MADS-box genes are key regulators of virtually every aspect of plant reproductive
development. They play especially prominent roles in flowering time control, inflorescence …

The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs or polyploidy) are prevalent in plants, and some
WGDs occurred during the timing of severe global environmental changes. It has been …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Given a growing
global population coupled with increasingly challenging cultivation conditions, facilitating …

Plant genomes vary greatly in size, organization, and architecture. Such structural
differences may be highly relevant for inference of genome evolution dynamics and …

Coumarins are natural products with important medicinal values, and include simple
coumarins, furanocoumarins and pyranocoumarins. Female ginseng (Angelica sinensis) is a …

Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins include eight multigene families that are
expressed in response to water loss during seed maturation and in vegetative tissues of …

A comprehensive analysis of relative gene order, or microsynteny, can provide valuable
information for understanding the evolutionary history of genes and genomes, and ultimately …

SUMMARY Soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) is a major crop in animal feed and human
nutrition, mainly for its rich protein and oil contents. The remarkable rise in soybean …

The developmental process of spike is critical for spike fertility through affecting floret
primordia fate in wheat; however, the genetic regulation of this dynamic and complex …