The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a pivotal role in a variety of developmental
processes and adaptive stress responses to environmental stimuli in plants. Cellular …

Exploring the molecular foundation of the gene-regulatory systems underlying agronomic
parameters or/and plant responses to both abiotic and biotic stresses is crucial for crop …

Brassinosteroids are plant steroid hormones that regulate diverse processes, such as cell
division and cell elongation, through gene regulatory networks that vary in space and time …

The threat to plant survival presented by light limitation has driven the evolution of highly
plastic adaptive strategies to either tolerate or avoid shading by neighbouring vegetation …

The HD-Zip family of transcription factors is unique to the plant kingdom. These proteins
exhibit the singular combination of a homeodomain with a leucine zipper acting as a …

Increased seed production has been a common goal during the domestication of cereal
crops, and early cultivators of barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) selected a phenotype …

The full complement of homeobox transcription factor sequences, including genes and
pseudogenes, was determined from the analysis of 10 complete genomes from flowering …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate specific
target mRNAs at the post-transcriptional level. Plant miRNAs have been implicated in …

Plant trichomes, protrusions formed from specialized aboveground epidermal cells, provide
protection against various biotic and abiotic stresses. Trichomes can be unicellular …

Ethylene is required for climacteric fruit ripening. Inhibition of ethylene biosynthesis genes, 1‐
aminocyclopropane‐1‐carboxylate (ACC) synthase and ACC oxidase, prevents or delays …