Rocket Science: The Effect of Spaceflight on Germination Physiology, Ageing, and Transcriptome of Eruca sativa Seeds

HSFA2 Functions in the Physiological Adaptation of Undifferentiated Plant Cells to Spaceflight

(2019) Agata Zupanska et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Photosynthetic Performance of Rice Seedlings Originated from Seeds Exposed to Spaceflight Conditions

(2019) Jie Cui et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Epigenomics in an extraterrestrial environment: organ-specific alteration of DNA methylation and gene expression elicited by spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2019) Mingqi Zhou et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Effect of mechanical threshing on damage and vigor of maize seed threshed at different moisture contents

(2019) Ri-liang GU et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Beyond Arabidopsis: Differential UV-B Response Mediated by UVR8 in Diverse Species

(2019) Vanesa Eleonora Tossi et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

RNAseq Analysis of the Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to Fractional Gravity Under Blue-Light Stimulation During Spaceflight

(2019) Raúl Herranz et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Research on lettuce growth technology onboard Chinese Tiangong II Spacelab

(2018) Yunze Shen et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Exploring the fate of mRNA in aging seeds: protection, destruction, or slow decay?

(2018) Margaret B Fleming et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Combined QTL mapping, physiological and transcriptomic analyses to identify candidate genes involved in Brassica napus seed aging

(2018) Tengyue Wang et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

The dry chain: Reducing postharvest losses and improving food safety in humid climates

(2018) Kent J. Bradford et al.   TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plant cell development and aging may accelerate in microgravity

(2018) Elizabeth Kordyum et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Metabolic diversity in sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, Lam.) leaves and storage roots

(2018) Margit Drapal et al.   Horticulture Research

Genetic dissection of the Arabidopsis spaceflight transcriptome: Are some responses dispensable for the physiological adaptation of plants to spaceflight?

(2017) Anna-Lisa Paul et al.   PLoS One

Biology in the Dry Seed: Transcriptome Changes Associated with Dry Seed Dormancy and Dormancy Loss in the Arabidopsis GA-Insensitive sleepy1-2 Mutant

(2017) Sven K. Nelson et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

RNAseq analysis reveals pathways and candidate genes associated with salinity tolerance in a spaceflight-induced wheat mutant

(2017) Hongchun Xiong et al.   Scientific Reports

Dry seeds and environmental extremes: consequences for seed lifespan and germination

(2016) Anne M. Visscher et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The biomechanics of seed germination

(2016) Tina Steinbrecher et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The Multifaceted Roles of HY5 in Plant Growth and Development

(2016) Sreeramaiah N. Gangappa et al.   Molecular Plant

Tardigrades in Space Research - Past and Future

(2016) Erdmann Weronika et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Space, the final frontier: A critical review of recent experiments performed in microgravity

(2016) Joshua P. Vandenbrink et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

DNA damage checkpoint kinase ATM regulates germination and maintains genome stability in seeds

(2016) Wanda M. Waterworth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Seed vigour and crop establishment: extending performance beyond adaptation

(2015) W.E. Finch-Savage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The importance of safeguarding genome integrity in germination and seed longevity

(2015) Wanda M. Waterworth et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Data quality aware analysis of differential expression in RNA-seq with NOISeq R/Bioc package

(2015) Sonia Tarazona et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Staying Alive: Molecular Aspects of Seed Longevity

(2015) Naoto Sano et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

DNA damage and repair in plants – from models to crops

(2015) Vasilissa Manova et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Effect of water content and temperature on seed longevity of seven Brassicaceae species after 5 years of storage

(2014) S. Mira et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Leaf Anatomy and Photochemical Behaviour ofSolanum lycopersicumL. Plants from Seeds Irradiated with Low-LET Ionising Radiation

(2014) V. De Micco et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Fundamental Plant Biology Enabled by The Space Shuttle

(2013) Anna-Lisa Paul et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

(2013) Y. Liao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Gamma radiation effects on seed germination, growth and pigment content, and ESR study of induced free radicals in maize (Zea mays)

(2013) Delia Marcu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

Arabidopsis ROOT INITIATION DEFECTIVE1, a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase Involved in Pre-mRNA Splicing, Is Essential for Plant Development

(2013) M. Ohtani et al.   PLANT CELL

Transcriptome-Wide Mapping of Pea Seed Ageing Reveals a Pivotal Role for Genes Related to Oxidative Stress and Programmed Cell Death

(2013) Hongying Chen et al.   PLoS One

Radiation Will Make Astronauts' Trip to Mars Even Riskier

(2013) R. A. Kerr   SCIENCE

Survival of Plant Seeds, Their UV Screens, and nptII DNA for 18 Months Outside the International Space Station

(2012) David Tepfer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Genome-wide transcriptome profiling of ROS scavenging and signal transduction pathways in rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to different types of ionizing radiation

(2012) Sun-Hee Kim et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

UV-B photoreceptor-mediated signalling in plants

(2012) Marc Heijde et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

First off the mark: early seed germination

(2011) Karin Weitbrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Oxidative Metabolism Involved in Non-targeted Effects Induced by Proton Radiation in Intact Arabidopsis Seeds

(2011) Tao MEI et al.   JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Guideline to Family-Wide Comparative State-of-the-Art Quantitative RT-PCR Analysis Exemplified with a Brassicaceae Cross-Species Seed Germination Case Study

(2011) Kai Graeber et al.   PLANT CELL

Targeted mRNA Oxidation Regulates Sunflower Seed Dormancy Alleviation during Dry After-Ripening

(2011) Jérémie Bazin et al.   PLANT CELL

Catalase is a key enzyme in seed recovery from ageing during priming

(2011) Serge Kibinza et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Progress in research on dry afterripening

(2011) Raquel Iglesias-Fernández et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Fast and SNP-tolerant detection of complex variants and splicing in short reads

(2010) T. D. Wu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

What is stress? Concepts, definitions and applications in seed science

(2010) Ilse Kranner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A plant DNA ligase is an important determinant of seed longevity

(2010) Wanda M. Waterworth et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Plastochromanol-8 and tocopherols are essential lipid-soluble antioxidants during seed desiccation and quiescence inArabidopsis

(2010) Laurent Mène-Saffrané et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Cytosolic J-protein, Jjj1, and Rei1 Function in the Removal of the Pre-60 S Subunit Factor Arx1

(2009) Alison E. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The longevity of crop seeds stored under ambient conditions

(2009) Manuela Nagel et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Proteome-Wide Characterization of Seed Aging in Arabidopsis: A Comparison between Artificial and Natural Aging Protocols

(2008) L. Rajjou et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY