Proteases can regulate myriad biochemical pathways by digesting or processing target
proteins. While up to 3% of eukaryotic genes encode proteases, only a tiny fraction of …

Programmed cell death (PCD) is fundamentally important for plant development, abiotic
stress responses and immunity, but our understanding of its regulation remains fragmented …

Caspases are restricted to animals, while other organisms, including plants, possess
metacaspases (MCAs), a more ancient and broader class of structurally related yet …

Viral proteases play a crucial role in viral infection and are regarded as promising targets for
antiviral drug development. Consequently, biosensing methods that target viral proteases …

Proteolysis affects many processes in plant development and during stress responses, as
well as being crucial in cellular protein homeostasis and recycling of resources. Beyond bulk …

Different proteases and peptidases are present within chloroplasts and non-photosynthetic
plastids to process precursor proteins and to degrade cleaved chloroplast transit peptides …

Plants are a primary food source and can form the basis for renewable energy resources.
The final size of their organs is by far the most important trait to consider when seeking …

Fluorescent dyes and fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the standard materials for fluorescence-
based bioanalysis and imaging. They are popular to such an extent that the use of any other …

Plant viruses pose significant threats to agricultural systems, jeopardizing food security
worldwide with a growing population. Owing to ineffective chemical interventions, the use of …

Proteolysis, a ubiquitous process in living organisms, is driven by proteases that regulate
numerous signaling pathways through the hydrolysis of peptide bonds in protein substrates …