Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have uncovered a long-sought mechanism employed by primitive land plants such as bryophytes (including mosses and ...

How does a plant manage to quickly adapt its growth to changing environmental conditions? A research team at the University ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators ...

Si et al. demonstrated that wheat TaNHLP1 interacts with ABA regulators and RACK1A to increase tiller number, and that promoter variants that elevate TaNHLP1 expression enhance yield. This regulatory ...

As sessile organisms, plants are incredibly mindful of their time. As a result, they extensively regulate cellular and physiological processes through a combination of circadian (anticipatory) and ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 69, No. 13, Special Issue: Crop Drought Tolerance: From Alleles to Cropping Systems (June 2018), pp. 3235-3243 (9 pages) Maize grain yield is highly related to the ...