aBIOTECH

Table of Content

Volume 6 Issue 1,

A high-throughput protocol for testing heat-stress tolerance in pollen

Chenchen Zhao ...... Lida Han & Yi Sui

Functional retrogression of LOFSEPs in specifying floral organs in barley

Chaoqun Shen ...... Gang Li & Matthew R. Tucker

Developing a pipeline for identification, characterization and molecular editing of cis-regulatory elements: a case study in potato

Min Wan ...... Bo Zhu & Zixian Zeng

Stable plastid transformation in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)

Qiqi Chen ...... Jiang Zhang & Shengchun Li

MHZ3: a key regulator of ethylene signaling in rice

Arif Ali Khattak ...... Muhammad Afzal & Xiaolin Wang

LEAFY1 and 2 are required for floral organ development in soybean

Lingshuang Wang ...... Hui Yang & Fanjiang Kong

A 6.49-Mb inversion associated with the purple embryo spot trait in potato

Pei Wang ...... Hui Du & Chunzhi Zhang

Plant metabolomics: applications and challenges in the era of multi-omics big data

Yingchen Hao ...... Jun Yang & Shouchuang Wang

Emerging strategies to improve heat stress tolerance in crops

Jiawei Xiong ...... Shigui Li & Peng Qin

Atypical RXLR effectors are involved in Phytophthora cactorum pathogenesis

Zeyang Zheng ...... Xinyu Yan & Zhenpan Liu

Convenient, high-efficiency multiplex genome editing in autotetraploid alfalfa using endogenous U6 promoters and visual reporters

Xiuzhi Xia ...... Hao Lin & Lifang Niu

Bacillus atrophaeus DX-9 biocontrol against potato common scab involves significant changes in the soil microbiome and metabolome

Jingjing Cao ...... Naiqin Zhong & Pan Zhao