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Desiccated cells lose over 85% of their water content and experience widespread biomolecular dysfunction. Romero-Pérez et al. show that the yeast proteome contains a subset of proteins that are desicc...

When drought strikes, plants struggle to survive. Growth slows, flowers appear too early, fruits drop prematurely, and harvests shrink. Scientists have long tried to engineer drought tolerance plants…

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The evolutionary history of barley is analysed using ancient and modern DNA.

In this interview with Professors Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, explore how night science brings creativity, ideation and collaboration back into the heart of modern science.

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Arabidopsis remains one of the best studied models today and has a number of remarkable chemical defense systems which actively engage, interact and preven

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Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

Professor Steve Long was a visionary scientist. His research helped shape our understanding of fundamental plant biology and the long-term impacts of climate change on plant productivity, with wide-ra...

Plant biologist Natanella Illouz-Eliaz studies how the Arabidopsis plant responds to stress such as moderate drought. During drought recovery, the plant boosts its immune system and undergoes genetic ...

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.

Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...

We recently discovered that early embryos can eliminate bacterial infections before immune cells are formed. Take a look at the dynamics of our first encounter with microbes.

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 06 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00884-7H3.14, a histone variant of unknown role, has a dual transcriptional function in the abiotic stress response in plants: activation of stress response genes and inhibition of growth genes.

Salk Institute plant biologists discover Arabidopsis and tomato plants initiate a rapid immune response when recovering from drought, which they call Drought Recovery-Induced Immunity (DRII). DRI...