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Seed development in the angiosperms requires the production of a female gametophyte (embryo sac) within the ovule. Many aspects of female reproductive development in cereal crops are yet to be described, large...
Plant Methods 2017 13:67
Published on: 15 August 2017
Methodology
Common cutworm (CCW; Spodoptera litura Fabricius) is a major leaf-feeding pest of soybean in Asia. The previous methods of measuring antixenosis against CCW using adult plant under field or net-room conditions we...
Plant Methods 2017 13:66
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
Understanding root traits is a necessary research front for selection of favorable genotypes or cultivation practices. Root and tuber crops having most of their economic potential stored below ground are favor...
Plant Methods 2017 13:65
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
Plant glutathione S-transferases (GSTs, EC 2.5.1.18) are multifunctional enzymes involved in heavy metal cellular detoxification by conjugating the tripeptide (g-Glu-Cys-Gly) glutathione to heavy metals. Previous...
Plant Methods 2017 13:64
Published on: 4 August 2017
Methodology article
Condensed tannins (CT) are the most abundant secondary metabolite of land plants and can vary in abundance and structure according to tissue type, species, genotype, age, and environmental conditions. Recent i...
Plant Methods 2017 13:63
Published on: 2 August 2017
Methodology article
Modern agriculture uses hyperspectral cameras that provide hundreds of reflectance data at discrete narrow bands in many environments. These bands often cover the whole visible light spectrum and part of the i...
Plant Methods 2017 13:62
Published on: 27 July 2017
Methodology article
Photosynthesis can be roughly separated into biochemical and photochemical processes. Both are affected by drought and can be assessed by non-invasive standard methods. Gas exchange, which mainly assesses the ...
Plant Methods 2017 13:61
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research
Understanding the arrangement and mechanical properties of wood polymers within the plant cell wall is the basis for unravelling its underlying structure–property relationships. As state of the art Atomic Forc...
Plant Methods 2017 13:60
Published on: 25 July 2017
Methodology article
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been used in many plant species as an attractive post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) method for studying gene function either individually or at large-scale in a ...
Plant Methods 2017 13:59
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
Successful biotechnological improvement of crop plants requires a reliable and efficient in vitro regeneration system. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), one the most important vegetable crops worldwide, is strongly ge...
Plant Methods 2017 13:58
Published on: 21 July 2017
Methodology
There are numerous systems and techniques to measure the growth of plant roots. However, phenotyping large numbers of plant roots for breeding and genetic analyses remains challenging. One major difficulty is ...
Plant Methods 2017 13:57
Published on: 13 July 2017
Methodology
In sorghum, the growth angle of nodal roots is a major component of root system architecture. It strongly influences the spatial distribution of roots of mature plants in the soil profile, which can impact dro...
Plant Methods 2017 13:56
Published on: 11 July 2017
Methodology article
Tree pruning is a costly practice with important implications for crop harvest and nutrition, pest and disease control, soil protection and irrigation strategies. Investigations on tree pruning usually involve...
Plant Methods 2017 13:55
Published on: 6 July 2017
Methodology
Automated plant phenotyping has been established as a powerful new tool in studying plant growth, development and response to various types of biotic or abiotic stressors. Respective facilities mainly apply no...
Plant Methods 2017 13:54
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research
Low field NMR has been used to investigate water status in various plant tissues. In plants grown in controlled conditions, the method was shown to be able to monitor leaf development as it could detect slight...
Plant Methods 2017 13:53
Published on: 28 June 2017
Methodology
Two crossing techniques for hybridization of chickpea have been reported and include pollination after emasculation and pollination without emasculation. Success of crossing with emasculation varied from 5 to ...
Plant Methods 2017 13:52
Published on: 21 June 2017
Research
Plant water resource management is one of the main future challenges to fight recent climatic changes. The knowledge of the plant water content could be indispensable for water saving strategies. Terahertz spe...
Plant Methods 2017 13:51
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research
Precise control of gene expression is essential to synchronize plant development with the environment. In perennial plants, transcriptional regulation remains poorly understood, mainly due to the long time req...
Plant Methods 2017 13:50
Published on: 15 June 2017
Methodology
In order to better understand and improve the mode of action of agrochemicals, it is useful to be able to visualize their uptake and distribution in vivo, non-invasively and, ideally, in the field. Here we exp...
Plant Methods 2017 13:48
Published on: 15 June 2017
Methodology
Hyperspectral imaging is an emerging means of assessing plant vitality, stress parameters, nutrition status, and diseases. Extraction of target values from the high-dimensional datasets either relies on pixel-...
Plant Methods 2017 13:47
Published on: 15 June 2017
Methodology
Within the Brassicaceae, six species from the genus Brassica are widely cultivated throughout the world as oilseed, condiment, fodder or vegetable crops. The genetic relationships among the six Brassica species a...
Plant Methods 2017 13:49
Published on: 15 June 2017
Methodology
Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is an important temperate grass used for turf and forage purposes. With the increasing accumulation of genomic and transcriptomic data of perennial ryegrass, an efficient pr...
Plant Methods 2017 13:46
Published on: 5 June 2017
Methodology
Rhizoctonia solani (Kühn) is a soil-borne, necrotrophic fungus causing damping off, root rot and stem canker in many cultivated plants worldwide. Oilseed rape (OSR, Brassica napus) is ...
Plant Methods 2017 13:45
Published on: 30 May 2017
Methodology
Chlorophyll fluorescence (CF) is a key indicator to study plant physiology or photosynthesis efficiency. Conventionally, CF is characterized by fluorometers, which only allows ensemble measurement through wide...
Plant Methods 2017 13:43
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research
Magnolia is a woody ornamental plant, which is widely used in urban landscaping. However, its lengthy juvenile period and recalcitrance to regeneration impedes functional characterizat...
Plant Methods 2017 13:44
Published on: 23 May 2017
