Fine roots acquire essential soil resources and mediate biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial
ecosystems. Estimates of carbon and nutrient allocation to build and maintain these …

Salinity is a major abiotic stress limiting growth and productivity of plants in many areas of
the world due to increasing use of poor quality of water for irrigation and soil salinization …

Background Correlation networks are increasingly being used in bioinformatics applications.
For example, weighted gene co-expression network analysis is a systems biology method …

Environmental stress factors such as drought, elevated temperature, salinity and rising CO 2
affect plant growth and pose a growing threat to sustainable agriculture. This has become a …

In many applications, one is interested in determining which of the properties of a network
module change across conditions. For example, to validate the existence of a module, it is …

Considering global climate change, the incidence of combined drought and heat stress is
likely to increase in the future and will considerably influence plant-pathogen interactions …

Understanding abiotic stress responses in plants is an important and challenging topic in
plant research. Physiological and molecular biological analyses have allowed us to draw a …

Biotic and abiotic stresses limit agricultural yields, and plants are often simultaneously
exposed to multiple stresses. Combinations of stresses such as heat and drought or cold …

The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic stresses and
biotic stresses. Plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology …

Background Genomic and other high dimensional analyses often require one to summarize
multiple related variables by a single representative. This task is also variously referred to as …