Climate change, increasing populations, competing demands on land for production of
biofuels and declining soil quality are challenging global food security. Finding sustainable …

Background In recent years, major advance in molecular biology and genomic technologies
have led to an exponential growth in biological information. As the deluge of genomic …

Medicinal plants are a rich source of highly diverse specialized metabolites with important
pharmacological properties. Until recently, plant biologists were limited in their ability to …

The genus Brassica contains several economically important crops, including rapeseed
(Brassica napus, 2 n= 38, AACC), the second largest source of seed oil and protein meal …

How genetic information is modified to generate phenotypic variation within a species is one
of the central questions in evolutionary biology. Here we focus on the striking intraspecific …

Motivation: Comparative transcriptomics is a common approach in functional gene discovery
efforts. It allows for finding conserved co-expression patterns between orthologous genes in …

Global climate change has emerged as the utmost environmental threat for agriculture. To
maintain a sustainable food supply, climate‐resilient high‐yielding crop plants need to be …

The secondary xylem of conifers is composed mainly of tracheids that differ anatomically
and chemically from angiosperm xylem cells. There is currently no high‐spatial‐resolution …

In the era of energy and food shortage, microalgae have gained much attention as
promising sources of biofuels and food ingredients. However, only a small fraction of …

Upon fertilization in angiosperms, one sperm cell fuses with the egg cell to produce a
zygote, and, via karyogamy, the parental genetic information is combined to form the diploid …