Plants interact with many visitors who consume a variety of plant tissues. While the
consequences of herbivory to leaves and shoots are well known, the implications of florivory …

Vacuolar processing enzyme (VPE) is a cysteine proteinase originally identified as the
proteinase responsible for the maturation and activation of vacuolar proteins in plants, and it …

A common structural motif consisting of a cystine knot and a small triple‐stranded β‐sheet
has been defined from comparison of the 3‐dimensional structures of the polypeptides ω …

Four macrocyclic cystine-knot peptides of 29–31 residues, kalata, circulin A and B (CirA and
CirB), and cyclopsychotride, have been isolated from coffee plants but have undetermined …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling plays a central role in transducing
extracellular stimuli into intracellular responses, but its role in mediating plant responses to …

Proteases, though essentially indispensable to the maintenance and survival of their host
organisms, can be potentially damaging when overexpressed or present in higher …

In flowering plants, penetration of the pollen tube through stigma, style, and transmitting tract
is essential for delivery of sperm nuclei to the egg cells embedded deeply within female …

Any microorganism that attempts to colonize a plant must contend with the cell wall. One of
the most conspicuous effects of microorganisms on plant cell walls is enzymic degradation …

Plants are known to have many secondary metabolites and phytochemical compounds
which are highly explored at biochemical and molecular genetics level and exploited …

Two stimuli that have been associated with nutrient remobilization in plants are phosphate
(PI) starvation and senescence. Little is known about how the nutrient remobilization …