Eukaryotic cells require orchestrated communication between nuclear and organellar
genomes, perturbations in which are linked to stress response and disease in both animals …

Polyadenylation of mitochondrial RNAs in higher eukaryotic organisms have diverse effects
on their function and metabolism. Polyadenylation completes the UAA stop codon of a …

Epigenetic factors determine responses to internal and external stimuli in eukaryotic
organisms. Whether and how environmental conditions feed back to the epigenetic …

Intracellular transfers of mitochondrial DNA continue to shape nuclear genomes.
Chromosome 2 of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana contains one of the largest known …

Polyadenylation is a multifunctional post-transcriptional modification that is best known for
stabilizing eukaryotic mRNAs and promoting their translation. However, the primordial role …

Low temperature is an important environmental stress that adversely affects rice (Oryza
sativa) growth and productivity. Splicing of pre-mRNA is a crucial posttranscriptional …

The mitochondrial genome of higher plants provides what is often considered a confusing
picture of genome evolution, with extreme variation in its organization, size, and complexity …

Three nuclear genes involved in plant mitochondrial recombination surveillance have been
previously identified. Simultaneous disruption of two of these genes, MutS Homolog1 …

Background A major step in the higher plant life cycle is the decision to leave the mitotic cell
cycle and begin the progression through the meiotic cell cycle that leads to the formation of …

Since plant mitochondrial genomes exhibit some of the slowest known synonymous
substitution rates, it is generally believed that they experience exceptionally low mutation …