Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on
crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate …

Plants perceive an assortment of external cues during their life cycle, including abiotic and
biotic stressors. Biotic stress from a variety of pathogens, including viruses, oomycetes …

Due to changes in the ecosystem and misuse of resources, salinity also increases.
Approximately 20% of all irrigated land is affected by salinity and this will increase over time …

Ovules are female reproductive organs of angiosperms, consisting of sporophytic
integuments surrounding female gametophytes, that is, embryo sacs. Synchronization …

Surface receptors of animal cells, such as integrins, promote mechanosensation by forming
clusters as signaling hubs that transduce tensile forces. Walled cells of plants and fungi also …

Organelles function as hubs of cellular metabolism and elements of cellular architecture. In
addition to 3 spatial dimensions that describe the morphology and localization of each …

Plasmodesmata (PD) are gated plant cell wall channels that allow the trafficking of
molecules between cells and play important roles during plant development and in the …

As in metazoans, life in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms relies on the accurate regulation
of cell death. During development and in response to the environment, photosynthetic cells …

The genetic adaptations to harsh climatic conditions in high altitudes and genetic basis of
important agronomic traits are poorly understood in Elymus sibiricus L. In this study, an …

Plasmodesmata are plant intercellular channels that mediate the transport of small and large
molecules including RNAs and transcription factors (TFs) that regulate plant development. In …