Review
Plant Sciences
Chaoqun Shen, Gang Li, Ludovico Dreni, Dabing Zhang
Summary: The carpel is a crucial reproductive organ in flowering plants, playing a key role in ensuring protection, fertilization, and fruit development. Research on the mechanisms of carpel development in grasses is relatively limited but progressing, focusing on aspects such as carpel identity determination, morphogenesis, and floral meristem determinacy. The genetic and molecular aspects of carpel development in grasses are compared and contrasted with the extensively studied model eudicot plant Arabidopsis.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yongfeng Song, Zhichao Lv, Yue Wang, Chunxiang Li, Yue Jia, Yong Zhu, Mengna Cao, Yu Zhou, Xing Zeng, Zhenhua Wang, Lin Zhang, Hong Di
Summary: Seed storability is an important trait for grain quality and germplasm conservation. This study identified miRNAs and target genes involved in seed storability in maize by miRNA sequencing and analysis. Transcriptome sequencing and RT-PCR confirmed six pairs of differentially expressed miRNAs associated with seed storability, along with their negative target genes. The enrichment analysis suggested that the regulation of seed storability involves ethylene activation signaling pathway, hormone synthesis and signal transduction, and plant organ morphogenesis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Developmental Biology
Marina Millan-Blanquez, Matthew Hartley, Nicholas Bird, Yann Manes, Cristobal Uauy, Scott A. Boden
Summary: A high-throughput phenotyping approach was developed to quantify stigma and ovary morphology in wheat. The study revealed a well-defined developmental process of unpollinated carpels, which is important for understanding female fertility in wheat.
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Jing Liu, Xiaonan Liu, Siju Zhang, Shanshan Liang, Weijiang Luan, Xuan Ma
Summary: TarDB is an online database that collects three categories of relatively high-confidence plant miRNA targets: (i) cross-species conserved miRNA targets; (ii) degradome/PARE sequencing supported miRNA targets; (iii) miRNA-triggered phasiRNA loci. It provides a user-friendly interface for users to easily search, browse, and retrieve miRNA targets and miRNA-triggered phasiRNAs in a broad variety of plants, including lineage-specific or species-specific miRNAs. TarDB serves as a useful web resource for exploring relatively high-confidence miRNA targets and miRNA-triggered phasiRNAs in plants.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xiaochun Wei, Rujiao Liao, Xiaowei Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Zhengqing Xie, Shuangjuan Yang, Henan Su, Zhiyong Wang, Luyue Zhang, Baoming Tian, Fang Wei, Yuxiang Yuan
Summary: This study analyzed transcriptome, small RNAs, degradome, and phytohormone to explore the infection mechanism of Plasmodiophora brassicae in Brassica crops. The critical periods of disease resistance and infection were determined. Key genes related to disease development and resistance mechanisms were predicted and a regulatory model of plant hormones under mRNA-miRNA regulation was proposed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Horticulture
Li Zhou, Qiu-Wei Lu, Bei-Fen Yang, Lyuben Zagorchev, Jun-Min Li
Summary: The study analyzed the miRNA-mRNA interaction network in host Trifolium repens in response to parasitism by Cuscuta australis, revealing a plethora of miRNAs and DEGs that shed light on the interactions between plants during parasitism. The most significantly affected pathways by parasitism were plant hormone signal transduction, ribosome, and plant-pathogen interaction pathways. The identified miRNA-mRNA pairs likely play crucial roles in the interactions between host T. repens and parasitic C. australis.
SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Rui Shi, Wei Jiao, Lan Yun, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xiujuan Zhang, Quanzhen Wang, Ying Li, Fugui Mi
Summary: This study identified drought response genes and miRNAs in M. ruthenica under drought and rewatering treatments using transcriptome, small RNA, and degradome sequencing. The findings offer valuable insights for understanding the biological mechanisms of this plant in response to abiotic stress, particularly drought stress.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Chen Chen, Lijia Shi, Yuqi Bin, Chenghui Liu, Mixia Tian, Aili Jiang
Summary: This study investigates the molecular mechanism of early browning response in fresh-cut apple and identifies genes related to respiratory, energy, antioxidant, lipid, and secondary metabolism activation in the early stage of browning.
