As an evolutionary strategy, plants overproduce ovaries as a safety net for survival, with
those losing in the competition for resources being aborted. Grain abortion is, however …

Heterozygous alleles are widespread in outcrossing and clonally propagated woody plants.
The variation in heterozygosity that underlies population adaptive evolution and phenotypic …

Reproductive development is critical for completion of plant life cycle and realization of crop
yield potential. Reproductive organs comprise multiple distinctive or even transgenerational …

AP3 has been studied and is reported to affect structural changes in floral organs in various
plants. However, the function of the soybean AP3 genes in flower development is unknown …

In trees, nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) serve as long‐term carbon storage and long‐
distance carbon transport from source to sink. NSC management in response to drought …

Pollen tubes of higher plants grow very rapidly until they reach the ovules to fertilize the
female gametes. This growth process is energy demanding, however, the nutrition strategies …

Abstract Background Invertases (INVs) are key enzymes in sugar metabolism, cleaving
sucrose into glucose and fructose and playing an important role in plant development and …

The pollen wall is a specialized extracellular cell wall that protects male gametophytes from
various environmental stresses and facilitates pollination. Here, we reported that bHLH010 …

Starch degradation occurs rapidly in stressed plants, but it is unclear how starch degradation
occurs in potato tubers after they incur mechanical wounding. In this study, we found that …

Although soybean and chickpea belong to the legume family, their seed starch content is
very different. Currently, many studies focus on the molecular mechanisms of starch …