WRKY transcription factors are one of the largest families of transcriptional regulators in
plants and form integral parts of signalling webs that modulate many plant processes. Here …

Plants constantly face a plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses in their natural habitat.
Adapting to such changes requires a great degree of phenotypic plasticity that is mainly …

Background Analyses of speciation genes–genes that contribute to the cessation of gene
flow between populations–can offer clues regarding the ecological settings, evolutionary …

The plants during their sessile, autotrophic lifestyle are affected by wide range of
environmental signals and regulate complex patterns of gene expression with the help of …

Chromosome dosage has substantial effects on reproductive isolation and speciation in
both plants and animals, but the underlying mechanisms are largely obscure. Transposable …

The endosperm is a terminal seed tissue that is destined to support embryo development. In
most angiosperms, the endosperm develops initially as a syncytium to facilitate rapid seed …

Arabidopsis seed size is regulated by the IKU pathway that includes IKU2 (a leucine‐rich
repeat kinase) and MINI3 (a WRKY transcription factor). We report the cloning of the IKU1 …

Polyploidization, a widespread phenomenon among plants, is considered a major
speciation mechanism. Polyploid plants have a high degree of immediate post-zygotic …

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon leading to parent-of-origin specific
differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles. In plants, genomic …

WRKY proteins are a superfamily of plant transcription factors with important roles in plants.
WRKY proteins have been extensively analyzed in plant species including Arabidopsis and …