Aphids are important herbivores of both wild and cultivated plants. Plants rely on unique mechanisms of recognition, signalling and defence to cope with the specialized mode of phloem feeding by ...

Most land plants form mutually beneficial symbioses with fungi. The plant and the fungus exchange vital nutrients. A team led ...

This structure is vital, and therefore plants have developed mechanisms that monitor the cell walls and detect when they are being damaged. When a cell wall sustains damage, the plant will ...

Now a team from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), in Spain, has found that the regulation of the protein activity in the plant by the mechanism known as SUMOylation is ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

Plants have a sophisticated mechanism for monitoring the production of new proteins. The U1 snRNP complex ensures that the protein blueprints are fully completed. This is important because cells ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have described a previously unknown mechanism in the perception of light and heat in plants. The results ...

In this review we focus on the mechanisms that govern the growth of EM and AM fungi and their interactions with plants. We report how genomics have unwrapped the genomes of at least two EM fungi ...

In the lab, they set up an experimental simulation and used slow motion video to record the plant’s strategic process. The flower uses a catapult-like mechanism to remove the pollen of rival ...

Researchers have revealed for the first time how a mechanism that controls root development in plants enables them to cope better with environmental stress conditions. A team of plant scientists from ...