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Plant Cell and Developmental Biology
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Rooting in the Desert: A Developmental Overview on Desert Plants
Open Access Year: 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12050709
Authors: Gwendolyn K Kirschner, Ting Ting Xiao, Ikram Blilou
  • cactus
  • date palm
  • root system architecture
  • drought
  • microbiome
  • root apical meristem
A PLETHORA/PIN-FORMED/auxin network mediates prehaustorium formation in the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica
Open Access Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac215
Authors: Ting Ting Xiao, Gwendolyn K Kirschner, Boubacar A Kountche, Muhammad Jamil, Savina Maria, Vinicius Lube, Victoria Mironova, Salim Al-Babili, Ikram Blilou
  • parasitic plant
  • striga
  • pin
  • auxin
  • prehaustorium
  • witchweed
MultipleXLab: A high-throughput portable live-imaging root phenotyping platform using deep learning and computer vision
Open Access Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00864-4
Authors: Vinicius Lube, Mehmet Alican Noyan, Alexander Przybysz, Khaled Salama, Ikram Blilou
  • Phenomics
  • Optical microscopy
  • Phenotyping
  • RSA
Visualizing Protein Associations in Living Arabidopsis Embryo
Book Chapter Year: 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0342-0_13
Authors: Yuchen Long, Yvonne Stahl, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, Ikram Blilou
  • FRET–FLIM
  • Protein-protein interaction
  • Embryo
  • SCR-SHR
  • Fluorescence lifetime
Novel Imaging Modalities Shedding Light on PlantBiology: Start Small and Grow Big
Annual Review of Plant Biology Year: 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050718-100038
Authors: Natalie M. Clark, Lisa Van den Broeck, Marjorie Guichard, Adam Stager, Herbert G. Tanner, Ikram Blilou, Guido Grossmann, Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi, Alexis Maizel, Erin E. Sparks, Rosangela Sozzani
  • Förster resonance energy transfer
  • scanning fluorescent correlation spectroscopy
  • microfluid devices
  • light sheet microscopy
  • multiscale imaging techniques
Development and Cell Cycle Activity of the Root Apical Meristem in the Fern Ceratopteris richardii
Article Year: 2020 DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.3390%2Fgenes11121455
Authors: Alejandro Aragón Raygoza, Alejandra Vasco, Ikram Blilou, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez
  • plant development
  • embryogenesis Ceratopteris
  • determinate growth
  • root meristem
  • apical cell
  • merophytes
  • cell division
Moving with purpose and direction: transcription factor movement and cell fate determination revisited
Open Access Year: 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.08.003
Authors: Shyam Gundu, Naheed Tabassum, Ikram Blilou
  • Cell fate specification
  • cell non-autonomous
  • transcription factors
Emergent Protective Organogenesis in Date Palms: A Morpho-devo-dynamic Adaptive Strategy During Early Development
Year: 2019
Authors: Tingting Xiao, Alejandro Aragón Raygoza, Juan Caballero Pérez, Gwendolyn Kirschner, Yanming Deng, Brian Atkinson, Craig Sturrock, Vinicius Lube, Jian You Wang, Gilles Lubineau, Salim Al-Babili, Luis Alfredo Cruz Ramírez, Malcolm J. Bennett, Ikram Blilou
  • Morpho-devo-dynamics
  • Date palms
A computational framework for cortical microtubule dynamics in realistically shaped plant cells
Year: 2018
Authors: Chakrabortty, Bandan, Ikram Blilou, Ben Scheres, Bela M. Mulder
  • Cell-face
  • Leaf pavement cells
  • Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Nicotiana benthamiana
  • Hedera helix
Optimizing FRET-FLIM Labeling Conditions to Detect Nuclear Protein Interactions at Native Expression Levels in Living Arabidopsis Roots
Year: 2018
Authors: Long, Yuchen, Yvonne Stahl, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, Wouter Smet, Yujuan Du, Theodorus WJ Gadella Jr, Joachim Goedhart, Ben Scheres, Ikram Blilou
  • protein complexes
  • Protein-protein interaction
  • Fluorescent proteins
  • in vivo FRET-FLIM
  • SHORT-ROOT
  • SCARECROW
Root stem cell niche organizer specification by molecular convergence of PLETHORA and SCARECROW transcription factor modules
Year: 2018
Authors: Shimotohno, A., Heidstra, R., Blilou, I., Scheres, B
  • Arabidopsis
  • stem cell niche
  • Organizer
  • Quiescent center
  • PLT–TCP–SCR complexes
  • WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 5
The Arabidopsis homolog of human G3BP1 is a key regulator of stomatal and apoplast.
