Plants have developed a complex defense system against diverse pests and pathogens.
Once pathogens overcome mechanical barriers to infection, plant receptors initiate signaling …

To sustain plants' postembryonic growth and development in a structure of cells fixed in cell
walls, a tightly controlled short distance cell–cell communication is required. The focus on …

Advances in deciphering the functional architecture of eukaryotic genomes have been
facilitated by recent breakthroughs in sequencing technologies, enabling a more …

Rhizobium‐induced root nodules are specialized organs for symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Indeterminate‐type nodules are formed from an apical meristem and exhibit a spatial …

Legume plants host nitrogen-fixing endosymbiotic Rhizobium bacteria in root nodules. In
Medicago truncatula, the bacteria undergo an irreversible (terminal) differentiation mediated …

Legumes played central roles in the development of agriculture and civilization, and today
account for approximately one‐third of the world's primary crop production. Unfortunately …

Chickpea ranks third among the food legume crops production in the world. However, the
genomic resources available for chickpea are still very limited. In the present study, the …

Multicellular organisms produce small cysteine‐rich antimicrobial peptides as an innate
defense against pathogens. While defensins, a well‐known class of such peptides, are …

Seventy-five previously known plant microRNAs (miRNAs) were classified into 14 families
according to their gene sequence identity. A total of 18,694 plant expressed sequence tags …

Background Penicillium digitatum is a fungal necrotroph causing a common citrus
postharvest disease known as green mold. In order to gain insight into the genetic bases of …