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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 :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.
BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :82
Lamina is a new software tool for the automated analysis of leaf size and shape, allowing the fast processing of thousands of leaves in developmental and taxonomic studies.
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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, Lila Vodkin BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :124 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel miRNAs expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice. Severine Lacombe, Hiroshi Nagasaki, Carole Santi, David Duval, Benoit Piegu, Martine Bangratz, Jean-Christophe Breitler, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Christophe Brugidou, Judith Hirsch, XiaoFeng Cao, Claire Brice, Olivier Panaud, Wojciech M. Karlowski, Yutaka Sato, Manuel Echeverria BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :123 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Transcript profiles uncover temporal and stress-induced changes of metabolic pathways in germinating sugar beet seeds Elena Pestsova, Juliane Meinhard, Andreas Menze, Uwe Fischer, Andrea Windhovel, Peter Westhoff BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :122 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The MYST histone acetyltransferases are essential for gametophyte development in Arabidopsis David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed, Yves Henry, Severine Domenichini, Wanhui Kim, Dao-Xiu Zhou, Marianne Delarue BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :121 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Arabidopsis At5g39790 encodes a chloroplast-localized, carbohydrate-binding, coiled-coil domain-containing putative scaffold protein. Elke M Lohmeier-Vogel, David Kerk, Mhairi Nimick, Susan Wrobel, Lori Vickerman, Douglas Muench, Greg BG Moorhead BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :120 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Development and mapping of Simple Sequence Repeat markers for pearl millet from data mining of Expressed Sequence Tags S Senthilvel, B Jayashree, V Mahalakshmi, P Sathish Kumar, S Nakka, T Nepolean, C T Hash BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :119 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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, Bin Han BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :118 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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, Zdenek Opatrny BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :117 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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, Luud JWJ Gilissen BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :116 (13 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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, Kazuo Shinozaki BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :115 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Global transcriptional responses of Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 to changes in iron bioavailability in vitro Philip A Bronstein, Melanie J Filiatrault, Christopher R Myers, Michael Rutzke, David J Schneider, Samuel W Cartinhour BMC Microbiology 2008, 8 :209 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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RNA silencing can explain chlorotic infection patterns on plant leaves Marian A.C. Groenenboom, Paulien Hogeweg BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2 :105 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Simple sequence repeat markers useful for sorghum downy mildew (Peronosclerospora sorghi) and related species Ramasamy Perumal, Padmavathi Nimmakayala, Saradha R Erattaimuthu, Eun-Gyu No, Umesh K Reddy, Louis K Prom, Gary N Odvody, Douglas G Luster, Clint W Magill BMC Genetics 2008, 9 :77 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Short report
Recombination analysis of Soybean mosaic virus full-length genome sequences reveals evidence of RNA recombination between distinct pathotypes Alla G Gagarinova, Mohan Babu, Martina V Stromvik, Aiming Wang Virology Journal 2008, 5 :143 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
Living knowledge of the healing plants: Ethno-phytotherapy in the Chepang communities from the Mid-Hills of Nepal Arun Rijal Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2008, 4 :23 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Method
Whole genome transcriptome polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana Xu Zhang, Jake K Byrnes, Thomas S Gal, Wen-Hsiung Li, Justin O Borevitz Genome Biology 2008, 9 :R165 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive
transcriptome of chickpea roots Carlos Mauricio Molina Medina, Bjoern Rotter, Ralf Horres, Sripada Udupa, Bert Besser, Luis Bellarmino, Michael Baum, Hideo Matsumura, Ryohei Terauchi, Gunter Kahl, Peter Winter BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :553 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome-wide and expression analysis of protein phosphatase 2C in rice and Arabidopsis Tongtong Xue, Dong Wang, Shizhong Zhang, Juergen Ehlting, Fei Ni, Stephan Jacab, Chengchao Zheng, Yuan Zhong BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :550 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Research
Development of a fluorescence-based method for monitoring glucose catabolism and its potential use in a biomass hydrolysis assay Lisa J Haney, James G Coors, Aaron J Lorenz, D Raj Raman, Robert P Anex, M Paul Scott Biotechnology for Biofuels 2008, 1 :17 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
Homologous recombination-mediated cloning and manipulation of genomic DNA regions using Gateway and recombineering systems Kevin L Rozwadowski, Wen Yang, Sateesh Kagale BMC Biotechnology 2008, 8 :88 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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