VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology

Brassinosteroids improve nitrogen utilization by antagonizing BIN2-mediated SnRK1 activation

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth and development, and is central to increasing crop yield. Brassinosteroids (BRs) and their analogs are widely used in agriculture to enhance crop yields and improve nitrogen utilization, yet the underlying mechanism remains fragm...

Microsynteny Analysis Clarifies the Early Diversification of Cypriniform Fishes

While genomic data are powerfully informative for phylogenetic inference, traditional sequence-based analyses can be confounded by issues like homoplasy and incomplete lineage sorting, leaving deep nodes unresolved. Synteny, the conservation of gene order along a chromosome, pres...

A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis

Abstract Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are central regulators of plant growth and stress responses. Cellular ROS levels are tightly controlled by antioxidant systems, including the evolutionarily conserved catalases that detoxify hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) predominantly within...