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Gene-regulatory mechanisms at an early embryonic stage govern the flowering behavior of Arabidopsis later in development. The work of researchers at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – and the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United…

An ingenious mechanism by which Arabidopsis safeguards the integrity of its genome is uncovered by researchers at GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The paper is published in the journal Nature Cell Biology.

Two complementary approaches unveil a co-evolutionary mechanism between bacteria and plants and also explain complex immune response patterns observed in the wild. Together the papers change the way scientists have been thinking about the relationship of a bacterial antigenic component with…

The Vienna Covid-19 Detection Initiative (VCDI) is a collaborative, inter-institutional effort to combat the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Chromatin in eukaryotic genomes is broadly divided into two classes: euchromatin, which are more open regions containing expressed genes, and heterochromatin, which is more densely packed and contains non-expressed regions including transposable elements (TEs), whose activation can be…

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New work published in eLife, from an international team led by the Dagdas lab, has identified an evolutionary conserved protein that mediates recycling of the endoplasmic reticulum.

New work published in Nature Cell Biology from an international team led by Dr. Michael Borg, a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Frederic Berger, has uncovered the answer to a decades-old question - how do plants forget?