The evolution of the plant vascular system is a key process in Earth history because it
enabled plants to conquer land and transform the terrestrial surface. Among the vascular …

The interplay between auxin and cytokinins affects facets of plant development as different
as ovule formation and lateral root initiation. Moreover, cytokinins favor complexity in the …

Plant cells can change their identity based on positional information, a mechanism that
confers developmental plasticity to plants. This ability, common to distinct multicellular …

Domain of unknown function (DUF) is a general term for many uncharacterized domains
with two distinct features: relatively conservative amino acid sequence and unknown …

The phloem transport network is a major evolutionary innovation that enabled plants to
dominate terrestrial ecosystems. In the growth apices, the meristems, apical stem cells …

A greater understanding of biosynthesis, signaling and regulatory pathways involved in
determining stem growth and secondary cell wall chemistry is important for enabling …

The last century has witnessed rapid domestication of the narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus
angustifolius L.) as a grain legume crop, exploiting discovered alleles conferring low …

ABSTRACT Arabidopsis VASCULATURE COMPLEXITY AND CONNECTIVITY (VCC) is a
plant-specific transmembrane protein that controls the development of veins in cotyledons …

Human Sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartate domain containing protein 1 (SAMHD1)
functions as a dNTPase to maintain dNTP pool balance. In eukaryotes, the limiting step in de …

The human deoxyribonucleoside triphosphatase (dNTPase) Sterile alpha motif and histidine-
aspartate domain containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) has a dNTPase-independent role in …