The human BUD31 gene has been associated with various processes including cancer. To better understand its function, we used genetic methods to study Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells lacking the BUD31 homologous gene (cwf14) and performed sequence ana...
Branching is an important agronomic and economic trait in cut chrysanthemums. The axillary meristem (AM) formation of the axillary buds of cut chrysanthemums has a decisive role in its branching characteristics. However, little is known about the reg...
Pistacia vera (L.) is an alternate bearing species. The tree produces axillary inflorescence buds every year. Still, they abscise in “ON” overloaded shoots, causing a limited production in the following “OFF” year, causing a s...
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Tumor budding (TB) is a small cluster of malignant cells at the invasive front of a tumor. Despite being an adverse prognosis marker, little research has been conducted on the tumor immune microenvironment of tumor buddings, especially in cervical ca...
The characteristics of anthocyanin and lignin are important parameters in evaluating the quality of red Toona sinensis buds. Red T. sinensis buds are prone to senescence during postharvest storage, which subsequently affects their quality and sales....
Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) catalyzes the reduction of aldehydes to alcohols, key precursor substrates for volatile ester biosynthesis, which determines the characteristic aroma of apple fruit. However, a comprehensive genome-wide investigation of th...
Flower bud differentiation is crucial to reproductive success in plants. In the present study, RNA-Seq and nutrients quantification were used to identify the stage-specific genes for flower bud differentiation with buds which characterize the marked...
The MIKC-type MADS-box (MIKC) gene family is essential for controlling various plant developmental processes, including flowering time and dormancy transitions. Although the MIKC gene family has been widely studied across different plants, its charac...
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade consisting of three types of reversibly major signal transduction module (MAPKKK, MAPKK, and MAPK) is distributed in eukaryotes. MAPK cascades participate in various aspects of plant development, in...
Gene expression profiling plays a pivotal role in elucidating molecular regulatory networks and identifying functionally critical genes. However, the accuracy and reliability of quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assays fundamentally depend on the sel...
MIKC-type MADS-box transcription factors constitute one of the largest gene families in plants, playing pivotal roles in regulating plant growth and development, hormone signaling transduction, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, t...
The phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) family plays a crucial role in regulating flowering and other developmental processes, yet it remains insufficiently characterized in Chinese plum (Prunus salicina Lindl.). A comprehensive genome-wi...
Salt stress is one of the most important factors limiting rice growth and yield increase. Salt tolerance of rice at the bud burst (STB) stage determines whether germinated seeds can grow normally under salt stress, which is very important for direct...
Magnolias are widely cultivated for their beautiful flowers, but despite their popularity, the molecular mechanisms regulating flower bud differentiation have not been elucidated. Here, we used paraffin sections and RNA-seq to study the process of fl...
Cork oaks show a high capacity of bud sprouting as a response to injury, which is important for species survival when dealing with external factors, such as drought or fires. The characterization of the cork oak transcriptome involved in the differen...
Transcriptomic and gene expression analysis have greatly facilitated the identification and characterization of transcriptional regulatory factors and effectors involved in dormancy progression and other physiological processes orchestrated during bu...
Bud abortion is the main factor affecting hybrid seeds’ yield during broccoli cross breeding when using ogura cytoplasmic male sterile (ogu CMS) lines. However, the genes associated with bud abortion are poorly understood. We applied RNA sequen...
Tumor budding is associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition and diminished survival in a number of cancer types including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). In this study, we dissect the immune landscapes of patients with high grade vers...
Background: Flowers are important plant organs, and their development is correlated with yield in woody fruit trees. For Pyrus pyrifolia cultivar ‘Sucui 1’, the research on how DNA methylation accurately regulates the expression of TFs an...
As plant-specific transcription factors, the TIFY family genes are involved in the responses to a series of biotic and abiotic stresses and the regulation of the development of multiple organs. To explore the potential roles of the TIFY gene family i...
Pear buds exhibit inherent dormancy, during which carbohydrates play a pivotal role in dormancy release and germination. In this study, Pyrus pyrifolia ‘Cuiguan’ was employed as the experimental material to investigate the molecular mecha...
Dormancy is an adaptive mechanism that allows temperate deciduous plants to survive unfavorable winter conditions. In the present work, we investigated the possible function of abscisic acid (ABA) on the endodormancy process in pear. The ABA content...
The cytokinin response regulator (RR) gene is essential for cytokinin signal transduction, which plays a crucial role in plant growth and development. Here, we applied bioinformatics to Rhododendron delavayi’s genome to identify its RR gene fam...
Basic leucine zipper (bZIP), a conserved transcription factor widely found in eukaryotes, has important regulatory roles in plant growth. To understand the information related to the bZIP gene family in walnut, 88 JrbZIP genes were identified at the...
BRANCHED1 (BRC1) is a crucial member of the TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) gene family and is well known for playing a central role in shoot branching by controlling buds’ paradormancy. However, the expression characteristics and molecu...
