In natural ecosystems, plants compete for space, nutrients and light. The optically dense
canopies limit the penetration of photosynthetically active radiation and light often becomes …

Rice leaf color variation is a morphological phenotype that is valuable in studying plant
metabolism and physiology. Besides, the rice leaf color phenotype can also be utilized in the …

Leaves are the plant's solar panel and food factory, and leaf traits are always key issues to
investigate in plant research. Traditional methods for leaf trait measurement are time …

Key message The cucumber chlorophyll-deficient golden leaf mutation is due to a single
nucleotide substitution in the CsChlI gene for magnesium chelatase I subunit which plays …

Background As the indispensable part of plant, leaf blade mainly functions as the production
workshops where organic substance is produced by photosynthesis. Leaf colour mutation is …

Leaf color mutants are ideal materials for studying the regulatory mechanism of chloroplast
development and photosynthesis. We isolated a cucumis melo spontaneous mutant (MT) …

Background The chloroplast is the organelle responsible for photosynthesis in higher plants.
The generation of functional chloroplasts depends on the precise coordination of gene …

Background The two original plants of the oolong tea cultivar ('Tieguanyin') are “Wei
shuo”'Tieguanyin'—TGY (Wei) and “Wang shuo”'Tieguanyin'—TGY (Wang). Another …

The de novo synthesis of purine nucleotides is crucial to all living organisms, but limited
information is available for plants. In this study, we isolated a virescent-albino leaf 1 (val1) …

Key message YGL8 has the dual functions in Chl biosynthesis: one as a catalytic subunit of
MgPME cyclase, the other as a core component of FLU-YGL8-LCAA-POR complex in Chl …