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Volume 8;  2008
Database
VitisExpDB: A database resource for grape functional genomics
Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Hong Lin, M Andrew Walker, Jiqiang Yao, and Edwin L Civerolo
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 23. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2359749
TriMEDB: A database to integrate transcribed markers and facilitate genetic studies of the tribe Triticeae
Keiichi Mochida, Daisuke Saisho, Takuhiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Sakurai, and Kazuo Shinozaki
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 72. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-72.
PMCID: PMC2474609
Pepper EST database: comprehensive in silico tool for analyzing the chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) transcriptome
Hyun-Jin Kim, Kwang-Hyun Baek, Seung-Won Lee, JungEun Kim, Bong-Woo Lee, Hye-Sun Cho, Woo Taek Kim, Doil Choi, and Cheol-Goo Hur
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 101. Published online 2008 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-101.
PMCID: PMC2575210
RICD: A rice indica cDNA database resource for rice functional genomics
Tingting Lu, Xuehui Huang, Chuanrang Zhu, Tao Huang, Qiang Zhao, Kabing Xie, Lizhong Xiong, Qifa Zhang, and Bin Han
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 118. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-118.
PMCID: PMC2605458
Software
Development of a novel data mining tool to find cis-elements in rice gene promoter regions
Koji Doi, Aeni Hosaka, Toshifumi Nagata, Kouji Satoh, Kohji Suzuki, Ramil Mauleon, Michael J Mendoza, Richard Bruskiewich, and Shoshi Kikuchi
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 20. Published online 2008 February 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2270273
LAMINA: a tool for rapid quantification of leaf size and shape parameters
Max Bylesjö, Vincent Segura, Raju Y Soolanayakanahally, Anne M Rae, Johan Trygg, Petter Gustafsson, Stefan Jansson, and Nathaniel R Street
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 82. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-82.
PMCID: PMC2500018
Research Articles
Bioinformatic analysis of the CLE signaling peptide family
Karsten Oelkers, Nicolas Goffard, Georg F Weiller, Peter M Gresshoff, Ulrike Mathesius, and Tancred Frickey
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 1. Published online 2008 January 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2254619
Characterization of phenylpropanoid pathway genes within European maize (Zea mays L.) inbreds
Jeppe Reitan Andersen, Imad Zein, Gerhard Wenzel, Birte Darnhofer, Joachim Eder, Milena Ouzunova, and Thomas Lübberstedt
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 2. Published online 2008 January 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2265712
Different subcellular localizations and functions of Arabidopsis myosin VIII
Lior Golomb, Mohamad Abu-Abied, Eduard Belausov, and Einat Sadot
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 3. Published online 2008 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2275265
Evolution of the C4 phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase promoter of the C4 species Flaveria trinervia: the role of the proximal promoter region
Sascha Engelmann, Corinna Zogel, Maria Koczor, Ute Schlue, Monika Streubel, and Peter Westhoff
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 4. Published online 2008 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2241601
Quantitative 1H NMR metabolomics reveals extensive metabolic reprogramming of primary and secondary metabolism in elicitor-treated opium poppy cell cultures
Katherine G Zulak, Aalim M Weljie, Hans J Vogel, and Peter J Facchini
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 5. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2257952
A high-throughput screening system for barley/powdery mildew interactions based on automated analysis of light micrographs
Alexander Ihlow, Patrick Schweizer, and Udo Seiffert
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2262080
Identification of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium in sunflower elite inbred lines using the candidate gene approach
Corina M Fusari, Verónica V Lia, H Esteban Hopp, Ruth A Heinz, and Norma B Paniego
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 7. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2266750
Sgt1, but not Rar1, is essential for the RB-mediated broad-spectrum resistance to potato late blight
Pudota B Bhaskar, John A Raasch, Lara C Kramer, Pavel Neumann, Susan M Wielgus, Sandra Austin-Phillips, and Jiming Jiang
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 8. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2267190
TILLING to detect induced mutations in soybean
Jennifer L Cooper, Bradley J Till, Robert G Laport, Margaret C Darlow, Justin M Kleffner, Aziz Jamai, Tarik El-Mellouki, Shiming Liu, Rae Ritchie, Niels Nielsen, Kristin D Bilyeu, Khalid Meksem, Luca Comai, and Steven Henikoff
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 9. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2266751
Olive cultivar origin is a major cause of polymorphism for Ole e 1 pollen allergen
AbdelMounim Hamman-Khalifa, Antonio Jesús Castro, José Carlos Jiménez-López, María Isabel Rodríguez-García, and Juan de Dios Alché
