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  1. Pentatricopeptide-repeat proteins (PPRs) characterized by tandem arrays of a degenerate 35-amino-acid repeat (PPR motif) can bind a single strand RNA and regulate organelle gene expression at the post-transcri...

    Authors: Jingli Chen, Haojie Zhu, Jirong Huang and Weihua Huang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:154

    Content type: Research

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  3. Hormones are crucial to plant life and development. Being able to follow the plants hormonal response to various stimuli and throughout developmental processes is an important and increasingly widespread tool....

    Authors: Evyatar Steiner, Alon Israeli, Rupali Gupta, Ido Shwartz, Ido Nir, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lior Tal, Mika Farber, Ziva Amsalem, Naomi Ori, Bruno Müller and Maya Bar

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:152

    Content type: Methodology

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  4. An efficient in vivo transient transfection system using protoplasts is an important tool to study gene expression, metabolic pathways, and multiple mutagenesis parameters in plants. Although rice protoplasts ...

    Authors: Snigdha Poddar, Jaclyn Tanaka, Jamie H. D. Cate, Brian Staskawicz and Myeong-Je Cho

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:151

    Content type: Methodology

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  5. The accurate estimation of potato yield at regional scales is crucial for food security, precision agriculture, and agricultural sustainable development.

    Authors: Shanjun Luo, Yingbin He, Qian Li, Weihua Jiao, Yaqiu Zhu and Xihai Zhao

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:150

    Content type: Research

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  6. Mitochondria play critical roles in plant growth, development and stress tolerance. Numerous researchers have carried out studies on the plant mitochondrial genome structure, mitochondrial metabolism and nucle...

    Authors: Yanghong Xu, Xiaoyi Li, Jishuai Huang, Leilei Peng, Dinghui Luo, Qiannan Zhang, Zhiwu Dan, Haijun Xiao, Fang Yang and Jun Hu

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:149

    Content type: Research

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  7. The accurate evaluation of the stalk-lodging resistance during the late stage of maize growth can provide a basis for the selection of cultivars, the evaluation of cultivation techniques, and timely mechanical...

    Authors: Jun Xue, Bo Ming, Ruizhi Xie, Keru Wang, Peng Hou and Shaokun Li

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:148

    Content type: Research

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  9. High-throughput phenotyping and genomic selection accelerate genetic gain in breeding programs by advances in phenotyping and genotyping methods. This study developed a simple, cost-effective high-throughput i...

    Authors: Morteza Shabannejad, Mohammad-Reza Bihamta, Eslam Majidi-Hervan, Hadi Alipour and Asa Ebrahimi

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:146

    Content type: Research

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  11. Shade avoidance syndrome (SAS) commonly occurs in plants experiencing vegetative shade, causing morphological and physiological changes that are detrimental to plant health and consequently crop yield. As the ...

    Authors: Benny Jian Rong Sng, Gajendra Pratap Singh, Kien Van Vu, Nam-Hai Chua, Rajeev J. Ram and In-Cheol Jang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:144

    Content type: Research

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  13. Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) such as Esca are among the most devastating threats to viticulture. Due to the lack of efficient preventive and curative treatments, Esca causes severe economic losses worldwide...

    Authors: Nele Bendel, Anna Kicherer, Andreas Backhaus, Hans-Christian Klück, Udo Seiffert, Michael Fischer, Ralf T. Voegele and Reinhard Töpfer

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:142

    Content type: Research

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  14. Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) is an important horticultural crop in the tropics and subtropics, where it has great commercial potential due to high demand for fresh edible fruits and processed juice as w...

    Authors: Lydia K. Asande, Richard O. Omwoyo, Richard O. Oduor and Evans N. Nyaboga

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:141

    Content type: Methodology

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  15. Restricting transpiration under high vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is a promising water-saving trait for drought adaptation. However, it is often measured under controlled conditions and at very low throughput,...

