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  3. Content type: Methodology

    The in vivo observation of diffusible components, such as ions and small phenolic compounds, remains a challenge in turgid plant organs. The analytical techniques used to localize such components in water-rich...

    Authors: Kevin Vidot, Cédric Gaillard, Camille Rivard, René Siret and Marc Lahaye

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:89

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  4. Content type: Research

    Due to cowpea ability to fix nitrogen in poor soils and relative tolerance to drought and salt stresses, efforts have been directed to identifying genes and pathways that confer stress tolerance in this specie...

    Authors: Lidiane Lindinalva Barbosa Amorim, José Ribamar Costa Ferreira-Neto, João Pacífico Bezerra-Neto, Valesca Pandolfi, Flávia Tadeu de Araújo, Mitalle Karen da Silva Matos, Mauro Guida Santos, Ederson Akio Kido and Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:88

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  5. Content type: Review

    Production of virus-free plants is necessary to control viral diseases, import novel cultivars from other countries, exchange breeding materials between countries or regions and preserve plant germplasm. In vi...

    Authors: Min-Rui Wang, Zhen-Hua Cui, Jing-Wei Li, Xin-Yi Hao, Lei Zhao and Qiao-Chun Wang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:87

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  6. Content type: Research

    Charcoal rot is a fungal disease that thrives in warm dry conditions and affects the yield of soybeans and other important agronomic crops worldwide. There is a need for robust, automatic and consistent early ...

    Authors: Koushik Nagasubramanian, Sarah Jones, Soumik Sarkar, Asheesh K. Singh, Arti Singh and Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:86

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  7. Content type: Methodology

    Root phenotyping aims to characterize root system architecture because of its functional role in resource acquisition. RGB imaging and analysis procedures measure root system traits via colour contrasts betwee...

    Authors: Gernot Bodner, Alireza Nakhforoosh, Thomas Arnold and Daniel Leitner

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:84

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  8. Content type: Methodology

    When developing CRISPR/Cas9 systems for crops, it is crucial to invest time characterizing the genome editing efficiency of the CRISPR/Cas9 cassettes, especially if the transformation system is difficult or ti...

    Authors: Lu Long, Dan-Dan Guo, Wei Gao, Wen-Wen Yang, Li-Pan Hou, Xiao-Nan Ma, Yu-Chen Miao, Jose Ramon Botella and Chun-Peng Song

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:85

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  9. Content type: Research

    Recently, putative pre-miRNAs locations have been identified in the introns of plant genes, raising the question whether such genes can show a dual functionality by having both correct maturation of the host g...

    Authors: Umidjon Shapulatov, Mark van Hoogdalem, Marielle Schreuder, Harro Bouwmeester, Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov and Alexander R. van der Krol

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:83

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  10. Content type: Methodology

    The paper introduces a multispectral imaging system and data-processing approach for the identification and discrimination of morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species of the destructive crop pest, the...

    Authors: Joseph Fennell, Charles Veys, Jose Dingle, Joachim Nwezeobi, Sharon van Brunschot, John Colvin and Bruce Grieve

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:82

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  12. Content type: Methodology

    Existing methods for directly measuring photosynthetic capacity (Amax) have low throughput, which creates a key bottleneck for pre-breeding and ecological research. Currently available commercial leaf gas exchang...

    Authors: William T. Salter, Matthew E. Gilbert and Thomas N. Buckley

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:80

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  13. Content type: Research

    Thapsigargin and nortrilobolide are sesquiterpene lactones found in the Mediterranean plant Thapsia garganica L. Thapsigargin is a potent inhibitor of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pump, inducing...

    Authors: Carmen Quiñonero López, Patricia Corral, Bénédicte Lorrain-Lorrette, Karen Martinez-Swatson, Franck Michoux and Henrik Toft Simonsen

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:79

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  14. Content type: Software

    Progress in high-throughput molecular methods accompanied by more complex experimental designs demands novel data visualisation solutions. To specifically answer the question which parts of the specifical biol...

