Showing papers in "Plant Science in 2016"

TL;DR: Land plants have adapted to survive under a range of wind climates and this involve changes in chemical composition, physical structure and morphology at all scales from the cell to the whole plant.

TL;DR: Practical guidelines on the key considerations when implementing genetic selection (GS) are provided, including potential breeding schemes for GS, genotyping considerations, and methods for effective training population design.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the cross-talk signaling between nitrate, auxins and NO, and the importance of the connection of the plants' urea cycle to metabolism of polyamines.

TL;DR: Current genotyping methods using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are reviewed and case studies of genotypes-by-sequencing (GBS) applications to several crops differing in genome size, organization and breeding system are explored.

TL;DR: A large multi-institutional project, "From QTL to variety: marker-assisted breeding of abiotic stress tolerant rice varieties with major QTLs for drought, submergence and salt tolerance" was initiated in 2010 to improve rice productivity in the fragile ecosystems of eastern, northeastern and southern part of the country.

TL;DR: This review illustrates how next generation sequencing-derived information can be used to tailor genomic tools for different breeders' needs to revolutionize crop improvement.

TL;DR: The dilemma of 'saving water or being cool' bringing about recent findings from molecular genetics, to development and physiology of stomata is discussed, and the question of 'how relevant is screening for high/low WUE in crops for semi-arid regions, where drought and heat co-occur' is discussed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that GABA accumulation during drought is a stress-specific response and its accumulation induces the regulation of stomatal opening thereby prevents loss of water.

TL;DR: Several success stories of translational genomics have become available in legumes, including development of superior lines with enhanced drought tolerance in chickpea, enhanced and pyramided resistance to Fusarium wilt and Ascochyta blight, and utilization of markers for assessing purity of hybrids/parental lines in pigeonpea.

TL;DR: The present review was planned to summarize the reports available on nutrition profile of millet and non-millet cereals to provide a comparative insight on importance of millets and emphasizes the need for research on deciphering nutritional traits present in millets to develop strategies for introgressing these traits into other conventional staple crops using germplasm and 'omics' technologies.

TL;DR: Two approaches of molecular breeding namely marker-assisted backcrossing and marker- assisted selection were employed to transfer two FAD2 mutant alleles from SunOleic 95R into the genetic background of ICGV 06110, ICGV 06142 and ICGV06420.

TL;DR: The contribution of T. longibrachiatum to the accumulation of key metabolites, which subsequently leads to the improvement of onion growth, as well as its resistance to oxidative stress and FOC is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The demand for plant-derived oils has increased substantially over the last decade, and is sure to keep growing, so it is clear that developing superior oil crops with the capability to perform in a consistent manner in field conditions in the future will be of the utmost importance.

TL;DR: Foreground selection for target gene(s) was followed by arduous phenotypic and background selection which fast-tracked the recovery of recurrent parent genome (RPG) to an extent of 95.8% in one of the near-isogenic lines (NILs) namely, Pusa 1728-23-33-31-56.

TL;DR: The sensitivity analysis suggested that prior densities (variance explained by markers) had little or no discernible effect on posterior means (residual variance) in Bayesian prediction models.

TL;DR: In the genomic regions close to the GWAS peaks, orthologs of the genes involved in flower development, phytohormone biosynthesis, metabolism and signaling in Arabidopsis were identified.

TL;DR: A new working model by which light controls anthocyanin accumulation in eggplant is provided by yeast one-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays, which shows that blue-light-triggered CRY1/CRY2-COP1 interaction creates the condition that HY5 and MYB1 combine with the downstream anthocianin synthesis genes (CHS and DFR).

TL;DR: The state of the art of common bean NB-LRR gene clusters, their peculiar location in subtelomeres and correlation with genetically characterized monogenic R genes, as well as how the availability of the whole genome sequence can boost the development of molecular markers for MAS are presented.

TL;DR: A critical review of recent spaceflight experiments is provided and ways in which future experiments can be designed to improve the value and applicability of the results generated are suggested.

TL;DR: Analysis of heat-induced leaf senescence of pph mutants of Arabidopsis confirmed that PPH could be one enzymes that plays key roles in regulating heat-accelerated chlorophyll degradation and could aid in the development of genotypes with stay-green traits either through marker assisted selection or transgenic approaches.

TL;DR: It is proposed that success in genetic manipulation for simultaneous improvement of photosynthesis and WUE efficiency may take longer than suggested in previous reports, and that it can be achieved only by joint projects addressing multi-gene manipulation for simultaneously alterations of all the limiting factors of Photosynthesis.

TL;DR: Saponin content in quinoa leaves from Ecuadorian sweet and bitter genotypes is quantified and the expression of saponin biosynthetic genes in leaf samples elicited with methyl jasmonate is assessed.

TL;DR: Novel roles of miR396 in regulating flower and fruit development are revealed, and a new potential way for improving tomato fruit yield is provided by combining bioinformatics and transgene-mediated methods.

TL;DR: Fruit cuticle of 'Newhall' navel orange was studied from the stage of fruit expansion to postharvest storage from the perspectives of morphology, transcription and metabolism and predicted that MYB transcription factor GL1-like regulates citrus fruits wax synthesis.

TL;DR: Overall, the switchgrass plants exposed to drought or heat revealed similarities as well as differences with respect to miRNA regulation, which could be important for enduring different stress conditions.

TL;DR: It is revealed that mixed infections among plant viruses are probably a rule rather than an exception in natural pathosystems and mathematical models may help in forecasting challenges deriving from the great variety of pathways of synergistic and antagonistic interactions.

TL;DR: The latest revolution surfaced in 2013 with the CRISPR-Cas9 system, whose high efficiency and technical ease of use is really impressive; scientists can use in-house kits or commercially available kits; the only two requirements are to carefully choose the location of the DNA double strand breaks to be induced and then to order an oligonucleotide.

TL;DR: ABA plays a significant role in managing plants' adaptation to new environments by optimizing water-use efficiency (WUE) under particular environmental conditions and appears to initiate leaf senescence via transcriptional regulation, to directly inhibit photosynthesis.

TL;DR: A working hypothesis is proposed in which the extents of UV-induced peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activations affect the success of acclimation to UV-B.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that water use is a function of both short and longer term trade-offs between competing demands for carbon.