The identification of the mechanisms that promote and maintain primary production in terrestrial ecosystems is a central question in ecology, especially in the context of anthropogenic global change 7 ...

Just like humans and other animals, plants need an immune system to defend themselves from disease. An important part of the plant immune system is Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI), which can sense ...

Green plants and algae use light energy to make glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. Temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and light intensity can affect the rate of photosynthesis.

1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 2 School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Recent insights into the physical biology of plant cell walls ...

Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are vital and versatile components of plant cellular systems. They are characterized by a conserved eight-cysteine motif and are increasingly recognized ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 232, No. 1/2, PROCEEDING OF THE MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE ON RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS (May 2001), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Here we report on a range of studies designed to understand ...

Plant-sourced intrinsic dietary fiber (PIDF), mainly composed of nondigestible polysaccharides in a cell wall form, is often existed in plant tissue particles in which the physical structure of the ...

Si-mark questions are often the questions that people find the most difficult. In all longer answer questions, but especially the six-mark ones, it is important that you plan your answer and not just ...