Background Robustness to genetic and environmental perturbation is a salient feature of
multicellular organisms. Loss of developmental robustness can lead to severe phenotypic …

Heat stress causes huge losses in the yield of cereal crops. Temperature influences the rate
of plant metabolic and developmental processes that ultimately determine the production of …

Ribonucleoprotein complexes consisting of Argonaute-like proteins and small regulatory
RNAs function in a wide range of biological processes. Many of these small regulatory RNAs …

Robustness, the ability of organisms to buffer phenotypes against perturbations, has drawn
renewed interest among developmental biologists and geneticists. A growing body of …

Small regulatory RNAs are key regulators of gene expression. One class of small regulatory
RNAs, termed the endogenous small interfering RNAs (endo siRNAs), is thought to …

Camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz] is an oilseed crop in the Brassicaceae family that is
currently being developed as a source of bioenergy and healthy fatty acids. To facilitate …

The heat-shock protein 90 (HSP90) acts as a chaperone by ensuring proper maturation and
folding of its client proteins. The HSP90 capacitor hypothesis holds that interactions with …

Heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) promotes the maturation and stability of its client proteins,
including many kinases. In doing so, Hsp90 may allow its clients to accumulate mutations as …

Organismal development is remarkably robust, tolerating stochastic errors to produce
consistent, so-called canalized adult phenotypes. The mechanistic underpinnings of …

Efforts to identify loci underlying complex traits generally assume that most genetic variance
is additive. Here, we examined the genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana root length and found …