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Section edited by David Lightfoot and Keiichi Mochida
This section covers all aspects of the genome structure and function of plants, including crop species.
Research article
Genome divergence by mobile elements activity and recombination is a continuous process that plays a key role in the evolution of species. Nevertheless, knowledge on retrotransposon-related variability among s...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:634
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research article
Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is one of the most important commercial nut crops worldwide. It is a salt-tolerant and long-lived tree, with the largest cultivation area in Iran. Climate change and subsequent increa...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:627
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research article
As a superfamily of transcription factors (TFs), the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins have been characterized functionally in many plants with a vital role in the regulation of diverse biological process...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:619
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research article
Chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.) has a long history of use in herbal medicine with various applications, and the flower heads contain numerous secondary metabolites which are medicinally active.
BMC Genomics 2017 18:599
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research article
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification. It can regulate the expression of many key genes without changing the primary structure of the genomic DNA, and plays a vital role in the growth and dev...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:596
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research article
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is one of the most important economic crops because of its high sugar production and biofuel potential. Due to the high polyploid level and complex genome of sugarcane, it has been a hu...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:594
Published on: 9 August 2017
Research article
Development of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) requires a fundamental reprogramming of root cells for symbiosis. This involves the induction of hundreds of genes in the host. A recently identified GRAS-type transcr...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:589
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research
Blueberries are one of the few horticultural crops adapted to grow in acidic soils. Neutral to basic soil pH is detrimental to all commonly cultivated blueberry species, including Vaccinium corymbosum (VC). In co...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:580
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Cultivated chrysanthemum is an outcrossing hexaploid (2n = 6× = 54) with a disputed mode of inheritance. In this paper, we present a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) selection pipeline that was used to des...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:585
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Pollen tube growth is essential for plant reproduction and represents a widely employed model to investigate polarized cell expansion, a process important for plant morphogenesis and development. Cellular and ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:581
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Third generation sequencing technologies, with sequencing reads in the tens- of kilo-bases, facilitate genome assembly by spanning ambiguous regions and improving continuity. This has been critical for plant g...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:578
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research
The destructive phytopathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causes anthracnose disease in fruit. During host colonization, it secretes ammonia, which modulates environmental pH and regulates gene expression, con...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:579
Published on: 4 August 2017
Research article
The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, is one of the most devastating diseases limiting soybean production worldwide. It is known that small RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:572
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research article
The wheat mutant line three-pistil (TP) exhibits three pistils per floret. As TP normally has two or three seeds in each of the florets on the same spike, there is the possibility of increasing the number of g...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:567
Published on: 31 July 2017
Methodology article
The Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION™ sequencer is a small, portable, low cost device that is accessible to labs of all sizes and attractive for in-the-field sequencing experiments. Selective breeding of cr...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:564
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research
Post-transcriptional control of gene expression mediated by small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) is vital for growth and development of diverse organisms. The biogenesis of sRNAs is regulated by both positive and neg...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:559
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
Perennial growth in plants is the product of interdependent cycles of daily and annual stimuli that induce cycles of growth and dormancy. In conifers, needles are the key perennial organ that integrates daily ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:558
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
The Passiflora genus comprises hundreds of wild and cultivated species of passion fruit used for food, industrial, ornamental and medicinal purposes. Efforts to develop genomic tools for genetic analysis of P. ed...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:549
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
The American Beech tree (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.), native to eastern North America, is ecologically important and provides high quality wood products. This species is susceptible to beech bark disease (BBD) and i...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:547
Published on: 20 July 2017
Research article
Camellia species are ancient oilseed plants with a history of cultivation over two thousand years. Prior to oil extraction, natural seed drying is often practiced, a process affecting fatty acid quality and qu...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:546
Published on: 20 July 2017
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