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 10. Published online 2008 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2275730
Transcriptomic identification of candidate genes involved in sunflower responses to chilling and salt stresses based on cDNA microarray analysis
Paula Fernandez, Julio Di Rienzo, Luis Fernandez, H Esteban Hopp, Norma Paniego, and Ruth A Heinz
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 11. Published online 2008 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2265713
Light has a specific role in modulating Arabidopsis gene expression at low temperature
Arto J Soitamo, Mirva Piippo, Yagut Allahverdiyeva, Natalia Battchikova, and Eva-Mari Aro
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 13. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2253524
BAC libraries construction from the ancestral diploid genomes of the allotetraploid cultivated peanut
Patricia M Guimarães, Olivier Garsmeur, Karina Proite, Soraya CM Leal-Bertioli, Guilhermo Seijo, Christian Chaine, David J Bertioli, and Angelique D'Hont
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 14. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2254395
Analysis of non-TIR NBS-LRR resistance gene analogs in Musa acuminata Colla: Isolation, RFLP marker development, and physical mapping
Robert NG Miller, David J Bertioli, Franc C Baurens, Candice MR Santos, Paulo C Alves, Natalia F Martins, Roberto C Togawa, Manoel T Souza, Júnior, and Georgios J Pappas, Júnior
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 15. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2262081
Global gene expression analysis of apple fruit development from the floral bud to ripe fruit
Bart J Janssen, Kate Thodey, Robert J Schaffer, Rob Alba, Lena Balakrishnan, Rebecca Bishop, Judith H Bowen, Ross N Crowhurst, Andrew P Gleave, Susan Ledger, Steve McArtney, Franz B Pichler, Kimberley C Snowden, and Shayna Ward
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 16. Published online 2008 February 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2287172
Cross-species EST alignments reveal novel and conserved alternative splicing events in legumes
Bing-Bing Wang, Mike O'Toole, Volker Brendel, and Nevin D Young
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 17. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2277414
Characterization of paralogous protein families in rice
Haining Lin, Shu Ouyang, Amy Egan, Kan Nobuta, Brian J Haas, Wei Zhu, Xun Gu, Joana C Silva, Blake C Meyers, and C Robin Buell
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 18. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2275729
Transcriptional analysis of Pinus sylvestris roots challenged with the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor
Gregory Heller, Aleksandra Adomas, Guosheng Li, Jason Osborne, Len van Zyl, Ron Sederoff, Roger D Finlay, Jan Stenlid, and Frederick O Asiegbu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 19. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2268937
Transcriptional profiling of Medicago truncatula meristematic root cells
Peta Holmes, Nicolas Goffard, Georg F Weiller, Barry G Rolfe, and Nijat Imin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 21. Published online 2008 February 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2277415
AtMRP6/AtABCC6, an ATP-Binding Cassette transporter gene expressed during early steps of seedling development and up-regulated by cadmium in Arabidopsis thaliana
Stéphane Gaillard, Hélène Jacquet, Alain Vavasseur, Nathalie Leonhardt, and Cyrille Forestier
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 22. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2291051
Co-expression and promoter content analyses assign a role in biotic and abiotic stress responses to plant natriuretic peptides
Stuart Meier, René Bastian, Lara Donaldson, Shane Murray, Vladimir Bajic, and Chris Gehring
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 24. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2268938
Identification of novel and candidate miRNAs in rice by high throughput sequencing
Ramanjulu Sunkar, Xuefeng Zhou, Yun Zheng, Weixiong Zhang, and Jian-Kang Zhu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 25. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2292181
Rice Yellow Mottle Virus stress responsive genes from susceptible and tolerant rice genotypes
Marjolaine Ventelon-Debout, Christine Tranchant-Dubreuil, Thi-Thu-Huang Nguyen, Martine Bangratz, Christelle Siré, Michel Delseny, and Christophe Brugidou
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 26. Published online 2008 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2275266
Analysis of tall fescue ESTs representing different abiotic stresses, tissue types and developmental stages
MA Rouf Mian, Yan Zhang, Zeng-Yu Wang, Ji-Yi Zhang, Xiaofei Cheng, Lei Chen, Konstantin Chekhovskiy, Xinbin Dai, Chunhong Mao, Foo Cheung, Xuechun Zhao, Ji He, Angela D Scott, Christopher D Town, and Gregory D May
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 27. Published online 2008 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2323379
Rapid EST isolation from chromosome 1R of rye
Ruo-Nan Zhou, Rui Shi, Shu-Mei Jiang, Wei-Bo Yin, Huang-Huang Wang, Yu-Hong Chen, Jun Hu, Richard RC Wang, Xiang-Qi Zhang, and Zan-Min Hu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 28. Published online 2008 March 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2322994
