High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) promises a comprehensive picture of the
transcriptome, allowing for the complete annotation and quantification of all genes and their …

Understanding abiotic stress responses in plants is an important and challenging topic in
plant research. Physiological and molecular biological analyses have allowed us to draw a …

Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must
overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly …

Two different plant strategies exist to deal with shade: shade avoidance and shade
tolerance. All shade-exposed plants optimize photosynthesis to adapt to the decrease in …

Twenty‐five years ago, Arabidopsis thaliana emerged as the model organism of choice for
research in plant biology. A consensus was reached about the need to focus on a single …

The incompatible pathosystem between resistant cotton (Gossypium barbadense cv. 7124)
and Verticillium dahliae strain V991 was used to study the cotton transcriptome changes …

Next-generation sequencing technologies are now being exploited not only to analyse static
genomes, but also dynamic transcriptomes in an approach termed RNA-seq. Although these …

To the Editor: Traditional strategies for identification of causal mutations involve two discrete
steps: recombinant genotyping and candidate gene sequencing. To dramatically speed up …

Epigenetic mechanisms are highly dynamic events that modulate gene expression. As more
accurate and powerful tools for epigenetic analysis become available for application in a …