The primary function of leaves is to provide an interface between plants and their
environment for gas exchange, light exposure and thermoregulation. Leaves have, therefore …

Living organisms detect changes in temperature using thermosensory molecules. However,
these molecules and/or their mechanisms for sensing temperature differ among organisms …

The hornworts are a small group of land plants, consisting of only 11 families and
approximately 220 species. Despite their small size as a group, their phylogenetic position …

Chloroplast, an organelle facilitating photosynthesis, exhibits strong autofluorescence,
which is an undesired background signal that restricts imaging experiments with exogenous …

De novo genes created in the plant mitochondrial genome have frequently been transferred
into the nuclear genome via intergenomic gene transfer events. Therefore, plant …

Nuclear movement and positioning are indispensable for most cellular functions. In plants,
strong light-induced chloroplast movement to the side walls of the cell is essential for …

Background Organelle motility is essential for the correct cellular function of various
eukaryotic cells. In plant cells, chloroplasts move towards the intracellular area irradiated by …

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. is being developed as an emerging model plant,
and several transformation techniques were recently reported. Examples are biolistic-and …

The capacity to survive winter conditions varies greatly in the plant kingdom. Cold
acclimation is the process leading to the development of freezing tolerance in plants. It is a …

Land plants comprise two large monophyletic lineages, the vascular plants and the
bryophytes, which diverged from their most recent common ancestor approximately 480 …