The soybean-Phytophthora resistance locus Rps1-k encompasses coiled coil-nucleotide binding-leucine rich repeat-like genes and repetitive sequences
Hongyu Gao and Madan K Bhattacharyya
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 29. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2330051
Two alternative recessive quantitative trait loci influence resistance to spring black stem and leaf spot in Medicago truncatula
Lars G Kamphuis, Judith Lichtenzveig, Richard P Oliver, and Simon R Ellwood
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 30. Published online 2008 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2324085
Construction of nested genetic core collections to optimize the exploitation of natural diversity in Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sativa
Loïc Le Cunff, Alexandre Fournier-Level, Valérie Laucou, Silvia Vezzulli, Thierry Lacombe, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, and Patrice This
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 31. Published online 2008 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2375891
Spatial distribution of transcript changes in the maize primary root elongation zone at low water potential
William G Spollen, Wenjing Tao, Babu Valliyodan, Kegui Chen, Lindsey G Hejlek, Jong-Joo Kim, Mary E LeNoble, Jinming Zhu, Hans J Bohnert, David Henderson, Daniel P Schachtman, Georgia E Davis, Gordon K Springer, Robert E Sharp, and Henry T Nguyen
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 32. Published online 2008 April 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2364623
Gene expression analyses in maize inbreds and hybrids with varying levels of heterosis
Robert M Stupar, Jack M Gardiner, Aaron G Oldre, William J Haun, Vicki L Chandler, and Nathan M Springer
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 33. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2365949
Comparative BAC end sequence analysis of tomato and potato reveals overrepresentation of specific gene families in potato
Erwin Datema, Lukas A Mueller, Robert Buels, James J Giovannoni, Richard GF Visser, Willem J Stiekema, and Roeland CHJ van Ham
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 34. Published online 2008 April 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2324086
Arabidopsis thaliana outer ovule integument morphogenesis: Ectopic expression of KNAT1 reveals a compensation mechanism
Elisabeth Truernit and Jim Haseloff
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 35. Published online 2008 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2330050
Phenotypic instability of Arabidopsis alleles affecting a disease Resistance gene cluster
Hankuil Yi and Eric J Richards
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 36. Published online 2008 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2374787
In silico identification of conserved microRNAs in large number of diverse plant species
Ramanjulu Sunkar and Guru Jagadeeswaran
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 37. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2358906
Berry and phenology-related traits in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.): From Quantitative Trait Loci to underlying genes
Laura Costantini, Juri Battilana, Flutura Lamaj, Girolamo Fanizza, and Maria Stella Grando
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 38. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2395262
Metabolic pathways of the wheat (Triticum aestivum) endosperm amyloplast revealed by proteomics
Frances M Dupont
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 39. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2383896
Ornithine-δ-aminotransferase is essential for Arginine Catabolism but not for Proline Biosynthesis
Dietmar Funck, Bettina Stadelhofer, and Wolfgang Koch
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 40. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2377265
The IBR5 phosphatase promotes Arabidopsis auxin responses through a novel mechanism distinct from TIR1-mediated repressor degradation
Lucia C Strader, Melanie Monroe-Augustus, and Bonnie Bartel
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 41. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-41.
PMCID: PMC2374786
Overexpression of mtDNA-associated AtWhy2 compromises mitochondrial function
Alexandre Maréchal, Jean-Sébastien Parent, Mohammed Sabar, Félix Véronneau-Lafortune, Charbel Abou-Rached, and Normand Brisson
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 42. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-42.
PMCID: PMC2377264
A spatial dissection of the Arabidopsis floral transcriptome by MPSS
Jason A Peiffer, Shail Kaushik, Hajime Sakai, Mario Arteaga-Vazquez, Nidia Sanchez-Leon, Hassan Ghazal, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, and Blake C Meyers
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 43. Published online 2008 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2375892
Characterisation of the tryptophan synthase alpha subunit in maize
Verena Kriechbaumer, Linda Weigang, Andreas Fießelmann, Thomas Letzel, Monika Frey, Alfons Gierl, and Erich Glawischnig
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 44. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2395261
Unexpected complexity of the Aquaporin gene family in the moss Physcomitrella patens
Jonas ÅH Danielson and Urban Johanson
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 45. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-45.
