Background Plants are often subjected to periods of soil and atmospheric water deficits
during their life cycle as well as, in many areas of the globe, to high soil salinity …

Plants have evolved a wide range of mechanisms to cope with biotic and abiotic stresses. To
date, the molecular mechanisms that are involved in each stress has been revealed …

Innate immunity represents the first line of inducible defence against microbial infection in
plants and animals,,. In both kingdoms, recognition of pathogen-or microbe-associated …

To determine if damage to foliage by biotic agents, including arthropods, fungi, bacteria and
viral pathogens, universally downregulates the expression of genes involved in …

Trehalose metabolism and signaling is an area of emerging significance. In less than a
decade our views on the importance of trehalose metabolism and its role in plants have …

We carried out transcriptional profiling analysis in 10-d-old Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings
treated with oligogalacturonides (OGs), oligosaccharides derived from the plant cell wall, or …

Local concentration gradients of the plant growth regulator auxin (indole-3-acetic acid [IAA])
are thought to instruct the positioning of organ primordia and stem cell niches and to direct …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key players in the regulation of plant development,
stress responses, and programmed cell death. Previous studies indicated that depending on …

In Arabidopsis thaliana, several MYB and basic helix‐loop‐helix (BHLH) proteins form
ternary complexes with TTG1 (WD‐Repeats) and regulate the transcription of genes …

Salicylic acid (SA) is an important mediator of plant defense response. In Arabidopsis
(Arabidopsis thaliana), this compound was proposed to derive mainly from isochorismate …