Temperature is a key determinant of flowering time and floral pigmentation in plants, and dahlia (Dahlia pinnata) is particularly sensitive to thermal changes in its flower color. This study investigated how day/night temperature regimes regulate flo...
The S-adenosyl-l-methionine-dependent methyltransferase superfamily plays important roles in plant development. The buds of Lonicera japonica are used as Chinese medical material and foods; chinese people began domesticating L. japonica thousands of...
Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) is a vital woody oil tree species native to Northeast Asia, with its pine nuts serving as the primary global source of edible pine nuts globally due to their rich nutritional content. Currently, seed yield from Korean p...
Gametogenesis in diploid cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces four haploid meiotic products called spores. Spores are dormant until nutrients trigger germination, when they bud asexually or mate to return to the diploid state....
Chrysanthemum, one of the most popular ornamental plants in the world, is renowned for its brilliant colors and multifarious flower types. Thousands of gorgeous chrysanthemum cultivars exist thanks to both traditional breeding techniques and its char...
Double-spikes Phalaenopsis orchids have greater market value than those with single-spike. In this study, a gene designated as Spike Activator 1 (SPK1), which encodes a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, was isolated and characterize...
Restricting ribosome biosynthesis and assembly in response to nutrient starvation is a universal phenomenon that enables cells to survive with limited intracellular resources. When cells experience starvation, nutrient signaling pathways, such as the...
Tumor budding (TB) histology has become a critical biomarker for several solid cancers. Despite the accumulating evidence for the association of TB histology with poor prognosis, the biological characteristics of TB are little known about in the cont...
Knot-free timber production in Cunninghamia lanceolata depends critically on internodal characteristics, yet the mechanisms governing internode elongation remain poorly understood, hindering breeding efforts for longer-internode varieties. In this st...
Flowering is a complex developmental mechanism and is essential for successful reproduction in plants. Complex regulatory networks transform vegetative shoot apical meristems into inflorescence meristems. Further, floral meristems transition to flora...
Holm oak populations have deteriorated drastically due to oak decline syndrome. The first objective of the present study was to investigate the use of axillary budding and somatic embryogenesis (SE) to propagate asymptomatic holm oak genotypes identi...
In our recent work, we observed that triple-negative breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells respond to doxorubicin (DOX) via “mitotic slippage” (MS), discarding cytosolic damaged DNA during the process that provides their resistance to this genot...
The p21-activated kinases (PAKs) are important signaling proteins. They contribute to a surprisingly wide range of cellular processes and play critical roles in a number of human diseases including cancer, neurological disorders and cardiac diseases....
The study of pear dormancy mechanisms is currently a major research area in pear production and has high economic significance for agricultural production. We selected the southern sand pear cultivar Pyrus pyrifolia ‘Huanghua’ as the test...
Two important traits of Chinese cabbage, internode length and budding time, destroy the maintenance of rosette leaves in the vegetative growth stage and affect flowering in the reproductive growth stage. Internodes have received much attention and re...
Transition of grapevine buds from paradormancy to endodormancy is coordinated by changes in gene expression, phytohormones, transcription factors, and other molecular regulators, but the mechanisms involved in transcriptional and post-transcriptional...
Several sources of DNA damage compromise the integrity and stability of the genome of every organism. Specifically, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can have lethal consequences for the cell. To repair this type of DNA damage, the cells employ homolog...
Michelia ‘Xin’ is an evergreen rare ornamental tree species that undergoes FBD only once but blooms twice a year. However, the molecular mechanisms controlling its FBD process remain largely unknown. This study characterized the FBD proce...
The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is important for controlling the flowering of Lycoris radiata. However, the genetic control of this complex developmental process remains unclear. In this study, 18 shoot apical meristem (SAM) sam...
Bud dormancy is a critical adaptive trait in woody plants, essential for enduring harsh winter conditions. The relationship between bud break timing and cold resistance is complex and has been a subject of debate. This study utilizes a Genome-Wide As...
Radish floral bud abortion (FBA) is an adverse biological phenomenon that occurs during reproduction. Although FBA is a frequent occurrence, its molecular mechanism remains unknown. A transcript-derived fragment (TDF72), which was obtained by cDNA am...
Most broccoli cultivars or accessions exhibit green buds under appropriate growth conditions, which turn purple at cold temperatures. However, certain cultivars consistently maintain green buds both during normal growth and at cold temperatures. In t...
As a temperature-loving crop, rice is sensitive to low temperatures. With the popularization of direct-seeded rice, cold tolerance (CT) at the bud burst stage has become an important breeding goal. Here, we evaluated CT for 513 rice accessions at the...
Cyclocarya paliurus (Batal.) Iljinskaja, a unique species growing in southern China, is a multi-function tree species with medicinal, healthcare, material, and ornamental values. So far, sexual reproduction is the main method for extensive cultivatio...
The excessively concentrated ripening period of mulberries causes seasonal surplus. Fruit mulberry (Morus spp.) exhibits the unique trait of “simultaneous flowering and leaf flushing”, rendering budburst timing closely correlated with fru...
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