    Authors: Maja Zagorščak, Andrej Blejec, Živa Ramšak, Marko Petek, Tjaša Stare and Kristina Gruden

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:78

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  15. Content type: Research

    The visible and near infrared region has been widely used to estimate the leaf nitrogen (N) content based on the correlation of N with chlorophyll and deep absorption valleys of chlorophyll in this region. How...

    Authors: Dong Li, Xue Wang, Hengbiao Zheng, Kai Zhou, Xia Yao, Yongchao Tian, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao and Tao Cheng

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:76

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  16. Content type: Methodology

    Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) productivity is commonly limited by the availability of water. Increasing transpiration efficiency (biomass produced per unit of water used, TE) can potentially lead to increased grai...

    Authors: Andrew Fletcher, Jack Christopher, Mal Hunter, Greg Rebetzke and Karine Chenu

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:77

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  17. Content type: Methodology

    The recent development of next-generation sequencing DNA marker technologies, such as genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), generates thousands of informative single nucleotide polymorphism markers in almost any spe...

    Authors: Craig B. Anderson, Benjamin K. Franzmayr, Soon Won Hong, Anna C. Larking, Tracey C. van Stijn, Rachel Tan, Roger Moraga, Marty J. Faville and Andrew G. Griffiths

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:75

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  18. Content type: Methodology

    We report the construction of a Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) vector and an agroinoculation protocol for gene silencing in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) leaves and roots. The African cassava mosaic vir...

    Authors: Ezequiel Matias Lentz, Joel-Elias Kuon, Adrian Alder, Nathalie Mangel, Ima M. Zainuddin, Emily Jane McCallum, Ravi Bodampalli Anjanappa, Wilhelm Gruissem and Hervé Vanderschuren

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:73

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  19. Content type: Research

    Lignocellulosic biomass is a complex network of polymers making the cell walls of plants. It represents a feedstock of sustainable resources to be converted into fuels, chemicals and materials. Because of its ...

    Authors: Christine Terryn, Gabriel Paës and Corentin Spriet

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:74

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  20. Content type: Research

    Sample preparation is a critical process for proteomic studies. Many efficient and reproducible sample preparation methods have been developed for mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis of human and animal...

    Authors: Wei-Qing Wang, Ole Nørregaard Jensen, Ian Max Møller, Kim H. Hebelstrup and Adelina Rogowska-Wrzesinska

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:72

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  23. Content type: Methodology

    The next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has greatly facilitated genomic and transcriptomic studies, contributing significantly in expanding the current knowledge on genome and transcriptome. However, t...

    Authors: Fu-Yuan Zhu, Mo-Xian Chen, Neng-Hui Ye, Wang-Min Qiao, Bei Gao, Wai-Ki Law, Yuan Tian, Dong Zhang, Di Zhang, Tie-Yuan Liu, Qi-Juan Hu, Yun-Ying Cao, Ze-Zhuo Su, Jianhua Zhang and Ying-Gao Liu

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:69

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  25. Content type: Methodology

    Full scent profiles emitted by living tissues can be screened by using total ion chromatograms generated in full scan mode and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry technique using Headspace Sorptive Extraction...

    Authors: Victoria Ruiz-Hernández, María José Roca, Marcos Egea-Cortines and Julia Weiss

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:67

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  26. Content type: Methodology

    High resolution and high throughput genotype to phenotype studies in plants are underway to accelerate breeding of climate ready crops. In the recent years, deep learning techniques and in particular Convoluti...

    Authors: Sarah Taghavi Namin, Mohammad Esmaeilzadeh, Mohammad Najafi, Tim B. Brown and Justin O. Borevitz

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:66

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  27. Content type: Research

    Our knowledge of natural genetic variation is increasing at an extremely rapid pace, affording an opportunity to come to a much richer understanding of how effects of specific genes are dependent on the geneti...

