BACKGROUND Fruit color is one of the most important economic traits of the sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.). The red coloration of sweet cherry fruit is mainly attributed to anthocyanins. However, limited information is available regarding the molecular mechanisms underlying anthocyanin biosynthesis and its regulation in sweet cherry. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In this study, a reference tr...

Lily tepals have a short lifespan. Once the tepals senesce, the ornamental value of the flower is lost. Some cultivars have attractive purple ovaries and fruits which greatly enhance the ornamental value of Asiatic hybrid lilies. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Asiatic hybrid lily ovaries. To investigate the transcriptional network that gov...

Nowadays, there are few reports about regulatory genes implicated in peel color of longan. The basic genetic research of longan has been in stagnation for a long time as a lack of transcriptomic and genetic information. To predict candidate genes associated with peel color, Gene Functional Annotation and Coding Sequence prediction were used to perform functional annotation for our assembled uni...

The golden camellia, Camellia nitidissima Chi., is a well-known ornamental plant that is known as "the queen of camellias" because of its golden yellow flowers. The principal pigments in the flowers are carotenoids and flavonol glycosides. Understanding the biosynthesis of the golden color and its regulation is important in camellia breeding. To obtain a comprehensive understanding of flower de...

Like other organisms, plants have to deal with a dynamic environment. To respond and adapt to the environmental conditions plants rely in a diverse battery of cell-surface protein-receptors and secondary metabolites. Phenylpropanoids are metabolites required for this big task, they regulate a wide range of physiological process, such as pigmentation of flowers and fruits, seed dispersal through...

We examine the mixing between the sigma meson σ and the ”pure” glueball field H and study the decays of the scalar glueball candidate f0(1500) (a linear combination of σ and H) into two and four pions in effective linear sigma model. From recent experimental data on f0(1500) decay to pions we point out that the mixing angle is of order of 0.1. PACS numbers 13.25.Hw 12.28.Lg ∗Email: [email protected]...

Trees in the genus Populus contain phenolic secondary metabolites including the proanthocyanidins (PAs) which help to adapt these widespread trees to diverse environments. The transcriptional activation of proanthocyanidin (PA) biosynthesis in response to herbivory and UV light stress has been documented in poplar leaves, and a regulator of this process, the R2R3-MYB transcription factor MYB134...