Crosstalk among different hormone signaling pathways play an important role in modulating plant response to both biotic and abiotic stress. Hormone activity is controlled by its bio-availability, which is again influenced by its biosynthesis. Thus, independent hormone biosynthesis pathways must be regulated and co-ordinated to mount an integrated response. One of the possibilities is to use cis...

Although biochemists and geneticists have studied the cotton flower for more than one century, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying the dramatic color change that occurs during its short developmental life following blooming. Through the analysis of world cotton germplasms, we found that all of the flowers underwent color changes post-anthesis, but there is a diverse array ...

the development of reliable processes for the synthesis of nanoparticles is an important aspect of nanotechnology. biologically synthesized nanoparticles could have innumerable applications in different areas such as reception, catalyzers, biolabellers, etc. in the present review, we emphasize the richness of the microbial world which encompasses a plethora of endophytic entities as an emerging...

Feedback inhibition is a common mechanism to adjust the activity of an enzyme in accordance with the abundance of a product. The enzyme catalyzing the initial, committing step of a biosynthesis cascade is subject to negative feedback by the end-product. This kind of regulation is frequent in all cell types to regulate biosynthesis of numerous metabolites; a classical textbook example is the ser...

Rice is a major food crop to approximately half of the human population. Unfortunately, starchy endosperm, which remaining portion seed after polishing, contains limited amounts micronutrients. Here, it shown that this particularly case for thiamin (vitamin B1). Therefore, tissue-specific metabolic engineering approach was conducted, aimed at enhancing level specifically in endosperm. To achiev...