Carole Santi

TL;DR: Improved understanding of the molecular mechanism of BNF outside the legume-rhizobium symbiosis could have important agronomic implications and enable the use of N-fertilizers to be reduced or even avoided.

TL;DR: It is proposed that this is a complex mechanism comprising fine tuning of spatial or temporal regulation of both targets by osa-miR827 and its two target genes, which are predicted to be implicated in phosphate (Pi) sensing or transport.

TL;DR: The data suggest that auxin plays an important role during plant cell infection in actinorhizal symbioses and homologs of the auxin influx carrier (AUX1-LAX) genes in Casuarina glauca are isolated and characterized.

TL;DR: It is shown that two miRNAs can be produced from a single precursor, either from tandem stem-loops or tandemly arrayed in a single stem-loop, which suggests that processing of these precursors could be an important regulatory step to produce one or more functional mi RNAs in plants and perhaps coordinate cleavage of distinct targets in the same plant tissue.

TL;DR: It is illustrated how the elucidation of the function of these TFs can be used to set up genetic engineering strategies and to rationalize molecular breeding using molecular assisted selection towards enhancement of rice tolerance to various stresses.