high-quality draft assembly is reported of the 1.74-gigabase genome of A. annua, which is highly heterozygous, rich in repetitive sequences, and contains 63 226 protein-coding genes, one of the largest numbers among the sequenced plant species.

TL;DR: How genes, phytohormones, and mechanical properties modulate leaf development are focused on, and these factors are discussed in the context of leaf initiation, polarity establishment and maintenance, leaf flattening, and intercalary growth are discussed.

TL;DR: How newly fixed carbon, in the form of UDP-glucose and other nucleotide sugars, contributes to the synthesis of cell wall polysaccharides, and how cell wall synthesis is influenced by the carbon status of the plant are discussed, with a focus on the model species Arabidopsis.

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TL;DR: A current survey of characterized genes and enzymes that take part in betalain biosynthesis, catabolism, and transcriptional regulation, and an outlook of what is yet to be discovered are provided.

TL;DR: The analysis revealed that the evolution of the C. nankingense genome was driven by bursts of repetitive element expansion and WGD events including a recent WGD that distinguishes chrysanthemum from sunflower, which diverged from chrysantshemum approximately 38.8 million years ago.

TL;DR: This study establishes an important genetic and molecular framework for OsMKKK10-OsMKK4-OsMAPK6 cascade-mediated control of grain size and weight in rice.

TL;DR: Concrete genetic evidence is provided for the geographical origin of extant wild mandarin populations and sheds light on the domestication and evolutionary history of mandarin.

TL;DR: It is shown by the thioacidolysis and acetyl bromide analysis that N luxury significantly reduces the generation of H, G, and S monomers of the lignin as well as its total content in maize shoots, and by regulating the expression of ZmLAC3 and Z mLAC5, ZmmiR528 affects maize lodging resistance under N-luxury conditions.

TL;DR: This study provides a promising novel approach for the genetic dissection and discovery of causal genes for DR and illustrated the power of this integrated approach to identify previously unreported DR-related genes.

TL;DR: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication and will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form.

TL;DR: It is proved that introduction of a minimal set of four transgenes enables de novo biosynthesis of astaxanthin in the rice endosperm and provides a successful example for synthetic biology in plants and biofortification in crops.

TL;DR: Results indicate that by transcriptionally regulating the expression of different sets of bHLH genes JA signaling promotes FIT degradation, resulting in reduced expression of iron-uptake genes, IRT1 and FRO2, and increased sensitivity to iron deficiency.

TL;DR: A summary of functional genomics platforms, genes and molecular regulatory networks that regulate important agronomic traits, and newly developed tools for gene identification will greatly facilitate the development of green super rice.

TL;DR: High-quality 6mA methylomes at single-nucleotide resolution in rice based on substantially improved genome sequences of two rice cultivars are reported, revealing that 6mA is a conserved DNA modification that is positively associated with gene expression and contributes to key agronomic traits in plants.

TL;DR: This study not only provides valuable genes and markers for soybean nutrient improvement, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but also offers insights into the alteration of soybean quality during domestication and breeding.

TL;DR: Genetic and molecular evidence is presented that in Arabidopsis an EDS1 complex with its partner PAD4 inhibits MYC2, a master regulator of SA-antagonizing jasmonic acid (JA) hormone pathways, revealing an immune receptor signaling circuit that intersects with hormone pathway crosstalk to reduce bacterial pathogen growth.

TL;DR: A high-quality genome assembly of 301 Mb is reported for the diploid spike moss Selaginella tamariscina, a primitive vascular resurrection plant, providing significant insights into the desiccation tolerance mechanism and the evolution of resurrection plants.

TL;DR: An overview of the research history of glycosidically bound volatiles (GBVs), a relatively new group of plant secondary metabolites, is provided and the role of UGTs in the production of GBVs for plant protection is discussed.

TL;DR: The power of combining large-scale untargeted metabolomics-based GWAS with time-course-derived networks both performed under different abiotic environments for identifying metabolite-gene associations are demonstrated, providing novel global insights into the metabolic landscape of Arabidopsis.