Different transcript patterns in response to specialist and generalist herbivores in the wild Arabidopsis relative Boechera divaricarpa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 BACKGROUND: Plants defend themselves against herbivorous insects, utilizing both constitutive and inducible defenses. Induced defenses are controlled by several phytohormone-mediated signaling pathways.
Heiko Vogel +2 more
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Using Brassica Cover Crops as Living Mulch in a Vineyard, Changes over One Growing Season
International Journal of Plant Biology, 2023 Farmers hoping to manage cropping systems sustainably are turning to cover crops to help mitigate plant pathogens. Plants with biofumigant properties are used to control soil-borne pathogens in agricultural settings, especially in till systems, where the
Corynne O’Farrell +2 more
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Microbiome-Mediated Resistance of Wild Tomato to the Invasive Insect Prodiplosis longifila. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol RepSoil microbiome‐mediated resistance to Prodiplosis longifila in wild tomato. Wild tomato Solanum pimpinellifolium exhibited reduced leaf damage from P. longifila when gronw in live soil compared to sterilized soil. Sterilization disrupted root‐associated microbiome, particularly reduced the abundance of Actinoplanes, which is linked to biosynthetic ...
Sarango Flores S +6 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Apomixis (asexual seed formation) in angiosperms occurs either sporophytically, through adventitious embryony, or gametophytically, where an unreduced female gametophyte (embryo sac) forms and produces an unreduced egg that develops into an embryo ...
John G. Carman +15 more
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Rhizosphere Microbes Influence Host Circadian Clock Function
Phytobiomes Journal, 2021 The circadian clock is an important determinant of fitness that is entrained by local conditions. Aside from abiotic factors, individual pathogenic soil bacteria affect circadian clock function in plant hosts. Yet, in nature, plants interact with diverse
Charley J. Hubbard +2 more
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Evolution of Repetitive Genomic Content and Gene Families Over Geo-Climatic Gradients in Brassicaceae. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAlong temperature gradients such as elevation and latitude, species typically occupy distinct ranges, and life at the extremes may come with adaptive and non‐adaptive genomic changes. In the Brassicaceae family, comparative genomics revealed that geo‐climatic factors strongly predict genome size and transposable element (TE) content, explaining up to ...
Flury JM, Qi W, Bachmann O, Willi Y.
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Development of a Next-Generation NIL Library in Arabidopsis Thaliana for Dissecting Complex Traits [PDF]
, 2013 The identification of the loci and specific alleles underlying variation in quantitative traits is an important goal for evolutionary biologists and breeders.
Bauerle, William L. +8 more
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Analysis of variation for apomictic reproduction in diploid Paspalum rufum [PDF]
, 2014 Background and Aims: The diploid cytotype of Paspalum rufum (Poaceae) reproduces sexually and is self-sterile; however, recurrent autopolyploidization through 2n + n fertilization and the ability for reproduction via apomixis have been documented in one ...
Delgado Benarroch, Luciana +5 more
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Pistil transcriptome analysis to disclose genes and gene products related to aposporous apomixis in Hypericum perforatum L. [PDF]
, 2017 Unlike sexual reproduction, apomixis encompasses a number of reproductive strategies,which permit maternal genome inheritance without genetic recombination and syngamy.
Altschmied, Lothar +6 more
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The Evolution of Sex is Tempered by Costly Hybridization in Boechera (Rock Cress) [PDF]
Journal of Heredity, 2020 Abstract Despite decades of research, the evolution of sex remains an enigma in evolutionary biology. Typically, research addresses the costs of sex and asexuality to characterize the circumstances favoring one reproductive mode. Surprisingly few studies address the influence of common traits that are, in many organisms, obligately ...
Rushworth, Catherine A. +1 more
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