Plant genetic transformation heavily relies on the bacterial pathogen Agrobacterium
tumefaciens as a powerful tool to deliver genes of interest into a host plant. Inside the plant …

Imported from the Andean region to Europe in the 16th century, today tomato is widespread
throughout the world and represents the most economically important vegetable crop …

During autophagy, vesicle dynamics and cargo recruitment are driven by numerous
adaptors and receptors that become tethered to the phagophore through interactions with …

The Agrobacterium vacuum infiltration method has made it possible to transform Arabidopsis
thaliana without plant tissue culture or regeneration. In the present study, this method was …

Plant growth is greatly affected by drought and low temperature. Expression of a number of
genes is induced by both drought and low temperature, although these stresses are quite …

The current challenge, now that two plant genomes have been sequenced, is to assign a
function to the increasing number of predicted genes. In Arabidopsis, approximately 55% of …

Transcription in eukaryotic genomes generates an extensive array of non-protein-coding
RNA, the functional significance of which is mostly unknown. We are investigating the link …

Collective efforts of several laboratories in the past two decades have resulted in the
development of various methods for Agrobacterium tumefaciens–mediated transformation of …

Plants respond to different stresses by inducing or repressing transcription of partially
overlapping sets of genes. In Arabidopsis, the PHR1 transcription factor (TF) has an …

In Arabidopsis, the induction of a dehydration-responsive gene, rd22, is mediated by
abscisic acid (ABA). We reported previously that MYC and MYB recognition sites in the rd22 …