Editor-in-Chief
- Brian G Forde, Lancaster University
Articles
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Plant Methods 2011, 7:36Transforming parasitic plant research
Phelipanche aegyptiaca is an important parasitic weed that attacks many crops in Asia and the Middle East. The recent Parasite Plant Genome Project has led to significant advances in the molecular genetics of P aegyptiaca and other holoparasites, but up to now reverse genetic approaches to probe holoparasite gene function have been blocked by the absence of a transformation system for these species. The method described here therefore constitutes a significant breakthrough in holoparasitic plant research. It will open the way to molecular genetic studies of intriguing processes that are unique to parasitic plants, such as host plant recognition, haustorial formation, penetration and vascular connection.
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Plant Methods 2011, 7:34Micrografting in a wild tobacco species
An efficient micrografting method has been developed for the wild tobacco species, Nicotiana attenuata. This will allow important questions about long distance signals and their adaptive functions to be addressed in an ecological context.
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Plant Methods 2011, 7:33Making the handling of large genomic DNA fragments easier
The new vectors described here should greatly facilitate the process of constructing BAC genomic libraries and transferring selected fragments to binary BAC (BIBAC) vectors. This will be of particular interest to those doing positional cloning and wanting to perform complementation tests by reintroducing genomic fragments via Agrobacterium transformation.
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Plant Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of technological innovation in the plant sciences.
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Brian G. Forde is currently Professor of Environmental Plant Biotechnology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, in the UK.
“Technological innovation is probably the most important catalyst for progress in any scientific discipline. When we launched Plant Methods in 2005, our aim was to provide a high-profile, open access platform to stimulate the development and dissemination of new and improved techniques and research tools in plant biology. Just six years later we have published over 140 papers describing new techniques or resources of value to the plant science community and our Thomson Reuters Impact Factor of 3.28 puts us amongst the top 15% of plant journals.”
Brian G. Forde
Editor-in-Chief
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