Despite the importance and wide exploitation of heterosis in commercial crop breeding, the
molecular mechanisms behind this phenomenon are not completely understood. Recent …

Hybrid vigour, or heterosis, has been of tremendous importance in agriculture for the improvement
of both crops and livestock. Notwithstanding large efforts to study the phenomenon of …

Despite the importance and wide exploitation of heterosis in commercial crop breeding, the
molecular mechanisms behind this phenomenon are not well understood. Interestingly, there …

… Plants were cultivated in a growth chamber with a 9-h day (24C) and 15-h (20C) night cycle
… After time point t 2 , plants were transferred to a 16-h day/8-h night cycle. Seeds from 8–12 …

… Yet, BABA-IR against H. arabidopsis is fully expressed in Arabidopsis genotypes that are
impaired in SAR signalling (Zimmerli et al., 2000). This SA- and NPR1-independent form of …

… for 2 d and cultivated at 8.5 h light (150 μmol m −2 s −1 ; 20 C) and 15.5 h darkness (18 C).
For … M3 soil and cultivated at 16 h light (150 μmol m −2 s −1 ; 26 C) and 8 h darkness (21 C). …

Plants prevent disease by passively and actively protecting potential entry routes against
invading microbes. For example, the plant immune system actively guards roots, wounds, and …

… Plants were cultivated in a growth chamber with an 8 h day (24 C) and 16 h (20 C) night
cycle at 60–70% relative humidity (RH). Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst …

Arabidopsis develops systemically induced resistance to Hyaloperonospora parasitica and
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000) upon colonization of the roots by …

AG protein α subunit gene (pigpa1) and a G protein β subunit gene (pigpb1) were isolated
from the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato late blight. …