Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

Since the basic biochemical mechanisms of photosynthesis are remarkably conserved
among plant species, genetic modification approaches have so far been the main route to …

The contribution of genetic interactions involving three or more loci to complex traits is poorly
understood. These higher-order genetic interactions (HGIs) are difficult to detect in genetic …

Plants synthesize specialized metabolites to facilitate environmental and ecological
interactions. During evolution, plants diversified in their potential to synthesize these …

Abstract Systems studies of signal transduction pathways that modulate plant growth and
immunity are rapidly identifying a large number of interactions within these pathways. These …

Understanding genome to phenotype linkages has been greatly enabled by genomic
sequencing. However, most genome analysis is typically confined to the nuclear genome …

Daily rhythms of gene expression provide a benefit to most organisms by ensuring that
biological processes are activated at the optimal time of day. Although temporal patterns of …

Although the contribution of cytonuclear interactions to plant fitness variation is relatively
well documented at the interspecific level, the prevalence of cytonuclear interactions at the …

Quantitative traits in plants are controlled by a large number of genes and their interaction
with the environment. To disentangle the genetic architecture of such traits, natural variation …

Assessment of the impact of variation in chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA (collectively
termed the plasmotype) on plant phenotypes is challenging due to the difficulty in separating …