PMCID: PMC2386804
Transcriptomic changes induced by acute ozone in resistant and sensitive Medicago truncatula accessions
Michael C Puckette, Yuhong Tang, and Ramamurthy Mahalingam
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 46. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2395263
An extensive (co-)expression analysis tool for the cytochrome P450 superfamily in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jürgen Ehlting, Vincent Sauveplane, Alexandre Olry, Jean-François Ginglinger, Nicholas J Provart, and Danièle Werck-Reichhart
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 47. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-47.
PMCID: PMC2383897
The redox-sensitive transcription factor Rap2.4a controls nuclear expression of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin A and other chloroplast antioxidant enzymes
Jehad Shaikhali, Isabelle Heiber, Thorsten Seidel, Elke Ströher, Heiko Hiltscher, Stefan Birkmann, Karl-Josef Dietz, and Margarete Baier
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 48. Published online 2008 April 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-48.
PMCID: PMC2386467
The SNF1-type serine-threonine protein kinase SAPK4 regulates stress-responsive gene expression in rice
Calliste J Diédhiou, Olga V Popova, Karl-Josef Dietz, and Dortje Golldack
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 49. Published online 2008 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2386468
Cupin: A candidate molecular structure for the Nep1-like protein family
Adelmo L Cechin, Marialva Sinigaglia, Ney Lemke, Sérgio Echeverrigaray, Odalys G Cabrera, Gonçalo AG Pereira, and José CM Mombach
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 50. Published online 2008 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-50.
PMCID: PMC2396628
Development of new genomic microsatellite markers from robusta coffee (Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner) showing broad cross-species transferability and utility in genetic studies
Prasad Suresh Hendre, Regur Phanindranath, V Annapurna, Albert Lalremruata, and Ramesh K Aggarwal
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 51. Published online 2008 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-51.
PMCID: PMC2396172
A flax fibre proteome: identification of proteins enriched in bast fibres
Naomi SC Hotte and Michael K Deyholos
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 52. Published online 2008 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-52.
PMCID: PMC2408578
Comparative expression profiling in grape (Vitis vinifera) berries derived from frequency analysis of ESTs and MPSS signatures
Alberto Iandolino, Kan Nobuta, Francisco Goes da Silva, Douglas R Cook, and Blake C Meyers
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 53. Published online 2008 May 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-53.
PMCID: PMC2423195
Control of trichome branching by Chromatin Assembly Factor-1
Vivien Exner, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Lars Hennig
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 54. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-54.
PMCID: PMC2413220
Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers and their application for diversity assessment in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea)
Luu M Cuc, Emma S Mace, Jonathan H Crouch, Vu D Quang, Tran D Long, and Rajeev K Varshney
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 55. Published online 2008 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-55.
PMCID: PMC2416452
Complementation of a phycocyanin-bilin lyase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a nucleomorph-encoded open reading frame from the cryptophyte Guillardia theta
Kathrin Bolte, Oliver Kawach, Julia Prechtl, Nicole Gruenheit, Julius Nyalwidhe, and Uwe-G Maier
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 56. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-56.
PMCID: PMC2408579
Insight into the early steps of root hair formation revealed by the procuste1 cellulose synthase mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana
Sunil K Singh, Urs Fischer, Manoj Singh, Markus Grebe, and Alan Marchant
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 57. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-57.
PMCID: PMC2396171
Constitutive Expressor of Pathogenesis-Related Genes5 affects cell wall biogenesis and trichome development
Ginger Brininstool, Remmy Kasili, L Alice Simmons, Viktor Kirik, Martin Hülskamp, and John C Larkin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 58. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-58.
PMCID: PMC2409340
Comparative chloroplast genomics and phylogenetics of Fagopyrum esculentum ssp. ancestrale – A wild ancestor of cultivated buckwheat
Maria D Logacheva, Tahir H Samigullin, Amit Dhingra, and Aleksey A Penin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 59. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-59.
PMCID: PMC2430205
Pectic homogalacturonan masks abundant sets of xyloglucan epitopes in plant cell walls
Susan E Marcus, Yves Verhertbruggen, Cécile Hervé, José J Ordaz-Ortiz, Vladimir Farkas, Henriette L Pedersen, William GT Willats, and J Paul Knox
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 60. Published online 2008 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-60.
