Pectobacterium carotovorum are economically important plant pathogens that cause plant soft rot. These enterobacteria display high diversity world-wide. Their pathogenesis depends on production and secretion of virulence factors such as plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, type III effectors, a necrosis-inducing protein, and a secreted virulence factor from Xanthomonas spp., which are tightly reg...

Many biologists believe that biological experimental techniques using gene expression with micro array enable to discover the structure and function of genetic networks in cells. Recent study interest is to use the results of the techniques and infer the biological facts such as signal pathways. In this paper, I present and compare several methodologies to explore and reconstruct genetic networ...

The alteration of alternative splicing patterns has an effect on the quantification of functional proteins, leading to phenotype variation. The splicing quantitative trait locus (sQTL) is one of the main genetic elements affecting splicing patterns. Here, we report the results of genome-wide sQTLs across 141 strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with publicly available next generation sequencing data...

Decades of root research have led to a deep understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms regulating system architecture. This review provides past present-day with focus on abiotic factors, such as nutrient limitation, excess nutrients, water, salinity, temperature, light, selected heavy metals, hazardous contaminations which affected primary lateral growth. It also briefly summarized cur...

We conducted the Resist Tubule space experiment to clarify role of cell wall in resistance inflorescence stems Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) gravitational acceleration Cell Biology Experiment Facility on Kibo Module International Space Station. The rigidity was lower under microgravity conditions than at 1g, particularly basal region, which plays a central supporting entire plant presence ...

Abstract Parasitic plants infect other by forming haustoria, specialized multicellular organs consisting of several cell types, each which has unique morphological features and physiological roles associated with parasitism. Understanding the spatial organization types is, therefore, great importance in elucidating functions haustoria. Here, we report a three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction ha...

The plant genome evolves with rapid proliferation of LTR-type retrotransposons, which is associated with their clustered accumulation in gene-poor regions, such as centromeres. Despite their major role for plant genome evolution, no mobile LTR element with targeted integration into gene-poor regions has been identified in plants. Here, we report such targeted integrations de novo. We and others...

Running title: 3-Hydroxyisobutyrate Dehydrogenase of Arabidopsis thaliana 1 2 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Hans-Peter Braun, Institut für Pflanzenge4 netik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany, Tel.: 5 +49 511 7622674, Fax: +49 511 76214351, mail: [email protected] 6 7 8 9 3-Hydroxyisobutyrate Dehydrogenase is involved in both,...

Self-incompatibility in Brassica species is regulated by a set of S-locus genes: SLG, SRK, and SP11/SCR. In the vicinity of the S-locus genes, several expressed genes, SLL2 and SP2/ClpP, etc., were identified in B. campestris. Arabidopsis thaliana is a self-compatible Brassica relative, and its complete genome has been sequenced. From comparison of the genomic sequences between B. campestris an...