Agrobacterium tumefaciens and related Agrobacterium species have been known as plant
pathogens since the beginning of the 20th century. However, only in the past two decades …

The CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR
associated protein9) system is an RNA-guided genome editing tool that consists of a Cas9 …

During crop cultivation, water-deficit conditions retard growth, thus reducing crop
productivity. Therefore, uncovering the mechanisms behind drought tolerance is a critical …

Although genetic diversity has a cardinal role in domestication, abundant natural allelic
variations across the rice genome that cause agronomically important differences between …

Background To accelerate the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9) system to a variety of …

Some of MADS-box transcription factors (TFs) have been shown to play essential roles in
the adaptation of plant to abiotic stress. Still, the mechanisms that MADS-box proteins …

Maize (Zea mays) is one of the most important crops in the world. However, few
agronomically important maize genes have been cloned and used for trait improvement, due …

Increasing crop yield is one of the most important goals of plant science research. Grain size
is a major determinant of grain yield in cereals and is a target trait for both domestication and …

Abstract Background Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in a wide range
of biological processes in mammals and plants. However, the systematic examination of …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the world's most important staple crops and a powerful model
system for studying monocot species because of its relatively small genome, rich genomic …