Although leaves are considered the main site for photosynthesis, other green nonfoliar
tissues can carry out considerable amounts of photosynthetic carbon assimilation. With …

Fruits are an important source of vitamins, minerals and nutrients in the human diet. They
also contain several compounds of nutraceutical importance that have significant antioxidant …

Not only leaves but also other plant organs and structures typically considered as carbon
sinks, including stems, roots, flowers, fruits and seeds, may exhibit photosynthetic activity …

In C3 cereals such as wheat and barley, grain filling was traditionally explained as being
sustained by assimilates from concurrent leaf photosynthesis and remobilization from the …

Background Photosynthesis of reproductive organs in C 3 cereals is generally regarded as
important to crop yield. Whereas, photosynthetic characteristics of reproductive organs are …

Florets of cereal crops are the basic reproductive organs that produce grains for food or
feed. The birth of a floret progresses through meristem initiation and floral organ identity …

One of the major challenges facing rice breeding is to produce ideotype or ideal plant
architecture (IPA) to improve canopy radiation use efficiency and hence grain yield. The …

Panicle photosynthesis is crucial for grain yield in cereal crops; however, the limiting factors
for panicle photosynthesis are poorly understood, greatly impeding improvement in this trait …

Gibberellin regulates the flowering and fruiting response of fruit-oriented citrus, but there are
a lack of studies on the methods for boosting the production of leaf-oriented citrus. This study …

Many efforts have been made to enhance rice photosynthesis for higher grain yields,
although such knowledge has seldom been integrated into rice breeding programs. In this …