PMCID: PMC2409341
Global expression profiling in leaves of free-growing aspen
Andreas Sjödin, Kirsten Wissel, Max Bylesjö, Johan Trygg, and Stefan Jansson
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 61. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-61.
PMCID: PMC2416451
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) tissue culture ESTs: Identifying genes associated with callogenesis and embryogenesis
Eng-Ti L Low, Halimah Alias, Soo-Heong Boon, Elyana M Shariff, Chi-Yee A Tan, Leslie CL Ooi, Suan-Choo Cheah, Abdul-Rahim Raha, Kiew-Lian Wan, and Rajinder Singh
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 62. Published online 2008 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-62.
PMCID: PMC2442076
Rapid and dynamic subcellular reorganization following mechanical stimulation of Arabidopsis epidermal cells mimics responses to fungal and oomycete attack
Adrienne R Hardham, Daigo Takemoto, and Rosemary G White
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 63. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-63.
PMCID: PMC2435237
Loss of the N-terminal domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase induces photodamage during greening of Arabidopsis seedlings
Akihiro Yamasato, Ryouichi Tanaka, and Ayumi Tanaka
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 64. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-64.
PMCID: PMC2435540
The effects of enhanced methionine synthesis on amino acid and anthocyanin content of potato tubers
Gábor Dancs, Mihály Kondrák, and Zsófia Bánfalvi
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 65. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-65.
PMCID: PMC2438360
A physical map of the heterozygous grapevine 'Cabernet Sauvignon' allows mapping candidate genes for disease resistance
Marco Moroldo, Sophie Paillard, Raffaella Marconi, Legeai Fabrice, Aurelie Canaguier, Corinne Cruaud, Veronique De Berardinis, Cecile Guichard, Veronique Brunaud, Isabelle Le Clainche, Simone Scalabrin, Raffaele Testolin, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Michele Morgante, and Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 66. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-66.
PMCID: PMC2442077
Synteny conservation between two distantly-related Rosaceae genomes: Prunus (the stone fruits) and Fragaria (the strawberry)
Santiago Vilanova, Daniel J Sargent, Pere Arús, and Amparo Monfort
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 67. Published online 2008 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-67.
PMCID: PMC2442709
Roles of Arabidopsis WRKY3 and WRKY4 Transcription Factors in Plant Responses to Pathogens
Zhibing Lai, KM Vinod, Zuyu Zheng, Baofang Fan, and Zhixiang Chen
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 68. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-68.
PMCID: PMC2464603
A blackberry (Rubus L.) expressed sequence tag library for the development of simple sequence repeat markers
Kim S Lewers, Chris A Saski, Brandon J Cuthbertson, David C Henry, Meg E Staton, Dorrie S Main, Anik L Dhanaraj, Lisa J Rowland, and Jeff P Tomkins
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 69. Published online 2008 June 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-69.
PMCID: PMC2474608
Complete nucleotide sequence of the Cryptomeria japonica D. Don. chloroplast genome and comparative chloroplast genomics: diversified genomic structure of coniferous species
Tomonori Hirao, Atsushi Watanabe, Manabu Kurita, Teiji Kondo, and Katsuhiko Takata
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 70. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-70.
PMCID: PMC2443145
Expression of cell wall related genes in basal and ear internodes of silking brown-midrib-3, caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) down-regulated, and normal maize plants
Sabine Guillaumie, Deborah Goffner, Odile Barbier, Jean-Pierre Martinant, Magalie Pichon, and Yves Barrière
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 71. Published online 2008 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-71.
PMCID: PMC2453129
Transcriptional profiling of the pea shoot apical meristem reveals processes underlying its function and maintenance
Chui E Wong, Prem L Bhalla, Harald Ottenhof, and Mohan B Singh
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 73. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-73.
PMCID: PMC2478663
Head-neck domain of Arabidopsis myosin XI, MYA2, fused with GFP produces F-actin patterns that coincide with fast organelle streaming in different plant cells
Nadine Walter and Carola L Holweg
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 74. Published online 2008 July 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-74.
PMCID: PMC2504477
Vv-AMP1, a ripening induced peptide from Vitis vinifera shows strong antifungal activity
Abré de Beer and Melané A Vivier
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 75. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-75.
