5 The MAP kinase MPK4 Is required for cytokinesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.
http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/11/3778
4 In plants post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is believed to take place in cytoplasm. In this paper intron sequences were used to show that PTGS can occur in nucleus.
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/1/409.abstract
3 Spring flowering enabled by a winter chill is regulated by interplay between protein-coding and noncoding RNA transcripts.
Heo and Sung (2010). Vernalization-Mediated Epigenetic Silencing by a Long Intronic Noncoding RNA. Science 331:76-79
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6013/76.abstract
2 Through quantitative trait analysis, the authors identify a gene—STRONG CULM2—that confers increased grain yield, culm strength and spikelet number in rice.
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http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n8/full/ncomms1132.html
1 In Arabidopsis, development and disease use the same pollen-tube or hyphal tip-growing strategies.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/330/6006/968
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