When exposed to changes in the light environment caused by neighboring vegetation,
shade-avoiding plants modify their growth and/or developmental patterns to access more …

The metabolome is an integral part of a plant's life cycle and determines for a large part its
external phenotype. It is the final, internal product of chemical interactions, obtained through …

The effects of various light intensities and spectral compositions on glutathione and amino
acid metabolism were compared in wheat. Increase of light intensity (low—normal—high) …

Background The concept of metabolite profiling has been around for decades and technical
innovations are now enabling it to be carried out on a large scale with respect to the number …

In shade-intolerant plants, the perception of proximate neighbors rapidly induces
architectural changes resulting in elongated stems and reduced leaf size. Sensing and …

The mechanisms by which low light accelerates starch macromolecules degradation by
auxin and gibberellin (GA) in geophytes during sprouting remain largely unknown. This …

Growing glasshouse plant canopies are exposed to natural fluctuations in light quantity, and
the dynamically changing canopy architecture induces local variations in light quality. This …

The risk to food security is particularly dire in rural sub-Saharan Africa, where a third of the
world's undernourished people reside. Intercropping has the potential to improve rural …

Crop management decisions such as sowing density, row distance and orientation, choice
of cultivar, and weed control define the architecture of the canopy, which in turn affects the …

The proposed spectral control of the adaptive metabolic responses to drought was tested by
the comparison of two wheat genotypes with different stress tolerance. White light was used …