Sablok, Gaurav; Mudunuri, Suresh B.; Patnana, Sujan; Popova, Martina; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; La Porta, Nicola(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-04)
[EN] Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are repetitive stretches of nucleotides (A, T, G, C) that are distributed either as single base pair stretches or as a combination of two- to six-nucleotides units ...
Di Serio, Francesco; De Stradis, Angelo; Delgado Villar, Sonia Guadalupe; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; Navarro, Beatriz(Frontiers Media, 2013-01-07)
[EN] Viroids are infectious agents identified only in plants so far. In contrast to viruses, the genome of viroids is composed of a tiny circular RNA (250-400 nt) not coding for proteins, but containing in its compact ...
[EN] Taxonomy
Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd) is the only species of the genus Elaviroid (family Avsunviroidae). All the viroids in the family Avsunviroidae contain hammerhead ribozymes in the strands of both polarities, ...
Lozano Omeñaca, Aurora María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-28)
[ES] La maduración externa de los frutos cítricos incluye el proceso de cambio de color o desverdizado del exocarpo. Este proceso consiste en la transformación de los cloroplastos en cromoplastos, produciéndose la degradación ...
Cocaliadis-Caisson, María Florencia; Fernandez-Munoz, Rafael; Pons Puig, Clara; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Granell Richart, Antonio(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-08)
[EN] Fruits are generally regarded as photosynthate sinks as they rely on energy provided by sugars transported from leaves to carry out the highly demanding processes of development and ripening; eventually these imported ...
Jyakhwa, Sunmoon(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-12-12)
[ES] En las interacciones planta-patógeno, el papel de los cloroplastos es crucial como orgánulo de señalización muy dinámico en la activación de respuestas defensivas de la planta. En este trabajo, se aborda el estudio ...
Márquez Molins, Joan(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-12-13)
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Chloroplast transgenesis is an emerging approach for the production of heterologous proteins. However, it is limited by the necessity of genomic sequence knowledge and the lengthy procedures required for obtaining a ...
Sanz-Barrio, Ruth; Corral Martínez, Patricia; Ancin, Maria; Seguí-Simarro, Jose M.; Farran, Inmaculada(Wiley, 2013)
[EN] Starch, the most abundant storage carbohydrate in plants, has been a major feedstock for first generation biofuels. Growing fuel demands require, however, that the starch yields of energy crops be improved. Leaf starch ...
Rosa-Tellez, S.; Anoman, A.D.; Flores-Tornero, M.; Toujani, W.; Alseek, S.; Fernie, A.; Nebauer, Sergio G.; Muñoz Bertomeu, Jesús; Segura, Juan; Ros Palau, Roc(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2018-02)
[EN] In plants, phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) converts 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate into 3-phosphoglycerate in glycolysis but also participates in the reverse reaction in gluconeogenesis and the Calvin-Benson cycle. In the ...
Del Campo, Eva M.; Gimeno, José; De Nova, J.P.G.; Casano, Leonardo; Gasulla Vidal, Francisco; García-Breijo, Francisco-José; Reig Armiñana, José; Barreno Rodriguez, Eva(J. Cramer in der Gebrueder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2010)
[EN] Little is currently known about the population structure of lichen photobionts. Accordingly, in this study we analyzed the nature and distribution of phycobionts in different Spanish populations of Ramalina farinacea. ...
[EN] One of the main mechanisms regulating translation is the one based on the phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of the translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2 alpha) by the general control non-repressive 2 (GCN2) protein ...
Micol-Ponce, Rosa; García-Alcázar, Manuel; Capel, Carmen; Yuste-Lisbona, Fernando Juan; Pineda Chaza, Benito José; Atarés Huerta, Alejandro; García Sogo, Begoña; Capel, Juan; Moreno Ferrero, Vicente; Lozano, Rafael(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-08-26)
[EN] Since membranes play essential roles in all living beings, all cells have developed mechanisms for efficient and fast repair of membrane damage. InEscherichia coli, the Phage shock stress A (PspA) protein is involved ...
Sanz-Barrio, Ruth; Fernandez-San Millan, Alicia; Corral Martínez, Patricia; Seguí-Simarro, Jose M.; Farran, Inmaculada(Wiley, 2011-08)
Thioredoxins (Trxs) are small ubiquitous disulphide proteins widely known to enhance expression and solubility of recombinant proteins in microbial expression systems. Given the common evolutionary heritage of chloroplasts ...
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Enrichment of foodstuffs with health-promoting metabolites such as carotenoids is a powerful tool to fight against unhealthy eating habits. Dietary carotenoids are vitamin A precursors and reduce risk of several ...