Can a better understanding of proteomic responses to low phosphorus conditions be harnessed to improve future soybean varieties?
Tag - proteomics
William Salter
Potato-associated bacteria can act as bodyguards
Bacteria found with potatoes can help protect their hosts against late blight. The aid comes from their volatile emissions.
Dale Maylea
How to break down cell walls in sugarcane
One way of improving the usefulness of a plant crop might come not from studying where the plant cells grow, but where they die.
Alun Salt
Asymmetric responses of the woody poplar taproot axis to bending stress
Mechanical bending stress can result in cell wall strengthening and increased wood formation across root axes together with an attendant asymmetrical accumulation of phytohormones. De Zio et al. show how different...
botanyone
Sodium nitroprusside and ozone in kiwifruit ripening
Despite their importance in many aspects of plant physiology, information about the function of oxidative and, particularly, of nitrosative signalling in fruit biology is limited. Tanou et al. study the ripening of...
Ripening of pepper fruit and reactive nitrogen species
Pepper (Capsicum annuum, Solanaceae) fruits are consumed worldwide and are of great economic importance. In most species ripening is characterized by important visual and metabolic changes, the latter including emission...
Antioxidant metabolism in pepper fruit (Research in Context)
Pepper (Capsicum annuum) contains high levels of antioxidants, such as vitamins A and C and flavonoids. However, information on the role of these beneficial compounds in the physiology of pepper fruit remains scarce...
Phenotypic plasticity in Suaeda maritima
Suaeda maritima shows morphologically different forms on high and low areas of the same salt marsh. Wetson et al. demonstrate that roots of this halophyte have a constitutively very high activity of lactate...
