Beyond their metabolic roles, sugars can also act as messengers in signal transduction.
Trehalose, a sugar found in many species of plants and animals, is a non-reducing …

Besides improved mineral nutrition, plants colonised by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi
often display increased biomass and higher tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses …

Metabolomics is perhaps the ultimate level of post‐genomic analysis as it can reveal
changes in metabolite fluxes that are controlled by only minor changes within gene …

Plant metabolic studies have traditionally focused on the role and regulation of the enzymes
catalyzing key reactions within specific pathways. Within the past 20 years, reverse genetic …

Vascular plants contain two gene families that encode monosaccharide transporter proteins.
The classical monosaccharide transporter (-like) gene superfamily is large and functionally …

Linking plant phenotype to gene and protein expression and also to metabolite synthesis
and accumulation is one of the main challenges for improving agricultural production …

Given the ever-increasing number of species for which full-genome sequencing has been
realized, there is a rising burden for gene functional annotation. In this study, we provide a …

Purple-leaf tea plants, as anthocyanin-rich cultivars, are valuable materials for
manufacturing teas with unique colors or flavors. In this study, a new purple-leaf cultivar …

Plants produce numerous metabolites that are important for their development and growth.
However, the genetic architecture of the wheat metabolome has not been well studied. Here …

Thellungiella salsuginea, a Brassicaceae species closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana, is
tolerant to high salinity. The two species were compared under conditions of osmotic stress …