Ambient temperature induces the hypocotyl elongation of seedling, called as thermomorphogenesis. In this issue, Deng et al. found that the canonical bHLH transcriptional factor PIF7 mediates the seedling thermomorphogenesis in the model plant Arabidopsis. During this process, an essential regulator AFP2, which is previously reported to be associated with abscisic acid signal, interacts with PIF7, thus fine turns the transcriptional activity, subsequently precisely modulates downstream auxin biosynthesis to coordinate hypocotyl elongation.
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Stefan M. Kolašinac1, Zora P. Dajić Stevanović1,*, Sofija N. Kilibarda1, Aleksandar Ž. Kostić2,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1041-1062, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015996
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Bioactive Compounds-Chemotaxonomic Significance, Antioxidant Properties, Potential Application as Food Ingredients as well as Therapeutics, and the Analytical Technology in Their Efficient Discovery)
Abstract Carotenoids represent a large group of mainly red, orange, and yellow natural metabolites mainly involved in regulation of many metabolic processes. Carotenoids are beneficial for human health. Current study describes the importance, chemical composition and functioning of carotenoids. It is well known that carotenoids support pigments acting in light absorbance mechanisms during photosynthesis, and are known to protect the chlorophyll molecules from oxidative stress and reactive oxygen species (ROS) damage. Carotenoids are involved in signaling processes in plants, responses to environmental stresses, pollination, germination and reproduction, and development regulation. As nutrients of strong antioxidant activity that is primarily linked to… More >
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Yasir Iftikhar1,*, Mazhar Abbas2, Mustansar Mubeen3, Muhammad Zafar-ul-Hye4,*, Faheema Bakhtawar1, Sonum Bashir1, Ashara Sajid1, Muhammad Asif Shabbir1
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1063-1074, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015508
Abstract Tristeza is a devastating viral disease in all the citrus growing countries throughout the world and has killed millions of citrus trees in severely affected orchards. The citrus species grafted on sour orange rootstock are affected
by this disease. Predominantly, the sweet orange, grapefruit and lime trees grafted on sour orange exhibit severe
symptoms like quick decline, vein clearing, pin holing, bark scaling and degeneration leading to variable symptoms. Symptomatic expression of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in different hosts has been attributed to virus isolates
which are from severe to mild. Different serological and molecular assays have been deployed to… More >
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Wenjie Wei, Yulan Hu, Wenjuan Yang, Xiaoli Li, Jiali Wei, Xiangyang Hu, Ping Li*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1075-1087, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.016134
Abstract Seed germination or dormancy status is strictly controlled by endogenous phytohormone and exogenous environment signals. Abscisic acid (ABA) is the important phytohormone to suppress seed germination. Ambient high temperature (HT) also suppressed seed germination, or called as secondary seed dormancy, through upregulating ABI5, the essential component of ABA signal pathway. Previous result shows that appropriate nitric oxide (NO) breaks seed dormancy through triggering S-nitrosoglutathion reductase (GSNOR1)-dependent S-nitrosylation modification of ABI5 protein, subsequently inducing the degradation of ABI5. Here we found that HT induced the degradation of GSNOR1 protein and reduced its activity, thus accumulated more reactive nitrogen species (RNS) to… More >
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Guoli Deng, Songbei Ying, Sasa Jing, Jun Zhou, Shiyan Lu, Ping Li*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1089-1101, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.016217
Abstract Ambient temperature induces the hypocotyl elongation of seedling, called as thermomorphogenesis. It has been reported that the bHLH transcriptional factor PIF7 acts as the critical component to modulate plant thermomorphogenesis, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) suppresses the hypocotyl elongation under high temperature (HT) stress. As the ABI5 binding protein, AFP2 acts as the negative factor to control ABA signaling. In this study, we first identified AFP2 as the interaction protein of PIF7 in vitro and in vivo. Phenotype analysis revealed that overexpressing AFP2 reduced the hypocotyl elongation, while loss-of-function afp2 mutant showed longer hypocotyl… More >
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Linjun Cai1,#, Junhua Liu2,#, Han Yun1, Dan Du1, Xiaolong Zhong1, Zhenlin Yang1, Xianchun Sang1, Changwei Zhang1,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1103-1117, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015532
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: High-Yield Rice Physiology & Genetics)
