Multiple “omics” approaches have emerged as successful technologies for plant systems
over the last few decades. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have paved a …

The rapid and enthusiastic adoption of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has
demonstrated that this technology is far more than just another way to perform transcriptome …

Climate change is multi-faceted, and includes changing concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and …

Starch is a significant store of sugars, and the starch-sugar interconversion in source and
sink tissues plays a profound physiological role in all plants. In this review, we discuss how …

Sucrose metabolism plays pivotal roles in development, stress response, and yield
formation, mainly by generating a range of sugars as metabolites to fuel growth and …

Abiotic stresses arising from climate change negates crop growth and yield, leading to food
insecurity. Drought causes oxidative stress on plants, arising from excessive production of …

Drought is one of the most important environmental stresses affecting the productivity of
most field crops. Elucidation of the complex mechanisms underlying drought resistance in …

Communication between source organs (exporters of photoassimilates) and sink organs
(importers of fixed carbon) has a pivotal role in carbohydrate assimilation and partitioning …

When confronted with water limitation, plants actively reprogram their metabolism and
growth. Recently, it has become clear that growing tissues show specific and highly dynamic …

In plants, bZIP (basic leucine zipper) transcription factors regulate diverse processes such
as development and stress responses. However, few of these transcription factors have …