Diversification of three genes and their roles in sodium exclusion in bread wheat ( L.).

The ability to exclude sodium from the shoot is a crucial feature of salinity tolerance in bread wheat ( L.). The plasma membrane sodium/proton exchanger salt-overly-sensitive 1 (SOS1) is a critical Na.

How rice adapts to high temperatures.

High-temperature stress affects crop yields worldwide. Identifying thermotolerant crop varieties and understanding the basis for this thermotolerance would have important implications for agriculture, especially in the face of climate change. Rice () varieties have evolved protective strategies to acclimate to high temperature, with different thermotolerance levels.

Impacts of Nitrogen Deficiency on Wheat ( L.) Grain During the Medium Filling Stage: Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Comparisons.

Nitrogen (N) supplementation is essential to the yield and quality of bread wheat ( L.). The impact of N-deficiency on wheat at the seedling stage has been previously reported, but the impact of distinct N regimes applied at the seedling stage with continuous application on filling and maturing wheat grains is lesser known, despite the filling stage being critical for final grain yield and flour quality.

Allelic variation of high molecular weight glutenin subunits of bread wheat in Hebei province of China.

In common wheat ( L.), allelic variations of Glu-1 loci have important influences on grain end-use quality. The allelic variations in high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs) were identified in 151 hexaploid wheat varieties representing a historical trend in the cultivars introduced or released inHebei province ofChina fromthe years 1970s to 2010s.

Distribution of genes associated with yield potential and water-saving in Chinese Zone II wheat detected by developed functional markers.

Functional markers (FMs) developed from sequence polymorphisms are present in allelic variants of a functional gene at a locus and are directly associated with phenotypic variations. In this study, FM linked to Rht-B1, Rht-D1, TaCwi-A1, TaSus2-2B, TaGW2-6A and Dreb-B1 genes conferring to yield potential and water-saving were selected to analyse the distribution in 102 wheat varieties, most of which were authorized in the past decade and adapted to grow in Zone II of China. First, the semidwarfing genes Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b (mutant alleles) conferring to grain yield were analysed.

Overexpressing a putative aquaporin gene from wheat, TaNIP, enhances salt tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis.

High soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture worldwide. Here, we report the characterization of a novel aquaporin gene TaNIP (Triticum asetivum L. nodulin 26-like intrinsic protein), which was involved in salt tolerance pathways in plants.

[Construction of recombinant Escherichia coli strains producing poly (4-hydroxybutyric acid) homopolyester from glucose].

The aim of this study is to construct recombinant Escherichia coli strains capable of producing poly(4-hydroxybutyric acid) homopolyester from glucose as sole carbon source. A glutamate: succinate semialdehyde transaminase gene from Escherichia coli, a glutamate decarboxylase gene from E. coli, and a 4-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase gene from Ralstonia eutropha were cloned by PCR and assembled onto the plasmid pKSSE5.