Plants are continuously exposed to agents such as herbivores and environmental
mechanical stresses that cause wounding and open the way to the invasion by microbial …

Seed dormancy provides a mechanism for plants to delay germination until conditions are
optimal for survival of the next generation. Dormancy release is regulated by a combination …

Proteolytic activation of cytokines regulates immunity in diverse organisms. In animals,
cysteine-dependent aspartate-specific proteases (caspases) play central roles in cytokine …

A big challenge in current systems biology research arises when different types of data must
be accessed from separate sources and visualized using separate tools. The high cognitive …

Abstract GeneMANIA (http://www. genemania. org) is a flexible, user-friendly web interface
for generating hypotheses about gene function, analyzing gene lists and prioritizing genes …

Background The exploration of microarray data and data from other high-throughput projects
for hypothesis generation has become a vital aspect of post-genomic research. For the non …

Much of what we know about eukaryotic transcription stems from animals and yeast;
however, plants evolved separately for over a billion years, leaving ample time for …

When plants face an environmental stress such as water deficit, soil salinity, high
temperature, or shade, good communication between above-and belowground organs is …

In this review, we address recent advances made in pathway engineering, directed
evolution, and systems/synthetic biology approaches employed in the production and …

Ethylene-responsive element binding factor-associated Amphiphilic Repression (EAR) motif-
mediated transcriptional repression is emerging as one of the principal mechanisms of plant …