Genetics
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Citation: Botanical Studies 2023 64:13
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Identification of qBK2.1, a novel QTL controlling rice resistance against Fusarium fujikuroi
Bakanae disease caused by Fusarium fujikuroi is an increasing threat to rice production. The infected plants show symptoms such as elongation, slenderness, chlorosis, a large leaf angle, and even death. Bakanae d...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2023 64:11 -
MethylC-analyzer: a comprehensive downstream pipeline for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation
DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification involved in multiple biological processes and diseases. Current approaches for measuring genome-wide DNA methylation via bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) inclu...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2023 64:1 -
Identifying mutations in sd1, Pi54 and Pi-ta, and positively selected genes of TN1, the first semidwarf rice in Green Revolution
Taichung Native 1 (TN1) is the first semidwarf rice cultivar that initiated the Green Revolution. As TN1 is a direct descendant of the Dee-geo-woo-gen cultivar, the source of the sd1 semidwarf gene, the sd1 gene ...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2022 63:9 -
Genetic analysis toward more nutritious barley grains for a food secure world
Understanding the relationships between nutrition, human health and plant food source is among the highest priorities for public health. Therefore, enhancing the minerals content such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn) a...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2022 63:6 -
Floral organ-specific proteome profiling of the floral ornamental orchid (Cymbidium goeringii) reveals candidate proteins related to floral organ development
Cymbidium goeringii, belonging to the Orchidaceae family, is an important ornamental plant with striking petals and lips. Extremely diversified floral patterns and morphologies make C. goeringii good research mat...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2021 62:23 -
Explore the genetics of weedy traits using rice 3K database
Weedy rice, a conspecific weedy counterpart of the cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.), has been problematic in rice-production area worldwide. Although we started to know about the origin of some weedy traits for ...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2021 62:2 -
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals the genetic basis underlying the biosynthesis of polysaccharides in Hericium erinaceus
Hericium erinaceus, also known as lion’s mane mushroom, is a widely distributed edible and medicinal fungus in Asian countries. H. erinaceus harbors diverse bioactive metabolites with anticancer, immunomodulating...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2019 60:15 -
Effects of light intensity and plant growth regulators on callus proliferation and shoot regeneration in the ornamental succulent Haworthia
Haworthia are desert succulents belonging to the Asphodelaceae family. Haworthia species are cultivated commercially as ornamentals and some rare species are quite valuable at retail market but growth slowly and ...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2019 60:10 -
Inheritance of foliage color of common rosemallow (Hibiscus moscheutos (L.)) subspecific hybrids
Common rosemallow (Hibiscus moscheutos (L.)) is a native wetland perennial taxon that has been widely used as an ornamental landscape plant for several decades. Its showy blooms, attractive form and foliage, and ...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2019 60:3 -
Genome-wide association study of rice genes and loci conferring resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae isolates from Taiwan
Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is an important rice disease occurring in all rice-growing areas. To manage blast disease effectively and in an environmentally friendly way, it is important to continual...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2018 59:32 -
Revealing proteins associated with symbiotic germination of Gastrodia elata by proteomic analysis
Gastrodia elata, a mycoheterotrophic orchid, is a well-known medicinal herb. In nature, the seed germination of G. elata requires proper fungal association, because of the absence of endosperm. To germinate succe...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2018 59:8 -
Transcriptomic analyses reveal clathrin-mediated endocytosis involved in symbiotic seed germination of Gastrodia elata
Gastrodia elata is a well-known medicinal orchid. In nature, the germination rate of G. elata is extremely poor, because there is no endosperm within the mature seed. It is crucial for...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2017 58:31 -
Genome-wide characterization of the Rab gene family in Gossypium by comparative analysis
Rab protein family is the largest subfamily of small G protein family. As one of the most important families in plant, Rab family plays an important role in the process of plant growth...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2017 58:26 -
Morphological, physiological, cytological and phytochemical studies in diploid and colchicine-induced tetraploid plants of Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn
Tartary buckwheat are very popular as an important functional food material and its cultivation is very widespread in our whole world, but there obviously lack works in the researches of genetic breeding for a...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2017 58:2 -
Efficient and heritable transformation of Phalaenopsis orchids
Phalaenopsis orchid (Phal. orchid) is visually attractive and it is important economic floriculture species. Phal. orchids have many unique biological features. However, investigation ...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2016 57:30 -
Mapping quantitative trait loci for fruit traits and powdery mildew resistance in melon (Cucumis melo)
Fruit characters affect consumer preferences and the market value of melons is determined by fruit quality. Most fruit quality-related traits are controlled by multiple genes, and are influenced by environment...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2016 57:19 -
Microsatellite resources of Eucalyptus: current status and future perspectives
Eucalyptus is the premier paper pulp, short rotation plantation species grown all over the world. Genetic improvement programs integrating molecular marker tools are in progress in many parts of the globe to incr...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2014 55:73 -
A new variant produced by Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IC isolate CH-1 with a new type of nuclei
Isolate CH-1 of Rhizoctonia solani Kühn was commonly used in our studies of the pathogenicity and genetics of this pathogen. During the preparation of homokaryons through protoplast regeneration and tuft formatio...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2014 55:69 -
Sex expression and inbreeding depression in progeny derived from an extraordinary hermaphrodite of Salix subfragilis
An extraordinary hermaphrodite of dioecious willows provides us an opportunity to examine the inheritance of sex expression and the magnitude of inbreeding depression using a progeny assay of the hermaphrodite.
Citation: Botanical Studies 2014 55:3 -
The extent of Ds1 transposon to enrich transcriptomes and proteomes by exonization
Exonization is an event which an intronic transposed element (TE) provides splice sites and leads to alternatively spliced cassette exons. Without disrupting of the inserted gene’s function, TEs can expand the...
Citation: Botanical Studies 2013 54:14