An emerging model system for grass research : Brachypodium distachyon(<Feature Articles>New model plants; reference materials for post-genome era)
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- Mochida Keiichi
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science:Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
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- Onda Yoshihiko
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
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- Sasaki Tadamasa
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
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- Himuro Yasuyo
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
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- Saisho Daisuke
- Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University
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- Kobayashi Masatomo
- RIKEN BioResource Center (BRC)
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- Hirayama Takashi
- Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University
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- Shinozaki Kazuo
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 新しいモデル草本植物, ミナトカモジグサ(Brachypodium distachyon)(<特集>新しいモデル植物:ポストゲノム時代の研究材料)
- 新しいモデル草本植物 ミナトカモジグサ(Brachypodium distachyon)
- アタラシイ モデル ソウホン ショクブツ ミナトカモジグサ(Brachypodium distachyon)
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<p>Brachypodium distachyon, which belongs to the subfamily Pooideae, has recently been studied extensively as a model temperate grass. Since Brachypodium possesses type II cell wall, which is a structural characteristic of Poaceae plants, and is also found in energy crops, such as switchgrass and Miscanthus, as cellulose biomass resources, it has been proposed as a model plant in grass biomass research. In addition, Brachypodium is included in the Pooideae subfamily together with wheat and barley, and therefore, it could be promising to study biological functions related to agronomically important traits, such as seed development and flowering, in Triticeae crops. Brachypodium represents tractable features as a model plant ; small plant size, healthy growth inside laboratory conditions, without any requirement of any specific instruments, short life cycle, small genome size (272 Mb), and availability of transformation. Following the completion of whole-genome sequencing in 2010, various resources for Brachypodium research have been developed world wide. In this review, we introduce the current trends in Brachypodium research as well as provide prospects and expected functionalities of the model grass.</p>
Journal
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- Regulation of Plant Growth & Development
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Regulation of Plant Growth & Development 50 (2), 103-109, 2015
The Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001205086859904
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- NII Article ID
- 110010014902
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- NII Book ID
- AA11550064
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- ISSN
- 21896305
- 13465406
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- NDL BIB ID
- 027050315
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Disallowed