Plants have evolved a repertoire of monitoring systems to sense plant morphogenesis and
to face environmental changes and threats caused by different attackers. These systems …

Plant growth and response to environmental cues are largely governed by phytohormones.
The plant hormones ethylene, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid (SA) play a central role in the …

Plants are sessile organisms and dependent on deployment of secondary metabolites for
their response to biotic and abiotic challenges. A trade-off is envisioned between resources …

Immunity deteriorates with age in animals but comparatively little is known about the
temporal regulation of plant resistance to herbivores. The phytohormone jasmonate (JA) is a …

Technological advances in metabolomics, transcriptomics and genomics have facilitated the
detection of genes that contribute to diversification in plant secondary metabolism. Statistical …

As sessile and autotrophic organisms, plants have evolved sophisticated pathways to
produce a rich array of specialized metabolites, many of which are biologically active and …

Identification of the causal genes that control complex trait variation remains challenging,
limiting our appreciation of the evolutionary processes that influence polymorphisms in …

Increases in species diversity and density from higher to lower latitudes are well
documented. Nevertheless, the consequences of these changes in diversity for structuring …

Species inhabit complex environments and respond to selection imposed by numerous
abiotic and biotic conditions that vary in both space and time. Environmental heterogeneity …

The selection and development of a study system for evolutionary and ecological functional
genomics (EEFG) depend on a variety of factors. Here, we present the genus Boechera as …