Building a complex structure such as the cell wall, with many individual parts that need to be
assembled correctly from distinct sources within the cell, is a well-orchestrated process …

Stress resilience behaviours in plants are defensive mechanisms that develop under
adverse environmental conditions to promote growth, development and yield. Over the past …

Membrane lipids play fundamental structural and regulatory roles in cell metabolism and
signaling. Here, we report that phosphatidic acid (PA), a product of phospholipase D (PLD) …

Plants have unique microtubule (MT) arrays, cortical MTs, preprophase band, mitotic
spindle, and phragmoplast, in the processes of evolution. These MT arrays control the …

Live-cell studies have brought fresh insight into the organizational activities of the plant
cortical array. Plant interphase arrays organize in the absence of a discrete microtubule …

Microtubule (MT) nucleation not only occurs from centrosomes, but also in large part from
dispersed nucleation sites. The subsequent sorting of short MTs into networks like the mitotic …

The type II inner nuclear membrane protein emerin is a component of the LINC complex that
connects the nuclear lamina to the actin cytoskeleton. In emerin-null or-deficient human …

Background Heat stress is one of the major abiotic threats to rice production, next to drought
and salinity stress. Incidence of heat stress at reproductive phase of the crop results in …