The stress proteasome in the animal kingdom facilitates faster conversion of oxidized proteins during stress conditions by incorporating different catalytic β subunits. Plants deal with similar kind of stresses and also ...

Medicago truncatula is an established model for studying legume biology. More recently, it has also been exploited as a Molecular Farming platform for the production of recombinant proteins, with the successful expression ...

Cysteine proteases are an important class of enzymes implicated in both developmental and defense-related programmed cell death and other biological processes in plants. Because there are dozens of cysteine proteases that ...

Plants produce hundreds of glycosidases. Despite their importance in cell wall (re)modeling, protein and lipid modification, and metabolite conversion, very little is known of this large class of glycolytic enzymes, ...

Plants produce receptors that recognize fragments of microbial flagellin, thus monitoring for infection by bacteria. Buscaill et al. studied how a flagellin fragment is made accessible for recognition by host glycosidases, ...

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) have been detected in many organisms and shown to regulate gene expression. Similarly, NATs have also been observed in malaria parasites with most studies focused on Plasmodium falciparum. ...

The concentration of proline in shoots of rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings raised in distilled water was about 3.3 times higher than in the seedlings raised in modified B5 medium. The shoots of seedlings raised in B5 medium ...

Five-day-old vigna radiata seedlings exposed to NaCI stress induced a significant enhancement in proline levels accompanied by reduction in growth

Exposure of 25 °C-grown, seven-day-old rice seedlings to mild heat stress of 40 °C for 24 h in dark did not cause any change in protein or pigment content of the thylakoids, but produced major disorganization of chloroplast ...