From the standpoints of both basic research and biotechnology, there is considerable interest
in reaching a clearer understanding of the diversity of biological mechanisms employed …

Although abscisic acid (ABA) is involved in a variety of plant growth and developmental
processes, few genes that actually regulate the transduction of the ABA signal into a cellular …

Desiccation of plants during drought can be detrimental to agricultural production. The
phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) reduces water loss by triggering stomatal pore closure in …

The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) modulates a variety of developmental processes and
responses to environmental stress in higher plants. A collection of mutations, designated era, in …

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is produced in response to abiotic stresses and
mediates stomatal closure in response to drought via recently identified ABA receptors (…

The isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway provides intermediates for the synthesis of a multitude
of natural products which serve numerous biochemical functions in plants: sterols (…

Environmental stimuli, including elevated carbon dioxide levels, regulate stomatal development
1 , 2 , 3 ; however, the key mechanisms mediating the perception and relay of the CO 2 …

How the directionality of vesicle traffic is achieved remains an important unanswered
question in cell biology. The Sec23p/Sec24p coat complex sorts the fusion machinery (SNAREs) …

Pharmacological focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibition prevents tumor growth and
metastasis, via actions on both tumor and stromal cells. In this paper, we show that vascular …

Actin-myosin interactions provide the driving force underlying each heartbeat. The current
view is that actin-bound regulatory proteins play a dominant role in the activation of calcium-…