PMCID: PMC2492866
Articulation of three core metabolic processes in Arabidopsis: Fatty acid biosynthesis, leucine catabolism and starch metabolism
Wieslawa I Mentzen, Jianling Peng, Nick Ransom, Basil J Nikolau, and Eve Syrkin Wurtele
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 76. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-76.
PMCID: PMC2483283
The Arabidopsis thaliana response regulator ARR22 is a putative AHP phospho-histidine phosphatase expressed in the chalaza of developing seeds
Jakub Horák, Christopher Grefen, Kenneth W Berendzen, Achim Hahn, York-Dieter Stierhof, Bettina Stadelhofer, Mark Stahl, Csaba Koncz, and Klaus Harter
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 77. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-77.
PMCID: PMC2478664
Variation in DNA methylation patterns of grapevine somaclones (Vitis vinifera L.)
Paul Schellenbaum, Volker Mohler, Gerhard Wenzel, and Bernard Walter
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 78. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-78.
PMCID: PMC2491626
Correlation between amino acid residues converted by RNA editing and functional residues in protein three-dimensional structures in plant organelles
Kei Yura and Mitiko Go
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 79. Published online 2008 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-79.
PMCID: PMC2488346
Quantitative analysis of changes in actin microfilament contribution to cell plate development in plant cytokinesis
Takumi Higaki, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Toshio Sano, and Seiichiro Hasezawa
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 80. Published online 2008 July 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-80.
PMCID: PMC2490694
Comprehensive analysis of single-repeat R3 MYB proteins in epidermal cell patterning and their transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis
Shucai Wang, Leah Hubbard, Ying Chang, Jianjun Guo, John Schiefelbein, and Jin-Gui Chen
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 81. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-81.
PMCID: PMC2492867
Analysis of the grape MYB R2R3 subfamily reveals expanded wine quality-related clades and conserved gene structure organization across Vitis and Arabidopsis genomes
José Tomás Matus, Felipe Aquea, and Patricio Arce-Johnson
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 83. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-83.
PMCID: PMC2507771
Genomic and expression analysis of glycosyl hydrolase family 35 genes from rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Waraporn Tanthanuch, Mallika Chantarangsee, Janjira Maneesan, and James Ketudat-Cairns
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 84. Published online 2008 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-84.
PMCID: PMC2531105
Plant-like substitutions in the large-subunit carboxy terminus of Chlamydomonas Rubisco increase CO2/O2 Specificity
Sriram Satagopan and Robert J Spreitzer
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 85. Published online 2008 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-85.
PMCID: PMC2527014
The plant Apolipoprotein D ortholog protects Arabidopsis against oxidative stress
Jean-Benoit F Charron, Francois Ouellet, Mario Houde, and Fathey Sarhan
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 86. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-86.
PMCID: PMC2527315
Transcriptional responses of Arabidopsis thaliana plants to As (V) stress
Jason M Abercrombie, Matthew D Halfhill, Priya Ranjan, Murali R Rao, Arnold M Saxton, Joshua S Yuan, and C Neal Stewart, Jr
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 87. Published online 2008 August 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-87.
PMCID: PMC2547109
Relationship between homoeologous regulatory and structural genes in allopolyploid genome – A case study in bread wheat
Elena K Khlestkina, Marion S Röder, and Elena A Salina
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 88. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-88.
PMCID: PMC2538534
Physiological and molecular characterization of aluminum resistance in Medicago truncatula
Divya Chandran, Natasha Sharopova, Kathryn A VandenBosch, David F Garvin, and Deborah A Samac
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 89. Published online 2008 August 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-89.
PMCID: PMC2533010
Survey of extrachromosomal circular DNA derived from plant satellite repeats
Alice Navrátilová, Andrea Koblížková, and Jiří Macas
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 90. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-90.
PMCID: PMC2543021
Transcriptional profiling of pea ABR17 mediated changes in gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Sowmya S Krishnaswamy, Sanjeeva Srivastava, Mohsen Mohammadi, Muhammad H Rahman, Michael K Deyholos, and Nat NV Kav
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 91. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-91.
PMCID: PMC2559843
Natural variation in DNA methylation in ribosomal RNA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana
Hye Ryun Woo and Eric J Richards
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 92. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-92.
PMCID: PMC2551617
Small RNA regulation of ovule development in the cotton plant, G. hirsutum L
Ibrokhim Y Abdurakhmonov, Eric J Devor, Zabardast T Buriev, Lingyan Huang, Abdusalom Makamov, Shukhrat E Shermatov, Tohir Bozorov, Fakhriddin N Kushanov, Gafurjon T Mavlonov, and Abdusattor Abdukarimov
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 93. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-93.
