Plants produce organs of various shapes and sizes. While much has been learned about
genetic regulation of organogenesis, the integration of mechanics in the process is also …

There is increasing evidence that all cells sense mechanical forces in order to perform their
functions. In animals, mechanotransduction has been studied during the establishment of …

How do separate sexes originate and evolve? Plants provide many opportunities to address
this question as they have diverse mating systems and separate sexes (dioecy) that evolved …

Mechanical forces have emerged as coordinating signals for most cell functions. Yet,
because forces are invisible, mapping tensile stress patterns in tissues remains a major …

The YABBY family is a class of plant-specific transcription factors comprising a typical N-
terminal C2C2-type zinc finger domain and a C-terminal helix-loop-helix YABBY domain …

Heavy‐ion irradiation is a powerful mutagen that possesses high linear energy transfer
(LET). Several studies have indicated that the value of LET affects DNA lesion formation in …

In plants, the shoot apical meristem contains the stem cells and is responsible for the
generation of all aerial organs. Mechanistically, organogenesis is associated with an auxin …

Vacuolar-type adenosine triphosphatase (V-ATPase, VHA) is a highly conserved, ATP-
driven multisubunit proton pump that is widely distributed in all eukaryotic cells. V-ATPase …

Key message Non-synonymous mutations in the BFS gene, which encodes the IQD protein,
are responsible for the shape of wax gourd fruits. Abstract Fruit shape is an important …

Inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) is a phosphate donor and energy source. Many metabolic
reactions that generate PPi are suppressed by high levels of PPi. Here, we investigated how …