Background: Halophytes possess efficient salt-tolerance mechanisms and can complete
their life cycles in naturally saline soils with NaCl contents exceeding 200 mM. While a …

Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B, 280–315 nm) is an important environmental signal that
regulates growth and development in plants. Two dose-dependent UV-B response …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Seagrasses, flowering marine plants that form underwater meadows, play a significant
global role in supporting food security, mitigating climate change and supporting …

Grass stomata can balance gas exchange and evaporation effectively in rapidly changing
environments via their unique anatomical features. Although the key components of stomatal …

Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins include eight multigene families that are
expressed in response to water loss during seed maturation and in vegetative tissues of …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA interference-based technology used to
transiently knock down target gene expression by utilizing modified plant viral genomes …

Aquatic plants have to adapt to the environments distinct from where land plants grow. A
critical aspect of adaptation is the dynamics of sequence repeats, not resolved in older …

This review shows that the presence of seagrass microbial community is critical for the
development of seagrasses; from seed germination, through to phytohormone production …