4 results match your criteria: "School of Plants and Environmental Sciences[Affiliation]"
Modifying Anthocyanins Biosynthesis in Tomato Hairy Roots: A Test Bed for Plant Resistance to Ionizing Radiation and Antioxidant Properties in Space.
Front Plant Sci
February 2022
Department for Sustainability, Biotechnology and Agro-Industry Division - Biotec Laboratory, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy.
Gene expression manipulation of specific metabolic pathways can be used to obtain bioaccumulation of valuable molecules and desired quality traits in plants. A single-gene approach to impact different traits would be greatly desirable in agrospace applications, where several aspects of plant physiology can be affected, influencing growth. In this work, MicroTom hairy root cultures expressing a MYB-like transcription factor that regulates the biosynthesis of anthocyanins in (), were considered as a testbed for bio-fortified tomato whole plants aimed at agrospace applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 'Tommy Atkins' mango genome reveals candidate genes for fruit quality.
BMC Plant Biol
February 2021
School of Plants and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Ag Quad Lane, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA.
Background: Mango, Mangifera indica L., an important tropical fruit crop, is grown for its sweet and aromatic fruits. Past improvement of this species has predominantly relied on chance seedlings derived from over 1000 cultivars in the Indian sub-continent with a large variation for fruit size, yield, biotic and abiotic stress resistance, and fruit quality among other traits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransposon activation is a major driver in the genome evolution of cultivated olive trees (Olea europaea L.).
Plant Genome
March 2020
Center for Advanced Studies in Olive Grove and Olive Oils, Department of Experimental Biology, University. Jaén, Jaén, 23071, Spain.
Article Synopsis
- The domestication of olives began in the Levant around 6,000-5,500 BC, with evidence from archeological findings.
- The genome of the popular Picual cultivar was analyzed, revealing 79,667 gene models and indicating that olive domestication involved two distinct genetic events, including a bottleneck effect.
- Despite this bottleneck, cultivated olives exhibit high genetic diversity due to active transposable elements, which have significantly changed over the last 5,000-6,000 years and may have influenced traits like reproduction and oil production.
Tools and Strategies for Long-Read Sequencing and De Novo Assembly of Plant Genomes.
Trends Plant Sci
August 2019
Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address:
The commercial release of third-generation sequencing technologies (TGSTs), giving long and ultra-long sequencing reads, has stimulated the development of new tools for assembling highly contiguous genome sequences with unprecedented accuracy across complex repeat regions. We survey here a wide range of emerging sequencing platforms and analytical tools for de novo assembly, provide background information for each of their steps, and discuss the spectrum of available options. Our decision tree recommends workflows for the generation of a high-quality genome assembly when used in combination with the specific needs and resources of a project.
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