Plants are built of various specialized cell types that differ in their cell wall composition and
structure. The cell walls of certain tissues (xylem, sclerenchyma) are characterized by the …

Historically speaking, Arabidopsis was not the plant of choice for investigating
photosynthesis, with physiologists and biochemists favouring other species such as …

In contrast to climacteric fruits such as tomato, the knowledge on key regulatory genes
controlling the ripening of strawberry, a nonclimacteric fruit, is still limited. NAC transcription …

Next‐generation technologies generate an overwhelming amount of gene sequence data.
Efficient annotation tools are required to make these data amenable to functional genomics …

Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Recent rapid advances in next generation RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq)-based provide
researchers with unprecedentedly large data sets and open new perspectives in …

Commercial tomatoes are widely perceived by consumers as lacking flavor. A major part of
that problem is a postharvest handling system that chills fruit. Low-temperature storage is …

Gene duplications provide evolutionary potentials for generating novel functions, while
polyploidization or whole genome duplication (WGD) doubles the chromosomes initially and …

Cadmium (Cd) is a widely distributed soil contaminant which induces oxidative damage and
is therefore toxic to plants. Although selenium oxyanions such as selenite (SeO 3 2-) and …

Drought stress affects cereals especially during the reproductive stage. The maize (Zea
mays) drought transcriptome was studied using RNA-Seq analysis to compare drought …