| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveDatabase 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 |