With the advance of next-generation sequencing techniques, phylogenetic analyses based on genomic data are becoming frequent in plants. However, the efficacy of different methods used to retrieve orthologs for phyloge...
supported by grants from the National High-Tech R&D Program of China (863 Program,2006AA001003) ;the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2009CB118400)
The photoperiod response of lowering is critical to the survival and successful reproduction in crops. The Hd6 gene, encoding a protein similar to the Arabidopsis α-subunit of CASEIN KINASE2α (CK2α) has been repo...
supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2004AA222110);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30225029).
AtbHLH29 of Arabidopsis, encoding a bHLH protein, reveals a high similarity to the tomato FER which is proposed as a transcriptional regulator involved in controlling the iron deficiency responses and the iron uptake ...