Year: 2018
Authors: Abulfaraj, Aala A., Kiruthiga Mariappan, Jean Bigeard, Prabhu Manickam, Ikram Blilou, Xiujie Guo, Salim Al-Babili, Delphine Pflieger, Heribert Hirt, Naganand Rayapuram
  • G3BP1
  • Arabidopsis
  • AtG3BP1
The Arabidopsis DWARF27 gene encodes an all-trans-/9-cis-β-carotene isomerase and is induced by auxin, abscisic acid and phosphate deficiency.
Year: 2018
Authors: Abuauf, Haneen, Imran Haider, Kun-Peng Jia, Abdugaffor Ablazov, Jianing Mi, Ikram Blilou, Salim Al-Babili
  • Arabidopsis
  • Abscisic acid
  • DWARF27
  • β-Carotene
  • Isomerase
  • Carotenoids
  • Strigolactones
Arabidopsis RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED directly regulates DNA damage responses through functions beyond cell cycle control.
Year: 2017
Authors: Horvath, B.M., Kourova, H., Nagy, S., Nemeth, E., Magyar, Z., Papdi, C., Ahmad, Z., Sanchez‐Perez, G.F., Perilli, S., Blilou, I., Pettkó‐Szandtner, A.
  • Arabidopsis
  • BRCA1DNA
  • Damage response
  • E2FA
  • RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED
Analysis of a plant transcriptional regulatory network using transient expression systems.
Year: 2017
Authors: Díaz-Triviño, Sara, Yuchen Long, Ben Scheres, Ikram Blilou
  • Promoter activity
  • Transcriptional regulation
  • Effectors
  • Transfection
  • dual luciferase reporter assay
  • Luciferase
In vivo FRET–FLIM reveals cell-type-specific protein interactions in Arabidopsis roots.
Year: 2017
Authors: Long, Yuchen, Yvonne Stahl, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, Marten Postma, Wenkun Zhou, Joachim Goedhart, María-Isabel Sánchez-Pérez Et Al
  • FRET–FLIM
  • CIS-regulatory modules
  • Fluorescence lifetime microscopy
Role of Tulipa gesneriana TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 (TgTB1) in the control of axillary bud outgrowth in bulbs
Year: 2017
Authors: Moreno-Pachon, Natalia M., Marie-Chantal Mutimawurugo, Eveline Heynen, Lidiya Sergeeva, Anne Benders, Ikram Blilou, Henk WM Hilhorst, And Richard GH Immink
  • Axillary bud
  • Dormancy
  • Apical dominance
  • TgTB1
Transcription factor-mediated control of anthocyanin biosynthesis in vegetative tissues
Year: 2017
Authors: Outchkourov, Nikolay S., Rumyana Karlova, Matthijs Hölscher, Xandra Schrama, Ikram Blilou, Esmer Jongedijk, Carmen Diez Simon Et Al
  • Anthocyanin biosynthesis
  • Plant root architecture
  • Metabolites
  • Gene expression
Tracking transcription factor mobility and interaction in Arabidopsis roots with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
Year: 2016
Authors: Clark, Natalie M., Elizabeth Hinde, Cara M. Winter, Adam P. Fisher, Giuseppe Crosti, Ikram Blilou, Enrico Gratton, Philip N. Benfey, Rosangela Sozzani
  • SHORTROOT
  • SCARECROW
  • Regulatory processes
  • Root patterning
  • Cell fate specification
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