Nitrogen (N) is an essential element required for the growth and development of all plants.
On a global scale, N is agriculture's most widely used fertilizer nutrient. Studies have shown …

Cold stress, including freezing stress and chilling stress, is one of the major environmental
factors that limit the growth and productivity of plants. As a temperate dicot model plant …

As a sessile organism, rice often faces various kinds of abiotic stresses, such as drought
stress. Drought stress seriously harms plant growth and damages crop yield every year …

Salt stress adversely affects the global wheat production and productivity. To improve
salinity tolerance of crops, identification of robust molecular markers is highly imperative for …

Oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) are abundant polyphenols found in foods and
botanicals that benefit human health, but our understanding of the functions of OPCs in rice …

In different regions around the world, abiotic stresses, including cold, drought, nutrient
deficiency, toxicity, salinity, and flooding, minimize the rate of crop production. Abiotic stress …

Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) genes display distinct functions in response to abiotic
stresses in plants. In pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), a total of 21 PgLEA genes were …

Abstract Background The Oryza sativa cultivar Kitaake is a promising new model rice for
research due to its short life cycle (9 weeks), adaptability to greenhouse conditions, readily …

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important function in plant growth and
development as well as response to stresses. However, little information was known in …

Seed longevity is important for the maintenance of seed nutritional quality, vigor, and
germination potential during storage. Sacred lotus is known as one of the longest living …