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Chloroplasts are integral to sensing biotic and abiotic stress in plants, but their role in transducing Ca2+-mediated stress signals remains poorly understood1,2. Here we identify cMCU, a member of the mitochondr...
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Open AccessEliciting the Functional Taxonomy from protein annotations and taxa
The advances of omics technologies have triggered the production of an enormous volume of data coming from thousands of species. Meanwhile, joint international efforts like the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium ha...
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Agroinfiltration of grapevine leaves for fast transient assays of gene expression and for long-term production of stable transformed cells
Agrobacterium-mediated transient assays for the analysis of gene function are used as alternatives to genetic complementation and stable plant transformation. Although such assays are routinely performed in sever...
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KDC1, a carrot Shaker-like potassium channel, reveals its role as a silent regulatory subunit when expressed in plant cells
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a phytochelatin synthase gene, PvPCS1, from Pteris vittata L.
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Cytokinins: new apoptotic inducers in plants
High concentrations of cytokinins block cell proliferation and induce programmed cell death (PCD) in both carrot (Daucus carota L.) and Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. cell cultures [13 and 27 µM N6-benzylamino...
