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Application of CRISPR/Cas12i.3 for targeted mutagenesis in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)

Yuhe Bai, Shengnan Liu, Yan Bai, Zhisong Xu, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 66 > 8 > 1544 - 1547

A CRISPR/Cas12i.3‐based gene editing platform is established in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and used to create new elite germplasm for this ancient crop.

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Dynamic transcriptome landscape of maize pericarp development

Jihong Zhang, Yang Yue, Mingjian Hu, Fei Yi, more

The Plant Journal > 117 > 5 > 1574 - 1591

As a maternal tissue, the pericarp supports and protects for other components of seed, such as embryo and endosperm. Despite the importance of maize pericarp in seed, the genome‐wide transcriptome pattern throughout maize pericarp development has not been well characterized. Here, we developed RNA‐seq transcriptome atlas of B73 maize pericarp development based on 21 samples from 5 days before fertilization...

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Dynamic transcriptome landscape of developing maize ear

Xiaomeng Shen, Bing Xiao, Tangnur Kaderbek, Zhen Lin, more

The Plant Journal > 116 > 6 > 1856 - 1870

Seed number and harvesting ability in maize (Zea mays L.) are primarily determined by the architecture of female inflorescence, namely the ear. Therefore, ear morphogenesis contributes to grain yield and as such is one of the key target traits during maize breeding. However, the molecular networks of this highly dynamic and complex grain‐bearing inflorescence remain largely unclear. As a first step...

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Stereoselective Synthesis and Immunological Evaluation of Common O‐antigen of P. mirabilis OE and P. vulgaris TG103

Xiaopei Wu, Jinsheng Lai, Kexin Yang, Yunxia Xue, more

Chinese Journal of Chemistry > 41 > 5 > 535 - 543

Proteus species especially Proteus mirabilis and Proteus vulgaris are zoonotic pathogens which can cause public health disease. Owing to their antibiotic‐resistance, developing vaccines against these pathogens is urgently required. Herein, we describe the first synthesis of the common O‐antigen of Proteus mirabilis OE and Proteus vulgaris TG 103. The repeating unit incorporates two challenging 1,2‐...

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Exploring key developmental phases and phase‐specific genes across the entirety of anther development in maize

Yingjia Han, Mingjian Hu, Xuxu Ma, Ge Yan, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 64 > 7 > 1394 - 1410

Anther development from stamen primordium to pollen dispersal is complex and essential to sexual reproduction. How this highly dynamic and complex developmental process is controlled genetically is not well understood, especially for genes involved in specific key developmental phases. Here we generated RNA sequencing libraries spanning 10 key stages across the entirety of anther development in maize...

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ZmCTLP1 is required for the maintenance of lipid homeostasis and the basal endosperm transfer layer in maize kernels

Mingjian Hu, Haiming Zhao, Bo Yang, Shuang Yang, more

New Phytologist > 232 > 6 > 2384 - 2399

Maize kernel weight is influenced by the unloading of nutrients from the maternal placenta and their passage through the transfer tissue of the basal endosperm transfer layer (BETL) and the basal intermediate zone (BIZ) to the upper part of the endosperm. Here, we show that Small kernel 10 (Smk10) encodes a choline transporter‐like protein 1 (ZmCTLP1) that facilitates choline uptake and is located...

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Cotyledons facilitate the adaptation of early‐maturing soybean varieties to high‐latitude long‐day environments

Xin Xu, Lixin Zhang, Xiaoning Cao, Lifeng Liu, more

Plant, Cell & Environment > 44 > 8 > 2551 - 2564

Soybean (Glycine max), a typical short‐day plant (SDP) domesticated in temperate regions, has expanded to high latitudes where daylengths are long from soybean emergence to bloom, but rapidly decrease from seed filling to maturity. Cotyledons are well known as the major storage organs in seeds, but it is unclear whether developing cotyledons store flowering substances at filling stage in SD for upcoming...

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MP3RNA‐seq: Massively parallel 3′ end RNA sequencing for high‐throughput gene expression profiling and genotyping

Jian Chen, Xiangbo Zhang, Fei Yi, Xiang Gao, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 63 > 7 > 1227 - 1239

Transcriptome deep sequencing (RNA‐seq) has become a routine method for global gene expression profiling. However, its application to large‐scale experiments remains limited by cost and labor constraints. Here we describe a massively parallel 3′ end RNA‐seq (MP3RNA‐seq) method that introduces unique sample barcodes during reverse transcription to permit sample pooling immediately following this initial...

