A comparison with wild lentils highlights how gene expression varies when light shifts from red to near infra-red light.
Tag - transcriptome
Alun Salt
Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”
Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.
Luiza Teixeira-Costa
Dissecting growth responses to gravity and light in poplar trees
Can a new isotropic light device lead to a better understanding of molecular responses to gravitational stimuli?
William Salter
The off-switch is not the on-switch for rhizome development in tall fescue
When drought passes the signals to restart the development of rhizomes in Festuca arundinacea are on different regulatory pathways to the signals that turned it off at the start of the drought.
Fi Gennu
Single copy genes produce a clearer phylogeny of the Apioideae
Analysis of over 3300 single copy genes has produced a well-supported topology with some significant changes.
Erin Zimmerman
Cold stress tolerance genes of the wild cotton species Gossypium thurberi
Low temperatures at the start of the growing season can impair the productivity of crop species. Chilling (0 – 20°C) and freezing (< 0°C) both negatively affect plant growth and development. Cotton is an important...
Understanding gene expression under flooding and drought stress in Phalaris arundinacea and Dactylis glomerata
A changing climate could bring drier or wetter conditions. A team of scientists has been examining how the genes of two plants adapt to both conditions.
What happens when a vampire plant ‘bites’ two victims at once?
When the parasitic plant dodder attacks two plants, stress felt by one victim can be passed to the other.
How arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi talk to plants before colonisation
Plant roots do not sit alone in the soil. In the earth you will also find various microbes. Lurking in the dirt is Rhizophagus irregularis, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus that colonises wheat. In a new study Hui Tian...
Genes involved in the biosynthesis of Chiloglottis semiochemicals
Selection on duplicated plant volatile genes is thought to have enabled the evolution of floral volatiles crucial to plant-insect interactions.
Alex Assiry
Solving a major controversy in conifer evolution
One major and long-standing controversy in conifer evolution concerns the phylogenetic relationships in the subfamily Cupressoideae (Cupressaceae) between Juniperus, Cupressus and the Hesperocyparis-Callitropsis...
Can a tomato hear, and what would it listen to?
Over Christmas, a couple of papers came out that suggest plants can respond to airborne sound waves. The findings challenge many ideas about how plants respond to sound.
Gene expression in Musa acuminata during interactions with Meloidogyne incognita
Root-knot nematodes (RKN) (Meloidogyne spp) cause considerable losses in banana (Musa sp.). Castañeda et al. investigate the root transcriptome in Musa acuminata during compatible interactions with M. incognita, showing...
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Pollination drop proteins and ovule transcripts of Cephalotaxus
Many gymnosperms produce an ovular secretion, the pollination drop, during reproduction. The drops serve as a landing site for pollen, but also contain a suite of ions and organic compounds, including proteins, that...
