Differential expression of ethylene biosynthetic and receptor genes in pollination-induced senescence of Dendrobium flowers.

Following successful pollination, Dendrobium orchid flowers rapidly undergo senescence. In Dendrobium cv. Khao Chaimongkol, compatible pollination resulted in faster ethylene production and more rapid development of senescence symptoms, such as drooping, epinasty, venation and yellowing, compared with non-pollinated controls or pollination with incompatible pollinia.

A Data Driven Approach to Assess Complex Colour Profiles in Plant Tissues.

The ability to quantify the colour of fruit is extremely important for a number of applied fields including plant breeding, postharvest assessment, and consumer quality assessment. Fruit and other plant organs display highly complex colour patterning. This complexity makes it challenging to compare and contrast colours in an accurate and time efficient manner.

A gene expression atlas for kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) and network analysis of transcription factors.

Background: Transcriptomic studies combined with a well annotated genome have laid the foundations for new understanding of molecular processes. Tools which visualise gene expression patterns have further added to these resources. The manual annotation of the Actinidia chinensis (kiwifruit) genome has resulted in a high quality set of 33,044 genes.

Genetic Analysis of Walnut ( L.) Pellicle Pigment Variation Through a Novel, High-Throughput Phenotyping Platform.

Walnut pellicle color is a key quality attribute that drives consumer preference and walnut sales. For the first time a high-throughput, computer vision-based phenotyping platform using a custom algorithm to quantitatively score each walnut pellicle in L* a* b* color space was deployed at large-scale. This was compared to traditional qualitative scoring by eye and was used to dissect the genetics of pellicle pigmentation.

Massively parallel sequencing and STR analysis from partial bloody fingerprints enhanced with columnar thin films.

Fingerprint enhancement often includes either physical or chemical approaches, such as fingerprint powder or cyanoacrylate fuming, to improve the quality of a fingerprint for visualization and analysis. However, these methods become more complex when fingerprints are partial bloody, and these procedures may interfere with downstream DNA analysis. Columnar thin film (CTF) deposition is a type of nanotechnology that utilizes an evaporant material to enhance a fingerprint under low-pressure conditions.