Identifying key players and their interactions is fundamental for understanding biochemical
mechanisms at the molecular level. The ever-increasing number of alternative ways to …

Nicotiana benthamiana is the most widely used experimental host in plant virology, due
mainly to the large number of diverse plant viruses that can successfully infect it …

Enhancing global food security by increasing the productivity of green revolution varieties of
cereals risks increasing the collateral environmental damage produced by inorganic …

The deployment of heterosis in the form of hybrid rice varieties has boosted grain yield, but
grain quality improvement still remains a challenge. Here we show that a quantitative trait …

Background Protoplasts isolated from leaves are useful materials in plant research. One
application, the transient expression of recombinant genes using Arabidopsis mesophyll …

The development of sensitive and versatile techniques to detect protein-protein interactions
in vivo is important for understanding protein functions. The previously described …

Fluorescent tagging of proteins and confocal imaging techniques have become methods of
choice in analysing the distributions and dynamic characteristics of proteins at the …

The specificity of intracellular signaling and developmental patterning in biological systems
relies on selective interactions between different proteins in specific cellular compartments …

Powdery mildew is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat. To date, few powdery
mildew resistance genes have been cloned from wheat due to the size and complexity of the …

Protein interactions are a fundamental mechanism for the generation of biological regulatory
specificity. The study of protein interactions in living cells is of particular significance …