and are actively expressed in some recipients Ting Sun1,2,3, Susanne S. Renner4,Yuxing Xu1,3,Yan Qin1,5, Jianqiang Wu1 & Guiling Sun1,2,5 A growing body of evidence is pointing to an important role of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in the evolution of higher plants...
Earlier researchers have described how examples of tightly folded and rolled leaves develop, but most have not considered the potentially adaptive value of this pattern of growth. We hypothesize that it is a protection against herbivorous invertebrates. For tropical and temperate dicots, the young ...
A major question in evolutionary biology that becomes tractable with the advent of modern genomics is the genetic basis for the transitions between broad ‘generalist’ and narrow ‘specialist’ ecological niches [1,2,3]. Emerging empirical evidence suggests that the transition to specialism often inv...
2016, 17, 1204 3 of 21 contains 65 members, which is bigger than that of all reported species except Glycine max (98), and Brassica rapa (85) (Table 1). Table 1. Summary of the two-component system (TCS) gene numbers identified in plants. Species HK(L) HP Type-A (Pseudo-HP) ...