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Plants, Volume 6, Issue 2

2017 June - 10 articles

Cover Story: Drought and heat stresses continue to be among the major threats for soybeans production. These stresses affect key plant cellular mechanisms, which eventually lead to reduced yields. Change in metabolic regulations is one of the critical strategies used by stress tolerant plants, but very little is known about these metabolic alterations in soybeans. The results of metabolomic profiling and computational based regulatory network analyses revealed key metabolites that were differentially accumulated as a result of drought and heat stresses in soybeans. View the paper
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Articles (10)

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,866 Views
16 Pages

13 June 2017

The elongation of very-long-chain fatty acids is a conserved process used for the production of many metabolites, including plant cuticular waxes. The elongation of precursors of the most abundant cuticular wax components of some plants, however, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,516 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2017

Comparative analyses of phenotypic and molecular traits of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under standardised conditions is still a challenge using climatic devices supplied with common light sources. These are in most cases fluorescent lights, which have...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,038 Views
8 Pages

FLOWERING LOCUS T Triggers Early and Fertile Flowering in Glasshouse Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

  • Simon E. Bull,
  • Adrian Alder,
  • Cristina Barsan,
  • Mathias Kohler,
  • Lars Hennig,
  • Wilhelm Gruissem and
  • Hervé Vanderschuren

27 May 2017

Accelerated breeding of plant species has the potential to help challenge environmental and biochemical cues to support global crop security. We demonstrate the over-expression of Arabidopsis FLOWERING LOCUS T in Agrobacterium-mediated transformed ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
202 Citations
16,530 Views
21 Pages

25 May 2017

Soybean is an important crop that is continually threatened by abiotic stresses, especially drought and heat stress. At molecular levels, reduced yields due to drought and heat stress can be seen as a result of alterations in metabolic homeostasis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
8,920 Views
13 Pages

Attenuation of Drought Stress in Brassica Seedlings with Exogenous Application of Ca2+ and H2O2

  • Akram Khan,
  • Yasir Anwar,
  • Md. Mahadi Hasan,
  • Aqib Iqbal,
  • Muhammad Ali,
  • Hesham F. Alharby,
  • Khalid Rehman Hakeem and
  • Mirza Hasanuzzaman

13 May 2017

Drought is one of the most common abiotic stresses, affecting the growth and productivity of crop plants globally, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. Different strategies are used to mitigate the impact of drought among crop plants. Exogenou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,068 Views
17 Pages

12 May 2017

Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae) originates from tropical Central and South America and has become invasive in about 50 countries. It causes problems when invading rangelands due to its toxicity to livestock and its tendency to form dense, monotonous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,997 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2017

Aroma intensity in rice is related to the level of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP). The accumulation of 2AP in rice has been synthesized via l-proline metabolism by inactive betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme (BADH2), which activates 2AP accumulation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,200 Views
8 Pages

Pollen Grain Preservation and Fertility in Valuable Commercial Rose Cultivars

  • Annalisa Giovannini,
  • Anca Macovei,
  • Matteo Caser,
  • Andrea Mansuino,
  • Gian Guido Ghione,
  • Marco Savona,
  • Daniela Carbonera,
  • Valentina Scariot and
  • Alma Balestrazzi

24 April 2017

In the cut flower market, traditional breeding is still the best way to achieve new rose cultivars. The geographical delocalization of cultivar constitution (generally made in Europe and North America) and plant cultivation (large areas in Africa and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
303 Citations
30,205 Views
11 Pages

Antimicrobial Resistance and the Alternative Resources with Special Emphasis on Plant-Based Antimicrobials—A Review

  • Harish Chandra,
  • Parul Bishnoi,
  • Archana Yadav,
  • Babita Patni,
  • Abhay Prakash Mishra and
  • Anant Ram Nautiyal

10 April 2017

Indiscriminate and irrational use of antibiotics has created an unprecedented challenge for human civilization due to microbe’s development of antimicrobial resistance. It is difficult to treat bacterial infection due to bacteria’s ability to develop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,830 Views
11 Pages

Lipid Raft, Regulator of Plasmodesmal Callose Homeostasis

  • Arya Bagus Boedi Iswanto and
  • Jae-Yean Kim

3 April 2017

Abstract: The specialized plasma membrane microdomains known as lipid rafts are enriched by sterols and sphingolipids. Lipid rafts facilitate cellular signal transduction by controlling the assembly of signaling molecules and membrane protein traffic...

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Plants - ISSN 2223-7747