Plants react to their environment and to management interventions by adjusting
physiological functions and structure. Functional–structural plant models (FSPM), combine …

Progress in molecular plant breeding is limited by the ability to predict plant phenotype
based on its genotype, especially for complex adaptive traits. Suitably constructed crop …

Main conclusion The regulation of source-to-sink sucrose transport is associated with AtSUC
and AtSWEET sucrose transporters' gene expression changes in plants grown …

The sensitivity of expansive growth to water deficit has a large genetic variability, which is
higher than that of photosynthesis. It is observed in several species, with some genotypes …

Leaf expansion is the central process by which plants colonize space, allowing energy
capture and carbon acquisition. Water and carbon emerge as main limiting factors of leaf …

Understanding how dynamic molecular networks affect whole-organism physiology,
analogous to mapping genotype to phenotype, remains a key challenge in biology …

Photoperiod duration can be predicted from previous days, but irradiance fluctuates in an
unpredictable manner. To investigate how allocation to starch responds to changes in these …

Flux-balance modeling of plant metabolic networks provides an important complement to
13C-based metabolic flux analysis. Flux-balance modeling is a constraints-based approach …

High temperature (HT) is a major limiting factor for plant productivity. Because some
responses to HT, notably hyponasty, resemble those encountered in low light (LL), we …

Abstract Background The model species Arabidopsis thaliana has extensive resources to
investigate intraspecific trait variability and the genetic bases of ecologically relevant traits …