Phytonematodes use a stylet and secreted effectors to modify host cells and ingest nutrients
to support their growth and development. The molecular function of nematode effectors is …

Background New roles for flavonoids, as developmental regulators and/or signalling
molecules, have recently been proposed in eukaryotic cells exposed to a wide range of …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Lateral roots (LRs) are crucial for increasing the surface area of root systems to explore
heterogeneous soil environments. Major advances have recently been made in the model …

The soil holds twice as much carbon as does the atmosphere, and most soil carbon is
derived from recent photosynthesis that takes carbon into root structures and further into …

Phosphorus is one of the major limiting factors of primary productivity in terrestrial
ecosystems and, thus, the P demand of plants might be among the most important drivers of …

Though there is compelling evidence for the suite of molecular events regulating the
flavonoid branch pathway that leads to anthocyanin biosynthesis (Chen et al., 2019; Naing & …

Biotic and abiotic stresses impose a serious limitation on crop productivity worldwide. Prior
or simultaneous exposure to one type of stress often affects the plant response to other …

A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students to the growing field of systems biology. Its main focus is the development …

Understanding how dynamic molecular networks affect whole-organism physiology,
analogous to mapping genotype to phenotype, remains a key challenge in biology …