Sphingolipids are a diverse group of compounds, some of which play important signaling
roles in animals and yeast. Results from recent research suggest that not only do plants …

Plants exist in an environment of changing abiotic and biotic stresses. They have developed
a complex set of strategies to respond to these stresses and over recent years it has become …

Vacuoles, the storage organelles of plants, can constitute up to 90% of the cell volume.
Transport of solutes such as sugars and organic and inorganic ions across the vacuolar …

The Arabidopsis thaliana protein GOLGI-LOCALIZED NUCLEOTIDE SUGAR
TRANSPORTER (GONST1) has been previously identified as a GDP-d-mannose …

Drought is a major threat to agricultural production. Plants synthesize the hormone abscisic
acid (ABA) in response to drought, triggering a signalling cascade in guard cells that results …

Plants have evolved stress-sensing machineries that initiate rapid adaptive environmental
stress responses. Cytosolic calcium ion (Ca 2+) is the most prominent second messenger …

Although there has been long-standing recognition that stimuli-induced cytosolic pH
alterations coincide with changes in calcium ion (Ca2+) levels, the interdependence …

Plant sphingolipids are structurally diverse molecules that are important as membrane
components and bioactive molecules. An appreciation of the relationship between structural …

Abstract Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a major reactive oxygen species in unicellular and
multicellular organisms, and is produced extracellularly in response to external stresses and …

Stomatal pores, formed by two surrounding guard cells in the epidermis of plant leaves,
allow influx of atmospheric carbon dioxide in exchange for transpirational water loss …