Weiqiang Li

TL;DR: Genome-wide transcriptional gene-to-gene correlations, analyzed by hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), indicated that the data set is useful for identification of clusters of co-expressed genes, and to predict the functions of unknown genes, even if a gene's function is not directly related to the experiments included in AtGenExpress.

TL;DR: It is shown that seedling growth is more sensitive to heavy metals in comparison to seed germination, while Cd2+ is the exception that inhibited both of these processes at similar concentrations.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that repression of CK response, and thus CK signaling, is one of the strategies plants use to cope with water deficit, providing novel insight for the design of drought-tolerant plants by genetic engineering.

TL;DR: Results showed that 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC, the immediate precursor of ethylene), nitrite, GA4 and BA improved seed germination in the presence of salt, however, nitrate, GA1, GA3 failed to alleviate salt stress.

TL;DR: The authors show that D14 activity is not dependent on cleavage activity and propose a new model whereby ligand hydrolysis serves to deactivate strigolactone signaling.