Antonio Michele Stanca

TL;DR: Insight into the genome biology of a polyploid crop provide a springboard for faster gene isolation, rapid genetic marker development, and precise breeding to meet the needs of increasing food demand worldwide.

TL;DR: The transcriptome of barley albina and xantha mutants and the corresponding wild type plants is investigated to assess the effect of the chloroplast on expression of cold-regulated genes and finds that photooxidative stress signaling pathway is constitutively active in the mutants.

TL;DR: Observations suggest that CBF gene(s) themselves, rather than their two regulators, are at present the best candidates for cold tolerance.

TL;DR: Molecular adaptation to cold and drought involves a series of biochemical and molecular changes leading plants to improve their winter hardiness or drought resistance.

TL;DR: It is proposed that inducible responses giving rise to physical and chemical barriers to infection in the cell walls and intercellular spaces of the barley embryo tissues represent mechanisms by which the CC-NB-LRR-encoding Rdg2a gene mediates resistance to leaf stripe in the absence of hypersensitive cell death.