PMCID: PMC2564936
A new picture of cell wall protein dynamics in elongating cells of Arabidopsis thaliana: Confirmed actors and newcomers
Muhammad Irshad, Hervé Canut, Gisèle Borderies, Rafael Pont-Lezica, and Elisabeth Jamet
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 94. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-94.
PMCID: PMC2551616
A first survey of the rye (Secale cereale) genome composition through BAC end sequencing of the short arm of chromosome 1R
Jan Bartoš, Etienne Paux, Robert Kofler, Miroslava Havránková, David Kopecký, Pavla Suchánková, Jan Šafář, Hana Šimková, Christopher D Town, Tamas Lelley, Catherine Feuillet, and Jaroslav Doležel
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 95. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-95.
PMCID: PMC2565679
Overlapping functions of the starch synthases SSII and SSIII in amylopectin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis
Xiaoli Zhang, Nicolas Szydlowski, David Delvallé, Christophe D'Hulst, Martha G James, and Alan M Myers
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 96. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-96.
PMCID: PMC2566982
Transferability and polymorphism of barley EST-SSR markers used for phylogenetic analysis in Hordeum chilense
Almudena Castillo, Hikmet Budak, Rajeev K Varshney, Gabriel Dorado, Andreas Graner, and Pilar Hernandez
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 97. Published online 2008 September 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-97.
PMCID: PMC2569940
Cloning, characterisation and comparative analysis of a starch synthase IV gene in wheat: functional and evolutionary implications
Marina Leterrier, Lynn D Holappa, Karen E Broglie, and Diane M Beckles
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 98. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-98.
PMCID: PMC2576272
Regulon organization of Arabidopsis
Wieslawa I Mentzen and Eve Syrkin Wurtele
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 99. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-99.
PMCID: PMC2567982
RNAi-directed downregulation of OsBADH2 results in aroma (2-acetyl-1-pyrroline) production in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Xiangli Niu, Wei Tang, Weizao Huang, Guangjun Ren, Qilin Wang, Di Luo, Yingyong Xiao, Shimei Yang, Feng Wang, Bao-Rong Lu, Fangyuan Gao, Tiegang Lu, and Yongsheng Liu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 100. Published online 2008 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-100.
PMCID: PMC2588449
Transgenic rice expressing Allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL) exhibits high-level resistance against major sap-sucking pests
Bharathi Yarasi, Vijayakumar Sadumpati, China Pasalu Immanni, Dasavantha Reddy Vudem, and Venkateswara Rao Khareedu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 102. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-102.
PMCID: PMC2579298
Identification, cloning and characterization of sis7 and sis10 sugar-insensitive mutants of Arabidopsis
Yadong Huang, Chun Yao Li, Kelly D Biddle, and Susan I Gibson
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 104. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-104.
PMCID: PMC2579432
Natural variation in CBF gene sequence, gene expression and freezing tolerance in the Versailles core collection of Arabidopsis thaliana
Heather I McKhann, Carine Gery, Aurélie Bérard, Sylvie Lévêque, Ellen Zuther, Dirk K Hincha, S De Mita, Dominique Brunel, and Evelyne Téoulé
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 105. Published online 2008 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-105.
PMCID: PMC2579297
Genetic structure, diversity, and allelic richness in composite collection and reference set in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Hari D Upadhyaya, Sangam L Dwivedi, Michael Baum, Rajeev K Varshney, Sripada M Udupa, Cholenahalli LL Gowda, David Hoisington, and Sube Singh
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 106. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-106.
PMCID: PMC2583987
A novel screening protocol for the isolation of hydrogen producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strains
Thilo Rühle, Anja Hemschemeier, Anastasios Melis, and Thomas Happe
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 107. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-107.
PMCID: PMC2576467
RACK1 genes regulate plant development with unequal genetic redundancy in Arabidopsis
Jianjun Guo and Jin-Gui Chen
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 108. Published online 2008 October 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-108.
PMCID: PMC2577656
Host-plant-mediated effects of Nadefensin on herbivore and pathogen resistance in Nicotiana attenuata
Cbgowda Rayapuram and Ian T Baldwin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 109. Published online 2008 October 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-109.
