Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Bernhard Kräutler at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The image depicts the autumnal "disappearance" of chlorophyll and the ensuing rapid formation of colorless phyllobilins. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.201404783.

From CERMAV-CNRS (affiliated to Université Joseph Fourier and ICMG, 38041 Grenoble, France, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Institute of Biology II and BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, 79104 Freiburg, Germany, # Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Traffic, Signaling and Delivery group, CNRS UMR 144, 75248 Paris, France, Inserm, U892, University of Nantes, IRT UN, 44007 Nante...

Mark Bruno*, Julian Koschmieder*, Florian Wuest, Patrick Schaub, Mirjam Fehling-Kaschek, Jens Timmer, Peter Beyer, and Salim Al-Babili 1 Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Schaenzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany 2 Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Department of Physics, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3a, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany 3 Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, BIO...

Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breading Research, 50829, Germany, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS), James Hutton Insti...

Lilium is an important commercial market flower bulb. qRT-PCR is an extremely important technique to track gene expression levels. The requirement of suitable reference genes for normalization has become increasingly significant and exigent. The expression of internal control genes in living organisms varies considerably under different experimental conditions. For economically important Lilium...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT), gastrin (GAS), cholecystokinin (CCK) and glucagon (GLUC) endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal tract of frugivorous Phillostomidae bats, Sturnira lilium and Artibeus cinerius, to clarify the correlation between distribution of cell types and their relative frequency, with feeding habits. Five portions o...

Monocots are one of the most diverse, successful and economically important clades of angiosperms. We attempt to analyse the complete plastid genome sequences of two lilies and their lengths were 152,793bp in Lilium longiflorum (Liliaceae) and 155,510bp in Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae). Phylogenetic analyses were performed for 28 taxa including major lineages of monocots using the seque...

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) may enable estimating relationships among genotypes using allelic variation of multiple nuclear genes simultaneously. We explored the potential and caveats of this strategy in four genetically distant Lilium cultivars to estimate their genetic divergence from transcriptome sequences using three approaches: POFAD (Phylogeny of Organisms from Allelic Data, uses al...