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Metabolomics‐driven gene mining and genetic improvement of tolerance to salt‐induced osmotic stress in maize

Xiaoyan Liang, Songyu Liu, Tao Wang, Fenrong Li, more

New Phytologist > 230 > 6 > 2355 - 2370

The farmland of the world’s main corn‐producing area is increasingly affected by salt stress. Therefore, the breeding of salt‐tolerant cultivars is necessary for the long‐term sustainability of global corn production. Previous studies have shown that natural maize varieties display a large diversity of salt tolerance, yet the genetic variants underlying such diversity remain poorly discovered...

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Maize WI5 encodes an endo‐1,4‐β‐xylanase required for secondary cell wall synthesis and water transport in xylem

Xiaojiao Hu, Yang Cui, Xiaomin Lu, Weibin Song, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 62 > 10 > 1607 - 1624

Water transport from roots to leaves through xylem is important for plant growth and development. Defects in water transport can cause drought stress, even when there is adequate water in the soil. Here, we identified the maize (Zea mays) wilty5 (wi5) mutant, which exhibits marked dwarfing and leaf wilting throughout most of its life cycle under normal growth conditions. wilty5 seedlings exhibited...

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An Investigation Into the Effects of Long‐Term 50‐Hz Power‐Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure on Hematogram, Blood Chemistry, Fibrosis, and Oxidant Stress Status in the Liver and the Kidney From Sprague–Dawley Rats

Yemao Zhang, Jin Wang, Xingfa Liu, Lijian Ding, more

Bioelectromagnetics > 41 > 7 > 511 - 525

Power‐frequency electromagnetic fields (PF‐EMFs) at 50 Hz are potential health risk factors. This study aimed to explore the effects of long‐term exposure to 50‐Hz PF‐EMFs on general physiological conditions in Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats. During a 24‐week exposure period, the body mass and water and food intake of the animals were recorded regularly. The hematologic parameters were detected every 12...

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A barley stripe mosaic virus‐based guide RNA delivery system for targeted mutagenesis in wheat and maize

Jiacheng Hu, Shaoya Li, Zhaolei Li, Huiyuan Li, more

Molecular Plant Pathology > 20 > 10 > 1463 - 1474

Plant RNA virus‐based guide RNA (gRNA) delivery has substantial advantages compared to that of the conventional constitutive promoter‐driven expression due to the rapid and robust amplification of gRNAs during virus replication and movement. To date, virus‐induced genome editing tools have not been developed for wheat and maize. In this study, we engineered a barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)‐based...

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OS1 functions in the allocation of nutrients between the endosperm and embryo in maize seeds

Weibin Song, Jinjie Zhu, Haiming Zhao, Yingnan Li, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 61 > 6 > 706 - 727

Uncovering the genetic basis of seed development will provide useful tools for improving both crop yield and nutritional value. However, the genetic regulatory networks of maize (Zea mays) seed development remain largely unknown. The maize opaque endosperm and small germ 1 (os1) mutant has opaque endosperm and a small embryo. Here, we cloned OS1 and show that it encodes a putative transcription factor...

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ZmMADS69 functions as a flowering activator through the ZmRap2.7‐ZCN8 regulatory module and contributes to maize flowering time adaptation

Yameng Liang, Qiang Liu, Xufeng Wang, Cheng Huang, more

New Phytologist > 221 > 4 > 2335 - 2347

Flowering time is a major determinant of the local adaptation of plants. Although numerous loci affecting flowering time have been mapped in maize, their underlying molecular mechanisms and roles in adaptation remain largely unknown. Here, we report the identification and characterization of MADS‐box transcription factor ZmMADS69 that functions as a flowering activator through the ZmRap2.7‐ZCN8...

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Effects of drought stress and water recovery on physiological responses and gene expression in maize seedlings

Xiangbo Zhang, Lei Lei, Jinsheng Lai, Haiming Zhao, more

BMC Plant Biology > 2018 > 18 > 1 > 1-16

Background Drought is one of the major factors limiting global maize production. Exposure to long-term drought conditions inhibits growth and leads to yield losses. Although several drought-responsive genes have been identified and functionally analyzed, the mechanisms underlying responses to drought and water recovery treatments have not been fully elucidated. To characterize how maize seedling respond...