    Authors: Soumyashree Kar, Ryokei Tanaka, Lijalem Balcha Korbu, Jana Kholová, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Surya S. Durbha, J. Adinarayana and Vincent Vadez

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:140

    Content type: Research

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  16. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important model crops in plant research. Despite its considerable advantages, (phenotypic) bioassays for rice are not as well developed as for Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we...

    Authors: Lena Vlaminck, Chananchida Sang-Aram, Deborah Botterman, Christine Jewel C. Uy, Mary Kay Harper, Dirk Inzé, Godelieve Gheysen and Stephen Depuydt

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:139

    Content type: Methodology

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  17. Oat (Avena sativa L.), a hexaploid crop with unknown genome, has valuable nutritional, medicinal and pharmaceutical uses. However, no suitable RGs (reference genes) for qPCR (quantitative real-time PCR) has been ...

    Authors: Zheng Yang, Kai Wang, Usman Aziz, Cuizhu Zhao and Meng Zhang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:138

    Content type: Research

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  18. Functional characterisation of genes using transgenic methods is increasingly common in cereal crops. Yet standard methods of gene over-expression can lead to undesirable developmental phenotypes, or even embr...

    Authors: Sophie A. Harrington, Anna E. Backhaus, Samantha Fox, Christian Rogers, Philippa Borrill, Cristobal Uauy and Annis Richardson

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:137

    Content type: Methodology

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  19. Glucobrassicin (GBS) and its hydrolysis product indole-3-carbinol are important nutritional constituents implicated in cancer chemoprevention. Dietary consumption of vegetables sources of GBS, such as cabbage ...

    Authors: Ilse E. Renner and Vincent A Fritz

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:136

    Content type: Methodology

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  20. Tree crown extraction is an important research topic in forest resource monitoring. In particular, it is a prerequisite for disease detection and mapping the degree of damage caused by forest pests. Unmanned a...

    Authors: Ning Zhang, Yueting Wang and Xiaoli Zhang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:135

    Content type: Research

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  21. Cytokinins are one kind of phytohormones essential for plant growth, development and stress responses. In the past half century, significant progresses have been made in the studies of cytokinin signal transdu...

    Authors: Mengyuan Zhang, Bingli Ding, Jiangzhe Zhao, Penghong Zhang, Yujia Li, Guodong Yang and Kewei Zhang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:134

    Content type: Methodology

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  22. The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system has become a powerful tool for functional genomics in plants. The RNA-guided nuclease can be used to not only generate precise ge...

    Authors: Irene N. Gentzel, Chan Ho Park, Maria Bellizzi, Guiqing Xiao, Kiran R. Gadhave, Colin Murphree, Qin Yang, Jonathan LaMantia, Margaret G. Redinbaugh, Peter Balint-Kurti, Tim L. Sit and Guo-Liang Wang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:133

    Content type: Research

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  23. The tiller number per unit area is one of the main agronomic components in determining yield. A real-time assessment of this trait could contribute to monitoring the growth of wheat populations or as a primary...

    Authors: Yuan Fang, Xiaolei Qiu, Tai Guo, Yongqing Wang, Tao Cheng, Yan Zhu, Qi Chen, Weixing Cao, Xia Yao, Qingsong Niu, Yongqiang Hu and Lijuan Gui

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:132

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  24. Chloroplasts are critical organelles that perceive and convey metabolic and stress signals to different cellular components, while remaining the seat of photosynthesis and a metabolic factory. The proteomes of...

    Authors: Oindrila Bhattacharya, Irma Ortiz and Linda L. Walling

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:131

    Content type: Methodology

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  25. Cryopreservation is the best way for long-term in vitro preservation of plant germplasm resources. The preliminary studies found that reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced oxidative stress and ice-induced memb...

    Authors: Li Ren, Shan Deng, Yunxia Chu, Yiying Zhang, Hong Zhao, Hairong Chen and Di Zhang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:130

    Content type: Research

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  26. The plant cuticle represents one of the major adaptations of vascular plants to terrestrial life. Cuticular permeability and chemical composition differ among species. Arabidopsis thaliana is a widely used model ...

