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FAMILY MEMBERS. "Interestingly, these large noncoding RNAs are found as interlacing and overlapping sense and antisense transcripts derived from introns or intergenic regions, which means that they stem from the preferred life habitat of persistent viral settlers." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn

LARGE NON-CODING RNAs. "Although recent research has tried to evaluate the enormous regulatory networks of small RNAs, the role of thousands of longer transcripts is not yet clear." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn

Tinker, tailor, writer, spy: the many lives of John le Carré, in his own words http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03/tinker-tailor-writer-spy-the-many-lives-of-john-le-carre-in-his-own-words?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this double weekend on pine tree adaptations. This highly successful plant has adapted to harsh environments by a variety of highly sophisticated mechanisms at a biochemical and genetic level, expressed in every pine needle differently according to age and location, and adjusted seasonally. Never walk by a pine again without remembering that it is a master of its universe. View in LinkedIn

PINE ALTERNATIVE GENE PACKAGES. "Our results strongly suggest the existence of alternative gene packages involved in the same metabolic pathways contributing to essential flexibility in responses to varying environmental and/or developmental conditions." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETIC INFLUENCE. "Our results strongly suggest that environmental changes modulate the transcriptome for fine regulation of the metabolome during development. According to this model, adaptive responses in maritime pine would influence the developmental programme through the maintenance of a metabolic homeostasis." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn

GENE STIMULI. "We have identified a number of gene co-expression networks in the needles of maritime pine trees, confirming that such analysis can provide valuable indications of the functions of gene clusters and their co-regulation. Unravelling these networks is highly important for understanding conifer tree development and adaptation to environmental stimuli." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn

METABOLIC ROLES. "Rubisco activity is downregulated during aging, in accordance with its postulated role as a nitrogen store. The observed profiles of sugars and methionine-related metabolites also suggest they play coordinated metabolic roles during ageing of maritime pine needles. Notably, pinitol is a ‘compatible solute’ involved in tolerance to osmotic and oxidative stresses in plants, and sucrose has cryoprotectant and osmoprotectant functions during overwintering." (Rubisco, a major photosynthetic molecule). http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn

OLD WHORLS FOR STORAGE. "Carbon metabolism seems to be affected by long-term factors that increase levels of the main carbon metabolites as whorls age. This may be because young whorls have high metabolic rates and hence highly dynamic carbohydrate catabolism while, in contrast, old whorls may assimilate surplus carbon and play a role as metabolite stores. This is consistent with two of the strongest correlations detected, between the expression of a gene encoding a hexose transporter and the relative abundances of sucrose and pinitol." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn

THIRD WHORL. "Levels of an important group of metabolites, mainly involved in C1 and redox metabolism, seem to decrease with increases in needle age, most clearly in the oldest, third whorl." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/11/3113.full View in LinkedIn