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The genetic architecture of nodal root number in maize

Zhihai Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Zhelong Lin, Jian Wang, more

The Plant Journal > 93 > 6 > 1032 - 1044

The maize nodal root system plays a crucial role in the development of the aboveground plant and determines the yield via the uptake of water and nutrients in the field. However, the genetic architecture of the maize nodal root system is not well understood, and it has become the ‘dark matter’ of maize genetics. Here, a large teosinte‐maize population was analyzed, and high‐resolution mapping revealed...

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Sequential gene activation and gene imprinting during early embryo development in maize

Dexuan Meng, Jianyu Zhao, Cheng Zhao, Haishan Luo, more

The Plant Journal > 93 > 3 > 445 - 459

Gene imprinting is a widely observed epigenetic phenomenon in maize endosperm; however, whether it also occurs in the maize embryo remains controversial. Here, we used high‐throughput RNA sequencing on laser capture microdissected and manually dissected maize embryos from reciprocal crosses between inbred lines B73 and Mo17 at six time points (3–13 days after pollination, DAP) to analyze allelic gene...

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Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays)

Baobao Wang, Han Liu, Zhipeng Liu, Xiaomei Dong, more

BMC Plant Biology > 2018 > 18 > 1 > 1-12

Background Plant Architecture Related Traits (PATs) are of great importance for maize breeding, and mainly controlled by minor effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs). However, cloning or even fine-mapping of minor effect QTLs is very difficult in maize. Theoretically, large population and high density genetic map can be helpful for increasing QTL mapping resolution and accuracy, but such a possibility...

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A retrotransposon in an HKT1 family sodium transporter causes variation of leaf Na⁺ exclusion and salt tolerance in maize

Ming Zhang, Yibo Cao, Zhiping Wang, Zhi‐qiang Wang, more

New Phytologist > 217 > 3 > 1161 - 1176

Soil salinity is one of several major abiotic stresses that constrain maize productivity worldwide. An improved understanding of salt‐tolerance mechanisms will thus enhance the breeding of salt‐tolerant maize and boost productivity. Previous studies have indicated that the maintenance of leaf Na⁺ concentration is essential for maize salt tolerance, and the difference in leaf Na⁺ exclusion has previously...

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Defective Kernel 39 encodes a PPR protein required for seed development in maize

Xiaojie Li, Wei Gu, Silong Sun, Zongliang Chen, more

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology > 60 > 1 > 45 - 64

RNA editing is a posttranscriptional process that is important in mitochondria and plastids of higher plants. All RNA editing‐specific trans‐factors reported so far belong to PLS‐class of pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins. Here, we report the map‐based cloning and molecular characterization of a defective kernel mutant dek39 in maize. Loss of Dek39 function leads to delayed embryogenesis and...

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Search results for: Jinsheng Lai

Application of CRISPR/Cas12i.3 for targeted mutagenesis in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)

Dynamic transcriptome landscape of maize pericarp development

Dynamic transcriptome landscape of developing maize ear

Stereoselective Synthesis and Immunological Evaluation of Common O‐antigen of P. mirabilis OE and P. vulgaris TG103

Exploring key developmental phases and phase‐specific genes across the entirety of anther development in maize

ZmCTLP1 is required for the maintenance of lipid homeostasis and the basal endosperm transfer layer in maize kernels

Cotyledons facilitate the adaptation of early‐maturing soybean varieties to high‐latitude long‐day environments

MP3RNA‐seq: Massively parallel 3′ end RNA sequencing for high‐throughput gene expression profiling and genotyping

Metabolomics‐driven gene mining and genetic improvement of tolerance to salt‐induced osmotic stress in maize

Maize WI5 encodes an endo‐1,4‐β‐xylanase required for secondary cell wall synthesis and water transport in xylem

An Investigation Into the Effects of Long‐Term 50‐Hz Power‐Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure on Hematogram, Blood Chemistry, Fibrosis, and Oxidant Stress Status in the Liver and the Kidney From Sprague–Dawley Rats

A barley stripe mosaic virus‐based guide RNA delivery system for targeted mutagenesis in wheat and maize

OS1 functions in the allocation of nutrients between the endosperm and embryo in maize seeds

ZmMADS69 functions as a flowering activator through the ZmRap2.7‐ZCN8 regulatory module and contributes to maize flowering time adaptation

Effects of drought stress and water recovery on physiological responses and gene expression in maize seedlings

The genetic architecture of nodal root number in maize

Sequential gene activation and gene imprinting during early embryo development in maize

Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays)

A retrotransposon in an HKT1 family sodium transporter causes variation of leaf Na⁺ exclusion and salt tolerance in maize

Defective Kernel 39 encodes a PPR protein required for seed development in maize

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