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BMC Plant Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional and developmental aspects of plants.
BMC Plant Biology (ISSN 1471-2229) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :125
Arabidopsis ESKIMO1 mutant lines, already known to have increased tolerance to freezing, are also shown to be more tolerant to mild drought stress and to salt stress, suggesting the gene has an important role in water economy
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :107
A novel screening protocol identifies Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants that produce hydrogen without the need for sulfur depletion, offering a first step towards isolating a strain useful for hydrogen gas production.
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :99
In response to environmental and other experimental perturbations, the Arabidopsis transcriptome shows 998 regulons of co-expressed genes, corresponding to many known biological processes but also including many unannotated genes.
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Construction of 12 EST libraries and characterization of a 12,226 EST dataset for chicory (Cichorium intybus) root, leaves and nodules in the context of carbohydrate metabolism investigation Nicolas Dauchot, Dominique Mingeot, Benedicte Purnelle, Celine Muys, Bernard Watillon, Marc Boutry, Pierre Van Cutsem BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :14 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A consensus genetic map of sorghum that integrates multiple component maps and high-throughput Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers Emma S Mace, Jean-Francois Rami, Sophie Bouchet, Patricia E Klein, Robert R Klein, Andrzej Kilian, Peter Wenzl, Ling Xia, Kirsten Halloran, David R Jordan BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :13 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Improper excess light energy dissipation in Arabidopsis results in a metabolic reprogramming Martin Frenkel, Carsten Kulheim, Hanna Johansson Jankanpaa, Oskar Skogstrom, Luca Dall'Osto, Jon Agren, Roberto Bassi, Thomas Moritz, Jon Moen, Stefan Jansson BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :12 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Expression of genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism in cotton stems and roots Earl W Taliercio, Gabriela Romano, Jodi Scheffler, Brian G Ayre BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :11 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Medicago truncatula and Glomus intraradices gene expression in cortical cells harboring arbuscules in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis S KAREN Gomez, Helene Javot, Prasit Deewatthanawong, Ivone Torres-Jerez, Yuhong Tang, Elison B Blancaflor, Michael K Udvardi, Maria J Harrison BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :10 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Differential effectiveness of Serratia plymuthica IC1270-induced systemic resistance against hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic leaf pathogens in rice David De Vleesschauwer, Leonid Chernin, Monica Hofte BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :9 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evidence for separate translocation pathways in determining cadmium accumulation in grain and aerial plant parts in rice Takayuki Kashiwagi, Kumiko Shindoh, Naoki Hirotsu, Ken Ishimaru BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :8 (21 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Effective carbon partitioning driven by exotic phloem-specific regulatory elements fused to the Arabidopsis thaliana AtSUC2 sucrose-proton symporter gene Avinash C Srivastava, Savita Ganesan, Ihab O Ismail, Brian G Ayre BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :7 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis developing stems: a close-up on cell wall genes Zoran Minic, Elisabeth Jamet, Helene San-Clemente, Sandra Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Renou, Christophe Rihouey, Denis PO Okinyo, Caroline Proux, Patrice Lerouge, Lise Jouanin BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :6 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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In planta localisation patterns of MADS domain proteins during floral development in Arabidopsis thaliana Susan L Urbanus, Stefan de Folter, Anna V Shchennikova, Kerstin Kaufmann, Richard GH Immink, Gerco C Angenent BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :5 (12 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Tracking costs of virulence in natural populations of the wheat pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici Bochra Bahri, Oliver Kaltz, Marc Leconte, Claude de Vallavieille-Pope, Jerome Enjalbert BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :26 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Sequence mining and transcript profiling to explore cyst nematode parasitism Axel A Elling, Makedonka Mitreva, Xiaowu Gai, John Martin, Justin Recknor, Eric L Davis, Richard S Hussey, Dan Nettleton, James P McCarter, Thomas J Baum BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :58 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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An Ac/Ds-mediated gene trap system for functional genomics in barley Katina Lazarow, Stephanie Lutticke BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :55 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The tep1 gene of Sinorhizobium meliloti coding for a putative transmembrane efflux protein and N-acetyl glucosamine affect nod gene expression and nodulation of alfalfa plants Pieter van Dillewijn, Juan Sanjuan, Jose Olivares, Maria Jose Soto BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :17 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Coordinations between gene modules control the operation of plant amino acid metabolic networks Hadar Less, Gad Galili BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3 :14 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Generation of a predicted protein database from EST data and application to iTRAQ analyses in grape (Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Sauvignon) berries at ripening initiation Joost Lucker, Mario Laszczak, Derek Smith, Steven T. Lund BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :50 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Infection and genotype remodel the entire soybean transcriptome Lecong Zhou, Santiago X. Mideros, Lei Bao, Regina Hanlon, Felipe D. Arredondo, Sucheta Tripathy, Konstantinos Krampis, Adam Jerauld, Clive Evans, Steven K. St. Martin, M. A. Saghai Maroof, Ina Hoeschele, Anne E. Dorrance, Brett M. Tyler BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :49 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Fingerprinting antioxidative activities in plants Livia Saleh, Christoph Plieth Plant Methods 2009, 5 :2 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Tetraploid and hexaploid wheat varieties reveal large differences in expression of alpha-gliadins from homoeologous Gli-2 loci Elma MJ Salentijn, Svetlana V Goryunova, Noor Bas, Ingrid M van der Meer, Hetty C van den Broeck, Thomas Bastien, Luud JWJ Gilissen, Marinus JM Smulders BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :48 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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An analysis of synteny of Arachis with Lotus and Medicago sheds new light on the structure, stability and evolution of legume genomes. David J Bertioli, Marcio C Moretzsohn, Lene H Madsen, Niels Sandal, Soraya CM Leal-Bertioli, Patricia M Guimaraes, Birgit K Hougaard, Jakob Fredslund, Leif Schauser, Anna M Nielsen, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Steven B Cannon, Jens Stougaard BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :45 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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