With unfavourable climate changes and an increasing global population, there is a great
need for more productive and stress-tolerant crops. As traditional methods of crop …

Plant sterols and steroid hormones, the brassinosteroids (BRs), are compounds that exert a
wide range of biological activities. They are essential for plant growth, reproduction, and …

Background Above-ground biomass (AGB) is a basic agronomic parameter for field
investigation and is frequently used to indicate crop growth status, the effects of agricultural …

Plant height and branch number are essential components of rapeseed plant architecture
and are directly correlated with its yield. Presently, improvement of plant architecture is a …

Plant height (PH) is an essential trait in maize (Zea mays) that is tightly associated with
planting density, biomass, lodging resistance, and grain yield in the field. Dissecting the …

Height is one of the most heritable and easily measured traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Given
a pedigree or estimates of the genomic identity-by-state among related plants, height is also …

The availability of the B73 inbred reference genome sets the stage for high-throughput
functional characterization of maize genes on a whole-genome scale. Among the 39 324 …

Abstract The high-yielding Green Revolution varieties of cereal crops are characterized by a
semidwarf architecture and lodging resistance. Plant height is tightly regulated by the …

Isoprenoids are functionally and structurally the most diverse group of plant metabolites
reported to date. They can function as primary metabolites, participating in essential plant …

Progress in molecular plant breeding is limited by the ability to predict plant phenotype
based on its genotype, especially for complex adaptive traits. Suitably constructed crop …