Botanists find that during soil drying, stomatal regulation is controlled by below-ground hydraulics in a predictable way.
Tag - Solanum lycopersicum
Alex Assiry
Kicking a plant whilst it’s down – caterpillar herbivory on nematode infested plants
Does the impact of above-ground herbivory on root-knot nematode-induced responses depend on the
nematode’s life cycle stage?
William Salter
How Important Is Leaf Realism in Functional-Structural Plant Modelling?
Making a realistic plant in a computer model is possible, but is it necessary. All the computations generating the plant slow down the speed of any simulation. As a result it’s common to use simple geometric shapes for...
Successive leaflets within the same tomato compound leaf are “cellularly” the same
The question of which cellular mechanisms determine the variation in leaf size has been previously addressed in plants with simple leaves. Dissecting compound tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) leaves in leaflet areas and in...
Genome-wide identification of long non-coding RNA targets of the tomato MADS box transcription factor RIN and function analysis
In recent years, increasing numbers of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified in humans, animals and plants, and several of them have been shown to play important roles in diverse biological processes...
Comparative analysis of repetitive sequences among species from the potato and the tomato clades
The genus Solanum includes important vegetable crops and their wild relatives. Introgression of their useful traits into elite cultivars requires effective recombination between hom(e)ologues, which is partially...
Relative fructose content and tomato susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea
Plant defence against Botrytis cinerea, a ubiquitous pathogenic fungus, is known to depend upon the mobilisation of sugars which provide energy and carbon skeletons for the production of antifungal compounds. Lecompte...
botanyone
Tomato responses to resistance inducers and a biotrophic pathogen
Strategies for protecting tomato plants against pathogens include treatment with synthetic chemicals or pathogen-derived compounds and transfer of resistance genes from wild species. Satkova et al. analysed expression...
Effects of environmental factors on dark-adapted photosynthetic induction
Plants grow in a variable environment. While the effects of various environmental factors such as CO2 concentration, temperature, air humidity, and blue light on steady-state photosynthesis have been well documented...
Iron homeostasis in tomato plants
SlbHLH068, a putative transcription factor, is involved in iron homeostasis in tomato via an interaction with FER.
AJ Cann
Genetic determinants of stomatal conductance
Leaf gas exchange is influenced by stomatal size, density, distribution between the leaf adaxial and abaxial sides, as well as by pore dimensions.
Diffuse light and increased yield in tomato
Plants acclimate to a high level of diffuse light by gaining a higher photosynthetic capacity of leaves in the middle of the crop & a higher leaf area index
Phylogeny of OVATE family proteins in land plants
The OVATE gene encodes a nuclear-localized regulatory protein belonging to a distinct family of plant-specific proteins known as the OVATE family proteins (OFPs). Liu et al. identify 13 sequenced plant genomes in public...
Auxin and H2O2 interaction in control of root growth
One of the best-known effects of the plant hormone auxin on plant development is the inhibition of root elongation, yet the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Using tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) as a model...
