supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770193);the National Basic Research Program of China (2006CB100100);the "111 Project" (B06003)
Aquaporins are implicated in a wide variety of plant physiological processes, although the mechanisms involved in their regulation are not fully understood. To gain further insight into the regulatory factors involved...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2006CB100100, 2003CB114300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30370129, 30421002)
The wall loosening of guard cells differs from other types of plant cells. However, the regulation of wall loosening during stomatal movement is poorly understood. VfEXPA1 is an α-expansin gene cloned from Vicia faba...
supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(30625027);from The Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006CB100100 and 2008AA10Z122);from The Education Department of Jiangsu(200910)
Phospholipase Dα(PLDα) is involved in plant response to salt stress,but the mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated rice PLDα(OsPLDa) localization and its effect on tonoplast(TP) and plasma membrane (PM)...
supported by the 111 Project (B08044);National Basic Research Program of China (2006CB100100);Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (210266);National Natural Science Foundation of China (30670203 and 30570434);National Key Project for Transgenic Organisms Breeding (2009ZX08009-059B);MUC-985,Independent Research Project of MUC (0910KYZY43);Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology, Ministry of Education of China
High salinity stress is a major environmental factor that limits plant's distribution and productivity. An Arabidopsis-related halophyte,Thellungiella halophila,is an emerging model system used for plant abiotic stres...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2006CB100100);the National Program of Transgenic Plant Research of China (Grant No.2009ZX08009-025B)
The plant-specific NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2,and CUC2) transcription factors have a regulatory function in developmental processes and stress responses. Notably a group of NAC members named NTLs (NTM1-Like) are membrane-tethe...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB100100);the National Program of Trans-genic Plant Research of China (Grant No. 2009ZX08009-025B)
Senescence is a complex and highly regulated process. Leaf senescence is influenced by endogenous developmental and external environmental signals. In this work, we found that expression of an Ap2/DREB-type transcript...