Floral organs are specified by the combinatorial action of MADS-domain transcription factors,
yet the mechanisms by which MADS-domain proteins activate or repress the expression of …

Fruit ripening in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) requires the coordination of both developmental
cues as well as the plant hormone ethylene. Although the role of ethylene in mediating …

Background Plant MADS box proteins play important roles in a plethora of developmental
processes. In order to regulate specific sets of target genes, MADS box proteins dimerize and …

The ABC model, which was accepted for almost a decade as a paradigm for flower
development in angiosperms, has been subjected recently to a significant modification with the …

Plants are exposed to combinations of various biotic and abiotic stresses, but stress
responses are usually investigated for single stresses only. Here, we investigated the genetic …

Background TCP proteins are plant-specific transcription factors, which are known to have a
wide range of functions in different plant species such as in leaf development, flower …

Aphids induce many transcriptional perturbations in their host plants, but the signalling
cascades responsible and the effects on plant resistance are largely unknown. Through a …

Transcription factors are key regulators of plant development. One of the major groups of
transcription factors is the MADS-box family, of which at least 80 members are encoded in the …

Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as new class of regulatory
molecules in animals where they regulate gene expression at transcriptional and post-…

Several genome-wide studies demonstrated that alternative splicing (AS) significantly
increases the transcriptome complexity in plants. However, the impact of AS on the functional …