Trees growing in boreal and temperate regions synchronize their growth with seasonal
climatic changes in adaptive responses that are essential for their survival. These trees …

Circadian clocks are endogenous timekeeping networks that allow organisms to align their
physiology with their changing environment and to perform biological processes at the most …

Spike architecture influences grain yield in wheat. We report the map-based cloning of a
gene determining the number of spikelet nodes per spike in common wheat. The cloned …

Seed protein, oil content and yield are highly correlated agronomically important traits that
essentially account for the economic value of soybean. The underlying molecular …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for identifying genes
and determining their functions. Here we report the analysis of the genomic sequence of …

Grain yield in rice is a complex trait multiplicatively determined by its three component traits:
number of panicles, number of grains per panicle, and grain weight; all of which are typical …

GATA factors are evolutionarily conserved transcription factors that are found in animals,
fungi, and plants. Compared to that of animals, the size of the plant GATA family is …

Yield potential, plant height and heading date are three classes of traits that determine the
productivity of many crop plants. Here we show that the quantitative trait locus (QTL) Ghd7 …

The first described feedback loop of the Arabidopsis circadian clock is based on reciprocal
regulation between TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1 (TOC1) and CIRCADIAN CLOCK …

TCP genes encode plant-specific transcription factors with a bHLH motif that allows DNA
binding and protein–protein interactions. The TCP gene family has five members in the …