Lipids are one of the major components of biological membranes including the plasma
membrane, which is the interface between the cell and the environment. It has become clear …

Plants growing in their natural habitats are often challenged simultaneously by multiple
stress factors, both abiotic and biotic. Research has so far been limited to responses to …

Drought, salinity, extreme temperature variations, pathogen and herbivory attacks are
recurring environmental stresses experienced by plants throughout their life. To survive …

Myo-inositol is a versatile compound that generates diversified derivatives upon
phosphorylation by lipid-dependent and-independent pathways. Phosphatidylinositols form …

Histone modifications affect gene expression level. Several studies have shown that they
may play key roles in regulating gene expression in plants under abiotic stress, but genome …

Sensing environmental changes and initiating a gene expression response are important for
plants as sessile autotrophs. The ability of epigenetic status to alter rapidly and reversibly …

Plants interact with their environment by modifying gene expression patterns. One
mechanism for this interaction involves epigenetic modifications that affect a number of …

Plant genomes lack homologues of the inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor and protein
kinase C, which are important components of the canonical phospholipase C signalling …

Polyphosphoinositides (PPIns) are signalling messengers representing less than five per
cent of the total phospholipid concentration within the cell. Despite their low concentration …

UHRF1 is a multidomain protein crucially linking histone H3 modification states and DNA
methylation. While the interaction properties of its specific domains are well characterized …