PMCID: PMC2613890
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of super-embryogenic Medicago truncatula explant cultures
Nijat Imin, Nicolas Goffard, Mahira Nizamidin, and Barry G Rolfe
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 110. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-110.
PMCID: PMC2605756
Molecular population genetics and gene expression analysis of duplicated CBF genes of Arabidopsis thaliana
Yen-Heng Lin, Shih-Ying Hwang, Po-Yen Hsu, Yu-Chung Chiang, Chun-Lin Huang, Chun-Neng Wang, and Tsan-Piao Lin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 111. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-111.
PMCID: PMC2588587
Exploring valid reference genes for gene expression studies in Brachypodium distachyon by real-time PCR
Shin-Young Hong, Pil Joon Seo, Moon-Sik Yang, Fengning Xiang, and Chung-Mo Park
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 112. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-112.
PMCID: PMC2588586
Systemic resistance and lipoxygenase-related defence response induced in tomato by Pseudomonas putida strain BTP1
Adam Akram, Marc Ongena, Francéline Duby, Jacques Dommes, and Philippe Thonart
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 113. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-113.
PMCID: PMC2596797
Transcriptomic profiling of mature embryo from an elite super-hybrid rice LYP9 and its parental lines
Xiaomeng Ge, Weihua Chen, Shuhui Song, Weiwei Wang, Songnian Hu, and Jun Yu
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 114. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-114.
PMCID: PMC2596138
Large-scale collection and annotation of full-length enriched cDNAs from a model halophyte, Thellungiella halophila
Teruaki Taji, Tetsuya Sakurai, Keiichi Mochida, Atsushi Ishiwata, Atsushi Kurotani, Yasushi Totoki, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Motoaki Seki, Hirokazu Ono, Yoichi Sakata, Shigeo Tanaka, and Kazuo Shinozaki
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 115. Published online 2008 November 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-115.
PMCID: PMC2621223
Assessment of allelic diversity in intron-containing Mal d 1 genes and their association to apple allergenicity
Zhongshan Gao, Eric W van de Weg, Catarina I Matos, Paul Arens, Suzanne THP Bolhaar, Andre C Knulst, Yinghui Li, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, and Luud JWJ Gilissen
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 116. Published online 2008 November 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-116.
PMCID: PMC2596139
Morphological and molecular characterization of a spontaneously tuberizing potato mutant: an insight into the regulatory mechanisms of tuber induction
Lukas Fischer, Helena Lipavska, Jean-Francois Hausman, and Zdenek Opatrny
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 117. Published online 2008 November 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-117.
PMCID: PMC2613151
The MYST histone acetyltransferases are essential for gametophyte development in Arabidopsis
David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed, Yves Henry, Séverine Domenichini, Wanhui Kim, Dao-Xiu Zhou, and Marianne Delarue
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 121. Published online 2008 November 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-121.
PMCID: PMC2606689
Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel miRNAs expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice
Séverine Lacombe, Hiroshi Nagasaki, Carole Santi, David Duval, Benoît Piégu, Martine Bangratz, Jean-Christophe Breitler, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Christophe Brugidou, Judith Hirsch, Xiaofeng Cao, Claire Brice, Olivier Panaud, Wojciech M Karlowski, Yutaka Sato, and Manuel Echeverria
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 123. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-123.
PMCID: PMC2607281
A putative autonomous 20.5 kb-CACTA transposon insertion in an F3'H allele identifies a new CACTA transposon subfamily in Glycine max
Gracia Zabala and Lila Vodkin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 124. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-124.
PMCID: PMC2613891
A set of microsatellite markers with long core repeat optimized for grape (Vitis spp.) genotyping
Guido Cipriani, Maria Teresa Marrazzo, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Antonella Pfeiffer, Michele Morgante, and Raffaele Testolin
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 127. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-127.
PMCID: PMC2625351
Methodology Articles
SNP high-throughput screening in grapevine using the SNPlex™ genotyping system
Massimo Pindo, Silvia Vezzulli, Giuseppina Coppola, Dustin A Cartwright, Andrey Zharkikh, Riccardo Velasco, and Michela Troggio
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 12. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2268689
Applying genotyping (TILLING) and phenotyping analyses to elucidate gene function in a chemically induced sorghum mutant population
Zhanguo Xin, Ming Li Wang, Noelle A Barkley, Gloria Burow, Cleve Franks, Gary Pederson, and John Burke
BMC Plant Biol. 2008; 8: 103. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-103.
PMCID: PMC2572618
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