A review on the beneficial role of silicon against salinity in non-accumulator crops: tomato as a model

J Hoffmann, R Berni, JF Hausman, G Guerriero - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Salinity is an abiotic stress that affects agriculture by severely impacting crop growth and,
consequently, final yield. Considering that sea levels rise at an alarming rate of> 3 mm per …

Advances in omics approaches for abiotic stress tolerance in tomato

J Chaudhary, P Khatri, P Singla, S Kumawat, A Kumari… - Biology, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tomato, one of the most important crops worldwide, has a high demand in the fresh fruit
market and processed food industries. Despite having considerably high productivity …

Draft Genome Sequence of Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.): the Representative Solanum Species Indigenous to the Old World

H Hirakawa, K Shirasawa, K Miyatake, T Nunome… - DNA …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Unlike other important Solanaceae crops such as tomato, potato, chili pepper, and tobacco,
all of which originated in South America and are cultivated worldwide, eggplant (Solanum …

Genome-wide analysis of WRKY transcription factors in Solanum lycopersicum

S Huang, Y Gao, J Liu, X Peng, X Niu, Z Fei… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2012 - Springer
The WRKY transcription factors have been implicated in multiple biological processes in
plants, especially in regulating defense against biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little …

The grapevine expression atlas reveals a deep transcriptome shift driving the entire plant into a maturation program

M Fasoli, S Dal Santo, S Zenoni, GB Tornielli… - The Plant …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We developed a genome-wide transcriptomic atlas of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) based on 54
samples representing green and woody tissues and organs at different developmental …

Optimizing oleaginous yeast cell factories for flavonoids and hydroxylated flavonoids biosynthesis

Y Lv, M Marsafari, M Koffas, J Zhou, P Xu - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plants possess myriads of secondary metabolites with a broad spectrum of health-promoting
benefits. To date, plant extraction is still the primary route to produce high-value natural …

Genetic codes with no dedicated stop codon: context-dependent translation termination

EC Swart, V Serra, G Petroni, M Nowacki - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The prevailing view of the nuclear genetic code is that it is largely frozen and unambiguous.
Flexibility in the nuclear genetic code has been demonstrated in ciliates that reassign …

Effect of nano-silicon application on the expression of salt tolerance genes in germinating tomato ('Solanum lycopersicum'L.) seedlings under salt stress

ZM Almutairi - Plant Omics, 2016 - search.informit.org
Nowadays, nano-silicon (N-Si) has been used to enhance seed germination, plant growth,
and improvement of photosynthetic quantum under environmental stresses. In this study, we …

TOMATOMA: a novel tomato mutant database distributing Micro-Tom mutant collections

T Saito, T Ariizumi, Y Okabe, E Asamizu… - Plant and cell …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The tomato is an excellent model for studies of plants bearing berry-type fruits and for
experimental studies of the Solanaceae family of plants due to its conserved genetic …

Advances in omics and bioinformatics tools for systems analyses of plant functions

K Mochida, K Shinozaki - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Omics and bioinformatics are essential to understanding the molecular systems that underlie
various plant functions. Recent game-changing sequencing technologies have revitalized …