Genome-wide analysis of flax bZIP genes using a T2T genome reveals abiotic stress roles
iScienceSummary: The basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor family plays key roles in plant growth, development, and environmental stress responses but remains poorly characterized in flax (Linum usitatissimum L.).
Hang Wang +12 more
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A Consensus Genetic Map and Linkage Panel for Fresh-market Tomato
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 2021 The first consensus genetic map in fresh-market tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) was constructed, combining genetic recombination data from two biparental F2 segregating populations derived from four different fresh-market tomatoes.
Prashant Bhandari +2 more
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Calpain small subunit homodimerization is robust and calcium‐independent
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Calpains dimerize via penta‐EF‐hand (PEF) domains. Using single‐molecule force spectroscopy, we measured the strength and kinetics of PEF–PEF homodimer binding. The interaction is robust, shows a transient conformational step before dissociation, and remains largely insensitive to Ca2+.
Nesha May O. Andoy +4 more
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iScienceSummary: Intercellular movement plays an important role in plant virus infection and transmission, which provides an opportunity for antiviral agents that interfere with the intercellular motion.
Dan Chen +6 more
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GhPIPLC2D promotes cotton fiber elongation by enhancing ethylene biosynthesis
iScience, 2021 Summary: Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) is an important second messenger and one of the products of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PIPLC)-mediated phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate (PIP2) hydrolysis.
Liping Zhu +5 more
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Identification and characterisation of a hyper-variable apoplastic effector gene family of the potato cyst nematodes [PDF]
, 2014 Date of Acceptance: 11/08/2014Sedentary endoparasitic nematodes are obligate biotrophs that modify host root tissues, using a suite of effector proteins to create and maintain a feeding site that is their sole source of nutrition. Using assumptions about
Jones, John T. +18 more
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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-Omics studies of plant biology in spaceflight: A critical review of recent experiments
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Researchers have been studying transcriptomic and proteomic responses of plants to ranges of reduced gravitational conditions. These include blue and red light in microgravity, circadian rhythms in microgravity, microgravity in different ecotypes ...
Ariel M. Hughes, John Z. Kiss
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Final report of the GARNet Advisory Committee on Arabidopsis Systems Biology in the UK, June 2006. [PDF]
, 2006 Biological research using Arabidopsis thaliana is adopting systems approaches in some areas. Arabidopsis researchers must build the capacity for systems analysis, if the UK’s strength in Arabidopsis biology is to be reflected in sub-systems models that ...
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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