Over two thousand plant species have been modified morphologically through cultivation
and human use. Here, we review three aspects of crop domestication that are currently …

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex that catalyses the addition of TTAGGG repeats
onto telomeres, repetitive DNA structures found at the ends of linear chromosomes. The …

Seeds are important to agriculture and conservation of plant biodiversity. In agriculture, seed
germination performance is an important determinant of crop yield, in particular under …

The last phase of leaf development, generally referred to as leaf senescence, is an integral
part of plant development that involves massive programmed cell death. Due to a sharp …

Telomerase is an essential enzyme that maintains telomeres on eukaryotic chromosomes. In
mammals, telomerase is required for the lifelong proliferative capacity of normal …

Chromosome termini form a specialized type of heterochromatin that is important for
chromosome stability. The recent discovery of telomeric RNA transcripts in yeast and …

Telomeres are highly repetitive DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes that
protect the chromosomes from deterioration duringcell division. Here, using whole-genome …

A group of monocotyledonous plants within the order Asparagales, forming a distinct clade
in phylogenetic analyses, was reported previously to lack the 'typical'Arabidopsis–type …

Telomeres vary greatly in size among plants and, in most higher plants, consist of a long
array of 5′‐TTTAGGG‐3′/3′‐AAATCCC‐5′(TTTAGGG) repeats. Recently, telomeric …

Parallel research on multiple model organisms shows that while some principles of telomere
biology are conserved among all eukaryotic kingdoms, we also find some deviations that …