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Plants, Volume 13, Issue 9

May-1 2024 - 113 articles

Cover Story: Diatoms are one of the most abundant photosynthetic organisms on our planet, inhabiting diverse environments from sea ice to estuaries to open oceans. This important group of silicified algae therefore requires sophisticated signalling mechanisms to perceive and respond to environmental stimuli. Calcium signalling is central to these processes, although the cellular mechanisms that diatoms use to generate calcium signals still remain poorly understood. Here, we examine the different classes of calcium channels that are present in diatom genomes to help understand how diatoms may respond to different stimuli. The findings highlight the unique calcium signalling toolkit of diatoms and indicate that evolutionary gains or losses of different calcium channels are likely to contribute to important differences in the cellular signalling mechanisms present in each diatom lineage. View this paper
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Articles (113)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,876 Views
12 Pages

6 May 2024

Topolin cytokinins have emerged as valuable tools in micropropagation. This study investigates the metabolism of meta-topolin riboside (mTR) in three distinct tree species: Handroanthus guayacan and Tabebuia rosea (Bignoniaceae), and Tectona grandis...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,093 Views
10 Pages

6 May 2024

Phalaenopsis orchids are a popular ornamental plant in the flower market. During some festivals, demand increases significantly. These mature orchids must be placed in cooling rooms for inflorescence formation at specific times to increase the financ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,598 Views
15 Pages

6 May 2024

Microplastic might affect the crop yield, nitrogen (N) use efficiency and reactive N losses from agricultural soil systems. However, evaluation of these effects in infertile soil planted with different rice cultivars is lacking. We conducted a soil c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,545 Views
22 Pages

Micropropagation and Genetic Fidelity of Fegra Fig (Ficus palmata Forssk.) and Grafting Compatibility of the Regenerated Plants with Ficus carica

  • Ahmed Ali Al-Aizari,
  • Yaser Hassan Dewir,
  • Abdel-Halim Ghazy,
  • Abdullah Al-Doss and
  • Rashid Sultan Al-Obeed

6 May 2024

Ficus palmata is an important fig species that produces edible and nutritious fruit and possesses several therapeutic uses. This study reports an effective method for the micropropagation of F. palmata using nodal explants. In vitro shoots were cultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,587 Views
20 Pages

Gibberellin Positively Regulates Tomato Resistance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV)

  • Chenwei Zhang,
  • Dandan Wang,
  • Yan Li,
  • Zifan Wang,
  • Zhiming Wu,
  • Qingyin Zhang,
  • Hongwei Jia,
  • Xiaoxu Dong,
  • Lianfen Qi and
  • Zhonglin Shang

6 May 2024

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a prominent viral pathogen that adversely affects tomato plants. Effective strategies for mitigating the impact of TYLCV include isolating tomato plants from the whitefly, which is the vector of the virus, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,073 Views
20 Pages

Identification of Novel Regulators of Leaf Senescence Using a Deep Learning Model

  • Chaocheng Guo,
  • Zhuoran Huang,
  • Jiahao Chen,
  • Guolong Yu,
  • Yudong Wang and
  • Xu Wang

5 May 2024

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating intricate biological processes in plants by harnessing the potential of large-scale data. Gene regulation is a complex process that transcription factors (TFs), cooperating with their tar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,562 Views
21 Pages

Genetic Dissection of Diverse Seed Coat Patterns in Cowpea through a Comprehensive GWAS Approach

  • Haizheng Xiong,
  • Yilin Chen,
  • Waltram Ravelombola,
  • Beiquan Mou,
  • Xiaolun Sun,
  • Qingyang Zhang,
  • Yiting Xiao,
  • Yang Tian,
  • Qun Luo and
  • Ainong Shi
  • + 2 authors

5 May 2024

This study investigates the genetic determinants of seed coat color and pattern variations in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), employing a genome-wide association approach. Analyzing a mapping panel of 296 cowpea varieties with 110,000 single nucleotide p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,313 Views
14 Pages

Identification of Key Genes of Fruit Shape Variation in Jujube with Integrating Elliptic Fourier Descriptors and Transcriptome

  • Yue Ren,
  • Wenqing Fu,
  • Yi Gao,
  • Yuhan Chen,
  • Decang Kong,
  • Ming Cao,
  • Xiaoming Pang and
  • Wenhao Bo

5 May 2024

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) exhibits a rich diversity in fruit shape, with natural occurrences of gourd-like, flattened, and other special shapes. Despite the ongoing research into fruit shape, studies integrating elliptical Fourier descriptors (EFDs) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,386 Views
15 Pages

5 May 2024

Dioscorea alata, commonly known as “greater yam”, is a vital crop in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, yet it faces significant threats from anthracnose disease, mainly caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. However, explo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,934 Views
29 Pages

Application of Developmental Regulators for Enhancing Plant Regeneration and Genetic Transformation

  • Pingjun Xu,
  • Yinxiao Zhong,
  • Ang Xu,
  • Bingshuang Liu,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Anqi Zhao,
  • Xiaoming Yang,
  • Meiling Ming,
  • Fuliang Cao and
  • Fangfang Fu

4 May 2024

Establishing plant regeneration systems and efficient genetic transformation techniques plays a crucial role in plant functional genomics research and the development of new crop varieties. The inefficient methods of transformation and regeneration o...

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