Biological membranes are highly ordered structures consisting of mosaics of lipids and
proteins. Elevated temperatures can directly and effectively change the properties of these …

Plants are generally well adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. Even though
they have notably prospered in our planet, stressful conditions such as salinity, drought and …

Typically at dawn on a hot summer day, land plants need precise molecular thermometers to
sense harmless increments in the ambient temperature to induce a timely heat shock …

Land plants are prone to strong thermal variations and must therefore sense early moderate
temperature increments to induce appropriate cellular defenses, such as molecular …

An accurate assessment of the rising ambient temperature by plant cells is crucial for the
timely activation of various molecular defences before the appearance of heat damage …

For good function, membrane lipids have to be arranged appropriately and be in the correct
physical state. In poikilotherms, exposure to cold stress or heat shock can alter membrane …

Multigene transformation (MGT) is becoming routine in plant biotechnology as researchers
seek to generate more complex and ambitious phenotypes in transgenic plants. Every …

The ability of photosynthetic organisms to adapt to increases in environmental temperatures
is becoming more important with climate change. Heat stress is known to induce heat-shock …

Abstract Background The moss Physcomitrella patens as a model species provides an
important reference for early-diverging lineages of plants and the release of the genome in …

When massively expressed in bacteria, recombinant proteins often tend to misfold and
accumulate as soluble and insoluble nonfunctional aggregates. A general strategy to …