    Authors: Rui Wu, Miriam Lucke, Yun-ting Jang, Wangsheng Zhu, Efthymia Symeonidi, Congmao Wang, Joffrey Fitz, Wanyan Xi, Rebecca Schwab and Detlef Weigel

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:65

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  28. Content type: Research

    The images of different flower species had small inter-class variations across different classes as well as large intra-class variations within a class. Flower classification techniques are mainly based on the...

    Authors: Ping Lin, Du Li, Zhiyong Zou, Yongming Chen and Shanchao Jiang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:64

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  29. Content type: Methodology

    The model species Arabidopsis thaliana has extensive resources to investigate intraspecific trait variability and the genetic bases of ecologically relevant traits. However, the cost of equipment and software req...

    Authors: François Vasseur, Justine Bresson, George Wang, Rebecca Schwab and Detlef Weigel

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:63

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  30. Content type: Methodology

    Metabolomics based on mass spectrometry analysis are increasingly applied in diverse scientific domains, notably agronomy and plant biology, in order to understand plants’ behaviors under different stress cond...

    Authors: Hikmat Ghosson, Adrián Schwarzenberg, Frank Jamois and Jean-Claude Yvin

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:62

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  31. Content type: Methodology

    Rhizobium rhizogenes transformation is commonly used to generate transgenic roots traditionally called hairy roots, for both investigative and commercial applications. While fertile plants can be regenerated from...

    Authors: Pradeepa C. G. Bandaranayake and John I. Yoder

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:61

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  32. Content type: Methodology

    Matrix-assisted laser-desorption and ionisation time-of-flight mass spectroscopy (MALDI-TOF MS) is a powerful tool for the characterisation and/or identification of protein-containing samples. Several MALDI-TO...

    Authors: Michael A. Reeve, Kathryn M. Pollard and Daisuke Kurose

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:60

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  33. Content type: Methodology

    In bioenergy/forage sorghum, morpho-anatomical stem properties are major components affecting standability and juice yield. However, phenotyping these traits is low-throughput, and has been restricted by the l...

    Authors: Francisco E. Gomez, Geraldo Carvalho Jr., Fuhao Shi, Anastasia H. Muliana and William L. Rooney

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:59

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  35. Content type: Correction

    Unfortunately, in the original version [1] of this article, a funder note was missed out in the acknowledgement.

    Authors: Abelardo Montesinos-López, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Gustavo de los Campos, José Crossa, Juan Burgueño and Francisco Javier Luna-Vazquez

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:57

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    The original article was published in Plant Methods 2018 14:46

  36. Content type: Methodology

    Small GTPases act as molecular switches that regulate various plant responses such as disease resistance, pollen tube growth, root hair development, cell wall patterning and hormone responses. Thus, to monito...

    Authors: Hann Ling Wong, Akira Akamatsu, Qiong Wang, Masayuki Higuchi, Tomonori Matsuda, Jun Okuda, Ken-ichi Kosami, Noriko Inada, Tsutomu Kawasaki, Takako Kaneko-Kawano, Shingo Nagawa, Li Tan, Yoji Kawano and Ko Shimamoto

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:56

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  37. Content type: Research

    In studies of plant stress signaling, a major challenge is the lack of non-invasive methods to detect physiological plant responses and to characterize plant–plant communication over time and space.

    Authors: Leandro do Prado Ribeiro, Adriana Lídia Santana Klock, João Américo Wordell Filho, Marco Aurélio Tramontin, Marília Almeida Trapp, Axel Mithöfer and Christian Nansen

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:54

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  38. Content type: Methodology

    Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important legume crop is one of the major source of dietary protein. Developing an efficient and reproducible transformation method is imperative to expedite functional genomics...

    Authors: Pooja Rani Aggarwal, Papri Nag, Pooja Choudhary, Niranjan Chakraborty and Subhra Chakraborty

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:55

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  39. Content type: Research

    Plant height is an important morphological and developmental phenotype that directly indicates overall plant growth and is widely predictive of final grain yield and biomass. Currently, manually measuring plan...

