cis-Regulatory elements encode the genomic blueprints that ensure the proper
spatiotemporal patterning of gene expression necessary for appropriate development and …

Plants have an extraordinary diversity of transcription machineries, including five nuclear
DNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Four of these enzymes are dedicated to the production …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the
idea that mutations occur randomly with respect to their consequences. Here we test this …

With the goal of charting plant transcriptional regulatory maps (ie transcription factors (TFs),
cis-elements and interactions between them), we have upgraded the TF-centred database …

Abstract The Brassicaceae Database (BRAD version 3.0, BRAD V3. 0; http://brassicadb. cn)
has evolved from the former Brassica Database (BRAD V2. 0), and represents an important …

Northern Hemisphere forests changed drastically in the early Eocene with the diversification
of the oak family (Fagaceae). Cooling climates over the next 20 million years fostered the …

The cistrome is the complete set of transcription factor (TF) binding sites (cis-elements) in an
organism, while an epicistrome incorporates tissue-specific DNA chemical modifications and …

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 …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is a dicot model organism for research in many
aspects of plant biology. A comprehensive annotation of its genome paves the way for …