Abstract Leaf color mutants are ideal materials for studying many plant physiological and metabolic processes such as photosynthesis, photomorphogenesis, hormone physiology and disease resistance. In this study, the genetically stable yellow-green leaf mutant ygl16 was identified from mutated “Xinong 1B”. Compared with the wild type, the pigment concentration and photosynthetic capacity of the ygl16 decreased significantly. The ultrastructural observation showed that the distribution of thylakoid lamellae was irregular in ygl16 chloroplasts, and the grana and matrix lamellae were blurred and loose in varied degrees, and the chloroplast structure was disordered, while the osmiophilic corpuscles increased. The results of the genetic analysis… More >
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Na Kuang, Huabin Zheng, Qiyuan Tang*, Yuanwei Chen, Xiaomin Wang, Youyi Luo
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1119-1230, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014637
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: High-Yield Rice Physiology & Genetics)
Abstract Rice ratooning, or the production of a second rice crop from stubble after the harvest of the main crop, is considered
to be a green and resource-efficient rice production system. The present study was conducted to examine variance in
amylose content (AC), grain morphology, crystal structure, and thermal properties of starch between main- and
ratoon-season rice of seven varieties. Ratoon-season rice grains had higher ACs and significantly lower transition
gelatinization temperatures (To, Tp, and Tc) than did main-season rice grains. The relative crystallinity and lamellar
peak intensity of ratoon-season rice starch were 7.89% and 20.38% lower, respectively, than those of… More >
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Menghua Xiao1, Yuanyuan Li1,2,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1131-1146, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015093
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: High-Yield Rice Physiology & Genetics)
Abstract The flooding caused by heavy rainfall in rice irrigation area and the drought caused by the drop of groundwater level are the research focus in the field of irrigation and drainage. Based on the comparative experiment and farmland water level control technology, this paper studied the average soil temperature under different soil layers (TM), the daily temperature change (TDC), the photosynthetic accumulation of single leaf and canopy in rice, and response of photothermal energy to rice root characteristics and growth factors in the paddy field under drought conditions. The results showed that the peak soil temperature under drought treatment was… More >
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Wei Zheng, Zheng Shi, Mei Long, Yuncheng Liao*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1147-1159, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015916
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
Abstract Enhancing photosynthesis efficiency is considered as one of the most crucial targets during wheat breeding. However, the molecular basis underlying high photosynthesis efficiency is not well understood up to now. In this
study, we investigated the protein expression profile of wheat Jimai5265yg mutant, which is a yellow-green
mutant with chlorophylls b deficiency but high photosynthesis efficiency. Though TMT-labeling quantitative proteomics analysis, a total of 72 differential expressed proteins (DEPs) were obtained between the mutant and wild
type (WT). GO analysis found that they significantly enriched in thylakoid membrane, pigment binding, magnesium chelatase activity and response to light intensity. KEGG analysis… More >
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Yanfei Bi1, Bin Wei1, Ying Meng2, Zhongzhao Li2, Zhenghui Tang1, Feng Yin3, Chuntao Qian2,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1161-1175, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014396
（This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
Abstract Melon (Cucumis melo), belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, is a globally important economic crop. GRAS (GAI, RGA, SCR) genes, which are a type of transcription factor, play a critical role in plant growth and development, including processes such as radial root patterning, light signalling, abiotic/biotic stress, axillary shoot meristem formation, and phytohormone (gibberellin) signal transduction. In this study, the GRAS family in melon was analysed comprehensively with respect to chromosomal location, motif prediction, gene structure, and expression pattern. A total of 37 GRAS genes were first identified in melon, after which a phylogenetic tree was built with the GRAS genes… More >
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Shuo Qu1, Yaolei Jiao2, Lamboro Abraham2, Piwu Wang1,*
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1177-1192, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015206
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Abstract The fatty acid dehydrogenase gene plays an important role in regulating the oleic acid content in soybean. Genome-wide association study screened out soybean oleic acid related gene Gm15G117700. A fragment size of 693bp was obtained by PCR amplification of the gene and, it was connected by seamless cloning technology to the pMD18T cloning vector. Based on the gene sequence cloned, bioinformatic analysis of gene protein was performed. The overexpression vector of Gm15G117700 and the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing vector were constructed. The positive plants were obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of soybean cotyledon nodes and T2 plants were identified by conventional PCR,… More >
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