PLANT BIOLOGY: It's Just a Phase

Bioinformatics and its applications in plant biology.

Bioinformatics plays an essential role in today's plant science. As the amount of data grows exponentially, there is a parallel growth in the demand for tools and methods in data management, visualization, integration, analysis, modeling, and prediction. At the same time, many researchers in biology are unfamiliar with available bioinformatics methods, tools, and databases, which could lead to ...

Editorial: “Agrobacterium biology and its application to transgenic plant production”

(2015) Editorial: " Agrobacterium biology and its application to transgenic plant production. " Front. Plant Sci. 6:265. The extraordinary Agrobacterium research story started from the search for the causative agent of crown gall disease more than 100 years ago. Agrobacterium tumefaciens was first isolated from grapevine galls in 1897 and later isolated from Paris daisy in 1907 (Cavara, 1897a,b...

Whole-plant growth stage ontology for angiosperms and its application in plant biology.

Plant growth stages are identified as distinct morphological landmarks in a continuous developmental process. The terms describing these developmental stages record the morphological appearance of the plant at a specific point in its life cycle. The widely differing morphology of plant species consequently gave rise to heterogeneous vocabularies describing growth and development. Each species o...

A New Paradigm in Biology – The Effect of Localization of a Protein on its Anti-genicity

A Global Catastrophic Biological Risk Is Not Just About Biology

Global catastrophic biological risk (GCBR) is a topic with relevance for many ongoing dialogues: What is national and international security? How can science itself be of harm or good? How do we advance global health security? What comprises One Health One Humanity? The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has started an important conversation. Of the many themes on which one could speak, o...