Article
Plant Sciences
Manfei Li, Yuanyuan Zheng, Di Cui, Yanfang Du, Dan Zhang, Wei Sun, Hewei Du, Zuxin Zhang
Summary: In this study, it was found that maize ear inflorescences with loss-of-function gif1 mutations exhibited highly branched structures, producing more floral branches. GIF1 was shown to interact with multiple GRFs, chromatin-remodeling proteins, and hormone biosynthesis-related proteins. It was also found that GIF1 directly regulated key genes involved in meristem determinacy and CLV3/ESR4a signaling in the ear inflorescence of maize.
Article
Plant Sciences
Yingting Zhang, Junjie Yang, Lijuan Zhu, Jinyu Xue, Hailiang Hu, Jiebing Cui, Jin Xu
Summary: This study identified a possible role of miRNA-regulated pathways in needle color in Cryptomeria fortunei, a conifer tree species. A miRNA-target pigment biosynthesis regulatory network was constructed, with miRNA-MYBs confirmed as key regulators of needle discoloration. These findings offer new insight into posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms in gymnosperms and may contribute to genetic improvement of evergreen C. fortunei needles mediated by miRNAs.
Article
Plant Sciences
Qian Li, Nadil Shah, Xueqing Zhou, Huiying Wang, Wenlin Yu, Jiajie Luo, Yajun Liu, Genze Li, Chao Liu, Chunyu Zhang, Peng Chen
Summary: The study revealed that miRNAs play different roles in response to Clubroot disease infection in resistant and susceptible plants, potentially participating in the resistance mechanisms through regulating growth, cell death, and metabolic pathways.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hao Rong, Xin Han, Yue Xin, Zhouxian Ni, Wangxiang Zhang, Li'an Xu
Summary: Research has shown that petal fading in Malus crabapple is related to miRNA regulation. miRNAs can affect petal fading by regulating the expression of fading-related genes. Through small RNA sequencing and transcriptome analysis, 230 known miRNAs and 17 novel miRNAs were identified, including 52 differentially expressed miRNAs that targeted 494 genes, forming 823 miRNA-target pairs. These findings offer a new approach to understanding the mechanism of petal fading and can serve as a reference for other plants with floral fading.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Huawei Li, Liyuan Wang, Yini Mai, Weijuan Han, Yujing Suo, Songfeng Diao, Peng Sun, Jianmin Fu
Summary: This study investigated the sex differentiation regulation mechanism of andromonoecious persimmon through histological and cytological observations, phytohormones assays, and gene expression analyses. The findings revealed differences in morphology and phytohormone content between male and hermaphroditic floral buds of 'Longyanyeshi 1' and identified candidate genes and miRNAs associated with its sex differentiation.
Article
Plant Sciences
Wei Li, Yudong Chen, Yali Wang, Jia Zhao, Yijun Wang
Summary: In this study, the researchers identified 445 gibberellin-responsive long non-coding RNAs (GARRs) in maize, including GARR2 derived from a Gypsy LTR retrotransposon. They found that GARR2 played a role in the gibberellin response and potentially interacted with the HECT ubiquitin-protein ligase family member ZmUPL1. The findings not only shed light on the role of lncRNAs in gibberellin response regulation but also provide guidance for the development of plant height ideotype driven by the phytohormone gibberellin.
