Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

The size of seeds affects not only evolutionary fitness but also grain yield of crops.
Understanding the mechanisms controlling seed size has become an important research …

The phytohormone cytokinin plays diverse roles in plant development, influencing many
agriculturally important processes, including growth, nutrient responses and the response to …

The phytohormone cytokinin was originally discovered as a regulator of cell division. Later, it
was described to be involved in regulating numerous processes in plant growth and …

One-step and two-step pathways are proposed to synthesize cytokinin in plants. The one-
step pathway is mediated by LONELY GUY (LOG) proteins. However, the enzyme for the two …

Shoot architecture is determined by the organization and activities of apical, axillary,
intercalary, secondary, and inflorescence meristems and by the subsequent development of …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Since it was first recognized in bacteria and archaea as a mechanism for innate viral
immunity in the early 2010s, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Global food security depends on three main cereal crops (wheat, rice and maize) achieving
and maintaining high yields, as well as increasing their future yields. Fundamental to the …

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)
systems have been successfully used as efficient tools for genome editing in a variety of …