The PR10 class of genes has been associated with plant defence. Previous studies with an asparagus PR10 gene (AoPR1) promoter in heterologous plants suggested that the AoPR10-GUS transgene was responsive to oxidative ...

Preventing disease in cereal crops is important for maintaining productivity and as the availability and efficacy of chemical control becomes reduced the emphasis on breeding for disease resistance increases. However, there ...

The hypersensitive response (HR) is a cell death phenomenon associated with localised resistance to pathogens. Biphasic patterns in the generation of H2O2, salicylic acid and ethylene have been observed in tobacco during ...

A new model for grass functional genomics is described based on Brachypodium distachyon, which in the evolution of the Pooideae diverged just prior to the clade of 'core pooid' genera that contain the majority of important ...

Grass crop genomics research frequently is hindered by large genome sizes and polyploidy. While rice is an attractive system for grass genomics due to its small genome size and available genome sequence, it is not particularly ...

Concerns about increased stratospheric ozone depletion increasing ambient levels of ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B), and the fact that some ecosystems are naturally exposed to high levels, has resulted in an increased ...

Ethylene rapidly and transiently up-regulates the activity of several monomeric GTP-binding proteins (monomeric G proteins) in leaves of Arabidopsis as determined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and autoradiographic ...

Background Survival time for lung cancer is poor with over 90% of patients dying within five years of diagnosis primarily due to detection at late stage. The main objective of this study was to evaluate Fourier transform ...

Introduction: We have shown that sputum is a feasible biofluid for analysis of biomarkers using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic analysis and that FTIR can detect different patterns of metabolites between ...

With the centenary of the first descriptions of ‘hypersensitiveness’ following pathogenic challenge upon us, it is appropriate to assess our current understanding of the hypersensitive response (HR) form of cell death. In ...