In higher plants, sexual and asexual reproduction through seeds (apomixis) have evolved
as alternative strategies. As apomixis leads to the formation of clonal offspring, its great …

Cells survey their environment and need to balance growth and anabolism with stress
programmes and catabolism towards maximum cellular bioenergetics economy and …

The packaging of the genetic material into chromatin imposes the remodeling of this barrier
to allow efficient transcription. RNA polymerase II activity is coupled with several histone …

General autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process in eukaryotes, by which
intracellular materials are transported into and degraded inside lysosomes or vacuoles, with …

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe employs two main strategies to adapt to the
environment and survive when starved for nutrients. The strategies employ sporulation via …

Autophagy is a conserved process that delivers cytoplasmic components to the
vacuole/lysosome. It plays important roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and …

Target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) is an important regulator of various signaling
pathways. It can control cell growth and development by integrating multiple signals from …

In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, ecl family genes are induced by several signals, such as
starvation of various nutrients, including sulfur, amino acids and Mg2+, and environmental …

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an excellent model organism to explore
cellular events owing to rich tools in genetics, molecular biology, cellular biology, and …

In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the duration of survival in the stationary
phase, termed the chronological lifespan (CLS), is affected by various environmental factors …