Consumers are driving food production toward the use of more organic antimicrobial agents such as essential oils (EOs) by demanding more natural and clean-label food products. Due to the strong aromatic and flavor properties of EOs, their use is often precluded, or limited to concentrations below...

In the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformations of maize immature embryos (IEs), the common co-culturing media used are MS or N6-based (MC). Here, we used a novel co-culturing method in which maize 'Qi319' IEs inoculated with Agrobacterium-harboring target vector were placed on dry filter ...

To produce high quality, glyphosate-resistant soybeans, we crossed Jinda 73 and glyphosate-resistant RR1 (Roundup Ready First Generation) (RR1) resulting in 34 hybrid strains. To determine the effects of glyphosate on soybean metabolism, we grew the two parents upto the seedling stage, and measured ...

Nuclear factor-Ys (NF-Ys) were previously shown to have important regulatory impacts in different developmental and physiological process. However, in barley the function of the NF-Y genes at system levels is not well known. To identify barley NF-Ys, Arabidopsis and wheat NF-Y protein sequences...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that affects plant growth and development, especially in rice crop as it is a salt susceptible crop. Therefore, a wide range of rice genetic resources are screened in the germplasm banks to identify salt tolerant cultivars. The objective of this investigation was...

The effect of S nutrition level (standard - 2 and intensive - 6 or 9 mmol S L^-1) on the growth, micronutrient status, and Cd concentration of Cd-exposed (0, 0.0002, 0.02, and 0.04 mmol Cd L^-1) Triticum aestivum L. 'Zebra' was examined. The hypothesis that Cd-induced micronutrient imbalance in this...

NAC transcription factors (TFs) are one of the largest and important TF family that are involved in the regulation of plant growth and development. They are characterized by a highly conserved N-terminal domain and a variable C-terminal domain. In the present study, the amino acid sequences of NAC...

Current control strategies for the major apple disease European canker (EC) are laborious and expensive, and often do not prevent progression of the disease, which can lead to loss of trees and therefore production. Hence, the development of resistant cultivars is a significant goal for breeders...

The MADS box genes SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1 (SOC1) and FRUITFULL (FUL) are widely known to be involved in the determination of flowering time and the transition from vegetative to reproductive meristem identity in A. thaliana and many other plant species. Analog to the induction of ...

In vitro plant organogenesis requires plant regulator cytokinins to be exogenously supplied to the culture media. Cytokinins are either obtained from natural sources, from purified commercial plant extracts or by chemical synthesis. Besides plants, several species of plant pathogenic bacteria also...