The chloroplast is an important energy-producing organelle acting as an environmental
sensor for the plant cell. The normal turnover of the entire damaged chloroplast and its …

Long-lived conifers are vulnerable to climate change because classical evolutionary
processes are slow in developing adaptive responses. Therefore, the capacity of a genotype …

Bud maturation is a physiological process that implies a set of morphophysiological changes
that lead to the transition of growth patterns from young to mature. This transition defines tree …

Eucalyptus globulus Labill. is widely cultivated and used by industry but its productivity is
currently restricted by drought events, so research focussing on supporting programs to …

The importance of UV stress and its side-effects over the loss of plant productivity in forest
species demands a deeper understanding of how pine trees respond to UV irradiation …

The Arabidopsis genome is methylated in CG and non-CG (CHG, and CHH in which H
stands for A, T, or C) sequence contexts. DNA methylation has been suggested to be critical …

Global climate changes involve elevated atmospheric [CO 2], fostering the carbon allocation
to tree sink tissues, partitioning it into metabolic pathways. We use metabolomics analysis in …

Histone modifications play important roles in regulating the expression of C4 photosynthetic
genes. Given that all enzymes required for the C4 photosynthesis pathway are present in C3 …

Epigenetic modification induced during embryogenesis can serve as a mechanism for rapid
adaptation of plants to climate change, especially for long living organisms such as trees …

Conifers are a group of woody plants that dominate vast forest ecosystems and represent a
fundamental source of raw materials such as wood and other forest-derived products of …