    Authors: Martina Vráblová, Daniel Vrábl, Barbora Sokolová, Dominika Marková and Marie Hronková

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:129

    Content type: Methodology

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  27. Stalk lodging (breaking of agricultural plant stalks prior to harvest) is a multi-billion dollar a year problem. Stalk lodging occurs when bending moments induced by a combination of external loading (e.g. win...

    Authors: Christopher J. Stubbs, Yusuf A. Oduntan, Tyrone R. Keep, Scott D. Noble and Daniel J. Robertson

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:128

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  28. Early seedling vigor is an essential trait of direct-seeded rice. It helps the seedlings to compete with weeds for water and nutrient availability, and contributes to better seedling establishment during the i...

    Authors: Annamalai Anandan, Anumalla Mahender, Rameswar Prasad Sah, Lotan Kumar Bose, Hatanath Subudhi, Jitendra Meher, Janga Nagi Reddy and Jauhar Ali

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:127

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  29. Tocochromanols are a group of lipid-soluble antioxidants produced by all plants and include the tocopherols, which are ubiquitous in the plant kingdom, and the biosynthetically-related compounds tocotrienols, ...

    Authors: Yan Bao, Maria Magallenes-Lundback, Nicholas Deason and Dean DellaPenna

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:126

    Content type: Methodology

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  30. Strigolactones represent the most recently described group of plant hormones involved in many aspects of plant growth regulation. Simultaneously, root exuded strigolactones mediate rhizosphere signaling toward...

    Authors: Kristýna Floková, Mahdere Shimels, Beatriz Andreo Jimenez, Nicoletta Bardaro, Miroslav Strnad, Ondřej Novák and Harro J. Bouwmeester

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:125

    Content type: Methodology

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  32. The rising availability of assemblies of large genomes (e.g. bread and durum wheat, barley) and their annotations deliver the basis to graphically present genome organization of parents and progenies on a phys...

    Authors: Mathieu Deblieck, Andrii Fatiukha, Norbert Grundman, Lianne Merchuk-Ovnat, Yehoshua Saranga, Tamar Krugman, Klaus Pillen, Albrecht Serfling, Wojciech Makalowski, Frank Ordon and Dragan Perovic

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:123

    Content type: Software

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  33. Up-to-now, several biochemical methods have been developed to allow specific organelle isolation from plant tissues. These procedures are often time consuming, require substantial amounts of plant material, ha...

    Authors: Martina Lang, Marlene Pröschel, Nico Brüggen and Uwe Sonnewald

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:122

    Content type: Methodology

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  34. Genomic methods for identifying causative variants for trait loci applicable to a wide range of germplasm are required for plant biologists and breeders to understand the genetic control of trait variation.

    Authors: Elena López-Girona, Marcus W. Davy, Nick W. Albert, Elena Hilario, Maia E. M. Smart, Chris Kirk, Susan J. Thomson and David Chagné

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:121

    Content type: Methodology

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  36. Chloroplast genome information is critical to understanding forms of photosynthesis in the plant kingdom. During the evolutionary process, plants have developed different photosynthetic strategies that are acc...

    Authors: Richard M. Sharpe, Bruce Williamson-Benavides, Gerald E. Edwards and Amit Dhingra

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:119

    Content type: Research

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  37. Measurement of plant structure is useful in monitoring plant conditions and understanding the responses of plants to environmental changes. 3D imaging technologies, especially the passive-SfM (Structure from M...

    Authors: Xingtong Lu, Eiichi Ono, Shan Lu, Yu Zhang, Poching Teng, Mitsuko Aono, Yo Shimizu, Fumiki Hosoi and Kenji Omasa

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:118

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  38. Identification and characterization of new traits with sound physiological foundation is essential for crop breeding and production management. Deep learning has been widely used in image data analysis to expl...

    Authors: Zongfeng Yang, Shang Gao, Feng Xiao, Ganghua Li, Yangfeng Ding, Qinghua Guo, Matthew J. Paul and Zhenghui Liu

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:117

    Content type: Research

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  40. Walnuts are grown worldwide in temperate areas and producers are facing an increasing demand. In a climate change context, the industry also needs cultivars that provide fruits of quality. This quality include...

