Key message Extensive crosstalk exists among ABA and different phytohormones that
modulate plant tolerance against different abiotic stress. Being sessile, plants are exposed …

Frequently changing environmental conditions pose unwarranted threat to plants life and
impose serious penalties in terms of arrested growth, metabolism and ultimately the yield …

Studies with model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana have revealed that phytohormones
are central regulators of plant defense. The intricate network of phytohormone signaling …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MPK) cascades play vital roles in plant innate immunity,
growth, and development. Here, we report that the rice (Oryza sativa) transcription factor …

The newly developed CRISPR/Cas9-mediated base editing technology with cytosine
deaminase is capable of precisely and efficiently introducing point mutations at the target …

The WRKY transcription factor (TF) gene family expanded greatly in the evolutionary
process from green algae to flowering plants through whole genome, segmental, and …

As the most widely used herbal medicine in human history and a major defence hormone in
plants against a broad spectrum of pathogens and abiotic stresses, salicylic acid (SA) has …

Grain number is a flexible trait that strongly contributes to grain yield. In rice (Oryza sativa),
the OsMKKK10-OsMKK4-OsMPK6 cascade, which is negatively regulated by the dual …

WRKY as the name suggests, are the transcription factors (TFs) that contain the signature
WRKY domains, hence named after it. Since their discovery in 1994, they have been well …

The U-box type ubiquitin ligase PUB44 positively regulates pattern-triggered immunity in
rice. Here, we identify PBI1, a protein that interacts with PUB44. Crystal structure analysis …