Theor. Appl. Genet. 2020 Feb 01
Introgression and pyramiding of genetic loci from wild Brassica oleracea into B. napus for improving Sclerotinia resistance of rapeseed.
Mei J, Shao C, Yang R, Feng Y, Gao Y, Ding Y, Li J, Qian W
Resistant rapeseed lines pyramided with multiple resistant QTLs derived from Brassica oleracea were developed via a hexaploidy strategy. Rapeseed (Bra ...
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Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2020 Jan 30
Melatonin mitigates Cadmium and Aluminum toxicity through modulation of antioxidant potential in Brassica napus L.
Sami A, Shah FA, Abdullah M, Yu ZX, Yan Y, He ZZ, Jin ZK
Melatonin (Me) emerged as an essential molecule in plants, due to its role as a defensive molecule against metals toxicity. Aluminum (Al) and cadmium ...
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Theor. Appl. Genet. 2020 Jan 30
Genetic dissection of thousand-seed weight and fine mapping of cqSW.A03-2 via linkage and association analysis in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.).
Wang H, Yan M, Xiong M, Wang P, Liu Y, Xin Q, Wan L, Yang G, Hong D
KEY MESSAGE: cqSW.A03-2, one of the six identified quantitative trait loci associated with thousand-seed weight in rapeseed, is mapped to a 61.6-kb re ...
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Plant J. 2020 Jan 28
The biochemistry of headgroup exchange during triacylglycerol synthesis in canola.
Bai S, Wallis JG, Denolf P, Engelen S, Bengtsson JD, Van Thournout M, Dierickx J, Haesendonckx B, Browse J
Many pathways of primary metabolism are substantially conserved within and across plant families. However, significant differences in organization and ...
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Viruses
The Potyviruses: An Evolutionary Synthesis Is Emerging.
Gibbs AJ, Hajizadeh M, Ohshima K, Jones RAC
In this review, encouraged by the dictum of Theodosius Dobzhansky that "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", we outline t ...
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