Article
Plant Sciences
Yingting Zhang, Jiebing Cui, Hailiang Hu, Jinyu Xue, Junjie Yang, Jin Xu
Summary: This study analyzed the differences in terpenoid regulatory mechanisms in two different Chinese cedar phenotypes using integrated metabolome analysis, transcriptome, small-RNA, and degradome sequencing. The results revealed a miRNA-target regulatory network involved in terpenoid metabolism, which may be related to different phenotypes and differential regulation of diterpenoid biosynthesis. This provides valuable insights for essential oil-related bioengineering research.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Lijun Wang, Lingwei Deng, Xue Bai, Yongqing Jiao, Yangrong Cao, Yufeng Wu
AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
(2020)
Article
Plant Sciences
Haoyang Xin, Tao Zhang, Yufeng Wu, Wenli Zhang, Pingdong Zhang, Mengli Xi, Jiming Jiang
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Danling Zhu, Fei Mao, Yuanchun Tian, Xiaoya Lin, Lianfeng Gu, Hongya Gu, Li-jia Qu, Yufeng Wu, Zhe Wu
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xinying Song, Rongrong Song, Jiawen Zhou, Wenkai Yan, Tao Zhang, Haojie Sun, Jin Xiao, Yufeng Wu, Mengli Xi, Qunfeng Lou, Haiyan Wang, Xiue Wang
CHROMOSOME RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xiaoru Fan, Jingguang Chen, Yufeng Wu, CheeHow Teo, Guohua Xu, Xiaorong Fan
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yunfei Bi, Qinzheng Zhao, Wenkai Yan, Mengxue Li, Yuxi Liu, Chunyan Cheng, Lu Zhang, Xiaqing Yu, Ji Li, Chuntao Qian, Yufeng Wu, Jinfeng Chen, Qunfeng Lou
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yanke Lu, Jie Dai, Liu Yang, Yumei La, Shaoxia Zhou, Sheng Qiang, Qianqian Wang, Feng Tan, Yufeng Wu, Weiwen Kong, Honggui La
PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Changzhen Liu, Yi Shen, Baoxiang Qin, Huili Wen, Jiawen Cheng, Fei Mao, Wenqing Shi, Ding Tang, Guijie Du, Yafei Li, Yufeng Wu, Zhukuan Cheng
Article
Plant Sciences
Xiaojing Dang, Yang Yang, Yuanqing Zhang, Xiangong Chen, Zhilan Fan, Qiangming Liu, Jie Ji, Dalu Li, Yanhui Li, Bingjie Fang, Zexu Wu, Erbao Liu, Xiaoxiao Hu, Shangshang Zhu, Dong She, Hui Wang, Yulong Li, Siqi Chen, Yufeng Wu, Delin Hong
Article
Virology
Yang Yang, Yifan Sun, Qingliang Li, Yufeng Wu, Deya Wang
Article
Plant Sciences
Sen Yang, Kaige Zhang, Huayu Zhu, Xiaojing Zhang, Wenkai Yan, Nana Xu, Dongming Liu, Jianbin Hu, Yufeng Wu, Yiqun Weng, Luming Yang
HORTICULTURE RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Plant Sciences
Xiaoru Fan, Laihua Liu, Kaiyun Qian, Jingguang Chen, Yuyue Zhang, Peng Xie, Man Xu, Zhi Hu, WenKai Yan, Yufeng Wu, Guohua Xu, Xiaorong Fan
Summary: It was found that external nitrogen deficiency could decrease seed N content and plant growth in the overexpression line compared to high nitrogen external supply. Furthermore, low parent seed nitrogen induced massive gene methylation changes in the filial overexpression line, resulting in significantly reduced OsNAR2.1 expression compared to high parent seed nitrogen filial plants in high external nitrogen supply.
Article
Plant Sciences
Jinlong Zhou, Lei Tian, Shunxi Wang, Hongping Li, Yali Zhao, Moubiao Zhang, Xiuling Wang, Panpan An, Chaohai Li
Summary: Maize crops on the North China Plain often suffer from combined waterlogging and shading stress at the flowering stage, leading to significant yield losses. Phenotypic, physiological, and metabolomic analyses revealed that the dual stress conditions disrupted normal metabolic processes and caused oxidative stress in ovaries and silks.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biology
Xiuling Wang, Qun Wang, Moubiao Zhang, Yulong Zhao, Pengfei Dong, Yali Zhao, Hongping Li, Xucun Jia, Panpan An, Yulou Tang, Chaohai Li
Summary: This study investigated the role of exogenous spermidine application in waterlogging tolerance in maize. The findings showed that foliar application of spermidine increased antioxidant enzyme activities and reduced ethylene levels, which improved maize tolerance to waterlogging stress.
Article
Agronomy
Hongping Li, Kui Liu, Zhibin Li, Moubiao Zhang, Yongen Zhang, Shuyan Li, Xiuling Wang, Jinlong Zhou, Yali Zhao, Tianxue Liu, Chaohai Li
Summary: Mixing different cultivars of corn increases within-crop diversity and reduces yield losses under abiotic stress conditions. The study found that combining corn cultivars with different temperature tolerance traits improves pollination synchrony and complementarity, resulting in increased kernel setting rate and yield. The results also showed that mixing cultivars enhances cross-fertilization, leading to further yield improvement.