Vitis vinifera berries are sensitive towards infection by the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis
cinerea, leading to important economic losses worldwide. The combined analysis of the …

Grape and wine production and quality is extremely dependent on the fruit ripening process.
Sensory and nutritional characteristics are important aspects for consumers and their …

Background Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) are economically the most important fruit crop worldwide.
However, the complexity of molecular and biochemical events that lead to the onset of …

Provided that generalist viruses will have access to potentially unlimited hosts, the question
is why most viruses specialize in few hosts. It has been suggested that selection should favor …

GRAS transcription factors are involved in many processes of plant growth and development
(eg, axillary shoot meristem formation, root radial patterning, nodule morphogenesis, …

Grapevine (Vitis species) is the most economically important fruit crop worldwide. Ripening
of non-climacteric fruits such as grapes has been the subject of intense research. Despite …

Viruses adapt to their hosts by evading defense mechanisms and taking over cellular
metabolism for their own benefit. Alterations in cell metabolism as well as side-effects of antiviral …

Background Grapes (Vitis species) are economically the most important fruit crop worldwide.
However, the complexity of molecular and biochemical events that lead to ripening of …

Host-range expansion is thought to allow viruses to broaden their ecological niches by
allowing access to new resources. However, traits governing the infection of multiple hosts may …

Plants are developmentally disposed to significant changes in oxygen availability, but our
understanding of the importance of hypoxia is almost entirely limited to stress biology. …