8 results match your criteria: "CRA-Genomics Research Centre[Affiliation]"
Genome Announc
March 2015
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Here, we describe the draft genome sequence and annotation of Lactobacillus plantarum strain Lp90, the first sequenced genome of a L. plantarum strain isolated from wine. This strain has a noticeable ropy phenotype and showed potential probiotic properties.
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January 2013
CRA-Genomics Research Centre, 29017 Fiorenzuola d'Arda-PC, Italy.
The chloroplast is the central switch of the plant's response to cold and light stress. The ability of many plant species to develop a cold tolerant phenotype is dependent on the presence of light and photosynthetic activity during low-temperature growth. Light exposure at low temperature stimulates an over-reduction of the plastoquinone pool as well as the accumulation of reactive oxygen species, and both metabolic conditions generate a retrograde signal controlling nuclear gene expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant cells regulate many cellular processes controlling the half-life of critical proteins through ubiquitination. Previously, we characterized two interacting RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligases of Triticum durum, TdRF1 and WVIP2. We revealed their role in tolerance to dehydration, and existing knowledge about their partners also indicated their involvement in the regulation of some aspects of plant development.
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August 2012
CRA Genomics Research Centre, Fiorenzuola d'Arda Italy.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNA molecules produced from hairpin structures and involved in gene expression regulation with major roles in plant development and stress response. Although each annotated miRNA in miRBase (www.mirbase.
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July 2012
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Personal genetics and regulations have been the subject of active debate for at least the last 10 years, since the first direct-to-consumer tests were sold in the UK by Sciona Inc. (CO, USA). Opinions range from prohibition to free-for-all and all the shades in between.
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May 2012
CRA-Genomics Research Centre, Agricultural Research Council, via S.Protaso 302, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, PC, Italy.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs of about 20-24 nt, known to play key roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation, that can be coded either by intergenic or intragenic loci. Intragenic (exonic and intronic) miRNAs can exert a role in the transcriptional regulation and RNA processing of their host gene. Moreover, the possibility that the biogenesis of exonic miRNAs could destabilize the corresponding protein-coding transcript and reduce protein synthesis makes their characterization very intriguing and suggests a possible novel mechanism of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
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January 2011
CRA-Genomics Research Centre, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy.
Several molecular evidences have been gathered in Poaceae that point out a central role of the CBF/DREB1 transcription factors in the signal transduction pathways leading to low-temperature tolerance, although to a quite different extent between crops originating from either temperate or tropical climates. A common feature of the CBF/DREB1 genes in Poaceae is their structural organization at the genome level in clusters of tandemly duplicated genes. In temperate cereals such as barley and wheat, expansion of specific multigene phylogenetic clades of CBFs that map at the Frost Resistance-2 locus has been exclusively observed.
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October 2010
CRA-Genomics Research Centre, via S,Protaso 302, I-29107 Fiorenzuola d'Arda (Pc), Italy.
Background: Many plant species have been investigated in the last years for the identification and characterization of the corresponding miRNAs, nevertheless extensive studies are not yet available on barley (at the time of this writing). To extend and to update information on miRNAs and their targets in barley and to identify candidate polymorphisms at miRNA target sites, the features of previously known plant miRNAs have been used to systematically search for barley miRNA homologues and targets in the publicly available ESTs database. Matching sequences have then been related to Unigene clusters on which most of this study was based.
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