Article on the mysteries of proanthocyanidin transport and polymerization.

Article on genome-wide analysis of phenylpropanoid defence pathways.

Article on distinct cinnamoyl CoA reductases involved in parallel routes to lignin in Medicago truncatula.

Article discussing how syringyl lignin biosynthesis is directly regulated by a secondary cell wall master switch.

Article discussing how the mutation of WRKY transcription factors initiates pith secondary wall formation and increases stem biomass in dicotyledonous plants.

Article on an NAC transcription factor orchestrating multiple features of cell wall development in Medicago truncatula.

This article describes the design of a GIS and remote sensing based analysis tool called the Water Quality Corridor Management model to identify and prioritize highly functioning riparian ecosystems for the preservation of steam corridor conditions.

This article analyzes the frequency and identity of pathogens and bacterial agents in ticks removed from humans and subsequently submitted to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Zoonosis Control Program, from October 1, 2004, through September 30, 2008.

This article studies the silkworm Bombyx mori, and hypothesizes that allometric relationships for metabolism both across all developmental stages and within each stage would not reflect conventional scaling coefficients.

This article investigates the role of the left aorta (LAo) in embryonic American alligators by surgically occluding the LAo and measuring oxygen consumption and, in addition, measured hemodynamic responses to hypoxia in embryonic alligators.

This article reports the draft F. vesca genome, which was sequenced to x39 coverage using second-generation technology, assembled de novo and then anchored to the genetic linkage map into seven pseudochromosomes.

Opinion article covering grand challenges to aquatic physiology based on the five "grand challenges in organismal biology" proposed by Schwenk et al. (2007). This article also provides a list of specific examples of emerging areas of research interest in aquatic physiology.

Article expressing two closely related plant FAD3 genes in yeast cells and found that their enzymes produced significantly different amounts of omega-3 fatty acids and that these differences correlated to differences in rates of protein turnover. The findings indicate that Fad3 protein abundance is regulated by a combination of cis-acting degradation signals and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and that modulation of Fad3 protein amounts in response to temperature may represent one mechanism of homeoviscous adaptation in plants.