Sucrose metabolism plays pivotal roles in development, stress response, and yield
formation, mainly by generating a range of sugars as metabolites to fuel growth and …

Plants are constantly exposed to microorganisms in the environment and, as a result, have
evolved intricate mechanisms to recognize and defend themselves against potential …

Plants have the ability to recognize and respond to a multitude of microorganisms.
Recognition of pathogens results in a massive reprogramming of the plant cell to activate …

Sugars play important roles as both nutrients and regulatory molecules throughout plant life.
Sugar metabolism and signalling function in an intricate network with numerous hormones …

In most fungal pathogen–plant systems, a high level of sugars in plant tissues enhances
plant resistance. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanisms of …

The daily life of photosynthetic plants revolves around sugar production, transport, storage
and utilization, and the complex sugar metabolic and signaling networks integrate internal …

Aliphatic alcohols naturally exist in many organisms as important cellular components;
however, their roles in extracellular polymer biosynthesis are poorly defined. We report here …

Programmed cell death (PCD), the highly regulated dismantling of cells, is essential for plant
growth and survival. PCD plays key roles in embryo development, formation and maturation …

Hexose sugars, such as glucose and fructose produced in plants, are ubiquitous in most
organisms and are the origin of most of the organic matter found in nature. To be utilized …

Abstract Male Sterile2 (MS2) is predicted to encode a fatty acid reductase required for pollen
wall development in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Transient expression of MS2 in …