Higher eukaryotes have developed a mechanism of sequence‐specific RNA degradation
which is known as RNA silencing. In plants and some animals, similar to the nematode …

Plant genomes are dynamic structures having both the system to maintain and accurately
reproduce the information encoded therein and the ability to accept more or less random …

With distribution of genetic materials and advance molecular characteristics, the chloroplast
is prokaryotic compartments within the eukaryotic plants that have turned into a crucial …

The RPP5 (for recognition of Peronospora parasitica 5) locus in the Arabidopsis thaliana
Columbia strain contains a cluster of paralogous disease Resistance (R) genes that play …

Background Metabolic engineering for hyperaccumulation of lipids in vegetative tissues is a
novel strategy for enhancing energy density and biofuel production from biomass crops …

Sterols have multiple functions in all eukaryotes. In plants, sterol biosynthesis is initiated by
the enzymatic conversion of 2, 3-oxidosqualene to cycloartenol. This reaction is catalyzed by …

Several recent investigations of T‐DNA integration sites in Arabidopsis thaliana have
reported 'cold spots' of integration, especially near centromeric regions. These observations …

Plastid transformation has emerged as an alternative platform to generate transgenic plants.
Attractive features of this technology include specific integration of transgenes—either …

Viroids are small, circular, single-stranded RNA molecules that, while not coding for any
protein, cause several plant diseases. Viroids rely for their infectious cycle on host proteins …

Background Genetically modified plants are widely used in agriculture and increasingly in
ecological research to enable the selective manipulation of plant traits in the field. Despite …