植物学技术

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based analysis is an accurate and sensitive method to quantify plant hormones. This method is commonly used for analysis of low-molecular-weight compounds, such as abscisic acid (ABA), gibberellins (GAs), auxins, and brassinoster ...

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a major growth regulator mediating several aspects of plant development and stress-induced processes. For the hormone to function within the cell, it must first interact with a proteinaceous receptor to commence transmission of a signal to downstr ...

BRI1, a leucine-rich repeat (CRR)-receptor kinase protein, belongs to the plant hormone brassinosteroid (BR) receptor complex in Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis). The experiments described in this chapter to carry out BR-binding assays in Arabidopsis plants are largely based ...

The cytokinin class of plant hormones is perceived by transmembrane His-kinases (His-kinases) of the two-component system, otherwise known as the His-Asp phosphorelay system. When cytokinin receptors perceive cytokinins, they are autophosphorylated at a conserved His residu ...

Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a number of key roles in the growth, development, and stress response of plants. For example, it is vital to a plant’s response to drought stress, and is the signalling molecule responsible for closure of the stomata in order to promote water conservation. The hormone is rapidly ...

Analysis of large-scale gene expression data sets is proving to be a powerful tool for gene function prediction, cis-element discovery and hypothesis generation using Arabidopsis thaliana. Public initiatives led by the AtGenExpress Consortium and experiments conducted by indi ...

The phytohormone auxin plays a pivotal role in plant development, regulating a myriad of processes including embryo patterning, root patterning, organ initiation, and vein patterning. Auxin is unique among the plant hormones as it is actively transported from cell to cell in a polar fashion. ...

With the advent of indexed mutagenized insertion lines in Arabidopsis, it is now possible to order small knockout collections of particular genes to probe a question of biological interest. This first requires querying Arabidopsis databases to identify lines of interest, ordering th ...

Plant endomembrane system is essential for viability and necessary for proper development and signal transduction signal processes. Links between the endomembrane system and auxin signaling have been reported by classical genetics screens. However, the relationship betwe ...

Endogenous small RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), play important regulatory roles in development, hormone signaling, stress responses, and genome stability. These small RNAs induce transcriptional or posttranscriptional gene sile ...

Studies on hormone-receptor interaction include, as a rule, isolation and extensive purification of the receptor protein or a particular receptor-containing fraction. To bypass these time- and resource-consuming procedures, we proposed a live cell-based assay using transgen ...

Hormonal signals are transduced (and sometimes perceived) by protein–protein interactions. Understanding these interactions is therefore crucial to understanding the network of signalling components as a whole. Often, genetic analysis serves up a selection of players that m ...

Horticultural crops are economically valuable for sustainable agricultural production. Plant diseases caused by Pathogens including virus, phytoplasma and bacterium have been a great threat to production of horticultural crops. The efficient use of pathogen-free plant mat ...

White or light purple flower color Torenia (Torenia fournieri Lind.) varieties were successfully developed from the parental variety having violet flowers. This was accomplished by reducing Fe micronutrient in the culture media for the induction of in vitro flowering. The flower indu ...

Pineapple (Ananas comosus L., Merr.) is a commercially important crop, grown in the tropical and subtropical regions. However, the crop is faced with postharvest damage and poor varietal and nutritional improvement. Being a vegetatively propagated crop, conventional breeding prog ...

Bananas that provide a staple food to the millions of people are adversely affected by several viruses such as Banana bunchy Top Virus (BBTV), Banana Streak Virus (BSV), and Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). These viruses are known to have a devastating effect on crop production and constraint to the inte ...

The encapsulation technology consists of the inclusion of some millimeter-long plant portions in a nutritive and protective matrix. This technology represents a further and promising tool for exchange of plant material between private and public plant tissue culture laboratori ...

Juvenility and phase change in woody plant species exert profound impacts on plant morphology and the ability of explants to be successfully propagated in vitro. Morphological characteristics such as leaf shape modifications, thorniness, and the inability to initiate flowers are a ...

In vitro plant production by direct organogenesis from immature flower heads is an ideal approach for clonal propagation of onions (Allium cepa L.). This technique ensures genetic stability, high propagation rate, and maintains donor plant of explants with an advantage over other means of ...

Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii Bolus) is one of the most popular ornamental flowers worldwide and used both as cut flower and potted plant. Some of them show excellent agronomic characters such as color, floral diameter, stem length, and vigor, which make this plant of commercial importance. Conv ...