Regulation of gene expression at the level of transcription controls many crucial biological
processes. Transcription factors (TFs) play a great role in controlling cellular processes and …

BACKGROUND Global population growth, increased meat consumption, and concerns
about sustainability of resources are driving forces for future agriculture to produce higher …

Many plants use information about changing day length (photoperiod) to align their
flowering time with seasonal changes to increase reproductive success. A mechanism for …

Many studies have been conducted to understand plant stress responses to salinity because
irrigation-dependent salt accumulation compromises crop productivity and also to …

Trees growing in boreal and temperate regions synchronize their growth with seasonal
climatic changes in adaptive responses that are essential for their survival. These trees …

Circadian clocks are endogenous timekeeping networks that allow organisms to align their
physiology with their changing environment and to perform biological processes at the most …

The current challenge, now that two plant genomes have been sequenced, is to assign a
function to the increasing number of predicted genes. In Arabidopsis, approximately 55% of …

Life is a cyclical chemical process that is regulated in four dimensions. We distinguish parts
of the cycle: development describes the changes from single cell to adult, and aging the …

MYB factors represent a family of proteins that include the conserved MYB DNA-binding
domain. In contrast to animals, plants contain a MYB-protein subfamily that is characterised …

The first described feedback loop of the Arabidopsis circadian clock is based on reciprocal
regulation between TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1 (TOC1) and CIRCADIAN CLOCK …