Many new questions on the regulation of shoot branching have been raised in recent years,
prompting a review and reassessment of the role of each signal involved. Sugars and their …

For perennial plants, bud dormancy is a crucial step as its progression over winter
determines the quality of bud break, flowering, and fruiting. In the past decades, many …

Woody perennials enter seasonal dormancy to avoid unfavorable environmental conditions.
Plant hormones are the critical mediators regulating this complex process, which is subject …

Bud dormancy is an adaptive process that allows trees to survive the hard environmental
conditions that they experience during the winter of temperate climates. Dormancy is …

Bud dormancy is an evolved trait that confers adaptation to harsh environments, and affects
flower differentiation, crop yield and vegetative growth in perennials. ABA is a stress …

Introduction Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding (LHCB) protein complexes of
photosystem II are integral to the formation of thylakoid structure and the photosynthetic …

Back ground MYB Transcription factors (TFs) are most imperative and largest gene family in
plants, which participate in development, metabolism, defense, differentiation and stress …

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is the world's most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverage with
essential economic and health benefits since it is an excellent source of polyphenols …

Significant advances have been made in our understanding of the regulation of cold
hardiness. The existence of numerous biophysical and biochemical adaptive mechanisms in …

Key message Thirteen SWEET transporters were identified in Camellia sinensis and the
cold-suppression gene CsSWEET16 contributed to sugar compartmentation across the …