    Authors: Xu Wang, Daljit Singh, Sandeep Marla, Geoffrey Morris and Jesse Poland

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:53

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  40. Content type: Research

    Plant cell walls are nanocomposites based on cellulose microfibrils embedded in a matrix of polysaccharides and aromatic polymers. They are optimized for different functions (e.g. mechanical stability) by chan...

    Authors: Batirtze Prats-Mateu, Martin Felhofer, Anna de Juan and Notburga Gierlinger

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:52

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  41. Content type: Research

    Metabolic fluxes represent the functional phenotypes of biochemical pathways and are essential to reveal the distribution of precursors among metabolic networks. Although analysis of metabolic fluxes, facilit...

    Authors: Peng Wang, Longyun Guo, Rohit Jaini, Antje Klempien, Rachel M. McCoy, John A. Morgan, Natalia Dudareva and Clint Chapple

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:51

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  42. Content type: Methodology

    Genetically modified cotton accounts for 64% of the world’s cotton growing area (22.3 million hectares). The genome sequencing of the diploid cotton progenitors Gossypium raimondii and Gossypium arboreum as well ...

    Authors: Haipeng Li, Kun Li, Yutao Guo, Jinggong Guo, Kaiting Miao, Jose R. Botella, Chun-Peng Song and Yuchen Miao

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:50

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  43. Content type: Methodology

    Grain yield, ear and kernel attributes can assist to understand the performance of maize plant under different environmental conditions and can be used in the variety development process to address farmer’s p...

    Authors: R. Makanza, M. Zaman-Allah, J. E. Cairns, J. Eyre, J. Burgueño, Ángela Pacheco, C. Diepenbrock, C. Magorokosho, A. Tarekegne, M. Olsen and B. M. Prasanna

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:49

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  44. Content type: Methodology

    Hydroponic systems are a convenient platform for plant cultivation when treatments are applied to the roots because they provide precise control of the composition of the growth medium, ensuring the availabili...

    Authors: Miriam Gil-Monreal, Manuel Fernandez-Escalada, Mercedes Royuela and Ana Zabalza

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:48

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  45. Content type: Research

    Preservation of plant virus is a fundamental requirement in all types of virus-related research and applied applications. Development of efficient, reliable strategies for long-term preservation of plant virus...

    Authors: Min-Rui Wang, Wen Yang, Lei Zhao, Jing-Wei Li, Ke Liu, Jing-Wei Yu, Yun-Feng Wu and Qiao-Chun Wang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:47

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  46. Content type: Methodology

    Modern agriculture uses hyperspectral cameras with hundreds of reflectance data at discrete narrow bands measured in several environments. Recently, Montesinos-López et al. (Plant Methods 13(4):1–23, 2017a.

    Authors: Abelardo Montesinos-López, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Gustavo de los Campos, José Crossa, Juan Burgueño and Francisco Javier Luna-Vazquez

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:46

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Plant Methods 2018 14:57

  47. Content type: Research

    Phenotyping is a bottleneck for the development of new plant cultivars. This study introduces a new hyperspectral phenotyping system, which combines the high throughput of canopy scale measurements with the ad...

    Authors: Stefan Thomas, Jan Behmann, Angelina Steier, Thorsten Kraska, Onno Muller, Uwe Rascher and Anne-Katrin Mahlein

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:45

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  49. Content type: Methodology

    The world’s herbaria contain millions of specimens, collected and named by thousands of researchers, over hundreds of years. However, this treasure has remained largely inaccessible to genetic studies, because...

    Authors: Chun-Xia Zeng, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Jing Yang, Zheng-Shan He, Zhi-Rong Zhang, De-Zhu Li and Jun-Bo Yang

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:43

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  50. Content type: Research

    The essential oil is an important compound of the root and rhizome of medicinally used valerian (Valeriana officinalis L. s.l.), with a stated minimum content in the European pharmacopoeia. The essential oil is l...

    Authors: Michael Penzkofer, Andrea Baron, Annette Naumann, Andrea Krähmer, Hartwig Schulz and Heidi Heuberger

    Citation: Plant Methods 2018 14:41

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