The National High-tech Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2003AA222050 and 2006AA10A109);the National Key Basic Research Pro-gram of China (Grant No. 2002CB111303)
Aerial surfaces of most land plants have epidermal hairs (trichomes).Both Arabidopsis thaliana trichomes and cotton fibers (seed hairs) are nonglandular hairs with unicellular structure.Here we out-line the recent pro...
the Frontier Project of the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Science (Grant No. KJCX2-SW-w29)
Deg5,deg8 and the double mutant,deg5deg8 of Arabidopsis thaliana were used to study the physiological role of the DEG proteases in the repair cycle of photosystem II (PSII) under heat stress. PSII activity in deg muta...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30221120261)
AP2/EREBP transcription factors (TFs) play very important roles in plant development, hormonal regulation and stress response. Upon genome-wide cDNA cloning, phylogenetic and expression pattern analyses of this plant ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30170457, 30421002 & 30370708).
RNA interference (RNAi), one of the newly found ways for post-transcriptional gene si- lencing, has been widely used to investigate gene functions through transgenic methods for introducing an RNA silencing signal int...
This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30125025&30221002);The Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Flowering in higher plants is controlled by both the internal and environmental cues. In Arabidopsis, several major genetic loci have been defined as the key switches to control flowering. The Flowering Locus C (FLC) ...
Alpha-picolinic acid (PA) is an apoptosis inducer in animal cells, and could elicit hypersensitiv eresponse (HR) in rice, a monocotyledonous model plant. Here we report that PA is an HR inducer in plants. It induced H...
We are conducting a large scale functional analysis of plant genes utilizing the promoter trap lines and proteomic analyses as a part of the Crop functional genomics research program of Korea. Here, I describe the pro...
AtLHgene of Arabidopsis is a BcpLH(leafy head) homolog of Chinese cabbage, which encodes a double-stranded RNA-binding protein related to the curvature of folding leaf leading to the formation of leafy head. In order ...