… To test if the rice legumain genes were differentially expressed in this developmental stage,
we looked to adult grown plants (2 months-old) and collected green and yellow senescent …

… genes in rice, OcXII is the only gene possessing this carboxy-terminal extension. The
specific legumain … Meanwhile, rice plants silenced at the whole OcXII gene presented higher …

… rice, its evolutionary and structural evidence was uncovered in this study. Using MEROPS, a
peptidase database, the 74 rice … hydrolase-L1 enzyme, C13 is legumain, C14 is a caspase-…

… legumain, Arabidopsis thaliana isoform-γ (AtLEGγ). Employing a conserved legumain fold,
the plant legumain … This finding is of critical relevance to store plant legumains in dense ER …

… able to inhibit proteinases such as legumains. Phytocystatins have been … The present work
characterizes the gene family of rice … This finding corroborates the idea that their decrease is …

… rice, its evolutionary and structural evidence was uncovered in this study. Using MEROPS, a
peptidase database, the 74 rice … hydrolase-L1 enzyme, C13 is legumain, C14 is a caspase-…

… /VPE/legumain). … in rice. H 2 O 2 - and salt stress-induced PCD may share a common pathway
that is suppressed by Bcl-2, thereby inhibiting the transcriptional activation of OsVPE in rice…

… as a key finding eight members of the VPE family in the pear (Pyrus) genome, and their gene
… the expression patterns of the pear VPE gene family. The PbrVPE2 and PbrVPE5 were, in …

… as a novel chilling responsive gene, whose functional disruption enhances rice chilling
tolerance by … Although our study uncovered the regulatory role of OsVPE2 in cold tolerance, how …

… In plants, the size and role of gene families has been only partially addressed. … for gene
family annotation in plant clades. In this review, I evaluate the data retrieved from various gene …