The early generative phase of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) curd ripening is 21 sensitive to the water deficit. Mitochondrial responses under drought within Brassica genus are 22 poorly understood. The main goal of this study was to investigate the mitochondrial biogenesis of 23 three cauliflower cultivars varying with drought tolerance. Diverse quantitative changes 24 (down-reg...

CBF (C-repeat Binding Factor) transcription factors are part of the AP2/ERF (Apetala2-ethylene responsive factor) domain family of DNA-binding proteins that recognize a C-repeat response cis-acting element that regulates a number of cold-responsive genes (CBF regulon). Induction of CBF gene expression by low temperature in Arabidopsis has been shown to be gated by a circadian clock. In peach (P...

We have previousb reported On two cold acclimationspecific (cas) genes from alfalfa, casl8, coding for a dehydrinrelated protein (Wolfraim et al., 1993), and casZ5, coding for a putative nucleus-targeted protein (Monroy et al., 1993). We report here the cloning and sequencing of a new cDNA clone, pAcs784A, corresponding to a gene, casl7 (cas gene coding for a 17-kD protein), that is induced by ...

‘Huangguan’ pear (Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd. cv. Huangguan) fruit is sensitive to chilling injury (CI), which exhibits peel browning spots (PBS) during cold storage. Dehydrin (DHN) considered be related tolerance in plants, but its function postharvest storage remains unclear. In this study, six PbDHNs (PbDHN1–6) genes were identified and characterized, the PbDHN proteins sorted into YnKn, SKn ...