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Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation (2017)
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Yang, C., Song, J., Ferguson, A. C., Klisch, D., Simpson, K., Mo, R., …Wilson, Z. A. (2017). Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation. Plant Physiology, 175(1), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00719

Successful fertilization relies on the production and effective release of viable pollen. Failure of anther opening (dehiscence), results in male sterility, although the pollen may be fully functional. MYB26 regulates the formation of secondary thick... Read More about Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation.

Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield (2017)
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Simkin, A. J., McAusland, L., Lawson, T., & Raines, C. A. (in press). Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield. Plant Physiology, 175, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00622

In this study, we generated transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants overexpressing the Rieske FeS protein (PetC), a component of the cytochrome b6f (cyt b6f) complex. Increasing the levels of this protein resulted in concomitant increase... Read More about Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield.

Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping (2017)
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Pound, M. P., Atkinson, J. A., Townsend, A. J., Wilson, M. H., Griffiths, M., Jackson, A. S., …French, A. P. (2017). Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping. GigaScience, 6(10), Article gix083. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix083

© The Author 2017. In plant phenotyping, it has become important to be able to measure many features on large image sets in order to aid genetic discovery. The size of the datasets, now often captured robotically, often precludes manual inspection, h... Read More about Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping.

Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge (2017)
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Tardieu, F., Cabrera-Bosquet, L., Pridmore, T. P., & Bennett, M. J. (2017). Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge. Current Biology, 27(15), R770-R783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.055

Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in genomics, profiling the crop phenome (i.e., the structure and function of plants)... Read More about Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge.

Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency (2017)
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Kenobi, K., Atkinson, J. A., Wells, D. M., Gaju, O., deSilva, J. G., Foulkes, M. J., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68(17), 4969-4981. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx300

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Root architecture impacts water and nutrient uptake efficiency. Identifying exactly which root architectural properties influence these agronom... Read More about Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency.

Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis (2017)
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Abbas, M., Hernández-García, J., Blanco-Tourin, N., Aliaga, N., Minguet, E. G., Alabadí, D., & Blázquez, M. A. (2018). Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12768

High temperature is a general stress factor that causes a decrease in crop yield. It has been shown that auxin application reduces the male sterility caused by exposure to higher temperatures. However, widespread application of a hormone with vast ef... Read More about Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis.

Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation (2017)
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Munoz-Concha, D., Davey, M. R., Ribas, G., & Mayes, S. (in press). Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 55(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2017.1343737

Temperate forests have been affected extensively by human activities, resulting in land cover changes and population fragmentation. However, these anthropogenic effects can be superimposed onto the natural history of species, making it difficult to d... Read More about Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation.

OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models (2017)
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Postma, J. A., Kuppe, C., Owen, M. R., Mellor, N. L., Griffiths, M., Bennett, M. J., …Watt, M. (2017). OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models. New Phytologist, 215(3), 1274-1286. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14641

© 2017 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2017 New Phytologist Trust OpenSimRoot is an open-source, functional–structural plant model and mathematical description of root growth and function. We describe OpenSimRoot and its functionality to broaden the b... Read More about OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models.

Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm (2017)
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Wong, Y. C., Teh, H. F., Mebus, K., Ooi, T. E. K., Kwong, Q. B., Koo, K. L., …Kulaveerasingam, H. (2017). Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm. BMC Genomics, 18(1), Article 470. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3855-7

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The oil yield trait of oil palm is expected to involve multiple genes, environmental influences and interactions. Many of the underlying mechanisms that contribute to oil yield are still poorly understood. In this study, we used a micro... Read More about Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm.

Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh (2017)
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Norton, G. J., Travis, A. J., Danku, J., Salt, D. E., Hossain, M., Islam, M. R., & Price, A. H. (2017). Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh. Food and Energy Security, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.110

As the global population grows, demand on food production will also rise. For rice, one limiting factor effecting production could be availability of fresh water, hence adoption of techniques that decrease water usage while maintaining or increasing... Read More about Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh.

Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India (2017)
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Khokhar, J. S., Sareen, S., Tyagi, B. S., Singh, G., Chowdhury, A. K., Dhar, T., …Broadley, M. R. (2017). Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India. PLoS ONE, 12(6), Article e0179208. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179208

Intensive crop breeding has increased wheat yields and production in India. Wheat improvement in India typically involves selecting yield and component traits under non-hostile soil conditions at regional scales. The aim of this study is to quantify... Read More about Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India.

Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity? (2017)
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Murchie, E. H. (2017). Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity?. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12965

Due to their sessile nature, plants could be perceived to be relatively slow and rather un-reactive. However, a plant scientist will tell you that the inability to run away (tropism notwithstanding) actually demands a highly sophisticated physiologic... Read More about Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity?.

Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae (2017)
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Imathiu, S. M., Ray, R. V., Back, M., Hare, M. C., & Edwards, S. G. (2017). Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 52(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1556/038.52.2017.009

© 2017 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. Fusarium langsethiae, a toxigenic fungus known to contaminate small-grain cereals with type A trichothecene mycotoxins, HT-2 and T-2 was described as a new species in 2004. HT-2 and T-2 are some of the most potent Fu... Read More about Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae.

Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape (2017)
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Drizou, F., Graham, N. S., Bruce, T. J. A., & Ray, R. V. (2017). Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape. Plant Methods, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-017-0195-1

Background: Rhizoctonia solani (Kühn) is a soil-borne, necrotrophic fungus causing damping off, root rot and stem canker in many cultivated plants worldwide. Oilseed rape (OSR, Brassica napus) is the primary host for anastomosis group (AG) 2-1 of R.... Read More about Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape.

Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction (2017)
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Burgess, A. J., Retkute, R., Herman, T., & Murchie, E. H. (2017). Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article 734. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00734

The arrangement of leaf material is critical in determining the light environment, and subsequently the photosynthetic productivity of complex crop canopies. However, links between specific canopy architectural traits and photosynthetic productivity... Read More about Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction.

A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability (2017)
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Adu, M. O., Yawson, D. O., Bennett, M. J., Broadley, M. R., Dupuy, L. X., & White, P. J. (2017). A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability. https://doi.org/10.3117/plantroot.11.16

Rhizoboxes are soil-root compartments that may well provide the closest naturalistic conditions for studying root systems architectures (RSAs) in controlled environments. Rhizobox-based studies can however lead to mis-estimation of root traits due to... Read More about A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability.

Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection (2017)
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Wang, X., Long, Y., Wang, N., Zou, J., Ding, G., Broadley, M. R., …Shi, L. (2017). Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 1916. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02188-z

Selection breeding has played a key role in the improvement of seed yield and quality in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). We genotyped Tapidor (European), Ningyou7 (Chinese) and their progenitors with the Brassica 60 K Illumina Infinium SNP array an... Read More about Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection.

Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI (2017)
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Růžička, K., Zhang, M., Campilho, A., Bodi, Z., Kashif, M., Saleh, M., …Fray, R. G. (2017). Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI. New Phytologist, 215(1), 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14586

N6-adenosine methylation (m6A) of mRNA is an essential process in most eukaryotes, but its role and the status of factors accompanying this modification are still poorly understood.

Using combined methods of genetics, proteomics and RNA biochemis... Read More about Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI.