Background The RNA-guided Cas9 system represents a flexible approach for genome
editing in plants. This method can create specific mutations that knock-out or alter target gene …

Nitrogen-fixing rhizobia colonize legume roots via plant-made intracellular infection threads.
Genetics has identified some genes involved but has not provided sufficient detail to …

Several complex phenotypic changes are induced when the transcription factor AmMYB308
is overexpressed in transgenic tobacco plants. We have previously shown that the primary …

The Spo11 protein is a eukaryotic homologue of the archaeal DNA topoisomerase VIA
subunit (topo VIA). In archaea it is involved, together with its B subunit (topo VIB), in DNA …

Endoreduplication is a common process in eukaryotes that involves DNA amplification
without corresponding cell divisions. Cell size in various organisms has been linked to …

Efforts to understand nuclear organization in plant cells have received little assistance from
the better-studied animal nuclei, because plant proteomes do not contain recognizable …

Endoreduplication involves a doubling of chromosomal DNA without corresponding cell
division. In plants, many cell types transit from the mitotic cycle to the endoreduplication cycle or …

The symbiotic infection of root cells by nitrogen-fixing rhizobia during nodulation requires the
transcription factor Nodule Inception (NIN). Our root hair transcriptomic study extends NIN’s …

How plant organs grow to reach their final size is an important but largely unanswered
question. Here, we describe an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, brassinosteroid-insensitive4 (bin4), …

Cell wall polysaccharides are some of the most complex biopolymers known, and yet their
functions remain largely mysterious. Advances in imaging methods permit direct visualisation …