Plant hormones control most aspects of the plant life cycle by regulating genome
expression. Expression of auxin-responsive genes involves interactions among auxin …

An afternoon stroll through an English garden reveals the breathtaking beauty and
enormous diversity of flowering plants. The extreme variation of flower morphologies …

Osmotic stress imposed by drought and high salinity inhibits plant growth and crop yield.
However, our current knowledge on the mechanism by which plants sense osmotic stress is …

Arabidopsis thaliana serves as a model organism for the study of fundamental physiological,
cellular, and molecular processes. It has also greatly advanced our understanding of …

Transcription factors activate or repress target gene expression or switch between activation
and repression. In animals and yeast, Groucho/Tup1 corepressor proteins are recruited by …

In flowering plants, male reproductive development requires the formation of the stamen,
including the differentiation of anther tissues. Within the anther, male meiosis produces …

Flowers are the most complex structures of plants. Studies of Arabidopsis thaliana, which
has typical eudicot flowers, have been fundamental in advancing the structural and …

The ethylene-responsive element binding factor-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR)
motif is a transcriptional regulatory motif identified in members of the ethylene-responsive …

Histone acetylation and deacetylation are directly connected with transcriptional activation
and silencing in eukaryotes. Gene families for enzymes that accomplish these histone …

Flowers come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Despite this variety, flowers have a
very stereotypical architecture, consisting of a series of sterile organs surrounding the …