We are thrilled to announce that all abstracts from the congress, encompassing Major Talks, Short Oral Presentations, and Poster Presentations, have been published and are available online in The ...

A billion years ago, a single-celled eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacterium – an organism capable of converting the sun's energy into food in the form of carbohydrates. In one of the single most pivotal ...

Plastids lie at the heart of eukaryotic innovation. They are dynamic organelles whose forms and functions have been repeatedly reshaped through endosymbiosis, genomic reduction, metabolic rewiring, ...

Abstract Upon imbibition, dry seeds rapidly gain metabolic activity and the switching on of a germination-specific transcriptional programme in the nucleus goes ahead, with the induction of many ...

Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 153 (November 1973), pp. 993-997 (10 pages) Ultrastructural studies of both young and harvest-ripe avocado fruits have established that the skin and outer ...