Background Both underground rhizomes/buds and above-ground Moso bamboo
(Phyllostachys heterocycla) shoots/culms/branches are connected together into a close inter …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal phytohormones that are essential for many processes
in plant growth and development, such as cell expansion, vascular differentiation, and …

When cytokinin-autonomous tobacco BY-2 cell cultures are transferred into 2, 4-
dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D)-deprived medium, amyloplast development is initiated …

Plastids, an essential group of plant cellular organelles, proliferate by division to maintain
continuity through cell lineages in plants. In recent years, it was revealed that the bacterial …

The tobacco BY-2 cell line was established from a callus induced on a seedling of Nicotiana
tabacum L. cv. Bright Yellow 2 (Kato et al. 1972). Because of its unique characteristics such …

The addition of the auxin 2, 4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2, 4-D) to tobacco Bright-Yellow-
2 (BY-2) cells cultured in 2, 4-D-depleted medium induced dedifferentiation of starch-storing …

The transfer of stationary-phase cultured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) Bright Yellow-2 (BY-
2) cells into new medium induces active proplastid division. To examine the relationship …

Starch is the principal form of carbon storage in many plants, and is synthesized in both
photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic tissues. Starch found in chloroplasts is termed …

The effect of an inhibitor of cycloartenol synthase (CAS, EC 5.4. 99.8) on the proteome of
tobacco BY-2 cells has been examined. CAS catalyzes the first committed step in phytosterol …

The tobacco BY-2 cell line was established from a callus induced on a seedling of Nicotiana
tabacum L. cv. Bright Yellow 2 (Kato et al. 1972). Because of its unique characteristics such …