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Plants, Volume 8, Issue 12

December 2019 - 91 articles

Cover Story: Cichorium endivia is a leafy crop closely related to Lactuca sativa and comprises two major botanical varieties characterized by a high degree of intraspecific morphological variation: the broad-leaved escarole and the curly-leaved endive. These features make C. endivia an excellent crop model to investigate the relationship between photosynthesis and leaf shape. Leaf transcriptome profiling, cluster analysis, and construction of gene co-expression networks, together with physiological and biochemical characterization, identified transcription factors differentially expressed in broad vs. curly leaves, and developmental genes associated to the photosynthetic regulatory network as potential novel actors in the interplay between leaf development and photosynthesis. View this paper
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Articles (91)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,162 Views
17 Pages

Transcriptomic Analysis of Dark-Induced Senescence in Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon)

  • Jibiao Fan,
  • Yanhong Lou,
  • Haiyan Shi,
  • Liang Chen and
  • Liwen Cao

17 December 2019

Leaf senescence induced by prolonged light deficiency is inevitable whenever turfgrass is cultivated in forests, and this negatively influences the survival and aesthetic quality of the turfgrass. However, the mechanism underlying dark-induced senesc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,760 Views
12 Pages

Soil Mesofauna Respond to the Upward Expansion of Deyeuxia purpurea in the Alpine Tundra of the Changbai Mountains, China

  • Yan Tao,
  • Zhongqiang Wang,
  • Chen Ma,
  • Hongshi He,
  • Jiawei Xu,
  • Yinghua Jin,
  • Haixia Wang and
  • Xiaoxue Zheng

17 December 2019

Deyeuxia purpurea, a low-altitude species, has been expanding upwards into alpine tundra, and this upward expansion is causing serious ecological consequences. However, few studies have been performed regarding its effects on soil faunal communities....

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,668 Views
10 Pages

17 December 2019

A few new papers report that mutations in some genes belonging to the group 3 of plant sulfate transporter family result in low phytic acid phenotypes, drawing novel strategies and approaches for engineering the low-phytate trait in cereal grains. He...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,826 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Bioactive Phytochemicals from Phlomis viscosa Poiret on Wound Healing

  • Ludmila Yarmolinsky,
  • Arie Budovsky,
  • Leonid Yarmolinsky,
  • Boris Khalfin,
  • Vladimir Glukhman and
  • Shimon Ben-Shabat

16 December 2019

Phlomis viscosa Poiret is an evergreen shrub growing in Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria with acknowledged pro-wound healing (WH) properties. In this study, we evaluated the pro-WH potential of selected compounds found in this plant. Among the pro-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,783 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of Drought Stress on Antioxidant Responses and Accumulation of Flavonolignans in Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn)

  • Abdelaleim I. ElSayed,
  • Mohamed A. M. El-hamahmy,
  • Mohammed S. Rafudeen,
  • Azza H. Mohamed and
  • Ahmad A. Omar

16 December 2019

Biosynthesis and accumulation of flavonolignans in plants are influenced by different environmental conditions. Biosynthesis and accumulation of silymarin in milk thistle (Silybum marianum L.) were studied under drought stress with respect to the ant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
6,646 Views
19 Pages

Melatonin Positively Influences the Photosynthetic Machinery and Antioxidant System of Avena sativa during Salinity Stress

  • Nisha Varghese,
  • Onoud Alyammahi,
  • Sarah Nasreddine,
  • Abla Alhassani and
  • Mayank Anand Gururani

16 December 2019

Recent studies have demonstrated melatonin protects various crops against abiotic stresses. However, the effects of melatonin on the photosynthetic apparatus of stressed plants is poorly characterized. We investigated the effects of melatonin pretrea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,288 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2019

Restoration is essential for supporting key ecosystem functions such as aboveground biomass production. However, the relative importance of functional versus taxonomic diversity in predicting aboveground biomass during restoration is poorly studied....

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,523 Views
15 Pages

Expression of Arabidopsis Hexokinase in Tobacco Guard Cells Increases Water-Use Efficiency and Confers Tolerance to Drought and Salt Stress

  • Nitsan Lugassi,
  • Brijesh Singh Yadav,
  • Aiman Egbaria,
  • Dalia Wolf,
  • Gilor Kelly,
  • Efrat Neuhaus,
  • Eran Raveh,
  • Nir Carmi and
  • David Granot

16 December 2019

Abiotic stresses such as drought and saline water impose major limitations on plant growth. Modulation of stomatal behavior may help plants cope with such stresses by reducing both water loss and salt uptake. Hexokinase (HXK) is a sugar-phosphorylati...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,918 Views
9 Pages

Isolation of Intact Chloroplast for Sequencing Plastid Genomes of Five Festuca Species

  • Md. Shofiqul Islam,
  • Gretta L. Buttelmann,
  • Konstantin Chekhovskiy,
  • Taegun Kwon and
  • Malay C. Saha

14 December 2019

Isolation of good quality chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) is a challenge in different plant species, although several methods for isolation are known. Attempts were undertaken to isolate cpDNA from Festuca grass species by using available standard protocols;...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,208 Views
14 Pages

Omics Potential in Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management

  • Eric L. Patterson,
  • Christopher Saski,
  • Anita Küpper,
  • Roland Beffa and
  • Todd A. Gaines

14 December 2019

The rapid development of omics technologies has drastically altered the way biologists conduct research. Basic plant biology and genomics have incorporated these technologies, while some challenges remain for use in applied biology. Weed science, on...

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