    Authors: Anthony Bernard, Sherif Hamdy, Laurence Le Corre, Elisabeth Dirlewanger and Fabrice Lheureux

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:115

    Content type: Research

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  41. The black pod disease affects cacao plantations worldwide; it is caused by the oomycete species of the genus Phytophthora. The resistance of cacao plants to the black pod is commonly evaluated by artificial inocu...

    Authors: Paola Delgadillo-Durán, Mauricio Soto-Suárez, Leonora Rodriguez-Polanco, Martha Carrero-Gutierrez, Esperanza Torres-Rojas and Roxana Yockteng

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:114

    Content type: Methodology

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  42. Stalk lodging (breaking of agricultural plant stalks prior to harvest) is a multi-billion dollar a year problem. Rind penetration resistance tests have been used by plant scientists and breeders to estimate th...

    Authors: Christopher J. Stubbs, Christopher McMahan, Will Seegmiller, Douglas D. Cook and Daniel J. Robertson

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:113

    Content type: Research

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  43. Optimizing the somatic embryogenesis protocol can be considered as the first and foremost step in successful gene transformation studies. However, it is usually difficult to achieve an optimized embryogenesis ...

    Authors: Mohsen Hesami, Roohangiz Naderi, Masoud Tohidfar and Mohsen Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:112

    Content type: Research

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  44. Sowing time is commonly used as the temporal reference for Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) experiments in high throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) systems. This relies on the assumption that germination and se...

    Authors: Diego Lozano-Claros, Xiangxiang Meng, Eddie Custovic, Guang Deng, Oliver Berkowitz, James Whelan and Mathew G. Lewsey

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:111

    Content type: Methodology

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  45. The use of sequencing and genotyping platforms has undergone dramatic improvements, enabling the generation of a wealth of genomic information. Despite this progress, the availability of high-quality genomic D...

    Authors: Santiago Vilanova, David Alonso, Pietro Gramazio, Mariola Plazas, Edgar García-Fortea, Paola Ferrante, Maximilian Schmidt, María José Díez, Björn Usadel, Giovanni Giuliano and Jaime Prohens

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:110

    Content type: Methodology

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  46. Photosynthesis is one of the most important biological reactions and forms the basis of crop productivity and yield on which a growing global population relies. However, to develop improved plant cultivars tha...

    Authors: Matthew T. Herritt, Duke Pauli, Todd C. Mockler and Alison L. Thompson

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:109

    Content type: Methodology

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  47. The population of plants is a crucial indicator in plant phenotyping and agricultural production, such as growth status monitoring, yield estimation, and grain depot management. To enhance the production effic...

    Authors: Hongwei Zou, Hao Lu, Yanan Li, Liang Liu and Zhiguo Cao

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:108

    Content type: Database

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  48. Phenotypic information is of great significance for irrigation management, disease prevention and yield improvement. Interest in the evaluation of phenotypes has grown with the goal of enhancing the quality of...

    Authors: Yirui Huang, Zhenhui Ren, Dongming Li and Xuan Liu

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:107

    Content type: Review

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  49. Wheat yield is influenced by the number of ears per unit area, and manual counting has traditionally been used to estimate wheat yield. To realize rapid and accurate wheat ear counting, K-means clustering was ...

    Authors: Xin Xu, Haiyang Li, Fei Yin, Lei Xi, Hongbo Qiao, Zhaowu Ma, Shuaijie Shen, Binchao Jiang and Xinming Ma

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:106

    Content type: Research

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  50. Timely and accurate estimates of canopy chlorophyll (Chl) a and b content are crucial for crop growth monitoring and agricultural management. Crop canopy reflectance depends on many factors, which can be divid...

    Authors: Jibo Yue, Haikuan Feng, Qingjiu Tian and Chengquan Zhou

    Citation: Plant Methods 2020 16:104

    Content type: Research

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