The number of animals used in research has increased with the advancement of research
and development in medical technology. Every year, millions of experimental animals are …

Elucidating the biology of yeast in its full complexity has major implications for science,
medicine and industry. One of the most critical processes determining yeast life and …

New antifungal agents are urgently required to combat life-threatening infections caused by
opportunistic fungal pathogens like Candida albicans. The manipulation of endogenous …

Cells are exposed to both endogenous and exogenous sources of reactive oxygen species
(ROS). At high levels, ROS can lead to impaired physiological function through cellular …

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49 vii Glutathione, Altruistic Metabolite in Fungi Istvan Pocsi, Rolf A. Prade and Michel J …

The AvrPtoB type III effector protein is conserved among diverse genera of plant pathogens
suggesting it plays an important role in pathogenesis. Here we report that Pseudomonas …

In the last decade, research into the molecular determinants of aging has progressed rapidly
and much of this progress can be attributed to studies in invertebrate eukaryotic model …

Embryogenesis in plants is a unique process in the sense that it can be initiated from a wide
range of cells other than the zygote. Upon stress, microspores or young pollen grains can be …

Although programmed cell death (PCD) is extensively studied in multicellular organisms, in
recent years it has been shown that a unicellular organism, yeast Saccharomyces …

The possibility that single-cell organisms undergo programmed cell death has been
questioned in part because they lack several key components of the mammalian cell death …