In this review, recent developments and future prospects of obtaining a better understanding
of the regulation of nitrogen use efficiency in the main crop species cultivated in the world …

Interest in plant asparagine has rapidly taken off over the past 5 years following the report
that acrylamide, a neurotoxin and potential carcinogen, is present in cooked foods …

Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays), has three times the seed
protein content of most modern inbreds and hybrids, but the mechanisms that are …

Recent developments have altered our view of molecular mechanisms that determine sink
strength, defined here as the capacity of non-photosynthetic structures to compete for import …

The roles of two cytosolic maize glutamine synthetase isoenzymes (GS1), products of the
Gln1-3 and Gln1-4 genes, were investigated by examining the impact of knockout mutations …

Ammonium is a form of inorganic nitrogen derived from several metabolic pathways, and is
assimilated into glutamine, glutamate, asparagine and carbamoylphosphate. These …

Further enhancement of maize (Zea mays L.) N‐use efficiency (NUE) will benefit from a
thorough understanding of how genetic improvement has shaped N use parameters. Since …

Maize is an important industrial crop where yield and quality enhancement both assume
greater importance. Clean production technologies like conservation agriculture and …

Variation in nitrogen (N) acquisition ability is known to exist among maize genotypes. Field
experiments were conducted and the N-efficient maize inbred line 478 and the N-inefficient …

Recent attempts to address land degradation have seen calls for greater integration of
scientific expertise with local knowledges. In this paper we investigate the potential for such …