With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Improving crops yield under water-limited conditions is the most daunting challenge faced
by breeders. To this end, accurate, relevant phenotyping plays an increasingly pivotal role …

Salinity stress is one of the most vital abiotic stresses which results in significant damages of
agricultural production, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. Salinity causes …

The developmental plasticity of the root system represents a key adaptive trait enabling
plants to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought and is therefore important in the current …

Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, fuel and to meet global food security
needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to breed high yielding …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is highly susceptible to the rhizosphere salinity than other cereals.
High sensitivity has been observed, mainly at vegetative and reproductive stages in rice. It is …

Melatonin (MEL) has been revealed as a phylogenetically conserved molecule with a
ubiquitous distribution from primitive photosynthetic bacteria to higher plants, including …

Jasmonic acid (JA) is well known to promote lateral root formation but the mechanisms by
which JA signalling is integrated into the pathways responsible for lateral root formation, and …

Phosphorus (P) is often an important limiting factor for crop yields, but rock phosphate as
fertilizer is a non-renewable resource and expected to become scarce in the future. High P …

The individual roles of auxin and ethylene in controlling the growth and development of
young seedlings have been well studied. In recent years, these two hormones have been …