All living organisms must develop mechanisms to cope with and adapt to new environments.
The transition of plants from aquatic to terrestrial environment provided new opportunities for …

Lateral root development is essential for the establishment of the plant root system. Lateral
root initiation is a multistep process that impacts early primordium morphogenesis and is …

Plants, like other multicellular organisms, survive through a delicate balance between
growth and defense against pathogens. Salicylic acid (SA) is a major defense signal in …

Maize height is determined by the number of nodes and the length of internodes. Node
number is driven by intercalary meristem formation and internode length by intercalary cell …

Root branching in plants relies on the de novo formation of lateral roots. These are initiated
from founder cells, triggering new formative divisions that generate lateral root primordia …

Cell-to-cell and cell-to-environment communications are critical to the growth and
development of plants. Cell surface-localized receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are mainly …

Microbial and plant cell walls have been selected by the plant immune system as a source of
microbe‐and plant damage‐associated molecular patterns (MAMPs/DAMPs) that are …

Nutrient-efficient root system architecture (RSA) is becoming an important breeding
objective for generating crop varieties with improved nutrient and water acquisition …

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) and root apical meristem (RAM) act as pools of stem cells
that give rise to aboveground and underground tissues and organs in higher plants …

SUMMARY ROS/redox signaling plays an important role in the regulation of signal
transduction and acclimation pathways activated by multiple abiotic stresses and leaf …